Patents by Inventor Richard Harp

Richard Harp 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).

  • Publication number: 20080058820
    Abstract: The invention relates to shielded reciprocating cutting tool such as a surgical file system for precisely removing bone and/or other tissue material. The system allows a user to maneuver the system and navigate into hard to access sites under a direct vision mechanism included in the system. A transmission mechanism converts rotary motion from a motor into reciprocating motion and provides it to a cutting tool such as the surgical file for precision bone and/or tissue removal. A pulsatile pump mechanism can be operatively coupled with the transmission mechanism and provides irrigating fluid to the surgical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventor: Richard Harp
  • Publication number: 20060206117
    Abstract: A reciprocating surgical file system for precisely removing bone and/or other tissue is described. The system allows a user to maneuver the system and navigate into hard-to-access sites under a direct vision mechanism. A transmission mechanism converts rotary motion from a motor into reciprocating motion and provides it to the surgical file for precision removal of bone or other tissue. A pulsatile pump mechanism is operatively coupled with the transmission mechanism and provides irrigating fluid to the surgical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventor: Richard Harp
  • Publication number: 20060200154
    Abstract: A reciprocating surgical file system for precisely removing bone and/or other tissue is described. The system allows a user to maneuver the system and navigate into hard-to-access sites under a direct vision mechanism. A transmission mechanism converts rotary motion from a motor into reciprocating motion and provides it to the surgical file for precision removal of bone or other tissue. A pulsatile pump mechanism is operatively coupled with the transmission mechanism and provides irrigating fluid to the surgical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventor: Richard Harp
  • Publication number: 20060200153
    Abstract: A reciprocating surgical file system for precisely removing bone and/or other tissue is described. The system allows a user to maneuver the system and navigate into hard-to-access sites under a direct vision mechanism. A transmission mechanism converts rotary motion from a motor into reciprocating motion and provides it to the surgical file for precision removal of bone or other tissue. A pulsatile pump mechanism is operatively coupled with the transmission mechanism and provides irrigating fluid to the surgical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventor: Richard Harp
  • Publication number: 20060200155
    Abstract: A reciprocating surgical file system for precisely removing bone and/or other tissue is described. The system allows a user to maneuver the system and navigate into hard-to-access sites under a direct vision mechanism. A transmission mechanism converts rotary motion from a motor into reciprocating motion and provides it to the surgical file for precision removal of bone or other tissue. A pulsatile pump mechanism is operatively coupled with the transmission mechanism and provides irrigating fluid to the surgical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventor: Richard Harp
  • Publication number: 20060161189
    Abstract: A reciprocating surgical file system for precisely removing bone and/or other tissue is described. The system allows a user to maneuver the system and navigate into hard-to-access sites under a direct vision mechanism. A transmission mechanism converts rotary motion from a motor into reciprocating motion and provides it to the surgical file for precision removal of bone or other tissue. A pulsatile pump mechanism is operatively coupled with the transmission mechanism and provides irrigating fluid to the surgical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventor: Richard Harp
  • Publication number: 20060079919
    Abstract: The invention relates to shielded reciprocating surgical file system for precisely removing bone and/or other tissue material. The system allows a user to maneuver the system and navigate into hard to access sites under a direct vision mechanism included in the system. A transmission mechanism converts rotary motion from a motor into reciprocating motion and provides it to the surgical file for precision bone and/or tissue removal. A pulsatile pump mechanism is operatively coupled with the transmission mechanism and provides irrigating fluid to the surgical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventor: Richard Harp
  • Publication number: 20060058732
    Abstract: The invention relates to shielded reciprocating surgical file system for precisely removing bone and/or other tissue material. The system allows a user to maneuver the system and navigate into hard to access sites under a direct vision mechanism included in the system. A transmission mechanism converts rotary motion from a motor into reciprocating motion and provides it to the surgical file for precision bone and/or tissue removal. A pulsatile pump mechanism is operatively coupled with the transmission mechanism and provides irrigating fluid to the surgical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventor: Richard Harp
  • Publication number: 20040238699
    Abstract: A kneeler including a base plate having a lower surface with upwardly sloping side and rear edges permitting the kneeler to be rocked on a work surface to free such if stuck. A nose plate is joined at a shallow angle to, and extends upwardly from, the base plate remote from the side and rear edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventor: Richard A. Harp
  • Patent number: 5098377
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pneumatically-driven volume controlled bellows pump apparatus for oscillating liquid into a localized area of the human body, preferably methyl-tertiary butyl ether or another solvent, into the gallbladder. The pump includes a fluid reservoir in the form of an inverted syringe attached via a stopcock to the bellows. The bellows is attached via a second stopcock to a catheter also attached to a priming syringe. An inlet pinch valve is disposed between the bellows and the fluid reservoir and an outlet pinch valve between the bellows and the fluid receiver.To use the pump, a pigtail catheter with outlets in the pigtail is inserted into the desired area of the body, preferably a receptacle such as the gallbladder, to introduce a selected volume of liquid for gallstone dissolution. Liquid is infused into the receptacle by decompression of the bellows with the inlet but not the outlet valve open and then by compression of the bellows with the outlet but not the inlet valve open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Baxter International Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Borsanyi, Richard Harp, Robert Lebo, Scott L. Pool, Joseph Rondinone, John T. Sorensen, Roxanne Wall, Albert L. Stone