US 12,330,824 B2
Unit for the sterile filling of a final basic container with contents designed for the biopharmaceutical field
Isabelle Gay, Peypin (FR); and Nicolas Mendyk, Peypin (FR)
Assigned to SARTORIUS STEDIM FMT, Aubagne (FR)
Filed by SARTORIUS STEDIM FMT SAS, Aubagne (FR)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/303,036.
Application 18/303,036 is a division of application No. 16/948,282, filed on Sep. 11, 2020, granted, now 11,655,058.
Application 16/948,282 is a division of application No. 13/577,929, granted, now 10,793,299, issued on Oct. 6, 2020, previously published as PCT/FR2011/050272, filed on Feb. 9, 2011.
Claims priority of application No. 1050939 (FR), filed on Feb. 10, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2023/0286681 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. B65B 31/02 (2006.01); B65B 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 3/003 (2013.01) [B65B 31/02 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An individual unit to be used in a sterile filling unit comprising a chamber and a sterile fluid transfer and filling line, the sterile filling unit being configurable to fill, in a sterile manner, a final basic container in the sterile chamber, with contents that can be distributed in a fluid form through the sterile fluid transfer and filling line, from a source container outside the sterile chamber, the sterile chamber having at least one sterile port and/or outlet, the sterile port and/or outlet having a first door providing an opening, the first door being made in a wall of the sterile chamber, the individual unit comprising:
a sterile pocket having a wall that limits a sterile inner space and that is equipped with an opening and an associated second door, the second door being complementary to the first door and being structurally mate-able to the first door of the sterile chamber so as to allow, the first and second doors being open, a sterile transfer of the contents of the sterile pocket to an interior of the chamber;
a disposable buffer storage bag located in the sterile inner space of the sterile pocket, the buffer storage bag having overall dimensions that allow passage of the buffer storage bag through the first and second doors.