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Blood pump and extracorporeal blood circulating apparatus

US5147187A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 15, 1991
Grant dateSep 15, 1992
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Expiry dateApr 15, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S415/90
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An extracorporeal blood pump which comprises a pump housing having a pump chamber defined therein, and a rotary vane assembly accommodated within the pump chamber and including a substantially conical rotary pedestal having a base surface and a conical surface, a plurality of vanes each having radially inner and outer ends, and a driven shaft connected at one end with the base surface of the pedestal. The vanes are mounted on the conical surface so as to extend radially outwardly from an axis of rotation of the pedestal with the radially inner ends of the respective vanes being spaced a predetermined equal distance from an apex of the conical surface while substantially depicting a circle coaxial with the axis of rotation of the pedestal. Each neighboring members of the vanes are equally spaced from each other in a direction circumferentially of the pedestal. The base surface has a diameter of 30 to 55 mm enough to substantially cover a surface area of a bottom wall surface which partly defines the pump chamber and confronts the base surface of the pedestal, whereas each of the vanes is in the form of a generally rectangular straight plate extending at an angle of inclination withi…

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