Patents by Inventor Raymond S. Konopa
Raymond S. Konopa 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: 6690512Abstract: An ergonomic adjustable microscope device comprising a second base pivotably attached to a first base positioned on a support surface is described. The device includes a mechanism for locking a microscope in a nonmovably mounted relationship on the upper surface of the second support base. Manually rotatable adjusting mechanisms located at each rearward corner of the second support base and at all four corners of the first base provide for selectively varying the rearward vertical height of the second support base and mounted microscope and the vertical height of the first base relative to the support surface, respectively, so that a user of the microscope is able to maintain a more neutral position in the neck, back, and shoulder areas.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.Inventor: Raymond S. Konopa
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Patent number: 6508901Abstract: A system and method for cutting and heat sealing polypropylene film and/or other separator material around individually shaped cathode, anode or other active components, for use in a battery or capacitor and/or other implantable medical device.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2001Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.Inventors: Robert D. Miller, Raymond S. Konopa
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Publication number: 20020176159Abstract: An ergonomic adjustable microscope base comprising a two-part base positioned on a support surface; having means to prevent the base from sliding on the support surface; having means mechanisms for attaching and locking a microscope in a nonmovably mounted relationship on the upper surface of the second support base; and manually rotatable adjusting mechanisms, located at each rearward corner of the second support base and at all four corners of the first base to provide for selectively varying the rearward vertical height of the second support base and mounted microscope and the vertical height of the first base relative to the support surface, thereby providing a range of vertical heights and of forward title angles so that a user of the microscope is able to maintain a more neutral position in the neck, back, and shoulder areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2001Publication date: November 28, 2002Inventor: Raymond S. Konopa
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Publication number: 20020129905Abstract: A system and method for cutting and heat sealing polypropylene film and/or other separator material around individually shaped cathode, anode or other active components, for use in a battery or capacitor and/or other implantable medical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2001Publication date: September 19, 2002Inventors: Robert D. Miller, Raymond S. Konopa
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Patent number: 6227818Abstract: All electromagnetic pump comprising a housing having fluid receiving and pumping chambers in communication with an inlet and outlet, respectively, an electromagnet carried by the housing external to the fluid chambers thereof, and an armature movable in the housing having a pole portion magnetically attracted by the electromagnet and a piston portion to force fluid out of the chambers and through the pump outlet. A path provides controlled bypass for bubbles in the fluid around the armature piston portion between the fluid pumping chamber and the fluid receiving chamber only during the return stroke of the armature. Fluid inertial effect is reduced by an outlet orifice provided in the fluid path from the pump outlet and by a bypass orifice in the fluid bypass path, the outlet and bypass orifices being provided either individually or in combination depending upon the fluid flow characteristics of the system of which the pump is a part.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1999Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.Inventors: Theodore J. Falk, W. Richard Brown, Lawrence E. Morris, Norbert W. Frenz, Jr., Douglas K. Gillies, Raymond S. Konopa
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Patent number: 6193477Abstract: All electromagnetic pump comprising a housing having fluid receiving and pumping chambers in communication with an inlet and outlet, respectively, an electromagnet carried by the housing external to the fluid chambers thereof, and an armature movable in the housing having a pole portion magnetically attracted by the electromagnet and a piston portion to force fluid out of the chambers and through the pump outlet. A path provides controlled bypass for bubbles in the fluid around the armature piston portion between the fluid pumping chamber and the fluid receiving chamber only during the return stroke of the armature. Fluid inertial effect is reduced by an outlet orifice provided in the fluid path from the pump outlet and by a bypass orifice in the fluid bypass path, the outlet and bypass orifices being provided either individually or in combination depending upon the fluid flow characteristics of the system of which the pump is a part.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.Inventors: Theodore J. Falk, W. Richard Brown, Lawrence E. Morris, Norbert W. Frenz, Jr., Douglas K. Gillies, Raymond S. Konopa
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Patent number: 5915929Abstract: An electromagnetic pump having an electromagnet carried by the housing external to the fluid chambers, and an armature moveable in the housing having a pole magnetically attracted by the electromagnet and a piston to force fluid out of the chambers and through the pump outlet. A path provides controlled bypass for bubbles in the fluid around the armature piston between the fluid pumping chamber and the fluid receiving chamber only during the return stroke of the armature. Fluid inertia is reduced by an outlet orifice in the path of fluid flow from the pump outlet and by a bypass orifice for fluid flow in the bypass path, the orifices being provided either individually or in combination depending upon the fluid flow characteristics of the system including the pump. An accumulator in the fluid flow path between the pump outlet and a catheter leading away from the pump alleviates inertial and viscous effects arising from the catheter.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1998Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Assignee: Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.Inventors: Theodore J. Falk, W. Richard Brown, Lawrence E. Morris, Norbert W. Frenz, Jr., Douglas K. Gillies, Raymond S. Konopa
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Patent number: 5797733Abstract: An electromagnetic pump comprising a housing having fluid receiving and pumping chambers in communication with an inlet and outlet, respectively, an electromagnet carried by the housing external to the fluid chambers thereof, and an armature movable in the housing having a pole portion magnetically attracted by the electromagnet and a piston portion to force fluid out of the chambers and through the pump outlet. A path provides controlled bypass for bubbles in the fluid around the armature piston portion between the fluid pumping chamber and the fluid receiving chamber only during the return stroke of the armature.Fluid inertia is reduced by an outlet orifice in the path of fluid flow from the pump outlet and by a bypass orifice for fluid flow in the bypass path, the orifices being provided either individually or in combination depending upon the fluid flow characteristics of the system including the pump.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1997Date of Patent: August 25, 1998Assignee: Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.Inventors: Theodore J. Falk, W. Richard Brown, Lawrence E. Morris, Norbert W. Frenz, Jr., Douglas K. Gillies, Raymond S. Konopa