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1.

PUMP HOUSING WITH AN INTERIOR FOR ACCOMMODATING A PUMP ROTOR

      
Application Number 18893341
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-23
First Publication Date 2025-05-15
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Bredenbreuker, Lars
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

In a pump housing having an interior for accommodating a pump rotor, which may be transferred from a radially compressed state into a radially expanded state, and comprises a housing skin revolving in circumferential direction, as well as at least one reinforcement element, a stretch-resistant element revolving in circumferential direction is provided, which is stretched less than 5% in the expanded state as opposed to the force-free state in circumferential direction, and which limits any further expansion of the pump housing in radial direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/896 - Passive valves, i.e. valves actuated by the blood having flexible or resilient parts, e.g. flap valves
  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps

2.

ROTOR FOR A PUMP, PRODUCED WITH A FIRST ELASTIC MATERIAL

      
Application Number 18768129
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-10
First Publication Date 2025-05-08
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

A rotor for a pump has a housing and a rotor, and has at least one blade. The rotor is able to be actuated to rotate about an axis of rotation in order to convey a fluid in the axial or radial direction, and the rotor is able to be deformed in the radial direction between a first, radially compressed state and a second, radially expanded state. At a maximum speed of rotation of the rotor at which the power of the pump is at a maximum, the blade is essentially radially oriented, and/or the rotor has its maximum diameter.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 5/02 - Blade-carrying members, e.g. rotors
  • A61M 60/122 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/226 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly radial components
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/411 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers

3.

CATHETER DEVICE HAVING A COUPLING DEVICE FOR A DRIVE DEVICE

      
Application Number 18745606
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-06-17
First Publication Date 2025-04-17
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Simon, Cornelia
  • Honselmann, Julia
  • Baumgaertel, Jens
  • Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

Catheter device, having a hollow catheter in the catheter cavity of which a moveable shaft is guided, having a proximal coupling device, for detachable coupling of a drive device, the coupling device having a coupling cavity which is open towards the drive device and into which the shaft or an extension of the shaft protrudes with a connection element for mechanical coupling of a motor shaft, the coupling cavity having a germ barrier for reducing the pathogenicity of pathogenic substances or microorganisms.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61B 17/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods
  • A61B 17/3207 - Atherectomy devices
  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/419 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being permanent magnetic, e.g. from a rotating magnetic coupling between driving and driven magnets
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply

4.

SHEATH DEVICE FOR INSERTING A CATHETER

      
Application Number 18898903
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-27
First Publication Date 2025-03-20
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Toellner, Thomas
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

A sheath device for inserting a catheter into a patient's body is described. The device has a first sheath with a proximal end and a distal end. When the device is used as intended, the distal end of the first sheath is provided for arrangement in the patient's body and the proximal end of the first sheath is provided for arrangement outside the patient's body. The first sheath comprises a tubular section and a sheath housing, which is disposed at the proximal end of the section and has a receiving channel for a strand-shaped body. The device solves the problem of reliably fixing a second sheath or a catheter with respect to the first sheath by providing a clamping element on the receiving channel for fixing a strand-shaped body in the receiving channel by way of clamping.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61B 17/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods
  • A61M 25/00 - CathetersHollow probes
  • A61M 39/06 - Haemostasis valves, i.e. gaskets sealing around a needle, catheter or the like, closing on removal thereof
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps

5.

Conveying blades for a compressible rotor

      
Application Number 18885089
Grant Number 12305662
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-09-13
First Publication Date 2025-03-13
Grant Date 2025-05-20
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Er, Sami

Abstract

To provide a simple embodiment of a rotor for a fluid pump which is nevertheless very flexible in handling and compressible, in accordance with the invention a conveying blade is provided having at least two struts and a membrane spanned between them in the expanded state, wherein the struts each have at least one joint, in particular more than one joint, which enables an angling in a first direction in a first movement plane and bounds an overelongation beyond an elongation angle of in particular 180° in the opposite second direction. In particular when a plurality of joints are provided at the struts, they, and with them the conveying blades, are particularly flexible for simple compressibility.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

6.

RADIALLY COMPRESSIBLE AND EXPANDABLE ROTOR FOR A FLUID PUMP

      
Application Number 18795914
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-06
First Publication Date 2025-02-27
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Roehn, Daniel

Abstract

In a rotor for a fluid pump which is made radially compressible and expandable and has a hub and at least one conveying element which has a plurality of struts and at least one membrane which can be spanned between them, provision is made for a design in accordance with the invention which is as simple and inexpensive as possible that at least one first group of struts is pivotable in a pivot plane, starting from a common base, and can thus be spanned open in the manner of a fan, wherein the conveying element lies along the hub and contacts it over its full length in the expanded state to avoid a pressure loss at the margin of the conveying element between it and the hub and thus to realize an optimum efficiency.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling

7.

COMPRESSIBLE AND EXPANDABLE BLADE FOR A FLUID PUMP

      
Application Number 18640529
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-19
First Publication Date 2025-01-09
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Toellner, Thomas

Abstract

The invention relates to a compressible and expandable blade for the rotor of a fluid pump having at least two lamellae which are disposed adjacently, are pivo table respectively relative to an axis of rotation of the rotor and moveable relative to each other, and abut against each other in the expanded state of the blade such that they form together a continuous blade surface.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • A61M 60/122 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • B23H 9/10 - Working turbine blades or nozzles
  • B23K 26/21 - Bonding by welding
  • B23K 26/38 - Removing material by boring or cutting
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 3/02 - Axial-flow pumps of screw type
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes

8.

FLUID PUMP HAVING AT LEAST ONE IMPELLER BLADE AND A SUPPORT DEVICE

      
Application Number 18773050
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-15
First Publication Date 2025-01-09
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Roehn, Daniel

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid pump comprising at least one impeller blade (1, 1′, 1″) which is rotatable about an axis of rotation (3) and conveys a fluid in operation and comprising a support device (4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 12′, 13, 13′, 14, 14′, 15, 17) which supports the at least one impeller blade (1, 1′, 1″) in at least one support region, wherein the support device is changeable between a first state in which the rotor is radially compressed and a second state in which the rotor is radially expanded; and wherein at least one impeller blade extends at least partly radially inwardly with respect to the axis of rotation (3) from the support region/support regions in the radially expanded state of the rotor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • A61M 5/142 - Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/806 - Vanes or blades
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • F04D 19/00 - Axial-flow pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps

9.

FLUID PUMP HAVING A RADIALLY COMPRESSIBLE ROTOR

      
Application Number 18666332
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-05-16
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Toellner, Thomas

Abstract

To design the rotor as compressible in the radial direction in a fluid pump, in particular for microinvasive medical use, said rotor is configured as stretchable in its longitudinal direction by push elements and pull elements acting axially on it.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 3/02 - Axial-flow pumps of screw type
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • F04D 29/046 - Bearings
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps

10.

PUMP ARRANGEMENT

      
Application Number 18628866
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-08
First Publication Date 2024-12-19
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

The subject matter of the present invention is a pump arrangement, in particular for use in the body's own vessels, having a pump and a sheath receiving the pump, bounding a flow passage and having a distal intake opening and a proximal outflow opening for producing a driving flow by means of the pump, wherein the pump is arranged in a first fluid-tight section having the distal intake opening and a second fluid-tight section includes the proximal outflow opening. In accordance with the invention, a further inlet opening is present between the first section, and the second section and is arranged between the intake opening and the outflow opening, with the first section and the second section being arranged with respect to one another such that the inlet opening opens into the flow proximal to the pump.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04F 5/10 - Jet pumps, i.e. devices in which fluid flow is induced by pressure drop caused by velocity of another fluid flow the inducing fluid being liquid displacing liquids, e.g. containing solids, or liquids and elastic fluids
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/17 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps
  • A61M 60/211 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps using a jet, venturi or entrainment effect for pumping the blood
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/416 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted directly by the motor rotor drive shaft
  • A61M 60/577 - High-frequency driving
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 7/00 - Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps

11.

PUMP OR ROTARY CUTTER FOR OPERATION IN A FLUID

      
Application Number 18637519
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-17
First Publication Date 2024-12-19
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Wiessler, Petra
  • Friedel, Sven-René
  • Liebing, Reiner
  • Er, Sami
  • Schlicht, Henning

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid pump or rotary cutter having at least one first element (9′″, 10′″) which can be brought from a transport state into an operating state by changing at least one mechanical property. Such a pump can, for example, be a blood pump for the medical, microinvasive area. The object of achieving a transition between the transport state and the operating state which is as comfortable as possible and in so doing leaving a freedom in the design of the corresponding apparatus, in particular of a pump, which is as large as possible, is achieved using the means of the invention in that the first element at least partly comprises a material (24, 25, 26, 27) or can be filled with a material or material mixture which passes through a chemical reaction, in particular cross-linking, or a crystallization for transition into the operating state.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61B 17/3207 - Atherectomy devices
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/178 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart drawing blood from a ventricle and returning the blood to the arterial system via a cannula external to the ventricle, e.g. left or right ventricular assist devices
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/462 - Electromagnetic force
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes

12.

EXTERNAL DRIVE UNIT FOR AN IMPLANTABLE HEART ASSIST PUMP

      
Application Number 18639196
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-18
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Spanier, Gerd
  • Daschewski, Maxim

Abstract

An external drive unit for an implantable heart assist pump is provided. The drive unit comprises a motor housing, a transcutaneous drive shaft and a motor for driving the heart assist pump. The motor is connectable to the heart assist pump via the drive shaft, and the motor is arranged inside the motor housing. The drive unit further comprises a catheter surrounding the drive shaft and a purge line for injecting a purge medium into a lumen of the catheter or into a space between the catheter and the drive shaft. The purge line is in thermal contact with an outer surface of the motor housing and/or with an outer surface of a proximal section of the catheter. Due to the thermal contact heat is transferred from the outer surface of the catheter in the proximal section and/or from the outer surface of the motor housing to the purge medium.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/02 - Holding devices, e.g. on the body
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply
  • A61M 60/871 - Energy supply devicesConverters therefor
  • A61M 60/88 - Percutaneous cables

13.

CATHETER DEVICE HAVING A CATHETER AND AN ACTUATION DEVICE

      
Application Number 18617061
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-03-26
First Publication Date 2024-11-21
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a catheter device, having a catheter, an actuation device at a first end of the catheter and also a mechanical transmission element for transmitting a movement along the catheter to the actuation device, the actuation device having a coupling element which is connected to the transmission element and can be actuated by the latter relative to the longitudinal direction of the catheter in a first degree of freedom, and also a conversion element which can be actuated by the coupling element and which converts the actuation movement at least partially into a movement in a second degree of freedom. As a result, a combined movement at the distal end of the catheter can be produced particularly simply for compression and release of a functional element.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 25/00 - CathetersHollow probes
  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/268 - Positive displacement blood pumps including a displacement member directly acting on the blood the displacement member being flexible, e.g. membranes, diaphragms or bladders
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/462 - Electromagnetic force
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings

14.

RADIALLY COMPRESSIBLE AND EXPANDABLE ROTOR FOR A PUMP HAVING AN IMPELLER BLADE

      
Application Number 18402909
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-01-03
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Toellner, Thomas
  • Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a radially compressible and expandable rotor for a pump having at least one impeller blade, wherein the impeller blade has an impeller blade body whose material is elastically deformable as well as at least one stiffening strut which is at least partially embedded in the material of the impeller blade body. The struts are designed suitably in size, shape and arrangement and are integrated in suitable hollow spaces of the impeller blade body for stabilizing the impeller blade. Elements with tensile strength can additionally be provided.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • F01D 5/14 - Form or construction

15.

COMPRESSIBLE MOTOR, IMPLANTATION ARRANGEMENT, AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING THE MOTOR

      
Application Number 18515981
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-11-21
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

The invention relates to a motor with a stator and a rotor, which can be driven about an axial direction. The invention is characterized in that at least one of the stator and the rotor, in particular the stator, which has a winding arrangement that can be supplied with a current, can be radially compressed and expanded.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 3/47 - Air-gap windings, i.e. iron-free windings
  • A61M 60/122 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/419 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being permanent magnetic, e.g. from a rotating magnetic coupling between driving and driven magnets
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/865 - Devices for guiding or inserting pumps or pumping devices into the patient’s body
  • H02K 99/00 - Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

16.

ROTOR FOR A FLUID PUMP, AND METHOD AND MOLD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME

      
Application Number 18584217
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-02-22
First Publication Date 2024-09-12
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Siess, Thorsten

Abstract

Disclosed is a rotor for a compressible fluid pump, in particular a blood pump that can be introduced into a patient's body through a blood vessel; said rotor comprises one or more impeller elements, is compressible and expansible between an expanded state and a compressed state, is made at least in part of a fiber-reinforced plastic material, is provided for rotating about an axis of rotation, and is characterized in that in the expanded state of the rotor, a first percentage, i.e. more than 30%, in particular more than 50%, of the fibers runs substantially straight between the first end (10a, 11a, 13a) thereof lying closest to the axis of rotation and a second end lying further away from the axis of rotation. According to the invention, the rotor retains its shape very well even when subjected to repeated mechanical stress.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/226 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly radial components
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/804 - Impellers
  • B29C 45/16 - Making multilayered or multicoloured articles
  • B29C 45/27 - Sprue channels
  • B29C 45/72 - Heating or cooling
  • B29L 31/00 - Other particular articles
  • F04D 3/02 - Axial-flow pumps of screw type
  • F04D 29/06 - Lubrication
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors

17.

SYSTEM FOR INTRODUCING A PUMP

      
Application Number 18433614
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-02-06
First Publication Date 2024-08-01
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Toellner, Thomas

Abstract

The invention resides in the field of introducing fluid pumps into a lumen and relates to a system for introducing a pump into a lumen which comprises a first sheath and a pump to be introduced into the first sheath, or a system which has a pump with a distal pump unit and a shaft catheter which emerges proximally to the pump unit. According to the invention one or two sheaths are used, the distal pump unit being pulled firstly into the distal end of one sheath, in order to avoid damage to a shaft catheter. Subsequently, the sheath receiving the pump unit is transferred into a further sheath or a receiving lumen.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • A61M 60/865 - Devices for guiding or inserting pumps or pumping devices into the patient’s body

18.

CONTAINER FOR A HEART PUMP DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEART PUMP DEVICE

      
Application Number 18435599
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-02-07
First Publication Date 2024-08-01
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Roehn, Daniel
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

The invention relates to a container for a heart pump device with a first receiving space for a compressible and expandable heart pump, wherein the first receiving space is delimited on several sides, in particular on all sides, by one or more closure elements and is closed off to the outside for preventing a contacting of the heart pump, wherein the closure elements) leave free an opening for the passage of a catheter from the outside into the first receiving space, wherein the diameter of the opening is dimensioned such that the heart pump can pass this exclusively in a condition which is at least partly compressed compared to the expanded condition. For implantation, the heart pump in the container can firstly be operated by trial in the container whilst feeding a rinsing fluid and can then be pulled through the opening amid simultaneous compression, into a sheath element.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65D 75/52 - Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers Details
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/268 - Positive displacement blood pumps including a displacement member directly acting on the blood the displacement member being flexible, e.g. membranes, diaphragms or bladders
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • B65B 69/00 - Unpacking of articles or materials, not otherwise provided for
  • B65D 75/32 - Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents

19.

BLOOD PUMP FOR THE INVASIVE APPLICATION WITHIN A BODY OF A PATIENT

      
Application Number 18387872
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-11-08
First Publication Date 2024-08-01
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Toellner, Thomas
  • Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

Disclosed is a blood pump for the invasive application within a body of a patient comprising a rotor which is drivable about an axis of rotation and is radially compressible or expandable and which has a hub and at least one impeller blade fastened thereto, as well as comprising a housing which is compressible or expandable in the radial direction by an axial stretching or axial compression. Both the rotor and the housing are made expandable and compressible in as simple a manner as possible in that a control body is provided which passes through the hub in the longitudinal direction, which is freely axially displaceable relative to the hub and which is coupled to the housing on the distal side of the rotor such that it exerts pulling and/or compression forces on the housing by a movement in the longitudinal direction with respect to the housing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61F 2/82 - Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
  • A61F 2/88 - Stents in a form characterised by wire-like elementsStents in a form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure the wire-like elements formed as helical or spiral coils
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/812 - Vanes or blades, e.g. static flow guides

20.

Blood pump

      
Application Number 18379221
Grant Number 12290674
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-10-12
First Publication Date 2024-05-09
Grant Date 2025-05-06
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Siess, Thorsten
  • Spanier, Gerd
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

The invention relates to a blood pump. The blood pump comprises a flexible drive shaft guided in a catheter, a conveying element connected to the drive shaft in a distal region of the drive shaft, and a motor, wherein the motor has a stator and a rotor mounted such that it can move in the stator. The stator comprises a winding and the rotor comprises a rotor magnet. In addition, the drive shaft is connected to the rotor at a proximal end of the drive shaft. The stator and the rotor are nondetachably connected to one another, and form a gap with a ring-shaped cross-section, which is delimited by the rotor and the stator.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/419 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being permanent magnetic, e.g. from a rotating magnetic coupling between driving and driven magnets
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply

21.

FLUID PUMP CHANGEABLE IN DIAMETER, IN PARTICULAR FOR MEDICAL APPLICATION

      
Application Number 18238786
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-08-28
First Publication Date 2024-05-09
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid pump device, in particular for the medical application, with a compressible pump housing and rotor, as well as with an actuation means which runs in the sleeve and on whose end the fluid pump is arranged. In order to utilize all possibilities of a space-saving arrangement of the respective pump housing of the rotor, which is compressible per se, and as the case may be, a bearing arrangement, the mentioned elements are displaceable to one another in the axial direction compared to an operation position. In particular these elements may be end-configured by way of an axial movement of the drive shaft after the assembly.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/165 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • F04C 2/02 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps of arcuate-engagement type, i.e. with circular translatory movement of co-operating members, each member having the same number of teeth or tooth-equivalents
  • F04C 14/22 - Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, machines, pumps or pumping installations characterised by varying the volume of the working chamber by changing the eccentricity between cooperating members
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • F04D 29/046 - Bearings
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps

22.

Fluid pump with a rotor

      
Application Number 18503307
Grant Number 12209593
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-11-07
First Publication Date 2024-05-02
Grant Date 2025-01-28
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid pump, in particular to a liquid pump having a rotor with at last one rotor blade for conveying the fluid, the rotor being variable with respect to its diameter between a first, compressed state and a second expanded state. In order to produce a simple compressibility and expandability of the rotor of the pump, it is provided according to the invention that at least one rotor blade is deformable between a first state which it assumes in the compressed state of the rotor and a second state which it assumes in the expanded state of the rotor by means of a fluid counterpressure during a rotation of the rotor during pump operation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • B63H 1/14 - Propellers
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • B63H 1/12 - Propulsive elements directly acting on water of rotary type with rotation axis substantially in propulsive direction

23.

Pump device having a detection device

      
Application Number 18378202
Grant Number 12158151
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-10-10
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Grant Date 2024-12-03
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

a, 10, 10′, 11) of the pump has a different shape and/or size in the transport state than in the operating state. The operating safety of such a pump device is increased by a detection device (12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29) which detects whether at least the first element is in the operating state with respect to shape and/or size by means of a sensor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/50 - Details relating to control
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/538 - Regulation using real-time blood pump operational parameter data, e.g. motor current
  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • F04D 15/02 - Stopping of pumps, or operating valves, on occurrence of unwanted conditions
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

24.

PUMP, IN PARTICULAR A BLOOD PUMP

      
Application Number 18368644
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-15
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Siess, Thorsten
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Schumacher, Jörg

Abstract

The application relates to a pump, in particular blood pump. The pump comprises a drive shaft (3) which runs in an axial direction, a delivery element (6) which is connected to the drive shaft (3) in a distal region of this, and a housing (5) which surrounds the delivery element (6). The delivery element (6) and the housing (5) are designed in a manner such that these automatically unfold after a forced compression. The housing (5) moreover comprises an inlet region (22) with at least one inlet opening (23), a fluid-tight region (20) which surrounds a region of the delivery element (6), and an outlet region (24) with at least one opening (23) for the exit of the pump medium. The delivery element (6) is arranged in a manner such that it projects into the outlet region (24).

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/894 - Passive valves, i.e. valves actuated by the blood

25.

Conveying blades for a compressible rotor

      
Application Number 18238564
Grant Number 12117014
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-28
First Publication Date 2024-02-15
Grant Date 2024-10-15
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Er, Sami

Abstract

To provide a simple embodiment of a rotor for a fluid pump which is nevertheless very flexible in handling and compressible, in accordance with the invention a conveying blade is provided having at least two struts and a membrane spanned between them in the expanded state, wherein the struts each have at least one joint, in particular more than one joint, which enables an angling in a first direction in a first movement plane and bounds an overelongation beyond an elongation angle of in particular 180° in the opposite second direction. In particular when a plurality of joints are provided at the struts, they, and with them the conveying blades, are particularly flexible for simple compressibility.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

26.

Radially compressible and expandable rotor for a fluid pump

      
Application Number 18238002
Grant Number 12085088
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-25
First Publication Date 2024-02-15
Grant Date 2024-09-10
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft MBH (Germany)
Inventor Roehn, Daniel

Abstract

In a rotor for a fluid pump which is made radially compressible and expandable and has a hub and at least one conveying element which has a plurality of struts and at least one membrane which can be spanned between them, provision is made for a design in accordance with the invention which is as simple and inexpensive as possible that at least one first group of struts is pivotable in a pivot plane, starting from a common base, and can thus be spanned open in the manner of a fan, wherein the conveying element lies along the hub and contacts it over its full length in the expanded state to avoid a pressure loss at the margin of the conveying element between it and the hub and thus to realize an optimum efficiency.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

27.

Compressible rotor for a fluid pump

      
Application Number 18239169
Grant Number 12276285
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-29
First Publication Date 2024-02-15
Grant Date 2025-04-15
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Schlicht, Henning

Abstract

The invention relates to a rotor for a fluid pump, in particular for use in the medical sphere, the rotor being compressible for bringing to the place of use and thereafter being expandable. The compressibility is assisted by the provision of cavities, in particular also production of the rotor at least partially from a foam.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/806 - Vanes or blades
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings

28.

Rotor for a pump, produced with a first elastic material

      
Application Number 18199984
Grant Number 12065941
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-22
First Publication Date 2024-01-04
Grant Date 2024-08-20
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

A rotor for a pump has a housing and a rotor, and has at least one blade. The rotor is able to be actuated to rotate about an axis of rotation in order to convey a fluid in the axial or radial direction, and the rotor is able to be deformed in the radial direction between a first, radially compressed state and a second, radially expanded state. At a maximum speed of rotation of the rotor at which the power of the pump is at a maximum, the blade is essentially radially oriented, and/or the rotor has its maximum diameter.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • A61M 60/122 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/20 - Type thereof
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/226 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly radial components
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/411 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • F01D 5/02 - Blade-carrying members, e.g. rotors
  • F04D 29/38 - Blades
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter

29.

SHEATH ASSEMBLY FOR INSERTION OF A CORD-SHAPED ELEMENT, PARTICULARLY A CATHETER, INTO THE BODY OF A PATIENT

      
Application Number 18117015
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-03-03
First Publication Date 2023-12-21
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Bredenbreuker, Lars
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

Sheath assembly for the insertion of a cord-shaped element, comprising an introducer sheath, and an auxiliary sheath for insertion into the introducer sheath together with the cord-shaped element. In some examples, the auxiliary sheath has a housing configured to detachably couple to the introducer sheath housing, and to detachably fasten the cord-shaped element with respect to the auxiliary sheath housing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 39/10 - Tube connectors or tube couplings
  • A61M 39/06 - Haemostasis valves, i.e. gaskets sealing around a needle, catheter or the like, closing on removal thereof
  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/865 - Devices for guiding or inserting pumps or pumping devices into the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings

30.

Pump housing with an interior for accommodating a pump rotor

      
Application Number 18204410
Grant Number 12123426
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-01
First Publication Date 2023-11-23
Grant Date 2024-10-22
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Bredenbreuker, Lars
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

In a pump housing having an interior for accommodating a pump rotor, which may be transferred from a radially compressed state into a radially expanded state, and comprises a housing skin revolving in circumferential direction, as well as at least one reinforcement element, a stretch-resistant element revolving in circumferential direction is provided, which is stretched less than 5% in the expanded state as opposed to the force-free state in circumferential direction, and which limits any further expansion of the pump housing in radial direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/896 - Passive valves, i.e. valves actuated by the blood having flexible or resilient parts, e.g. flap valves
  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps

31.

DRIVE SHAFT COVER WITH A HEAT CONDUCTING PART

      
Application Number 18116522
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-03-02
First Publication Date 2023-09-07
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Decke, Robert
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

The application relates to a catheter device with a distal bearing for bearing a distal end of a drive shaft. The distal bearing comprises a heat conducting part for enabling heat transfer away from the distal bearing and/or a spiral sleeve for receiving the distant end of the drive shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/416 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted directly by the motor rotor drive shaft
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller

32.

PUMP, IN PARTICULAR A BLOOD PUMP

      
Application Number 18141721
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-05-01
First Publication Date 2023-08-31
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

The present invention relates to a pump, in particular a blood pump having a proximal and a distal end and a pump housing arranged therebetween, a driveshaft arranged in an interior of the pump housing along the longitudinal direction, a conveying element arranged on the driveshaft, and a cannula. Here, the pump housing, the shaft arrangement and the conveying element are coordinated with one another in such a way that these guarantee the best possible efficiency and longevity of the pump.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps

33.

Fluid pump changeable in diameter, in particular for medical application

      
Application Number 18093997
Grant Number 11786718
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-06
First Publication Date 2023-08-03
Grant Date 2023-10-17
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid pump device, in particular for the medical application, with a compressible pump housing and rotor, as well as with an actuation means which runs in the sleeve and on whose end the fluid pump is arranged. In order to utilize all possibilities of a space-saving arrangement of the respective pump housing of the rotor, which is compressible per se, and as the case may be, a bearing arrangement, the mentioned elements are displaceable to one another in the axial direction compared to an operation position. In particular these elements may be end-configured by way of an axial movement of the drive shaft after the assembly.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/165 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings
  • F04C 2/02 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps of arcuate-engagement type, i.e. with circular translatory movement of co-operating members, each member having the same number of teeth or tooth-equivalents
  • F04C 14/22 - Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, machines, pumps or pumping installations characterised by varying the volume of the working chamber by changing the eccentricity between cooperating members
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • F04D 29/046 - Bearings
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • A61M 60/405 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being hydraulic or pneumatic
  • A61M 60/419 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being permanent magnetic, e.g. from a rotating magnetic coupling between driving and driven magnets
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting

34.

Conveying blades for a compressible rotor

      
Application Number 18079995
Grant Number 11773863
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-12-13
First Publication Date 2023-07-27
Grant Date 2023-10-03
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Er, Sami

Abstract

To provide a simple embodiment of a rotor for a fluid pump which is nevertheless very flexible in handling and compressible, in accordance with the invention a conveying blade is provided having at least two struts and a membrane spanned between them in the expanded state, wherein the struts each have at least one joint, in particular more than one joint, which enables an angling in a first direction in a first movement plane and bounds an overelongation beyond an elongation angle of in particular 180° in the opposite second direction. In particular when a plurality of joints are provided at the struts, they, and with them the conveying blades, are particularly flexible for simple compressibility.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

35.

Fluid pump having at least one impeller blade and a support device

      
Application Number 18098761
Grant Number 12066030
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-19
First Publication Date 2023-07-27
Grant Date 2024-08-20
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Roehn, Daniel

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid pump comprising at least one impeller blade (1, 1′, 1″) which is rotatable about an axis of rotation (3) and conveys a fluid in operation and comprising a support device (4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 12′, 13, 13′, 14, 14′, 15, 17) which supports the at least one impeller blade (1, 1′, 1″) in at least one support region, wherein the support device is changeable between a first state in which the rotor is radially compressed and a second state in which the rotor is radially expanded; and wherein at least one impeller blade extends at least partly radially inwardly with respect to the axis of rotation (3) from the support region/support regions in the radially expanded state of the rotor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • A61M 5/142 - Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
  • F04D 19/00 - Axial-flow pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/806 - Vanes or blades
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers

36.

Fluid pump having a radially compressible rotor

      
Application Number 17969185
Grant Number 12018698
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-10-19
First Publication Date 2023-05-11
Grant Date 2024-06-25
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Toellner, Thomas

Abstract

To design the rotor (6, 6′, 6″, 6″′, 60, 60′) as compressible in the radial direction in a fluid pump, in particular for microinvasive medical use, said rotor is configured as stretchable in its longitudinal direction (16) by push elements and pull elements acting axially on it.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 3/02 - Axial-flow pumps of screw type
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • F04D 29/046 - Bearings
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings

37.

Pump device having a detection device

      
Application Number 17947785
Grant Number 11815097
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-09-19
First Publication Date 2023-03-23
Grant Date 2023-11-14
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

a, 10, 10′, 11) of the pump has a different shape and/or size in the transport state than in the operating state. The operating safety of such a pump device is increased by a detection device (12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29) which detects whether at least the first element is in the operating state with respect to shape and/or size by means of a sensor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/50 - Details relating to control
  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/538 - Regulation using real-time blood pump operational parameter data, e.g. motor current
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • F04D 15/02 - Stopping of pumps, or operating valves, on occurrence of unwanted conditions
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

38.

FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT, IN PARTICULAR FLUID PUMP, HAVING A HOUSING AND A CONVEYING ELEMENT

      
Application Number 17945532
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-09-15
First Publication Date 2023-03-16
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid pump having a housing delimiting a fluid chamber and having a conveying element for the fluid disposed in the fluid chamber, the housing, with respect to the shape and/or size thereof, being able to be changed between at least a first, expanded state and a second, compressed state. The object, to stabilise adequately a corresponding housing, is achieved according to the invention by the housing having at least one stabilisation chamber which can be supplied with a fluid pressure and is different from the fluid chamber, the first state of the housing being assigned to a first fluid pressure in the stabilisation chamber and the second state of the housing being assigned to a second fluid pressure.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/861 - Connections or anchorings for connecting or anchoring pumps or pumping devices to parts of the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/17 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/295 - Balloon pumps for circulatory assistance
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors

39.

INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMP

      
Application Number 17794037
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-01-28
First Publication Date 2023-02-16
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Skrzypczak, Dennis
  • Decke, Robert
  • Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

An intravascular blood pump (1) comprises a catheter (5), a rotor (10), a housing (11) in which the rotor (10) is housed and a flexible drive shaft (12) extending through the catheter (5) and connected to the rotor. The drive shaft (12) comprises at least one outer layer (28) and at least one inner layer (29). The drive shaft (12) is rotatably supported in a proximal bearing (13) located proximally of the rotor (10). The outer layer (28) of the drive shaft (12) is absent or thinned at a location where the drive shaft (12) is supported in the proximal bearing (13).

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/824 - Hydrodynamic or fluid film bearings
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply

40.

INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMP

      
Application Number 17796031
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-01-28
First Publication Date 2023-02-16
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Skrzypczak, Dennis
  • Decke, Robert
  • Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

An intravascular blood pump comprises a catheter, a rotor, a housing in which the rotor is housed and a flexible drive shaft extending through the catheter and rotatably supported in a proximal bearing located proximally of the rotor. The proximal bearing comprises a bearing sleeve and an outer bearing ring. The bearing sleeve comprises a proximal portion located proximally of the outer bearing ring, the proximal portion of the bearing sleeve forming an axial bearing with a proximal surface of the outer bearing ring. The bearing sleeve further comprises a distal portion extending from the proximal portion of the bearing sleeve distally into the outer bearing ring, wherein the distal portion of the bearing sleeve forms a radial bearing with the outer bearing ring.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/806 - Vanes or blades
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply

41.

Radially compressible and expandable rotor for a fluid pump

      
Application Number 17871153
Grant Number 11781557
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-07-22
First Publication Date 2023-02-09
Grant Date 2023-10-10
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Roehn, Daniel

Abstract

In a rotor for a fluid pump which is made radially compressible and expandable and has a hub and at least one conveying element which has a plurality of struts and at least one membrane which can be spanned between them, provision is made for a design in accordance with the invention which is as simple and inexpensive as possible that at least one first group of struts is pivotable in a pivot plane, starting from a common base, and can thus be spanned open in the manner of a fan, wherein the conveying element lies along the hub and contacts it over its full length in the expanded state to avoid a pressure loss at the margin of the conveying element between it and the hub and thus to realize an optimum efficiency.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting

42.

Compressible rotor for a fluid pump

      
Application Number 17865064
Grant Number 11773861
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-07-14
First Publication Date 2023-01-05
Grant Date 2023-10-03
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Schlicht, Henning

Abstract

The invention relates to a rotor for a fluid pump, in particular for use in the medical sphere, the rotor being compressible for bringing to the place of use and thereafter being expandable. The compressibility is assisted by the provision of cavities, in particular also production of the rotor at least partially from a foam.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/806 - Vanes or blades
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings

43.

Rotor for a pump, produced with a first elastic material

      
Application Number 17696977
Grant Number 11702938
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-03-17
First Publication Date 2022-10-06
Grant Date 2023-07-18
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

A rotor for a pump has a housing and a rotor, and has at least one blade. The rotor is able to be actuated to rotate about an axis of rotation in order to convey a fluid in the axial or radial direction, and the rotor is able to be deformed in the radial direction between a first, radially compressed state and a second, radially expanded state. At a maximum speed of rotation of the rotor at which the power of the pump is at a maximum, the blade is essentially radially oriented, and/or the rotor has its maximum diameter.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 7/00 - Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts
  • F01D 5/02 - Blade-carrying members, e.g. rotors
  • A61M 60/411 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/226 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly radial components
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/122 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter

44.

Conveying blades for a compressible rotor

      
Application Number 17590531
Grant Number 11549517
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-02-01
First Publication Date 2022-08-25
Grant Date 2023-01-10
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Er, Sami

Abstract

To provide a simple embodiment of a rotor for a fluid pump which is nevertheless very flexible in handling and compressible, in accordance with the invention a conveying blade is provided having at least two struts and a membrane spanned between them in the expanded state, wherein the struts each have at least one joint, in particular more than one joint, which enables an angling in a first direction in a first movement plane and bounds an overelongation beyond an elongation angle of in particular 180° in the opposite second direction. In particular when a plurality of joints are provided at the struts, they, and with them the conveying blades, are particularly flexible for simple compressibility.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

45.

Pump housing with an interior for accommodating a pump rotor

      
Application Number 17672077
Grant Number 11703064
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-02-15
First Publication Date 2022-08-25
Grant Date 2023-07-18
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Bredenbreuker, Lars
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

In a pump housing having an interior for accommodating a pump rotor, which may be transferred from a radially compressed state into a radially expanded state, and comprises a housing skin revolving in circumferential direction, as well as at least one reinforcement element, a stretch-resistant element revolving in circumferential direction is provided, which is stretched less than 5% in the expanded state as opposed to the force-free state in circumferential direction, and which limits any further expansion of the pump housing in radial direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • A61M 60/896 - Passive valves, i.e. valves actuated by the blood having flexible or resilient parts, e.g. flap valves
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting

46.

Compressible and expandable blade for a fluid pump

      
Application Number 17582676
Grant Number 11994133
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-01-24
First Publication Date 2022-07-21
Grant Date 2024-05-28
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Toellner, Thomas

Abstract

The invention relates to a compressible and expandable blade for the rotor of a fluid pump having at least two lamellae which are disposed adjacently, are pivotable respectively relative to an axis of rotation of the rotor and moveable relative to each other, and abut against each other in the expanded state of the blade such that they form together a continuous blade surface.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/122 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • B23H 9/10 - Working turbine blades or nozzles
  • B23K 26/21 - Bonding by welding
  • B23K 26/38 - Removing material by boring or cutting
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 3/02 - Axial-flow pumps of screw type
  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter

47.

PUSH DEVICE FOR THE AXIAL INSERTION OF AN ELONGATE, FLEXIBLE BODY

      
Application Number 17559697
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-12-22
First Publication Date 2022-07-14
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schulz, Heike
  • Roehn, Daniel

Abstract

With a push device for the axial insertion of an elongate, flexible body, in particular of a flexible tube, a cable or similar elements into a sheath, and axial force introduction unit is provided, which by way of a non-positive fit or a positive fit, applies a push movement onto the elongate body and is arranged in a stationary manner relative to the sheath or is guided on a predefined movement path.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters

48.

Compressible motor, implantation arrangement, and method for positioning the motor

      
Application Number 17576096
Grant Number 11863037
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-01-14
First Publication Date 2022-07-07
Grant Date 2024-01-02
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

The invention relates to a motor with a stator and a rotor, which can be driven about an axial direction. The invention is characterized in that at least one of the stator and the rotor, in particular the stator, which has a winding arrangement that can be supplied with a current, can be radially compressed and expanded.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/40 - Details relating to driving
  • H02K 3/47 - Air-gap windings, i.e. iron-free windings
  • H02K 99/00 - Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
  • A61M 60/419 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being permanent magnetic, e.g. from a rotating magnetic coupling between driving and driven magnets
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/865 - Devices for guiding or inserting pumps or pumping devices into the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/122 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter

49.

Flexible catheter with a drive shaft

      
Application Number 17579162
Grant Number 12234858
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-01-19
First Publication Date 2022-07-07
Grant Date 2025-02-25
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

A flexible catheter with a drive shaft, and associated devices and systems. In some examples, the disclosure describes a flexible catheter with a drive shaft, with a sleeve surrounding the drive shaft and with a sheath surrounding the drive shaft and the sleeve, wherein the drive shaft, the sleeve and the sheath are pliable, wherein the drive shaft at a proximal end of the drive shaft comprises a coupling element for connecting the drive shaft to a drive motor, wherein the drive shaft at least regionally consist of a alloy which contains at least 10% by weight of chromium, nickel and cobalt in each case.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • A61L 29/02 - Inorganic materials
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/824 - Hydrodynamic or fluid film bearings
  • F16C 1/06 - Flexible shaftsMechanical means for transmitting movement in a flexible sheathing for conveying rotary movements with guiding-sheathing, tube, or box
  • F16C 1/28 - Construction of guiding-sheathings or guiding-tubes with built-in bearings
  • A61B 17/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods
  • A61B 17/3207 - Atherectomy devices
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply

50.

Blood pump

      
Application Number 17542940
Grant Number 11826501
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-12-06
First Publication Date 2022-06-16
Grant Date 2023-11-28
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Siess, Thorsten
  • Spanier, Gerd
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

The invention relates to a blood pump. The blood pump comprises a flexible drive shaft guided in a catheter, a conveying element connected to the drive shaft in a distal region of the drive shaft, and a motor, wherein the motor has a stator and a rotor mounted such that it can move in the stator. The stator comprises a winding and the rotor comprises a rotor magnet. In addition, the drive shaft is connected to the rotor at a proximal end of the drive shaft. The stator and the rotor are nondetachably connected to one another, and form a gap with a ring-shaped cross-section, which is delimited by the rotor and the stator.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/419 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being permanent magnetic, e.g. from a rotating magnetic coupling between driving and driven magnets
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller

51.

Catheter device having a catheter and an actuation device

      
Application Number 17550739
Grant Number 11969560
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-12-14
First Publication Date 2022-06-09
Grant Date 2024-04-30
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a catheter device, having a catheter, an actuation device at a first end of the catheter and also a mechanical transmission element for transmitting a movement along the catheter to the actuation device, the actuation device having a coupling element which is connected to the transmission element and can be actuated by the latter relative to the longitudinal direction of the catheter in a first degree of freedom, and also a conversion element which can be actuated by the coupling element and which converts the actuation movement at least partially into a movement in a second degree of freedom. As a result, a combined movement at the distal end of the catheter can be produced particularly simply for compression and release of a functional element.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 25/00 - CathetersHollow probes
  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/268 - Positive displacement blood pumps including a displacement member directly acting on the blood the displacement member being flexible, e.g. membranes, diaphragms or bladders
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/462 - Electromagnetic force
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings

52.

CATHETER DEVICE WITH A DRIVE SHAFT COVER

      
Application Number 17430508
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-02-21
First Publication Date 2022-05-05
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Siess, Thorsten
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Schumacher, Jörg
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

The invention relates to a catheter device, comprising a drive shaft extending from a driving region of the catheter device to a distal end region of the catheter device, a rotor which is attached to the drive shaft in the distal end region and a distal bearing for bearing a distal end of the drive shaft. The distal bearing comprises a drive shaft cover which is configured to cover a section of the drive shaft extending distally of the rotor. On a distal side of the rotor, a radially inner part of the rotor is recessed with respect to radially outer parts of the rotor to form a hollow space surrounding the drive shaft, wherein a proximal end of the drive shaft cover lies in said hollow space.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/824 - Hydrodynamic or fluid film bearings
  • A61M 60/226 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly radial components
  • A61M 60/416 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted directly by the motor rotor drive shaft
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes

53.

Pump arrangement

      
Application Number 17499113
Grant Number 11976674
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-10-12
First Publication Date 2022-03-31
Grant Date 2024-05-07
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

The subject matter of the present invention is a pump arrangement, in particular for use in the body's own vessels, having a pump and a sheath receiving the pump, bounding a flow passage and having a distal intake opening and a proximal outflow opening for producing a driving flow by means of the pump, wherein the pump is arranged in a first fluid-tight section having the distal intake opening and a second fluid-tight section includes the proximal outflow opening. In accordance with the invention, a further inlet opening is present between the first section, and the second section and is arranged between the intake opening and the outflow opening, with the first section and the second section being arranged with respect to one another such that the inlet opening opens into the flow proximal to the pump.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61N 1/10 - Applying static electricity
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/17 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps
  • A61M 60/211 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps using a jet, venturi or entrainment effect for pumping the blood
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/416 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted directly by the motor rotor drive shaft
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 7/00 - Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • F04F 5/10 - Jet pumps, i.e. devices in which fluid flow is induced by pressure drop caused by velocity of another fluid flow the inducing fluid being liquid displacing liquids, e.g. containing solids, or liquids and elastic fluids
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/577 - High-frequency driving

54.

SHEATH DEVICE FOR INSERTING A CATHETER

      
Application Number 17476031
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-09-15
First Publication Date 2022-03-03
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Bredenbreuker, Lars
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

In a sheath device for inserting a catheter into a patient's body, comprising a first sheath having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein when used as intended the distal end of the first sheath is provided for arrangement in the patient's body and the proximal end of the first sheath is provided for arrangement outside the patient's body, and wherein the first sheath comprises a tubular section and a sheath housing, which is disposed at the proximal end of the section and comprises a receiving channel for a catheter, according to the invention the tubular section is detachably held in a clamping element of the sheath housing in a non-positive manner so as to be able to easily shorten the tubular section.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 39/02 - Access sites
  • A61M 39/06 - Haemostasis valves, i.e. gaskets sealing around a needle, catheter or the like, closing on removal thereof
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters

55.

Catheter device having a coupling device for a drive device

      
Application Number 17404102
Grant Number 12042647
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-08-17
First Publication Date 2022-02-03
Grant Date 2024-07-23
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Simon, Cornelia
  • Honselmann, Julia
  • Baumgaertel, Jens
  • Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

Catheter device, having a hollow catheter in the catheter cavity of which a moveable shaft is guided, having a proximal coupling device, for detachable coupling of a drive device, the coupling device having a coupling cavity which is open towards the drive device and into which the shaft or an extension of the shaft protrudes with a connection element for mechanical coupling of a motor shaft, the coupling cavity having a germ barrier for reducing the pathogenicity of pathogenic substances or microorganisms.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/416 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted directly by the motor rotor drive shaft
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply
  • A61B 17/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods
  • A61B 17/3207 - Atherectomy devices
  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/419 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being permanent magnetic, e.g. from a rotating magnetic coupling between driving and driven magnets

56.

Pump or rotary cutter for operation in a fluid

      
Application Number 17308094
Grant Number 11986205
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-05-05
First Publication Date 2021-11-11
Grant Date 2024-05-21
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Wiessler, Petra
  • Friedel, Sven-René
  • Liebing, Reiner
  • Er, Sami
  • Schlicht, Henning

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid pump or rotary cutter having at least one first element (9″″, 10′″) which can be brought from a transport state into an operating state by changing at least one mechanical property. Such a pump can, for example, be a blood pump for the medical, microinvasive area. The object of achieving a transition between the transport state and the operating state which is as comfortable as possible and in so doing leaving a freedom in the design of the corresponding apparatus, in particular of a pump, which is as large as possible, is achieved using the means of the invention in that the first element at least partly comprises a material (24, 25, 26, 27) or can be filled with a material or material mixture which passes through a chemical reaction, in particular cross-linking, or a crystallization for transition into the operating state.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61B 17/3207 - Atherectomy devices
  • A61M 60/178 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart drawing blood from a ventricle and returning the blood to the arterial system via a cannula external to the ventricle, e.g. left or right ventricular assist devices
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/462 - Electromagnetic force
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter

57.

CATHETER DEVICE, COMPRISING A VALVE FOR CONTROLLING A FLUID FLOW THROUGH A CATHETER

      
Application Number 17322374
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-05-17
First Publication Date 2021-11-04
Owner Ecp Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mbh (Germany)
Inventor Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

The invention relates to a catheter device (100) comprising a catheter (68) for insertion into a living being and at least one lumen (69, 70, 74, 79) for guiding a fluid flow within a section of the catheter device, and comprising a valve for controlling a fluid flow, in particular through a catheter, having a valve control chamber (12, 12a), into which an inlet opening (1a) of an inlet channel (1) and an outlet opening (2a) of an outlet channel (2) open, and further having a closure element (5, 13, 17) which can be moved in the valve control chamber (12, 12a) in a controlled manner and which, in at least a first position (I), closes the outlet opening (2a), in at least a second position (II) closes the inlet opening (1a), and which, in at least a third position (III), keeps open a connecting channel between the inlet opening (1a) and the outlet opening (2a), a valve train (A, A′, B, B′, 3, 14, 18) being provided and optionally moving the closure element (5, 13, 17) to at least the first, second or third position, and the at least one lumen (68, 70, 74, 79) being fluidically connected to the inlet channel or the outlet channel.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/892 - Active valves, i.e. actuated by an external force
  • A61M 39/22 - Valves or arrangement of valves
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply
  • A61M 60/279 - Peristaltic pumps, e.g. roller pumps
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 25/00 - CathetersHollow probes
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps

58.

INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMP

      
Application Number EP2021051982
Publication Number 2021/152012
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-01-28
Publication Date 2021-08-05
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Skrzypczak, Dennis
  • Decke, Robert
  • Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

An intravascular blood pump (1) comprises a catheter (5), a rotor (10), a housing (11) in which the rotor (10) is housed and a flexible drive shaft (12) extending through the catheter (5) and connected to the rotor. The drive shaft (12) comprises at least one outer layer (28) and at least one inner layer (29). The drive shaft (12) is rotatably supported in a proximal bearing (13) located proximally of the rotor (10). The outer layer (28) of the drive shaft (12) is absent or thinned at a location where the drive shaft (12) is supported in the proximal bearing (13).

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/00 - Suction or pumping devices for medical purposesDevices for carrying-off, for treatment of, or for carrying-over, body-liquidsDrainage systems

59.

INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMP

      
Application Number EP2021051989
Publication Number 2021/152013
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-01-28
Publication Date 2021-08-05
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Skrzypczak, Dennis
  • Decke, Robert
  • Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

An intravascular blood pump (1) comprises a catheter (5), a rotor (10), a housing (11) in which the rotor (10) is housed and a flexible drive shaft (12) extending through the catheter (5) and rotatably supported in a proximal bearing (13) located proximally of the rotor (10). The proximal bearing (13) comprises a bearing sleeve (30) and an outer bearing ring (32). The bearing sleeve (30) comprises a proximal portion located proximally of the outer bearing ring (32), the proximal portion of the bearing sleeve (30) forming an axial bearing with a proximal surface of the outer bearing ring (32). The bearing sleeve (30) further comprises a distal portion extending from the proximal portion of the bearing sleeve (30) distally into the outer bearing ring (32), wherein the distal portion of the bearing sleeve (30) forms a radial bearing with the outer bearing ring (32).

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/122 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body

60.

Rotor for a fluid pump, and method and mold for manufacturing same

      
Application Number 17153043
Grant Number 11946481
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-01-20
First Publication Date 2021-07-22
Grant Date 2024-04-02
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Siess, Thorsten

Abstract

a) thereof lying closest to the axis of rotation and a second end lying further away from the axis of rotation. According to the invention, the rotor retains its shape very well even when subjected to repeated mechanical stress.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/226 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly radial components
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/804 - Impellers
  • B29C 45/16 - Making multilayered or multicoloured articles
  • B29C 45/27 - Sprue channels
  • B29C 45/72 - Heating or cooling
  • B29L 31/00 - Other particular articles
  • F04D 3/02 - Axial-flow pumps of screw type
  • F04D 29/06 - Lubrication
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors

61.

Radially compressible and expandable rotor for a pump having an impeller blade

      
Application Number 17139170
Grant Number 11913467
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-12-31
First Publication Date 2021-07-01
Grant Date 2024-02-27
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Toellner, Thomas
  • Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a radially compressible and expandable rotor for a pump having at least one impeller blade, wherein the impeller blade has an impeller blade body whose material is elastically deformable as well as at least one stiffening strut which is at least partially embedded in the material of the impeller blade body. The struts are designed suitably in size, shape and arrangement and are integrated in suitable hollow spaces of the impeller blade body for stabilizing the impeller blade. Elements with tensile strength can additionally be provided.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • F01D 5/14 - Form or construction
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

62.

Pump housing with an interior for accommodating a pump rotor

      
Application Number 17140503
Grant Number 11280345
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-01-04
First Publication Date 2021-07-01
Grant Date 2022-03-22
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Bredenbreuker, Lars
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

In a pump housing having an interior for accommodating a pump rotor, which may be transferred from a radially compressed state into a radially expanded state, and comprises a housing skin revolving in circumferential direction, as well as at least one reinforcement element, a stretch-resistant element revolving in circumferential direction is provided, which is stretched less than 5% in the expanded state as opposed to the force-free state in circumferential direction, and which limits any further expansion of the pump housing in radial direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/896 - Passive valves, i.e. valves actuated by the blood having flexible or resilient parts, e.g. flap valves

63.

System for introducing a pump

      
Application Number 17126900
Grant Number 11957846
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-12-18
First Publication Date 2021-06-10
Grant Date 2024-04-16
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Toellner, Thomas

Abstract

The invention resides in the field of introducing fluid pumps into a lumen and relates to a system for introducing a pump into a lumen which comprises a first sheath and a pump to be introduced into the first sheath, or a system which has a pump with a distal pump unit and a shaft catheter which emerges proximally to the pump unit. According to the invention one or two sheaths are used, the distal pump unit being pulled firstly into the distal end of one sheath, in order to avoid damage to a shaft catheter. Subsequently, the sheath receiving the pump unit is transferred into a further sheath or a receiving lumen.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 60/00 - Blood pumpsDevices for mechanical circulatory actuationBalloon pumps for circulatory assistance
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • A61M 60/865 - Devices for guiding or inserting pumps or pumping devices into the patient’s body

64.

Fluid pump changeable in diameter, in particular for medical application

      
Application Number 17089795
Grant Number 11278711
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-11-05
First Publication Date 2021-06-03
Grant Date 2022-03-22
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

A fluid pump device changeable in diameter is provided. The device has a pump housing which is changeable in diameter and with a rotor which is changeable in diameter. The device has at least one delivery element for fluid, as well as a drive shaft on which the rotor is rotatably mounted. A bearing arrangement is arranged on the drive shaft or its extension, at the distal end of the drive shaft behind the rotor seen from the proximal end of the drive shaft. The bearing arrangement has struts, which elastically brace between a hub of the bearing arrangement and the pump housing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings
  • F04C 2/02 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps of arcuate-engagement type, i.e. with circular translatory movement of co-operating members, each member having the same number of teeth or tooth-equivalents
  • F04C 14/22 - Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, machines, pumps or pumping installations characterised by varying the volume of the working chamber by changing the eccentricity between cooperating members
  • F04D 29/04 - Shafts or bearings, or assemblies thereof
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • F04D 29/046 - Bearings
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/405 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being hydraulic or pneumatic
  • A61M 60/419 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being permanent magnetic, e.g. from a rotating magnetic coupling between driving and driven magnets
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps

65.

Sheath assembly for insertion of a cord-shaped element, particularly a catheter, into the body of a patient

      
Application Number 17113413
Grant Number 11628280
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-12-07
First Publication Date 2021-05-13
Grant Date 2023-04-18
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Bredenbreuker, Lars
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

Sheath assembly for the insertion of a cord-shaped element, comprising an introducer sheath, and an auxiliary sheath for insertion into the introducer sheath together with the cord-shaped element. In some examples, the auxiliary sheath has a housing configured to detachably couple to the introducer sheath housing, and to detachably fasten the cord-shaped element with respect to the auxiliary sheath housing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/00 - CathetersHollow probes
  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 39/10 - Tube connectors or tube couplings
  • A61M 39/06 - Haemostasis valves, i.e. gaskets sealing around a needle, catheter or the like, closing on removal thereof
  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/174 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable in, on, or around the heart inside a ventricle, e.g. intraventricular balloon pumps discharging the blood to the ventricle or arterial system via a cannula internal to the ventricle or arterial system
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/865 - Devices for guiding or inserting pumps or pumping devices into the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

66.

Conveying blades for a compressible rotor

      
Application Number 17023837
Grant Number 11266824
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-09-17
First Publication Date 2021-05-13
Grant Date 2022-03-08
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Er, Sami

Abstract

To provide a simple embodiment of a rotor for a fluid pump which is nevertheless very flexible in handling and compressible, in accordance with the invention a conveying blade is provided having at least two struts and a membrane spanned between them in the expanded state, wherein the struts each have at least one joint, in particular more than one joint, which enables an angling in a first direction in a first movement plane and bounds an overelongation beyond an elongation angle of in particular 180° in the opposite second direction. In particular when a plurality of joints are provided at the struts, they, and with them the conveying blades, are particularly flexible for simple compressibility.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

67.

ROTOR FOR A FLUID PUMP AND METHOD AND MOLD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF

      
Application Number 17008873
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-09-01
First Publication Date 2021-02-25
Owner ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mbh (Germany)
Inventor
  • Siess, Thorsten
  • Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a rotor for a compressible fluid pump, in particular a blood pump that can be introduced through a blood vessel into a patient's body, wherein said rotor comprises one or more conveying elements (15), is compressible and expandable between a first compressed state and a second radially expanded state, is made at least partially from a plastic reinforced with reinforcing elements, in particular fibers (10, 11, 13, 18, 19, 55, 56, 62, 63) and is provided for rotation about an axis of rotation (14). According to the invention, the rotor is tensioned in the first, compressed state and free from external stresses in the second, expanded state. A third state exists, which the rotor (42) occupies in the operating state under load. The reinforcing elements, in particular fibers, extend in the rotor in the third state at least in sections in a stretched manner.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body
  • B29C 45/16 - Making multilayered or multicoloured articles
  • B29C 45/27 - Sprue channels
  • B29C 45/72 - Heating or cooling
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors

68.

CATHETER PUMP ARRANGEMENT AND FLEXIBLE SHAFT ARRANGEMENT HAVING A CORE

      
Application Number 17011469
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-09-03
First Publication Date 2021-02-25
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Roehn, Daniel
  • Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

The invention relates to a flexible shaft arrangement having a flexible hollow shaft which has an end at the drive side and an end at the output side, wherein the hollow shaft is reinforced sectionally between these ends by a core extending in its interior. Stiffer and more flexible sections can hereby be selectively positioned within the shaft arrangement.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body
  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • F16C 1/02 - Flexible shaftsMechanical means for transmitting movement in a flexible sheathing for conveying rotary movements
  • F16C 1/26 - Construction of guiding-sheathings or guiding-tubes

69.

Container for a heart pump device and method for operating a heart pump device

      
Application Number 17077143
Grant Number 11945634
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-10-22
First Publication Date 2021-02-11
Grant Date 2024-04-02
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Roehn, Daniel
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

The invention relates to a container for a heart pump device with a first receiving space for a compressible and expandable heart pump, wherein the first receiving space is delimited on several sides, in particular on all sides, by one or more closure elements and is closed off to the outside for preventing a contacting of the heart pump, wherein the closure elements) leave free an opening for the passage of a catheter from the outside into the first receiving space, wherein the diameter of the opening is dimensioned such that the heart pump can pass this exclusively in a condition which is at least partly compressed compared to the expanded condition. For implantation, the heart pump in the container can firstly be operated by trial in the container whilst feeding a rinsing fluid and can then be pulled through the opening amid simultaneous compression, into a sheath element.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65D 75/32 - Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/268 - Positive displacement blood pumps including a displacement member directly acting on the blood the displacement member being flexible, e.g. membranes, diaphragms or bladders
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • B65B 69/00 - Unpacking of articles or materials, not otherwise provided for
  • B65D 75/52 - Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers Details

70.

METHOD FOR OPERATING A SUPPLY DEVICE WHICH SUPPLIES A LIQUID TO A CHANNEL, AND SUPPLY DEVICE, HOLLOW CATHETER, AND CATHETER PUMP

      
Application Number 16989111
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-08-10
First Publication Date 2021-01-28
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Tiller, Melanie
  • Er, Sami
  • Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

The present invention relates to a supply device for a channel, in particular within a hollow catheter, and to a method for operating a supply device of this type that supplies a channel with a liquid and has two pumps arranged at points of the channel distanced from one another, characterised in that the parameter values of at least one operating parameter of both pumps are coordinated with one another in a controlled manner. As a result of the method, interruption-free and precisely controllable operation is to be ensured with simple structural means, in particular in the case of use of wear-free diaphragm pumps.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • F04B 43/02 - Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members having plate-like flexible members, e.g. diaphragms
  • F04B 43/04 - Pumps having electric drive
  • F04B 43/08 - Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members having tubular flexible members

71.

EXTERNAL DRIVE UNIT FOR AN IMPLANTABLE HEART ASSIST PUMP

      
Application Number 16603526
Status Pending
Filing Date 2018-04-06
First Publication Date 2020-12-17
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Spanier, Gerd
  • Siess, Thorsten
  • Daschewski, Maxim
  • Wang, Jim-Po

Abstract

The application relates to an external drive unit (7) for an implantable heart assist pump. The proposed drive unit (7) comprises a motor (35) for driving the heart assist pump, wherein the motor (35) is connectable to the heart assist pump via a transcutaneous drive shaft (3). The drive unit (7) further comprises a heat spreader (19) comprising a contact surface configured to contact and/or directly contact and/or lie flat against a skin of a patient. The contact surface is connected or connectable with the motor (35) in a thermally-conductive manner to transfer heat generated by the motor (35) to tissue of the patient.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body
  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • A61M 25/02 - Holding devices, e.g. on the body

72.

External drive unit for an implantable heart assist pump

      
Application Number 16603527
Grant Number 11986609
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-04-06
First Publication Date 2020-12-17
Grant Date 2024-05-21
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Spanier, Gerd
  • Daschewski, Maxim

Abstract

An external drive unit for an implantable heart assist pump is provided. The drive unit comprises a motor housing, a transcutaneous drive shaft and a motor for driving the heart assist pump. The motor is connectable to the heart assist pump via the drive shaft, and the motor is arranged inside the motor housing. The drive unit further comprises a catheter surrounding the drive shaft and a purge line for injecting a purge medium into a lumen of the catheter or into a space between the catheter and the drive shaft. The purge line is in thermal contact with an outer surface of the motor housing and/or with an outer surface of a proximal section of the catheter. Due to the thermal contact heat is transferred from the outer surface of the catheter in the proximal section and/or from the outer surface of the motor housing to the purge medium.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/00 - Suction or pumping devices for medical purposesDevices for carrying-off, for treatment of, or for carrying-over, body-liquidsDrainage systems
  • A61M 25/02 - Holding devices, e.g. on the body
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply
  • A61M 60/871 - Energy supply devicesConverters therefor
  • A61M 60/88 - Percutaneous cables

73.

Flexible catheter with a drive shaft

      
Application Number 16987665
Grant Number 11033729
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-08-07
First Publication Date 2020-11-26
Grant Date 2021-06-15
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

A blood pump assembly comprising a pump casing, at least a portion of which is disposed around one or more blades coupled to a drive cable, and a motor configured to drive the drive cable and the one or more blades rotationally, wherein the drive cable is configured to undergo axial displacement with respect to the pump casing during rotation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • F16C 1/28 - Construction of guiding-sheathings or guiding-tubes with built-in bearings
  • A61L 29/02 - Inorganic materials
  • F16C 1/06 - Flexible shaftsMechanical means for transmitting movement in a flexible sheathing for conveying rotary movements with guiding-sheathing, tube, or box
  • A61M 60/40 - Details relating to driving
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61B 17/3207 - Atherectomy devices
  • A61B 17/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings
  • A61M 60/824 - Hydrodynamic or fluid film bearings
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply

74.

DEVICE FOR COMPRESSING A COMPRESSIBLE PART OF A CATHETER PUMP

      
Application Number 16640520
Status Pending
Filing Date 2018-08-22
First Publication Date 2020-11-19
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a system comprising a catheter device with a radially compressible part, a sleeve, and a device for compressing said radially compressible part and introducing the radially compressible part into the sleeve, as well as a method for using such a system.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body

75.

Radially compressible and expandable rotor for a pump having an impeller blade

      
Application Number 16859064
Grant Number 10920596
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-04-27
First Publication Date 2020-11-05
Grant Date 2021-02-16
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Toellner, Thomas
  • Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a radially compressible and expandable rotor for a pump having at least one impeller blade, wherein the impeller blade has an impeller blade body whose material is elastically deformable as well as at least one stiffening strut which is at least partially embedded in the material of the impeller blade body. The struts are designed suitably in size, shape and arrangement and are integrated in suitable hollow spaces of the impeller blade body for stabilizing the impeller blade. Elements with tensile strength can additionally be provided.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/64 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling of axial pumps
  • F01D 5/14 - Form or construction
  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body

76.

Fluid pump with a rotor

      
Application Number 16868907
Grant Number 11852155
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-05-07
First Publication Date 2020-10-29
Grant Date 2023-12-26
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid pump, in particular to a liquid pump having a rotor with at last one rotor blade for conveying the fluid, the rotor being variable with respect to its diameter between a first, compressed state and a second expanded state. In order to produce a simple compressibility and expandability of the rotor of the pump, it is provided according to the invention that at least one rotor blade is deformable between a first state which it assumes in the compressed state of the rotor and a second state which it assumes in the expanded state of the rotor by means of a fluid counterpressure during a rotation of the rotor during pump operation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • B63H 1/14 - Propellers
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • B63H 1/12 - Propulsive elements directly acting on water of rotary type with rotation axis substantially in propulsive direction

77.

Sheath device for inserting a catheter

      
Application Number 16855010
Grant Number 12133960
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-04-22
First Publication Date 2020-10-08
Grant Date 2024-11-05
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Toellner, Thomas
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

A sheath device for inserting a catheter into a patient's body is described. The device has a first sheath with a proximal end and a distal end. When the device is used as intended, the distal end of the first sheath is provided for arrangement in the patient's body and the proximal end of the first sheath is provided for arrangement outside the patient's body. The first sheath comprises a tubular section and a sheath housing, which is disposed at the proximal end of the section and has a receiving channel for a strand-shaped body. The device solves the problem of reliably fixing a second sheath or a catheter with respect to the first sheath by providing a clamping element on the receiving channel for fixing a strand-shaped body in the receiving channel by way of clamping.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 39/06 - Haemostasis valves, i.e. gaskets sealing around a needle, catheter or the like, closing on removal thereof
  • A61M 60/122 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61B 17/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods
  • A61M 25/00 - CathetersHollow probes
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps

78.

Radially compressible and expandable rotor for a fluid pump

      
Application Number 16725703
Grant Number 11434922
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-12-23
First Publication Date 2020-10-01
Grant Date 2022-09-06
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Roehn, Daniel

Abstract

In a rotor for a fluid pump which is made radially compressible and expandable and has a hub (4) and at least one conveying element (10, 11, 19, 20) which has a plurality of struts (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 27, 28) and at least one membrane (18) which can be spanned between them, provision is made for a design in accordance with the invention which is as simple and inexpensive as possible that at least one first group of struts is pivotable in a pivot plane, starting from a common base, and can thus be spanned open in the manner of a fan, wherein the conveying element lies along the hub and contacts it over its full length in the expanded state to avoid a pressure loss at the margin of the conveying element between it and the hub and thus to realize an optimum efficiency.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter

79.

Blood pump for the invasive application within a body of a patient

      
Application Number 16789235
Grant Number 11844939
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-02-12
First Publication Date 2020-09-17
Grant Date 2023-12-19
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Toellner, Thomas
  • Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a blood pump for the invasive application within a body of a patient comprising a rotor which is drivable about an axis of rotation and is radially compressible or expandable and which has a hub and at least one impeller blade fastened thereto, as well as comprising a housing which is compressible or expandable in the radial direction by an axial stretching or axial compression. The object of making both the rotor and the housing expandable and compressible in as simple a manner as possible is achieved in accordance with the invention in that a control body is provided which passes through the hub in the longitudinal direction, which is freely axially displaceable relative to the hub and which is coupled to the housing on the distal side of the rotor such that it exerts pulling and/or compression forces on the housing by a movement in the longitudinal direction with respect to the housing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/812 - Vanes or blades, e.g. static flow guides
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61F 2/82 - Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
  • A61F 2/88 - Stents in a form characterised by wire-like elementsStents in a form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure the wire-like elements formed as helical or spiral coils
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter

80.

CATHETER DEVICE WITH A DRIVE SHAFT COVER

      
Application Number EP2020054626
Publication Number 2020/169801
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-02-21
Publication Date 2020-08-27
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Siess, Thorsten
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Schumacher, Jörg
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

The invention relates to a catheter device (1), comprising a drive shaft (4) extending from a driving region (16) of the catheter device (1) to a distal end region (8) of the catheter device (1), a rotor (2) which is attached to the drive shaft (4) in the distal end region (8) and a distal bearing (9) for bearing a distal end of the drive shaft (4). The distal bearing comprises a drive shaft cover (11) which is configured to cover a section of the drive shaft (4) extending distally of the rotor (2). On a distal side of the rotor (2), a radially inner part of the rotor (2) is recessed with respect to radially outer parts of the rotor (2) to form a hollow space (2.3) surrounding the drive shaft (4), wherein a proximal end of the drive shaft cover (11) lies in said hollow space (2.3).

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body

81.

Pump device having a detection device

      
Application Number 16738037
Grant Number 11486400
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-01-09
First Publication Date 2020-07-02
Grant Date 2022-11-01
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

a, 10, 10′, 11) of the pump has a different shape and/or size in the transport state than in the operating slate. The operating safety of such a pump device is increased by a detection device (12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29) which detects whether at least the first element is in the operating state with respect to shape and/or size by means of a sensor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/50 - Details relating to control
  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller
  • A61M 60/538 - Regulation using real-time blood pump operational parameter data, e.g. motor current
  • F04D 15/02 - Stopping of pumps, or operating valves, on occurrence of unwanted conditions
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

82.

Drive shaft cover with a heat conducting part

      
Application Number 16641169
Grant Number 11617876
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-08-22
First Publication Date 2020-06-25
Grant Date 2023-04-04
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Decke, Robert
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

The application relates to a catheter device with a distal bearing for bearing a distal end of a drive shaft. The distal bearing comprises a heat conducting part for enabling heat transfer away from the distal bearing and/or a spiral sleeve for receiving the distant end of the drive shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/085 - Fluid propulsion
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/416 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted directly by the motor rotor drive shaft
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/216 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller

83.

Catheter device, comprising a valve for controlling a fluid flow through a catheter

      
Application Number 16694518
Grant Number 11045641
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-11-25
First Publication Date 2020-06-25
Grant Date 2021-06-29
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

a), a valve train (A, A′, B, B′, 3, 14, 18) being provided and optionally moving the closure element (5, 13, 17) to at least the first, second or third position, and the at least one lumen (68, 70, 74, 79) being fluidically connected to the inlet channel or the outlet channel.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/892 - Active valves, i.e. actuated by an external force
  • A61M 39/22 - Valves or arrangement of valves
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/279 - Peristaltic pumps, e.g. roller pumps
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply
  • A61M 25/00 - CathetersHollow probes
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter

84.

Sheath device for inserting a catheter

      
Application Number 16696664
Grant Number 11135405
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-11-26
First Publication Date 2020-05-28
Grant Date 2021-10-05
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Bredenbreuker, Lars
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

In a sheath device for inserting a catheter into a patient's body, comprising a first sheath having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein when used as intended the distal end of the first sheath is provided for arrangement in the patient's body and the proximal end of the first sheath is provided for arrangement outside the patient's body, and wherein the first sheath comprises a tubular section and a sheath housing, which is disposed at the proximal end of the section and comprises a receiving channel for a catheter, according to the invention the tubular section is detachably held in a clamping element of the sheath housing in a non-positive manner so as to be able to easily shorten the tubular section.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 39/02 - Access sites
  • A61M 39/06 - Haemostasis valves, i.e. gaskets sealing around a needle, catheter or the like, closing on removal thereof
  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 25/00 - CathetersHollow probes
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61B 17/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes

85.

Flexible catheter with a drive shaft

      
Application Number 16600807
Grant Number 11260215
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-10-14
First Publication Date 2020-05-07
Grant Date 2022-03-01
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

The invention relates to a flexible catheter (1) with a drive shaft (2), with a sleeve (6) surrounding the drive shaft (2) and with a sheath (7) surrounding the drive shaft (2) and the sleeve (6), wherein the drive shaft, the sleeve (6) and the sheath (7) are pliable, wherein the drive shaft (2) at a proximal end of the drive shaft (2) comprises a coupling element (5) for connecting the drive shaft (2) to a drive motor (18), wherein the drive shaft (2) at least regionally consist of a alloy which contains at least 10% by weight of chromium, nickel and cobalt in each case. The invention moreover relates to a blood pump arrangement with such a catheter.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • A61M 60/40 - Details relating to driving
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • F16C 1/28 - Construction of guiding-sheathings or guiding-tubes with built-in bearings
  • A61L 29/02 - Inorganic materials
  • F16C 1/06 - Flexible shaftsMechanical means for transmitting movement in a flexible sheathing for conveying rotary movements with guiding-sheathing, tube, or box
  • A61B 17/3207 - Atherectomy devices
  • A61B 17/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings
  • A61M 60/824 - Hydrodynamic or fluid film bearings
  • A61M 60/829 - Sealings between moving parts having a purge fluid supply

86.

Pump, in particular a blood pump

      
Application Number 16658256
Grant Number 11679249
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-10-21
First Publication Date 2020-05-07
Grant Date 2023-06-20
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

The present invention relates to a pump, in particular a blood pump having a proximal and a distal end and a pump housing arranged therebetween, a driveshaft arranged in an interior of the pump housing along the longitudinal direction, a conveying element arranged on the driveshaft, and a cannula. Here, the pump housing, the shaft arrangement and the conveying element are coordinated with one another in such a way that these guarantee the best possible efficiency and longevity of the pump.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/825 - Contact bearings, e.g. ball-and-cup or pivot bearings
  • A61M 60/81 - Pump housings
  • A61M 60/13 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices

87.

Compressible rotor for a fluid pump

      
Application Number 16688187
Grant Number 11421701
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-11-19
First Publication Date 2020-03-19
Grant Date 2022-08-23
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Scheckel, Mario
  • Schlicht, Henning

Abstract

The invention relates to a rotor (2, 15) for a fluid pump (1), in particular for use in the medical sphere, the rotor being compressible for bringing to the place of use and thereafter being expandable. The compressibility is assisted by the provision of cavities (27, 28, 29), in particular also production of the rotor at least partially from a foam.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings

88.

Catheter device having a catheter and an actuation device

      
Application Number 16526118
Grant Number 11229774
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-07-30
First Publication Date 2020-02-20
Grant Date 2022-01-25
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Scheckel, Mario

Abstract

The invention relates to a catheter device, having a catheter (1), an actuation device (8) at a first end of the catheter and also a mechanical transmission element (9, 10) for transmitting a movement along the catheter to the actuation device, the actuation device having a coupling element (14) which is connected to the transmission element (9, 10) and can be actuated by the latter relative to the longitudinal direction of the catheter in a first degree of freedom, and also a conversion element (15) which can be actuated by the coupling element and which converts the actuation movement at least partially into a movement in a second degree of freedom. As a result, a combined movement at the distal end of the catheter can be produced particularly simply for compression and release of a functional element.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 25/00 - CathetersHollow probes
  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes

89.

Fluid pump having a radially compressible rotor

      
Application Number 16394429
Grant Number 11517739
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-04-25
First Publication Date 2019-12-19
Grant Date 2022-12-06
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Toellner, Thomas

Abstract

To design the rotor (6, 6′, 6″, 6′″, 60, 60′) as compressible in the radial direction in a fluid pump, in particular for microinvasive medical use, said rotor is configured as stretchable in its longitudinal direction (16) by push elements and pull elements acting axially on it.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 3/02 - Axial-flow pumps of screw type
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • F04D 29/046 - Bearings
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings

90.

Push device for the axial insertion of an elongate, flexible body

      
Application Number 16507782
Grant Number 11235125
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-07-10
First Publication Date 2019-12-05
Grant Date 2022-02-01
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schulz, Heike
  • Roehn, Daniel

Abstract

With a push device for the axial insertion of an elongate, flexible body (8, 10), in particular of a flexible tube, a cable or similar elements into a sheath, and axial force introduction unit (19, 20, 47, 49) is provided, which by way of a non-positive fit or a positive fit, applies a push movement onto the elongate body and is arranged in a stationary manner relative to the sheath (2) or is guided on a predefined movement path.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters

91.

Compressible motor, implantation arrangement, and method for positioning the motor

      
Application Number 16436000
Grant Number 11253692
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-06-10
First Publication Date 2019-11-28
Grant Date 2022-02-22
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

The invention relates to a motor with a stator (2, 2′) and a rotor (1, 1′), which can be driven about an axial direction (4). The invention is characterized in that at least one of the stator and the rotor, in particular the stator, which has a winding arrangement that can be supplied with a current, can be radially compressed and expanded.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • H02K 3/47 - Air-gap windings, i.e. iron-free windings
  • H02K 99/00 - Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
  • A61M 60/40 - Details relating to driving
  • A61M 60/419 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being permanent magnetic, e.g. from a rotating magnetic coupling between driving and driven magnets
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/422 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being electromagnetic, e.g. using canned motor pumps
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings

92.

Fluid pump changeable in diameter, in particular for medical application

      
Application Number 16293956
Grant Number 10857272
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-03-06
First Publication Date 2019-11-07
Grant Date 2020-12-08
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

A fluid pump device changeable in diameter is provided. The device has a pump housing which is changeable in diameter and with a rotor which is changeable in diameter. The device has at least one delivery element for fluid, as well as a drive shaft on which the rotor is rotatably mounted. A bearing arrangement is arranged on the drive shaft or its extension, at the distal end of the drive shaft behind the rotor seen from the proximal end of the drive shaft. The bearing arrangement has struts, which elastically brace between a hub of the bearing arrangement and the pump housing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body
  • F04C 14/22 - Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, machines, pumps or pumping installations characterised by varying the volume of the working chamber by changing the eccentricity between cooperating members
  • F04C 2/02 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps of arcuate-engagement type, i.e. with circular translatory movement of co-operating members, each member having the same number of teeth or tooth-equivalents
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • F04D 29/046 - Bearings
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps

93.

Compressible and expandable blade for a fluid pump

      
Application Number 16404800
Grant Number 11268521
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-05-07
First Publication Date 2019-10-17
Grant Date 2022-03-08
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Toellner, Thomas

Abstract

The invention relates to a compressible and expandable blade (2) for the rotor of a fluid pump (30) having at least two lamellae (3, 4, 5) which are disposed adjacently, are pivo table respectively relative to an axis of rotation (Ia) of the rotor and moveable relative to each other, and abut against each other in the expanded state of the blade such that they form together a continuous blade surface.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 60/122 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body
  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • B23K 26/21 - Bonding by welding
  • B23H 9/10 - Working turbine blades or nozzles
  • B23K 26/38 - Removing material by boring or cutting
  • F04D 3/02 - Axial-flow pumps of screw type
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter

94.

Fluid pump having at least one impeller blade and a support device

      
Application Number 16243855
Grant Number 11592028
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-01-09
First Publication Date 2019-07-11
Grant Date 2023-02-28
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Roehn, Daniel

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid pump comprising at least one impeller blade (1, 1′, 1″) which is rotatable about an axis of rotation (3) and conveys a fluid in operation and comprising a support device (4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 12′, 13, 13′, 14, 14′, 15, 17) which supports the at least one impeller blade (1, 1′, 1″) in at least one support region, wherein the support device is change-able between a first state in which the rotor is radially compressed and a second state in which the rotor is radially expanded; and wherein at least one impeller blade extends at least partly radially inwardly with respect to the axis of rotation (3) from the support region/support regions in the radially expanded state of the rotor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 19/00 - Axial-flow pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • A61M 5/142 - Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/808 - Vanes or blades specially adapted for deformable impellers, e.g. expandable impellers
  • A61M 60/806 - Vanes or blades
  • A61M 60/237 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps

95.

Pump arrangement

      
Application Number 16254115
Grant Number 11168705
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-01-22
First Publication Date 2019-07-11
Grant Date 2021-11-09
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

b) includes the proximal outflow opening. In accordance with the invention, a further inlet opening (15) is present between the first section and the second section and is arranged between the intake opening and the outflow opening, with the first section and the second section being arranged with respect to one another such that the inlet opening opens into the flow proximal to the pump.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • F04F 5/10 - Jet pumps, i.e. devices in which fluid flow is induced by pressure drop caused by velocity of another fluid flow the inducing fluid being liquid displacing liquids, e.g. containing solids, or liquids and elastic fluids
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/211 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps using a jet, venturi or entrainment effect for pumping the blood
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61M 60/857 - Implantable blood tubes
  • F04D 3/00 - Axial-flow pumps
  • F04D 7/00 - Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/577 - High-frequency driving

96.

Method for operating a supply device which supplies a liquid to a channel, and supply device, hollow catheter, and catheter pump

      
Application Number 16228005
Grant Number 10780205
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-12-20
First Publication Date 2019-06-27
Grant Date 2020-09-22
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Tiller, Melanie
  • Er, Sami
  • Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

The present invention relates to a supply device for a channel (8), in particular within a hollow catheter (1), and to a method for operating a supply device of this type that supplies a channel (8) with a liquid and has two pumps (10, 19) arranged at points of the channel distanced from one another, characterised in that the parameter values of at least one operating parameter of both pumps are coordinated with one another in a controlled manner. As a result of the method, interruption-free and precisely controllable operation is to be ensured with simple structural means, in particular in the case of use of wear-free diaphragm pumps.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61N 1/362 - Heart stimulators
  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • F04B 43/02 - Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members having plate-like flexible members, e.g. diaphragms
  • F04B 43/04 - Pumps having electric drive
  • F04B 43/08 - Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members having tubular flexible members
  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body

97.

Catheter device having a coupling device for a drive device

      
Application Number 16204123
Grant Number 11116960
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-11-29
First Publication Date 2019-06-06
Grant Date 2021-09-14
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Simon, Cornelia
  • Honselmann, Julia
  • Baumgaertel, Jens
  • Liebing, Reiner

Abstract

The invention relates to a catheter device, having a hollow catheter in the catheter cavity of which a moveable shaft is guided, having a proximal coupling device, for detachable coupling of a drive device, the coupling device having a coupling cavity which is open towards the drive device and into which the shaft or an extension of the shaft protrudes with a connection element for mechanical coupling of a motor shaft, the coupling cavity having a germ barrier for reducing the pathogenicity of pathogenic substances or microorganisms.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • A61M 60/414 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being mechanical, e.g. transmitted by a shaft or cable generated by an electromotor transmitted by a rotating cable, e.g. for blood pumps mounted on a catheter
  • A61B 17/3207 - Atherectomy devices
  • A61B 17/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods
  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 60/135 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel inside a blood vessel, e.g. using grafting
  • A61M 60/148 - Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient’s body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
  • A61M 60/205 - Non-positive displacement blood pumps
  • A61M 60/419 - Details relating to driving for non-positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being permanent magnetic, e.g. from a rotating magnetic coupling between driving and driven magnets
  • A61M 60/818 - Bearings

98.

Sheath assembly for insertion of a cord-shaped element, particularly a catheter, into the body of a patient

      
Application Number 16122517
Grant Number 10881836
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-05
First Publication Date 2019-04-11
Grant Date 2021-01-05
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schumacher, Joerg
  • Bredenbreuker, Lars
  • Decke, Robert

Abstract

a) that terminates in the first sheath housing, and a first flushing device (108), wherein the auxiliary sheath (104) has a second sheath inner chamber (111), a distal, tubular part (112) and a second flushing device (109).

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 25/00 - CathetersHollow probes
  • A61M 25/06 - Body-piercing guide needles or the like
  • A61M 39/10 - Tube connectors or tube couplings
  • A61M 39/06 - Haemostasis valves, i.e. gaskets sealing around a needle, catheter or the like, closing on removal thereof
  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • A61M 25/01 - Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body

99.

Pump housing with an interior for accommodating a pump rotor

      
Application Number 16143819
Grant Number 10907646
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-27
First Publication Date 2019-04-04
Grant Date 2021-02-02
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor
  • Bredenbreuker, Lars
  • Schumacher, Joerg

Abstract

In a pump housing having an interior for accommodating a pump rotor, which may be transferred from a radially compressed state into a radially expanded state, and comprises a housing skin revolving in circumferential direction, as well as at least one reinforcement element, a stretch-resistant element revolving in circumferential direction is provided, which is stretched less than 5% in the expanded state as opposed to the force-free state in circumferential direction, and which limits any further expansion of the pump housing in radial direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
  • F04D 29/02 - Selection of particular materials
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/52 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for axial pumps
  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body

100.

Conveying blades for a compressible rotor

      
Application Number 16037758
Grant Number 10806838
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-07-17
First Publication Date 2019-04-04
Grant Date 2020-10-20
Owner ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Germany)
Inventor Er, Sami

Abstract

To provide a simple embodiment of a rotor (2) for a fluid pump which is nevertheless very flexible in handling and compressible, in accordance with the invention a conveying blade is provided having at least two struts (12, 13, 14) and a membrane spanned between them in the expanded state, wherein the struts each have at least one joint, in particular more than one joint, which enables an angling in a first direction in a first movement plane and bounds an overelongation beyond an elongation angle of in particular 180° in the opposite second direction. In particular when a plurality of joints (15, 16, 17) are provided at the struts, they, and with them the conveying blades, are particularly flexible for simple compressibility.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61M 1/10 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/24 - Vanes
  • F04D 29/60 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling
  • A61M 1/12 - Blood pumps; Artificial hearts; Devices for mechanical circulatory assistance, e.g. intra-aortic balloon pumps implantable into the body
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