	US 11,738,510 B2
	Bioprinter print head
Dan Kozlovski, Rehovot (IL)
Assigned to Steakholder Foods, LTD., Rehovot (IL)
Appl. No. 17/914,890
Filed by MEATECH 3D, LTD., Rehovot (IL); and THE IP LAW FIRM OF GUY LEVI, LLC, Wyckoff, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 5, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/021254 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 27, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/178928, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/985,463, filed on Mar. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0118248 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. B29C 64/209 (2017.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); A23P 20/20 (2016.01); B29C 64/112 (2017.01); A23P 20/25 (2016.01); B33Y 70/00 (2020.01)

CPC B29C 64/209 (2017.08) [A23P 20/20 (2016.08); B29C 64/112 (2017.08); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 70/00 (2014.12); A23P 2020/253 (2016.08)]

15 Claims

1. A modular bioprinter print head comprising:

a. a quadrilateral orifice plate, having an apical surface, a basal surface, a pair of opposing bored side walls, and a first side wall defining a groove forming a side wall groove opposing a second side wall defining a tongue, forming a side wall tongue;

b. a plurality of bio ink dispensing elements arranged in an array, each dispensing element having a basal surface with an inlet conduit and an outlet conduit, the basal surface of the dispensing element abutting the apical surface of the orifice plate, wherein dispensing element operable to deliver the bio ink;

c. a first bio ink circulating manifold, and a second bio ink circulating manifold each defining a longitudinal axis X_l, having a bored side wall parallel with the longitudinal axis Xl, and an opposing solid wall, and a pair of opposing side walls disposed transverse to the longitudinal axis, each first and second bio ink recirculating manifold maintaining further fluid communication with each dispensing element, wherein the first and second bio link circulating manifold are configured to circulate the bio ink through each dispensing element and further being in fluid communication with a bio ink reservoir.