Ingemar Lundquist
Ingemar Henry Lundquist | |
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Born | Ingemar Henry Lundquist October 19, 1921 |
Died | February 25, 2007 | (aged 85)
Resting place | Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California) 37°50′07″N 122°14′13″W |
Nationality | Swedish |
Citizenship | Swedish and American |
Education | Stockholm Institute of Technology |
Spouse | Linda |
Children | Richard, Cristian |
Engineering career | |
Discipline | Mechanical Engineering |
Employer(s) | Torex, Inc., Ultimax, Inc., Vidamed, Inc. |
Projects | Balloon Angioplasty, Somnoplasty, T.U.N.A. |
Ingemar Henry Lundquist (born in Stockholm, Sweden, October 19, 1921, died in Carmel Valley Village, California, February 25, 2007) was a prolific inventor and mechanical engineer.[1]
Early life and education
Lundquist graduated from the Stockholm Institute of Technology in 1945 with a mechanical engineering degree.[1][2][3] He migrated to the United States in 1948 and became an American citizen in 1950.[1][3]
Career
He worked for various medical technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Advanced Cardiovascular Systems and E.P. Technologies.
Patents
Lundquist had hundreds of inventions,[4] typically working in his garage or basement.[1] He held more than a hundred patents.[3] His inventions included over-the-wire balloon angioplasty,[5] T.U.N.A.,[6] and somnoplasty.[7] He also worked on cardiac stem-cell therapy.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d Kucklick, Theodore (2012). The Medical Device R&D Handbook, Second Edition [Hardcover]. CRC Press. p. 399. ISBN 978-1-4398-1189-4.
- ^ "Biography, Ingemar Henry Lundquist". memorialsolutions.com. Memorial Solutions. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Ingemar Henry Lundquist". Monterey Herald (memorial). March 10, 2007.
- ^ "Ingemar H. Lundquist inventor". patentbuddy.com. Patent Buddy. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ^ "System for filling and inflating and deflating a vascular dilating cathether assembly". patents.com. patents.com. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ^ "US Patent No: 5,807,309 Transurethral needle ablation device and method for the treatment of the prostate". patentbuddy.com. Patent Buddy. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ^ "Steerable medical probe with stylets US 5409453 A". google.com. Google. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
External links
Media related to Ingemar Lundquist at Wikimedia Commons
- 1921 births
- 2007 deaths
- Burials at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
- People from Carmel Valley Village, California
- Mechanical engineers
- People from Oakland, California
- Swedish emigrants to the United States
- Engineers from California
- 20th-century American engineers
- Swedish inventors
- American mechanical engineer stubs