Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Chamber for transplantation, method for manufacturing chamber for transplantation, device for transplantation, and method for fusion welding porous membranes
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Application No.: US16728529Application Date: 2019-12-27
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Publication No.: US11576370B2Publication Date: 2023-02-14
- Inventor: Yusuke Mochizuki , Kuniyuki Kaminaga , Kazuhiro Hasegawa , Ryuta Takegami
- Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Current Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JPJP2017-127659 20170629
- Main IPC: A01N1/02
- IPC: A01N1/02 ; A61K38/28 ; B01D69/14 ; B01D71/68

Abstract:
According to the present invention, there are provided a chamber for transplantation which has a high durability, and in which an enclosed biological constituent can be maintained for a long period of time because an interior space thereof is efficiently secured; and a method for manufacturing the chamber for transplantation. The chamber for transplantation includes one or more membranes for immunoisolation at a boundary between an inside and an outside of the chamber for transplantation, in which all of the membranes for immunoisolation include a porous membrane containing a polymer, and a joint portion at which the porous membranes are directly fusion welded to each other is provided. The method for manufacturing a chamber for transplantation includes preparing one or more porous membranes containing a polymer selected from polysulfone and polyethersulfone, bringing one part of the porous membrane into direct contact with another part of the porous membrane, and performing a heat fusion welding of the two parts that are in direct contact with each other at a temperature which is a glass transition temperature of the polymer or higher and lower than a melting point of the polymer.
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