Patent EP-1854871-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HAWRYLENKO ALEXANDER
IPC: C12M1/00
Filed: 2007-03-06
Granted: 2008-10-22
Abstract: The cabinet (5) in the form of a reactor or incubator, comprises shake table (10), which is driven by means of a vibration-type drive mechanism (15) and which is pulled out of the cabinet along a guidance mechanism (74), a container (11, 12), which is present on the shake table, and a sequential control. The cabinet is closed by means of a door (7). The container is supported by a clamping mechanism and has a fluid to be shaken with or without the culture medium. The door is built in such a manner that it seals the interior of the cabinet. The cabinet (5) in the form of a reactor or incubator, comprises shake table (10), which is driven by means of a vibration-type drive mechanism (15) and which is pulled out of the cabinet along a guidance mechanism (74), a container (11, 12), which is present on the shake table, and a sequential control. The cabinet is closed by means of a door (7). The container is supported by a clamping mechanism and has a fluid to be shaken with or without the culture medium. The door is built in such a manner that it seals the interior of the cabinet. The vibration-type drive mechanism is built with a stop-positioning mechanism for termination of the shaking operation in a predefined position of the shake table. The door has a motion actuator for opening the door after stopping the shake table in the predefined position and for closing the door after sliding in the shake table. The shake table is provided with a push/pull-displacement drive mechanism for pulling or pushing out of or into the cabinet along the guidance mechanism, when the door is open. A coupling/decoupling mechanism is intended before the onset of the shaking operation for the disengagement of the vibration-type drive mechanism from the shake table before it is pulled out of the interior of the cabinet and for the engagement of the vibration-type drive mechanism with the shake table after it is pushed into the interior of the cabinet. The sequential control is connected with the stop-positioning mechanism, the vibration-type drive mechanism, the motion actuator, the coupling/decoupling mechanism and the push/pull-displacement drive respectively for opening the door by means of the motion actuator after stopping the shaking operation and disengagement of the shake table from the vibration-type drive mechanism in the defined position, closing the door after pushing of the shake table into the interior of the cabinet and the engagement of the shake table with the vibration-type drive mechanism by means of the coupling/decoupling mechanism before the start of the shaking operation and for the pulling and pushing of the shake table into or out of the cabinet when the door is open by means of a push/pull-displacement drive. The door is designed as a flip-open panel, which is tiltable around a horizontal axis in the region of its lower edge and the periphery of which consists of a seal that tightly seals the interior of the cabinet. The cabinet is designed in a rectangular form and the flip-open panel extends along the frontal side of the cabinet. The flip-open panel has a flat inner side and this consists of the guidance mechanism for the shake table that is pulled out of the cabinet. The inner side of the flip-open panel forms a horizontal surface in its open state and that the horizontal axis of the flip-open panel is aligned in such a manner. The inner side of the flip-opened panel flushes with the bottom side of the shake table in such a manner that the shake table is pulled along the guidance mechanism towards the inner side of the door up to a predefined final position. At the inner side of the flip-open panel in the predefined final position, the guidance mechanism has a lock and/or electric limit switch for the shake table. The seal running continuously at the periphery of the flip-open panel is a closed sealing surface. An independent claim is included for procedure for operating the cabinet.