US 11,840,682 B2
Cell culture cassette and automated apparatus
Christophe Valat, Mulhouse (FR); Philippe Henon, Mulhouse (FR); Claire Saucourt, Mulhouse (FR); Raoul Weil, Dorlisheim (FR); Jérôme Serre, Pertuis (FR); and Cyrille Marechal, Billom (FR)
Assigned to CELLPROTHERA, Mulhouse (FR)
Appl. No. 16/312,434
Filed by CellProthera, Mulhouse (FR)
PCT Filed Jun. 26, 2017, PCT No. PCT/FR2017/051703
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 21, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/220948, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 28, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 1655922 (FR), filed on Jun. 24, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0241851 A1, Aug. 8, 2019
Int. Cl. C12M 1/00 (2006.01); C12M 3/06 (2006.01); C12M 1/04 (2006.01); C12M 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC C12M 23/14 (2013.01) [C12M 21/00 (2013.01); C12M 23/24 (2013.01); C12M 23/40 (2013.01); C12M 23/48 (2013.01); C12M 27/16 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cell culture cassette designed to be placed into an incubator, the cell culture cassette comprising:
a housing at least partially rigid and internally defining an interior space in which is arranged and fixed a cell culture bag defining an interior volume,
conduits each connected at one end to the interior volume of the bag and each having a second end located outside the housing, and
valves for opening/closing a fluid flow through the conduits that are mounted on the housing, at least some of the valves include a movable member, each movable member including an end accessible from a same outer face of the housing and provided with a first rotating coupling means intending to cooperate with a second rotating coupling means of an actuator.