US 11,795,427 B2
Culture vessel and cell culture device
Ryohei Tsukada, Tokyo (JP); Toru Yakabe, Tokyo (JP); Haruo Okubo, Tokyo (JP); Masaharu Kiyama, Tokyo (JP); Midori Kato, Tokyo (JP); and Hikaru Saito, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 16/982,802
Filed by Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP); and Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 22, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/012013
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/182094, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-056804 (JP), filed on Mar. 23, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0002600 A1, Jan. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. C12M 1/00 (2006.01); C12M 1/12 (2006.01)
CPC C12M 29/06 (2013.01) [C12M 23/06 (2013.01); C12M 23/38 (2013.01); C12M 29/20 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A culture vessel having a housing space inside and used to culture cells within the housing space, the culture vessel including:
a vessel body having an opening portion that communicates with the housing space;
a lid that closes the opening portion; and
a nozzle that passes through the lid and extends to the housing space, and supplies a liquid culture medium and a gas together,
wherein the nozzle has a vent opening portion that is formed so as to open in a side wall of the nozzle and serves as a movement path of the gas from inside of the nozzle into the housing space,
wherein the vessel body has a ceiling portion that covers above the housing space, and
wherein the vent opening portion is formed so as to include an area above the ceiling portion.