Patent ID: 11951299
Assignee: ABIOMED, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 6:
7. The intravascular blood pump according to claim 1, wherein said at least one of the surfaces forming the gap makes part of a structural element which is entirely made of said material and has at least one further surface thermoconductively connected to a thermoconductive element which, when the intravascular blood pump is in operation in a blood vessel of a patient, is either in direct contact with flowing blood or via one or more further thermoconductive elements in indirect thermoconductive contact with flowing blood, so that heat from the at least one of the surfaces forming the gap can dissipate into the flowing blood by thermal conduction, wherein the thermal conductivity of said one or more thermoconductive elements is at least 100 W/mK.