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US 4,817,586 AGranted
Percutaneous bloom pump with mixed-flow output
AssigneeNimbus Medical, Inc.
InventorRichard K. Wampler
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Abstract
The outside diameter of an intravascular axial flow blood pump is reduced without reducing the size of its journal bearings by causing the pumped blood stream to exit through apertures in the cylindrical outside wall of the pump housing between the rotor blades and the rotor journal. This allows the journal to have a diameter of the housing, without the need for a space-consuming blood flow path around the journal.
Claims6
An intravascular axial flow blood pump, comprising;
- (a) an elongated substantially tubular housing of substantially constant diameter having a blood intake at one end thereof;
- (b) a rotor disposed in said housing adjacent said one end, said rotor including
- (i) a hub carrying rotor blades and having a diameter substantially smaller than the inside diameter of said housing;
- (ii) a journal positioned adjacent the other end of said housing and having a diameter substantially equal to the inside diameter of said housing;
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- (iii) drive means associated with said journal for driving said rotor;
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- (c) said housing having blood exit apertures therein disposed around the periphery thereof between said blades and said journal.
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An intravascular axial flow blood pump, comprising;
- (a) a generally cylindrical housing having a blood intake at one end thereof;
- (b) a rotor disposed in said housing adjacent said one end, said rotor including
- (i) a hub carrying rotor blades and having a diameter substantially smaller than the inside diameter of said housing;
- (ii) a journal positioned adjacent the other end of said housing and having a diameter substantially equal to the inside diameter of said housing;
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- (iii) drive means associated with said journal for driving said rotor;
- (c) said housing having blood exit apertures therein between said blades and said journal;
- (d) said drive means including a drive cable contained within a cable sheath.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.