Abstract: Described are implants for placing in a body, tools for delivering the implants, and systems and methods for using implants and tools for placing in a body and more particularly to nasal implants, tools for delivering nasal implants, and systems and methods for using such implants and tools. A tool may include a hand-held implant delivery device that cuts, holds, moves, orients, inserts, or shapes an implant. An implant may be a biodegradable, longitudinal implant that may be oriented for implantation by an implant delivery device.

Abstract: A progressive cavity pump includes at least one of a jacketed stator casing and a jacketed inlet body. The jacketed stator casing includes a stator heating chamber, a stator assembly, and a rotor rotatably disposed within the stator assembly. The stator heating chamber forms a first space around the stator assembly and receives heating fluid therein. The stator assembly includes a cylindrical wall and a stator segment that forms a helically-convoluted chamber within the cylindrical wall. The jacketed inlet body includes an inlet heating chamber and a working fluid chamber in fluid communication with the helically-convoluted chamber. The inlet heating chamber forms a second space around the working fluid chamber and receives heating fluid therein. The stator heating chamber and the inlet heating chamber are isolated from each other, the helically-convoluted chamber, and the working fluid chamber.

Abstract: A pump fluid driving apparatus includes a housing having a chamber, with two gears mounted within the chamber. The housing includes a first rounded wall section and a second rounded wall section, the first and second rounded wall sections defining at least a portion of the chamber. The gears have teeth located about their respective peripheries and operatively positioned with the teeth of the first gear and the teeth of the second gear intermeshed. The teeth include slotted teeth and solid teeth arranged with uniform spacing in a repeating pattern about the periphery of each of the gears, with each of the slotted teeth having a vane slot and a radially extending vane extending from the vane slot, and each radially extending vane being movable within the respective vane slot and being configured to contact the respective first or second rounded wall sections.

Abstract: A progressive cavity pump includes at least one of a jacketed stator casing and a jacketed inlet body. The jacketed stator casing includes a stator heating chamber, a stator assembly, and a rotor rotatably disposed within the stator assembly. The stator heating chamber forms a first space around the stator assembly and receives heating fluid therein. The stator assembly includes a cylindrical wall and a stator segment that forms a helically-convoluted chamber within the cylindrical wall. The jacketed inlet body includes an inlet heating chamber and a working fluid chamber in fluid communication with the helically-convoluted chamber. The inlet heating chamber forms a second space around the working fluid chamber and receives heating fluid therein. The stator heating chamber and the inlet heating chamber are isolated from each other, the helically-convoluted chamber, and the working fluid chamber.

Abstract: A pump fluid driving apparatus includes a housing having a chamber, with two gears mounted within the chamber. The housing includes a first rounded wall section and a second rounded wall section, the first and second rounded wall sections defining at least a portion of the chamber. The gears have teeth located about their respective peripheries and operatively positioned with the teeth of the first gear and the teeth of the second gear intermeshed. The teeth include slotted teeth and solid teeth arranged with uniform spacing in a repeating pattern about the periphery of each of the gears, with each of the slotted teeth having a vane slot and a radially extending vane extending from the vane slot, and each radially extending vane being movable within the respective vane slot and being configured to contact the respective first or second rounded wall sections.