DR. ROBERT JAMES SPENCER, DPM
Medical Practice at Medical Center Rd, San Juan Capistrano, CA

5925316, Jul 20, 1999

Sep 30, 1997

8/940887

Richard Jed Kendall - San Clemente CA
Szu-Min Lin - Laguna Hills CA
Robert M. Spencer - San Juan Capistrano CA
Harold R. Williams - San Clemente CA

Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. - Irvine CA

A61L 220

422 28

A system to deliver gas/vapor from solid materials. Specifically, the delivery system for the use of gas or vapor released from a solid material, such as a non-aqueous/solid hydrogen peroxide complex. The system is comprised of a delivery system that is configured to receive a plurality of disks containing the solid material and provide these disks into an injector. The injector heats the disks to produce a gas or vapor that is then provided into a chamber. The sterilization process can be done by gas or vapor alone, or in combination with plasma or ultra violet radiation. In particular, a control system automatically induces the delivery system to provide the injector with a disk and then remove the disk once the injection sequence is complete.

4833790, May 30, 1989

May 11, 1987

7/048194

Robert M. Spencer - San Juan Capistrano CA
Christopher O. Lada - Palo Alto CA

Lam Research - Fremont CA

G01B 731

33520

A system for locating and positioning wafers includes a wafer shuttle, a spindle, and a position sensor. The wafer shuttle retrieves wafers from a storage location, typically a wafer cassette, and transports the wafers to the spindle. The wafers are then incrementally rotated on the spindle, and the distance between the center of rotation and the periphery of the wafer along a linear path is measured. By using three such measurements, the distance and angle with which the center of the wafer is offset from the center of rotation may be calculated. The wafer can then be centered on the spindle by rotation and translated a proper distance by the wafer shuttle. Usually, the wafers will be further rotationally oriented so that the crystal lattice lies in a desired direction.

5919418, Jul 6, 1999

Sep 30, 1997

8/940748

Richard Jed Kendall - San Clemente CA
Michael Hahs - San Clemente CA
Robert M. Spencer - San Juan Capistrano CA
Harold R. Williams - San Clemente CA

Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. - Irvine CA

A61L 220

422 28

A system to deliver gas/vapor from solid materials. Specifically, the delivery system for the use of gas or vapor released from a solid material, such as a non-aqueous/solid hydrogen peroxide complex. The system is comprised of a delivery system that is configured to receive a plurality of disks containing the solid material and provide these disks into an injector. The injector heats the disks to produce a gas or vapor that is then provided into a chamber. The sterilization process can be done by gas or vapor alone, or in combination with plasma or ultra violet radiation. In particular, a control system automatically induces the delivery system to provide the injector with a disk and then remove the disk once the injecfion sequence is complete.

4938262, Jul 3, 1990

Apr 11, 1988

7/180423

Harold R. Williams - Capistrano Beach CA
Robert M. Spencer - San Juan Capistrano CA

Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. - Arlington TX

A61L 218

141114

A cassette containing a group of sealed cells is used as a means for delivering doses of fluid to be injected into a sterilizing chamber. After the cassette is automatically positioned over a piercing mechanism, the cassette is moved downwardly so that a cell is pierced. Fluid is then forced out of the cell by pneumatic pressure into an injector valve, which opens in a manner which does not adversely affect a vacuum within the chamber.

5887716, Mar 30, 1999

Jun 2, 1997

8/869869

Hal Williams - San Clemente CA
Robert Spencer - San Juan Capistrano CA
Alfredo Choperena - San Juan Capistrano CA

Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. - Arlington TX

B65D 8500

2064591

A method for delivering liquids is disclosed wherein a quantity of the liquid is provided within a cell within a cassette. The cassette is received within a sleeve having an open end. A flap at the open end of the sleeve extends inwardly through the open end between the sleeve and cassette to abut a lip on the cassette and hold the cassette therein. Impingement of the flap pushes the flap away from the lip to allow the cassette to move out of the sleeve. A label mounted within the sleeve rotates between a viewable position where it is visible through a window in the sleeve and a retracted position away from the window. Extraction and reinsertion of the cassette into the sleeve moves the label from the viewable to the nonviewable position.

6060019, May 9, 2000

Apr 9, 1997

8/838759

Robert M. Spencer - San Juan Capistrano CA
Tralance O. Addy - Cota de Caza CA

Ethicon, Inc. - New Brunswick NJ

A61L 214, A61L 220

422 23

A plasma-enhanced vacuum drying method is disclosed. It is advantageously applied in plasma sterilization processes in particular, and represents a significant improvement for general evacuation drying methods. Articles to be sterilized are placed in a sealed chamber and the chamber is evacuated. A plasma of residual gas species is generated in the chamber during an initial evacuation step. This promotes drying of the articles and advantageously allows a desired pressure to be attained more quickly than without the plasma. Sterilizing gas is injected into the chamber, and a second plasma is generated to activate the sterilizing gas plasma, thereby sterilizing the articles in the chamber.

5911950, Jun 15, 1999

Sep 30, 1997

8/941384

Xiaolan Chen - Irvine CA
Paul Taylor Jacobs - Trabaco Canyon CA
Szu-Min Lin - Laguna Hills CA
Robert M. Spencer - San Juan Capistrano CA
Harold R. Williams - San Clemente CA

Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. - Irvine CA

A61L 220

422 28

A system to deliver gas/vapor from solid materials. Specifically, the delivery system for the use of gas or vapor released from a solid material, such as a non-aqueous/solid hydrogen peroxide complex. The system is comprised of a delivery system that is configured to receive a plurality of disks containing the solid material and provide these disks into an injector. The injector heats the disks to produce a gas or vapor that is then provided into a chamber. The sterilization process can be done by gas or vapor alone, or in combination with plasma or ultra violet radiation. In particular, a control system automatically induces the delivery system to provide the injector with a disk and then remove the disk once the injection sequence is complete.

4909287, Mar 20, 1990

Apr 11, 1988

7/179786

Harold R. Williams - Capistrano Beach CA
Robert M. Spencer - San Juan Capistrano CA

Surgikos, Inc. - Arlington TX

B65B 304, A61L 914

141 5

A cassette containing a group of sealed cells is used as a means for delivering doses of fluid to be injected into a sterilizing chamber. After the cassette is automatically positioned over a piercing mechanism, the cassette is moved downwardly so that a cell is pierced. Fluid is then forced out of the cell by pneumatic pressure into an injector valve, which opens in a manner which does not adversely affect a vacuum within the chamber.

4899519, Feb 13, 1990

Dec 8, 1988

7/282099

Harold R. Williams - Capistrano Beach CA
Robert M. Spencer - San Juan Capistrano CA

Surgikos, Inc. - Arlington TX

B65B 904, B65B 6118

53449

A cassette containing a group of sealed cells is used as a means for delivering doses of fluid to be injected into a sterilizing chamber. After the cassette is automatically positioned over a piercing mechanism, the cassette is moved downwardly so that a cell is pierced. Fluid is then forced out of the cell by pneumatic pressure into an injector valve, which opens in a manner which does not adversely affect a vacuum within the chamber.

5939033, Aug 17, 1999

Oct 28, 1996

8/744741

Richard Jed Kendall - San Clemente CA
Xiaolan Chen - Irvine CA
Michael Hahs - San Clemente CA
Paul Taylor Jacobs - Trabuco Canyon CA
Szu-Min Lin - Laguna Hills CA
Robert M. Spencer - San Juan Capistrano CA
Harold R. Williams - San Clemente CA

Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. - Irvine CA

A61L 220

422305

A system to deliver gas/vapor from solid materials. Specifically, the delivery system for the use of gas or vapor released from a solid material, such as a non-aqueous/solid hydrogen peroxide complex. The system is comprised of a delivery system that is configured to receive a plurality of disks containing the solid material and provide these disks into an injector. The injector heats the disks to produce a gas or vapor that is then provided into a chamber. The sterilization process can be done by gas or vapor alone, or in combination with plasma or ultra violet radiation. In particular, a control system automatically induces the delivery system to provide the injector with a disk and then remove the disk once the injection sequence is complete.