Failure recovery in cell culture bioreactors

    公开(公告)号:US11525112B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-13

    申请号:US16474316

    申请日:2017-12-22

    IPC分类号: C12M1/00 C12M3/06 C12M1/36

    摘要: Disclosed is a cell culture system comprising a first cell culture bioreactor system (10) for culturing cells to a predetermined cell density or quantity, the system including a bioreactor volume (20), a process controller (30), process control devices (32) which provide inputs (16) for the culture volume and culture parameter measurement devices (14), wherein the process controller is operable according to plural control program steps to control the process devices to provide inputs for a suitable cell culture environment in the bioreactor volume, and is further operable according to control program steps modified by feedback values from the culture parameter measurement devices, and comprises a memory (36) operable to record data indicative of the progress of the control program steps. Failure of the system can be rectified by moving the bioreactor volume to another similar system which has access to data indicative of any incomplete program steps which steps may have been modified by feedback from the measurement devices.

    Heatseal sampling
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10858622B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-08

    申请号:US15744152

    申请日:2016-08-12

    IPC分类号: C12M1/26 C12M1/12 C12M1/28

    摘要: The present invention provides a device and method for sampling from a cell culture bioreactor. The invention is useful where it is required to determine the cell count, provide a sample for off-line analyses or remove a sample while at the same time retain sterility of the sample for quality control (QC) assessment. The device of the invention allows for facile aseptic sampling at one or more instances in time during a cell expansion in a bioreactor.

    Mixing system
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11452976B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-27

    申请号:US16474376

    申请日:2017-12-22

    摘要: The present invention relates to a mixing system for a bioreactor, comprising a plurality of supply units (10), each being able to hold media for use in a bioreactor a mixing unit (30) for creating a uniform mixing of media a first feeding mechanism (20), arranged to feed media from the supply units (10) into the mixing unit (30), a control unit (40) operatively connected to the first feeding mechanism (20) and the mixing unit (30), said control unit (40) being configured to control the first feeding mechanism (20) to feed predetermined amounts of media from the plurality of supply units (10) to the mixing unit (30), and further being configured to control the mixing unit (30) to create a uniform mixing of media. The invention also relates to a method for mixing media for use in a bioreactor.