US 7,320,757 B2
Body fluid processor enabling direct hemoperfusion
Masaru Nakatani, Settsu (Japan); Akira Kobayashi, Settsu (Japan); and Shigeo Furuyoshi, Settsu (Japan)
Assigned to Kaneka Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/250,367
PCT Filed Jan. 30, 2002, PCT No. PCT/JP02/00683
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Oct. 10, 2003,
PCT Pub. No. WO02/060512, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 08, 2002.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-021480 (JP), filed on Jan. 30, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2004/0222144 A1, Nov. 11, 2004
Int. Cl. B01D 15/00 (2006.01); B01D 24/10 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 210—666  [210/287] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A body fluid processor enabling direct hemoperfusion,
which comprises a vessel equipped with a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and a mesh attached adjacent to said fluid outlet,
said vessel being packed with particles for processing body fluid and a filling liquid, and
said body fluid processor having a packing ratio of 85 to 100% and the space in which the particles for processing body fluid are to be packed in the body fluid processor being filled with the particles for processing body fluid and said filling liquid at a ratio of 95% or more but not more than 100%,
wherein said packing ratio is a value calculated by means of the following equation:
Packing ratio (%)=Va/Vj×100
where Va represents a sedimentation volume of the particles for processing body fluid packed in the space in which the particles for processing body fluid are to be packed and Vj represents the volume of the space in which the particles for processing body fluid are to be packed, and
wherein the mean particle diameter of the particles for processing body fluid is 80 μm through 500 μm and the aperture size of the mesh is not less than 20 μm but less than ½ of the mean particle diameter of the particles for processing body fluid.