A membrane humidifier for a fuel cell includes a hollow fiber membrane cartridge including a cartridge housing which is formed as a hollow having openings facing opposite sides of the cartridge housing in the longitudinal direction thereof and which has a side wall having a plurality of vent holes, a hollow fiber membrane inserted into an interior of the cartridge housing, and a resin layer filling an inner space of opposite sides of the cartridge housing in the longitudinal direction thereof, a membrane humidifier housing in which the hollow fiber membrane cartridge is formed, and a bulkhead formed in an interior of the membrane humidifier housing, wherein the bulkhead has mounting holes into which ends of the cartridge housing in the longitudinal direction thereof are inserted.

The present disclosure describes a device and method to clear solutes from a patient's blood while maintaining fluid balance. In some implementations, the device and method is used to assist the filtration functions of a patient's liver or kidney. The device includes a plurality of hollow fibers that pass through a sequence of alternating filtration chambers and infusion chambers. The filtration chambers filter the patient's blood while the infusion chambers rehydrate the filtered blood.

A hollow fiber membrane module comprising a bundle of hollow fiber membranes, a housing, an adhesive fixation layer, an inlet and outlet, at least one bias regulating member, and at least one straightening cylinder, in which the bias regulating member is contained in the adhesive fixation layer, the adhesive fixation layer comprises an outer end surface and an inner end surface inside the straightening cylinder, at least some of spaces between the hollow fiber membranes are at least three times as large as an outer diameter of the hollow fiber membrane on the outer end surface of the adhesive fixation layer, and the spaces between the hollow fiber membranes and a space from the hollow fiber membranes to the straightening cylinder are all less than three times as large as the outer diameter of the hollow fiber membrane on the inner end surface of the adhesive fixation layer.

A hollow-fiber membrane module of the invention includes: a cylindrical case having a first end and a second end in a height direction thereof; a hollow-fiber membrane bundle being housed in the cylindrical case and having a plurality of hollow-fiber membranes each closed at an end part on the first end side and opened at an end part on the second end side; a first binding part binding the end parts on the first end side of the hollow-fiber membranes; a first flow channel guiding fluid to pass through the first binding part from the first end side to the second end side of the first binding part; and a channel material directing, at a terminal on the second end side of the first flow channel, a flow of at least a part of the fluid flowing out from the terminal on the second end side of the first flow channel toward a direction intersecting the height direction of the cylindrical case.

A module includes a bonded portion in which the hollow-fiber-membranes are bonded and fixed together by potting material at least in an end portion of each of the hollow-fiber-membranes. Each of the hollow-fiber-membranes has a resin impregnation portion in which resin is impregnated into an outer surface side of each of the hollow-fiber-membranes at least in the end portion where each of the hollow-fiber-membranes is bonded and fixed together. In the end portion of the hollow-fiber-membranes, a leading edge of the resin impregnation portion toward the other end of each of the hollow-fiber-membranes is located closer to the other end than a leading edge of the bonded portion toward the other end. The thickness of the resin impregnation portion in the direction of the wall thickness of the hollow-fiber-membranes is 10 to 70% with respect to the thickness of the hollow-fiber-membranes.

The present disclosure relates to diffusion and/or filtration devices comprising hollow fiber membranes, e.g., ultrafilters for water purification, plasma filters, or capillary dialyzers for blood purification; housings and end caps for the devices; and methods for the production of the devices.

The group of inventions relates to technologies for purifying liquid, primarily water for the domestic and/or drinking water supply in domestic and/or industrial conditions and in allotments and gardens. The characterizing feature of the group of inventions is that the design of a hollow fibre membrane device envisages, and a method for the manufacture thereof enables, the formation of a protective layer consisting of a single polymeric fixing material on the internal surfaces of mono-fibre sections which are incorporated into a binding unit, and the formation of sections which are in the form of a composite in the binding unit, which increases the strength of the hollow fibre membrane device, wherein open channels in the binding unit, formed with the aid of protective elements of an assembly base, make it possible to increase the specific filtering surface. The general problem addressed by the group of inventions, and the technical result which can be achieved with the use of the group of inventions, consists in creating a design of a hollow fibre membrane device and in developing a method for producing the design of the device, making it possible to increase the strength characteristics of the hollow fibre membrane device while simultaneously increasing the specific filtering surface.

Disclosed herein are aspects and embodiments of an apparatus for securing hollow fiber filtration membranes in a filtration module. In one example, the apparatus comprises a restraining structure engaging elongate portions of the plurality of hollow porous membrane fibers and an anchor formation engaging the plurality of hollow porous membrane fibers and positioned closer to eye portions of the plurality of hollow porous membrane fibers than at least a portion of the restraining structure. Neither the anchor formation nor the restraining structure sealingly engage open ends of the plurality of hollow porous membrane fibers.

The invention relates to extracorporeal blood circuits, and components thereof (e.g., hollow fiber membranes, potted bundles, and blood tubing), including 0.005% to 10% (w/w) surface modifying macromolecule. The extracorporeal blood circuits have an antithrombogenic surface and can be used in hemofiltration, hemodialysis, hemodiafiltration, hemoconcentration, blood oxygenation, and related uses.

A heat exchanger for an oxygenator device has multiple hollow fiber membranes that each have a hollow portion through which a heat medium passes, wherein the fibers are wound as a cylinder body. Each of the hollow fiber membranes follows a path between opposing ends of the cylinder body which is tilted with respect to a central axis of the cylinder body and is wound around the central axis of the cylinder body, wherein a tilt angle θ with respect to the central axis ranges from 22° to smaller than 67°, and wherein a constituent material of each of the hollow fiber membranes has a Young's modulus E ranging from 2.6 GPa to 0.07 GPa. During winding, the hollow fiber membranes are stretched according to a stretching rate between 0.5% and 3.0% and then fixed at the ends to maintain the stretching.