Patents by Inventor Andreas Burk
Andreas Burk 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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Patent number: 11397108Abstract: A multi-function controller, comprising a control element, a support element, at least a first light emitter and at least a first light receiver. A multi-function controller, comprising a control element, at least a first magnet and at least a first sensor. In some aspects, one or more occluders is provided. In some aspects, a control element is rotatable and/or tiltable, and/or the control element can be pushed or pulled, and movement of the control element is detected optically or by Hall effect sensors. In some aspects, an icon cap is not rotatable. A method comprising rotating and/or tilting a control element on a multi-function controller, and detecting a position of the control element.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Marquardt GmbHInventors: Matthew R. Randle, Kenneth L. Markowski, Andrea Burke, David J. Fassett
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Patent number: 10183572Abstract: A front end arrangement of a motor vehicle has a front end module (4) that is fastened directly or indirectly to vehicle longitudinal carriers of a vehicle body arrangement which delimit an engine compartment (10). At least one cooling apparatus (12) is mounted in a floating manner on that side of the front end module (4) that is directed toward the engine compartment (10). At least one air guide duct is fastened to the front end module (4) and is provided with at least one air guide arrangement (18). The air guide arrangement (18) is connected via fastening means (19) to the cooling apparatus (12).Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sven Wallrabe, Markus Keller, Robert Bona, Niklas Neuschwanger, Peter Reutlinger, Daniel Quednau, Andreas Burk
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Publication number: 20180154762Abstract: A front end arrangement of a motor vehicle has a front end module (4) that is fastened directly or indirectly to vehicle longitudinal carriers of a vehicle body arrangement which delimit an engine compartment (10). At least one cooling apparatus (12) is mounted in a floating manner on that side of the front end module (4) that is directed toward the engine compartment (10). At least one air guide duct is fastened to the front end module (4) and is provided with at least one air guide arrangement (18). The air guide arrangement (18) is connected via fastening means (19) to the cooling apparatus (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Sven Wallrabe, Markus Keller, Robert Bona, Niklas Neuschwanger, Peter Reutlinger, Daniel Quednau, Andreas Burk
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Publication number: 20160370821Abstract: A multi-function controller, comprising a control element, a support element, at least a first light emitter and at least a first light receiver. A multi-function controller, comprising a control element, at least a first magnet and at least a first sensor. In some aspects, one or more occluders is provided. In some aspects, a control element is rotatable and/or tiltable, and/or the control element can be pushed or pulled, and movement of the control element is detected optically or by Hall effect sensors. In some aspects, an icon cap is not rotatable. A method comprising rotating and/or tilting a control element on a multi-function controller, and detecting a position of the control element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: Marquardt Mechatronik GmbHInventors: Matthew R. RANDLE, Kenneth L. Markowski, Andrea Burke, David J. Fassett
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Patent number: 8845700Abstract: A bone screw assembly includes a screw body, including anchor portion and rod-receiving portion, and a rod seat movably mounted in the screw body to allow for controlled angulation between a spinal connection element disposed in the rod seat and the screw body. The rod seat is pivotable in one or more selected directions about one or more axes relative to the screw body. The rod seat may include a first lower rod seat element disposed in a recess of the screw body having a cylindrical bottom surface to facilitate pivoting in a first direction. A second lower rod seat element is stacked on the first lower rod seat element and has a conical bottom surface abutting a top surface of the first lower rod seat element to facilitate pivoting in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, LLC.Inventors: Seungkyu Daniel Kwak, Nam T. Chao, Andrea Burke
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Patent number: 8603144Abstract: A bone screw assembly includes a screw body, including anchor portion and rod-receiving portion, and a rod seat movably mounted in the screw body to allow for controlled angulation between a spinal connection element disposed in the rod seat and the screw body. The rod seat is pivotable in one or more selected directions about one or more axes relative to the screw body. The rod seat may include a first lower rod seat element disposed in a recess of the screw body having a cylindrical bottom surface to facilitate pivoting in a first direction. A second lower rod seat element is stacked on the first lower rod seat element and has a conical bottom surface abutting a top surface of the first lower rod seat element to facilitate pivoting in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Depuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Seung Kyu Daniel Kwak, Nam T. Chao, Andrea Burke
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Patent number: 8579136Abstract: Limited flow cups are provided which deliver a metered amount of fluid to a user during a drinking motion.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Reliant Medical Products, Inc.Inventors: Andrea Burke, Richard M. Davis, Gerald Melsky, David Porat, Jerry Porter
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Patent number: 8298235Abstract: The present invention includes pin guides and methods for placing pins in adjacent vertebrae. The present invention also includes methods for placing pins in adjacent vertebrae using the pin guides described herein. The present invention also includes an intervertebral implant insertion and alignment instrument, a distraction instrument, an intervertebral implant insertion guide, and methods for inserting an implant into an intervertebral space. Despite existing tools and techniques, present positioning of implants in intervertebral spaces and pins in adjacent vertebrae often depend on a surgeon's skill, experience and technique. Practice of the present invention can aide in the placement of an implant into an intervertebral space and placement of pins in adjacent vertebrae, e.g., midline to the coronal plane spine and/or parallel to vertebral endplates that abut the intervertebral space.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: DePuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: Alexander Grinberg, William McGittigan, Edward B. Zalenski, Ronald Garner, Andrea Burke
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Publication number: 20110168703Abstract: Limited flow cups are provided which deliver a metered amount of fluid to a user during a drinking motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: RELIANT MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Andrea Burke, Richard M. Davis, Gerald Melsky, David Porat, Jerry Porter
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Patent number: 7951174Abstract: A bone screw assembly includes a screw body, including anchor portion and rod-receiving portion, and a rod seat movably mounted in the screw body to allow for controlled angulation between a spinal connection element disposed in the rod seat and the screw body. The rod seat is pivotable in one or more selected directions about one or more axes relative to the screw body. The rod seat may include a first lower rod seat element disposed in a recess of the screw body having a cylindrical bottom surface to facilitate pivoting in a first direction. A second lower rod seat element is stacked on the first lower rod seat element and has a conical bottom surface abutting a top surface of the first lower rod seat element to facilitate pivoting in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: DePuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: Seung Kyu Daniel Kwak, Nam T. Chao, Andrea Burke
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Patent number: 7879074Abstract: Various methods and devices are provided for stabilizing adjacent vertebrae in a patient's spinal column. In one exemplary embodiment, a spinal stabilization device is provided having a first cross-connector that is adapted to mate to opposed lateral sides of a first vertebra, a second cross-connector that is adapted to mate to opposed lateral sides of a second vertebra, and a flexible member that is coupled to the first and second cross-connectors and that is adapted to allow movement between first and second adjacent vertebrae coupled to the first and second cross-connectors.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2005Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Depuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: SeungKyu Daniel Kwak, Andrea Burke, Amie Borgstrom, John Riley Hawkins, William Dunbar
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Patent number: 7854342Abstract: Limited flow cups are provided which deliver a metered amount of fluid to a user during a drinking motion.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2004Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Reliant Medical Products, Inc.Inventors: Andrea Burke, Richard M. Davis, Gerald Melsky, David Porat, Jerry Porter
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Patent number: 7722651Abstract: A bone screw assembly includes a screw body, including anchor portion and rod-receiving portion, and a rod seat movably mounted in the screw body to allow for controlled angulation between a spinal connection element disposed in the rod seat and the screw body. The rod seat is pivotable in one or more selected directions about one or more axes relative to the screw body. The rod seat may include a first lower rod seat element disposed in a recess of the screw body having a cylindrical bottom surface to facilitate pivoting in a first direction. A second lower rod seat element is stacked on the first lower rod seat element and has a conical bottom surface abutting a top surface of the first lower rod seat element to facilitate pivoting in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: DePuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: SeungKyu Daniel Kwak, Nam T. Chao, Andrea Burke
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Publication number: 20070118118Abstract: A bone screw assembly includes a screw body, including anchor portion and rod-receiving portion, and a rod seat movably mounted in the screw body to allow for controlled angulation between a spinal connection element disposed in the rod seat and the screw body. The rod seat is pivotable in one or more selected directions about one or more axes relative to the screw body. The rod seat may include a first lower rod seat element disposed in a recess of the screw body having a cylindrical bottom surface to facilitate pivoting in a first direction. A second lower rod seat element is stacked on the first lower rod seat element and has a conical bottom surface abutting a top surface of the first lower rod seat element to facilitate pivoting in a second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2005Publication date: May 24, 2007Applicant: DePuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: SeungKyu Kwak, Nam Chao, Andrea Burke
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Publication number: 20070073289Abstract: Various methods and devices are provided for stabilizing adjacent vertebrae in a patient's spinal column. In one exemplary embodiment, a spinal stabilization device is provided having a first cross-connector that is adapted to mate to opposed lateral sides of a first vertebra, a second cross-connector that is adapted to mate to opposed lateral sides of a second vertebra, and a flexible member that is coupled to the first and second cross-connectors and that is adapted to allow movement between first and second adjacent vertebrae coupled to the first and second cross-connectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2005Publication date: March 29, 2007Applicant: DEPUY SPINE, INC.Inventors: SeungKyu Daniel Kwak, Andrea Burke, Amie Borgstrom, John Riley Hawkins, William Dunbar
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Publication number: 20060084986Abstract: The present invention includes pin guides and methods for placing pins in adjacent vertebrae. The present invention also includes methods for placing pins in adjacent vertebrae using the pin guides described herein. The present invention also includes an intervertebral implant insertion and alignment instrument, a distraction instrument, an intervertebral implant insertion guide, and methods for inserting an implant into an intervertebral space. Despite existing tools and techniques, present positioning of implants in intervertebral spaces and pins in adjacent vertebrae often depend on a surgeon's skill, experience and technique. Practice of the present invention can aide in the placement of an implant into an intervertebral space and placement of pins in adjacent vertebrae, e.g., midline to the coronal plane spine and/or parallel to vertebral endplates that abut the intervertebral space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2004Publication date: April 20, 2006Applicant: DePuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: Alexander Grinberg, William McGittigan, Edward Zalenski, Ronald Garner, Andrea Burke
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Publication number: 20050178775Abstract: Limited flow cups are provided which deliver a metered amount of fluid to a user during a drinking motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2004Publication date: August 18, 2005Inventors: Andrea Burke, Richard Davis, Gerald Melsky, David Porat, Jerry Porter
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Patent number: 6755318Abstract: Limited flow cups are provided which deliver a metered amount of fluid to a user during a drinking motion.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2002Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Reliant Medicals Products, Inc.Inventors: Andrea Burke, Richard M. Davis, Gerald Melsky, David Porat, Jerry Porter
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Publication number: 20030019876Abstract: Limited flow cups are provided which deliver a metered amount of fluid to a user during a drinking motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2002Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Andrea Burke, Richard M. Davis, Gerald Melsky, David Porat, Jerry Porter
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Patent number: 6259351Abstract: The present invention presents an electrical control box which provides a common platform for either a sliding switch or a toggling switch. The present invention uses the same PC board for both types of operation. A common wrap around heat sink provides a large surface area for dissipating heat. The present invention allows a triac to be mounted in close proximity on the circuit board of the electrical control box rather than toward the front surface of the electrical control box so as to simplify assembly. Screws for attaching to external wiring are mounted on the back body.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1999Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Pass & Seymour, Inc.Inventors: Dejan Radosavljevic, Michael R. Bryndzia, Andrea Burke