Wood, Houston; Allaire, Paul; Olsen, Don; Day, Steven; Song, Xinwei; Untaroiu, Alex; Throckmorton, Amy (United States patent office, 2007-06-12)
A blood pump has an impeller rotatably disposed and magnetically suspended within a cavity of a stator by a plurality of magnetic bearings (passive permanent and active electromagnetic) having impeller magnets on the ...