Incubator
CA 2126191 A1 · Owner: Pieler, Christian · Inventors: Pieler, Christian; Leichtfried, Franz E.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The invention concerns an incubator with a housing and located in the housing, a set of shelves for sample containers containing cell cultures, for instance. In order to make it possible to use the incubator together with a robotic manipulator or similar device, the shelves are fitted with guide elements for the sample containers the guide, elements defining the relative positions of the sample containers. A door in the front of the incubator permits access by the robotic manipulator. When the door in the front of the incubator is closed, a door in the rear of the incubator permits access to the inside of the incubator by operating personnel.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed August 2, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 2, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 2, 2015.
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