Patents Assigned to Yasuhiro Fukui
  • Patent number: 5308314
    Abstract: An integrated heart-lung machine, which includes a blood pump having a casing of a cup-like shape interiorly defining a pump chamber at an intermediate portion thereof for pumping in and out blood from a blood inlet to a guide flange formed at opposite ends of the casing; a rotor having a rotary member securely fixed to the fore end thereof within the pump chamber and journalled in the guide flange; an artificial lung of a doughnut-like or cylindrical shape connected contiguously to a blood flow passage in the guide flange and concentrically with the rotor; a stator detachably fitted in an intermediate portion between the rotor and the artificial lung; and a pedestal base located at one side of the artificial lung and provided with a blood outlet in communication with the artificial lung.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignees: Yasuhiro Fukui, Katsumi Takahashi
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fukui, Akio Funakubo, Katsumi Takahashi, Hiroshi Sasagawa, Hikaru Nakanishi