Biological fluid processing cassettes with integrated filter structures are disclosed. A cassette body is formed of a generally rigid material, defining a plurality of internal fluid flow paths. The cassette body may be secured to a cassette cap to define a cavity, with a filter sealed within the cavity. Each of the cassette body and the cassette cap defines a port opening into the cavity, which allows fluid to flow from one of the internal fluid flow paths, into the cavity and through the filter, and then out of the cavity via the port of the cassette cap. Alternatively, the cassette body may define an external slot which receives at least a portion of a filter. Such a filter includes two ports, with one of the ports in fluid communication with a cassette port of the cassette body to allow fluid flow between the cassette body and the filter.

The invention relates to a filter element comprising one or more fluid-pervious layers of a fluid-pervious sheet material having first and second surfaces in a substantially parallel arrangement, a fluid-impervious layer arranged in fluid tight contact with at least one of said first and second surfaces of said layer(s) of fluid-pervious sheet material to substantially fully cover the first and/or second surfaces thereof, one or more first and second edge portions, said first and second edge portions being arranged at a predefined distance and separated from one another by a predefined area of the fluid-pervious sheet material, a fluid flow path limited to and extending essentially parallel to the first and second surfaces from the first edge portion(s) to the second edge portion(s) within each of said layers of fluid-pervious sheet material, said first and second edge portions providing a fluid intake and a fluid drainage at the upstream and downstream ends of said fluid flow path, respectively. The invention further relates to filter modules comprising one or more of said filter elements.

A depth filter with excellent filtration accuracy and pressure resistance performance even for fluids containing high density and high viscosity powder fine particles. A depth filter having a base material layer, a filtration layer, and a skin layer, in that order, wherein: the substrate layer and the skin layer are layers made by a nonwoven fabric being wound and thermally fused; the filtration layer is a laminate in which at least a nonwoven fabric and a net are laminated, being wound twice or more; and the nonwoven fabric contained in the filtration layer contains a mixed-fiber nonwoven fabric containing two or more types of fibers with mutually different average fiber diameters.

To provide a filter capable of efficiently removing metal ions in a treatment liquid, and capable of easily obtaining a solution having an extremely low metal ion content. A depth filter includes a porous molded article. The porous molded article is a sintered material of mixed powder or a swollen material of the sintered material. The mixed powder contains dried gel powder and thermoplastic resin powder. The dried gel powder contains an ion exchange resin including a sulfonic acid group, and a nitrogen-containing chelating resin.

The depth filter includes a first filter layer having a cylindrical shape, and a second filter layer having a cylindrical shape. The second filter layer is arranged on the inner side of the first filter layer, and the second filter layer has a mesh coarseness that is the same as or less than the mesh coarseness of the first filter layer. The depth filter also includes a space layer provided between the first filter layer and the second filter layer. In the space layer, the fluid resistance between a front side and a rear side of the space layer is substantially zero. A filter cartridge including a filter cover and the depth filter arranged inside the filter cover is also described.

An adapter for laboratory cell strainer is disclosed. The adapter includes a unitary structure having an annular top surface, an annular bottom surface, a smooth inner surface, an outer surface, and an opening extending therethrough. The adapter has a downwardly and radially inwardly sloped funnel section terminating in a cylindrical edge at the annular bottom surface with a lower section of the funnel section having a narrowed, tapered diameter. The outer surface of a middle section of the funnel section has an annular neck configured therearound with a plurality of radially protruding ribs. The unitary structure is configured for connection to the laboratory cell strainer at the annular top surface and placement inside a various sized laboratory tube for receiving filtered liquid during use.

An adaptor device for retrofitting in a pool filter housing is disclosed, where the pool filter housing has a conventional cylindrical concentric filter. The adaptor device allows the pool filter to be retrofitted with a plurality of filter elements, thereby improving its filtering efficiency.

The present invention relates to an oil filtration unit comprising a housing, which comprises a housing inlet adapted to receive contaminated oil from the surroundings and to release the contaminated oil to an inner opening of the housing, and a housing outlet adapted to release filtered oil to the surroundings, where the inner opening of the housing is defined by an inner bottom surface, an inner top surface, and at least one inner side surface and comprises an oil filter for filtering the contaminated oil, said oil filter being arranged inside the inner opening of the housing, where said oil filter comprises a filter inlet defined by an outer surface of the oil filter, an inner filter volume adapted to receive filtered oil, and a filter outlet inside said housing providing fluid/liquid communication between the inner filter volume and the housing outlet in order to release the filtered oil from the inner filter volume, and where said oil filter further comprises a top and a bottom end surface relative to the longitudinal axis of the oil filter, where the top end surface of the oil filter comprises an aperture providing fluid/liquid communication between the inner opening of the housing and the inner filter volume.

A tubular depth filter element has three or more concentric zones. Each zone is made of an essentially continuous melt blown filament. The filament of an outer zone preferably has a larger diameter than the filaments of other zones. The outer zone overlaps with at least 85%, and preferably all, of another zone. Optionally, one or more additional filaments may traverse through all of zones. The depth filter element is made by spraying filaments onto a rotating mandrel to form a filament mass in contact with a conical press roller. The filaments are sprayed from three or more nozzles which are spaced apart along the length of the mandrel. One of the filaments is formed in a spray pattern that is angled towards an adjacent spray pattern so as to overlap with at least 50 or 85%, and preferably all, of the adjacent spray pattern.

A method of making depth filtration media, such as for use in a depth filter, are described. The resulting depth filtration media includes a core tube having two or more different layers. The layers can be fibers, such as polymeric or inorganic fibers, wrapped layers of a filter material, or pleated and folded layers of a filter material.