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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8026095 | Biological production of ethanol from waste gases Apparatus for biological production of ethanol from waste gases includes a bioreactor including a plurality of tunnels each having inlet and outlet passageways, a gasifier reactor generates a continuous supply of syngas from waste gases into the upper portion of eac... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7604987 | Bioreactor for growing cell or tissue cultures The invention relates to a bioreactor comprising a chamber for containing cells or tissue cultures within a culture medium. The bioreactor also comprises a detector capable of detecting a change in one or more metabolites associated with growth of the cell or tissue... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7390653 | Culture chamber for biologicals The culture chamber of the present invention has a fluid-filled culture compartment in which cells, tissues and other biologicals are cultured. The culture compartment is transversed by one or more molecular weight cut-off membranes attached to a membrane carrier as... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7371566 | Composting apparatus and method A composting apparatus including an electric motor driven drum. The drum is provided with spaced fins on the inner surface and a supporting shaft that can include air holes to provide air within the confines of the drum. In this instance, tubes with holes are secure... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7201884 | Process and apparatus for performing a gas-sparged reaction An improved process, such as a microbiological or enzymatic process, and apparatus, such as an apparatus for producing a cellular product, comprising introducing a gaseous feed stream of at least one gas of low solubility into an aqueous medium containing a microorg... | 04/10/2007 |
| 6921662 | Cell/tissue culture apparatus The invention provides a cell/tissue culture apparatus for applying a physical stimulation necessary for the proliferation and growth of a cell or tissue to a material to be cultivated serving as a cell or tissue to be cultivated, thereby realizing the culture as de... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6841384 | Advanced roller bottle system for cell and tissue culturing The invention provides an advanced roller bottle system for cell culture that efficiently, continually, and automatically replenishes spent media with fresh media. The roller bottle system optimizes media use by removing spent media in response to a predetermined co... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6699706 | Cell lysis method using a vortex mixer Cell lysis may be brought about by contacting a suspension of cells with a lysis reagent such as sodium hydroxide solution; subsequent treatment enables organic molecules such as plasmid DNA to be separated from other cell components. Intimate mixing of t... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6673592 | Continuous cultivation of microorganisms in large open tanks in sunlight An open, continuous system for culturing Chaetoceros sp. microalgae includes a large outdoor container and full strength sunlight as a light source. The container is preferably a fiberglass tank having an open top, a diameter of approximately 18 inches, a... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6403366 | Method and apparatus for treating volatile organic compounds, odors, and biogradable aerosol/particulates in air emissions A biofilter reactor includes a housing, an axial pipe rotatably supported in the housing and including a plurality of perforations that open into the interior of the housing for collecting a treated fluid. The axial pipe includes an outlet in communicatio... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6370815 | Photoreaction Photosynthetic organisms are grown in a tube having a gas inlet at one end and a gas outlet at the other. The tube containing a rotor having vanes adapted to wipe the inside surface, the tube being disposed at an angle to the horizontal in a bath containi... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6335191 | Automated system and method for growing bacteria An automated system and method is provided for cultivating bacteria in a fluid medium and thereafter selectively discharging the fluid medium, wherein an initial supply of the selected strain or strains of bacteria is combined with nutrients and water in ... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6218182 | Method for culturing three-dimensional tissue in diffusion gradient bioreactor and use thereof A tissue engineering bioreactor is disclosed for growing three-dimensional tissue. Cells are seeded onto a mesh and provided with two media flows, each contacting a different side of the cells. The media flows contain different concentrations of nutrients... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6196296 | Freezing and thawing vessel with thermal bridge formed between container and heat exchange member The present invention relates to a thermal transfer method for heating or cooling a biopharmaceutical medium. A structure is positioned in the container. A heat exchange member is coupled to an interior surface of the container wherein a distal end of the... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6171853 | Method and apparatus for treating volatile organic compound (VOC) and odor in air emissions An air emissions treatment system is characterized by a moving biomass filter element which alternately passes through the air being treated and a nutrient laden liquid to remove pollutants from the air. The filter element is in the form of one or more en... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6071727 | Production of microbial cellulose A microbial cellulose with high water content and process for making the microbial cellulose utilizes a rotary disk or linear conveyor bioreactor containing a biological medium and a cellulose producing microorganism are provided.... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6008049 | Diffusion gradient bioreactor and extracorporeal liver device A tissue engineering bioreactor is disclosed for growing three-dimensional tissue. Cells are seeded onto a mesh and provided with two media flows, each contacting a different side of the cells. The media flows contain different concentrations of nutrients... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5728577 | Stirred tank bioreactor A bioreactor includes a treatment tank for receiving liquid to be treated, at least one carrier member having a carrier body formed of porous materials and immobilized with nonagglutinative microorganisms for treating the liquid, and a drive unit for movi... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5565353 | Perfusable culture device The present application relates generally to methods and devices allowing for high density tissue culture techniques to be practiced. Specifically, the application relates to a perfusable culture device which allows for the maintenance of high-density tis... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5403742 | Bioreactor for production of products with immobilized biofilm A bioreactor is provided for production of products by biosynthesis or biotransformation using a biofilm of immobilized cells. The bioreactor includes a horizontal cylindrical housing and a central rotatable shaft which extends along the axis of the housi... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5270205 | Device for growing cells A device for growing cells has a container which forms an inner chamber, and a plurality of discs located in the inner chamber and provided with corrugations sufficient to entrain a growth medium with cells during a rotation of the container with the disc... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5254472 | Organic digesting system An organic digesting system incorporating a pair of digester units each of which includes an elongated, horizontally disposed frusto-conical, stationary outer drum with each outer drum including a correspondingly frusto-conical inner drum that is rotatabl... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5240854 | Continuous high-density cell culture system A multi-chamber cell-culture assembly has provision for even and continuous distribution of nutrient medium throughout each of the chambers. A device is constructed to provide large surface areas for cell growth relative to the chamber volumes. Cell growt... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5232855 | Apparatus for use in a axenic mass culture The present invention provides an axenic mass culture apparatus comprising a light source for illuminating an entire surface of a culture liquid in a culture tank. According to the present invention, it is possible to achieve a light-illuminating type hig... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5227303 | Sample dissolution chamber There is disclosed an automated system for testing the sterility of products intended for human health administration or for human consumption. The system permits a plurality of samples of a product to be concurrently tested. To accomplish this, the syste... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5134070 | Method and device for cell cultivation on electrodes A method and device are disclosed for culturing of adherent cell monolayer cultures on an electrode surface and subjecting the cells to an electrical field. The device may generally comprises cell culture dish, for example a petri-type dish, having a bott... | 07/28/1992 |
| 4999302 | Biological contact gas scrubber for waste gas purification Process and apparatus is disclosed for removing pollutants from a waste gas stream comprising culturing in a rotary biocontactor a biomass capable of assimilating the pollutants and producing harmless metabolites. The waste gas stream is brought into cont... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4951415 | Culturing apparatus A culturing apparatus including a culturing tank for culturing cells, organs or tissue strips of a plant, internally therein, and a cutting device for cutting cultured plant bodies arranged within the culturing tank, wherein a push-out means for urging th... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4738930 | Apparatus for continuously recovering ethanol from fermentable sugar solutions Apparatus for continously producing ethanol from fermentable sugar solutions comprises horizontal, tubular mixing and separating vessel having internal rotating plates inclined relative to the horizontal axis of rotation. The yeast charged to the vessel i... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4514297 | Bioreactor A reactor for the anaerobic digestion of organic sludge and for the production of methane gas, comprises an essentially horizontal cylindrical vessel provided with an agitator rotating around an essentially horizontal shaft, an inlet for introducing the s... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4474890 | Horizontal container for processing wine grape must The invention relates to a tank-type container for the processing of wine grape must, particularly a fermentation tank for red wine must. The tank is equipped with a slowly rotating agitator having a plurality of longitudinally spaced blades disposed the ... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4473001 | Method and apparatus for agitating the contents of a fermentation tank The present invention relates to a method for agitating the contents of a large tank containing a liquid and solid matter, in particular to a fermentation tank for grape mash comprising a motor-driven agitator. The essence of the invention is that the agi... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4440853 | Microbiological methods using hollow fiber membrane reactor Methods for microbiological processing of organic materials for production of valuable products. Asymmetric hollow fibers are employed in a flow reactor, where the hollow fibers have a semipermeable membrane surrounding a lumen, where the semipermeable me... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4347321 | Method and apparatus for producing alcohol A method and apparatus particularly suitable for the production of alcohol from fermentable substances such as grain. In this method, mash cooking, fermentation, and boiling are carried out sequentially in a single vessel. Boiling produces a first vapor r... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4298693 | Fermentation apparatus A fermentation apparatus for converting agricultural raw materials into a fermented liquor containing about 10 weight percent ethanol comprising a fermentation chamber, a separation chamber, a conduit for transporting mash through the fermentation chamber... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4208484 | Apparatus for handling centrifuge tubes in automatic culture system An apparatus for handling a centrifuge tube in an automatic culture system includes a centrifuge, above which is disposed a centrifuge tube carrying turntable which is intermittently driven through a given angular increment. Disposed at an equal spacing o... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4101384 | Apparatus for the fermentative conversion of a nutrient mixture by means of microorganisms An apparatus for the fermentative conversion of a nutrient mixture by means of microorganisms in the presence of a gas containing oxygen. The nutrient mixture and gas are mixed to yield a phase state with a relative density of less than 0.3 referred to wa... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4080258 | Cell and vaccine production Production of cells and vaccines utilizing a multiplate propagator in which the fluid dynamics of the system can be controlled during the growth cycle and/or the harvesting conditions can be controlled by rapidly cooling the harvested vaccine or by using ... | 03/21/1978 |
| 3965258 | Process for production of vaccines Process for producing a live virus vaccine for the immunization of chickens against Marek's disease utilizing a multiplate machine.... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3933585 | Process for production of vaccines A multiplate propagator for producing cells and vaccines having critical geometric properties such as ratio of plate diameter to internal tank diameter results in significantly increased yields at substantially reduced costs.... | 01/20/1976 |
