摘要:
An improved vaporization system includes an automated valve and positive displacement pumping system using a pair of pumps operating in opposition to one another to provide continuous and constant volumetric flow at a constant predetermined pressure to an improved vaporizer using a stack of heated disks to flash vaporize the liquid. The valves are improved by providing one way flow.
摘要:
Pumping apparatus which compresses or decompresses an actuating fluid alternately, which is in turn used to pump an artificial heart. To reduce the size of the apparatus, a diaphragm which contains a non-compressible actuating liquid is driven reciprocatingly by an electric linear motor. To prevent the occurrence of an excessive suction pressure which may be caused by the non-compressibility of the actuating fluid, at the commencement of the suction interval, the current to energize the linear motor is increased gradually and the pressure of the actuating liquid is detected. When the liquid pressure goes out of a selected safety range, the gradual increase ceases. A discharge stroke is detected from an integrated value of the motor current during the discharge interval, and when it reaches a given value, a reversal of the direction of energization of the motor is initiated.
摘要:
A pneumatic pump adapted primarily as a left ventricular heart assist device includes a flexible bladder with a rigid housing. A pneumatic driver applies rhymical pulses between the bladder and the housing to repetitively collapse the bladder and establish a pumping action through the bladder, in conjunction with check valves in the inlet and outlet to the bladder. Between the driver and the pump there is provided a pneumatic pulse limiter which includes a flexible diaphragm isolating the driver from the pump. Pulses from the driver are transmitted to the pump only through the flexible diaphragm and the diaphragm is constrained to move only within established limits. Regardless of the magnitude of the pulse from the driver, the maximum pulse applied to the pump cannot exceed that corresponding to the maximum displacement of the diaphragm.Between successive pulses, the portion of the system between the driver and the flexible diaphragm is depressurized. The rapidity with which depressurization occurs is enhanced by provision of a quick release valve between the driver and the diaphragm.
摘要:
A pump has a reservoir containing a supply of driving fluid. Mounted within the reservoir is a drive mechanism for reciprocating a piston within a cylinder. The drive mechanism has an eccentrically mounted member which is slidably surrounded by a sliding block, the latter being enclosed by a cross-head which is connected to the piston and confined so as to reciprocate within the pump. Thus, rotary motion is converted to oscillating motion in the sliding block, and the oscillating motion is then converted to reciprocating motion in the cross-head, the reciprocating motion then being transmitted to the piston. Two elastomeric tubes have their ends mounted within the pump so as to permit distortion (expansion or compression) of the central portions of the tubes. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, a displacement chamber is defined between the piston and the inner surface of the first tube, and an intermediate chamber is defined between the outer surfaces of the tubes, the intermediate chamber containing an intermediate driving fluid. As the piston reciprocates, driving fluid alternately passes into and out of the displacement chamber to cause the first tube to alternate between a first configuration, and a second configuration, which in turn causes the second tube to do likewise via the intermediate driving fluid. As a result of the alternating configurations assumed by the second tube, process fluid is pumped through the second tube. Other modifications are also disclosed.
摘要:
This invention relates to a surgical pump primarily designed for the pumping of blood, as in open-heart surgery or for pumping blood through a ''''kidney machine,'''' but also particularly adapted for other surgical uses, such as pumping dialycate in a ''''kidney machine,'''' or the like; and is characterized by the fact that it provides direct and continuous volumetric adjustment from 0 to the maximum size of the pump even while in use; is small in size and light-weight; is readily adjustable as to the force applied to the liquid being pumped, and has independently adjustable timing of the diastole and sistole portions of a pumping cycle.