Graphic Controls Corporation

Kontron Instruments, Inc.

John M Hegarty

Edward J Lombardi

Wayne P Griffin

Ben H Nikkels

Gregory T Field

Steven Rosone

A disposable blood sampling device for slicing a precise incision of predetermined length and depth in the skin of a patient. The device includes a hollow housing having a top surface with an opening, a front surface, a rear surface, and a bottom surface with an elongated slot adapted to contact the skin of the patient. A trigger is slidably disposed in the opening in the top surface of the housing. A single spring, only, is mounted in the housing in a relaxed, unstressed, and unbiased condition when the device is not actuated. The spring is extended by the trigger when the device is actuated. A cutting blade is coupled to one end of the spring and extends through the elongated slot in the bottom surface of the housing to incise the skin of the patient when the device is actuated. Finally, the device includes a plurality of discrete constraint and restraint elements, positioned in the housing, which collectively form an open guide surface directing the spring, and the blade coupled to the spring, along a predetermined incision path.

Slicing disposable blood sampling device

A balloon catheter with an inner elongated member having an inner layer of a soft elastomeric polyurethane material and an outer layer of a hard plastic nylon material, which is formed by forming the outer layer onto the inner layer by coextrusion.

Balloon catheter having a dual layer inner member

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Reading, MA, United States of America

John M Hegarty