Liquid transport method
AssigneeTerumo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKouichirou Yori, Makoto Jinno
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Abstract
A liquid transport method is disclosed for efficiently producing cell cultures. The liquid transport method of the present disclosure, which is in processing of cells, includes: a) a step in which a container holding a liquid is gripped by a gripping tool of a robot; and b) a step in which the liquid in the container is transported to a collection container by rotating the gripped container. In steps a) and b) the robot operates such as not to pass over a vertical line of an opening of the collection container.
Claims6
A cell processing method for processing cells by use of a plurality of containers each having a cap and a container main body, the cell processing method comprising:
- 1) a step of disposing n containers to be processed in a predetermined order, n being an integer of not less than 2;
- 2) a step of detaching the cap from the container main body of the container to be processed i-thly and attaching the cap to the container main body of the container processed (i-1) thly, by a robot, i being an integer satisfying 2≤i≤n), and wherein the robot has a single gripping tool;
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- 3) a step of performing the processing by use of the container to be processed i-thly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.