Abstract:
A disposable centrifugal blood pump with magnetic coupling provides a centrifugal blood pump with magnetic coupling which is simple in structure of disposable parts with low cost. Therefore, a housing as the disposable part includes a rotor having pole faces extending on the outer-peripheral surface and projecting inward from the inner-peripheral surface and an impeller attached to the rotor, and a stator as a reusable part includes three or more electromagnets for electromagnetic coupling for forming a magnetic coupling between the stator and the rotor, a torque transmission disk formed by sandwiching a ring-shaped permanent magnet between two upper and lower ring members and having pole faces corresponding to the pole faces projecting from the inner-peripheral surface of the rotor formed to project for generating a magnetic coupling between stator and rotor, a motor for rotating the torque transmission disk, and a displacement gauge for measuring displacement of the rotor.
Abstract:
An electromechanical device has a rotor, a stator, and a module that at least partially houses the rotor. During normal operation of the electromechanical device, the stator is positioned external to and separate from the module.
Abstract:
A pump and a method for operating a pump is proposed for mounting an impeller, which is inexpensive, free from contact and wear and thus extremely permanent. For this the invention uses a combination of permanent magnetic bearings and flow-mechanical bearings. The mounting is thus based on purely passive elements without using actively controlled and/or regulated elements.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a rotary blood pump with both an attractive magnetic axial bearing and a hydrodynamic bearing. In one embodiment according to the present invention, a rotary pump includes an impeller assembly supported within a pump housing assembly by a magnetic axial bearing and a hydrodynamic bearing. The magnetic axial bearing includes at least two magnets oriented to attract each other. One magnet is positioned in the spindle of the pump housing while the other is disposed within the rotor assembly, proximate to the spindle. In this respect, the two magnets create an attractive axial force that at least partially maintains the relative axial position of the rotor assembly. The hydrodynamic bearing is formed between sloping surfaces that form tight clearances below the rotor assembly.
Abstract:
A sensorless magnetic bearing type blood pump apparatus includes a blood pump and a control mechanism. The blood pump has electromagnets for rotating a rotating body in a non-contact condition, and a hydrodynamic bearing section for rotating the rotating body in a non-contact condition when operation of the electromagnets is stopped. The apparatus is devoid of any sensors for determining the position of the rotating body. The control mechanism includes a pulse width modulation type electromagnet driving unit, a carrier component measuring unit for measuring carrier components of voltage and current in the driving unit, a modulation factor calculating unit which calculates a modulation factor using the carrier wave data, and a bearing mode changing-over mechanism for effecting change-over from the magnetic bearing mode to the hydrodynamic bearing mode when the calculated modulation factor is outside a predetermined range and for returning to the magnetic bearing mode after the change-over.
Abstract:
An implantable blood pump includes a housing defining an inlet opening and an outlet opening. Within the housing, a dividing wall defines a blood flow conduit extending between the inlet opening and the outlet opening of the housing. The blood pump has a rotary motor that includes a stator and a rotor. The stator is disposed within the housing circumferentially about the dividing wall such that the inner blood flow conduit extends through the stator.
Abstract:
A centrifugal blood pump apparatus includes an impeller provided in a blood chamber, first and second permanent magnets provided in one surface and the other surface of the impeller respectively, a third permanent magnet provided in an inner wall of the blood chamber, and a magnetic element and a coil for driving the impeller to rotate with a diaphragm being interposed. First and second grooves for hydrodynamic bearing different in shape and depth from each other are formed in the inner wall of the blood chamber facing the impeller, and third and fourth grooves for hydrodynamic bearing different in shape and depth from each other are formed in the diaphragm facing the impeller. The second and fourth grooves for hydrodynamic bearing generate high hydrodynamic pressure when the impeller is activated to rotate, while the first and third grooves for hydrodynamic bearing generate high hydrodynamic pressure when the impeller steadily rotates.
Abstract:
An impeller 31 is provided with a rotating shaft rotatably supported at the upper and lower ends thereof by an upper bearing 9 and a lower bearing 10, a plurality of vanes 32 connected to the rotating shaft on the inner circumferential edge side thereof, an annular coupling portion 8 connecting outer circumferential edges of the vanes, and driven magnet portions 12 provided in a lower portion of the annular coupling portion. The rotation of a rotor is transmitted to the impeller through magnetic coupling between the driven magnets 12 and drive magnets 16 provided to the rotor 13. The upper edge of each of the vanes has a bend point, and an angle α formed by a peripheral upper vane edge 33a and an angle β formed by a central upper vane edge relative to the downward direction of the rotating shaft are both acute angles and have a relationship of α
Abstract:
A percutaneous pumping system for providing hemodynamic support to a patient includes a pumping sleeve that defines a lumen extending along the length of the pumping sleeve. The pumping sleeve is configured and arranged for insertion into patient vasculature. At least one rotatable magnet is disposed in the pumping sleeve. The at least one first magnet is configured and arranged to be driven to rotate by a magnetic field generated external to the pumping sleeve. At least one impeller is coupled to the at least one magnet. Rotation of the at least one magnet causes a corresponding rotation of the at least one impeller. An anchoring arrangement is coupled to the pumping sleeve. The anchoring arrangement is configured and arranged to anchor the pumping sleeve at a target pumping location when the pumping sleeve is inserted into patient vasculature.
Abstract:
A total artificial heart having a rotor with an impeller, wherein the rotor is mounted within a pump housing on a hollow shaft. The rotor is magnetically driven to produce rotary motion of the impeller for pumping blood. The motor is disposed within the pump housing such that axial translation within the housing acts as a shuttle valve to alternate flow between pulmonary and systemic circulation.