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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7412993 | Expandable stent A medical apparatus is fabricated by providing a coil that has a plurality of primary loops along a longitudinal direction, and for each of one or more of the primary loops, forming one or more secondary loops on the primary loop. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7346974 | Method for producing a conductor bar of transposed stranded conductors A method for producing a conductor bar including transposed stranded conductors for a large, rotating electric machine. The method includes a first step of cabling a plurality of electrically insulated individual wires to form a plurality of identical stranded condu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7334445 | Method for producing an end lug of a spring member formed of a strand of wire, and apparatus for manufacturing same A method and apparatus for producing an end lug of a spring member formed of a strand of wire, the strand of wire is initially gripped by two clamping jaws or a pair of tongs, held between said clamping jaws and, subsequently, at a predetermined distance behind the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7316247 | Apparatus and method for making a communication cable support structure A digital voice and/or data communication cable hanger provides a saddle support on a shaft fastened to a ceiling or beams or side wall by an integral fastening loop at one end. The other end of the hanger is shaped into a support loop for the cable. A saddle having... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7296333 | Process for providing composite radiopaque intracorporeal product The invention is directed to a guidewire having a distal flexible member, such as a helical coil, which is formed with at least one highly radiopaque component and at least one high strength component. In a presently preferred embodiment, the highly radiopaque compo... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7291785 | Crossmember module for a motor vehicle A crossmember module for attachment under an instrument panel of a motor vehicle. The crossmember module includes a metal tube surrounded at least in part with plastic. The metal tube has a central, tubular cross-section and flattened ends. Each flattened end has a ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7272968 | Device for shaping corrugated fin The configuration comprises a shaping member 3 having a substantially rectangular shape and shaping the inner surface side of a bent portion 1b, a worm gear 2 slidably linked with the shaping member 3 and gradually reducing the dis... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7229473 | Local delivery of rapamycin for treatment of proliferative sequelae associated with PTCA procedures, including delivery using a modified stent Methods of preparing intravascular stents with a polymeric coating containing macrocyclic lactone (such as rapamycin or its analogs), stents and stent graphs with such coatings, and methods of treating a coronary artery with such devices. The macrocyclic lactone-bas... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7223286 | Local delivery of rapamycin for treatment of proliferative sequelae associated with PTCA procedures, including delivery using a modified stent Methods of preparing intravascular stents with a polymeric coating containing macrocyclic lactone (such as rapamycin or its analogs), stents and stent graphs with such coatings, and methods of treating a coronary artery with such devices. The macrocyclic lactone-bas... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7217286 | Local delivery of rapamycin for treatment of proliferative sequelae associated with PTCA procedures, including delivery using a modified stent Methods of preparing intravascular stents with a polymeric coating containing macrocyclic lactone (such as rapamycin or its analogs), stents and stent graphs with such coatings, and methods of treating a coronary artery with such devices. The macrocyclic lactone-bas... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210658 | Gated retainer A quick acting gated retainer for wire, cable, or other elongated material requiring a permanent or temporary mount. The device features one or a pair of spring biased gates on one or both sides rotating and concurrently translating inwardly, during both the inserti... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7185414 | Apparatus for forming wave windings for rotor and stator lamination packets of electrical machines An apparatus in which wave windings with a defined number of waves are cut from a continuously formed wave winding band. In forming with a wire guide, the wave winding band is laid in alternation around the outer side faces of forming protrusions, offset from one an... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7153411 | Method for cleaning and polishing metallic alloys and articles cleaned or polished thereby A method of cleaning and polishing an alloy comprising at least one noble metal and at least one non-noble metal, the method including the steps of submerging said alloy in an electrolytic acidic bath comprising at least one chelating or complexing agent including s... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7137184 | Continuous heart valve support frame and method of manufacture Methods for forming a support frame for flexible leaflet heart valves from a starting blank include converting a two-dimensional starting blank into the three-dimensional support frame. The material may be superelastic, such as NITINOL, and the method may include be... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7066389 | Apparatus, system, and method for facilitating product weight identification in a checkout lane An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for facilitating product weight identification in a checkout lane. The apparatus includes an open-frame back, a pair of opposing support arms to support an open plastic bag, a pair of opposing open-frame sides, and a ga... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7048014 | Methods for creating woven devices Self expandable, woven intravascular devices for use as stents (both straight and tapered), filters (both temporary and permanent) and occluders for insertion and implantation into a variety of anatomical structures. The devices may be formed from shape memory metal... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7024901 | Wire spring forming apparatus A high-speed wire spring forming apparatus capable of easily adjusting a coil diameter is provided that includes: a wire feeder having a pair of feeding rollers for feeding a wire to a spring forming stage via a quill serving as a wire guide; a revolving mechanism f... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7018260 | Electrode, manufacturing method thereof, and metal vapor discharge lamp A first electrode part in a rod shape is placed on an upper side, and a second electrode part in a rod shape having a higher melting point than that of the first electrode part is placed on a lower side, so that ends of the first and second electrode parts are broug... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6994550 | Vapor deposited titanium and titanium-nitride layers for dental devices A coating for a biomedical device is disclosed, including a metal layer and/or a ceramic layer, such as a layer of titanium (Ti) and a layer of titanium-nitride (TiN). The coating can form a coping for a crown for a tooth, the crown including a porcelain layer bonde... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6971415 | Rotational grip twist machine and method for fabricating bulges of twisted wire electrical connectors Bulges in a wire having helically coiled strands are formed by untwisting the strands in an anti-helical direction at a predetermined position, to form an electrical connector from a length of the stranded wire. The wire is gripped by moving two spaced apart clamp m... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6966811 | Method of fabricating an incandescent halogen lamp having flattened filament support leads An incandescent halogen lamp used in connection with a vehicle headlamp system in which stray light attributable to reflection off of internal lamp components is reduced while the structural integrity of the lamp is maintained. The halogen lamp includes two filament... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6941652 | Methods of fabricating a thin-wall expandable well screen assembly An expandable well screen has a desirable thin-wall construction together with a simplified fabrication method. In fabricating the screen, a flexible sheet of metal mesh filter media is diffusion bonded to an inner side of a perforated metal sheet which is then defo... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6912787 | Method of forming a joist assembly and a chord used in such joist assembly A method of forming a joist assembly including the steps of forming a top chord, forming a bottom chord, bending a tubular member into a serpentine configuration, positioning an upper bent portion of the tubular member into the top chord, positioning a lower bent po... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6776196 | Braid folding unit and a braid folding method of a shielded wire A braid folding unit of a shielded wire is provided, which includes: a primary expanding means to beat a braid 22 exposed on an inner cover 24 of the shielded wire 15 so as to outwardly expand the braid; an expanding pipe 135 to enter an ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6668871 | Wire weaving apparatus and method A unique wire weaving method using a new wire weaving tool that holds a multiplicity of wires in place during the weaving process. The tool includes a shaft supporting a head with a plurality of wire receiving holes disposed substantially equally thereabo... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6659140 | Apparatus and method for cutting braid of shielded wire A braid cutting device 7 of a shielded wire includes a die 107 located outside an exposed braid 22 of a shielded wire 15, a braid opening means (110), a circular punch which advance inside the braid, a guide member 109 for guiding the braid 22 in a direct... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6568432 | Method for manufacturing a stent A stent manufactured for treating internal tubular organs, typically for treating a blood vessel, in which the stent has a sufficient diametral shrinkage ability and an ability for returning back to the original diameter thereof. A zigzag shape-memorized ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6539984 | Method and apparatus for forming a heart valve wireform A system and method for forming a three-dimensional wireform for heart valves from a two-dimensional starting shape. The wireform has multiple arcuate cusps and oppositely directed commissure tips therebetween, the cusps and commissure tips being oriented... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6536483 | Large wire loop filters and mechanical dampers Present day wire knitting machines are used to make wire mesh used in the manufacture of filters for airbag assemblies, catalytic converter seals, mechanical dampers, and the like, but are unable to knit large diameter wire, especially wire having a diame... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6505654 | Medical stents for body lumens exhibiting peristaltic motion A stent for reinforcement of the lumen of a peristaltic organ is formed by knitting preferably a nitinol wire into a pattern of overlapping loops selected such that from a relaxed state each row of loops may shift axially relative to and independently of ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6502606 | Guidewire A guidewire (1) comprising a distal end (2), a shaft portion (4) and a proximal end (3), wherein the shaft portion comprises at least one helically wound group (10) of at least two wires (7,8,9) extending side by side and having a pitch angle in the range... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6422271 | Apparatus and method for making clamp rings Preferred embodiments of the present invention employ a clamp ring apparatus having an upper die assembly with an upper die, a lower die assembly with a lower die, an actuator for bringing the upper die assembly and the lower die assembly together, a leg ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6397900 | Apparatus for shaping wire into wire products In order to control, in a wire shaping apparatus with a rotatable wire intake device (10), friction of the wire at the bore wall of a wire holder (52) which finally leads the wire towards the shaping station, and in order to reduce it to zero if necessary... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6374866 | System and method for assembling graft structures A system and apparatus are disclosed for preparing tubular prostheses from a sheet of tissue and inner and outer helical frame components. The tissue is wrapped around the inner frame component over an assembly mandrel. The outer helical frame component i... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6312204 | Semi-automatic plastic spiral binding machine A binding machine and method for spirally binding a sheaf of papers into a book uses an adjustable speed drive to rotate a flexible plastic spiral element into respective holes in the book. The book has a plurality of holes in a row adjacent one edge of t... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6148873 | Apparatus for producing reinforcing cages for rectangular pipes made of concrete A suitable automatically operating apparatus is proposed for producing reinforcing cages for rectangular pipes made of concrete. Longitudinal-wire sections, which are parallel to the pipe axis, are held together in a framework. The latter essentially comp... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6092565 | Apparatus for shaping wire into wire products In order to control, in a wire shaping apparatus with a rotatable wire intake device (10), friction of the wire at the bore wall of a wire holder (52) which finally leads the wire towards the shaping station, and in order to reduce it to zero if necessary... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6050306 | Bending mandrel for use in manufacturing an electrical connector A combination of a bending mandrel (29), an anvil (15) and an electrical connector(1). The bending mandrel (29) of this combination has a bending face (35) and the anvil (15) of this combination has a curved bending face (18). The electrical connector (1)... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6016852 | Leaded grid array IC package having coplanar bent leads for surface mount technology An integrated circuit package with a two dimensional array of leads that each have a foot portion which is bent at an angle relative to a vertical column portion of the leads. The foot portion of the leads are typically soldered to the surface pads of a p... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5878788 | Wire bending jig for jewelry manufacture A wire bending jig adapted for jewelry manufacture having one or more arrays of holes for receiving bending pins. The jig has means to hold the tare end of the wire stock, freeing the hands for the work of bending wire. The bending jig may be held in one ... | 03/09/1999 |
