Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.

Depuy Spine, Inc.

International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC

Thomas W Higginbotham

Douglas Raymond

Timothy Beardsley

Connie Marchek

Anthony R Carlone

Katherine Herard

Travis E Dennison

Katherine Herard Ray

Connie Marcheck

An inline wheeled truck is a structural arrangement for wheels on a skating device. The inline wheeled truck includes a first wheel, a second wheel, a left elongated bracket, a right elongated bracket, a cross platform, a base platform, a first support member, and a second support member. The first wheel and the second wheel allows the inline wheeled truck to roll in a forward direction and a backward direction. The left elongated bracket and the right elongated bracket evenly space and structurally secure the first wheel and the second wheel. The cross platform structurally bridges the left elongated bracket and the right elongated bracket. The first support member and the second support member are connected in between the cross platform and the base platform and convert a tilting motion of the base platform into a steering motion of the cross platform.

Inline wheeled truck

This invention includes surgical retractors that comprise an expandable frame that includes at least two base components, a connector, and at least two retractor blades attached to the expandable frame. Also included are surgical retractors that comprise a housing component that includes a cylindrical portion and a contiguous blade portion, assemblies comprising a surgical retractor assembled to at least one obtruator, illuminated surgical cannulas, and methods of using the same during a surgical procedure.

Surgical retractor systems and illuminated cannulae

Surgical methods and surgical kits

An access hatch reinforcement module and a method of assembling an access hatch to an existing engine compartment hood of a vehicle. The access hatch reinforcement module includes a wall engagement component for engagement to the hood outer wall of the engine compartment hood. The access hatch reinforcement module further includes a door engagement component for engagement to a hatch door of the access hatch. The wall engagement component and the door engagement component of the access hatch reinforcement module are directly fixedly engaged to one another by temporary fixed engagements. The wall engagement component and the door engagement component are also indirectly engaged to one another through operational door connecting components such as a hinge component. The wall engagement component and the door engagement component are engaged to the hood outer wall and the portion of the hood outer wall that is engaged to the door engagement component is separated from the portion of the hood outer wall that is engaged to the wall engagement component. Thereafter the hatch door, which is comprised of what was the portion of the hood outer wall that was engaged to the door engagement component, is supported in a properly aligned manner within a newly formed hatch opening.

Access hatch reinforcement module & method of installing an access hatch to an existing hood for a mobile vehicle

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Independence, MO, United States of America

Thomas W Higginbotham