Blood pump
CA 2841675 C · Owner: Heartware, Inc. · Inventors: Larose, Jeffrey A.; Shambaugh, Charles R. Jr.; Marquis, Richard A.
Overview
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An axial-flow blood pump for pumping blood includes a substantially cylindrical outer enclosure. A tubular housing concentric with and located within the outer enclosure has at one end an inlet and at an opposite end an outlet. A motor stator is concentric with and located between the outer enclosure and the tubular housing. An impeller is concentric with and located within the tubular housing. The impeller is suspended in operation by a combination of passive magnetic forces between magnets within the impeller or magnetized regions of the impeller and the motor stator and hydrodynamic thrust forces generated as blood flows between the tubular housing and a plurality of hydrodynamic thrust …
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- Filed June 2, 2006 and granted September 1, 2015. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 2, 2026.
- Certificates of supplementary protection extend only drug patents, and it isn't classified as one.
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