CN106693095A - Pneumatic heart auxiliary blood pumping device - Google Patents

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CN106693095A
CN106693095A CN201611228579.2A CN201611228579A CN106693095A CN 106693095 A CN106693095 A CN 106693095A CN 201611228579 A CN201611228579 A CN 201611228579A CN 106693095 A CN106693095 A CN 106693095A
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61MDEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M60/00Blood pumps; Devices for mechanical circulatory actuation; Balloon pumps for circulatory assistance
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    • A61M60/247Positive displacement blood pumps
    • A61M60/253Positive displacement blood pumps including a displacement member directly acting on the blood
    • A61M60/268Positive displacement blood pumps including a displacement member directly acting on the blood the displacement member being flexible, e.g. membranes, diaphragms or bladders
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61MDEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M60/00Blood pumps; Devices for mechanical circulatory actuation; Balloon pumps for circulatory assistance
    • A61M60/10Location thereof with respect to the patient's body
    • A61M60/122Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient's body
    • A61M60/126Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient's body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel
    • A61M60/148Implantable pumps or pumping devices, i.e. the blood being pumped inside the patient's body implantable via, into, inside, in line, branching on, or around a blood vessel in line with a blood vessel using resection or like techniques, e.g. permanent endovascular heart assist devices
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61MDEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M60/00Blood pumps; Devices for mechanical circulatory actuation; Balloon pumps for circulatory assistance
    • A61M60/40Details relating to driving
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61MDEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M60/00Blood pumps; Devices for mechanical circulatory actuation; Balloon pumps for circulatory assistance
    • A61M60/40Details relating to driving
    • A61M60/424Details relating to driving for positive displacement blood pumps
    • A61M60/427Details relating to driving for positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being hydraulic or pneumatic
    • A61M60/435Details relating to driving for positive displacement blood pumps the force acting on the blood contacting member being hydraulic or pneumatic with diastole or systole switching by valve means located between the blood pump and the hydraulic or pneumatic energy source
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61MDEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M60/00Blood pumps; Devices for mechanical circulatory actuation; Balloon pumps for circulatory assistance
    • A61M60/50Details relating to control
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61MDEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M2205/00General characteristics of the apparatus
    • A61M2205/04General characteristics of the apparatus implanted
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61MDEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M2210/00Anatomical parts of the body
    • A61M2210/12Blood circulatory system
    • A61M2210/125Heart

Abstract

The invention relates to a pneumatic heart auxiliary blood pumping device. The device comprises a blood pumping unit, a plastic valve membrane is arranged on the upper end face of the blood pumping unit, the lower end face of the blood pumping unit is connected with a pneumatic unit through a pipeline, a valve is disposed on the blood pumping unit, the pneumatic unit drives the valve to be opened and closed through inflow air or outflow air so as to form periodical ejection of the blood pumping unit, and the pneumatic unit is connected with a monitoring control unit. According to the technical scheme, the device is reasonable and simple in structural design, convenient to use and reliable, can make arterial blood flow increased, and reduces work loads of the heart. The synchronous relation between the inflation and exhaust action rule of the blood pumping device and the natural systole and diastole rule is kept strict and precise.

Description

A kind of pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device.
Background technology
Coronary artery disease, myocarditis, hypertension and all kinds of cardiomyopathys frequently result in cardiac function and decline and the congested heart Force failure.Internal medicine treatment is very limited to the therapeutic effect of such disease, and the life-span of patient can not be effectively extended mostly. And one of most important function of heart is exactly blood-pumping function, cardiac ejection function is normal or abnormal, is to strengthen or subtract Weak, the activity to body can all produce material impact.All the time, the dream of dept. of cardiology's brainstrust can exactly find properly Material manufacture artificial prosthesis heart or developing the device of accessory heart pump blood helps patient to recover every function, manually Heart assistance EGR is that blood is transported to each organ of whole body using the method for machinery to replace the function of heart with part.
The content of the invention
It is an object of the invention to provide a kind of pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device, the device can assist diseased heart work Make, follow heartbeat situation, providing external force to heart in good time assists, and to increase the pump blood volume of heart, solves the Patients with Cardiac Failure heart The not enough problem of dirty pump blood.
To achieve the above object, present invention employs following technical scheme:Including pump blood unit, the pump blood unit it is upper End face is provided with plastics valve, and the lower surface of the pump blood unit is connected by pipeline with pneumatic unit, on described pump blood unit Valve is provided with, described pneumatic unit drives valve opening or closes periodic to form pump blood unit by air inlet or outlet Blood is penetrated, described pneumatic unit is connected with Monitoring and Controlling unit.
Described pump blood unit includes the housing of tubulose, and described housing includes the first shell section and second being sequentially connected Shell section, described plastics valve is arranged on the top of the first shell section, and described pipeline is connected with the bottom of the second shell section, Uniform intervals are provided with through hole on the shell wall of second shell section, and described through hole is provided with the valve matched with shape of through holes Door, complete shell wall is formed during described valve closing with the second shell section.
The first described shell section is small, the reducing housing that lower mouth is big suitable for reading, and the second described shell section is isometrical housing, The lower port diameter of first shell section matches with the diameter of the second shell section.
Described pneumatic unit includes the servomotor that cylinder and drive cylinder are acted, pressure chamber and the pipe of the cylinder Road is connected, and the piston rod of the cylinder is connected by connecting rod with the screw body on servomotor.
Described Monitoring and Controlling unit includes embedded computer, and embedded computer passes through driver and servomotor phase Even, it is connected with display with operation keyboard respectively on described embedded computer.
Described plastics valve is fixed on the inwall on the first shell section top, and plastics valve is convex configuration and convex surface It is down-set, offer cross recess on described plastics valve.
Described valve is fixed on the second shell section by bindiny mechanism, and is provided with torsion spring at the bindiny mechanism, described Torsion spring make valve be formed when being acted on without external force to close sealing state, described bindiny mechanism and torsion spring with the second shell section It is arranged at the inside of the second shell section.
Described housing, pipeline, valve, plastics valve are made by the elastic-plastic material compatible with human body.
As shown from the above technical solution, reasonable in design of the present invention, simple, convenient, and reliable, can increase artery blood flow Plus, mitigate heart working load, and monitor in real time is used, the inflation of blood pumping device, exhaust events rule pass through Monitoring and Controlling list Unit keeps strict and accurate synchronized relation with natural heart contraction, diastole rule.
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Fig. 1 is structural representation of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of pump blood unit of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the upward view of Fig. 2.
Specific embodiment
The present invention will be further described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings:
A kind of pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device as shown in Figure 1, including pump blood unit, the upper surface of pump blood unit is provided with modeling Material valve 1, the lower surface of pump blood unit is connected by pipeline 2 with pneumatic unit, and pump blood unit is provided with valve 3, pneumatic unit It is turned on and off periodically penetrating blood to form pump blood unit by air inlet or outlet band movable valve 3, that is, valve 3 receives air pressure When effect is opened, blood can be stopped, control the flow direction of blood, it flows to sanguimotor direction, pneumatic unit is controlled with monitoring Unit processed is connected.
Further, as shown in Fig. 2 pump blood unit includes the housing 4 of tubulose, housing 4 includes the first shell being sequentially connected Body section 41 and the second shell section 42, plastics valve 1 are arranged on the top of the first shell section 41, the shell section 42 of pipeline 2 and second Bottom is connected, and uniform intervals are provided with through hole 43 on the shell wall of the second shell section 42, are provided with through hole 43 and the shape phase of through hole 43 Identical valve 3, complete shell wall is formed when valve 3 is closed with the second shell section 42.Valve 3 is it can be appreciated that be second The window opened up on the shell wall of shell section 42, window can be opened can close.
Further, the first shell section 41 is small, the reducing housing that lower mouth is big suitable for reading, and the second shell section 42 is isometrical shell Body, the lower port diameter of the first shell section 41 matches with the diameter of the second shell section 42.
Further, pneumatic unit includes the servomotor 6 that cylinder 5 and drive cylinder 5 are acted, the pressure chamber of cylinder 5 Connected with pipeline 2, the piston rod of cylinder 5 is connected by connecting rod 62 with the screw body 61 on servomotor 6.
Further, Monitoring and Controlling unit includes embedded computer 7, and embedded computer 7 passes through driver 8 and servo Motor 6 is connected, and is connected with display 9 with operation keyboard 10 respectively on embedded computer 7.Monitoring and Controlling unit is by embedded Computer 7 can continuous monitoring heart rate, the heartbeat amount of hitting, ventricular atrial and sound pulse pressure, so as to automatically adjust discharge rate and pressure, Inflow and outflow is set to balance each other, the output with natural heart is synchronous.
Further, as shown in figure 3, plastics valve 1 is fixed on the inwall on the top of the first shell section 41, and plastics valve 1 for convex configuration and convex surface is down-set, and cross recess is offered on plastics valve 1.The principle and cardiac valves of plastics valve 1 It is similar, cross recess is opened on an elastomeric material convex surface compatible with human body, because convex surface is inwardly set, in pump blood unit Insufficient pressure could only open cross mouthful with pushing open with the power inhaled.
Further, valve 3 is fixed on the second shell section 42 by bindiny mechanism 31, and is provided with the bindiny mechanism 31 Torsion spring, torsion spring makes valve 3 that the sealing state that closes with the second shell section 42, bindiny mechanism 31 and torsion are formed when being acted on without external force Spring is arranged at the inside of the second shell section 42, it is to avoid scratch tissue.
Further, housing 4, pipeline 2, valve 3, plastics valve 1 are made by the elastic-plastic material compatible with human body.
Concrete operating principle of the invention and the course of work are as follows:
When using, pump blood unit is by blood vessel and passes through cardiac valves, and now the first shell section enters heart.By operation keyboard With display stability bandwidth is input into embedded computer, the startup optimization on embedded computer, embedded computer is according to setting Fixed state modulator servomotor motion, servomotor drives the piston in pressure chamber past back and forth by screw body and connecting rod again Multiple motion.When the piston of pressure chamber is moved right, diminished by the air pressure in the pump blood unit that pipeline is communicated with pressure chamber, by In the effect of torsion spring, valve is closed, and upper end plastics valve is opened, vascular access device;When piston is to left movement, in pump blood unit Air pressure become big, because plastics valve is difficult to open upwards, so force the valve on shell wall to be opened, the blood in pump blood unit From through hole outflow, the valve of opening also has certain barrier effect, promotes blood to be flowed to sanguimotor direction, that is, rise To the effect of accessory heart pump blood.So piston is ceaselessly moved back and forth according to the parameter of setting so that plastics valve and valve Constantly open, close, for auxiliary pump blood circulation provides endlessly power.
Embodiment described above is only that the preferred embodiment of the present invention is described, not to model of the invention Enclose and be defined, on the premise of design spirit of the present invention is not departed from, those of ordinary skill in the art are to technical side of the invention Various modifications and improvement that case is made, all should fall into the protection domain of claims of the present invention determination.

Claims (8)

1. a kind of pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device, it is characterised in that:Including pump blood unit, the upper surface of the pump blood unit It is provided with plastics valve(1), the lower surface of the pump blood unit passes through pipeline(2)It is connected with pneumatic unit, described pump blood unit It is provided with valve(3), described pneumatic unit is by air inlet or outlet band movable valve(3)It is turned on and off forming pump blood unit Blood periodically is penetrated, described pneumatic unit is connected with Monitoring and Controlling unit.
2. pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Described pump blood unit includes The housing of tubulose(4), described housing(4)Including the first shell section being sequentially connected(41)With the second shell section(42), it is described Plastics valve(1)It is arranged on the first shell section(41)Top, described pipeline(2)With the second shell section(42)Bottom phase Even, second shell section(42)Shell wall on uniform intervals be provided with through hole(43), described through hole(43)Place is provided with and leads to Hole(43)The valve that shape matches(3), described valve(3)With the second shell section during closing(42)Form complete shell wall.
3. pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device according to claim 2, it is characterised in that:The first described shell section (41)It is small, the reducing housing that lower mouth is big suitable for reading, the second described shell section(42)It is isometrical housing, first shell section (41)Lower port diameter and the second shell section(42)Diameter match.
4. pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Described pneumatic unit includes Cylinder(5)And drive cylinder(5)The servomotor of action(6), the cylinder(5)Pressure chamber and pipeline(2)Connection, it is described Cylinder(5)Piston rod pass through connecting rod(62)With installed in servomotor(6)On screw body(61)It is connected.
5. pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device according to claim 4, it is characterised in that:Described Monitoring and Controlling unit Including embedded computer(7), embedded computer(7)By driver(8)With servomotor(6)It is connected, described insertion Formula computer(7)It is upper respectively with display(9)With operation keyboard(10)It is connected.
6. pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device according to claim 2, it is characterised in that:Described plastics valve(1) It is fixed on the first shell section(41)On the inwall on top, and plastics valve(1)It is described for convex configuration and convex surface is down-set Plastics valve(1)On offer cross recess.
7. pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device according to claim 2, it is characterised in that:Described valve(3)Pass through Bindiny mechanism(31)It is fixed on the second shell section(42)On, and the bindiny mechanism(31)Place is provided with torsion spring, and described torsion spring makes valve Door(3)Formed and the second shell section when being acted on without external force(42)Close sealing state, described bindiny mechanism(31)And turn round Spring is arranged at the second shell section(42)Inside.
8. pneumatic heart auxiliary pump blood device according to claim 2, it is characterised in that:Described housing(4), pipeline (2), valve(3), plastics valve(1)It is made by the elastic-plastic material compatible with human body.
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