US 12,297,419 B2
Culture device
Hikaru Aoki, Gunma (JP); Kousuke Honda, Ehime (JP); Hiroki Hirai, Kagawa (JP); Akito Sawai, Mie (JP); and Manami Baba, Gunma (JP)
Assigned to PHC CORPORATION, Ehime (JP)
Filed by PHC Corporation, Ehime (JP)
Filed on Mar. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/193,534.
Application 17/193,534 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/031917, filed on Aug. 14, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-166645 (JP), filed on Sep. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0189318 A1, Jun. 24, 2021
Int. Cl. C12M 1/34 (2006.01); C12M 1/12 (2006.01)
CPC C12M 41/00 (2013.01) [C12M 37/04 (2013.01); C12M 41/12 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A culture apparatus, comprising:
a front door;
an inner box having a culture space formed inside;
an outer box covering an outside of the inner box with a first space therebetween;
a CO2 sensor disposed in the first space such that a first end of the CO2 sensor is exposed to the culture space; and
a sealing material that regulates a flow of a fluid toward the CO2 sensor in the first space and is in direct contact with the inner box and the outer box to form a second space surrounding the CO2 sensor in the first space, wherein:
the CO2 sensor disposed at a rear wall of the inner box facing the front door and at a rear wall of the outer box facing the rear wall of the inner box, and
the sealing material has a frame shape surrounding the CO2 sensor within the first space and is not in contact with the CO2 sensor.