Makerbot Industries, LLC

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

Mark Palmer

Vishnu Anantha

Craig Gotsill

Joseph Carbone

Ralph M Wadensweiler

Jackson Seidenberg

Timothy P Haines

Michael Joseph Kobida

Christina J Shuh

Yifei Zha

Russell LE Blanchard

Mason Umholtz

Francois De Martrin-Donos

Shih Tao Chang

Samuel Weaver

Seung Lee

Faris Elmasu

Dong Han

Paul J Floyd

Robert B Hubler

Taylor S Goodman

Samuel Holland

Kevin C Rand

Michael C Pappas

Russell L E Blanchard

Mark Waller

Stefan Geiger

Christopher James Yarka

Carlos Fernandez Arreola

Rosemary Cole

Benjamin R McCallum

Quynh Dinh

Matthew Scott Sterling

Andrew J Askedall

Surgical system console

Medical equipment cart

Headset for surgical system console

According to an exemplary aspect, a tool for installing and/or removing a protective cover of an instrument includes a body portion having an open end and a closed end. The open end defines an interior passage that extends into the body portion along a longitudinal axis of the body portion toward the closed end of the body portion. The interior passage is configured to receive at least a portion of the protective cover in the interior passage. One or more members are connected to the body portion, and each of the one or more members includes a free end movable relative to the body portion. Systems and methods relate to tools for installing and/or removing protective covers of instruments.

Protective cover installation and removal tool, systems, and methods

Three-dimensional printer frame

An extruder of a three-dimensional printer may be coupled with one or more filament tubes, each filament tube having its own supply of filament. The extruder may include a drive gear rotatable in a first direction to advance a filament from a filament tube toward at least one extrusion opening defined by the extruder and rotatable in a second direction, opposite the first direction, to advance another filament from a different filament tube toward the at least one extrusion opening defined by the extruder. Also, as one filament is advanced by the drive gear, another filament may be retracted by the drive gear to improve the switching of filaments in a three-dimensional printing process. The extruder may work in conjunction with a filament supply-side drive system that feeds filament into one or more filament tubes, reducing a pull force exerted by the drive gear of the extruder.

Multi-filament three-dimensional printing

Tool for installation and/or removal of instrument tip cover

Extruder for a three-dimensional printer

Spool for filament of a three-dimensional printer

Three-Dimensional printer frame

A scanned texture can be applied to a three-dimensional model using a scanner. A user can scan a surface texture with a three-dimensional scanner and then use the same scanner as a three-dimensional input device to apply the texture to a three-dimensional model displayed in a virtual modeling environment. To accomplish this, the surface texture may first be isolated and extracted from a scanned surface. The surface texture can then be applied to a three-dimensional model in a virtual workspace by using the scanner as a navigational and control input. Thus, in a similar manner and motion in which a real-world object is scanned, the surface texture can be applied to the digital model displayed in the virtual modeling environment. The scanner therefore provides a user with a simple and intuitive way in which to capture physical surface textures and apply them to digital objects.

Three-dimensional surface texturing

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Mark Palmer