Rotary blood pump
CA 2218342 C · Owner: Heartware, Inc. · Inventors: Wampler, Richard K.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
This invention is an implantable rotary blood pump without a shaft seal. The pump includes rotary element (18) having a pump impeller (38) at one end. The rotary, element and the impeller are maintained in radial alignment by respective passive magnetic, bearings (23, 24).
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed February 14, 1997 and granted December 23, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 14, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 14, 2019.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
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