US 12,447,327 B2
Electronics module and arrangement for a ventricular assist device, and method for producing a ventricular assist device
Ingo Stotz, Ditzingen (DE); Julian Kassel, Böblingen (DE); Armin Schuelke, Aidlingen (DE); Stefan Henneck, Leonberg (DE); David Minzenmay, Stuttgart (DE); and Thomas Alexander Schlebusch, Renningen (DE)
Assigned to KARDION GMBH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/057,039
Filed by KARDION GMBH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed May 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/064155
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 28, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/229221, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 102018208549.8 (DE), filed on May 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0290929 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 60/878 (2021.01); A61M 60/13 (2021.01); A61M 60/178 (2021.01); A61M 60/216 (2021.01); A61M 60/237 (2021.01); A61M 60/411 (2021.01); A61M 60/81 (2021.01); A61M 60/816 (2021.01)
CPC A61M 60/411 (2021.01) [A61M 60/178 (2021.01); A61M 60/216 (2021.01); A61M 60/81 (2021.01); A61M 2205/0211 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3327 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A heart support system comprising:
a longitudinally extending cylindrical structure comprising:
a pump motor arranged in a motor housing; and
wherein the cylindrical structure further comprises an electronics module comprising:
an electronics section comprising a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first end defining a recess;
a hollow cylindrical coupling section coupled to the first end of the electronics section and to the motor housing; and
an electrically conductive contacting element embedded in a body of the electronics section and guided to an outside of the body of the electronics section to a pad or a conductor path structure within the recess of the electronics section;
wherein:
at least one section of the pump motor extends through the hollow cylindrical coupling section into the recess of the electronics section and contacts the electrically conductive contacting element; and
the motor housing and the electronics module are configured to be inserted through the aorta by a catheter.