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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2012
Graham Foster, Swansea, GB;
Graham Foster, Swansea, GB;
Calon Cardio Technology Limited, Swansea, GB;
Abstract
The cardiac pump, which is suitable for implantation into a ventricle of a human heart, has a primary blood flow path through a housing, a rotatable pump member disposed within the housing for causing blood to flow along the primary flow path, the pump member being rotatably coupled to the housing about an upstream bearing and a downstream bearing. The pump member includes an impeller shroud defining a secondary flow path in fluid communication with the primary flow path. The downstream bearing comprises a rotational bearing member and a stationary bearing seat for the bearing member, there being a circumferential transition between the bearing seat and the bearing member, the circumferential transition being disposed in the secondary flow path and arranged to be washed by blood passing along the secondary flow path.