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...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180434 | Powerhead of a power injection system A contrast media injection system detects the absolute position of the syringe ram using a non-contact sensor. A series of magnets and Hall-Effect sensors may be used or an opto-reflective system. Illuminated knobs that are connected to the drive mechanism for the s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7974682 | System and method to adaptively control contrast-enhanced diagnostic imaging procedure A system and method are provided for determining individualized scan and injection protocols for contrast-enhanced diagnostic imaging. Taking into account parameters specific to the scan subject, injection-related parameters, and scan parameters, the system and meth... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7725168 | Powerhead of a power injection system A contrast media injection system includes detects the absolute position of the syringe ram using a non-contact sensor. A series of magnets and Hall-Effect sensors may be used or an opto-reflective system. Illuminated knobs that are connected to the drive mechanism ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7363072 | Method and apparatus to remove substances from vessels of the heart and other parts of the body to minimize or avoid renal or other harm or dysfunction To accomplish isolation and removal of a substance from a vasculature, a catheter is employed to occlude a vessel of the vasculature. The substance is thus isolated in the vasculature and can be removed. In this way, the substance is removed before entering other pa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7347837 | Infusion pump for syringes An infusion pump has a base and a holder for a syringe extending along a longitudinal axis and having an axially shiftable plunger. The holder is pivotal on the base about a first axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the syringe. A first actu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338472 | Directly engaged syringe driver system A syringe driver system comprises a rotatable threaded lead screw shaft and a plunger which directly engages the threaded shaft such that rotation of the shaft drives the plunger into the syringe body. The plunger is formed with a threaded shaft engaging portion in ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337538 | Methods and apparatuses for joining a pumping cartridge to a pump drive Apparatus and methods of their use are described for engaging a pumping cartridge with a pump drive. In certain embodiments, the cartridge, comprising a cylinder and a movable piston assembly, is initially assembled or subsequently positioned so that the distance be... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7313431 | System and method for inflating a balloon catheter and delivering fluid media to a patient This invention relates generally to a fluid delivery system comprising a first source of fluid medium a first pressurizing device associated with the first source of fluid medium, a second source of fluid medium, a second pressurizing device associated with the seco... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308300 | Medical injection system A method of preventing extravasation of contrast agent during a computed tomography injection. An automatic injector device facilitates ease of accomplishing the method. The method includes establishing the absence of extravasation using an absorbable injectate, suc... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7300417 | Syringe/plunger coupling A medical fluid injector, replaceable syringe, and coupling mechanism to engage the syringe plunger to the plunger drive ram of the injector are provided wherein coupling involves a cam cleat-like mechanism, thereby allowing for cooperative movement between the plun... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7283860 | Communication systems for use with magnetic resonance imaging systems An injector system for injection of a fluid medium into a patient within an electromagnetic isolation area. The injector system includes a powered injector, a system controller therefor, and a plurality of communication units. The powered injector is positioned with... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7267661 | Non-magnetic medical infusion device Liquid infusion apparatus includes non-magnetic materials in a pumping structure and drive motor therefor, and in a controller that supplies drive signals to the motor to facilitate convenient operation in intense magnetic fields without distorting the magnetic fiel... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267667 | Fluid management system for coronary intervention A fluid injection system is disclosed The system is adapted to employ first and second injectors which may sequentially, or simultaneously, inject first and second fluids into a patient via a catheter. The first and second injectors may be power actuated. The actuat... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264612 | Syringe barrel with guide Since this syringe has projections provided on the rear surface of a flange of a syringe barrel, when it is inserted in an insertion groove of a cylinder holder, the tips of projections are compressed and the flange is fixed. Consequently, even when a solution havin... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7192417 | Injectors and syringe interfaces for syringes of variable size A syringe interface for attaching syringes to a drive mechanism which includes a drive member to impart motion to a syringe plunger includes a plurality of syringe mount apertures having different dimensions to attach each of a plurality of syringes to the syringe i... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7192416 | Front load pressure jacket system with grooved syringe holder The fluid injection apparatus includes a syringe, an injector, and a pressure jacket. The syringe has a cylindrical body with an injection section at a distal end and a plurality of outward extending retaining flanges at a proximal end. The injector has an injector ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7181263 | Injection system for use in a medical imaging examination An injection system for medical examinations to control the manual injection of a substance into a patient with a manually operated injector that has an arrangement to detect the fill state of a container filled with a substance to be injected. To detect the fill st... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7137967 | Cylinder holder for a syringe barrel Since this syringe has projections provided on the rear surface of a flange of a syringe barrel, when it is inserted in an insertion groove of a cylinder holder, the tips of projections are compressed and the flange is fixed. Consequently, even when a solution havin... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7128729 | Angiographic injector system and method of use An angiographic injector system and a method of controllably delivering medical fluid to a patient from an angiographic injector system are disclosed. A multiple processor control system is used to actively control the injection process and to monitor sensed functio... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7112205 | Apparatus and methods for delivering compounds into vertebrae for vertebroplasty An apparatus for delivering bone cement into a vertebra includes a cannula and a syringe pivotally coupled to the cannula. Preferably, the syringe is pivotally coupled to the cannula by a pivot fitting that may be detachable from one or both of the cannula and the s... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7101352 | Pressure sleeve assembly A pressure sleeve assembly and a method of its use in a fluid injection system are disclosed. The pressure sleeve assembly includes a longitudinal base member, an endplate associated with the longitudinal base member, a fixed or freely removable door, a cylinder and... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7094216 | Injection system having a pressure isolation mechanism and/or a handheld controller An injector system includes a powered injector, a pressurizing chamber in operative connection with the powered injector, a fluid path in fluid connection with the pressurizing chamber, and a manual control in fluid connection with the fluid path. The manual control... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7081104 | Method and apparatus for injecting fluid into animals and disposable front loadable syringe therefor An animal fluid injector, replaceable syringe and method of replacement of the syringe in the injector are provided in which the syringe is loadable and unloadable into and from the injector through the open front end of a pressure jacket of the injector, thereby pe... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079886 | Apparatus and method for programming a KVO phase and a first phase of an injection procedure as a flushing medium phase A fluid injection arrangement in the context of patient imaging systems, in which phases of contrast medium injection and flushing medium injection can be freely and selectably ordered as to make available to the operator and patient a vast array of possible protoco... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7069068 | Method for determining haemodynamic indices by use of tomographic data Haemodynamic indices of an organ or a part of tissue are determined from a time series of tomographic data obtained by means of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Maps of indices are produced, being significant of the dynamics of the capillary tissue flow acquired during r... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7044933 | Fluid injection system for coronary intervention A fluid injection apparatus and method of injecting fluid are disclosed. The apparatus includes a control syringe electrically connected to a power-actuated syringe. A sensor is provided proximate the control syringe to monitor the position of the plunger therein, w... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7029458 | Front-loading syringe adapter for front-loading medical injector A syringe adapter, which permits use of syringes of various types and sizes to be used with a front-loading injector, includes a piston extension and an adapter face plate. The piston extension includes structure for connecting the piston extension to a drive piston... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7025226 | Drive system for an infusion pump A pump system for an infusion system includes a linear drive (36, 36′) which minimizes the space occupied by the pump components in a portable housing (10, 10′). A motor (34) and a motor drive shaft (42) are arranged in parallel with,... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6970735 | Data communication and control for medical imaging systems A system for producing a contrast-enhanced medical image of a patient includes a source of a contrast or enhancement medium, a pressurizing unit in fluid connection with the source of contrast or enhancement medium, an energy source operable to apply energy to a reg... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6966894 | Syringes and injectors incorporating mechanical fluid agitation devices A syringe for use with an injector includes a body comprising a distal discharge end, a plunger movably disposed within the body, and an agitation element disposed within the body between the plunger and the distal discharge end. A movement mechanism is operably ass... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6936030 | Injector systems incorporating a base unit attached to a surface An injector system for use in delivering a fluid to a patient in a medical procedure includes an injection head unit having at least one pressurizing member. The pressurizing member is in communicative connection with a remote power source via at least one non-rigid... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6929619 | Injector An injector 20 that may be used to deliver radiographic contrast media and/or flushing solution into a patient's vascular system for the purposes such as obtaining enhanced diagnostic x-ray images. The injector includes the following features: (1) a syringe m... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6917828 | Automatic injection device An automatic injection device has piston holders holding cylinder pistons and plural systems of heads having a drive mechanism for moving the piston holders forward and backward so that the device can hold a plurality of syringes and operates injection or suction in... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6901283 | Adjusting a condition of a fluid medium to produce an image of a patient A system for producing an image of a patient preferably includes a source of contrast medium, a pressurizing unit operably associated with the source of contrast medium for injecting the contrast medium into the patient, an imaging unit providing an internal image o... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6889074 | Patient specific dosing contrast delivery systems and methods This invention relates generally to the field of medical devices for delivering contrast media during medical diagnostic and therapeutic imaging procedures and more particularly, this invention relates to improved contrast media delivery systems and methods of use w... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6873416 | Medical scanning system and related method of scanning The present invention is directed to a scanning system that uses uniform rotary motion of an optical reflector to create reciprocal linear scanning. The system converts uniform rotation into uniform longitudinal scanning. The system thereby creates mechanical recipr... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6731971 | Fluid delivery system including a reusable flow path and a per-patient disposable fluid path An apparatus and method enabling the injection of fluid media into a plurality of patients is provided, including a fluid supply source providing multiple doses, a metering device for measuring the doses, a pressurizing device to effect injection, a contamination pr... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6726650 | Automatic liquid injection system and method A power assisted method and injector device for controllably delivering to patients a dispersion medicament or diagnostically active agent, the homogeneity of which is preserved throughout delivery. Diagnostically active agents disclosed are gas microbubble suspensi... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6652489 | Front-loading medical injector and syringes, syringe interfaces, syringe adapters and syringe plungers for use therewith Embodiments of an injector, syringe, syringe interface, and piston/plunger assembly for an injector (of contrast medium, for example) are described. Preferably, the syringe is adapted to engage a syringe interface mechanism such that the syringe may be co... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6643537 | Programmable injector control A fluid injection arrangement, particularly involving a systematic fluid injection programming capability, in the context of patient imaging systems, in which phases of contrast medium infection and flushing medium injection can be freely and selectably o... | 11/04/2003 |
