Joseph Arthur Breen

US Patent:

20100234841, Sep 16, 2010

Filed:

Mar 10, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/721137

Inventors:

Chris Butts - Evanston IL, US
Forrest James Mertens - Denver CO, US
Alex Cohen Herzick - San Francisco CA, US
Krishanu Nandy - Evanston IL, US
Mayte Zavaleta - Chicago IL, US
Catherine Chen - St. Louis MO, US
Joseph Thomas Breen - Rochester MN, US
Colleen Fryer - Towson MA, US

International Classification:

A61B 18/14

US Classification:

606 41

Abstract:

Herein it is described a magnetic medical device, and a system and method in which the magnetic medical device is implemented, that enables bipolar, minimally invasive, tissue ablation. The magnetic medical device may include magnetic means for magnetically coupling the medical device to a second medical device, wherein the magnetic medical devices may be separated by the tissue to be ablated. The magnetic medical device may also include electrical means for transferring electrical energy between the magnetic medical device and the second medical device. The magnetic medical device may further include control means whereby the physical location of the magnetic medical device may be controlled and thereby, as a result of the magnetic coupling, the physical location of the second magnetic medical device may also be controlled.

US Patent:

42599237, Apr 7, 1981

Filed:

Apr 8, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/138628

Inventors:

Joseph R. Breen - Alsip IL

Assignee:

The Continental Group, Inc. - Stamford CT

International Classification:

B05B 502
B05C 1900
B05C 702

US Classification:

118622

Abstract:

A powder applicator for applying powder in a stream to side seams of container bodies. The powder is directed towards an associated nozzle entrained in a carrier gas. However, as the gas entrained powder approaches the nozzle, it passes through a centrifuge section of the supply tube wherein the powder is separated from the gas and is directed against a radially outer portion of a return bend which extends through an arc on the order of 180. degree. As a result, the powder is directed to the orifice of the nozzle as a continuous dense stream with the gas being in a layered relation with respect to the powder.