US 12,365,859 B2
Cell production system
Kazunori Ban, Yamanashi (JP); Satoshi Kinoshita, Yamanashi (JP); Koji Tanabe, Kyoto (JP); Ryoji Hiraide, Kyoto (JP); and Atsushi Nakao, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to FANUC CORPORATION, Yamanashi (JP); and I PEACE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/436,074
Filed by FANUC CORPORATION, Yamanashi (JP); and I PEACE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/042414
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/179127, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-040036 (JP), filed on Mar. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0177820 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. C12M 3/00 (2006.01); C12M 1/00 (2006.01); C12M 1/34 (2006.01); C12M 1/36 (2006.01)
CPC C12M 23/42 (2013.01) [C12M 23/22 (2013.01); C12M 23/28 (2013.01); C12M 23/44 (2013.01); C12M 29/04 (2013.01); C12M 41/00 (2013.01); C12M 41/36 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cell production system, comprising:
a robot that assists in cell production,
a plurality of cell production devices which includes a closed culture vessel and which are affected by the robot in a one-to-many manner, and
a computer system which has a plurality of cell production device tasks to be executed in parallel, and a robot task in communication with the plurality of cell production device tasks in a many-to-one manner, wherein
the robot task activates at least one program module from among a plurality of different robot program modules in response to requests by the plurality of cell production device tasks,
each of the plurality of cell production devices comprises
a removable cell production cartridge, and
a driving base that drives the removable cell production cartridge, and
wherein the plurality of different robot program modules includes a program module for at least one of the following robot movements:
a) carrying of materials in and out of a cell production area,
b) attachment and detachment of the removable cell production cartridges to the driving bases,
c) attachment and detachment of fluid feeders or fluid dischargers to the removable cell production cartridges,
d) transport of the removable cell production cartridges to an observation station,
e) transport of cell suspension samples to the observation station,
f) cutting off of the fluid dischargers from the removable cell production cartridges and freezing,
g) dealing with driving base problems,
h) confirming a state of the driving bases by sensors,
i) confirming operation of the driving bases by sensors,
j) observing an interior of the plurality of cell production devices by sensors, and
k) confirming cartridge states by sensors.