Patents by Inventor Erwin Bauder

Erwin Bauder 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).

  • Suture winding machine, suture tray package, and method of winding sutures
    Patent number: 6463719
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Ethicon
    Inventors: Clifford Dey, Konstantin Ivanov, Martin Sobel, Joseph Stanley Siernos, John Rega, David Roslon, Raul Quinones, Alan Hughieson, Mehmet Reyhan, Manfred Reiser, Bernhard Wachter, Manfred Hild, Erwin Bauder
  • Suture winding machine
    Publication number: 20020069617
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Clifford Dey, Konstantin Ivanov, Martin Sobel, Joseph Stanley Siernos, John Rega, David Roslon, Raul Quinones, Alan Hughieson, Mehmet Reyhan, Manfred Reiser, Bernhard Wachter, Manfred Hild, Erwin Bauder
  • Automatic zipper package winding and packaging machine
    Patent number: 5664404
    Abstract: The specification discloses an automated apparatus and method for packaging surgical needles having sutures attached thereto wherein a bundle of needles and sutures are placed at a semi-automated separation station and an operator feeds the needles, one at a time, into a rotating needle feed wheel. As the feed wheel advances, the suture is tensioned and directed along a pre-determined path to separate it from the remaining sutures in the bundle. The apparatus has a plurality of individually rotatable tool nests which are sequentially spaced on a rotating or indexing turntable. These tool nests sequentially receive plastic packages for receiving the needle and suture at a first station. At a second station, a needle is inserted into the package by robotic fingers which have retrieved the needle and attached suture from the rotating needle feed wheel. The rotating needle feed wheel and the rotating tool nests are synchronized to step together as each advances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignees: Ethicon, Inc., Harro Hofliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Konstantin Ivanov, Donald Pompei, John Rega, Lorens Slokovic, Haro Hofliger, Manfred Reiser, Erwin Bauder, Edgar Wieland, Roland Eissele, Manfred Hild
  • Needle feed wheel and needle transfer mechanism
    Patent number: 5661954
    Abstract: The specification discloses an automated apparatus and method for packaging surgical needles having sutures attached thereto wherein a bundle of needles and sutures are placed at a semi-automated separation station and an operator feeds the needles, one at a time, into a rotating needle feed wheel. As the feed wheel advances, the suture is tensioned and directed along a pre-determined path to separate it from the remaining sutures in the bundle. The apparatus has a plurality of individually rotatable tool nests which are sequentially spaced on a rotating or indexing turntable. These tool nests sequentially receive plastic packages for receiving the needle and suture at a first station. At a second station, a needle is inserted into the package by robotic fingers which have retrieved the needle and attached suture from the rotating needle feed wheel. The rotating needle feed wheel and the rotating tool nests are synchronized to step together as each advances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignees: Ethicon, Inc., Harro Hofliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Konstantin Ivanov, James Lotze, Donald Pompei, Manfred Reiser, Jost Mucheyer, Erwin Bauder
  • Zipper package winding tool mechanism
    Patent number: 5660024
    Abstract: The specification discloses an automated apparatus and method for packaging surgical needles having sutures attached thereto wherein a bundle of needles and sutures are placed at a semi-automated separation station and an operator feeds the needles, one at a time, into a rotating needle feed wheel. As the feed wheel advances, the suture is tensioned and directed along a pre-determined path to separate it from the remaining sutures in the bundle. The apparatus has a plurality of individually rotatable tool nests which are sequentially spaced on a rotating or indexing turntable. These tool nests sequentially receive plastic packages for receiving the needle and suture at a first station. At a second station, a needle is inserted into the package by robotic fingers which have retrieved the needle and attached suture from the rotating needle feed wheel. The rotating needle feed wheel and the rotating tool nests are synchronized to step together as each advances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignees: Ethicon, Inc., Harro Hofliger
    Inventors: Konstantin Ivanov, Martin Sobel, Donald Pompei, Joseph Siernos, Andrew Chaloka, Erwin Bauder, Walter Bohringer