INCUBATOR ENCLOSURE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the diffusion of contamination around an incubator, while reducing the amount of heat of cooling in a chamber by reducing the exothermic load of the incubator.SOLUTION: An incubator enclosure has: a storage chamber which has an opening portion in one surface and is capable of storing an incubator inside from the opening portion; a ventilation path which exhausts the air in a storage chamber to the outside of the working environment in which the apparatus is arranged in order to cool the air in the incubator; a local exhaust path which has an entrance arranged at a peripheral portion of the opening portion in order to exhaust the air in the vicinity of the storage chamber to the outside of the working environment and in which a pressure is maintained so as to be negative as compared to that in the working environment; a stopper which is arranged in the opening portion so as to be openable and closable and which suppresses the opening of the incubator door when in a closed state, and a lid which closes the inlet of the local exhaust path in a closed state of the stopper and which opens the inlet of the local exhaust path in an opened state of the stopper.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】 インキュベータの発熱負荷を低減することで室内の冷却熱量を低減させるとともに、インキュベータの周囲でのコンタミネーションの拡散を抑制する。【解決手段】 インキュベータ格納装置は、一面に開口部を有し、開口部からインキュベータを内部に格納可能な格納室と、インキュベータを空冷するために、装置の配置された作業環境の外に格納室の空気を排気する換気路と、格納室近傍の空気を作業環境の外に排気するために開口部の周縁部に入口が配置され、作業環境よりも負圧に保持された局所排気路と、開口部に開閉可能に配置され、閉止状態のときにインキュベータの扉の開放を抑止するストッパーと、ストッパーの閉止状態のときに局所排気路の入口を塞ぎ、ストッパーの開放状態のときに局所排気路の入口を開放する蓋体と、を備える。【選択図】 図１