Patents by Inventor Clifford Dey
Clifford Dey has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8128859Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming cavities in pouches. The packages are used for packaging sterile medical products. The apparatus has a frame and a tongue plate member. A pouch is placed onto the tongue plate member to form a cavity into at least one side of the pouch.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Clifford Dey, Dwayne Looney, Michael Pohle, Robert Cerwin
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Publication number: 20110086175Abstract: An engagement head for engaging a porous substrate includes at least two pin sets, each pin set including a plurality of pins arranged in a plurality of parallel pin rows at a predetermined pin angle, wherein pins of immediately neighboring pin rows are arranged such that pin angles for the pins in a pin row are inversely symmetrical to pin angles for the pins in a neighboring pin row. The pins of a pin row move collectively in the same direction when a pin set is extended, which direction is determined by the pin angle of the pin row, whereby neighboring pin rows move in opposite longitudinal directions from one another when the pin set is extended. The pin sets may be extended and retracted in unison by a single actuation source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2008Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Clifford Dey, Markus Bohn, Hans-Steffen Schacht, Ashley P. Deanglis, Robert W. Van Holten, Dwayne Looney, Gerard Llanos, Avner Brandes
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Publication number: 20100314805Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming cavities in pouches. The packages are used for packaging sterile medical products. The apparatus has a frame and a tongue plate member. A pouch is placed onto the tongue plate member to form a cavity into at least one side of the pouch.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Clifford Dey, Dwayne Looney, Michael Pohle, Robert Cerwin
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Patent number: 7837455Abstract: Apparatus and method for making a plurality of different types of suture packages employ a mold with first and second opposing mold parts partially defining a mold cavity, at least one of the opposing mold parts has an opening therein communicating with the mold cavity. An insert is removeably inserted into the opening, to complete the mold cavity in a form suitable for molding a first type of suture package. An alternative insert is interchangeable with the first insert for completing the mold cavity in a form suitable for molding a second type of suture package. To make different suture packages, the mold is initially configured and used with one of the inserts to thereby make one type of suture package. The first insert is then replaced with the second, changing the mold cavity to form another type of suture package.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Robert James Cerwin, Clifford A. Dey
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Publication number: 20100276840Abstract: Apparatus and method for making a plurality of different types of suture packages employ a mold with first and second opposing mold parts partially defining a mold cavity, at least one of the opposing mold parts has an opening therein communicating with the mold cavity. An insert is removeably inserted into the opening, to complete the mold cavity in a form suitable for molding a first type of suture package. An alternative insert is interchangeable with the first insert for completing the mold cavity in a form suitable for molding a second type of suture package. To make different suture packages, the mold is initially configured and used with one of the inserts to thereby make one type of suture package. The first insert is then replaced with the second, changing the mold cavity to form another type of suture package.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: ROBERT JAMES CERWIN, CLIFFORD A. DEY
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Publication number: 20090320408Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming cavities in pouches. The packages are used for packaging sterile medical products. The apparatus has a frame and a tongue plate member. A pouch is placed onto the tongue plate member to form a cavity into at least one side of the pouch.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Clifford Dey, Dwayne Looney, Michael Pohle, Robert Cerwin
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Patent number: 7467710Abstract: A package assembly and method for packaging sutures is provided. The package includes a substantially rectangular casing defining an internal area therein and including a container portion having a substantially flat bottom side defined by first, second, third and fourth edges, and first, second, third and fourth sides extending upwardly from the first, second, third and fourth edges respectively, and a lid portion removably secured to a top side of the container portion to thereby form an integral casing. The package further includes a plurality of suture packages each having a substantially planar shape, wherein the plurality of packages are positioned within the internal area of the rectangular casing substantially parallel to one another and substantially perpendicular to the bottom side of the container portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2005Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Robert Cerwin, Clifford Dey, Glynn Clements
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Publication number: 20080185752Abstract: Apparatus and method for making a plurality of different types of suture packages employ a mold with first and second opposing mold parts partially defining a mold cavity, at least one of the opposing mold parts has an opening therein communicating with the mold cavity. An insert is removeably inserted into the opening, to complete the mold cavity in a form suitable for molding a first type of suture package. An alternative insert is interchangeable with the first insert for completing the mold cavity in a form suitable for molding a second type of suture package. To make different suture packages, the mold is initially configured and used with one of the inserts to thereby make one type of suture package. The first insert is then replaced with the second, changing the mold cavity to form another type of suture package.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: August 7, 2008Inventors: Robert James Cerwin, Clifford A. Dey
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Publication number: 20070227914Abstract: A suture package having a cover member and base member configured so that, when coupled together, they form a continuous channel therebetween. A dispensing port opening through the cover member is aligned with and provides access into the continuous channel. The package also includes a plurality of sutures extending substantially along the length of and within the channel, with an end region of each suture extending out of the channel through the dispensing port opening to a distal end that is removably secured to the package by the holding device. A pathway followed by each suture from the point at which the suture extends out from the suture channel through the dispensing port opening to the point at which the suture is removably secured to the package by the holding device, changes direction by at least 90 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Robert Cerwin, Clifford Dey
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Publication number: 20060249405Abstract: A package assembly and method for packaging sutures is provided. The package includes a substantially rectangular casing defining an internal area therein and including a container portion having a substantially flat bottom side defined by first, second, third and fourth edges, and first, second, third and fourth sides extending upwardly from the first, second, third and fourth edges respectively, and a lid portion removably secured to a top side of the container portion to thereby form an integral casing. The package further includes a plurality of suture packages each having a substantially planar shape, wherein the plurality of packages are positioned within the internal area of the rectangular casing substantially parallel to one another and substantially perpendicular to the bottom side of the container portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2005Publication date: November 9, 2006Inventors: Robert Cerwin, Clifford Dey, Glynn Clements
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Patent number: 6915623Abstract: A novel method and apparatus for riveting a two-piece suture tray package. A two-piece suture tray assembly is provided having a top member and a bottom member. The top member has a top and a bottom, and plurality of rivet members extending down from the bottom of the top member. The rivet members have free ends. The bottom member has a top and a flat bottom surface, and a plurality of rivet receiving openings extending therethrough. A counterbore surrounds each rivet receiving opening in the flat bottom surface. An ultrasonic riveting apparatus is provided having a clamp member with a cavity, and an ultrasonic horn member having a flat bottom moveably mounted in the cavity. The assembly is mounted in the riveting apparatus and engaged by the clamp member.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2003Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Clifford A. Dey, Robert J. Cerwin, Thomas Warner
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Publication number: 20050034431Abstract: A novel method and apparatus for riveting a two-piece suture tray package. A two-piece suture tray assembly is provided having a top member and a bottom member. The top member has a top and a bottom, and plurality of rivet members extending down from the bottom of the top member. The rivet members have free ends. The bottom member has a top and a flat bottom surface, and a plurality of rivet receiving openings extending therethrough. A counterbore surrounds each rivet receiving opening in the flat bottom surface. An ultrasonic riveting apparatus is provided having a clamp member with a cavity, and an ultrasonic horn member having a flat bottom moveably mounted in the cavity The assembly is mounted in the riveting apparatus and engaged by the clamp member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2003Publication date: February 17, 2005Inventors: Clifford Dey, Robert Cerwin, Thomas Warner
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Patent number: 6820400Abstract: An apparatus for inserting surgical needles in needle parks. The apparatus has a frame, a needle block slidably mounted to the frame, a shuttle member slidably mounted to the frame, and a pick-up head. The needle block has a plurality of guide members spaced apart to receive at least one surgical needle and at least one needle park. The apparatus is used in a method of automatically loading surgical needles into the needle parks of surgical suture packages.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2002Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Konstantin Ivanov, John Rega, Clifford Dey, Albert C. Grosenbeck, Robert J. Cerwin, Joseph Stanley Siernos
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Patent number: 6807796Abstract: A machine and method for loading surgical needles having attached sutures into a package. The machine has a rotating disk mounted to a frame. The disk has circumferential grooves for receiving a suture. The machine has a block slidably mounted to the machine for receiving a needle and transporting it to a motion device. The motion device moves the needle to a package on a packaging machine. Rotation of the package by the packaging machine causes the suture to move out of the grooves and into the package.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Clifford A. Dey, Robert J. Cerwin, Thomas J. Zingale, Konstantin Ivanov, Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias, Manfred Hild, Manfred Reiser, Bernard Wachter
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Patent number: 6804937Abstract: A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of the frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the toll nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel. Channel winding pins in the winding tooling provide for an arranged wind of suture in a suture channel of the tray packages. The machine has an in-line printer and a punching machine for printing and punching paper covers from strips of stock material, which are then mounted to the tray packages.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2003Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Clifford A. Dey, Robert J. Cerwin, Thomas J. Zingale, Konstantin Ivanov, Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias, Manfred Hild, Manfred Reiser, Bernard Wachter
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Publication number: 20040177594Abstract: A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the tool nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel. Channel winding pins in the winding tooling provide for an arranged wind of suture in a suture channel of the tray packages. The machine has an in-line printer and a punching machine for printing and punching paper covers from strips of stock material, which are then mounted to the tray packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Clifford A. Dey, Robert J. Cerwin, Thomas J. Zingale, Konstantin Ivanov, Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias, Manfred Hild, Manfred Reiser, Bernard Wachter
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Publication number: 20030196416Abstract: An apparatus for inserting surgical needles in needle parks. The apparatus has a frame, a needle block slidably mounted to the frame, a shuttle member slidably mounted to the frame, and a pick-up head. The needle block has a plurality of guide members spaced apart to receive at least one surgical needle and at least one needle park. The apparatus is used in a method of automatically loading surgical needles into the needle parks of surgical suture packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2002Publication date: October 23, 2003Inventors: Konstantin Ivanov, John Rega, Clifford Dey, Albert C. Grosenbeck, Robert J. Cerwin, Joseph Stanley Siernos
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Patent number: 6463719Abstract: A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the tool nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2000Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: EthiconInventors: Clifford Dey, Konstantin Ivanov, Martin Sobel, Joseph Stanley Siernos, John Rega, David Roslon, Raul Quinones, Alan Hughieson, Mehmet Reyhan, Manfred Reiser, Bernhard Wachter, Manfred Hild, Erwin Bauder
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Publication number: 20020069617Abstract: A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the tool nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2000Publication date: June 13, 2002Inventors: Clifford Dey, Konstantin Ivanov, Martin Sobel, Joseph Stanley Siernos, John Rega, David Roslon, Raul Quinones, Alan Hughieson, Mehmet Reyhan, Manfred Reiser, Bernhard Wachter, Manfred Hild, Erwin Bauder
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Patent number: 6135272Abstract: A package for sutures having a winding channel. The package has a base member and a cover member that is mounted to the base member. A plurality of cantilevered doors cover the winding channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Martin Sobel, Konstantin Ivanov, Marvin Alpern, Clifford Dey, Joseph Stanley Siernos, William F. Smith