Sealless centrifuge processing channel and tube system
CA 1237406 A · Owner: Gambro, Inc. · Inventors: Mulzet, Alfred P.
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Abstract, The disclosure is a disposable low-mass processing channel and multilumen tube system for operation with a 2.omega. sealless centrifuge in which the centrifuge rotor rotates at 2.omega. axially to a platform rotor rotating at 1.omega. and to a fixed axial clamp on the multilumen tube. The blood processing channel is equipped with several tube lumens for access to different blood fractions to be separated by the centrifuge action. The plastic lumen tube is supported at each end by plastic reinforcing tubes clamped at clamp ends and ending in thrust drive bearings at the free ends. The thrust drive bearings are arranged to rotation about the multilumen tube and for fixation with …
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- Granted May 31, 1988. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 31, 2005.
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