US 7,320,706 B2
Artificial heart
Azad Al-Najjar, Skiljebovägen 9, SE-723 41 Västerås (Sweden)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/706,790.
Application 10/706790 is a continuation of application No. PCT/SE02/00689, filed on Apr. 08, 2002.
Claims priority of application No. 0101259 (SE), filed on Apr. 10, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2006/0173538 A1, Aug. 03, 2006
Int. Cl. A61M 1/12 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 623—3.19  [623/3.2] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A heart prosthesis intended to be implanted in a patient to replace the pumping activity of a heart comprising at least two compartments, substantially surrounded by a house with a rigid wall and containing a number of drawing and/or pressing devices, which are partly fixedly attached to said rigid-wall provided house and partly fixedly attached to a flexible, elastic wall layer arranged in a respective compartment, whereby the drawing and/or pressing devices are arranged to draw said elastic wall layer towards said rigid-wall provided house for filling said compartments, the prosthesis also comprising two halves, comprising an atrium, and ventricles, respectively, separated by a plate with at least one valve, which plate is arranged to be able to be moved between the ventricles and atriums by means of drawing and/or pressing devices arranged in said rigid wall provided house.