Patents Assigned to Physicians Against Land Mines
  • Casting system and method
    Publication number: 20070296107
    Abstract: A system and method for casting molds that can be used, for example, to make prosthetic or orthodic devices or any other suitable object. The system and method uses an elastic bag containing an elastic, flexible, conformable or resilient material, such as micro polystyrene beads, to cast negative and positive molds of the object using the application of vacuum suction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: PHYSICIANS AGAINST LAND MINES
    Inventor: Yeongchi Wu
  • Prosthetic system
    Patent number: 6709617
    Abstract: The device and method of the invention utilizes a vacuum pump, a casting device, first and second CIR Connectors, a connector cuff, a casting balloon, a heating chamber or oven, a supracondylar wedge, and a CIR alignment/vacuum forming jig to create a prosthetic device under field conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Physicians Against Land Mines
    Inventor: Yeongchi Wu