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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2006
William A. Smith, Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Markus Lorenz, Karlsruhe, DE;
David Dudzinski, Strongsville, OH (US);
Hsiang Ming Chen, Latham, NY (US);
Peter A. Chapman, Jr., East Schodack, NY (US);
Charles J. Prisco, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
Nicholas G. Vitale, Albany, NY (US);
Stephan Weber, Lyndhurst, OH (US);
William A. Smith, Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Markus Lorenz, Karlsruhe, DE;
David Dudzinski, Strongsville, OH (US);
Hsiang Ming Chen, Latham, NY (US);
Peter A. Chapman, Jr., East Schodack, NY (US);
Charles J. Prisco, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
Nicholas G. Vitale, Albany, NY (US);
Stephan Weber, Lyndhurst, OH (US);
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A blood pump () includes a stator assembly including a fluid inlet () and a fluid outlet (). A rotor assembly () includes an impeller () rotatable about an axis () to move fluid from the inlet () to the outlet (). A motor () imparts rotation of the impeller () about the axis (). The motor () includes a motor stator () fixed to the stator assembly (), a motor rotor () fixed to the rotor assembly (), and a radial motor gap () between the stator () and the rotor (). The pump () is configured to direct a mixed blood flow from the fluid inlet () to the fluid outlet () and a wash flow through the motor gap ().