Patent ID: 9005958
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: A61F,C12M

Abstract:
1. A cultivation apparatus for a culture including a cell and/or tissue, comprising: a bed that includes a disposing part which is formed by an elastic member having elasticity, the culture being disposed on the disposing part; an incubator unit that accommodates the bed, which includes the disposing part on which the culture is disposed, the bed being fixed to the incubator unit; a lever that penetrates from an inside of the incubator unit to an outside thereof, and can move in a circular arc around a fulcrum as a center, the fulcrum being set at a wall of the incubator unit or in the vicinity thereof, the lever having an action unit at one edge thereof, the action unit being disposed in the incubator unit; and a driving unit that imparts driving force to another edge of the lever and releases impartation of the driving force, the driving unit making the action unit of the lever move in a circular arc to push a back side of the disposing part to curve the disposing part when imparting the driving force to the lever, wherein the disposing part of the bed is curved by the impartation of the driving force to the lever, and the elasticity of the disposing part restores the disposing part to an original form with release of the impartation of the driving force, to deform the culture in extension and contraction.