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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Hiroyuki Maeda, Hiroshima, JP;
Masafumi Sato, Hiroshima, JP;
Kenji Araki, Miyazaki, JP;
Hirofumi Anai, Oita, JP;
JMS Co., Ltd., Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
A turbo blood pump includes a housing having a pump chamber , an inlet port , and an outlet port , an impeller disposed rotatably in the pump chamber, an upper bearing and a lower bearing supporting the impeller rotatably, and a driving force transmitting unit for driving the impeller to rotate. The upper bearing is supported at a position in the pump chamber below the inlet port, so that a cross-sectional area of the pump chamber in a plane including an upper end of the upper bearing and being orthogonal to a shaft of the impeller is larger than a cross-sectional area of a flow path of the inlet port at a portion where the inlet port is coupled to the pump chamber, and thus obstruction with respect to blood flow by the upper bearing is of such a degree as to be permissible from a practical viewpoint, while an impeller is supported by upper and lower bearings. Thereby, the pump is less likely to cause problems of blood stagnation and thrombus formation.