Blood pump system
AssigneeTerumo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasamichi Yanai
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Abstract
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 for detecting a backflow of blood by use of the motor current value continuously measured by the motor current measuring function.
Claims18
A blood pump system which comprises a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port, a rotor rotated in said housing for pumping blood, and a motor for rotating said rotor, said blood pump system comprising a motor current measuring function, and a backflow detecting function for detecting a backflow of blood by use of a motor current value continuously measured by said motor current measuring function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.