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AssigneeCellmotions Inc.
InventorCarl R. Bachellier
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Disclosed is an impeller for mixing a fluid wherein the impeller is fashioned so as to substantially reduce areas of fluid acceleration and deceleration around a hub region of the impeller during fluid mixing. Additionally, a bioreactor system having microcarriers, kit of parts and cell culturing method are also provided. The impeller has a generally circularly shaped hub having a downwardly directed progressively tapered volume which has plurality of periods formed therein corresponding to the number of increasingly arced blades. Each of the increasingly arced blades flare outwards to a distal end region of the impeller and have an increasing radius to said arc towards a peripheral edge region of said hub. The flare to the increasingly arced blades defines a larger circumference than that of said hub, thereby imparting a generally frusto-conical shape to the impeller. A method mixing a fluid using the impeller disclosed herein is also disclosed.
An impeller couplable to a rotatable drive by way of a rotatable drive attachment region coupled to a generally circularly shaped hub, said generally circularly shaped hub including a downwardly directed progressively tapered volume having coupled thereto a proximal end region of one or more arced blades, said proximal region arranged on said downwardly directed progressively tapered volume in a spiraling pattern where each of said one or more arced blades has an arc with an increasing radius to said arc towards a peripheral edge region of said hub so as to form a periodic pattern, wherein a number of periods corresponds to the number of blades;
An impeller couplable to a rotatable drive comprising:
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