Patents by Inventor Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias

Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias 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).

  • Automatic surgical needle and suture loading machine
    Patent number: 6807796
    Abstract: A machine and method for loading surgical needles having attached sutures into a package. The machine has a rotating disk mounted to a frame. The disk has circumferential grooves for receiving a suture. The machine has a block slidably mounted to the machine for receiving a needle and transporting it to a motion device. The motion device moves the needle to a package on a packaging machine. Rotation of the package by the packaging machine causes the suture to move out of the grooves and into the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford A. Dey, Robert J. Cerwin, Thomas J. Zingale, Konstantin Ivanov, Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias, Manfred Hild, Manfred Reiser, Bernard Wachter
  • Package winding machine
    Patent number: 6804937
    Abstract: A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of the frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the toll nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel. Channel winding pins in the winding tooling provide for an arranged wind of suture in a suture channel of the tray packages. The machine has an in-line printer and a punching machine for printing and punching paper covers from strips of stock material, which are then mounted to the tray packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford A. Dey, Robert J. Cerwin, Thomas J. Zingale, Konstantin Ivanov, Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias, Manfred Hild, Manfred Reiser, Bernard Wachter
  • PACKAGE WINDING MACHINE
    Publication number: 20040177594
    Abstract: A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the tool nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel. Channel winding pins in the winding tooling provide for an arranged wind of suture in a suture channel of the tray packages. The machine has an in-line printer and a punching machine for printing and punching paper covers from strips of stock material, which are then mounted to the tray packages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Clifford A. Dey, Robert J. Cerwin, Thomas J. Zingale, Konstantin Ivanov, Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias, Manfred Hild, Manfred Reiser, Bernard Wachter
  • Pillow-shaped suture package with pressure panel
    Patent number: 6719128
    Abstract: A suture package is disclosed that is sized and shaped to contain at least one suture. The suture package includes an envelope having a plurality of panels. One of the panels is a pressure panel which functions to urge a suture against another of the panels, thereby immobilizing the suture within the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin Alpern, Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias
  • Pillow-shaped suture package with pressure panel
    Publication number: 20030029737
    Abstract: A suture package is disclosed that is sized and shaped to contain at least one suture. The suture package includes an envelope having a plurality of panels. One of the panels is a pressure panel which functions to urge a suture against another of the panels, thereby immobilizing the suture within the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Applicant: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin Alpern, Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias