CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT OBSERVATION DEVICE

• Main Authors: Cecchi Michael Ryan, Mezezi Aami, Cecchi Michael D, Mezezi Monica
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.05.2017
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ENZYMOLOGY; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

A controlled environment observation device comprising: a body; a heated shelf located in the body; a plurality of shelf openings in the heated shelf; a plurality of embryonic chambers removably installed in the plurality of shelf openings, each of the plurality of embryonic chambers comprising: an optically transparent heated shelf; a specimen dish removably attached to the top of the optically transparent heated shelf, the specimen dish having a generally optically transparent bottom; an x,y,z camera system located in each of the embryonic chambers and below the specimen dish and the optically transparent heated shelf; a computer located in the controlled environment observation device; and a controller in signal communication with the xyz camera system and the computer. A controlled environment observation device comprising: a body; at least one multi-area embryonic chamber located in the body, the multi-area embryonic chamber comprising: at least one outer wall forming a perimeter; a platform generally located within the perimeter; an opening in the platform; an optically transparent heated shelf located in the opening; a first plurality of inner walls forming a second plurality of volumes with the at least one outer wall; a second plurality of specimen dishes configured to be removeably attached to the optically transparent heated shelf in each of the second plurality of volumes, each of the specimen dishes having a generally optically transparent bottom; an x,y,z camera system located beneath the optically transparent heated shelf, and configured to move a camera to any of the specimen dishes.