Patents by Inventor Francis Navarro

Francis Navarro 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).

  • Device for fixing a catheter to the body of a patient
    Patent number: 7635354
    Abstract: A device for fixing a catheter, such as a peripheral veinous catheter, a central veinous catheter or a central arterial catheter, to the body of a patient. The device includes a housing, which can be closed by a lid, and a base coupled to the housing, surrounding the housing and enabling the housing to be fixed to the skin of the patient. The housing includes a first chamber through which the outer part of the catheter, which is placed in the vein, passes and a second chamber for accommodating and maintaining the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Inventors: Francis Navarro, Jacques Le Bozec
  • Device for fixing a catheter to the body of a patient
    Publication number: 20070043326
    Abstract: A device for fixing a catheter, such as a peripheral veinous catheter, a central veinous catheter or a central arterial catheter, to the body of a patient. The device includes a housing, which can be closed by a lid, and a base coupled to the housing, surrounding the housing and enabling the housing to be fixed to the skin of the patient. The housing includes a first chamber through which the outer part of the catheter, which is placed in the vein, passes and a second chamber for accommodating and maintaining the catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Francis Navarro, Jacques Le Bozec
  • Instrument for closing, by subcutaneous suturing, an orifice made in the abdominal wall of a patient
    Patent number: 6939357
    Abstract: An instrument for closing, by subcutaneous suturing, an orifice made in the abdominal wall of a patient. The instrument has a piston rod (5) whose end acts on a flexible support strip (8) for needles (7), thus causing them to emerge at an exterior of the lower part (4) of a cannula (3) of the instrument underneath the abdominal wall (2), so that the needle can then penetrate into a thick part of this wall. Also, a method for suturing of orifices after a surgical operation by laparoscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Inventors: Francis Navarro, Jacques Domergue
  • Device for maintaining at least a tube
    Patent number: 6682506
    Abstract: A device for retaining at least one drainage tube passing through an artificial cavity into a patient's body. According to the invention, the device includes at least one collecting chamber for the collection of secretions, a base attached to the body and surrounding each collecting chamber, and at least one orifice in the collecting chamber for the passage of a drainage tube, the axis of the orifice not being perpendicular to the plane of the base, enabling the drainage tube to be curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Inventor: Francis Navarro
  • Instrument for closing, by subcutaneous suturing, an orifice made in the abdominal wall of a patient
    Publication number: 20030028201
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an instrument for closing, by subcutaneous suturing, an orifice made in the abdominal wall of a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Francis Navarro, Jacques Domergue