Patent ID: 7547200

Claim:
A cartridge for a blood pump having a raceway and a pump head both concentric to a motor shaft and a boss on the raceway and adjacent a track included in the raceway, the cartridge comprising: a cartridge cover having a front face; a cavity in a back face of the cartridge cover which fits over the boss; a latch included in the cartridge cover to grasp the raceway when the cartridge cover is fitted over the boss; a tube loop having a pair of tube legs attached to the cartridge cover and a loop portion mounted to the cartridge cover to extend from said cartridge cover at an acute angle from a vertical plane including the cartridge cover, wherein the tube loop tilts at said acute angle in a direction extending from the front face towards the back face of the cartridge cover, and the tube loop engages the track of the raceway when the cartridge cover is fitted over the boss, and the pair of legs of the tube loop extend through the cartridge cover each as continuous flow passages and extend out from and end of the cartridge.