Note: Claims are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
Another novel feature of the present invention is the use of plant cells in
tissue
engineering methods. Prior to the present invention there has been no efforts
to tissue
engineer plant cells into three-dimensional shapes. The present invention
explains how
plant cells in tissue engineering can be used to fabricate musical instrument
parts, but will
not limit the use of plant cells in tissue engineering to only musical
instruments. In
alternative embodiments plant cell tissue engineering will be used in
gardening,
sculpture, artworks, toys, resonant materials, and almost anything a person
can think of
building.
CLAIMS: I Claim:
1. A method of fabricating musical instruments or portions thereof comprising
the use of
processes commonly found in the fields of tissue engineering and known in the
art as
biofabrication.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the musical instruments or portions thereof
include percussion, woodwinds, horns, strings, drums and drum skins, guitars,
violins, trumpets, clarinets, violas, flutes, whistles, pianos, basses,
trombones,
banjo's, mandolins, double basses, electric guitars, piccolo's, saxophone's,
bassoons, sitars, French horns, and the like.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein biofabrication comprises the production of
complex living and non-living biological products from raw materials such as
living cells, molecules, extracellular matrices, and biomaterials.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein biofabrication methods include bio
printing, which uses the assistance of three-dimensional printing machines,
added layering manufacturing technologies to fabricate complex structures
from a collection of materials that include cells and tissues, solid scaffold-
based biofabrication, embedding and molding technology, cell sheet
technology, methods used in organ printing, directed tissue self-assembly,
digital bioprinting, inkjet bioprinting, centrifugal casting, biospraying,
dielectrophoresis for biofabrication, magnetic force-driven biofabrication,
electrospinning or nanostructuralized scaffold-based biofabrication,
continuous and digital microfluidic-based biofabrication and the like.
6. A method of fabricating consumer products from plant tissue comprising the
use of
biofabrication.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein biofabrication comprises the production of
complex living and non-living biological products from raw materials such as
living cells, molecules, extracellular matrices, and biomaterials.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein biofabrication methods include, bio
printing, added layering manufacturing technologies to fabricate complex
structures from a collection of materials that include cells and tissues,
solid
scaffold-based biofabrication, embedding and molding technology, cell
sheet technology, methods used in organ printing, directed tissue self-
assembly, digital bioprinting, inkjet bioprinting, centrifugal casting,
biospraying, dielectrophoresis for biofabrication, magnetic force-driven
biofabrication, electrospinning or nanostructuralized scaffold-based
biofabrication, continuous and digital microfluidic-based biofabrication,
the use of hydrogel mixtures and the like.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein the hydrogel mixtures may contain
plant materials, cellulose, latexes, resins, gums, pectins and starches.