Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Other

Anthony Peter Carcia

Travis Zenyo Oba

Manouchehr A Miraki

Michael C Murad

Raffaele Mazzei

Fabian Daniel Schroeder

Tyler Douglas Smith

Justin M Roman

Alan Shibata

Kevin Lo

Robert Wesley Luffel

Weiyun Sun

Rick Minoru Tanaka

Hsue-Yang Liu

Alexander M Nameroff

Ernesto A Garay

Angela Chen Krauskopf

John Patrick Sturman

Tanya Schneider

Michael Brookmire

Charles W Singleton, Jr

Shayler M Backlund

Wee Teck Woon

Dan Canfield

Melinda Lois Liggett

Suture clip deployment devices for applying suture clips to sutures are described. Some embodiments can include a generally tubular main body and a vacuum port located at the distal end, a hollow inner body longitudinally slidable within the main body and extending from the main body at its distal end, and a suture recess located in the generally tubular main body. At least one suture clip configured to frictionally fit on an outer surface of the inner body is deployed during use. Clip deployment can occur after a vacuum source is applied to the device so as to draw the suture into the device. The suture lines can be retrieved through the suture recess, and the device can be actuated so as to deliver the suture clip off the delivery device and onto the suture, locking the suture in place.

Suture clip deployment devices

An accessory mating system for mating a print engine to an accessory may include a pin and a pin receiving detent. The pin has a collar having a pin vertical axis datum surface and a shaft extending from the collar. The shaft provides left-right axis datum surfaces and second opposite sides providing fore-aft axis datum surfaces. The pin receiving detent receives the pin. The pin receiving detent may include a detent perimeter providing a detent vertical axis datum surface, first opposite internal sides providing first detent left-right axis datum surfaces facing the pin left-right axis datum surfaces and second opposite internal sides providing detent fore-aft axis datum surfaces.

Print engine and accessory mating

An apparatus can comprise a locking mechanism comprising an elongated slot to receive a pin. The apparatus can also comprise an encoder strip adhered to the locking mechanism. The apparatus can further comprise a tension spring coupled to the locking mechanism. The tension spring can provide a force in a given direction to pull the locking mechanism in the given direction.

Locking mechanism for an encoder strip

A multi-carriage printing device has a first member, a first bar mounted on the first member, and a first printer carriage mounted on the first bar. The device further has a second bar mounted on the first member, a second printer carriage mounted on the second bar, and a first temperature sensor positioned to sense a first temperature of the member.

Multi-carriage printing device and method

Various embodiments of a printing system including a vacuum duct are disclosed.

Printing system and method

An apparatus includes a print chassis supporting a print engine within a chassis structure, and a handle engaged with the print chassis to move both the print chassis and the print engine in a first direction and a second direction, wherein the second direction is substantially orthogonal to the first direction.

Moving chassis

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Anthony Peter Carcia