Magnetically suspended type pump
US5725357A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 29, 1996 |
| Grant date | Mar 10, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 29, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S415/90
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
In a magnetically suspended type pump, an operating state of the pump can be obtained without using a pressure gauge and a flowmeter. In addition, in the case where the magnetically suspended type pump is applied to a blood pump, in order to reduce the number of connections in a flow path and to avoid thrombus formation, a correlation between current flowing in a motor and flow or a correlation between current flowing in the motor and pressure is obtained in advance, and the speed of rotation of motor is varied by a speed of rotation control circuit in response to an instruction from a CPU circuit, based on the obtained correlation between current and flow or between current and pressure, whereby flow or pressure is controlled.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.