US 11,788,669 B2
Device for supporting an image capturing device on a bioreactor, bioreactor with device for supporting an image capturing device, and method for propagation or cultivation of biological material
Christian Ott, Ampfing (DE); and Robert Hettler, Kumhausen (DE)
Assigned to SCHOTT AG, Mainz (DE)
Filed by SCHOTT AG, Mainz (DE)
Filed on Apr. 9, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/379,454.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 108 323.8 (DE), filed on Apr. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0309253 A1, Oct. 10, 2019
Int. Cl. F16M 11/00 (2006.01); C12M 1/00 (2006.01); C12M 3/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/25 (2006.01); C12M 1/12 (2006.01); C12M 1/34 (2006.01)
CPC F16M 11/00 (2013.01) [C12M 23/22 (2013.01); C12M 23/48 (2013.01); C12M 31/10 (2013.01); C12M 37/04 (2013.01); C12M 41/46 (2013.01); C12M 43/00 (2013.01); G01N 21/255 (2013.01); C12M 41/06 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for supporting an image capturing device in a feedthrough of a bioreactor, comprising:
a window including a transparent element, the transparent element is transparent to electromagnetic radiation; and
a holder for the image capturing device, wherein the holder comprises a holder body made of a high temperature resistant plastic selected from the group consisting of a thermoplastic material, polyaryletherketone, and polyetheretherketone,
wherein the holder body has a columnar receiving area or through-opening of circular cross-sectional shape, wherein the transparent element has a circular outer lateral contour and an outer diameter that is larger than the inner diameter of the circular receiving area or through-opening of the holder body by about 10%, wherein the transparent element is inserted into the receiving area or through-opening of the holder body when the holder body is heated to a temperature of about 200° C., and wherein when being cooled down, results in a compressive stress on the transparent element,
wherein the holder body has a portion that is sized and configured to pass into an interior of the bioreactor from an exterior of the bioreactor through the feedthrough, and
wherein the transparent element of the window has a shape selected from a group consisting of sheet, plano-convex, plano-concave, biconvex, biconcave, convexo-concave, and concavo-convex.