The present technology is generally related to a method and system for moving the impeller of an implantable blood pump to order to increase washing of the impeller surfaces.
Implantable blood pumps used as a mechanical circulatory support devices or “MCSDs” include a pumping mechanism to move blood from the heart out to the rest of the body. The pumping mechanism may be a centrifugal flow pump, such as the HVAD® Pump manufactured by HeartWare, Inc. in Miami Lakes, Fla., USA. The HVAD® Pump is further discussed in U.S. Pat. No. 8,512,013, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein in its entirety. In operation, the blood pump draws blood from a source such as the right ventricle, left ventricle, right atrium, or left atrium of a patient's heart and impels the blood into an artery such as the patient's ascending aorta or peripheral artery.
In an exemplary HVAD® pump, an impeller is positioned within a housing having an upstream inflow cannula and a downstream outlet. The impeller is configured to rotate along an axis defined by the rotor and to impel blood upstream from the inflow cannula downstream to the outlet. In such a configuration, the impeller pumps blood in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis about which it rotates. Dual stators are included in the pump, one upstream of the impeller and one downstream from the impeller and are each configured to rotate the impeller to impel blood. Disposed between the impeller and each respective stator is a non-ferromagnetic ceramic disk that separates the respective stator from the impeller and provides a smooth surface to pump blood. However, owing to the small gap between each ceramic disk and the impeller, the risk of thrombus is potential stagnation of blood proximate the ceramic disk.
The techniques of this disclosure generally relate to a method and system for moving the impeller of an implantable blood pump to order to increase washing of the impeller surfaces.
In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of operating an implantable blood pump having a first stator, a second stator, and an impeller movably disposed there between. The method includes applying a first voltage waveform at first phase to the first stator to generate a magnetic field to rotate the impeller. A second voltage waveform is applied at a second phase shifted from the first phase to the second stator to rotate the impeller, the second voltage waveform is asymmetric to the first voltage waveform.
In another aspect, the first voltage waveform is a square wave.
In another aspect, the second voltage waveform is a square wave.
In another aspect, second voltage waveform is trapezoidal.
In another aspect, the first voltage waveform is applied while the impeller is rotating.
In another aspect, the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform each have transition steps between positive and negative polarities of their respective waveforms, and wherein the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform each have the same polarity at their respective transition steps.
In another aspect, the duration of the transition steps of the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform range from 1-30 electrical degrees.
In another aspect, the application of the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform moves the impeller axially.
In another aspect, during operation of the implantable blood pump, a predetermined axial gap is maintained between the impeller and the first stator, and wherein the application of the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform temporarily increases the predetermined axial gap.
In one aspect, the disclosure provides a controller for an implantable blood pump having a first stator, a second stator, and an impeller movably disposed there between, the controller includes a control circuit configured to apply a first voltage waveform at first phase to the first stator to generate a magnetic field to rotate the impeller for a first period of time and apply a second voltage waveform phase shifted from the first phase to the second stator to rotate the impeller during the first period of time, the second voltage waveform being asymmetric to the first voltage waveform.
In another aspect, the control circuit is further configured to delay the application of the second voltage waveform by 60 degrees.
In another aspect, the first voltage waveform is a square wave.
In another aspect, the second voltage waveform is a square wave.
In another aspect, the second voltage waveform is trapezoidal.
In another aspect, the first period of time occurs while the impeller is rotating.
In another aspect, the control circuit is further configured to apply the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform during a second period of time different than the first period of time, and wherein during the second period of time, the first phase and the second phase are the same, and the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform are symmetric.
In another aspect, the application of the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform moves the impeller axially.
In another aspect, during operation of the implantable blood pump, a predetermined axial gap is maintained between the impeller and the first stator, and wherein the application of the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform temporarily increases the predetermined axial gap.
In one aspect, a method of operating an implantable blood pump having a first stator, a second stator, and an impeller movably disposed there between comprises applying a first voltage waveform at first phase to the first stator to generate a magnetic field to rotate the impeller and applying a second voltage waveform at a second phase shifted from the first phase to the second stator to rotate the impeller, the second voltage waveform being asymmetric to the first voltage waveform, the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform each having transition steps between positive and negative polarities of their respective waveforms, and the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform each have the same polarity at their respective transition steps. During operation of the implantable blood pump, a predetermined axial gap is maintained between the impeller and the first stator, and wherein the application of the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform temporarily increases the predetermined axial gap.
The details of one or more aspects of the disclosure are set forth in the accompanying drawings and the description below. Other features, objects, and advantages of the techniques described in this disclosure will be apparent from the description and drawings, and from the claims.
A more complete understanding of the present invention, and the attendant advantages and features thereof, will be more readily understood by reference to the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein:
Before describing in detail exemplary embodiments, it is noted that the embodiments reside primarily in combinations of apparatus components and processing steps related to axially moving an impeller of a blood pump during operation. Accordingly, the system and method components have been represented where appropriate by conventional symbols in the drawings, showing only those specific details that are pertinent to understanding the embodiments of the present disclosure so as not to obscure the disclosure with details that will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art having the benefit of the description herein.
As used herein, relational terms, such as “first” and “second,” “top” and “bottom,” and the like, may be used solely to distinguish one entity or element from another entity or element without necessarily requiring or implying any physical or logical relationship or order between such entities or elements. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the concepts described herein. As used herein, the singular forms “a”, “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises,” “comprising,” “includes” and/or “including” when used herein, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this disclosure belongs. It will be further understood that terms used herein should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of this specification and the relevant art and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein.
In embodiments described herein, the joining term, “in communication with” and the like, may be used to indicate electrical or data communication, which may be accomplished by physical contact, induction, electromagnetic radiation, radio signaling, infrared signaling or optical signaling, for example. One having ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that multiple components may interoperate and modifications and variations are possible of achieving the electrical and data communication.
It should be understood that various aspects disclosed herein may be combined in different combinations than the combinations specifically presented in the description and accompanying drawings. It should also be understood that, depending on the example, certain acts or events of any of the processes or methods described herein may be performed in a different sequence, may be added, merged, or left out altogether (e.g., all described acts or events may not be necessary to carry out the techniques). In addition, while certain aspects of this disclosure are described as being performed by a single module or unit for purposes of clarity, it should be understood that the techniques of this disclosure may be performed by a combination of units or modules associated with, for example, a medical device.
In one or more examples, the described techniques may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium and executed by a hardware-based processing unit. Computer-readable media may include non-transitory computer-readable media, which corresponds to a tangible medium such as data storage media (e.g., RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory, or any other medium that can be used to store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer).
Instructions may be executed by one or more processors, such as one or more digital signal processors (DSPs), general purpose microprocessors, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), field programmable logic arrays (FPGAs), or other equivalent integrated or discrete logic circuitry. Accordingly, the term “processor” as used herein may refer to any of the foregoing structure or any other physical structure suitable for implementation of the described techniques. Also, the techniques could be fully implemented in one or more circuits or logic elements.
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In any of the configurations discussed above with a net axial force on the impeller 32, the application of particular first and second voltage waveforms may be programmed by the controller 39 for a predetermined period of time. For example, the controller 39 may apply the first and second voltage waveforms shown in
It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the present embodiments are not limited to what has been particularly shown and described herein above. In addition, unless mention was made above to the contrary, it should be noted that all of the accompanying drawings are not to scale. A variety of modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teachings.
This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 16/199,684, filed Nov. 26, 2018 and claims the benefit of U.S. application Ser. No. 62/594,697, filed Dec. 5, 2017.
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