Abstract: Methods and apparatus for temporarily holding one end of a wire on a harness form board during automated transfer from one robot to another robot. The apparatus includes a wire holding device which is designed to facilitate the transfer of a wire end from a first end effector of a first robot to a second end effector of a second robot. The wire holding devices have different structures, but share the common feature that opening of the wire holding device (to enable wire insertion) involves applying a contact force which overcomes a spring force that urges the wire holding device to be closed. The end effectors are designed and their movements are controlled in a manner such that the moving end effector applies the contact force necessary to overcome the closure-inducing spring force being exerted.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for holding at least one conduit. The device includes a ring having a first end and a second end. The device also includes a first clamping jaw extending from the first end of the ring. The device also includes a second clamping jaw extending from the first end of the ring. A first clamping surface of the first jaw contacts a second clamping surface of the second jaw in a first position, and the first clamping surface is spaced apart from the second clamping surface in a second position. The device transitions from the first position to the second position in response to application of an external force applied to an exterior surface of the ring between the first end and the second end. The device also includes a channel including an inlet positioned at the second end of the ring. The channel is configured to releasably receive the at least one conduit via the inlet, and the channel prevents the at least one conduit from contacting the first end of the ring.

Abstract: An intraocular clip comprises a flexible body connected to a plurality of fasteners. The fasteners, at least two of them, are configured on opposite sides of the body in an opposing relationship, and wherein the fasteners are biased to be engaging their respective opposing fasteners on the opposite sides of the body, however manipulation of the body moves the fasteners away from each other until the body is released and the fasteners bias toward each other. The fasteners have a proximal end joined to the body and a distal end on the opposite end of the fastener from the body. The distal ends of the fasteners comprise footpads, and the footpads on opposing fasteners engage each other when the fasteners are biased in their closed positions.

Abstract: A tissue clip for adjoining tissues including a body portion, a biasing mechanism interconnecting the body portion to a tissue grasping mechanism, the grasping mechanism having a first condition wherein the grasping mechanism is extending against and away from the body portion and a second condition wherein the grasping mechanism is biased against the body portion. A tissue clip and deployer combination. A method of interconnecting tissue by deploying the tissue clip, puncturing tissue to be interconnected with the tissue clip, and interconnecting the tissue. A method of treating an aneurism by deploying the tissue clip at an aneurism site, closing off the aneurism site with the tissue clip, and treating the aneurism. A method of imaging a surgical procedure with ultrasound by modifying a surface of a metal surgical instrument, and imaging the metal surgical instrument with ultrasound during a surgical procedure.

Abstract: A ligature delivery device includes a control member, an elongated shaft, and an end effector attached to the distal end of the elongated shaft. An activation mechanism provides an user-operable connection between the control member and the end effector. In several embodiments, the end effector includes a reverse grasping mechanism. Several embodiments of ligature devices are adapted to be deployed endoscopically and/or translumenally using the reverse-grasping delivery device.

Abstract: A vascular closure system includes a suture and an anchor assembly. The anchor assembly includes a first anchor portion having a plurality of petal members automatically expandable from a retracted position for delivery through a vessel puncture in a vessel, and an expanded position when deployed within the vessel. The anchor assembly also includes a second anchor portion connected to the suture and positioned distal of the first anchor portion within the vessel. Withdrawing the suture pulls the second anchor portion against the first anchor portion to contact the first anchor portion against an inner surface of the vessel adjacent to the vessel puncture. The vascular closure system may also include an automatic compaction assembly that automatically compacts a sealing member against the anchor assembly to seal closed the vessel puncture upon withdrawal of the vascular closure system.

Abstract: Glass clips comprising a pair of opposed planar elements separated and joined by fasteners to an attachment means are employed to grasp, support or suspend a plate glass from a stable structure such as a rail, post or flooring. The suspended glass creates a transparent wall or barrier that is valued for its expansive and uncluttered visual effect. Glass clips employed in this manner can be more decorative, less functional and contribute to the overall aesthetics and ambience of the setting when a concealing cap conforming generally to the dimensions of the opposed planar elements and configured to slidably engage with one of the planar elements to envelope the surface of that element and conceal any fasteners used to join the elements.

Abstract: A portable securement system for securing implements such as eyewear and pens to a user's garment for safekeeping. The system includes a device usually hidden in use, and formed as a pendant construction to be mounted on button threads behind a garment placard. There it is anchored while a magnet secured at the device's lower part secures implements for easy retrieval. The device includes an opening which may be placed over the button, with a narrowed portion of the opening engaging the threads and serving as an anchoring trap to hold the device in place. In an alternative arrangement, wire-like segments define the device's central opening and terminate at opposed wire ends at an upper part of the device to form a releasable clip. This clip may be utilized to anchor the device to an inner seam or other garment parts where it can be utilized without being outwardly visible.

Abstract: An intravenous catheter introducing device includes a needle hub slidably inserted into a barrel and holding a needle cannula, a biasing member disposed to bias the needle hub to a rear position so as to retract the needle cannula in the barrel, and an easy release unit including an engaging wall segment which is attached to an outer surface of the barrel, two flexible squeezed wall segments which extend from the engaging wall segment and which is squeezable so as to move two latch members to steer clear of a retained end of the needle hub through an access hole in the barrel, thereby permitting the biasing member to bias the needle hub towards the rear position.

Abstract: An improved hose clasp for supporting a filter bag in a generally upright orientation on a pool cleaner as disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,863,425; 4,558,479; and 3,822,754. The hose clasp includes a generally cylindrical split collar having separable free ends including a pair of radially outwardly extending clasp arms. The clasp arms are springably separable to permit placement of the split collar onto a supply hose or the like coupled to the pool cleaner. The clasp arms are notched to accommodate movement to an interlocked cross-over position, with a boss on one of the clasp arms protruding through a lock port in the other clasp arm. A leash member such as a ported tab carried by the filter bag is fitted over the boss in a position interposed between the interlocked clasp arms to support the filter bag relative to the supply hose.

Abstract: A money clip for organizing and storing paper bills such as currency. The money clip includes a single length of wire having two free ends which form a clasping portion and a flap attached thereto. The two free ends of the wire have spherical elements attached thereto to cover the free ends. The wire is folded symmetrically with respect to a straight base portion to provide a “butterfly-like” configuration; the base portion being “the body” of the butterfly, and the folded portions on either side of the base forming “the wings” of the butterfly. The flap is a substantially flat, disc-shaped member affixed to the base portion along a diameter thereof such that the base portion is substantially colinear with a diameter of the flap. A portion of the flap covers a portion of the clasping portion disposed adjacent the base portion and serves to maintain the correct orientation of the bills in the clip.

Abstract: A clip comprising a base, a first clasping assembly coupled to the base, and a second clasping assembly coupled to the base. A circuit board assembly comprising a radio circuit board, a pair of RF cables, and a clip assembly secured to the radio circuit board and coupled to the RF cables. A method for securing cables to a substratum comprising passing cables through clasping assemblies.

Abstract: A body ornament has first and second positioning arms that are pivotally connected together. The first positioning arm crosses the second positioning arm at first and second crossing points. A generally elongated loop is formed between the crossing points for receiving the body part. The size of the loop is adjustable by pivoting the positioning arms either toward or away from each other. The positioning arms are preferably biased toward each other so that a minimal loop size is initially formed. In one embodiment, the pivot joint between the first and second positioning arms includes a pivot pin. A loop is formed at one end of the pin for receiving a decorative item. In a further embodiment, the pivot joint is in the form of an integral hinge that biases the first and second positioning arms toward each other.

Abstract: Clip (1) which is to be attached to a wire (2) and is designed to clamp a part which is to be clamped in a first enclosure. A second enclosure is delimited by the free ends of the clip (1), which are bent in the shape of a C. This second enclosure for receiving the wire (2) becomes smaller as the area within which the stem is accommodated becomes larger.

Abstract: A clip design for securing an object to an article of clothing on a wearer. The clip contains first and second display surfaces for conveying a message, slogan or other device to a wearer and to others in proximity to the wearer when the clip is in use. The display surfaces are oriented in a direction opposite from each other and positioned such that a message contained on the surfaces are oriented in a direction to be visually perceivable by the wearer.

Abstract: A quick-action fastening system for actuating systems, preferably for motor vehicles, and a spring of the quick-action fastening system. The quick-action fastening system has a spring arranged between a fastening plate and the end part of a cable sheathing. The spring braces the end part directly against the actuating plate and has regions by which it secures the end part on the fastening plate radially and axially and prevents the actuating plate from being withdrawn.

Abstract: A multi-purpose paper clip formed of a strand of flat cross section of a resilient material has a first loop portion and a second loop portion that are joined by mutually crossing portions, the first loop portion and second loop portion being of the same hand relative to either crossing portion and being spaced apart in opposed relation so as to form bights facing the crossing portions and each other.

Abstract: A seat covering tensioning clip for use to bridge a trimming wire provided on a seat covering and a spring supporting a seat pad or an insert wire embedded in the seat pad to thereby tension the seat covering, comprises an annular base, and a pair of J-shaped arms extending from the annular base in a nearly same direction, and each having a straight portion and an inwardly bent portion, the bent portions facing each other; the clip being adapted to receive each of the first and second object wires from between the bent portions thereof, thereafter the first object wire being securely retained in the annular base while the second object wire is securely caught between the bent portions superposed on each other.

Abstract: There is illustrated and described herein a flag retaining mechanism including a telescopic pole and a pair of improved retainer clips for retaining the flag in a fixed location on the pole. Each clip includes a full circle ring for gripping a pole, first and second legs diverging from the ring, a bend formed on the end of the first leg, an extension extending laterally from the bend toward the second leg to provide a flag support segment, and interconnectable hooks formed on the distal ends of the extension and the second leg to prevent the segment and leg from separating while a flag is mounted thereon.

Abstract: A clasp structure that is integrally molded is provided and comprises an actuating lever portion, an upper clasping portion, and a lower clasping portion. The actuating lever portion is arcuate in shape and divided at an apex into an upper actuating portion and a lower actuating portion. The upper actuating portion is provided on its internal wall surface with a lower clasping portion. The lower actuating portion also joins with an upper clasping portion on the internal wall surface. The upper clasping portion attaches at one end to the lower clasping portion and extends obliquely at the other end for a certain length and then forms a horizontal clasping surface. Likewise, the lower clasping portion connects at one end to the upper actuating portion of the actuating lever portion and extends inclinedly downward at the other end for a proper length and then forms a horizontal clasping surface that rests on the horizontal clasping surface of the upper clasping portion.

Abstract: This invention pertains to spring clip garment holders for holding garments, especially small garments such as pairs of socks, while the garments are being processed. In the rest position, the clip generally has a "U-shaped" configuration, including a bight and a pair of legs extending from the bight. The legs have upper sections extending toward each other, and lower sections extending away from each other, and the legs reside in surfaces which preferably intersect at an angle of no more than about 20 degrees. At least one of the legs includes a lock, such as a lock slot, for locking the legs together. In use, the spring clip garment holder is compressed, creating an opening for receiving a garment, and providing clearance for one leg to pass the other, thereby crossing one leg over the other. The compression is released after the garment is inserted into the opening, with the legs still crossed.

Abstract: An apparatus for intraocular implantation of a plastic lens in the eye lens zone from which a natural lens has been removed via a surgical incision in the corneoscleral limbus comprising a surgical forceps having two arms and blades projecting beyond portions of the arms defining a cross-over locus, the blades clamping the plastic lens to be implanted; the blades including first and second spaced blades carried by one arm portion, and a third blade carried by the other arm portion, whereby stable three point support is provided for the lens during its passage through the incision into the eye.

Abstract: An adjustable unitary clothespin which is molded from a resilient material and ready to use in the "as molded" condition. The clothespin is comprised of an arcuate upper portion and a pair of downward extending leg portions. The leg portions are movable from positions of adjacent non-interlocking relationship to positions of abutting interlocking relationship. When the legs are interlocked, surfaces of the legs are resiliently urged together by the upper arcuate portion to clamp an article of clothing between the leg portions. Extending outwardly from opposite sides of the upper arcuate portions is a pair of handles for displacing the interlocking leg portions to receive the article of clothing.

Abstract: A one-piece plastic clip with broad jaws for gripping an object over a long area. The clip has arms with an upper and lower surface and ends with a plurality of complementary offset teeth. In unstressed condition, the clip is not under tension. When kinetic energy is stored in the clip, the arms are pinched together and the teeth intermesh and cross over at an angle forming broad jaws. The jaws grip the object between the angled upper surfaces of the arms below the cross over point of the teeth.

Abstract: A paper clip for securing to at least one sheet of thin material comprises a continuous or endless filament shaped to provide two oppositely facing pincers. Each oppositely facing pincer has a resilient hinge region connecting and urging toether an opposing pair of pincer finger members with each pincer finger member comprising a tip segment, an inner gripping segment, and an outer edge segment. The sheet of thin material is secured between either of the oppositely facing pincers by the inner gripping segments of the respective pair of opposing pincer finger members.

Abstract: A clip is illustrated for attaching a fiching lure to a line which includes a line attaching loop and a pair of elongated diverging tension bars extending symetrically from free ends of the loop and with the tension bars having a pair of inwardly converging bars carried thereby with overlapping end portions for holding a pair of overlapping loops which are separable by depressing the tension bars between a thumb and forefinger for changing or replacing a fishing lure.

Abstract: A novel clip device comprises a first clipping member with a shape of loop and is made from elastic rod material; a bending member, connected upwardly to one end of the first clipping member; a second clipping member, having the similar shape as the first clipping member, connected to the upper end of the bending member. The second clipping member includes a inner loop member and a outer loop member. The bending member of the clip device provide a larger tolerance for the clip device to swallow the papers.

Abstract: A one-piece aneurysm clip having an elongated flat ribbon body. The body includes a central helical portion joining first connecting portions, second connecting portions extending from the first connecting portions transversely of the first connecting portions and blade portions extending from the second connecting portions. Spring action of the helical portion urges the blade portions to substantially flatwise engaged position. A guide bar and stop member is mounted on one of the second connecting portions and has a guide bar position which overlies an opposed other of the second connecting portions to hold the blade portions in alignment. A stop portion of the guide bar and stop member is engageable by the other of the second connecting portions to limit opening of the clip.

Abstract: An improved cerebral aneurysm clip fabricated from titanium or titanium alloys and utilizing a guide member consisting of a straight wire-like bridging guide secured across a U-shaped bend formed in one or both of the two cross arms of the aneurysm clip. The aneurysm clip is fabricated from a single, elongated resilient member of titanium or titanium alloy coiled at an intermediate portion to form a coil spring for normally urging the clamping arms of the clip together in a resilient manner. The clip further consists of two forearm sections extending outwardly and away from the coil spring in the direction of the clamping arms of the clip with the forearm sections terminating in inwardly bent first elbow portions that support respective cross arm sections.

Abstract: The paper clips of the present invention are more gradually curved to have a substantial lateral extent, so that they will hold a much thicker stack of papers without deformation or buckling, as compared with the standard narrow sharply curved paper clips. More specifically, when a predetermined length of wire is employed, the clips have a ratio of the predetermined length to the width, and to the height of the clip, of between about 4 and 6. In addition, where one end of the wire is arranged to engage a stack of papers on one side and the other end of the wire is arranged to engage the stack of papers on the other side, at a point between the two ends there is a gradually curved portion corresponding generally to one-half the circumference of a circle having a diameter in the order of the transverse dimension of the clip.

Abstract: A surgical clip comprises a body with two outwardly projecting jaws. The body includes a passage through which one of the jaws is inserted to form a looped body with the jaws extending outwardly in mutually juxtaposed relationship. The body is integrally hinged at its midsection. The jaws are formed to provide a reverse curve clamping path for an interposed member such as a blood vessel and, in a preferred embodiment, a trough for supporting the member is formed in one of the jaws.