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(12) Patent Application: (11) CA 2725946
(54) English Title: METHOD OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURING INCORPORATING TISSUE ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES
(54) French Title: METHODE DE FABRICATION D'INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE INCLUANT DES TECHNIQUES D'INGENIERIE DE TISSUS
Status: Dead
Bibliographic Data
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):
  • C12P 1/00 (2006.01)
  • C12N 5/00 (2006.01)
  • G10C 9/00 (2019.01)
  • G10D 1/00 (2020.01)
  • G10D 7/00 (2006.01)
  • G10D 13/00 (2020.01)
(72) Inventors :
  • GILLIS, ARCHIE (Canada)
(73) Owners :
  • GILLIS, ARCHIE (Canada)
(71) Applicants :
  • GILLIS, ARCHIE (Canada)
(74) Agent:
(74) Associate agent:
(45) Issued:
(22) Filed Date: 2010-12-21
(41) Open to Public Inspection: 2012-06-21
Availability of licence: N/A
(25) Language of filing: English

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): No

(30) Application Priority Data: None

Abstracts

English Abstract




.cndot. The present invention provides a method of fabricating musical
instruments or portions thereof
using tissue-engineering technologies.
.cndot. Biofabrication is a collection of tissue engineering technologies that
can be defined as the
production of complex living and non-living biological products from raw
materials such as living
cells, molecules, extracellular matrices, and biomaterials. In the preferred
embodiment of the
present invention it will be these methods that are used to create musical
instruments or portions
thereof.
.cndot. One of the novel features of the present invention is the
incorporation of plant cells in the tissue
engineering/biofabrication environment.


Claims

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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.





Description

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CA 02725946 2010-12-21

"Method of Musical Instrument Manufacturing Incorporating Tissue Engineering
Techniques "

I am patenting:

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 musical instruments or portions thereof of statement I 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. Biofabrication as found in statement 1 can be defined as the production of
complex living
and non-living biological products from raw materials such as living cells,
molecules,
extracellular matrices, and biomaterials.
4. Methods of biofabrication, which may be used to create the musical
instruments in
statement 1 could include such technologies as bio printing, which uses the
assistance of
three-dimensional printing machines (or added layering manufacturing
technologies) to
fabricate complex structures from a collection of materials that include cells
and tissues.
5. Other methods of biofabrication, which may be used to create the musical
instruments in
statement I could include: 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. There are a number of potential hydrogels that may be used in the
biofabrication process
that are well known in the art. Different hydrogels may be used for different
cells or
different organic materials. When incorporating plant cells into tissue
engineering the


CA 02725946 2010-12-21

hydrogel mixture may contain plant materials, cellulose, latexes, resins,
gums, pectins
and starches, but is in no way limited to these materials.

Description of a preferred embodiment

In the preferred embodiment we will be using what is called three-dimensional
printing methods that
incorporate the use of tissue cells as a building material. A phrase that has
been brought into popularity by
leading medical scientists is the term "biofabrication". The method of
particular interest within the realm of
biofabrication with 'regards to the present invention is what is
"bioprinting".

Biology (cell, tissue development, and stem cell), mechanical engineering
(CAD/CAM, additive
manufacturing), and materials science (primarily biomaterials) constitute the
main disciplines and basic
technological pillars in the methods involved in the biofabrication of musical
instruments.

In the preferred embodiment animal cells, plant cells, scaffolding materials
and polymers commonly used
in tissue engineering, will be placed into a three-dimensional printer or
rapid proto typing device with other
building materials such as bio-ink and bio paper or other support materials
and printed into a three
dimensional structure. This mixture of materials will be constructed into the
desired product. When the
materials are finished printing, the place holding or support materials can be
removed, leaving the desired
musical instrument or portion thereof. In some embodiments it may be a
resonant material or shape
fabricated from a composition that included organic materials which will be
assembled and finished into a
musical instrument or musical instrument part.

The following patent describes one potential method for forming an array of
viable cells onto a substrate
and is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

Patent number: 70516540 Filing date: Sep 17, 2003 11 Issue date: May 30, 2006
El Application
number: 10/666.836
A method for forming an array of viable cells is provided. In one embodiment,
the method comprises ink-
jet printing a cellular composition containing cells onto a substrate. Upon
printing, at least about 25% of the
cells remain viable after incubation for 24 hours at 37 C. in a 5% C02/95%
02...
Inventors: Thomas Boland, William Crisp Wilson, Jr., Tao Xu
Assignee: Clemson University
Primary Examiner: Eugene H. Eickholt
Attorneys: Dority & Manning, P.A.

Finishing may involve numerous steps depending on the musical instrument part
that has been fabricated,
but some example include coating the material with a coating of finish,
attaching the material to an
instrument, smoothing and further shaping of the materials to fit the design
requirements.

t/ternativer enrhodiments

= In an alternative embodiment the resonating materials fabricated, will be
used in non-musical
instrument situations, such as being incorporated into consumer goods or
products engineered for
their abilities to vibrate/resonate in a desired way or for their abilities
for transferring vibrations.

= In one embodiment only a portion of the instrument will be engineered from
tissues and later
assembled into a complete instrument, and may incorporate other methods of
instrument creation
previously known in the art or newly developed. An example is a steel drum
created by traditional
drum making technologies that incorporates a drum skin made of animal cells
fabricated with
tissue engineering methods.

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(22) Filed 2010-12-21
(41) Open to Public Inspection 2012-06-21
Dead Application 2015-12-22

Abandonment History

Abandonment Date Reason Reinstatement Date
2011-12-21 Failure to respond to sec. 37 2012-08-03
2014-12-22 FAILURE TO PAY APPLICATION MAINTENANCE FEE
2015-12-21 FAILURE TO REQUEST EXAMINATION

Payment History

Fee Type Anniversary Year Due Date Amount Paid Paid Date
Application Fee $200.00 2010-12-21
Expired 2019 - The completion of the application $200.00 2012-07-09
Expired 2019 - Reinstatement for Section 37 $200.00 2012-08-03
Maintenance Fee - Application - New Act 2 2012-12-21 $50.00 2012-10-15
Maintenance Fee - Application - New Act 3 2013-12-23 $50.00 2013-11-19
Owners on Record

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Current Owners on Record
GILLIS, ARCHIE
Past Owners on Record
None
Past Owners that do not appear in the "Owners on Record" listing will appear in other documentation within the application.
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Abstract 2010-12-21 1 14
Description 2010-12-21 2 105
Cover Page 2012-06-18 1 31
Claims 2012-07-09 3 95
Correspondence 2011-01-18 1 34
Assignment 2010-12-21 2 32
Correspondence 2012-04-12 2 32
Assignment 2010-12-21 3 77
Correspondence 2012-07-20 1 18
Correspondence 2012-08-03 1 20
Correspondence 2012-07-09 2 90
Prosecution-Amendment 2012-07-09 16 664
Fees 2013-11-19 2 83