Michael Allen Wolf

US Patent:

53745566, Dec 20, 1994

Filed:

Jul 23, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/919361

Inventors:

Richard R. Bennett - Albuquerque NM
Michael A. Wolf - Albuquerque NM

Assignee:

Cell Robotics, Inc. - Albuquerque NM

International Classification:

C17M 100

US Classification:

435287

Abstract:

An apparatus for positioning an operational member, particularly for use in an optical laser system for optically trapping and manipulating microscopic particles in a particle manipulation chamber. A flexure member, is provided which has a pair of substantially inflexible parallel members and four sets of flexible spring members. The pair of parallel members is maintained in a spaced relationship by the four sets of flexible spring members. Each of the four sets of flexible members has at least two parallel flexible elements which can be leaf springs or formed as a unitary part of the flexure member. The four sets of flexible spring members are in two groups of two flexible spring members with each of two of groups of flexible members having their two sets of flexible spring members positioned in a "V" shaped pattern. The apices of the "V" shaped patterns are positioned outwardly of each other forming a parallelogram having at least six sides and preferably a parallelogram having eight sides.

US Patent:

59934395, Nov 30, 1999

Filed:

Apr 22, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/841005

Inventors:

David J. Costello - Albuquerque NM
Michael A. Wolf - Albuquerque NM
Kenneth G. Schalhoub - Albuquerque NM
Ronald K. Lohrding - Albuquerque NM
Aleksei Y. Dergatchev - Hoover AL
Warren E. Parkhurst - Moscow, RU
Valeri G. Polushkin - Troitsk, RU
Sergei A. Kokhanovsky - Troitsk, RU

Assignee:

Cell Robotics, Inc. - Albuquerque NM

International Classification:

A61B 1736

US Classification:

606 9

Abstract:

A lens shield system for shielding a laser source of a system used for collecting capillary blood or fluid from skin, the lens shield comprising a strap apparatus releasably emplaceable around a member of a living being, the member having skin thereon and blood therein, and a lens shield member connected to the strap and disposed for receiving and for transmission therethrough of a laser beam from the laser source directed at the skin. A removable lens shield for shielding a laser source of a collection system used for perforating skin and collecting blood or fluid therein or therebeneath, the collection system in a housing, the lens shield comprising a body sized and configured for removable emplacement in the housing of the collection system between the laser source and the skin, and a window in the body through which the laser beam is transmissible prior to contacting the skin. A method for collecting fluid from a living being has been invented which uses the devices mentioned above. A new laser perforator has been invented for perforating skin with a perforation to permit blood under a surface of the skin to flow out, the perforator in one embodiment having a laser light source for producing an output laser beam, and a mode distribution apparatus for intercepting the output laser beam to control distribution of laser energy of the output laser beam across the perforation of the skin.

US Patent:

62332694, May 15, 2001

Filed:

Dec 16, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/212545

Inventors:

Ronald K. Lohrding - Albuquerque NM
Michael A. Wolf - Albuquerque NM
Jerome Conia - Albuquerque NM
Richard D. Zigweid - Albuquerque NM
David J. Costello - Albuquerque NM
Barry A. Hudy - Albuquerque NM

Assignee:

Cell Robotics, Inc.

International Classification:

H01S 300

US Classification:

372109

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for protecting at least one component of a light source are provided. The apparatus includes a shield for the component, with this shield having a plurality of locations that are substantially transparent to an emission wave length of the light source. The shield is positioned such that during use of the light source, one of the substantially transparent locations of the shield is disposed between the at least one component of the light source and an object that is to be irradiated. The apparatus also includes a mechanism for advancing the shield upon activation of the light source or an element thereof in order to be able to dispose a different one of the substantially transparent locations of the shield between the at least one component of the light source and an object that is to be irradiated.