Patents by Inventor Andrew M. Mailloux

Andrew M. Mailloux 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).

  • Patent number: 5312337
    Abstract: A connector for detachably securing an end of a tube, such as a catheter, to a fluid port of a fluid transfer device, such as an implantable device, the connector having a body part which defines a coupler for coupling to a coupler receiver of the transfer device. The connector includes a sleeve which fits within the body part and defines an aperture for compressively receiving an end of the tube which has been fitted over a fluid port of the transfer device. The body part is rotatable about the sleeve to facilitate coupling of the coupler and coupler receiver. In one embodiment the sleeve has an inner diameter at one end large enough to slide freely over the tube when it is fitted over the fluid port, and the diameter decreases at an intermediate point along the length of the sleeve to provide for compressive axial movement of the tube to form an annular thickness portion of the tube where it abuts the face of the transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Strato Medical Corporation
    Inventors: J. Christopher Flaherty, William J. Gorman, Paul V. Fenton, Jr., Kelly A. Moynihan, Andrew M. Mailloux, Thomas M. Young