Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Mark G Metzger

James O Davis

Paul Bellavance

A multiconductor and support has a plurality of elongate conductive elements each with a pair of termini. An elongate support means, carrying adjacent conductive elements, has openings located at the distal and the proximal ends for alignment with conductive elements extending thereover leaving the distal termini thereof unsupported. Heat activated adhesive on the support means bonds the conductive elements. Each of the conductive elements are spaced from the other conductive elements and have center lines which are parallel. A machine for assembly of a multiconductor and support means has a plurality of spools supplying conductive elements and a plurality of guides each positioned to receive and align the supplied conductive elements. The guides position the conductive elements spaced from and parallel to each other. A supply of support means moves support means intermittently but synchronously between the conductive elements and a flat surface. A heated platten compresses and bonds the conductive elements and the support means into an pair. A method for assembling a multiconductor and support includes intermittently moving several conductive elements in parallel spaced relation and intermittently moving a support means in a plane parallel to the conductive elements. Pressing the parallel conductive elements and the support means together forms the pair.

Machine and method for making for assembling multiconductors and a

A catheter sensor assembly and support has a member with a distal end and a proximal extension joined by an intermediate part. An open passage extends along the proximal extension and across the intermediate part to carry a sensor overlaying the passage. Conductors attach to the sensor bottom for transmitting signals from the sensor through a catheter lumen. An adhesive sealant secures the sensor to the intermediate part near the distal end so that the passage remains open between the lumen and the bottom. A method for assembling and supporting a sensor at a distal end of a catheter tube includes steps of attaching a sensor with an area toward an end connected to electrical conductors, placing a tube in the passage to provide a passageway between the lumen and the sensor, mounting the sensor to the member overlying the passage, inserting the proximal extension into the lumen with the electrical conductors passing through the lumen and sealing the sensor to the passage.

Method for assembly of a directly exposed catheter sensor on a support

A connector body with a first end and a first part thereon and a second end and a first part thereon includes a passageway aligned along an axis passing through the first end and part. Openings in second part permit communication from the first end to the second end since the openings extend from the second end to at least the passageway. A male luer taper located on the first part about the passageway tapers outwardly of the axis from the first end to a annular groove. A luer nut with an internally threaded collar and an apertured flanged portion seats within the groove permitting rotary but not axial movement of the luer nut relative to the taper. A method provides a plurality of connections between openings and a passageway with a connector body having a first end and a first part thereon and a second end and a second part thereon and a passageway through the first part from the first end extends to a plurality of openings in the second part permitting communication. The method includes locating a male luer taper on the body. A groove near the taper may be included for an internally threaded luer nut.

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Mark G Metzger