Bioreactor
CA 2186492 C · Owner: Zhang, Shuyuan · Inventors: Newton, Perry, Iii; Zhang, Shuyuan; Kotani, Hitoshi
Overview
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A stainless steel column housing is capped with an O-ring sealed cover to form a sealed autoclavable sterile chamber. A pair of stainless steel mesh circular cylindrical concentric inner and outer columns are within the chamber. A bed of porous glass spherical beads are packed in the region between the inner and outer mesh columns. The pH and DO are monitored and controlled while culture medium is continuously supplied to and from the sterile chamber. The outer mesh column forms an outer bulk medium chamber with the housing and the inner mesh column forms an inner bulk medium chamber. A ring sparger bubbles air and CO2 mixture into the outer bulk medium chamber, the bubbles creating …
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- Filed April 20, 1995 and granted August 3, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 20, 2015.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 20, 2017.
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