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Embryo collector and collection method

US4563172A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 3, 1984
Grant dateJan 7, 1986
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Expiry dateJan 3, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61D19/04
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device for collecting embryos carried in an irrigant fluid from the uterus of a mammal having a collection chamber into which the fluid is entered with a filter means disposed in the collection chamber through which the irrigant fluid is discharged leaving the embryos within the collection chamber for concentration and collection with a flow control member controlling the rate of discharge of the irrigant fluid from the collection chamber.

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