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US 8,114,008 · App. 12/810,083 · Granted Feb 14, 2012

Blood pump and pump unit

Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,114,008
App. No.
12/810,083
Granted
Feb 14, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a magnetic coupling as an axial bearing including a driven magnet ( 11 B 3 ) that is a permanent magnet provided to a rotating body ( 11 ) inside a casing ( 12 ) and a drive magnet ( 23 A) that is a permanent magnet placed face to face with the driven magnet in a radial direction of the rotating body outside the casing to be magnetically coupled with the driven magnet, a driving motor ( 22 ) that rotatably drives the drive magnet about an axis (P) of the rotating body, a radial bearing that is a dynamic bearing having annular bearing surfaces ( 12 B 1, 11 B 1 ) centering on the axis on an inner wall of the casing and the rotating body, each of the annular bearing surfaces being arranged with a gap between the drive magnet and the driven magnet in the radial direction of the rotating body, and a closed impeller ( 11 A) including a front shroud ( 11 A 1 ) arranged on a front side in the axis direction in the rotating body, a rear shroud ( 11 A 2 ) arranged on a rear side in the axis direction of the front shroud, and a vane ( 11 A 3 ) arranged between the front shroud and the rear shroud.

Claims (17)

1. A blood pump comprising:

a rotating body rotatably placed inside a casing

a magnetic coupling functioning as an axial bearing including a driven magnet that is a permanent magnet provided to the rotating body and a drive magnet that is a permanent magnet placed face to face with the driven magnet in a radial direction of the rotating body outside the casing to be magnetically coupled with the driven magnet;

a drive that rotatably drives the drive magnet about an axis of the rotating body;

a radial bearing that is a dynamic bearing having annular bearing surfaces centering on the axis on an inner wall of the casing and the rotating body, each of the annular bearing surfaces being arranged with a gap between the drive magnet and the driven magnet in the radial direction of the rotating body; and

a closed impeller including a front shroud arranged on a front side in the axis direction in the rotating body, a rear shroud arranged on a rear side in the axis direction of the front shroud, and a vane arranged between the front shroud and the rear shroud, wherein

the driven magnet is provided to a cylindrical shaft included in the rotating body, and the drive magnet is arranged outside in a radial direction of the shaft with respect to the driven magnet.

2. The blood pump according to claim 1 , wherein the radial bearing is also arranged as the dynamic bearing, besides between the rotating body and the inner wall of the casing on the rear side of the rear shroud that is between the drive magnet and the driven magnet, between the rotating body and the inner wall of the casing on the front side of the front shroud.

3. The blood pump according to claim 1 , wherein the blood pump is configured to have:

a pump unit in which the rotating body including the driven magnet is placed inside the casing, and the radial bearing is provided between the rotating body and the inner wall of the casing, and

a driving unit that includes the drive magnet and the drive, and

the pump unit is detachably provided to the driving unit.

4. A pump unit of a blood pump that includes a rotating body rotatably placed inside a casing and is detachably provided to a driving unit rotatably driving the rotating body, the pump unit comprising:

a driven magnet that is a permanent magnet provided to the rotating body in a face-to-face manner in a radial direction of the rotating body with a drive magnet that is a permanent magnet of the driving unit provided outside the casing to be rotatably driven about an axis of the rotating body, the driven magnet being magnetically coupled with the drive magnet to be a magnetic coupling functioning as an axial bearing;

a radial bearing that is a dynamic bearing having annular bearing surfaces centering on the axis on an inner wall of the casing and the rotating body, each of the annular bearing surfaces being arranged with a gap between the drive magnet and the driven magnet in the radial direction of the rotating body; and

a closed impeller including a front shroud arranged on a front side in the axis direction in the rotating body, a rear shroud arranged on a rear side in the axis direction of the front shroud, and a vane arranged between the front shroud and the rear shroud, wherein

the driven magnet is provided to a cylindrical shaft included in the rotating body, and the drive magnet is arranged outside in a radial direction of the shaft with respect to the driven magnet.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 4, 2019
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: NIPRO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048225/0154 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 29, 2010
From: HIDAKA, TATSUYA; OKUBO, TAKESHI; YAMAMOTO, YASUHARU; OSADA, TOSHIYUKI; TAGAWA, MASASHI
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 024606/0484 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-042044 · Feb 22, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20100280305A1 · Nov 4, 2010