Patents by Inventor Joseph Wach
Joseph Wach 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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Publication number: 20220313877Abstract: A visible valve system for a breastmilk expression system is set forth. The visible valve system includes an outer member, graspable by a human hand. The outer member provides a visual indication that the system is properly assembled. The visible valve system can reduce spillage from a breastmilk container by providing at least a portion of a spill reducing tortuous path in the system, or the spill-reducing tortuous path may be provided in another component of a breastmilk expression system of which the visible valve system is a part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Raymond Holtz, Kathryn Mizuchi, Joseph Wach
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Patent number: 11400190Abstract: A visible valve system for a breastmilk expression system is set forth. The visible valve system includes an outer member, graspable by a human hand. The outer member provides a visual indication that the system is properly assembled. The visible valve system can reduce spillage from a breastmilk container by providing at least a portion of a spill reducing tortuous path in the system, or the spill-reducing tortuous path may be provided in another component of a breastmilk expression system of which the visible valve system is a part.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: MEDELA HOLDING AGInventors: Raymond Holtz, Kathryn Mizuchi, Joseph Wach
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Patent number: 10327585Abstract: The present invention relates to an infant feeding warming system useful to repeatedly and precisely warm breastmilk or formula for use in the NICU. The system in one form comprises a bedside unit that is attachable to an IV pole. The system may also comprise a centralized warming station with multiple chambers, wherein one chamber heats a bottle or syringe, and the remaining chambers are used for storage and/or refrigeration. The system will use a non-liquid heating system to heat feedings. A disposable liner may be used inside the chamber. The system may also contain heating algorithms that are based on a user inputting milk parameters such as volume and initial temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Medela Holding AGInventors: Ryan Bauer, Amanda Miller, Jill M. Hunt, Joseph Wach
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Publication number: 20190170135Abstract: A diaphragm assembly including a flexible diaphragm and a puller. The diaphragm has a front face and an opposing back face, and a top opening formed through the diaphragm and a bottom opening. The puller has a diaphragm end, a cam end, a puller body extending between the diaphragm end and the cam end along a puller longitudinal axis, and a first retaining ledge extending laterally from the puller body with respect to the puller longitudinal axis. The puller body is disposed through the top opening with the diaphragm disposed between the diaphragm end and the first retaining ledge and with the diaphragm end disposed adjacent the front face and the first retaining ledge disposed adjacent the back face. A method of assembly of the diaphragm assembly is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Joseph Wach, Kalpesh Patel
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Publication number: 20190154129Abstract: A cam shaft assembly including a shaft defining a shaft longitudinal axis. The cam shaft assembly further including a gear attached to and extending radially about the shaft. The cam shaft assembly further including a cam attached to the shaft. The cam and the shaft are formed of a single contiguous piece of material. In an embodiment, the gear, the cam and the shaft may all be formed of a single contiguous piece of material. In another embodiment the cam and the shaft are formed of a first material and the gear is formed of a second material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventor: Joseph Wach
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Patent number: 10136759Abstract: The present invention relates to an infant feeding warming system useful to repeatedly and precisely warm breastmilk or formula for use in the NICU. The system in one form comprises a bedside unit that is attachable to an IV pole. The system may also comprise a centralized warming station with multiple chambers, wherein one chamber heats a bottle or syringe, and the remaining chambers are used for storage and/or refrigeration. The system will use a non-liquid heating system to heat feedings. A disposable liner may be used inside the chamber. The system may also contain heating algorithms that are based on a user inputting milk parameters such as volume and initial temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Medela Holding AGInventors: Ryan Bauer, Amanda Miller, Jill M. Hunt, Joseph Wach
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Publication number: 20180318573Abstract: A rotatable connector for a breastmilk system. The connector can be customized to provide a range of rotatable motion based on a selected size, shape and material. The connector can be designed to allow a wide range of motion, as needed, during use. The connector can be located near or at least partially within a connecting component of the system, as desired. Some, or all, of the material of the connector can be designed to rotate in response to forces applied to the connector during use.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventor: Joseph Wach
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Publication number: 20160228625Abstract: A visible valve system for a breastmilk expression system is set forth. The visible valve system includes an outer member, graspable by a human hand. The outer member provides a visual indication that the system is properly assembled. The visible valve system can reduce spillage from a breastmilk container by providing at least a portion of a spill reducing tortuous path in the system, or the spill-reducing tortuous path may be provided in another component of a breastmilk expression system of which the visible valve system is a part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: Raymond Holtz, Kathryn Mizuchi, Joseph Wach
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Patent number: 9286936Abstract: Systems and methods for zone-based band mapping in a data storage device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a device may comprise a first data storage medium including a first band of tracks and a second band of tracks, each band of tracks including multiple adjacent tracks that are at least partially overlapped. The device may further comprise a processor configured to receive a write command to store received data to the first band of tracks, read previously stored data from the first band of tracks, modify the previously stored data with the received data to generate first modified data, write the first modified data to the second band of tracks, and assign a first data storage location indicator previously associated with the first band of tracks to the second band of tracks.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Sundar Poudyal, Ajay Narayan Kulkarni, Joseph Wach
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Publication number: 20140374371Abstract: The present invention relates to an infant feeding warming system useful to repeatedly and precisely warm breastmilk or formula for use in the NICU. The system in one form comprises a bedside unit that is attachable to an IV pole. The system may also comprise a centralized warming station with multiple chambers, wherein one chamber heats a bottle or syringe, and the remaining chambers are used for storage and/or refrigeration. The system will use a non-liquid heating system to heat feedings. A disposable liner may be used inside the chamber. The system may also contain heating algorithms that are based on a user inputting milk parameters such as volume and initial temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Ryan Bauer, Amanda Miller, Jill M. Hunt, Joseph Wach
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Publication number: 20140376894Abstract: The present invention relates to an infant feeding warming system useful to repeatedly and precisely warm breastmilk or formula for use in the NICU. The system in one form comprises a bedside unit that is attachable to an IV pole. The system may also comprise a centralized warming station with multiple chambers, wherein one chamber heats a bottle or syringe, and the remaining chambers are used for storage and/or refrigeration. The system will use a non-liquid heating system to heat feedings. A disposable liner may be used inside the chamber. The system may also contain heating algorithms that are based on a user inputting milk parameters such as volume and initial temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Ryan Bauer, Amanda Miller, Jill M. Hunt, Joseph Wach
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Patent number: 8529501Abstract: A breastpump assembly is disclosed. The breastpump assembly includes a breast shield within which a woman's breast is received, a conduit structure communicating with the breast shield, a container for collecting milk, and a valve mechanism closing the breastpump assembly from ambient air when initially provided to a user, the valve mechanism being opened to allow ambient air to pass into the breastpump assembly through removal of the container, so as to substantially disable the breastpump.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Medela Holding AGInventors: Joseph Wach, Paul Avanzino, Ryan Bauer
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Publication number: 20110301532Abstract: A breastpump assembly is disclosed. The breastpump assembly includes a breast shield within which a woman's breast is received, a conduit structure communicating with the breast shield, a container for collecting milk, and a valve mechanism closing the breastpump assembly from ambient air when initially provided to a user, the valve mechanism being opened to allow ambient air to pass into the breastpump assembly through removal of the container, so as to substantially disable the breastpump.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: MEDELA HOLDING AGInventors: Joseph Wach, Paul Avanzino, Ryan Bauer
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Patent number: 6460666Abstract: The damper includes a damper housing and a piston assembly reciprocating therein. The damper housing includes an attachment device formed of an interior partially circular wall with a triangular cross section thereby forming an interior partially circular apex for engaging a cylindrical boss. This allows the damper to rotate about an axis of the interior partially circular wall and pivot about an axis perpendicular to the rotational axis. Additionally, the piston assembly includes a detent protrusion formed from a stem supporting a head, the radius of the head being greater than that of the stem. The detent protrusion is engaged by a keyhole-shaped aperture with a first portion with a radius of curvature substantially equal to that of the stem and a second portion with a radius of curvature substantially equal to that of the head. The detent protrusion can therefore rotate within the keyhole-shaped aperture.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1998Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Joseph Wach
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Patent number: 6213454Abstract: The damper includes a piston assembly which travels within a cylindrical damper housing between an extended position and a retracted position. A transverse channel is formed proximate to the open end of the damper housing. A latching diamond travels within the transverse channel. The piston assembly includes a piston shaft with a camming wall sub-assembly formed thereon which engages the latching diamond so that the piston assembly is latched in a “push-push” configuration in the extended position. In this latched configuration, the latching diamond is detent engaged by a concave detent apex formed on an island which includes a longitudinally chamfered portion. Additionally, the flexibility of the island in which the concave detent apex is formed may be increased by transverse passageways or “cored-out” areas in the piston shaft immediately adjacent to the island.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1999Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Steven L. Bivens, Calvin Derr, Joseph Wach
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Patent number: 6056333Abstract: The push--push latch mechanism includes a latching body which includes a mouth, first camming walls, second camming walls, third camming walls, an inlet channel, an outlet channel and a detent island. During the latching cycle, the user pushes the door or other structure attached to the pin and the pin enters the mouth of the latching body and is guided by first camming walls to the inlet channel and second camming walls. The user then releases the door or other structure attached to the pin and the pin travels to detent engagement with the island. During the unlatching cycle, the user again pushes the door or other structure attached to the pin and the pin travels from detent engagement with the island to third camming walls which guide the pin to the outlet channel. The pin traverses the outlet channel and exits the mouth of the latching body.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1998Date of Patent: May 2, 2000Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Joseph Wach
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Patent number: D831402Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: MEDELA HOLDING AGInventors: Kalpesh Patel, Joseph Wach