Shibuya Corporation

Noriaki Nishimura

Kenji Yoneda

Masahiro Sakamoto

Naoya Deguchi

A liquid is efficiently suctioned and discharged from and to a container formed by a plurality of aligned storing portions for storing the liquid, using a plurality of nozzles. Provided is a liquid suction/discharge device including a container support device for supporting a culture container formed by a plurality of aligned storing portions, and a nozzle support device for supporting a plurality of nozzles in a state in which distal ends of the nozzles are directed downward. The nozzle support device includes a nozzle support member that swingably supports the plurality of nozzles using prescribed parts as support points, and the liquid suction/discharge device further includes a nozzle inclination device for causing each of the nozzles to be inclined with respect to the nozzle support member.

Liquid suction/discharge device

To continue a series of cell treatments even in a case where a treatment has become impossible in any isolator, a cell treatment system is provided with at least two isolators that perform different treatments, such that a sequential series of cell treatments is performed in each of the isolators. The cell treatment system is provided with a first isolator that performs a first treatment, a second isolator that performs a second treatment different from the first treatment, and a common isolator capable of performing the first treatment and the second treatment.

Cell treatment system

An automatic culturing device configured such that, in a work chambermaintained in a sterile state, first and second robotsandare arranged so that the movable ranges thereof partially overlap each other, and such that liquid supply meanswhich supplies liquids, containing a culture medium and liquid medicine, to containers held by the robots, and temporary placement sections (handing-over table, centrifuge tube holder, and heated room), each of which hands over the containers between the first and second robots, are provided in the movable ranges of the first and second robots, which ranges overlap each other. The first robot takes out the containers housed in housing means (rotary stocker), and the second robot holds and transports the containers handed over from the first robot via the temporary placement section. The cultivating operation can be efficiently performed.

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Kanazawa, Japan

Noriaki Nishimura