Patents by Inventor Tobias Seiler

Tobias Seiler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11485952
    Abstract: A cell separation apparatus a container for reception of a cell suspension and a conduit connected to the container for the conveyance of cell suspension out of the container. The conduit extends along a notional conduit path passing centrally through the conduit, the conduit path defining in the conduit an axial direction proceeding along the conduit path, a radial direction orthogonal to the conduit path, and a circumferential direction proceeding around the conduit path. A segment of the conduit constitutes a turbulent flow segment including a flow configuration. The flow configuration includes at least two axial configuration segments located axially behind one another to accelerate a cell suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: Hamilton Bonaduz AG, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
    Inventors: Tom Kissling, Jens Grosch, Thomas Zumstein, Andrea Traube, Carsten Etzold, Tobias Seiler
  • Patent number: 10934517
    Abstract: A laboratory container, in particular a cell culture container, includes a container volume which is surrounded by a container body and which can be accessed from the outside through a container opening of the container body. The container has a fluid line which communicates with the container volume and which comprises a valve arrangement. The fluid line is designed to conduct fluid in order to discharge and/or introduce fluid out of and/or into the container volume. The fluid line can be selectively released in order to conduct a fluid or blocked by the valve arrangement, and the container additionally has a gas balancing opening, through which gas can be introduced into or discharged out of the container volume in counterflow to a possible fluid flow in the fluid line. The gas compensating opening is surrounded by a channel wall, said line channel running from the gas balancing opening into the container volume and opening into said container volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: HAMILTON BONADUZ AG
    Inventors: Thomas Jäger, Tobias Seiler, Carsten Etzold
  • Patent number: 10435660
    Abstract: A fluid line element for building a fluid line section comprising a plurality of identical fluid line elements, wherein the fluid line element comprises: —an element body, —a first throughflow opening provided on the element body and a second throughflow opening, different from the first, —and a flow channel provided in the element body, which fluidically connects the first and the second throughflow openings for throughflow along a channel path. In a first region of the fluid line element, located closer to the first than to the second throughflow opening, a throughflow body formed separately from the element body is provided, which —forms a part of the flow channel, —is formed from a material having a lower elasticity modulus than the material of the element body, and —on the longitudinal end thereof facing into the interior of the element body, comprises a valve seat formation surrounding the channel path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Hamilton Bonaduz AG
    Inventors: Tobias Seiler, Oliver Kühne, Carsten Etzold
  • Publication number: 20190032002
    Abstract: A cell separation apparatus a container for reception of a cell suspension and a conduit connected to the container for the conveyance of cell suspension out of the container. The conduit extends along a notional conduit path passing centrally through the conduit, the conduit path defining in the conduit an axial direction proceeding along the conduit path, a radial direction orthogonal to the conduit path, and a circumferential direction proceeding around the conduit path. A segment of the conduit constitutes a turbulent flow segment including a flow configuration. The flow configuration includes at least two axial configuration segments located axially behind one another to accelerate a cell suspension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicants: Hamilton Bonaduz AG, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
    Inventors: Tom Kissling, Jens Grosch, Thomas Zumstein, Andrea Traube, Carsten Etzold, Tobias Seiler
  • Publication number: 20190010442
    Abstract: A laboratory container, in particular a cell culture container, includes a container volume which is surrounded by a container body and which can be accessed from the outside through a container opening of the container body. The container has a fluid line which communicates with the container volume and which comprises a valve arrangement. The fluid line is designed to conduct fluid in order to discharge and/or introduce fluid out of and/or into the container volume. The fluid line can be selectively released in order to conduct a fluid or blocked by the valve arrangement, and the container additionally has a gas balancing opening, through which gas can be introduced into or discharged out of the container volume in counterflow to a possible fluid flow in the fluid line. The gas compensating opening is surrounded by a channel wall, said line channel running from the gas balancing opening into the container volume and opening into said container volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Jäger, Tobias Seiler, Carsten Etzold
  • Publication number: 20170198247
    Abstract: A fluid line element for building a fluid line section comprising a plurality of identical fluid line elements, wherein the fluid line element comprises: an element body, a first throughflow opening provided on the element body and a second throughflow opening, different from the first, and a flow channel provided in the element body, which fluidically connects the first and the second throughflow openings for throughflow along a channel path. In a first region of the fluid line element, located closer to the first than to the second throughflow opening, a throughflow body formed separately from the element body is provided, which forms a part of the flow channel, is formed from a material having a lower elasticity modulus than the material of the element body, and on the longitudinal end thereof facing into the interior of the element body, comprises a valve seat formation surrounding the channel path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Tobias Seiler, Oliver Kühne, Carsten Etzold
  • Patent number: 8656792
    Abstract: A pipette device including a metering liquid receptacle designed to be filled, at least in part, with working fluid and which has a pipette opening as a first tapering of cross-section of flow, a pressure change device which is designed to change the pressure of the working fluid in the metering liquid receptacle, and a throttle point in a pipette duct designed to be filled with working fluid as a further tapering of cross-section of flow. The throttle point is arranged fluid-mechanically between the metering liquid receptacle and the pressure change device and is dimensioned in such a way that a ratio of a flow resistance of the pipette opening for dispensed metering liquid to a flow resistance of the throttle point for working fluid, which flows through the throttle point when the metering fluid is dispensed, is less than 0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hamilton Bonaduz AG
    Inventors: Vinzenz Kirste, Helmut Knapp, Urs Lendenmann, Noa Schmid, Tobias Seiler, Fabian Winter
  • Publication number: 20120017704
    Abstract: Pipette device (10), at least for dispensing metering liquid by increasing the pressure of a working fluid, comprising a metering liquid receptacle (38) which is filled, at least in part, with working fluid and has a pipette opening (36) as a first tapering of cross-section of flow, through which metering liquid can be dispensed from the metering liquid receptacle (38) as a function of the pressure of the working fluid, and comprising a pressure change device (40) which is designed to change the pressure of the working fluid in the metering liquid receptacle (38), wherein the pipette device (10) comprises a throttle point (42) in a pipette duct (12) filled with working fluid during normal operation as a further tapering of cross-section of flow, said throttle point being arranged fluid-mechanically between the metering liquid receptacle (38) and the pressure change device (40) and being dimensioned in such a way that a ratio of a flow resistance (R1) of the pipette opening (36) for dispensed metering liquid t
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Hamilton Bonaduz AG
    Inventors: Vinzenz KIRSTE, Helmut Knapp, Urs Lendenmann, Noa Schmid, Tobias Seiler, Fabian Winter