Blood pump and extracorporeal blood circulating apparatus

Abstract

An extracorporeal blood pump which comprises a pump housing having a pump chamber defined therein, and a rotary vane assembly accommodated within the pump chamber and including a substantially conical rotary pedestal having a base surface and a conical surface, a plurality of vanes each having radially inner and outer ends, and a driven shaft connected at one end with the base surface of the pedestal. The vanes are mounted on the conical surface so as to extend radially outwardly from an axis of rotation of the pedestal with the radially inner ends of the respective vanes being spaced a predetermined equal distance from an apex of the conical surface while substantially depicting a circle coaxial with the axis of rotation of the pedestal. Each neighboring members of the vanes are equally spaced from each other in a direction circumferentially of the pedestal. The base surface has a diameter of 30 to 55 mm enough to substantially cover a surface area of a bottom wall surface which partly defines the pump chamber and confronts the base surface of the pedestal, whereas each of the vanes is in the form of a generally rectangular straight plate extending at an angle of inclination within the range of 20 to 50 degrees relative to an imaginary line tangential to the circle delimited by the radially inner ends of the respective vanes. An extracorporeal blood circulatory device utilizing the blood pump of the type referred to above and comprising a control console accommodating a drive motor for the blood pump is also disclosed.