US 12,071,608 B2
Detachable dissolved oxygen sensor interface for single-use bioreactor/mixer
Andrew S. Dierker, Minnetonka, MN (US); Jinbo Hu, Minneapolis, MN (US); Tyrel L. Ruch, Saint Paul, MN (US); Rick J. Sumrall, Eden Prairie (MN); Taufiq Ahmed, Apple Valley, MN (US); Ryan L. Bowlds, Chanhassen, MN (US); Michalle J. A. Adkins, Morgantown, PA (US); Marc R. Mason, Cape Coral, FL (US); and John W. Simon, Burnsville, MN (US)
Assigned to Rosemount Inc., Shakopee, MN (US)
Filed by Rosemount Inc., Shakopee, MN (US)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/277,224.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/636,408, filed on Feb. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0264163 A1, Aug. 29, 2019
Int. Cl. C12M 1/34 (2006.01); C12M 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC C12M 41/34 (2013.01) [C12M 23/28 (2013.01); C12M 23/38 (2013.01); C12M 41/32 (2013.01); C12M 45/20 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dissolved oxygen (DO) sensor interface system comprising:
a single-use container having a flange that is secured and sealed to a wall of the single-use container:
a DO window body sealingly coupled to the flange, the DO window body having DO window membrane at a distal end that extends into the single-use container;
a sensor adaptor sealed to the DO window body; and
a DO sensor mounted to the sensor adaptor and disposed within the DO window body, the DO sensor having a temperature sensor positioned within the single-use container and having an oxygen sensing tip positioned adjacent the DO window membrane.