| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7164836 |
Light-guide lights suitable for use in illuminated displays |
January 16, 2007 |
| A light-guide light (1) suitable for use in illuminated displays and signs comprises a housing (3) defining an optical cavity having first and second generally parallel major faces (5, 6), and a light source (11) positioned to direct light into the optical cavity from one side. The f |
| 7135030 |
Articulating ultrasonic surgical shears |
November 14, 2006 |
| An ultrasonic surgical instrument is described which incorporates an articulating shearing end-effector. The instrument comprises an ultrasonic transducer, an ultrasonically activated end-effector, and a substantially solid ultrasonic waveguide that connects the ultrasonic transducer |
| 6893135 |
Light guides suitable for illuminated displays |
May 17, 2005 |
| A light guide (1) comprises a housing (3) defining a light-guiding optical cavity having first and second opposed major faces (5, 6), and a light source (11) arranged to direct light into the cavity from one end, to be guided between the major faces. The first major face (5) comprises a |
| 6589200 |
Articulating ultrasonic surgical shears |
July 8, 2003 |
| A therapeutic ultrasound instrument is described for cutting, dissecting, or cauterizing tissue. Ultrasonic vibrations, when transmitted to organic tissue at suitable energy levels and using a suitable end-effector, may be used for the safe and effective treatment of many medical conditi |
| 6483309 |
Power frequency magnetic field (PF-MF) detection systems and operating methods therefor |
November 19, 2002 |
| The present invention provides a power frequency, i.e., time-varying, magnetic field (PF-NF) detector system for characterizing the operational condition of a remote facility responsive to time-varying magnetic fields generated by electrical transmission lines associated with the remote |
| 6090120 |
Articulating ultrasonic surgical instrument |
July 18, 2000 |
| A therapeutic ultrasound instrument is described for cutting, dissecting, or cauterizing tissue. Ultrasonic vibrations, when transmitted to organic tissue at suitable energy levels and using a suitable end-effector, may be used for the safe and effective treatment of many medical conditi |
| 5989264 |
Ultrasonic polyp snare |
November 23, 1999 |
| In one embodiment the present invention comprises an ultrasonic polyp snare adapted to grasp, cut and coagulate polyps and other tissue masses in internal body lumens, specifically in the colon. An ultrasonic polyp snare according to the present invention includes an ultrasonic signal ge |
| 5897523 |
Articulating ultrasonic surgical instrument |
April 27, 1999 |
| A therapeutic ultrasound instrument is described for cutting, dissecting, or cauterizing tissue. Ultrasonic vibrations, when transmitted to organic tissue at suitable energy levels and using a suitable end-effector, may be used for the safe and effective treatment of many medical conditi |
| 5346502 |
Laparoscopic ultrasonic surgical instrument and methods for manufacturing the instruments |
September 13, 1994 |
| The ultrasonic instrument includes a shaft having an integral sheath of PTFE encompassing the shaft and attached solely to the shaft. At the proximal end of the shaft, wrench flats are exposed through openings in the sheath and grooves cooperate with complementary ribs on the sheath, to |
| 5195553 |
Spacer for mounting plumbing to a wall |
March 23, 1993 |
| A spacer for rigidly securing plumbing pipes to a wall. The spacer comprises a back portion comprised of a generally C-shaped clamp adapted to snap-fit over a plumbing pipe and a front portion including a flat face adapted to abut against the hidden or back surface of the wall. |
| 5019952 |
AC to DC power conversion circuit with low harmonic distortion |
May 28, 1991 |
| In an AC to DC power conversion circuit including a boost inductor connected in series between a full-wave rectifier and a DC load, a switch is connected to selectively shunt boost inductor current from the load. Switch conduction is controlled by a pulse width modulator generating s |
| 4781201 |
Cardiovascular artifact filter |
November 1, 1988 |
| For suppressing cardiovascular artifact from a respiration signal derived from a patient's transthoracic impedance, an adaptive filtering device determines the patient's heart rate, converts the respiration signal from an analog to digital representation at a rate proportional to the hea |
| 4717156 |
Tossing game |
January 5, 1988 |
| A tossing game including first and second base members for placement on a substantially horizontal support surface spaced apart from one another, each of the base members having a cavity with an upwardly opened mouth and being in the shape of a truncated cone. First and second target mem |
| 4255067 |
Disposal of liquid waste and recovery of metals therefrom |
March 10, 1981 |
| Industrial liquid wastes containing low concentrations of heavy metals are applied to a soil bed where evaporation of the liquid occurs. The soil bed is lined with a liquid-impermeable liner of polymeric sheet material, bentonite clay or a laminate of the two to prevent escape of the liq |
| 4007009 |
Chemical analysis of ions incorporated in lattices using coherent excitation sources |
February 8, 1977 |
| Method for analysis of cations and anions in trace amounts in solution by excitation with a tuneable laser of a precipitate or a coprecipitate formed of the unknown ions in the presence of ions which fluoresce upon excitation by the dye laser and which experience change in energy levels |
