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The present invention relates in general to centrifugal pumping devices for circulatory assist and other uses, and, more specifically, to an improved startup of a magnetically-levitated impeller that avoids excessive wear of the impeller against the housing before levitation is obtained.
Many types of circulatory assist devices are available for either short term or long term support for patients having cardiovascular disease. For example, a heart pump system known as a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) can provide long term patient support with an implantable pump associated with an externally-worn pump control unit and batteries. The LVAD improves circulation throughout the body by assisting the left side of the heart in pumping blood. One such system is the DuraHeart® LVAS system made by Terumo Heart, Inc., of Ann Arbor, Mich. The DuraHeart® system employs a centrifugal pump with a magnetically levitated impeller to pump blood from the left ventricle to the aorta. The impeller acts as a rotor of an electric motor in which a rotating magnetic field from a multiphase stator couples with the impeller and is rotated at a speed appropriate to obtain the desired blood flow through the pump.
A control system for varying pump speed to achieve a target blood flow based on physiologic conditions is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 7,160,243, issued Jan. 9, 2007, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. The stator of the pump motor can be driven by a pulse-width modulated signal determined using a field-oriented control (FOC) as disclosed in U.S. application Ser. No. 13/748,780, filed Jan. 24, 2013, entitled “Impeller Position Compensation Using Field Oriented Control,” which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The centrifugal pump employs a sealed pumping chamber. By levitating the impeller within the chamber when it rotates, turbulence in the blood is minimized. The spacing between the impeller and chamber walls minimizes pump-induced hemolysis and thrombus formation. The levitation is obtained by the combination of a magnetic bearing and a hydrodynamic bearing. For the magnetic bearing, the impeller typically employs upper and lower plates having permanent magnetic materials for interacting with a magnetic field applied via the chamber walls. For example, a stationary magnetic field may be applied from the upper side of the pump housing to attract the upper plate while a rotating magnetic field from the lower side of the pump housing (to drive the impeller rotation) attracts the lower plate. The hydrodynamic bearing results from the action of the fluid between the impeller and the chamber walls while pumping occurs. Grooves may be placed in the chamber walls to enhance the hydrodynamic bearing (as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 7,470,246, issued Dec. 30, 2008, titled “Centrifugal Blood Pump Apparatus,” which is incorporated herein by reference). The magnetic and hydrodynamic forces cooperate so that the impeller rotates at a levitated position within the pumping chamber. Since the hydrodynamic forces change according to the rotation speed of the impeller, the magnetic field may be actively controlled in order to ensure that the impeller maintains a centered position with the pumping chamber.
Prior to starting rotation of the impeller, the axial forces acting on it are not balanced. Magnetic attraction causes the impeller to rest against one of the upper or lower chamber walls. In many pump designs, it is possible for the impeller to be arbitrarily resting against either one of the walls. When rotation begins, the rubbing of the impeller against the chamber wall can cause undesirable mechanical wear of the impeller and/or wall. The amount of wear is proportional to the rotation angle traversed until the impeller lifts off of the pump housing and to the normal force between the impeller and housing.
In a typical startup sequence of the prior art, the stator coils are energized to produce a strong, stationary magnetic field that rotates the impeller into alignment with a known phase angle. When the impeller moves during alignment, it typically overshoots the desired position due to the strong field and then it oscillates around the desired position until the motion dampens out. Much mechanical wear can occur during this step. Once in the aligned position, the field-oriented control can begin closed-loop control to accelerate the impeller until the bearing forces separate it from the chamber wall. However, the normal force can be high before separation occurs, further increasing the wear.
In one aspect of the invention, a centrifugal pump system comprises a disc-shaped impeller rotating about an axis and having a first magnetic structure disposed at a first surface and a second magnetic structure disposed at a second surface. A pump housing defines a pumping chamber which receives the impeller. A levitation magnetic structure is disposed at a first end of the pump housing having a levitating magnetic field for axially attracting the first magnetic structure. A multiphase magnetic stator is disposed at a second end of the pump housing for generating a rotating magnetic field for axially and rotationally attracting the second magnetic structure. A commutator circuit provides a plurality of phase voltages to the stator. A sensing circuit determines respective phase currents flowing in response to the phase voltages. A controller calculates successive commanded values for the phase voltages during a running state in response to a desired impeller speed and an actual impeller phase that is detected in response to the determined phase currents. The controller has a startup interval during which the commanded values of the phase voltages are determined in response to a pseudo impeller phase and in response to a ramping gain factor.
Referring to
The cross section of
A typical method for controlling voltages applied to a stator in order to provide the desired rotation for a permanent magnet rotor (i.e., the impeller) is a field-oriented control (FOC) algorithm, which is also known as vector control.
FOC block 56 generates commanded voltage output values va, vb, and vc which are coupled to PWM block 53 via a startup filter 61 which is controlled by a startup logic block 60. In a normal running state, voltage commands va, vb, and vc are unmodified by filter 61. During a startup interval, startup logic 60 alters the operation of FOC block 56 by generating a pseudo impeller position (i.e., phase) for use by the FOC algorithm and by directly modifying the generated values for va, vb, and vc according to a gradually increasing gain factor.
When the impeller is not rotating under field oriented control, current observer block 57 is unable to estimate the actual position (i.e., the phase angle) of the impeller. For that reason, it is common in the prior art to generate a large, stationary magnetic field pulse from the stator in order to force the impeller into a known position. Based on the known position and an initial impeller speed of zero, the prior art controller was able to accelerate the impeller in a controlled (i.e., closed-loop) fashion. The large, stationary magnetic field pulse is not a problem for a radial type of motor structure or for a motor with a mechanical shaft and bearings. However, in the mechanical-bearingless (i.e., levitating) axial motor drive system for a blood pump, the alignment step is not desirable because the large, stationary magnetic field pulse may create oscillation movement of the impeller as a spring/mass system, and it may increase the normal force between the impeller and pump housing as a result of the large magnetic field. The oscillating movement and increased normal force may induce mechanical damage to the pump housing surface. The roughened blood pump surface may promote blood clot which is one of the severe failure modes of this type of device. In order to avoid the alignment step, the present invention adopts a gradual ramping up of voltage commands as the stator magnetic field is rotated using an arbitrary (i.e., pseudo) phase. The gradually increasing magnetic field will eventually catch the impeller to achieve a rotation that eventually becomes sufficiently locked in to enable observer 57 to detect the actual phase and speed of the impeller. Once the impeller is caught by the magnetic field and starts to rotate, the impeller will be suspended by hydrodynamic forces, and no mechanical wear will happen. Due to the gradually increasing magnetic field, the impeller is not very likely to be pulled in a backwards direction (in part because no movement can be generated until the rotating magnetic field overcomes the static friction between the impeller and pump housing). In addition, the speed of rotation of the magnetic field can be performed with a gradual acceleration to improve the likelihood of “catching” the impeller and rotating it in the desired direction. In the event that the ramping sequence fails to catch the impeller, observer 57 will detect that a valid position has not yet been determined. If no valid impeller position has been detected by observer 57 within a predetermined time, the ongoing startup attempt can be terminated and a second attempt can be made to start the impeller.
More specifically, startup logic block 60 may provide a pseudo impeller phase to FOC block 56, wherein the pseudo phase of the impeller has a chosen initial value and then follows a gradually accelerating rotation rate (not to exceed a target rotation speed).
As shown in
In
In combination with, or used separately from, the ramping up magnetic field and accelerating rotation rate, the present invention may employ an axial transport maneuver before beginning rotation of the magnetic field in order to lift off the impeller from the pump housing in order to avoid all normal forces during the initial rotation. As shown in
In order to ensure that the impeller is attracted and then repulsed as desired, it is preferable to discover the actual impeller phase angle so that an appropriate energization of the stator can be determined that will provide the desired attraction and repulsion of the impeller. As shown in
Although the present invention is especially useful in a centrifugal pump with a levitated impeller for pumping blood in cardiac assist applications, it is also applicable to other types of centrifugal pumps and for other applications.
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