Patents Assigned to GROUPEMENT COEUR ARTIFICIEL TOTAL CARPENTER MATRA CARMAT
  • Publication number: 20090192607
    Abstract: One-piece heart prosthesis implantable in an anatomical position. According to the invention, the artificial left and right ventricles (2,8) have general directions (14, 15) arranged in an asymmetrical V shape, such that said ventricles approach each other as they move away from the means (6, 12) of connection to the natural left and right auricles, and the individual hydraulic actuators (7, 13), associated respectively with said artificial left and light ventricles (2, 8), are arranged near each other, in proximity to said artificial left ventricle (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: GROUPEMENT COEUR ARTIFICIEL TOTAL CARPENTER MATRA CARMAT
    Inventors: Marc Grimme, Maurice Koechler, Jean-Marc Parquet, Alain Carpentier
  • Publication number: 20090132038
    Abstract: According to the invention the rotary pump consists of an external gear (13) with internal teeth (16) in the form of a squirrel cage, and an internal gear (9), housed in an off-centre manner in the interior of said external gear (13) and fitted with external teeth (9D) intermeshing with said internal teeth (16) and consisting of a number of inferior teeth of a unit with the number of teeth of the later. The rotation means of said external teeth (13) comprise at least a bearing (11, 12) centrally laid out in a flange end (14,15) of said aforementioned external gear (13) and the aforementioned external gear (13) is at least partly dismantled in order to introduce said internal gear (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: GROUPEMENT COEUR ARTIFICIEL TOTAL CARPENTER MATRA CARMAT
    Inventors: Marc Grimme, Jean-Marc Parquet, Alain Carpentier, Claude Wartelle