US 12,139,700 B2
Bioprocess control device and bioprocess system
Wolfgang Recker, Aachen (DE); Guido Ertel, Dormagen (DE); Falk Schneider, Aachen (DE); and Tristan Hufen, Kelmis (BE)
Assigned to EPPENDORF SE, Hamburg (DE)
Appl. No. 16/955,816
Filed by Eppendorf AG, Hamburg (DE)
PCT Filed Dec. 10, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/084113
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 19, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/121089, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 17208569 (EP), filed on Dec. 19, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0095239 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. C12M 1/36 (2006.01); C12M 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC C12M 41/48 (2013.01) [C12M 23/44 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bioprocess control device, comprising:
a device housing (10) having a stationary housing frame, wherein the stationary housing frame includes a plurality of shaft receptions;
a plurality of modular drawer assemblies (14, 32) moveable relative to the stationary housing frame between an opening and/or removal position and an operating or closure position;
a plurality of control function units (12, 30) of different types, wherein each of the plurality of control function units is arranged within a modular drawer assembly of the plurality of modular drawer assemblies, and wherein the plurality of control function units are designed and provided for bioprocesses and configured or configurable for control, conveying, measuring and/or sensor functionalities;
a lock means (60, 58);
an electrical energy source (40) electrically coupled to the plurality of modular drawer assemblies; and
system identification means (42) connected to the plurality of control function units;
wherein each of the plurality of modular drawer assemblies is arranged in a shaft reception of the plurality of shaft receptions,
wherein each of the shaft receptions comprises an interface plug unit that is coupled to a corresponding interface plug unit of a modular drawer assembly of the plurality of modular drawer assemblies, when the plurality of modular drawer assemblies are in the operating or closure position,
wherein each of the plurality of modular drawer assemblies is configured to be received by any one of the plurality of shaft receptions,
wherein, when, the modular drawer assemblies (14, 32) are in the opening and/or removal position each of the modular drawer assemblies is configured to receive a control function unit of the plurality of control function units,
wherein each of the plurality of modular drawer assemblies further comprising a function identification unit (16) configured to identify a type of control function unit of the plurality of control function units of different types that is plugged in to a respective modular drawer assembly of the plurality of modular drawer assemblies, and wherein the function identification unit is configured to convey the type of control function unit to the system identification means (42),
wherein, when, the plurality of modular drawer assemblies are in the operating or closure position, each plurality of modular drawer assemblies is locked by the lock means (60, 58) to the device housing, wherein, in the operating or closure position, the control function unit is powered by the electrical energy source (40) and the type of the control function unit is identified by the system identification means (42) via the function identification units (16), and
wherein the different types of the plurality of control function units is selected from a group consisting of pumps, valves, fluid heaters and/or fluid coolers, gas sensors, liquid sensors, and combinations thereof.