Rapid bag filling system
AssigneeAutomated Systems of Tacoma, LLC
InventorsSteven Ng, Michael Moore
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Embodiments are directed toward an aseptic bag filling system. In some embodiments, the aseptic bag filling system selectively and aseptically fills sterilized bags with a fluid. The bags are dispensed from a magazine that stores the bags while the bags are fluidly coupled to a fluid manifold via respective fluid pathways. The bags define a closed system, the interior of which, after sterilization, is not exposed to the external environment through filling of the bags with the fluid, sealing such filled bags, and separating or cutting such sealed bags from the manifold.
Claims20
An aseptic bag filling system comprising:
- a bag filling station that is sized, dimensioned, and arranged to fill a first bag with fluid while the first bag is located at a filling position;
- a bag feeder system that is sized, dimensioned, and arranged to transport an unfilled second bag from a magazine storing a plurality of unfilled, sterilized bags to the bag filling station, wherein the bag filling station is sized, dimensioned, and arranged to selectively fill each of the plurality of bags with the fluid, wherein each of the bags in the magazine are fluidly coupled to a fluid manifold via respective fluid pathways, wherein each of the plurality of bags are arranged along the fluid manifold, and wherein the bags define a closed system, the interior of which, after sterilization, is not exposed to the external environment through filling of the bags with the fluid, sealing such filled bags, and separating or cutting such sealed bags from the fluid manifold after filling of each bag;
- and
- a processor system controllably coupled to the bag filling station and the magazine bag feeder system, the processor system having memory and one or more processors, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to cause the bag filling station to fill the first bag, to cause the magazine bag feeder system to transport the second bag to the bag filling station, and to cause the bag filling station to fill the second bag after the second bag has been transported by the magazine bag feeder system to the bag filling station.
An aseptic bag filling system comprising:
- a magazine that stores a plurality of unfilled, sterilized bags, the magazine having a body that protects the bags, the magazine being sized and dimensioned to facilitate serially dispensing the bags from the magazine to a bag filling station that is sized, dimensioned, and arranged to selectively aseptically fill the bags with fluid,
- wherein each of the bags in the magazine are fluidly coupled to a fluid manifold via respective fluid pathways, wherein each of the plurality of bags are arranged along the fluid manifold, and wherein the bags define a closed system, the interior of which, after sterilization, is not exposed to the external environment through filling of the bags with the fluid, sealing such filled bags, and separating or cutting such sealed bags from the fluid manifold after filling of each bag,
- whereby the magazine facilitates automated dispensing of the sterilized bags during a process of aseptically filling the sterilized bags.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.