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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1997
Takashi Yamane, Tsukuba, JP;
Abstract
An artificial heart pump includes a casing having a pump chamber inside the casing and a partition that closes, in a fluid-tight manner, the bottom portion of the pump chamber, an impeller disposed inside the pump chamber so that it is rotatable about the axis of rotation and including an impeller shaft portion having a shaft hollow part and an impeller portion having an impeller hollow part extending radially and communicating with the shaft hollow part, the shaft hollow part and the impeller hollow part constituting a blood flow channel, a magnetic supporter for rotatably supporting the impeller within the casing in a direction normal to the axis of rotation, a pivot bearing for rotatably supporting the impeller within the casing in a direction of the axis of rotation, a rotating device accommodated within the casing below the pump chamber for rotating the impeller, and a magnetic coupler for transmitting the rotating force of the rotating device to the impeller.
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