Patents by Inventor Arthur Klotz
Arthur Klotz 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: 8795321Abstract: An intravascular implant delivery system carries an implant by retaining an engagement member engaging the implant in a position proximal of an aperture at a distal end of the delivery system. The engagement member is retained proximal to the aperture by a cord that obstructs the movement of the engagement member through the aperture. The engagement member is free to rotate and move within an area defined by the delivery system, allowing the implant to react to forces imparted to the implant by the movement of the delivery system and implant through a delivery catheter. Once the implant is in a desired implant position, the cord is moved away from an aperture and the engagement member is allowed to move away from the delivery system.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Brian Michael Strauss, Earl Howard Slee, Ramon Torres Carrillo, Khoa Dang Vu, William Robert Patterson, Jessica Liang, Richard Stephen Bein, Todd Jeffrey Hewitt, Stacy Leon Faught, Vince Divino, Darrell Christopher Drysen, Mark Philip Ashby, Justin Arthur Klotz, Maria De Jesus Sanson, Scott William Brennan, Lawrason Charles Wilbur, Lester Eugene Oestreich
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Patent number: 8795320Abstract: An intravascular implant delivery system carries an implant by retaining an engagement member engaging the implant in a position proximal of an aperture at a distal end of the delivery system. The engagement member is retained proximal to the aperture by a cord that obstructs the movement of the engagement member through the aperture. The engagement member is free to rotate and move within an area defined by the delivery system, allowing the implant to react to forces imparted to the implant by the movement of the delivery system and implant through a delivery catheter. Once the implant is in a desired implant position, the cord is moved away from an aperture and the engagement member is allowed to move away from the delivery system.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Brian Michael Strauss, Earl Howard Slee, Ramon Torres Carrillo, Khoa Dang Vu, William Robert Patterson, Jessica Liang, Richard Stephen Bein, Todd Jeffrey Hewitt, Stacy Leon Faught, Vince Divino, Darrell Christopher Drysen, Mark Philip Ashby, Justin Arthur Klotz, Maria De Jesus Sanson, Scott William Brennan, Lawrason Charles Wilbur, Lester Eugene Oestreich
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Patent number: 8777978Abstract: An intravascular implant delivery system carries an implant by retaining an engagement member engaging the implant in a position proximal of an aperture at a distal end of the delivery system. The engagement member is retained proximal to the aperture by a cord that obstructs the movement of the engagement member through the aperture. The engagement member is free to rotate and move within an area defined by the delivery system, allowing the implant to react to forces imparted to the implant by the movement of the delivery system and implant through a delivery catheter. Once the implant is in a desired implant position, the cord is moved away from an aperture and the engagement member is allowed to move away from the delivery system.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Brian Michael Strauss, Earl Howard Slee, Ramon Torres Carrillo, Khoa Dang Vu, William Robert Patterson, Jessica Liang, Richard Stephen Bein, Todd Jeffrey Hewitt, Stacy Leon Faught, Vince Divino, Darrell Christopher Drysen, Mark Philip Ashby, Justin Arthur Klotz, Maria De Jesus Sanson, Scott William Brennan, Lawrason Charles Wilbur, Lester Eugene Oestreich
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Publication number: 20140088550Abstract: An infusion set is disclosed that includes an inserter including an inserter housing having at least one flexible arm for holding an infusion set in a single axial position prior to insertion of at least a portion of a cannula of the infusion set, the inserter housing having a surface for contacting the patient's skin. The inserter also includes a movable plunger disposed within the inserter housing for releasing the infusion set from the inserter housing, impacting the infusion set, and imparting momentum to the infusion set to insert the cannula into the patient's skin. The inserter additionally includes a biasing element biasing the plunger toward the activated position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANYInventors: Eric Bené, Russell Cole, Arthur Klotz, Melissa Rosen, Judy Lin Walish, Michel Bruehwiler, Michael Creighton
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Publication number: 20140088549Abstract: An infusion set adapted to be secured to a skin surface includes a fixed base member and a movable slide member. The fixed base member is connectable to the skin surface. The movable slide member has a needle or cannula connected thereto and is movable relative to the fixed base member. The movable slide member is movable from a first position in which the needle or cannula is not exposed externally of the fixed base member to a second position in which the needle or cannula is exposed externally of the fixed base member. The movable slide member is locked to the fixed base member in the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANYInventors: Russell S. Cole, Arthur Klotz
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Publication number: 20120226305Abstract: An intravascular implant delivery system carries an implant by retaining an engagement member engaging the implant in a position proximal of an aperture at a distal end of the delivery system. The engagement member is retained proximal to the aperture by a cord that obstructs the movement of the engagement member through the aperture. The engagement member is free to rotate and move within an area defined by the delivery system, allowing the implant to react to forces imparted to the implant by the movement of the delivery system and implant through a delivery catheter. Once the implant is in a desired implant position, the cord is moved away from an aperture and the engagement member is allowed to move away from the delivery system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: Tyco Healthcare Group LP, as successor in interest to Micro Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Brian Michael Strauss, Earl Howard Slee, Ramon Torres Carrillo, Khoa Dang Vu, William Robert Patterson, Jessica Liang, Richard Stephen Bein, Todd Jeffrey Hewitt, Stacy Leon Faught, Vince Divino, Darrell Christopher Drysen, Mark Philip Ashby, Justin Arthur Klotz, Maria De Jesus Sanson, Scott William Brennan, Lawrason Charles Wilbur, Lester Eugene Oestreich
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Publication number: 20120065720Abstract: An intravascular implant delivery system carries an implant by retaining an engagement member engaging the implant in a position proximal of an aperture at a distal end of the delivery system. The engagement member is retained proximal to the aperture by a cord that obstructs the movement of the engagement member through the aperture. The engagement member is free to rotate and move within an area defined by the delivery system, allowing the implant to react to forces imparted to the implant by the movement of the delivery system and implant through a delivery catheter. Once the implant is in a desired implant position, the cord is moved away from an aperture and the engagement member is allowed to move away from the delivery system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: Tyco Healthcare Group LP, as successor in interest to Micro Therapeutics,Inc.Inventors: Brian Michael Strauss, Earl Howard Slee, Ramon Torres Carrillo, Khoa Dang Vu, William Robert Patterson, Jessica Liang, Richard Stephen Bein, Todd Jeffrey Hewitt, Stacy Leon Faught, Vince Divino, Darrell Christopher Drysen, Mark Philip Ashby, Justin Arthur Klotz, Maria De Jesus Sanson, Scott William Brennan, Lawrason Charles Wilbur, Lester Eugene Oestreich
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Publication number: 20110313447Abstract: An intravascular implant delivery system carries an implant by retaining an engagement member engaging the implant in a position proximal of an aperture at a distal end of the delivery system. The engagement member is retained proximal to the aperture by a cord that obstructs the movement of the engagement member through the aperture. The engagement member is free to rotate and move within an area defined by the delivery system, allowing the implant to react to forces imparted to the implant by the movement of the delivery system and implant through a delivery catheter. Once the implant is in a desired implant position, the cord is moved away from an aperture and the engagement member is allowed to move away from the delivery system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: Tyco Healthcare Group LP, as successor in interest to Micro Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Brian Michael Strauss, Earl Howard Slee, Ramon Torres Carrillo, Khoa Dang Vu, William Robert Patterson, Jessica Liang, Richard Stephen Bein, Todd Jeffrey Hewitt, Stacy Leon Faught, Vince Divino, Darrell Christopher Drysen, Mark Philip Ashby, Justin Arthur Klotz, Maria De Jesus Sanson, Scott William Brennan, Lawrason Charles Wilbur, Lester Eugene Oestreich
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Publication number: 20100030200Abstract: An intravascular implant delivery system carries an implant by retaining an engagement member engaging the implant in a position proximal of an aperture at a distal end of the delivery system. The engagement member is retained proximal to the aperture by a cord that obstructs the movement of the engagement member through the aperture. The engagement member is free to rotate and move within an area defined by the delivery system, allowing the implant to react to forces imparted to the implant by the movement of the delivery system and implant through a delivery catheter. Once the implant is in a desired implant position, the cord is moved away from an aperture and the engagement member is allowed to move away from the delivery system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Inventors: Brian Michael Strauss, Earl Howard Slee, Ramon Torres Carrillo, Khoa Dang Vu, William Robert Patterson, Jessica Liang, Richard Stephen Bein, Todd Jeffrey Hewitt, Stacy Leon Faught, Vince Divino, Darrell Christopher Drysen, Mark Philip Ashby, Justin Arthur Klotz, Maria De Jesus Sanson, Scott William Brennan, Lawrason Charles Wilbur, Lester Eugene Oestreich
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Patent number: 7484490Abstract: A switching drum seal (1) for a switching drum (11) for sealing an intake pipe in an intake manifold system of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, having two spaced-apart, circumferentially extending circumferential sealing sections (2) with circumferential sealing surfaces (3) and two spaced-apart, axially extending axial sealing sections (4) with axial sealing surfaces (5) and having at least one resilient element (7) to impart resilience to at least one circumferential sealing section (2) perpendicular to its circumferential sealing surface. The resilient element (7) extends in a region between the switching drum (11) and one of the circumferential sections (2) and is supported on the switching drum (11).Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Matthias Teschner, Arthur Klotz, Mathias Endress
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Publication number: 20070277767Abstract: A switching drum seal (1) for a switching drum (11) for sealing an intake pipe in an intake manifold system of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, having two spaced-apart, circumferentially extending circumferential sealing sections (2) with circumferential sealing surfaces (3) and two spaced-apart, axially extending axial sealing sections (4) with axial sealing surfaces (5) and having at least one resilient element (7) to impart resilience to at least one circumferential sealing section (2) perpendicular to its circumferential sealing surface. The resilient element (7) extends in a region between the switching drum (11) and one of the circumferential sections (2) and is supported on the switching drum (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2006Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Matthias Teschner, Arthur Klotz, Mathias Endress
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Patent number: 6889649Abstract: A valve, particularly a switching cylinder, for opening and closing a pipe, especially for use in an intake manifold for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having an air distribution chamber and individual intake pipes positioned next to one another which terminate in a flange, in which the valve is positioned in an individual intake pipe to close or open the respective intake pipe, and the valve has at least one sealing system mounted in a radially movable manner such that, in the closed position, it presses against the pipe inner wall to form a seal, and in the open position and in the pivot range from the closed position to the open position, it forms a gap between the valve and the pipe inner wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2003Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Arthur Klotz, Helmut Neuschwander
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Patent number: 6813334Abstract: A method and system of forming an X-ray layer image of an object being examined by an X-ray device having an X-ray source and an X-ray detector is described. At least one of the X-ray source and the X-ray detector can be displaced in an angular range around the object in order that X-ray projection images are acquired from different directions. When forming only a single X-ray layer image, or a plurality of X-ray layer images of parallel layers of the object, the time required for the acquisition of the X-ray projection images is notably reduced by forming the X-ray layer image directly from the X-ray projection images, where the resulting X-ray layer image is situated in a plane which extends essentially perpendicularly to the bisector of the angular range of displacement. The angular range of displacement can be less then 180°. The system and method is notably applicable to a C-arm X-ray device, in which the angular range can be chosen at will.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2001Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Reiner Koppe, Erhard Paul Arthur Klotz, Johannes Catharina Antonius Op De Beek
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Patent number: 6807935Abstract: An intake pipe (10) for an internal combustion engine composed of shells (11a, 11b) in which the geometry of the joining surfaces (19) adopts an approximately stepped course in areas with a slight incline relative to to joining force (F). This produces areas with a greater or lesser inclination relative to a joint line (16) indicating the average inclination of the joining surfaces. This results in areas which can be welded with a high degree of stability because of their considerable incline towards the joining force. These areas can then support areas which are less inclined towards the joining force. This allows the shells (11a, 11b) to have strongly curved joining surfaces, which increases the geometric design freedom of the intake pipe and, in particular, makes it possible to manufacture intake pipes with strongly curved intake channels constructed from just two shells.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Herbert Pietrowski, Arthur Klotz, Ingo Koch, Matthias Teschner
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Patent number: 6732712Abstract: An intermediate flange system for an internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection. The intermediate flange system is mounted between the intake device and the cylinder head and includes two subunits (10, 11). The first subunit includes a basic body (12) and is responsible for conducting the fuel. The other subunit includes a basic body (13) and serves to conduct the intake air. Both basic bodies can be optimally designed as a function of demands to which they are subjected. Thus, basic body (13) is preferably made of synthetic resin material, and basic body (12) of aluminum. Consequently, the overall intermediate flange system is lighter than prior art systems, which heretofore have been made entirely of aluminum.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Arthur Klotz, Klaus Rentschler, Joachim Schraudolf
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Publication number: 20030226535Abstract: An intake pipe (10) for an internal combustion engine composed of shells (11a, 11b) in which the geometry of the joining surfaces (19) adopts an approximately stepped course in areas with a slight incline relative to to joining force (F). This produces areas with a greater or lesser inclination relative to a joint line (16) indicating the average inclination of the joining surfaces. This results in areas which can be welded with a high degree of stability because of their considerable incline towards the joining force. These areas can then support areas which are less inclined towards the joining force. This allows the shells (11a, 11b) to have strongly curved joining surfaces, which increases the geometric design freedom of the intake pipe and, in particular, makes it possible to manufacture intake pipes with strongly curved intake channels constructed from just two shells.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2003Publication date: December 11, 2003Applicant: FILTERWERK MANNGMBHInventors: Herbert Pietrowski, Arthur Klotz, Ingo Koch, Matthias Teschner
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Patent number: 6655348Abstract: A duct system suitable for use as an intake manifold for an internal combustion engine, including flap valves (13) for selective opening and closing of the ducts. The positions of the valves are continuously adjustable in order to produce a swirl in the flow of combustion air. To achieve this, a high degree of angular precision is required in the positioning of the valves. Intake manifold manufacturing tolerances need to be compensated during assembly of the valves. A valve adjusting mechanism is provided in mechanical couplings (23) of the valve linkage between the position adjusting motor (19) and the flap valves (13).Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2001Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Thomas Jessberger, Arthur Klotz, Rudolf Leipelt, Stefan Maier, Holger Paffrath, Herbert Pietrowski, Achim Rehmann, Robert Vaculik
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Publication number: 20030213456Abstract: A valve, particularly a switching cylinder, for opening and closing a pipe, especially for use in an intake manifold for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having an air distribution chamber and individual intake pipes positioned next to one another which terminate in a flange, in which the valve is positioned in an individual intake pipe to close or open the respective intake pipe, and the valve has at least one sealing system mounted in a radially movable manner such that, in the closed position, it presses against the pipe inner wall to form a seal, and in the open position and in the pivot range from the closed position to the open position, it forms a gap between the valve and the pipe inner wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2003Publication date: November 20, 2003Applicant: Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Arthur Klotz, Helmut Neuschwander
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Patent number: 6591805Abstract: A duct system, especially an intake manifold for an internal combustion engine, having flap valves (13) for selective opening and closing of at least some of the ducts. The valves should be continuously adjustable in position in order to produce a swirl in the combustion airflow. To achieve this a high degree of angular precision is required in the positioning of the valves. Intake manifold manufacturing tolerances need to be compensated during assembly of the valves. Valve adjusting mechanisms are provided on the axles of the valves or in the mechanical connections of the valve gear pertaining to the valve drive mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2001Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignees: Volvo Car Corporation AB, Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Jan Karlsson, Arthur Klotz, Rudolf Leipelt, Stefan Maier, Holger Paffrath, Robert Vaculik
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Patent number: 6578537Abstract: An intake device for an internal combustion engine, comprising welded shells joined along a partition line, in which the partition line is provided with a region for producing inclined additional surfaces, which generate a transverse force Q2 due to their inclination relative to a pressure force D applied for welding the shells. This transverse force Q2 offsets a transverse force Q1 which is generated as a result of the inclination of partial regions of the partition line relative to the applied pressure force D. In this way, the transverse forces which arise during production of the intake device may be at least partially offset in the component, so that little or no forces are exerted on the molding tools, and the welding results for the intake pipe may thus be improved.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Arthur Klotz, Ingo Koch, Herbert Pietrowski, Matthias Teschner