Bioprocess mixer

US10857510B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC · US

Inventors

• Patrik Akerstrom · Uppsala, SE
• Richard Lee Damren · Marlborough, US
• Colin R. Tuohey · Marlborough, US
• Thomas Erdenberger · Arlington, US
• Jonathan Kenney · Lakeville, US
• David Lawrence Brazell · Westborough, US
• Wei Jin · Westborough, US
• Roberto Miguel Cabral · Marlborough, US
• Sampath Telikcherla Kandala · Marlborough, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 2016
• Grant date: Dec 8, 2020
• Expiry date: Jul 17, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01F2101/44
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A bioprocess mixer (1), which comprises: —a support vessel (2) with at least one side wall (3, 4, 5, 6) and a bottom wall (7), where the walls define a support vessel inner volume (8), and at least a first (9) and a second (10) magnetic impeller drive unit; and —a flexible bag (11, 111) adapted to fit inside the support vessel inner volume, where the bag has at least one bag side wall (12, 112, 13, 113, 14, 15), a bag bottom wall (16, 116) and a bag top wall (17, 117) defining a bag inner volume (18), and at least a first (19) and a second (20) magnetic impeller rotatably attached to a bag wall in the bag inner volume.