US 12,084,645 B2
Support vessels for single use bioreactors and mixers
Klaus Gebauer, Uppsala (SE); Thomas Erik Arctaedius, Uppsala (SE); Patrick Jonsson, Uppsala (SE); and Andreas Marcstrom, Uppsala (SE)
Assigned to CYTIVA SWEDEN AB, Uppsala (SE)
Appl. No. 16/301,150
Filed by CYTIVA SWEDEN AB, Uppsala (SE)
PCT Filed May 11, 2017, PCT No. PCT/EP2017/061276
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 13, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/194652, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 16, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/336,301, filed on May 13, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0194589 A1, Jun. 27, 2019
Int. Cl. C12M 3/00 (2006.01); C12M 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC C12M 23/40 (2013.01) [C12M 23/14 (2013.01); C12M 23/26 (2013.01); C12M 23/28 (2013.01); C12M 23/48 (2013.01)] 32 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A modular hollow profile wall segment for a bioreactor or mixer support vessel, comprising a base profile with two parallel wide sides, two opposing narrow sides joining the two parallel wide sides, each of the two opposing narrow sides having at least one coupling member, at least one heat exchange channel extending in a longitudinal direction of said base profile through an interior space in said base profile between the two parallel wide sides and the two opposing narrow sides in a longitudinal path through one end of the interior space to an opposing end that is entirely direct and linear from the one end to the opposing end without curving, the at least one heat exchange channel configured to circulate a heat exchange fluid therethrough, wherein the at least one heat exchange channel comprises a plurality of individual heat exchange channels, each of the plurality of individual heat exchange channels spaced apart from an adjacent individual heat exchange channel, and an insulation channel extending in a longitudinal direction of said base profile through the interior space in said base profile between the two parallel wide sides and the two opposing narrow sides adjacent each of the plurality of individual heat exchange channels that form the at least one heat exchange channel, the insulation channel having a thermal insulation material filled therein, wherein the insulation channel is separate and distinct from the at least one heat exchange channel, wherein said modular hollow profile wall segment is adapted to be joined with similar modular hollow profile wall segments side by side to form a side wall of the bioreactor or mixer support vessel.
 
13. A side wall of a bioreactor or mixer support vessel, comprising: a plurality of modular hollow profile wall segments joined side by side, each modular hollow profile wall segment comprising a base profile with two parallel wide sides, two opposing narrow sides joining the two parallel wide sides, at least one heat exchange channel extending in a longitudinal direction of said base profile through an interior space in said base profile between the two parallel wide sides and the two opposing narrow sides in a longitudinal path through one end of the interior space to an opposing end that is entirely direct and linear from the one end to the opposing end without curving, the at least one heat exchange channel configured to circulate a heat exchange fluid therethrough, wherein the at least one heat exchange channel comprises a plurality of individual heat exchange channels, each of the plurality of individual heat exchange channels spaced apart from an adjacent individual heat exchange channel, and an insulation channel extending in a longitudinal direction of said base profile through the interior space in said base profile between the two parallel wide sides and the two opposing narrow sides adjacent each of the plurality of individual heat exchange channels that form the at least one heat exchange channel, the insulation channel having a thermal insulation material filled therein, wherein the insulation channel is separate and distinct from the at least one heat exchange channel.