Patents by Inventor Tzu Min Kao

Tzu Min Kao 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).

  • Pumping device for helping severe failing of left ventricle or heart
    Publication number: 20020072698
    Abstract: A blood pumping device includes a receptacle for receiving blood and having a non-valved inlet and outlet openings coupled to an aorta and the femoral artery. The receptacle includes a surface having a peripheral portion coupled to a peripheral portion of a diaphragm, and having a port coupled to a pump. The pump may shrink the diaphragm to draw the blood into the receptacle and may expand the diaphragm to pump the blood in the chamber of the receptacle out of the inlet opening and the outlet opening of the receptacle and into the aorta and the femoral artery of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Jih Chung Chiang, Chin Sheng Tung, Kevin Kuo Tsai Cheng, Shih Hsiung Chen, Tzu Min Kao, Jeng Wei, Pong Jeu Lu