Patent ID: 6197055
Filing Date: 2001-03-06
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A single chamber mechanical heart, having a casing in the shape of a circular sector of a cylinder, with upper and lower faces, an apex, and a curved circumferential wall opposite said apex and straight side walls joined at said apex a movable vane having a first end journaled in said apex, said vane extending substantially between said upper and lower faces, and a second end adjacent said curved circumferential wall an inlet port and an outlet port in each side wall of said chamber, and magnetoeletric drive means comprising said second end of said vane having a magnetically susceptible portion, and a plurality of circumferential surface and adapted to be energized by an electric current passing through one or more of said magnets for causing reciprocating rotation of said vane about said journal, said vane dividing said chamber into two segments of variable size as said vane moves toward and away from each side wall of said chamber, whereby blood is pumped into and out of each of said segments through said inlet and outlet ports by reciprocal motion of said vane.