C. R. Bard, Inc.

The Vollrath Company, LLC

Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation

Brown University

Richard-allan Medical Industries

International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation

Genzyme Corporation

Reebok International Limited

Thomas Jefferson University

General Housewares Corporation

Ciba-geigy Corporation

Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

American Cyanamid Company

Wki Holding Company, Inc.

Ciba Vision Corporation

Paul J Mulhauser

Karl Dallas Kirk, Iii

Douglas M Spranger

Paul C DiCesare

Karl D Kirk

David M Wasserman

Walter Paul Sjursen

Mark V LeGreve

John A Wojcik

Hassan A Mohamed

Alan J Schommer

Michael DeSalvo

David R Schiff

Christopher John Brooks

Anton J Steiner

Patrick Aebischer

Alex M Greenberg

Malcolm J Brookes

Melanie R Werner

Moses Goddard

Paul R Sanberg

Paul G Alchas

Jonathan B Gabel

Jeffrey A Stein

Lyndon Thomas Treacy

Stuart K Williams

Jeffrey G Clark

Nicholas F Warner

Alfred V Vasconcellos

Bruce E Jarrell

Matthew L Phillips

Kyungmin Andy Lee

Mark Newby

Jesse Gala

Frank A Augello

Joseph A DiPisa

Gregory C Fanelli

Louis P Hartman

James H Burbo

Brian Clark

Roland Deangelis

Joel W Cummings

James Shock

Deborah G Rose

David I Knight

Richard J Cosenza

Bill Cowles

Anne M Rathbun

John G Moldauer

Tony A Cutshall

Wes Prais

Paul R Lacotta

Tucker H Fort

Bert D Heinzelman

Rafael Victor Andino

Joseph N Logan

William J Allen

Michael C Pereira

Adam Sebastian Sanchez

David N Ku

Christopher J Brooks

John Matthew Puskar-Pasewicz

Stanley H Remiszewski

Bradley J Denny

Cyan Godfrey

Mary Mowrey-McKee

Florence Stoffel

Morton Wexler

Alyssa R Needleman

Donald Fraser VanRoyen

Timothy J Kelly

James C Han

B Matthew Marzynski

Diego Y Fontayne

Christopher Brooks

Mario M Protano

Elizabeth Erin O'Halloran

Erika Elmuts

Daniel Nelsen

Son Luong

David E Cerny

Clinton N Tate

Jonathan C Roche

Karl D Iii Kirk

An improved applicator for dispensing liquids and viscous fluids comprising an applicator body, an applicator tip assembly, and optionally a filter element.

Applicator

A device for mixing and dispensing fluids has first and second walls that form a chamber connected to a nozzle. Inlets each configured to receive one fluid are arranged in the first wall. Proximate edges of the inlets are an equal distance from a central point on the first wall. A seal having top and bottom surfaces and a center through hole is positioned in the chamber. The center hole is substantially aligned with the central point. A surface area of the top surface is greater than a sum of the sectional areas of the inlets. A dispensing pump moves the seal between a sealed position in which the bottom surface seals the inlets and an open position in which the bottom surface is spaced away from the inlets to open the inlets to draw the fluids into the chamber to form the mixture for dispensing through the nozzle.

Mixing and dispensing device

An improved applicator for dispensing liquids and viscous fluids comprising an applicator body, an applicator tip or applicator assembly, and optionally a filter element wherein the applicator tip or assembly has at least one of several beneficial features including a receptacle for shards, a fluid rate controlling tip, and a bubble breaking design.

A device for dispensing a mixture of at least two fluids is disclosed. The device has a plurality of cartridges that each contain a fluid. A flow channel communicates with each cartridge. A valve adjusts a mass flow rate of the fluid drawn from the corresponding cartridge. A manifold has a mixing chamber and a plurality of inlets that each communicate with one of the flow channels. The manifold has a spring and a seal that covers the inlets. A piston is between the seal and the spring. The spring is moveable between an extended position that positions the seal to substantially and simultaneously close the inlets from the flow channels and a compressed position that positions the seal to substantially and simultaneously open the inlets to the flow channels. A dispensing pump communicates with the manifold and draws fluid from each of the cartridges. A nozzle dispenses the mixture.

A hand-held dispenser handle for use with tubular containers, especially unit dose or single use containers, of various liquids or viscous fluids, which provides enhanced flow and locus control.

Dispenser handle

The invention is directed toward a surgical kit having component parts capable of use to prepare a cartilage implant plug from allograft condyle. The kit comprises a sizing gauge used to measure surface of the allograft condyle so that a cartilage implant plug can be removed that corresponds to the contours of the defect site excised on a patient. An adjustable guide member is mounted in a fixed orientation over the allograft condyle in which a cylindrical graft cutter for cutting a cylindrical allograft bone plug having a cartilage cap and a bone end portion. A chamfering tool is used for chamfering the bone end of the allograft bone plug.

Surgical allograft bone plug cutting tool assembly and method of using same

The invention is directed toward a surgical kit having component parts capable of use in excising a cartilage defect site on a patient to prepare the same for receipt of an implant plug, the kit comprising a cylindrical gauge with a central bore used to measure the defect area, a guide rod adapted to be driven through the gauge tube into the center of said defect area and a cartilage cutting assembly adapted to be mounted over the guide rod and used for excising the defect area and cutting a cylindrical bore into the defect area. The method for use of the kit comprises the steps of: marking the defect area to be cut; placing a guide rod into the center defect area and driving the same to a predetermined distance to secure the same in the defect area and placing a drill bit over the guide rod and rotating the drill bit to cut a cylindrical blind bore removing the cartilage defect.

Surgical bone cutting assembly and method of using same

A hearing aid includes a hearing aid shell, a microphone enclosed within the hearing aid shell, and a sealing member that surrounds the periphery of the microphone enclosed within the hearing aid shell, and a sealing member that surrounds the periphery of the microphone. The sealing member completely fills the area between the periphery of the microphone and the interior surface of the hearing aid shell.

Hearing aid

A hearing aid includes a first portion adapted for behind-the-ear placement having a microphone, a second portion adapted for in-the-canal placement having a receiver and a cable that couples the first portion to the second portion, the cable having an adjustable length.

A hearing aid includes a circuit board having a battery affixed thereon and a switch that utilizes a portion of the circuit board as a portion of the switch. The battery is permanently affixed to the circuit board in at least one location and at least a portion of the battery is spaced away from the circuit board. The circuit board further includes at least one pair of printed switch traces. The switch is integrated into the circuit board in a way that utilizes the circuit board to form a rotary switch.

An implant inserter device having an outer collar, an inner sleeve slidably and rotatably received within the outer collar, and a push rod slidably received within the inner sleeve. The outer collar has at least one cammed surface formed on an interior surface thereof, while the inner sleeve has at least one rib projecting outwardly from an exterior surface thereof. The rib is releasably engageable with the cammed surface when the inner sleeve is rotated relative to the outer collar. As a result, a distal end of the inner sleeve collapses from an undeformed position, in which the inner sleeve does not grip an implant housed therein, and a deformed position, in which the inner sleeve grips the implant. The push rod is movable between an extended position and a retracted position for urging the implant through and from the inner sleeve for insertion into a defect in damaged cartilage and bone.

Implant inserter device

Hearing aid part

A portable surgical workstation for implant formation comprising a base with a central planar section. The central planar section has a plurality of tracks and a throughgoing slot with a recessed stepped surrounding surface formed on a bottom surface of the central planar section. A vise assembly mounted to the base comprises a fixed jaw member secured to the base, a traveling jaw member moveably mounted to the base and a fixed drive housing mounted to the base. The traveling jaw member has a plurality of rail members adapted to be slidably mounted in the central planar section tracks. The fixed drive housing has a threaded longitudinal bore which receives a threaded drive shaft, one end of the drive shaft being secured in the traveling jaw member to transport the traveling jaw member.

Osteochondral allograft cartilage transplant workstation

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New York, NY, United States of America

Paul J Mulhauser