Abstract:
Maintaining pressure inside a culturing vessel is difficult when minimizing the size of a liquid supply path that supplies liquid and gas to a cell culturing vessel that performs two-level culturing (co-culturing). This cell culturing device includes: culturing vessels; a flow path having at least first supply ports capable of supplying liquid or gas to the culturing vessels and first discharge ports that discharge the gas from the culturing vessels, said flow path discharging gas from the first discharge ports to the atmosphere; and a filter in the flow path. A trap bottle is provided between the first discharge ports and the filter upon the flow path to collect moisture from the discharged gas. Thus, a liquid phase and a gas phase are separated in the trap bottle; moisture is prevented from reaching the filter; filter clogging is prevented; and the internal pressure of the culturing vessels can be maintained.
Abstract:
Provided is a cell culturing vessel for holding and culturing cells. It has a first vessel that stores a culture medium and cells or only a culture medium, a second vessel that is placed above the first vessel and stores a culture medium and cells or only a culture medium, a main vessel that holds the first vessel and houses the second vessel, and a lid member that engages with the main vessel. The main vessel has a pressing member that fixes and holds the first vessel in the main vessel and the second vessel is eccentrically held in the first vessel by the pressing member.