Patents by Inventor Werner Sander
Werner Sander 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: 20230329762Abstract: Systems and methods for fixing bone using an intramedullary nail locked to an encircling anchor including a bushing and a locking member. An exemplary system may include any combination of the nail, one or more bushings, one or more locking members, an instrument to guide installation of the bushing, at least one drill, and a driver that attaches to the bushing. The instrument may define a guide axis and be configured to be coupled to a bone such that the guide axis extends across the bone. The instrument may be used to guide a drill, the bushing, and/or the locking member along the guide axis into the bone. The nail may be configured to be placed along the medullary canal of the bone such that the nail extends through the bushing, and the locking member may be configured to lock the nail to the bushing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Mark B. Sommers, Roy Werner Sanders, James G. Falkner, JR., Caleb Abraham Martin, Zachary James Stroh, Scott Francis Mastroianni, Andrew William Seykora, Ann Nicole Santich, Larry W. Ehmke, Oren S. Bernstein
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Patent number: 11723699Abstract: Systems and methods for fixing bone using an intramedullary nail locked to an encircling anchor including a bushing and a locking member. An exemplary system may include any combination of the nail, one or more bushings, one or more locking members, an instrument to guide installation of the bushing, at least one drill, and a driver that attaches to the bushing. The instrument may define a guide axis and be configured to be coupled to a bone such that the guide axis extends across the bone. The instrument may be used to guide a drill, the bushing, and/or the locking member along the guide axis into the bone. The nail may be configured to be placed along the medullary canal of the bone such that the nail extends through the bushing, and the locking member may be configured to lock the nail to the bushing.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Acumed LLCInventors: Mark B. Sommers, Roy Werner Sanders, James G. Falkner, Jr., Caleb Abraham Martin, Zachary James Stroh, Scott Francis Mastroianni, Andrew William Seykora, Ann Nicole Santich, Larry W. Ehmke, Oren S. Bernstein
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Patent number: 11490903Abstract: Orthopedic systems and methods for installing an implant and/or boring a bone bicortically. The system may include a drill having a proximal boring portion configured to bore a larger hole in a bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in a first direction compared to an opposite second direction, and a distal boring portion configured to bore a smaller hole in the bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in the second direction. The implant may be configured to be implanted at least partially in the bone, such that a first region of the implant is located in the larger hole and a second region of the implant is located in the smaller hole. In an exemplary method, the larger hole and the smaller hole may be bored in the bone's near cortex and far cortex, respectively, by a shaft and a nose of the drill rotated in opposite directions.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Acumed LLCInventors: Mark B. Sommers, Roy Werner Sanders, James G. Falkner, Jr., Caleb Abraham Martin, Zachary James Stroh
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Publication number: 20200345398Abstract: Systems and methods for fixing bone using an intramedullary nail locked to an encircling anchor including a bushing and a locking member. An exemplary system may include any combination of the nail, one or more bushings, one or more locking members, an instrument to guide installation of the bushing, at least one drill, and a driver that attaches to the bushing. The instrument may define a guide axis and be configured to be coupled to a bone such that the guide axis extends across the bone. The instrument may be used to guide a drill, the bushing, and/or the locking member along the guide axis into the bone. The nail may be configured to be placed along the medullary canal of the bone such that the nail extends through the bushing, and the locking member may be configured to lock the nail to the bushing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Mark B. Sommers, Roy Werner Sanders, James G. Falkner, JR., Caleb Abraham Martin, Zachary James Stroh, Scott Francis Mastroianni, Andrew William Seykora, Ann Nicole Santich, Larry W. Ehmke, Oren S. Bernstein
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Publication number: 20200330107Abstract: Orthopedic systems and methods for installing an implant and/or boring a bone bicortically. The system may include a drill having a proximal boring portion configured to bore a larger hole in a bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in a first direction compared to an opposite second direction, and a distal boring portion configured to bore a smaller hole in the bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in the second direction. The implant may be configured to be implanted at least partially in the bone, such that a first region of the implant is located in the larger hole and a second region of the implant is located in the smaller hole. In an exemplary method, the larger hole and the smaller hole may be bored in the bone's near cortex and far cortex, respectively, by a shaft and a nose of the drill rotated in opposite directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Mark B. Sommers, Roy Werner Sanders, James G. Falkner, JR., Caleb Abraham Martin, Zachary James Stroh
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Patent number: 10758280Abstract: Systems and methods for fixing bone using an intramedullary nail locked to an encircling anchor including a bushing and a locking member. An exemplary system may include any combination of the nail, one or more bushings, one or more locking members, an instrument to guide installation of the bushing, at least one drill, and a driver that attaches to the bushing. The instrument may define a guide axis and be configured to be coupled to a bone such that the guide axis extends across the bone. The instrument may be used to guide a drill, the bushing, and/or the locking member along the guide axis into the bone. The nail may be configured to be placed along the medullary canal of the bone such that the nail extends through the bushing, and the locking member may be configured to lock the nail to the bushing.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Acumed LLCInventors: Mark B. Sommers, Roy Werner Sanders, James G. Falkner, Jr., Caleb Abraham Martin, Zachary James Stroh, Scott Francis Mastroianni, Andrew William Seykora, Ann Nicole Santich, Larry W. Ehmke, Oren S. Bernstein
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Patent number: 10610243Abstract: Orthopedic systems and methods for installing an implant and/or boring a bone bicortically. The system may include a drill having a proximal boring portion configured to bore a larger hole in a bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in a first direction compared to an opposite second direction, and a distal boring portion configured to bore a smaller hole in the bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in the second direction. The implant may be configured to be implanted at least partially in the bone, such that a first region of the implant is located in the larger hole and a second region of the implant is located in the smaller hole. In an exemplary method, the larger hole and the smaller hole may be bored in the bone's near cortex and far cortex, respectively, by a shaft and a nose of the drill rotated in opposite directions.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Acumed LLCInventors: Mark B. Sommers, Roy Werner Sanders, James G. Falkner, Jr., Caleb Abraham Martin, Zachary James Stroh
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Publication number: 20190105060Abstract: Orthopedic systems and methods for installing an implant and/or boring a bone bicortically. The system may include a drill having a proximal boring portion configured to bore a larger hole in a bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in a first direction compared to an opposite second direction, and a distal boring portion configured to bore a smaller hole in the bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in the second direction. The implant may be configured to be implanted at least partially in the bone, such that a first region of the implant is located in the larger hole and a second region of the implant is located in the smaller hole. In an exemplary method, the larger hole and the smaller hole may be bored in the bone's near cortex and far cortex, respectively, by a shaft and a nose of the drill rotated in opposite directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Mark B. Sommers, Roy Werner Sanders, James G. Falkner, JR., Caleb Abraham Martin, Zachary James Stroh
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Publication number: 20190105087Abstract: Systems and methods for fixing bone using an intramedullary nail locked to an encircling anchor including a bushing and a locking member. An exemplary system may include any combination of the nail, one or more bushings, one or more locking members, an instrument to guide installation of the bushing, at least one drill, and a driver that attaches to the bushing. The instrument may define a guide axis and be configured to be coupled to a bone such that the guide axis extends across the bone. The instrument may be used to guide a drill, the bushing, and/or the locking member along the guide axis into the bone. The nail may be configured to be placed along the medullary canal of the bone such that the nail extends through the bushing, and the locking member may be configured to lock the nail to the bushing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Mark B. SOMMERS, Roy Werner SANDERS, James G. FALKNER, JR., Caleb Abraham MARTIN, Zachary James STROH, Scott Francis MASTROIANNI, Andrew William SEYKORA, Ann Nicole SANTICH, Larry W. EHMKE, Oren S. BERNSTEIN
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Patent number: 6693503Abstract: A relay (10), in particular for a starter for an internal combustion engine, is proposed. The relay (10) includes a relay coil (13) and a solenoid armature (22) which can be moved when full battery current flows to the relay coil (13). A contact member (37) can be actuated by the solenoid armature (22), whereby an operating lever (31) is situated on the contact member (37). It is provided that a coupling element (46) connects the operating lever (31) and the solenoid armature (22) with each other in a manner that allows them to slide with limits.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Robert Bosch CompanyInventors: Ngoc-Thach Nguyen, Quang-Ngoc Tran, Arno-Albert Binnewies, Werner Sander, Heinz Stichnoth, Karl-Wilhelm Boecker, Andreas Hamerich, Lutz Lehnert, Josef Weigt, Gunter Meyer, Dietmar Krause, Hans-Joachim Binio
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Patent number: 6197236Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of fiberboards from coarse wood particles and isocyanate as binder, in which the wood particles are heated under excess water vapor pressure and simultaneously comminuted to fibers which are then delivered with expansion to a drier by means of a blowing pipe, and dried in the drier.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1994Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Wilhelm Oldemeyer, Werner Sanders, Gert Teuber
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Patent number: 5629589Abstract: A diode-split high voltage transformer for a television receiver includes a coil form having a plurality of axially aligned cells. The cells are arranged in groups and are separated by fins. Partial windings are individually arranged in the cells. A plurality of diodes is arranged about the edge of each fin and and substantially normal to the of the form. The partial windings and the diodes are alternately connected in series. Each of the fins includs a ramp-shaped recess tangentially extending from the fin edge to the bottom of the cell adjacent to the fin to provide space allowing the winding wires to stay clear of the partial windings.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1994Date of Patent: May 13, 1997Assignee: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbHInventors: Walter Goseberg, Wolfgang Reichow, Hans-Werner Sander, Rolf Heidrich
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Patent number: 5576681Abstract: A high voltage transformer for a television receiver includes a primary winding and a secondary winding. The secondary winding is compartmentalized and is separated from the primary winding by a space. The secondary winding has a plurality of partial windings which are arranged in cells of a compartmentalized coil form and are connected to one another by diodes. The partial windings are positioned and dimensioned with respect to the primary winding to cause substantially equal pulse voltages of like polarity to exist at the neighboring portions of the primary winding and the partial windings in the vicinity of the space, to substantially eliminate pulse electric fields in the space.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1995Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbHInventors: Hans-Werner Sander, Wolfgang Reichow, Walter Goseberg
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Patent number: 5523735Abstract: A high voltage transformer for a television receiver includes a coil former supporting a primary winding on a magnetic core. The primary winding has an axial length L. A compartmentalized coil former supports a high voltage coil radially surrounding the primary winding. The high voltage coil has a radial outer diameter D with the ratio of L/D being less than one. A plurality of diodes are supported by the compartmentalized coil former and connect the high voltage coils in series. The diodes are supported on the compartmentalized coil former at substantially the same axial position and are equally spaced about the periphery of the compartmentalized coil former.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1993Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Assignee: Deutsche Thomson Brandt GmbHInventors: Walter Goseberg, Hane-Werner Sander, Rolf Heidrich
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Patent number: 4390913Abstract: To place superposed tape reels (14, 15) located in a cassette (10, 11) in a tape receiver (2) of a tape transducer system, which includes means to pull out tape from the cassette for threading in the system (see U.S. Pat. No. 4,254,922), a lever and cam system (32, 33, 34; 16, 31, 40, 41) is provided in which a cam follower (31) is located on the housing (11) of the cassette to engage a cam track (40) in a transfer lever (32) secured to the receiver. The transfer lever (32) has a second cam track (41) which is spaced farther from the pivot point (35) of the lever, the second cam track engaging a pin (16) coupled to a slidable carrier plate (12) in the cassette, and supporting the reels (14, 15) therein. Upon insertion of the cassette in the receiver, the cam follower (31) engages the cam track (40) of the transfer lever which, by lever action multiplication, upon engagement with the pin 16, will pull the carrier plate (12) out of the cassette, thus removing the reels from the cassette housing (10, 11).Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1980Date of Patent: June 28, 1983Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Fell, Werner Sanders