Oxygenator module, oxygenator and production method

US10286137B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Novalung GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Maurer · Zürich, CH
• Josef Bogenschuetz · Bisingen, DE
• Thomas Schmitz-Rode · Aachen, DE
• Ulrich Steinseifer · Hauset, BE
• Jutta Arens · Aachen, DE
• Georg Wagner · Chieming, DE
• Ralf Borchardt · Aachen, DE
• Peter Christian Schlanstein · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 8, 2014
• Grant date: May 14, 2019
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B29L2031/7546
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An oxygenator module for gas exchange between blood and a gas in an extracorporeal lung support system, with several layers of semipermeable, gas-perfusable hollow fibers, wherein the hollow fibers of one of the layers are oriented at an angle of rotation about a central longitudinal axis of the oxygenator module with respect to the hollow fibers of another one of the layers, and with a potting which extends along the central longitudinal axis and in which the hollow fibers are fixed, wherein the potting defines a cavity that extends along the central longitudinal axis and in which the hollow fibers are arranged and which is blood-perfusable in the direction of the central longitudinal axis, wherein the potting has an essentially circular inner sheath surface that limits the cavity radially outward; as well as a method for producing the oxygenator module.