Lumex, Inc.

Other

Chong S Kim

Daniel R Schroeder

Robert R Kornowski

Henrick A Zabawski

Chris L Tsakiridis

Matthew A Stahl

Marvin A Sackner

A heated scooping device provides efficient handling of dense comestibles. The device comprises a head portion having a bowl section and rim. The head portion may be affixed to a handle portion extending from the head portion. A heating means including a heating unit and heating element supplies electricity to rim portion fashioned with the heating element. Power is supplied to the heating means via a power means found in the device. A retainer positioned between the bowl section and heating element stabilizes and isolates the heating element from the bowl section. A method for manufacturing a heated scooping device includes affixing a handle portion to a head portion having a bowl section and rim, providing a heating means to heat a portion of the rim, and positioning a retainer between the bowl section and the heating element for electrically and thermally isolating the heating element from the bowl section.

Heated scooping device

An intubation device utilizes a steerable endotracheal tube guide to position an endotracheal tube at a laryngeal opening, and is also configured for soft tissue retraction to improve visualization of the laryngeal opening. An ETT is positioned within an overtube of intubation device having proximal and distal ends and a flexible tip. The distal end houses a feeder mechanism for displacing the endotracheal tube through the overtube. A hood includes a stem, base, and expandable body and is affixed to the overtube's distal end. The ETT-containing overtube is precisely positioned at a laryngeal opening via positioning effects of body expansion, activation of a tip director, and/or flexible tip articulation. Unhindered visualization of the laryngeal opening is achieved by expansion of the expandable body, pushing soft tissue outwardly and extensibly. An actuation module controls the feeder mechanism as well as the flexible tip to position flexible tip and endotracheal tube.

Intubation system, method, and device

Housing for emitters for infrared detectors

Housing for a plurality of emitters for detectors

An apparatus and method of manufacture for a light source housing apparatus. The housing is insert molded around a plurality of electrically separated leads and defines a cavity. A portion of each lead is exposed along a bottom surface of the housing. Two or more leads have terminal portions near a rear surface of the housing. A lead, which can be used to protect against electrostatic discharge, is also mounted along a front face of the housing and terminates at a ring portion which defines an opening that is aligned with the cavity. The opening of the ring portion is preferably sized and shaped to correspond to an outer peripheral surface of a lens, lightpipe or other optical media, so that the lens can be inserted through the ring portion and into the cavity. A light source, such as an LED, is mounted within a cutout of the housing. The housing is manufactured using lead sets each having pre-formed leads indexed by a leadframe through an injection mold to form the housing around each lead set. After the insert molding process at least a portion of the leadframe is removed to electrically isolate the leads. If used with surface mount technology, the housing is preferably self-aligning.

Light source housing apparatus and method of manufacture

A subject rebreathes an inert aerosol from a closed system and, during each of a plurality of breaths, the aerosol concentration in the closed system is determined and compared to determine differences with a predetermined concentration value. Identified differences indicating enhanced aerosol deposition signify airway narrowing and/or an increase in accumulated airway secretions.

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Naperville, IL, United States of America

Chong S Kim