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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1991
Noboru Ishida, Fujinomiya, JP;
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for separating liquid components which have been fractionated into at least an upper layer component and a lower layer component in a soft flexible container provided with a liquid transfer port located either at an upper part or a lower part of the container comprising a step of pressing the container to a flat configuration, so as to flowing out one of the liquid components through the liquid transfer port, characterized in that the inner walls of a liquid storage chamber of the flexible container, except for the liquid transfer port, are partly brought into close contact with each other in advance, so as to define such a flowing passage for the liquid component, the width of which becoming narrower toward the liquid transfer port, prior to the step of pressing the flexible container to a flat configuration.