US 12,325,845 B2
Incubator and method of operating microfluidic device
Hidetoshi Takayama, Kanagawa (JP); Koju Ito, Kanagawa (JP); Takahiro Oba, Kanagawa (JP); and Keisuke Oku, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/462,025.
Application 17/462,025 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/002931, filed on Jan. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-044496 (JP), filed on Mar. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0395656 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. C12M 1/00 (2006.01); C12M 3/00 (2006.01); C12M 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC C12M 1/005 (2013.01) [C12M 41/14 (2013.01); C12M 23/16 (2013.01); C12M 23/44 (2013.01); C12M 23/48 (2013.01); C12M 23/50 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An incubator comprising:
an accommodation space that is shielded from an external environment;
an environmental control unit that controls an environment of an inside of the accommodation space;
a power reception unit
a power supply unit that is provided in the accommodation space and transmits electric power to the power reception unit in a noncontact state;
a partition wall that is provided in the accommodation space and shields electromagnetic waves radiated from the power supply unit; and
a stage that is provided in the accommodation space; wherein
the power reception unit that is provided does not contact the stage so that a gap is present between the stage and the power reception unit and receives electric power that is supplied from the power supply unit in the noncontact state,
the power supply unit is attached at a position of the stage facing the power reception unit, and
the partition wall surrounds a space formed between the power supply unit and the power reception unit.