Patents by Inventor Carlos Correcher Salvador
Carlos Correcher Salvador 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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Publication number: 20220410404Abstract: A method of operating a minimally invasive medical system, including positioning a tip of a surgical instrument through an incision into a body cavity, the surgical instrument having an instrument shaft with a longitudinal instrument axis, mounting the surgical instrument to a manipulator, the manipulator including a force/torque sensor, moving the minimally invasive instrument along a first axis and a second axis, each of the first and second axes perpendicular to the instrument axis, until a reaction force along each axis is below a given threshold, and defining and axis coordinates of the external fulcrum at a location where the reaction forces along both axes are below the given threshold, and determining an axis coordinate position of the external fulcrum along the instrument axis by pivoting the instrument with respect to its tip until a sufficient contact force is reached, and determining the axis coordinate position using the lever principle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Emilio RUIZ MORALES, Carlos CORRECHER SALVADOR
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Patent number: 11413768Abstract: A minimally invasive medical system including a robot manipulator, having an effector unit equipped with a 6-degrees-of-freedom force/torque sensor and configured to hold a minimally invasive instrument having a first end mounted to the effector unit and a second end located beyond an external fulcrum that limits the instrument in motion, usually to degrees-of-freedom.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM), REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONInventors: Emilio Ruiz Morales, Carlos Correcher Salvador
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Patent number: 11147523Abstract: A PET imaging device for observing a brain includes a hollow three-dimensional structure with a shape capable of housing a head. The PET imaging device comprising multiple independent gamma ray detection modules that together form a structure capable of surrounding the head, said detection modules comprise continuous scintillation crystal blocks, wherein “continuous” means that the crystal blocks can be continuous in one or in two directions, each of the continuous scintillation crystal blocks has a polygonal main cross-section, and said structure is an elongated structure having a major axis in a direction corresponding to the front-nape direction and a shorter axis in a direction corresponding to a straight line joining ears on the head. The continuous scintillation crystal blocks are positioned adjacent to fit laterally in an exact manner with each other throughout their entire thickness, building a mosaic, without gaps between adjacent crystal blocks and without overlapping each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Inventors: José María Benlloch Baviera, Antonio Javier González Martínez, Laura Moliner Martínez, Juan Vicente Catret Mascarell, Carlos Correcher Salvador
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Publication number: 20200305811Abstract: A PET imaging device for observing a brain includes a hollow three-dimensional structure with a shape capable of housing a head. The PET imaging device comprising multiple independent gamma ray detection modules that together form a structure capable of surrounding the head, said detection modules comprise continuous scintillation crystal blocks, wherein “continuous” means that the crystal blocks can be continuous in one or in two directions, each of the continuous scintillation crystal blocks has a polygonal main cross-section, and said structure is an elongated structure having a major axis in a direction corresponding to the front-nape direction and a shorter axis in a direction corresponding to a straight line joining ears on the head. The continuous scintillation crystal blocks are positioned adjacent to fit laterally in an exact manner with each other throughout their entire thickness, building a mosaic, without gaps between adjacent crystal blocks and without overlapping each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: José María Benlloch Baviera, Antonio Javier González Martinez, Laura Moliner Martinez, Juan Vicente Catret Mascarell, Carlos Correcher Salvador
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Patent number: 10716520Abstract: The invention relates to a PET imaging device for observing the brain, characterised by comprising a structure with a shape that is capable of accommodating a human head, having independent gamma-ray detection modules, said detection modules having continuous scintillation crystals with a polygonal main section, wherein all together the detection modules form a hollow three-dimensional structure that can surround the head, and with said three-dimensional structure being elongated and having a main axis in the direction corresponding to the forehead-nape direction and a shorter axis in the direction corresponding to the straight line joining the ears, and with the adjacent scintillation crystals fitting together laterally in a precise manner along their entire thickness, forming a mosaic-like structure, i.e. without leaving gaps and without overlapping with one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignees: General Equipment for Medical Imaging, S.A., Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Universidad Politècnica de ValènciaInventors: José Maria Benlloch Baviera, Antonio Javier González Martínez, Laura Moliner Martínez, Juan Vicente Catret Mascarell, Carlos Correcher Salvador
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Publication number: 20200156259Abstract: A method of force estimation for a minimally invasive medical system comprising a robot manipulator (10). The manipulator has an effector unit (12) equipped with a 6-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) force/torque sensor and is configured to hold a minimally invasive instrument (14) having a first end (16) mounted to the effector unit and a second end (20) located beyond an external fulcrum (23) that limits the instrument in motion, usually to 4 DOF. The method comprising the steps: determining a position of the instrument relative to the fulcrum; measuring by means of the 6-DOF force/torque sensor a force and a torque exerted onto the effector unit by the first end of the instrument; and calculating by means of the principle of superposition an estimate of a force exerted onto the second end of the instrument based on the determined position, the measured force and the measured torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Emilio RUIZ MORALES, Carlos CORRECHER SALVADOR
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Patent number: 10518419Abstract: A method of force estimation for a minimally invasive medical system comprising a robot manipulator. The manipulator has an effector unit equipped with a 6-degrees-of-freedom force/torque sensor and is configured to hold a minimally invasive instrument having a first end mounted to the effector unit and a second end located beyond an external fulcrum that limits the instrument in motion, usually to 4 DOF. The method comprising the steps: determining a position of the instrument relative to the fulcrum; measuring by means of the 6-DOF force/torque sensor a force and a torque exerted onto the effector unit by the first end of the instrument; and calculating by means of the principle of superposition an estimate of a force exerted onto the second end of the instrument based on the determined position, the measured force and the measured torque.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM), REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONInventors: Emilio Ruiz Morales, Carlos Correcher Salvador
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Publication number: 20190053772Abstract: The invention relates to a PET imaging device for observing the brain, characterised by comprising a structure with a shape that is capable of accommodating a human head, having independent gamma-ray detection modules, said detection modules having continuous scintillation crystals with a polygonal main section, wherein all together the detection modules form a hollow three-dimensional structure that can surround the head, and with said three-dimensional structure being elongated and having a main axis in the direction corresponding to the forehead-nape direction and a shorter axis in the direction corresponding to the straight line joining the ears, and with the adjacent scintillation crystals fitting together laterally in a precise manner along their entire thickness, forming a mosaic-like structure, i.e. without leaving gaps and without overlapping with one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: José María BENLLOCH BAVIERA, Antonio Javier González Martínez, Laura Moliner Martínez, Juan Vicente Catret Mascarell, Carlos Correcher Salvador
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Publication number: 20190015058Abstract: The present invention refers to a Mobile Molecular Imaging System, for example a PET (positron emission tomography) or SPECT (single photon emission computerized tomography) device, comprising: at least one group of n detector modules conforming detector module sets with a rounded shape comprising m detector modules each, being m<n and said detector module sets being separable from each other, first means to carry out the movement for separating the detector module sets in the transaxial plane second means to carry out a rotation movement of the Imaging System a Vertical Actuator that allows the axial movement of the Imaging System. and also refers to an Interventional System comprising the Mobile Molecular Imaging System and use of any of them in medical procedures, such as biopsy, radiotherapy, radiofrequency or ultrasound, among others.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Jorge ÀLAMO VALENZUELA, Carlos CORRECHER SALVADOR, Julio BARBERÁ BALLESTER, José MARTÍNEZ BENEDICTO
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Publication number: 20180194013Abstract: A method of force estimation for a minimally invasive medical system comprising a robot manipulator (10). The manipulator has an effector unit (12) equipped with a 6-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) force/torque sensor and is configured to hold a minimally invasive instrument (14) having a first end (16) mounted to the effector unit and a second end (20) located beyond an external fulcrum (23) that limits the instrument in motion, usually to 4 DOF. The method comprising the steps: determining a position of the instrument relative to the fulcrum; measuring by means of the 6-DOF force/torque sensor a force and a torque exerted onto the effector unit by the first end of the instrument; and calculating by means of the principle of superposition an estimate of a force exerted onto the second end of the instrument based on the determined position, the measured force and the measured torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM), REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONInventors: Emilio Ruiz Morales, Carlos Correcher Salvador
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Patent number: 9915739Abstract: An apparatus to detect gamma rays, comprising a scintillator, a position sensitive photo sensor and a scintillation-light-incidence-angle-constraining, SLIAC, element, the scintillator has faces and the position sensitive photo sensor detects scintillation photons exiting a scintillation photons transparent face of the scintillator, and a portion of a scintillator face is covered with an absorbing layer, which absorbs scintillation photons created by scintillation events due to the interaction of incoming gamma rays with the scintillator, and the SLIAC element is optically coupled between a scintillation photons transparent face of the scintillator and the position sensitive photo sensor and the SLIAC element guides the scintillation photons exiting the scintillator towards the position sensitive photo sensor, and the SLIAC element restricts the maximum allowed half light acceptance angle for the scintillation light hitting the position sensitive photo sensor to less than 45°.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignees: General Equipment for Medical Imaging S.A. (Oncovision), Bruker Biospin AGInventors: Jose Maria Benlloch Baviera, Antonio Javier Gonzalez Martinez, Filomeno Sanchez Martinez, Cesar Molinos Sonsona, Juan Vicente Catret Mascarell, Carlos Correcher Salvador, Noriel Pavon Hernandez
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Patent number: 9855662Abstract: A method of force estimation for a minimally invasive medical system comprising a robot manipulator (10). The manipulator has an effector unit (12) equipped with a 6-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) force/torque sensor and is configured to hold a minimally invasive instrument (14) having a first end (16) mounted to the effector unit and a second end (20) located beyond an external fulcrum (23) that limits the instrument in motion, usually to 4 DOF. The method comprising the steps: —determining a position of the instrument relative to the fulcrum; —measuring by means of the 6-DOF force/torque sensor a force and a torque exerted onto the effector unit by the first end of the instrument; and —calculating by means of the principle of superposition an estimate of a force exerted onto the second end of the instrument based on the determined position, the measured force and the measured torque.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM), REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONInventors: Emilio Ruiz Morales, Carlos Correcher Salvador
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Patent number: 9707684Abstract: A method of force estimation for a minimally invasive medical system including a robot manipulator having an effector unit equipped with a 6-degrees-of-freedom force/torque sensor and being configured to hold a minimally invasive instrument having a first end mounted to the effector unit and a second end located beyond an external fulcrum that limits the instrument in motion, where the method includes determining a position of the instrument relative to the fulcrum, measuring by means of the 6 degrees of freedom force/torque sensor a force and a torque exerted onto the effector unit by the first end of the instrument, and calculating by means of the principle of superposition an estimate of a force exerted onto the second end of the instrument based on the determined position, the measured force and the measured torque.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM), REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONInventors: Emilio Ruiz Morales, Carlos Correcher Salvador
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Publication number: 20140175296Abstract: An apparatus to detect gamma rays, comprising a scintillator, a position sensitive photo sensor and a scintillation-light-incidence-angle-constraining, SLIAC, element, the scintillator has faces and the position sensitive photo sensor detects scintillation photons exiting a scintillation photons transparent face of the scintillator, and a portion of a scintillator face is covered with an absorbing layer, which absorbs scintillation photons created by scintillation events due to the interaction of incoming gamma rays with the scintillator, and the SLIAC element is optically coupled between a scintillation photons transparent face of the scintillator and the position sensitive photo sensor and the SLIAC element guides the scintillation photons exiting the scintillator towards the position sensitive photo sensor, and the SLIAC element restricts the maximum allowed half light acceptance angle for the scintillation light hitting the position sensitive photo sensor to less than 45°.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: General Equipment for Medical Imaging S. A. (Oncovision)Inventors: Jose Maria Benlloch Baviera, Antonio Javier Gonzalez Martinez, Filomeno Sanchez Martinez, Cesar Molinos Sonsona, Juan Vicente Catret Mascarell, Carlos Correcher Salvador, Noriel Pavon Hernandez
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Publication number: 20130012930Abstract: A method of force estimation for a minimally invasive medical system including a robot manipulator having an effector unit equipped with a 6-degrees-of-freedom force/torque sensor and being configured to hold a minimally invasive instrument having a first end mounted to the effector unit and a second end located beyond an external fulcrum that limits the instrument in motion, where the method includes determining a position of the instrument relative to the fulcrum, measuring by means of the 6 degrees of freedom force/torque sensor a force and a torque exerted onto the effector unit by the first end of the instrument, and calculating by means of the principle of superposition an estimate of a force exerted onto the second end of the instrument based on the determined position, the measured force and the measured torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM), REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONInventors: Emilio RUIZ MORALES, Carlos CORRECHER SALVADOR
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Publication number: 20100094312Abstract: A method of force estimation for a minimally invasive medical system comprising a robot manipulator (10). The manipulator has an effector unit (12) equipped with a 6-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) force/torque sensor and is configured to hold a minimally invasive instrument (14) having a first end (16) mounted to the effector unit and a second end (20) located beyond an external fulcrum (23) that limits the instrument in motion, usually to 4 DOF. The method comprising the steps: —determining a position of the instrument relative to the fulcrum; —measuring by means of the 6-DOF force/torque sensor a force and a torque exerted onto the effector unit by the first end of the instrument; and —calculating by means of the principle of superposition an estimate of a force exerted onto the second end of the instrument based on the determined position, the measured force and the measured torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2007Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM), REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONInventors: Emilio Ruiz Morales, Carlos Correcher Salvador