Patent ID: 9670450
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: A61F,C12M

Claim:
1. A cultivation apparatus for a culture including a cell and/or tissue, comprising: an incubator unit that accommodates the culture, one end of the culture in a longitudinal direction being fixed to the incubator unit; and a lever that penetrates from an inside of the incubator unit to an outside thereof, the lever having an action unit to which another end of the culture in the longitudinal direction is fixed, the action unit being disposed in the incubation unit, the lever moving in circular arc around a fulcrum as a center to allow the action unit to move back and forth in the longitudinal direction of the culture, the fulcrum being set at a wall of the incubator unit or in the vicinity thereof, wherein movement of the lever in circular arc makes the action unit in the incubator unit move back and forth, and the culture is extended and contracts in the longitudinal direction thereof in response to back and forth movement of the action unit of the lever.