Patent ID: 8420029

Claim:
A transportation system for transporting a biological material container between a sterile field and a nonsterile field and substantially maintaining sterility of the biological material container, the transportation system comprising: a housing assembly defining an internal cavity, the internal cavity operable to removably receive the biological material container such that an entirety of the biological material container is contained within the internal cavity of the housing assembly, the housing assembly completely encapsulating the biological material container to maintain sterility thereof when in the nonsterile field; a port that extends through the housing assembly and that is fixedly attached to the biological material container, the port providing communication into the biological material container from outside the housing assembly; and a coupling member; the housing assembly being detached from the biological material container except via the fixed attachment of the port to the biological material container, the housing assembly including a first member and a second member that cooperate to define at least a portion of the internal cavity, the first member at least partially covering a first portion of the biological material container such that a second portion of the biological material container extends from the first member, the second member at least partially covering the second portion of the biological material container, the coupling member removably coupling the second member to the first member such that the second member can be moved relative to the first member to expose the second portion of the biological material container.