SYSTEM FOR DISPENSING A FLUID IN NON-CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20110094619A1
• Filed: 02/09/2009
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GE Healthcare Limited (General Electric Company), Hammersmith Imanet Limited (General Electric Company)
• Original Assignee: GE Healthcare Limited (General Electric Company), Hammersmith Imanet Limited (General Electric Company)
• Inventors: Crosby, Paul, Lindgaard, Svein-Erik, Pettitt, Roger, Steel, Colin
• Application Number:
  US12/864,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20110094619A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 141/27
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 3/003 Filling medical containers such as ampoules, vials, syringes or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 3/12 mechanically, e.g. by pistons or pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 55/02 Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
• CPC Class Codes: G21F 5/015 for storing radioactive sources, e.g. source carriers for irradiation units; Radioisotope containers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44017 with specific mounting means for attaching to rigid or semirigid supporting structure or structure-to-be-secured

Abstract

The present invention provides a dispenser cassette (110) which provides at least one product dispense vial (122) to be filled. The cassette provides a filtrate conduit (128) extending between the dispense vial and a filter unit (116) so that flowpath (120) of the filtrate conduit and the dispense vial is provided and maintained as an environmentally-controlled, or GMP-compliant, volume. The resulting product dispensed into the dispense vial is thus dispensed in a GMP-compliant environment.

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