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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7645968 | Method for securing a urine meter to a urine bag A method is provided for securing a fluid meter to a fluid collection bag. The method includes the steps of providing a meter ha6 ving a housing defining a fluid receptacle and at least one drain opening, providing a collection bag defining a fluid reservoir and hav... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7347913 | Sealing apparatus and method Apparatus (20) and methods for segmenting a blood-filled tube (42) into multiple, blood-containing, sealed segment are disclosed. The apparatus (20) includes a tubing locating surface (22) for mounting the tubing and sealing means (24 | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342209 | Microprocessor controlled tube apparatus having reduced radio frequency emanations A tube apparatus is provided to detect successful or failed tube operations. The tube apparatus includes jaws mounted for movement with respect to one another between (1) a first position spaced from one another and (2) a second position selected to perform a succes... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7326898 | Method and apparatus for closing or severing a tube using a controllable closure force FIG. 1 depicts a full view of the picnic table backrest. It shows the backrest, the bars that wrap around the bench to keep the back rest stable and the latch on the back of the rest that keeps the rest from slipping out. FIG. 2 shows a close up view o... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326897 | Clip on tubing welder A clip on welder includes two pairs of opposed grippers defined by pivotally attached upper and lower frames for latching the welder to heat weldable material, such as a length of tubing, upon actuation of a start button by an operator; thereafter, the welder operat... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7305311 | Arc detection and handling in radio frequency power applications A radio frequency power delivery system comprises an RF power generator, arc detection circuitry, and control logic responsive to the arc detection circuitry. A dynamic boundary is computed about the measured value of a parameter representative of or related to the ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7285749 | Thermoplastic tube sealing device utilizing actuators to control separate heating and cooling stations A tube sealing device for sealing a resilient thermoplastic tube. The tube sealing device includes a base that supports a resilient thermoplastic tube in a fixed position relative to the base. The heating tool and the cooling tool are coupled to the base for movemen... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7226649 | Laser weldable flexible medical tubings, films and assemblies thereof The present invention provides a tubing assembly having a sidewall having a first layer. The first layer is fabricated from a first polymer blend comprising a first component of a material not thermally responsive to laser beam and selected from the group consisting... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7211776 | Method for unattended sealing of tubing A clip on welder includes two pairs of opposed grippers defined by pivotally attached upper and lower frames for latching the welder to heat weldable material, such as a length of tubing, upon actuation of a start button by an operator; thereafter, the welder operat... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7208711 | Dielectric welding methods and apparatus Dielectric welding apparatus has opposed electrodes that can be engaged on either side of a product to be welded and a dielectric welding power supply that supplies welding potentials to the electrodes. The apparatus includes electrically insulating buffer material ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7151243 | Method for welding material with a clip on welder A clip on welder includes two pairs of opposed grippers defined by pivotally attached upper and lower frames for latching the welder to heat weldable material, such as a length of tubing, upon actuation of a start button by an operator; thereafter, the welder operat... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7084382 | Clip on welder for plastic material A clip on welder includes two pairs of opposed grippers defined by pivotally attached upper and lower frames for latching the welder to heat weldable material, such as a length of tubing, upon actuation of a start button by an operator; thereafter, the welder operat... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7026592 | Clip on thermal welder A clip on welder includes two pairs of opposed grippers defined by pivotally attached upper and lower frames for latching the welder to heat weldable material, such as a length of tubing, upon actuation of a start button by an operator; thereafter, the welder operat... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7012232 | RF welding device An RF welder is disclosed that has circuitry that automatically affects system impedance so that, throughout the welding or embossing cycle, a generator is capable of sending energy through die and fabric at a predetermined frequency and cabling is capable of dissip... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6998349 | System, method and apparatus for automatic control of an RF generator for maximum efficiency A system and method of generating RF includes a supply voltage source, an oscillator, an output amplifier, a load network, a peak voltage detector and a comparator circuit. The oscillator has a control signal input and an RF signal output. The output amplifier is co... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6794624 | Microprocessor controlled tube apparatus having reduced radio frequency emanations A dielectric tube sealer is provided with first and second jaws oriented along a jaw axis and positioned to receive a tube portion in a space therebetween. The first jaw is fixed and is coupled to a radio frequency generator. The second jaw is movable with respect t... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6784407 | Bench top tubing sealer A desk top sealer includes three compartments for housing a solenoid assembly, a power supply and a circuit board, respectively. A source of air flow flows into an initial compartment and is channeled through apertures in brackets forming the two remaining compartme... | 08/31/2004 |
| 5932132 | Sterile connector apparatus and method A pair of plastic containers are compressed intermediate a pair of jaws and RF energy is applied as a function of the change in impedance of the melting plastic between the jaws to sterilize with heat the plastic intermediate the pair of jaws and to form ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5840151 | Apparatus and dies for forming peelable tube assemblies An apparatus for forming coiled tubular assemblies is provided. The apparatus includes a pair of dies formed from a radio frequency (RF) conducting material. The dies each have contoured leading surfaces with these surfaces having grooves with lands betwe... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5750970 | Method for dielectrically heating an adhesive A method of heating an adhesive including the steps of placing a dielectrically heatable adhesive between first and second members. A high frequency electric field is applied between the first and second members sufficient to dielectrically heat the adhes... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5750971 | Apparatus for controlling RF generators to weld plastic materials Radio frequency power for melting, sealing and welding plastic tubing compressed between a pair of manually or automatically actuated electrically conducting jaws of a hand held or fixed base tubing sealer is regulated by a pulse width modulator controlli... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5736719 | Method and apparatus for heat sealing of packaging materials employing RF electric energy Method and apparatus employing radio frequency electric energy for heat sealing of laminated packaging materials, particularly aseptic packaging materials, that include facing contiguous layers of thermoplastic material, including first and second seal ja... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5520218 | Medical tubing set for the use with an improved radio frequency tubing sealer A tubing set includes at least one fluid conveying tube. The fluid conveying tube has a predetermined outside diameter, and is formed of a material adapted to be dielectrically heated at a sealing location. The insulating sleeve has an inside dimension at... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5345070 | Radio frequency tubing sealer An insulating sleeve retains heat in the plastic of a flexible plastic medical tube when the plastic of the medical tube is dielectrically heated by a radio frequency tubing sealer. The heat retained by the insulating sleeve permits additional melting of ... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5272303 | Welding device with movable and immovable electrodes for welding tubes A portable device for welding a heat weldable tube has a main body case, a first electrode supported on an end part of the main body case, a movable member arranged opposite to the end part of the main body case, a second electrode arranged on the movable... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5272304 | High-frequency dielectric heating hand-operated sealer for medical tubing A medical tubing sealer has its electrodes extending from a handle in line therewith and one electrode shiftable by a lever transverse to the major dimension of the handle to provide a particularly ergonomic configuration. The lever acts upon the clamping... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5260535 | Apparatus for induction welding An apparatus for induction sealing plastic-coated thermoplastic packaging material that includes a metal layer, comprises an inductor and a counter block between which the packaging material is to be positioned. The inductor includes a carrier portion tha... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5256845 | Apparatus for sealing medical plastic tubing with high frequency dielectric heating Spurious emission from an apparatus for sealing medical tubing is prevented by providing a tuned circuit of capacitors and inductors between amplifier stages, by providing a low-pass filter of such resonant networks at the input and the output of the gene... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5254825 | Apparatus for the sealing of medical plastic articles The detuning of a tuned network in a sealing head of a device for sealing medical plastic articles is detected and automatically compensated to reduce the overall energy consumption and optimize the sealing process. A secondary capacitor in the tuned netw... | 10/19/1993 |
| 4954678 | Annular RF sealer and method A radially compressible heating element is located about concentric overlapped heat fusible elements temporarily mounted upon a mandrel to form an annular seal between the heat fusible elements upon energization of the heating element.... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4950347 | Method for welding thermoplastic resin A method of welding thermoplastic resin with a high frequency welder, comprising the step of: putting an exothermic object to generate heat and an adherend made of thermoplastic resin not to be molten when high frequency waves are applied, between electro... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4787194 | RF-sealable packaging containers Packaging containers which are closed, except for a pinch-type filling valve or filling-opening, are provided with an RF-sealable polymer, at least in the valve or opening, in order to be able to seal the valve or opening using RF frequency. Preferably, p... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4539793 | Method of forming a burstable pouch An improved method for forming closed burstable pouches having breakable seals. The method includes selection of a laminated polymeric film which has two principal layers--an outer layer which is responsive, and an inner layer which is non-responsive, to ... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4529859 | Blood tubing sealing unit A solenoid operated moveable jaw cooperates with a fixed jaw protruding from a blood tubing sealing unit and formed as part of a relatively massive heat sink to effect seals on liquid filled plastic tubing upon transmission of RF energy timed to coincide ... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4496819 | Jaws for an electro-mechanical tubing sealer A pair of jaws moveable with respect to one another whether mounted in a hand held sealer or desk mounted sealer, compresses, heats, elongates, spreads and welds liquid filled tubing placed therebetween. Variants of the pair of jaws provide means for seri... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4491711 | Electro mechanical tubing sealer A pair of jaws moveable with respect to one another whether mounted in a hand held sealer or desk mounted sealer, compresses, heats, elongates, spreads and welds liquid filled tubing placed therebetween. Variants of the pair of jaws provide means for seri... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4490598 | Blood tubing sealing unit A solenoid operated moveable jaw cooperates with a fixed jaw protruding from a blood tubing sealing unit and formed as part of a relatively massive heat sink to effect seals on liquid filled plastic tubing upon transmission of RF energy timed to coincide ... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4488028 | Electrode mechanical tubing sealer A pair of jaws moveable with respect to one another whether mounted in a hand held sealer or desk mounted sealer, compresses, heats, elongates, spreads and welds liquid filled tubing placed therebetween. Variants of the pair of jaws provide means for seri... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4451721 | Method for high frequency welding flangeless thermoplastic shells A method for dielectric welding together of two substantially rigid thermoplastic flanged parts (or "subshells") to form a flangeless, typically thin-walled, thermoplastic shell. The method may be praticed using a pair of relatively movable, clamping elec... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4390832 | Circuit for electro mechanical tubing sealer A pair of jaws moveable with respect to one another whether mounted in a hand held sealer or desk mounted sealer, compresses, heats, elongates, spreads and welds liquid filled tubing placed therebetween. Variants of the pair of jaws provide means for seri... | 06/28/1983 |
