Device for cross flow filtration

US10687750B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MANN+HUMMEL GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Steffen Schuetz · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
• Dagmar Winkler · Echterdingen, DE
• Heike Rupp · Kirchheim am Neckar, DE
• Dietmar Talmon-Gros · Oberstenfeld, DE
• Michael Fasold · Auenwald, DE
• Alfons-Alois Schwinghammer · Dingolfing, DE
• Frank Bartel · Dingolfing, DE
• Sascha Bauer · Auenwald, DE
• Patrick Nytz · Tauberbischofsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 2015
• Grant date: Jun 23, 2020
• Expiry date: Dec 24, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2800/22
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A whole blood filtration device is provided with a filter membrane separating a feeding volume and a clean side of the filter membrane from each other. The feeding volume communicates with a first feeding side opening and with a second feeding side opening. The filter membrane has pores with a pore size that ensures permeability of the filter membrane to blood plasma/serum and that retains blood cells. The first feeding side opening can be coupled to a first blood pump for feeding blood from the first feeding side opening into the feeding volume so that blood plasma/serum permeates the filter membrane and blood cells, retained by the filter membrane, exit from the feeding volume through the second feeding side opening.