Connecting element for mounting a blood pump or a cannula on a heart

US9180234B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Berlin Heart GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Göllner · Berlin, DE
• Ulrich Tim Opfermann · Berlin, DE
• Peter Nüsser · Kleinmachnow, DE
• Andreas Arndt · Dalbke, DE
• Felix Von Winterfeld · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2012
• Grant date: Nov 10, 2015
• Expiry date: Nov 8, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A connecting element for connecting a blood pump or a cannula to a heart, the connecting element including a sealing element, which is designed to at least temporarily close an opening formed in the cardiac wall and to be opened via insertion of a preferably cylindrical object in the direction of an axis of the opening.