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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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5857499 |
Device for manipulating a wound coil
A device (10) for manipulating a wound coil (18) includes a mechanism for grabbing a wound coil (18), a first pair of opposed fingers (12), and a second pair of opposed fingers (14). The first pair...
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5829490 |
Apparatus for making a wreath ring
Wreath ring making machine having a ram torque stabilizer and an angle plate for imparting an offset angle to one rib arm. The wreath ring has a circular spine and C-shaped ribs disposed about the...
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5657658 |
Apparatus for shaping and transporting wire binding elements for perforated sheets
An apparatus which is used to impart a specific configuration to substantially flat elongated strips of deformable wire binding elements for stacks of overlapping perforated sheets or the like has...
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5613529 |
Method and apparatus for treatment of stator coil lead wires for electric rotary machine
A method and apparatus for treatment of stator coil lead wires for an electric rotary machine, in which a plurality of coil lead wires extending in the radial direction of a stator for an electric...
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5497811 |
Device for bending the ends of metallic binding spirals
A device for bending the ends (17) which result from cutting to size a metallic binding spiral (9) includes a contrasting member (4) provided at the front with two pairs (12, 12') of flat lugs,...
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5485137 |
Method for manufacturing a fuse and a fuse made by that method
A method for manufacturing a fuse comprising a fuse element (10), in the form of a single wire, which is formed together with at least one terminal (11,11a,11b), in the form of a number of twisted...
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5351518 |
Four slider apparatus for forming curved rectangular bodied needles and method
An apparatus for forming a curved, flat sided surgical needle, which comprises a frame member including an anvil member having an arcuate surface profile; a movable first die member for...
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5326460 |
Pretensioned mesh insert and method for producing a pretensioned mesh insert
The invention includes a pretensioned mesh insert and method for providing a pretensioned mesh insert for a traveling water screen basket. First and second mated screen panels are secured together...
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5226913 |
Method of making a radially expandable prosthesis
Radially expandable endoprostheses or stents are provided, as well as their method of manufacture. These stents include a plurality of adjacent generally circumferential sections that are...
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5150600 |
Resilient member nesting apparatus
A resilient member handling apparatus comprising a frame, a mechanism on the frame for bowing successive resilient members, and a mechanism on the frame for forming a nested complement of the...
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5102362 |
General purpose illuminator assembly
An illuminator assembly is disclosed which is formed from a light emitting diode (LED) having two electrode pins extending therefrom which are cut to predetermined lengths. One lead then is formed...
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4907336 |
Method of making an endovascular stent and delivery system
In a method of the present invention, a wire stent, having a cylindrical shape defined by a series of alternating longitudinally overlapping opposing loops, is fabricated from a wire formed into a...
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4881577 |
Method of forming cantilevered support arms for plastic bag rack
A two-wire structure for use in suspending plastic bags on a rack is formed by inwardly bending each of the end portions of a single straight length of wire such that each lies against the middle...
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4880217 |
Annular spring design
This invention is an annular or garter spring having a welded overlapping region. In this invention, the end tips of a straight spring fit within the spaces between coils at the opposite end of the...
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4875355 |
Manufacture of wire binding elements
A machine for transforming zigzag wire to the slotted tubular form ready for use as a binding element comprises means for feeding a strip of zigzag wire longitudinally, means for arresting the feed...
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4840204 |
Axial component lead cutter and former
An apparatus for bending leads axially protruding from a component includes a pair of spaced apart discs mounted on a shaft. Each disc has a plurality of generally V-shaped cutouts that are axially...
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4774108 |
Methods of forming and using mat to obtain surface finishes
Improved techniques are provided for obtaining a desirable surface finish of two or more visually distinct selected colors. A mat is prepared by selectively weaving wire between fixed pins on a...
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4757845 |
Method and apparatus for bending wires
Apparatus for bending or deploying selected, individual, stripped, electrical wires at the stripped free end of a ribbon cable. The apparatus comprises a base having a box-like recess with fixed...
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4756345 |
Machine for producing hanging members for packs of sheets
In a machine for producing a hanging member or hanger from a wire portion, the hanging member is obtained by cutting off the wire portion from a wire unwound from a wire roll. The wire portion is...
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4745675 |
Method of manufacturing laminations for electrical apparatus
A method of manufacturing a stator lamination for a dynamoelectric machine. A length of steel wire is formed into alternate straight and undulated portions and is formed into a coil such that the...
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4721136 |
Binding comb shaping device
A binding comb shaping device for producing profile-bent binding combs for comb binding of sheet layers has rotary bending tools with bending sliding edges and/or in the form of rolling members,...
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4713956 |
Apparatus for manufacturing spring units
In an apparatus for manufacturing springs, a frame body has guide rails on which a pair of movable bodies are mounted to be movable. Each of the movable bodies has rotatable holding rollers between...
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4674545 |
Method and apparatus of forming a flexible dental retaining splint
An apparatus for forming a continuous length of flexible retaining splints including a plurality of body sections interconnected by eyelet sections. Each body section includes a number of core...
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4655069 |
Automatic machine for curving thin and rectilinear elements, such as metal wires
The present invention provides an automatic machine for curving thin and rectilinear metal elements of the wire, strip or tube type. According to the invention, this machine comprises a nipper (2)...
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4633918 |
Coil hanger and handling method
This invention relates to material handling of helical coils of resistance heating wire, hangers for use in handling the wire coils, an assembly of hangers and coils and a method for handling such...
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4599881 |
Method and arrangement for winding and forming helixes of elastic plastic or metal wire
In a method and an arrangement for winding and forming helixes of elastic synthetic plastic and metal wire the wire is supplied from a wire supply device, windings are then wound from the wire so...
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4594218 |
Method of producing multifilament lengths of superconductor from ternary chalcogenides of molybdenum
The present invention concerns superconductor lengths constituted by superconducting filaments based on a ternary chalcogenide of molybdenum (PbMo 6 S 8 ) assembled within a stabilizing matrix...
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4592223 |
Wire forming apparatus
Wire forming apparatus has a pair of rotary dies movable together and apart on a rectilinear path. The dies are adapted to hold a length of wire at opposite ends thereof such that on...
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