1. An integrated container to lyophilize, store, transport, rehydrate, and process biological materials, comprising:
a) a closed construct, said closed construct defining a cavity therein, said cavity further comprising a lyophilization compartment having an upper face and a lower face and four lateral faces, wherein said upper face is fabricated with a first flexible controlled pore membrane with hydrophobic surfaces that allows passage of water in a vapor but not liquid state, said lower face is fabricated with a second flexible controlled pore membrane, and said lateral faces are fabricated with a rigid material, a flexible material, or any combination thereof;
b) one of four said lateral faces having an access port therein to allow entry or removal of biological or other materials and water, said access port having a barrier to maintain sterility;
c) a first distal vacuum-processing compartment and a second distal vacuum-processing compartment, said first distal vacuum-processing compartment having an upper face and four lateral faces, said first controlled pore membrane of said lyophilization compartment serving as a lower face of said first distal vacuum-processing compartment and as a common wall between said lyophilization compartment and said first distal vacuum-processing compartment, said second distal vacuum-processing compartment having a lower face and four lateral faces, said second controlled pore membrane of said lyophilization compartment serving as an upper face of said second distal vacuum-processing compartment and as a common wall between said lyophilization compartment and said second distal vacuum-processing compartment, and said upper face of said first distal vacuum-processing compartment, said lower face of said second distal vacuum-processing compartment, said lateral faces of said distal vacuum-processing compartments being fabricated with a rigid material, a flexible material or any combination thereof, wherein said upper face of said first distal vacuum-processing compartment and said lower face of said second distal vacuum-processing compartment has an exit port therein with a barrier to maintain sterility, said exit ports connected to a vacuum and condenser system suitable for aseptic removal of water vapor; and
(d) a first external compartment and a second external compartment, said external compartments each having an upper face, a lower face, and four lateral faces, said upper face, said lower face, and a first and second lateral face being fabricated with a rigid material, an outer lateral face being fabricated with a flexible material, and an inner lateral face being fabricated from a porous surface having at least one pore formed therein, said pore being filled with an erodible substance, each said inner lateral face serving as a common wall between said external compartment and said lyophilization compartment, wherein each said outer lateral face of each said external compartment contains an access port therein.
2. The integrated container according to claim 1, wherein said lateral faces of said distal vacuum-processing compartments are fabricated with a flexible material capable of maintaining a barrier between an internal vacuum and the external atmosphere.
3. The integrated container according to claim 2, wherein each lateral face of said distal vacuum-processing compartment contains a tabular structure that attaches to one of two ends of an external mechanical restraint, said restraints providing mechanical strength sufficient to retain said vacuum-processing compartment from collapse under vacuum pressure, whereby said restraints are released after lyophilization to allow collapse of said distal vacuum-processing compartments to a minimal volume.
4. The integrated container according to claim 2, wherein each lateral face of said distal vacuum-processing compartment contains two tabular structures that attach to one of two ends of an external mechanical restraint, said restraints providing mechanical strength sufficient to retain said vacuum-processing compartments from collapse under vacuum pressure, whereby said restraints are released after lyophilization to allow collapse of said distal vacuum-processing compartments to a minimal volume.
5. The integrated container according to claim 2, wherein an internal mechanical restraint, composed of a mesh is attached to said lower face of said first distal vacuum-processing compartment and to said upper face of said second distal vacuum-processing compartment, whereby mechanical strength is provided sufficient to prevent said upper face of said first distal vacuum-processing compartment and said lower face of said second distal vacuum-processing compartment from coming in contact with said flexible controlled pore membrane.
6. The integrated container according to claim 2, wherein an internal mechanical restraint composed of a plurality of crisscrossing raised plastic \u201cbumps\u201d is attached to said lower face of said first distal vacuum-processing compartment and said upper face of said second distal vacuum-processing compartment, whereby mechanical strength is provided sufficient to prevent said upper face of said first distal vacuum-processing compartment and said lower face of said second distal vacuum-processing compartment from coming in contact with said flexible controlled pore membrane.
7. The integrated container according to claim 1, wherein said lateral faces of said lyophilization compartment are fabricated with a rigid material.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An antenna structure, comprising:
a plurality of antenna patches, the plurality of antenna patches comprising at least four antenna patches arranged in a 2\xd72 array of antenna patches; and
a patch resonator structure coupled to the plurality of antenna patches, the patch resonator structure comprising:
first and second resonator patch portions, the first resonator patch portion being associated with and being disposed under and being coupled to a first pair of antenna patches of the 2\xd72 array of antenna patches to drive or receive at least one signal to or from the first pair of antenna patches, the second resonator patch portion being associated with and being disposed under and being coupled to a second pair of antenna patches of the 2\xd72 array of antenna patches to drive or receive at least one signal to or from the second pair of antenna patches, each of the first and second resonator patch portions having a length along a first dimension and a width along a second dimension, the length of each of the first and second resonator patch portions being larger than the width of each of the first and second resonator patch portions, each of the first and second resonator patch portions having a first end and a second end spaced apart from each other along the first dimension a distance equal to the length of the respective first and second resonator patch portions the first and second resonator patch portions being spaced a first distance apart to define a space between the first and second resonator patch portions; and
a feed portion having first and second ends, the first end of the feed portion being disposed in the space between the first and second resonator patch portions at the first ends of the first and second resonator patch portions, the feed portion extending from the first end of the feed portion to the second end of the feed portion through the space between the first and second resonator patch portions and past the second ends of the first and second resonator patch portions, the second end of the feed portion splitting into a pair of leg portions, each of the leg portions being associated with one of the first and second resonator patch portions and each of the leg portions being shaped to be directed back in a direction toward its associated resonator patch portion and connecting to its associated resonator patch portion at the second end of its associated resonator patch portion, the feed portion coupled at its first end to a source of RF power.
2. The antenna structure of claim 1, wherein each of the leg portions is partially disposed parallel to the second end of its associated resonator patch portion and partially disposed perpendicular to the second end of its associated resonator patch portion.
3. The antenna structure of claim 1, wherein each of the leg portions has an \u201cL\u201d shape.
4. The antenna structure of claim 1, wherein the antenna patches are resonating radiation patches positioned to overlap at least a portion of one of the resonator patch portions.
5. The antenna structure of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of antenna patches has a length and a width, the length being chosen for resonance, and the width being chosen for impedance matching.
6. The antenna structure of claim 1, wherein the antenna patches are non-resonating radiation patches positioned to overlap at least a portion of one of the first or second resonator portions.