Patents by Inventor Helmut Schmallegger

Helmut Schmallegger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20030124007
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pump for moving blood and other shear-sensitive with a rotor journaled hydraulically and, if necessary, magnetically in a housing and where the rotor (1) has flow-control surfaces (2, 4, 35, 33, 37, 41) for producing centrifugal flow components (3) and flow components (4) directed against the housing (30), the centrifugal flow components (3) serving mainly for producing the externally effective throughput and the flow components (5) directed against the housing serving mainly for contact-free journaling and stabilizing of the rotor in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Heinrich Schima, Helmut Schmallegger, Roland Schistek, Franz Raderer
  • Patent number: 6155969
    Abstract: The invention relates to a centrifugal pump comprising a pump head (1) and a drive (2) for delivering blood and other ?-sensitive fluids, such as cell-containing cleaning suspensions, for example, in blood-cleaning units, wherein the drive (2) has a drive rotor (64) with a rotor disk (8) which is provided with permanent magnets (7) which are assigned permanent magnets (33), fitted on the pump rotor (3), for the purpose of magnetic coupling, and are assigned in the drive to the magnetic coils (4) of a stator for the purpose of generating the rotary movement, and wherein the pump rotor axis (61) extends into the pump intake (11) and is magnetically centered in the pump intake (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignees: Kyocera Corporation, Heinrich Schima
    Inventors: Heinrich Schima, Helmut Schmallegger