325 results about "Cell processing" patented technology

A packet switch router that processes downstream digital information to provide dedicated bandwidth to each subscriber destination in a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network. The router includes a network module that terminates a network connection, a switch that forwards data from the network module, and a channel module. The channel module includes a switch interface, a cell processing engine, one or more modulators, and a radio frequency (RF) transmitter network. The switch interface forwards packetized data from the switch to the cell processing engine. The cell processing engine organizes the packetized data into multiple data streams, encapsulates data in each data stream into data cells, and multiplexes the data cells into a multiplexed cell stream. Each modulator is configured to modulate a multiplexed cell stream into an analog signal. The RF transmitter network up converts and combines a plurality of analog signals into a combined electrical signal for transmission.

Methods and apparatus for controlling and delivering a vaporous element or compound, for example, selenium or sulfur, from a solid source to a work piece are provided. The methods and apparatus may be used in photovoltaic cell manufacturing. The apparatus may comprise a treatment chamber, for example, a box furnace or a tube furnace. The chamber may include an inner enclosure, an outer enclosure, and heating sources capable of independent thermal control, for example, in compliance with a predetermined heating schedule. The apparatus include devices and mechanisms for isolating the treatment chambers from the ambient environment. The methods and apparatus may be adapted to control metalloid vapor delivery in photovoltaic cell processing, for example, the processing of CIGS and CIGSS photovoltaic cells.

The present invention generally provides an apparatus and a method for automatically calibrating the placement of fragile substrates into a substrate carrier. Embodiments of the present invention also provide an apparatus and a method for inspecting the fragile substrates prior to processing to prevent damaged substrates from being further processed or broken in subsequent transferring steps. Embodiments of the invention also generally provide an apparatus and a method for determining the alignment and orientation substrates that are to be delivered into or removed from a substrate carrier. Embodiments of the invention further provide an apparatus and method for accurately positioning the substrate carrier for substrate loading. The substrate carriers are generally used to support a batch of substrates that are to be processed in a batch processing chamber.

A packet switch router that processes downstream digital information to provide dedicated bandwidth to each subscriber destination in a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network. The router includes a network module that terminates a network connection, a switch that forwards data from the network module, and a channel module. The channel module includes a switch interface, a cell processing engine, one or more modulators, and a radio frequency (RF) transmitter network. The switch interface forwards packetized data from the switch to the cell processing engine. The cell processing engine organizes the packetized data into multiple data streams, encapsulates data in each data stream into data cells, and multiplexes the data cells into a multiplexed cell stream. Each modulator is configured to modulate a multiplexed cell stream into an analog signal. The RF transmitter network up converts and combines a plurality of analog signals into a combined electrical signal for transmission.

Methods and apparatus for controlling and delivering a vaporous element or compound, for example, selenium or sulfur, from a solid source to a work piece are provided. The methods and apparatus may be used in photovoltaic cell manufacturing. The apparatus may comprise a treatment chamber, for example, a box furnace or a tube furnace. The chamber may include an inner enclosure, an outer enclosure, and heating sources capable of independent thermal control, for example, in compliance with a predetermined heating schedule. The apparatus include devices and mechanisms for isolating the treatment chambers from the ambient environment. The methods and apparatus may be adapted to control metalloid vapor delivery in photovoltaic cell processing, for example, the processing of CIGS and CIGSS photovoltaic cells.

A versatile compartmentalized cell culture device, with a selectively permeable membrane separating the compartments, provides many attributes relative to traditional devices. It can be configured for high-density cell culture, co-culture, and sample dialysis while rolling or standing still. It can also be configured for continuous movement of liquid between compartments. The wide combination of attributes not found in other membrane based cell culture and bioprocessing devices includes more cell capacity, more cell secreted product capacity, higher cell and product density, increased medium capacity, minimized use of exogenous growth factors, compatibility with standard cell culture equipment and protocols, increased scale up efficiency, capacity to function when rolling or standing still, capacity for perfusion without the need for pumps, and more efficient sample dialysis.

The present invention generally provides an apparatus and a method for automatically calibrating the placement of fragile substrates into a substrate carrier. Embodiments of the present invention also provide an apparatus and a method for inspecting the fragile substrates prior to processing to prevent damaged substrates from being further processed or broken in subsequent transferring steps. Embodiments of the invention also generally provide an apparatus and a method for determining the alignment and orientation substrates that are to be delivered into or removed from a substrate carrier. Embodiments of the invention further provide an apparatus and method for accurately positioning the substrate carrier for substrate loading. The substrate carriers are generally used to support a batch of substrates that are to be processed in a batch processing chamber.

Successfully decoded data received from a mobile terminal as well as the transmission format of that data is relayed over the backhaul from a base station receiver that successfully decoded the mobile terminal's transmission to the base stations in the mobile terminal's active set that presumably were unable to decode the mobile terminal's transmission due to inadequate signal-to-noise ratio. A base station that receives this transmission from the relaying base station that did'successfully decode and demodulate the mobile terminal's transmission is then able to reconstruct the data and subtract it from the total interference, thereby increasing the signal-to-noise ratio at this base station for its in-cell processing.

The present disclosure provides a reagent cartridge configured for use in an automated multi-module cell processing environment.

The present invention provides a system and apparatuses / devices capable of automatically performing the processes of cell treatment preparatory to flow cytometry and similar cytological studies in a fully automated and streamlined manner. The system and apparatuses / devices are being adapted for preparation and (pre)processing of cell samples, e.g. blood and / or bone marrow samples.

The present invention relates to systems and apparatuses for improving quality and viability of biological material, such as harvested adipose cells, stem cells, or other cells or biological components, by treatment of the biological material with membrane-repairing / stabilizing agents or the like and / or mechanical removal of components, such as impurities and / or excess treatment agents. The present invention further relates to systems and apparatuses for transplanting tissue, such as adipose tissue.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional porous cartilage extracellular matrix sponge scaffold made of natural cartilage, which can compound cells further to construct tissue engineered cartilage, and can be used for clinically repairing cartilage defects. In the invention, conditions which can fully perform cell extraction and form a porous scaffold matrix are provided by processing cartilage into cartilage microfilaments, and then the cell extraction and solidification and / or strengthening treatment are performed to obtain the three-dimensional porous cartilage extracellular matrix sponge scaffold which is completely decellurized. The antigenicity and cell components are removed in the natural cartilage, and an extracellular matrix component of the cartilage is retained to obtain the scaffold with appropriate pore diameter and porosity, suitable degradation rate, good biocompatibility and certain biomechanical strength. The scaffold has the advantages of broad material sources, low cost, simple and feasible preparation technology, and good repetitiveness; and the scaffold can be widely applied in the field of tissue engineering and has good clinical application prospect.

The present invention provides a fluid exchange cell culture technique and tissue repair cells (TRCs) made by these methods, as well as methods using these cells. The method includes a new wash step which increases the tissue repair properties of the TRCs of the invention. This wash step allows for the production of TRC populations with greater tissue repair and anti-inflammatory capabilities. Embodiments of the present invention include a post-culture process for cultured cells that preferably includes the steps of: a wash process for removing unwanted residual culture components, a volume reduction process, and a harvesting process to remove cultured cells. Preferably, all these steps are performed within a aseptically closed cell culture chamber by implementing a separation method that minimizes mechanical disruption of the cells and is simple to automate. The harvested cells may then be concentrated to a final volume for the intended use. In such embodiments, the final composition is a substantially purified and concentrated cell mixture suspended in a physiologic solution suitable for immediate use in humans without further washing, volume reduction, or processing. Embodiments are also applicable to harvesting (and / or washing) particles within a liquid or solution within a chamber.

Methods and apparatus for cell processors are disclosed. A policy module is loaded from a main memory of a cell processor into the local memory of a selected synergistic processing unit (SPU) under control of an SPU policy module manager (SPMM) running on the SPU. A selected one or more work queues are assigned from a main memory to a selected one or more of the SPUs according to a hierarchy of precedence. A policy module for the selected one or more work queues is loaded to the selected one or more SPUs. The policy module interprets the selected one or more of the selected one or more work queues. Under control of the policy module, work from one or more of the selected one or more work queues is loaded into the local memory of the selected SPU. The work is performed with the selected SPU. After completing the work or upon a pre-emption, control of the selected SPU is returned to the SPMM.

Disclosed is a cell processing method. The method comprises: in the process that a cell performs an on / off operation, a user equipment (UE) of the cell maintaining unchanged association with the cell without migrating to other cells. Also disclosed is a cell processing device. The device comprises: a residence processing module, configured to control, in the process that a cell performs an on / off operation, a UE of the cell to maintain unchanged association with the cell without migrating to other cells.

A neighboring cell processing device includes: a measurement information acquisition unit 11 for acquiring measurement information which indicates a result of measurement of radio signals transmitted from a plurality of wireless base station devices other than a target wireless base station device, based on information provided from at least either of wireless terminal devices or wireless base station devices; and a neighboring cell information generation unit 12 for generating, based on the measurement information acquired by the measurement information acquisition unit 11, neighboring cell information which indicates one or a plurality of wireless base station devices located in the neighborhood of the target wireless base station device, among the plurality of wireless base station devices other than the target wireless base station device.

A blood treating set, including a blood collecting device and a blood treating device, the blood collecting device further including a first bag for storing collected blood, a tube for guiding blood into the first bag, and a tube for discharging blood from the first bag. The blood treating device further includes a connected bag body having three bags, that are, a second bag for storing haematosis, a third bag, and a fourth bag. These bags are connected to each other through the tubes and a branch connector. Also, the tube connected to the second bag includes a filter installed midway in the tube. On the tube connected to the first bag and the tube connected to the filter, indications (markers) are placed at positions to show where these portions must be connected.

A mobile communication system introducing ATM, AAL2 and IMA techniques in order to efficiently transmit high-speed information and multimedia traffic having various properties, and to increase transmission efficiency in a limited transmission link or transmission band. An ATM cell processing device for a mobile communication system comprises an ATM interface for receiving ATM cells dispersedly transmitted or distributed over a plurality of physical links and restoring the received ATM cells into one ATM cell stream; an AAL2 (ATM Adaptation Layer 2) cell processor for switching at least one AAL2 packet multiplexed within each ATM cell in the ATM cell stream according to routing information provided during call setup, multiplexing the switched AAL2 packets according to ATM connections, and creating an internal ATM cell having the same format as the received ATM cells; and an ATM switch for switching the internal ATM cell according to the routing information.

A cell processing apparatus which executes processing for switching a short-packet in AAL Type 2 cell format has a separation processing unit and a restoration processing unit. The separation processing unit splits a short packet, which has a length greater than a length L (=48) bytes capable of being accommodated in one ATM cell, into two portions, accommodates significant data containing (1) one of the short-packet portions and (2) short-packet length information, in a payload area of the first ATM cell, accommodates remaining significant data including another short-packet portion, which could not be accommodated in the first ATM cell, in a payload area of the second ATM cell, and inputs the first and second ATM cells to an ATM switch. The restoration processing unit refers to the short-packet length information that has been accommodated in the first ATM cell output from the ATM switch, restores the original short packet, the length of which exceeds L bytes, using the short packet portions that have been accommodated in respective ones of the first and second ATM cells, and sends the restored short packet to a line in the AAL Type 2 cell format.

An adipose-derived stem cell (ASC), regenerative cell and / or regenerative factor processing system including a tissue extraction device for extracting raw tissue, such as adipose tissue, from a patient, an ASC, regenerative cell and / or regenerative factor isolator, and an implantation device for re-introducing the isolated ASCs, regenerative cells and / or regenerative factors into the patient.

A versatile compartmentalized cell culture device, with a selectively permeable membrane separating the compartments, provides many attributes relative to traditional devices. It can be configured for high-density cell culture, co-culture, and sample dialysis while rolling or standing still. It can also be configured for continuous movement of liquid between compartments. The wide combination of attributes not found in other membrane based cell culture and bioprocessing devices includes more cell capacity, more cell secreted product capacity, higher cell and product density, increased medium capacity, minimized use of exogenous growth factors, compatibility with standard cell culture equipment and protocols, increased scale up efficiency, capacity to function when rolling or standing still, capacity for perfusion without the need for pumps, and more efficient sample dialysis.

A method of making a reference control containing a nucleated red blood cell component includes providing a blood cell containing a nucleus; treating the blood cell with a treatment solution to alter a nucleus property from a natural value to a target value suitable for simulating nucleated red blood cells on a blood analyzer; and suspending treated blood cell in a suspension medium to form a reference control. The method also includes integrating the nucleated red blood cell component with white blood cell, red blood cell, platelet and reticulocyte components. Further disclosed is a cell treatment composition for altering a nucleus property, which includes a conditioning component, a lytic component for permeating cell membrane, and a fixing component for preserving the cell nucleus. Also disclosed is a method of using the reference control for measurement of nucleated red blood cells on a blood analyzer.

The invention is directed towards determining whether a hard handover should be performed of a mobile station (48) in relation to a first group of cells (16, 18, 20, 24) including a number of active cells (16, 18, 20) and handled by a first cell handling device (10) to a second group of cells (32, 36, 38) handled by a second cell handling device (26), when the cell handling devices lack a direct communication link (lur). Either the first cell handling device or the mobile station obtains measurements of link quality between the mobile station and cells of the groups, determines a first and second total quality factor for the groups, performs an evaluation of a preferred group involving comparing the first total quality factor with the second quality factor and initiates a handover from the first group to the second group if the second group is preferred.

The invention discloses a simple thin liquid-based cytology examine method applied for the gynecological examination, the cervical cancer general examine and the cervical cancer preceding lesion of selected crowd, the steps including: using the cervical cells brush and the scraper to collect samples, put samples in the liquid-based cell preservation solution, add base liquid cell processing solution, oscillate, centrifugally separate, take and discard the supernatant samples liquid, using adding samples gun to assimilate sediment samples, smear, sheet drying, using 95% ethanol marinate or spray for fixed, washing and dyeing. The invention has simple method, small steps, high positive detection rate, low misdiagnosis rate, low cost, and it can effectively eliminate the red blood cells, mucus and other interference components from the cervical cytology detection specimens, with good sheet-producing result.

A cell processing apparatus 29 of the present invention includes a storage container 57 that can contain liquid L including a biological sample; a filter 60 that prevents a first cell C1 in the biological sample from passing therethrough and that allows a second cell C2 having a smaller diameter than that of the first cell C1 to pass therethrough; and a filtration cylinder 58 for separating, in the storage container 57 and via the filter 60, the liquid L into a first liquid L1 mainly including the first cell C1 and a second liquid L2 mainly including the second cell C2. A measurement target cell discriminated by the filter from the other cells can be easily collected.

The embodiment of the invention provides a digital front end, a base band main processing unit and a channel function dividing method, wherein the digital front end comprises a control module used for obtaining control information sent by the base band main processing unit; a processing module used for carrying out processing on a cell-level processing flow of a channel according to the control information, generating processed data and sending the processed data to the base band main processing unit through an exchange network. The cell-level processing flow comprises a processing flow of signals independent of a cell processing load change. By adopting the scheme provided by the invention, dynamic exchange of internal data of a base band pool is realized, and the overall power consumption of the base band pool is reduced by means of a UE level processing load dynamic migration manner.

The invention discloses a segmentation method for unconventional cells in a pathological section. The method comprises the steps that cells in the pathological section are processed into separate to-be-segmented cell images with a transparent background, and a pixel tag is allocated to each pixel point of each to-be-segmented image; a mapping method is used to randomly distribute the to-be-segmented cell images on a white background, the cells are superposed according to a certain probability to form pseudo-input images, and corresponding full-image pixel tags are acquired and marked as real-value tags; the pseudo-input images and the real-value tags are used as training data to train a Mask-RCNN, so that the Mask-CNN has the abilities of detecting an unconventional cell boundary box and predicting the pixel tags in the box; and a new pathological section not marked is input into the converged Mask-RCNN, the unconventional cells in the non-segmented pathological section are detected, and a final segmentation result is obtained through postprocessing. Through the segmentation method, marking time can be effectively shortened, marking cost can be effectively lowered, a large amount of training data can be generated in a short time, and fitting can be well performed on a large amount of data.

A method of making a reference control containing a nucleated red blood cell component includes providing a blood cell containing a nucleus; treating the blood cell with a treatment solution to alter a nucleus property from a natural value to a target value suitable for simulating nucleated red blood cells on a blood analyzer; and suspending treated blood cell in a suspension medium to form a reference control. The method also includes integrating the nucleated red blood cell component with white blood cell, red blood cell, platelet and reticulocyte components. Further disclosed is a cell treatment composition for altering a nucleus property, which includes a conditioning component, a lytic component for permeating cell membrane, and a fixing component for preserving the cell nucleus. Also disclosed is a method of using the reference control for measurement of nucleated red blood cells on a blood analyzer.

The invention relates to a microfluid cell processing chip comprising a bottom layer and a top layer. A snakelike pipe and a cell operation chamber are disposed in the top layer, and two solution inflow channels are disposed on the inflow-port of the snakelike pipe. A protective agent entrance is disposed on the inlet pipe of one of the inflow channels, and a buffer solution entrance is disposed on the inlet pipe of another inflow channel. A solution outflow channel of the snakelike pipe is connected with the cell operation chamber, and the cell operation chamber is provided with a solution exit, a waste fluid outflow channel and a cell access channel. A row of cylindrical barriers are disposed on each side of the cell operation chamber, and the barriers are used for limiting the cell in the operation chamber, so that the cell can not be washed away by the protective agent. In practical application, operator uses the refitted cell mouth-sucking device to blow or suck the cell in or out the chip cell operation chamber directly. The microfluid cell processing chip and application method thereof can make the concentration of protective agent change continuously when adding or removing the cryoprotectant of animal cell with large volume. The method has direct and simple operation, and has less damage for cell.

The invention relates to a kit for processing human marrow, cord blood and peripheral blood stem cells and a stem cell processing method. The kit radically solves the problems of high manufacture cost, low cell activity, indefinite reaction of markers in a human body, mobilizing agent injection causing patient pain, long obtainment time, complication, clinical unsuitability, and the like in the prior cell separation technology. The invention has the technical scheme that the kit comprises the following three reagents: (1) a diluent comprising 0.9 percent of sodium chloride injection or PBS solution, (2) a precipitator comprising 6 percent of hydroxyethyl starch or 0.2-1 percent of methyl cellulose and (3) a separating solution which has the density of 1.074-1.076 and is prepared by saccharosan and diatrizoate. The kit is easy to store and transport and convenient and rapid to use and can be produced in industrialization.