Assembly and method of same for mechanically skiving to remove balloon parison tubing materials

    公开(公告)号:US10696005B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-30

    申请号:US15660327

    申请日:2017-07-26

    摘要: An assembly and method for mechanically skiving a tube to later form into a medical balloon are provided. The assembly includes a blade holder and a tube guide wherein the blade holder retains the blade in a diagonal relationship relative to the tube guide. A lathe assembly includes a mandrel for extending into a lumen of the tube and fitting into the tube guide. The lathe assembly further includes a spinning mechanism that rotates the mandrel relative to the blade for skiving the exterior surface of the polymer tube. The diagonal relationship allows for precise shaping of a transition portion of the tube, which is located between a medially located un-skived portion of tube and two skived portions located at tube ends. Once the tube is skived, a molding process inflates the un-skived portion into a balloon and stretches the transition portion and the skived portions forming a medical balloon.

    Method for achieving length accuracy of diamond turned parts

    公开(公告)号:US10213842B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-26

    申请号:US15890597

    申请日:2018-02-07

    申请人: Spy Eye, LLC

    发明人: Ronald S. Maynard

    摘要: A temporary part is mounted onto the chuck of the diamond turning machine. A diamond turning tip of the diamond turning machine is used to form a reference surface on the temporary part, registering a baseline for a motion control system of the diamond turning machine. While the temporary part remains mounted to the diamond turning machine, a workpiece is mounted onto the temporary part, and the diamond tip is controlled relative to the reference surface to diamond turn a surface profile on the workpiece. Because the baseline established by the reference surface compensates for positional variations from mounting parts directly onto the chuck of the diamond turning machine, the length of the workpiece can be shaped to a designated length with a high degree of accuracy.

    METHOD FOR ACHIEVING LENGTH ACCURACY OF DIAMOND TURNED PARTS

    公开(公告)号:US20180229312A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-16

    申请号:US15890597

    申请日:2018-02-07

    申请人: Spy Eye, LLC

    发明人: Ronald S. Maynard

    IPC分类号: B23B31/30 B23B5/36 B23B25/06

    摘要: A temporary part is mounted onto the chuck of the diamond turning machine. A diamond turning tip of the diamond turning machine is used to form a reference surface on the temporary part, registering a baseline for a motion control system of the diamond turning machine. While the temporary part remains mounted to the diamond turning machine, a workpiece is mounted onto the temporary part, and the diamond tip is controlled relative to the reference surface to diamond turn a surface profile on the workpiece. Because the baseline established by the reference surface compensates for positional variations from mounting parts directly onto the chuck of the diamond turning machine, the length of the workpiece can be shaped to a designated length with a high degree of accuracy.