Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. LaRose
Jeffrey A. LaRose 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).
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Publication number: 20150031936Abstract: An axial-flow blood pump for pumping blood includes a substantially cylindrical outer enclosure. A tubular housing concentric with and located within the outer enclosure has at one end an inlet and at an opposite end an outlet. A motor stator is concentric with and located between the outer enclosure and the tubular housing. An impeller is concentric with and located within the tubular housing. The impeller is suspended in operation by a combination of passive magnetic forces between magnets within the impeller or magnetized regions of the impeller and the motor stator and hydrodynamic thrust forces generated as blood flows between the tubular housing and a plurality of hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces located on the impeller. A volute may be in fluid-tight connection with the outlet of the tubular housing for receiving blood in the axial direction and directing blood in a direction normal to the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: HEARTWARE, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh, Kartikeyan Trichi, Richard A. Marquis, Daniel G. White
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Patent number: 8932006Abstract: A rotary blood pump includes a casing defining a pumping chamber. The pumping chamber has a blood inlet and a tangential blood outlet. One or more motor stators are provided outside of the pumping chamber. A rotatable impeller is within the pumping chamber and is adapted to cause blood entering the pumping chamber to move to the blood outlet. The impeller has one or more magnetic regions. The impeller is radially constrained in rotation by magnetic coupling to one or more motor stators and is axially constrained in rotation by one or more hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces on the impeller.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh
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Publication number: 20140322022Abstract: A magnetic impeller for a blood pump such as a magnetically driven, rotary ventricular assist device for pumping blood of a patient, the impeller comprising a magnetic alloy including platinum, cobalt, and boron.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh, JR.
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Patent number: 8870739Abstract: The present invention is a conduit device designed to be placed within a wall of a heart, such as through a prepared opening or hole in the heart wall. The conduit is hollow and extends to form a sleeve over a portion of the heart pump, such as a VAD, which traverses the heart wall and enters a chamber of the heart. The conduit provides for a simplified and noninvasive approach to removal and/or replacement of the heart pump.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Douglas E. Godshall
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Patent number: 8852072Abstract: A ventricular assist device includes a pump such as an axial flow pump, an outflow cannula connected to the outlet of the pump, and an anchor element. The anchor element is physically connected to the pump, as by an elongate element. The pump is implanted within the left ventricle with the outflow cannula projecting through the aortic valve but desirably terminating short of the aortic arch. The anchor element is fixed to the wall of the heart near the apex of the heart so that the anchor element holds the pump and outflow cannula in position.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2009Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh, Jr., Steve A. White, Daniel Tamez
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Patent number: 8790236Abstract: An axial-flow blood pump for pumping blood includes a substantially cylindrical outer enclosure. A tubular housing concentric with and located within the outer enclosure has at one end an inlet and at an opposite end an outlet. A motor stator is concentric with and located between the outer enclosure and the tubular housing. An impeller is concentric with and located within the tubular housing. The impeller is suspended in operation by a combination of passive magnetic forces between magnets within the impeller or magnetized regions of the impeller and the motor stator and hydrodynamic thrust forces generated as blood flows between the tubular housing and a plurality of hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces located on the impeller. A volute may be in fluid-tight connection with the outlet of the tubular housing for receiving blood in the axial direction and directing blood in a direction normal to the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh, Jr., Richard A. Marquis, Daniel G. White, Palanivelu Thyagarajan
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Publication number: 20140179983Abstract: A rotary blood pump includes a casing defining a pumping chamber. The pumping chamber has a blood inlet and a tangential blood outlet. One or more motor stators are provided outside of the pumping chamber. A rotatable impeller is within the pumping chamber and is adapted to cause blood entering the pumping chamber to move to the blood outlet. The impeller has one or more magnetic regions. The impeller is radially constrained in rotation by magnetic coupling to one or more motor stators and is axially constrained in rotation by one or more hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces on the impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: HEARTWARE, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh
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Publication number: 20140148638Abstract: One aspect of an intravascular ventricular assist device is an implantable blood pump where the pump includes a housing defining a bore having an axis, one or more rotors disposed within the bore, each rotor including a plurality of magnetic poles, and one or more stators surrounding the bore for providing a magnetic field within the bore to induce rotation of each of the one or more rotors. Another aspect of the invention includes methods of providing cardiac assistance to a mammalian subject as, for example, a human. Further aspects of the invention include rotor bodies having helical channels formed longitudinally along the length of the body of the rotor where each helical channel is formed between peripheral support surface areas facing radially outwardly and extending generally in circumferential directions around the rotational axis of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: HEARTWARE, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh, Jr., Daniel G. White, Richard A. Marquis, Steven A. White
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Publication number: 20140079557Abstract: A magnetic impeller for a blood pump such as a magnetically driven, rotary ventricular assist device for pumping blood of a patient, the impeller comprising a magnetic alloy including platinum, cobalt, and boron.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh, JR.
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Patent number: 8672611Abstract: A rotary blood pump includes a casing defining a pumping chamber. The pumping chamber has a blood inlet and a tangential blood outlet. One or more motor stators are provided outside of the pumping chamber. A rotatable impeller is within the pumping chamber and is adapted to cause blood entering the pumping chamber to move to the blood outlet. The impeller has one or more magnetic regions. The impeller is radially constrained in rotation by magnetic coupling to one or more motor stators and is axially constrained in rotation by one or more hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces on the impeller.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh
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Patent number: 8668473Abstract: An axial-flow blood pump for pumping blood includes a substantially cylindrical outer enclosure. A tubular housing concentric with and located within the outer enclosure has at one end an inlet and at an opposite end an outlet. A motor stator is concentric with and located between the outer enclosure and the tubular housing. An impeller is concentric with and located within the tubular housing. The impeller is suspended in operation by a combination of passive magnetic forces between magnets within the impeller or magnetized regions of the impeller and the motor stator and hydrodynamic thrust forces generated as blood flows between the tubular housing and a plurality of hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces located on the impeller. A volute may be in fluid-tight connection with the outlet of the tubular housing for receiving blood in the axial direction and directing blood in a direction normal to the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh, Jr., Kartikeyan Trichi, Richard A. Marquis, Daniel G. White
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Publication number: 20140046118Abstract: A rotary blood pump includes a casing defining a pumping chamber. The pumping chamber has a blood inlet and a tangential blood outlet. One or more motor stators are provided outside of the pumping chamber. A rotatable impeller is within the pumping chamber and is adapted to cause blood entering the pumping chamber to move to the blood outlet. The impeller has one or more magnetic regions. The impeller is radially constrained in rotation by magnetic coupling to one or more motor stators and is axially constrained in rotation by one or more hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces on the impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: HEARTWARE, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh
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Patent number: 8641594Abstract: One aspect of an intravascular ventricular assist device is an implantable blood pump where the pump includes a housing defining a bore having an axis, one or more rotors disposed within the bore, each rotor including a plurality of magnetic poles, and one or more stators surrounding the bore for providing a magnetic field within the bore to induce rotation of each of the one or more rotors. Another aspect of the invention includes methods of providing cardiac assistance to a mammalian subject as, for example, a human. Further aspects of the invention include rotor bodies having helical channels formed longitudinally along the length of the body of the rotor where each helical channel is formed between peripheral support surface areas facing radially outwardly and extending generally in circumferential directions around the rotational axis of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Heartware, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh, Jr., Daniel G. White, Richard A. Marquis, Steven A. White, Palanivelu Thyagarajan
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Patent number: 8628459Abstract: An axial-flow blood pump for pumping blood includes a substantially cylindrical outer enclosure. A tubular housing concentric with and located within the outer enclosure has at one end an inlet and at an opposite end an outlet. A motor stator is concentric with and located between the outer enclosure and the tubular housing. An impeller is concentric with and located within the tubular housing. The impeller is suspended in operation by a combination of passive magnetic forces between magnets within the impeller or magnetized regions of the impeller and the motor stator and hydrodynamic thrust forces generated as blood flows between the tubular housing and a plurality of hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces located on the impeller. A volute may be in fluid-tight connection with the outlet of the tubular housing for receiving blood in the axial direction and directing blood in a direction normal to the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh, Jr., Richard A. Marquis, Daniel G. White, Palanivelu Thyagarajan
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Publication number: 20130330219Abstract: An axial now blood pump includes a pump housing and first and second stator permanent magnets fixed to the pump housing. A rotor assembly is disposed within the pump housing and includes first and second rotor permanent magnets. The first fixed permanent magnet may be axially offset from the first rotor permanent magnet and the second fixed permanent magnet may be axially offset from the second rotor permanent magnet. The permanent magnets act as passive radial bearings with maintain the rotor coaxial with the housing, and also exert axial forces on the first and second rotor permanent magnets to urge the rotor towards an equilibrium axial position relative to the housing. The rotor may be suspended and positioned within the housing solely by operation of the permanent magnets.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: HEARTWARE, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh, JR.
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Patent number: 8597350Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling the operation of, and providing power for and to, implantable ventricular assist devices which includes a pump employing a brushless DC motor-driven blood pump, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a control system for driving an implantable blood pump is provided. The digital processor is responsive to data associated with the operation of the pump received at the data transfer pump, and from program data stored in the memory, (i) to determine therefrom, the identity of the pump, (ii) to determine therefrom, electrical characteristics and features of the identified pump, and (iii) to adaptively generate and apply to the data port, control signals for driving the identified pump.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.Inventors: John Rudser, Jeffrey A. LaRose
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Publication number: 20130317283Abstract: A rotary blood pump includes a casing defining a pumping chamber. The pumping chamber has a blood inlet and a tangential blood outlet. One or more motor stators are provided outside of the pumping chamber. A rotatable impeller is within the pumping chamber and is adapted to cause blood entering the pumping chamber to move to the blood outlet. The impeller has one or more magnetic regions. The impeller is radially constrained in rotation by magnetic coupling to one or more motor stators and is axially constrained in rotation by one or more hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces on the impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: HEARTWARE, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh
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Publication number: 20130303833Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, an implantable blood pump includes a housing defining a flow path, a rotor positioned within the flow path, and a motor including a stator, positioned outside of said housing, the stator including a length of silver wire, wherein the silver wire is not positioned within a hermetically sealed compartment once the blood pump is ready for implantation into a patient in need thereof. The present invention may also include a method of implanting the implantable blood pump including the step of implanting the blood pump within the patient and within or adjacent to the vasculature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: HEARTWARE, INC.Inventor: Jeffrey A. LaRose
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Publication number: 20130296634Abstract: A method of estimating the blood flow rate of a heart ventricle assist device which is positioned externally of, or implanted in, a patient. The assist device comprises a blood pump having a rapidly rotating, electrically powered impeller, and comprises briefly interrupting power to the impeller to cause its rotation to slow. From this, blood viscosity can be estimated, which viscosity is used to obtain real time, estimated blood flow rates and pressure heads. Apparatus for accomplishing this is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: HEARTWARE, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey LaRose, Udai Singh
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Patent number: 8540477Abstract: A rotary blood pump includes a casing defining a pumping chamber. The pumping chamber has a blood inlet and a tangential blood outlet. One or more motor stators are provided outside of the pumping chamber. A rotatable impeller is within the pumping chamber and is adapted to cause blood entering the pumping chamber to move to the blood outlet. The impeller has one or more magnetic regions. The impeller is radially constrained in rotation by magnetic coupling to one or more motor stators and is axially constrained in rotation by one or more hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces on the impeller.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. LaRose, Charles R. Shambaugh