Medtronic, Inc.

Dominique Glauser

Chris J Paidosh

Jean-Francois Fischer

Olivier Blandin

Yan Cardineau

Eric F Davila Lozada

William Fankhauser

Stephane Rohrbach

Claude Brist

Jose Garcia

Stephane Rohrer

A manufacturing carrier has an insert that can be configured and reconfigured for a wide variety components. The carrier has a frame configured to be transported by a conveyor, an insert and at least one positioner. The insert has pin holes arranged in a matrix. The positioner is carried in a pin hole and configured for locating a component at an x axis position, a y axis position, and a z axis position in relation to the insert. The positioner is moveable from the pin hole configured for a component to another pin hole to reconfigure the insert for another component.

Configurable insert for a manufacturing carrier

A welding system with variable environment system is provided that allows devices to be welded in different gas environments. The preferred welding system uses a controllable gas delivery system that provides different gas mixtures to a welding chamber at different times. Thus, welding in different gas mixtures can be performed in a single welding chamber. This allows the devices to be welded both in environments that promote effective welding and in environments that have specific characteristics desirable for gases that remain in the completed device. Thus the system facilitates the formation of different types of devices in a single welding chamber, and in a single manufacturing line.

Variable environment laser weld system

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St-Sulplice, Switzerland

Dominique Glauser