Patents Assigned to Chip-Man Technologies Oy
  • Apparatus for imaging cells
    Patent number: 7885000
    Abstract: An apparatus for imaging cells including a culture chamber, in which a cultivation sub-structure is placed, imaging optics, and actuators for providing the relative movement of the cultivation substructure and the imaging optics in such a way that the imaging optics is used to image different sites in the substructure. The cultivation substructure is isolated as a subchamber of its own that is separate from the culture chamber, and imaging is carried out by moving the imaging optics and the subchamber in relation to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Chip-Man Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Juha Korpinen, Jussi Tarvainen
  • Apparatus for Imaging Cells
    Publication number: 20080266653
    Abstract: An apparatus for imaging cells including a culture chamber, in which a cultivation sub-structure is placed, imaging optics, and actuators for providing the relative movement of the cultivation substructure and the imaging optics in such a way that the imaging optics is used to image different sites in the substructure. The cultivation substructure is isolated as a subchamber of its own that is separate from the culture chamber, and imaging is carried out by moving the imaging optics and the subchamber in relation to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Chip-Man Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Juha Korpinen, Jussi Tarvainen
  • Substructure For Cultivating Cells And Its Use
    Publication number: 20080032397
    Abstract: A substructure for cultivating cells including well-like culture sites separate from each other. The cultivation substructure is closed from above hermetically with a lid which, together with the substructure, limits an air space being common to the culture sites and having a gas inlet and a gas outlet. Water has been added onto the bottom of the cultivation substructure in the areas outside the culture sites, to maintain humidity in the air space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: Chip-Man Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Juha Korpinen
  • Micromanipulator including piezoelectric benders
    Patent number: 7141914
    Abstract: A micromanipulator for positioning/localization of an operating instrument coupled therewith. The micromanipulator controls movement of the operating instrument in a single- or multi-axial system of coordinates with one or more electrical actuators. The electrical actuators are especially for providing a substantially elongated structure for the micromanipulator. The one or more actuators including a piezoelectric bender enable the positioning/localization of the operating instrument for providing at least one desired direction of motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Chip-Man Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Pasi Kallio, Quan Zhou, Marek Novotny, Heikki Koivo, Johana Kuncova, Pekka Ronkanen, Juha Turunen
  • Analysis and culture apparatus
    Publication number: 20060234370
    Abstract: An analysis and culture apparatus including several wells, which have a cover that closes the well to form a closed space, as well as at least one inlet passage and one outlet passage for introducing matter to a closed space and for removing it from a closed space, respectively. The cover is formed as a separate cap, which can be removably attached to the well, with which the well can be closed, and to which the inlet passage and outlet passage are integrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Applicant: CHIP-MAN TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Juha Korpinen, Jouko Viitanen