Patents Assigned to Victory Engineering Company
  • Patent number: 4826487
    Abstract: An alignment button includes cannula and radiopaque markers exactly mimicing corresponding elements in a stereotaxic array plug. The stereotaxic array plug is installed in an opening in the skull and the scalp is closed over it. The alignment button is sutured in place with its cannula exactly aligned with corresponding cannula in the stereotaxic array plug. Alignment is performed using medical imaging capable of showing simultaneously the radiopaque marker in both elements. In one embodiment of the invention, jaws protrude inward into the cannula to stabilize a medical device inserted therethrough. In a further embodiment of the invention, the alignment button is affixed over soft tissue without being accompanied by a stereotaxic array plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Victory Engineering Company
    Inventor: Arthur Winter
  • Patent number: 4796637
    Abstract: A stereotaxic catheter includes at least one lumen parallel to an axis thereof. The lumen includes a staff having disposed thereon or therein a predetermined number of spaced-apart markings of a radiopaque material. In a preferred embodiment, the markings are equidistantly spaced circumferential bands of a material having a large X-ray signature. The lumen containing the staff is preferably sealed at both ends and is most preferably sealed in close adjacency to each end of the staff whereby the staff is retained in a stable and predictable positional relationship to the remainder of the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Victory Engineering Company
    Inventors: Frank Mascuch, Arthur Winter
  • Patent number: 4763665
    Abstract: A thermistor assembly for use in an environment of microwave radiation employs an interface metallic layer on the surface of a plastic insulation its conductors and a metal foil wrapped upon the thermistor head. The metal foil overlaps the interface metallic layer on the conductors. A surface metallic layer is electroplated on both the interface metallic layer and the metal foil to unite both into a single electrically conducting layer effective to exclude microwave radiation from the interior thereof and thus to avoid direct microwave heating of the thermistor or the electrical conductors in the vicinity of the thermistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1988
    Assignee: Victory Engineering Company
    Inventors: Frank Mascuch, Arthur Winter, Satish Laroia