Tohoku University

Sun Medical Technology Research Corporation

Koki Kanda

Hideki Kanebako

Daisuke Suzuki

Takayuki Miyakoshi

Koshi Adachi

Tomoya Kitano

Shinji Kobayashi

Keiichiro Kaneshima

Provided is a slide device which can reduce a frictional force more than a conventional slide device when used in an aqueous liquid containing a blood component. In a slide device which includes: a fixed-side slide member having a slide surface; and a rotary-side slide member having a slide surface, the slide device being used in an aqueous liquid containing a blood component in a state where the slide surface of the fixed-side slide member and the slide surface of the rotary-side slide member face each other in an opposed manner, at least one of the fixed-side slide member and the rotary-side slide member is formed of a member which is made of a material which contains silicon and has hydrate of silicon oxide on the slide surface thereof.

Slide device, mechanical seal, rotary device, pump and auxiliary artificial heart system

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Sendai, Japan

Koki Kanda