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| 7374574 | Device for axially conveying body fluids The invention relates to a device for axially conveying body fluids. The aim of the invention is to embody the inflow and outflow area of an axial pump in such a way that the flow is not separated even when it is diverted, thereby maintaining a substantially non-dis... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7229258 | Streamlined unobstructed one-pass axial-flow pump A blood pump has an impeller rotatably disposed and magnetically suspended within a cavity of a stator by a plurality of magnetic bearings (passive permanent and active electromagnetic) having impeller magnets on the impeller and stator magnets or coils/poles on the... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7229474 | Method for controlling the position of a permanent magnetically supported rotating component Since disruptive forces can be continuously exerted upon a rotor during a pulsatile flow through a pump with a magnetically mounted rotor (permanent magnets and addition control current coils), it is necessary to adjust position i.e. modify axial rotor position very... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7189260 | Ventricular assist system secondary impeller In a centrifugal flow blood pump, usable in left ventricular assist applications, blood is pumped from an inlet (16) to an outlet (22) by a primary impeller (18). A portion of the blood that enters the pump follows a secondary channel (24... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7182570 | Centrifugal pump Centrifugal pump, in particular drain pump for washing machines, comprising a casing (10) that defines a chamber (11) within which an impeller formed by a hub (14) and a disk (15) provided with blades (16) is capable of rotating. | 02/27/2007 |
| 7182727 | Single port cardiac support apparatus A minimal intrusive cardiac support apparatus is disclosed which requires only one incision into a main blood vessel or heart chamber. The apparatus includes a pair of generally coaxial and slideably arranged cannulae (one inner and one outer) communicatively couple... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7160242 | Blood pump system A blood pump system includes a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port, a rotor rotated in the housing for pumping blood, and a motor for rotating the rotor. The blood pump system includes a motor current measuring function, and a backflow detecting function... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7144365 | Implantable heart assist system and method of applying same An extracardiac pumping for supplementing the circulation of blood, including the cardiac output, in a patient without any component thereof being connected to the patient's heart, and method of using same. One embodiment of the extracardiac system comprises a pump ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7125376 | Implantable heart assist system and method of applying same An extracardiac pumping for supplementing the circulation of blood, including the cardiac output, in a patient without any component thereof being connected to the patient's heart, and methods of using same. One embodiment of the intravascular extracardiac system co... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7011508 | Micro paddle wheel pump for precise pumping, mixing, dispensing, and valving of blood and reagents An apparatus and method for making a microscopic paddle wheel coupled inductively by an external electromagnet and used for valving and active pumping so that the actual pumping mechanism is completely isolated from the electromagnetic driver. The paddle wheel is in... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6981942 | Temporary blood circulation assist device An inflatable circulation assist device is disclosed consisting of an inflatable stator housing an impeller with inflatable blades of varying shapes and sizes. The invention is introduced into the patient percutaneously. The circulation assist device is a small pump... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6976996 | Transport pump and organ stabilization apparatus including related methods A surgical pump suitable for bodily fluids, normally blood, usable in the course of surgical interventions as an alternative to the traditional CPB (cardio pulmonary bypass) making use of external blood pumps. It consists of an intake cannula (20) which is in... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6974436 | Integrated pump and cannula system and related methods The present invention relates to systems and methods for transporting fluid between different locations within a body cavity and, in one particular application, systems and methods for transporting fluids to maintain at least partial blood flow through a protected b... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6858001 | Single port cardiac support apparatus A minimal intrusive cardiac support apparatus is disclosed which requires only one incision into a main blood vessel or heart chamber. The apparatus includes a pair of generally coaxial and slideably arranged cannulae (one inner and one outer) communicatively couple... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6719791 | Device for the axial transport of fluid media The invention provides a device for the axial delivery of fluidal mediums, which outer diameter is not or only insignificantly larger than the diameter of the fluid carrying pipe, which reduces to a large extent a shearing and vortexing of the fluid. A device for th... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6717311 | Combination magnetic radial and thrust bearing A magnetic bearing wherein axially spaced combinations of permanent magnets on a rotor and stator are polarized to levitate the rotor and positioned with the rotor magnets offset axially outwardly (or inwardly) of the stator magnets to allow a force balance to be ac... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6670169 | Bioreactor A bioreactor with a reaction container (1, 1a, 1b, 1c) for a substance (C) to be acted upon with a medium has a pump (5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d) for conveying the medium. The pump is designed as an expendable pump or, respectively, parts (53d, 54d, 55d) of the pu... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6537315 | Auxiliary artificial heart of an embedded type An artificial heart has a driving section, a nozzle section, a pump section for insertion into a ventricle of a human heart, and a sealing section forming a seal for a driving shaft extending from the driving section for driving the pump section. A sealin... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6395026 | Apparatus and methods for beating heart bypass surgery Pump and cannula systems inserted through the right side and/or left side of the heart provide protection against collapse of the heart chambers and veins and arteries and provide supplemental blood flow through same to enable beating heart bypass surgery... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6387125 | Auxiliary artificial heart of an embedded type An artificial heart has a driving section, a nozzle section, a pump section for insertion into a ventricle of a human heart, and a sealing section forming a seal for a driving shaft extending from the driving section for driving the pump section. A sealin... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6375607 | Magnetically suspended fluid pump and control system A blood pump for assisting a heart is provided having a stator and a rotor. The rotor is magnetically radially supported creating a suspension gap between the stator and the rotor. The rotor can be supported axially by a Lorentz force bearing and can be m... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6346120 | Auxiliary artificial heart of an embedded type An artificial heart has a driving section, a nozzle section, a pump section for insertion into a ventricle of a human heart, and a sealing section forming a seal for a driving shaft extending from the driving section for driving the pump section. A sealin... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6336939 | Auxiliary artificial heart of an embedded type An artificial heart has a driving section, a nozzle section, a pump section for insertion into a ventricle of a human heart, and a sealing section forming a seal for a driving shaft extending from the driving section for driving the pump section. A sealin... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6302910 | Auxiliary artificial heart of an embedded type An artificial heart has a driving section, a nozzle section, a pump section for insertion into a ventricle of a human heart, and a sealing section forming a seal for a driving shaft extending from the driving section for driving the pump section. A sealin... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6280377 | System for treating congestive heart failure A system is provided for regulating blood flow to a portion of the vasculature, such as the renal system, in order to treat heart disease. A regulator maintains blood flow so as to control physiological feedback responses in order to relieve overload cond... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6123726 | Portable drive system for artificial heart A portable drive system for an artificial heart can be provided that includes a blood pump 1 having a blood seal for sealing a rotation shaft 13, a system drive section 45 including a purge solution circulator 20 for supplying by circulating purge solutio... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6100618 | Rotary machine with an electromagnetic rotary drive The rotary machine comprises a driven rotor and an electric motor having a stator and a driving rotor. The stator is also executed as an electromagnetic bearing for the driving rotor, and the driving rotor of the electric motor together with the driven ro... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6083260 | Reverse flow transport pump and organ stabilization apparatus including related methods A reverse flow pump for transporting bodily fluids comprising an outer pump housing formed with concentric inner and outer passageways, a rotatedly fixed rotor positioned within the pump housing, and an interior compartment surrounding at least a portion ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6048363 | Centrifugal blood pump apparatus A centrifugal impeller-type pump for transporting blood has a new and improved design in the impeller, to allow for the elimination of stagnant flow areas, and a geometrical design that minimizes damage to the blood components. A system for controlling an... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6015434 | Artificial heart pump An artificial heart pump includes a casing having a pump chamber inside the casing and a partition that closes, in a fluid-tight manner, the bottom portion of the pump chamber, an impeller disposed inside the pump chamber so that it is rotatable about the... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5824070 | Hybrid flow blood pump A novel hydrodynamic blood pump with a very clean flow path free of outflow stator blades which have been found to be a site of blood clot formation is introduced. The invention combines an axial flow pump impeller with a bladeless volute structure typica... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5578077 | Mechanical heart, body fluid and drug infusion pump The present invention describes a new pump which can be used as a mechanical heart, as a body fluid, as a drug infusion pump, and in similar or related applications for the circulation of body fluids including but not limited to blood and oxygenated air. ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5507629 | Artificial hearts with permanent magnet bearings Highly-miniaturized rotary artificial hearts small enough to be implanted within the natural heart are provided. The entire radial load of a high-speed pump rotor and most of the axial load is carried by a radially stable arrangement of high-energy-produc... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5470208 | Fluid pump with magnetically levitated impeller A fluid pump with a rotary impeller is disclosed which comprises an electromagnetically-driven, bearing-free, seal-free rotary impeller levitated by localized opposed, magnetic forces and by fluid forces, or by localized opposed magnetic forces only. Levi... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5441535 | Blood pump A blood pump for circulating blood by a rotor rotating in a space of a casing which is formed substantially in a flat shape and has a suction port and a discharge port, comprises a conical projecting portion provided at the central portion of the rotor, a... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5376114 | Cannula pumps for temporary cardiac support and methods of their application and use A cannula pump is provided which incorporates a miniature rotary pump into a cardiac cannula of essentially the same size as currently utilized with routine cardiopulmonary bypass. The pump may be inserted via a single small incision in the heart to obtai... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5290227 | Method of implanting blood pump in ascending aorta or main pulmonary artery This invention relates to a method of surgically implanting a blood pump into the ascending aorta or pulmonary artery of a patient with a diseased or damaged heart ventricle. One preferred type of pump which is well-suited for such implantation has an imp... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5263979 | Artificial heart The invention is directed to an artificial heart having a pump, first and second pair of switching valves, and an electronic control unit which is arranged to control the valves to be actuated synchronously. When one of the first pair of valves and one of... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5147388 | Auxiliary artificial heart of the embedded-in-body type An auxiliary artificial heart embedded in the human body. The auxiliary artificial heart has an apex cordis area ring and a body. The apex cordis area ring is embedded in a cut-out apex cordis area of the human heart. The body includes an elongated pump s... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5145333 | Fluid motor driven blood pump A rotary blood pump includes an impeller in a pump chamber driven by a fluid motor. In a first preferred embodiment, the fluid motor includes a rotary member having a series of cupped fluid reactive surfaces that receive a tangential inlet pressurized flu... | 09/08/1992 |
