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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2008
Robert W. Langley, Westminster, CO (US);
John Pittinger, Evergreen, CO (US);
Logan Fender, Lakewood, CO (US);
Robert W. Langley, Westminster, CO (US);
John Pittinger, Evergreen, CO (US);
Logan Fender, Lakewood, CO (US);
CaridianBCT, Inc., Lakewood, CO (US);
Abstract
A disposable blood separation set of a centrifugal blood processing system comprising a blood processing chamber adapted to be mounted on a rotor of a centrifuge; a frustro-conical cell separation chamber in fluid communication with the processing chamber, the cell separation chamber having a protruding inlet therein. The protruding inlet may have a frustro-conical inner surface that slants radially outwardly from an inlet to a mouth of the protruding inlet. A circumferential well may surround the protruding inlet. The cell separation chamber may have a baffle within a separation area. The baffle may have a plurality of vanes with openings therein.