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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Minnetronix, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Inventor:
Don W. E. Evans, St. Paul, MN (US);
Assignee:
Minnetronix, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/00 (2006.01); A61M 1/12 (2006.01); A61M 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/101 (2013.01); A61M 1/125 (2014.02); A61M 1/1024 (2014.02); A61M 1/1034 (2014.02); A61M 1/1032 (2014.02);
Abstract
A pump for inducing flow within a vascular system comprises two inlets. The pump has a first configuration for deployment within the vascular system and a second, operable configuration for directing the fluid flow within the vascular system, where the second configuration has a greater diameter than the first configuration. A centrifugal impeller is configured to induce the fluid flow by rotation about an axis of rotation, where the flow is in a direction generally transverse to the impeller's axis of rotation.