Ingemar Henry Lundquist | |
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Born |
Ingemar Henry Lundquist October 19, 1921 |
Died | February 25, 2007 Carmel Valley Village, California |
(aged 85)
Resting place |
Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California) 37°50′07″N 122°14′13″W |
Nationality | Swedish |
Citizenship | Swedish and American |
Spouse(s) | Mary |
Children | Richard, and Cristian |
Engineering career | |
Discipline | Mechanical Engineering |
Institutions | Stockholm Institute of Technology |
Employer(s) | Torex, Inc., Ultimax, Inc., Vidamed, Inc. |
Projects | Balloon Angioplasty, Somnoplasty, T.U.N.A. |
Ingemar Henry Lundquist (born in , Sweden October 19, 1921, died in Carmel Valley Village, California February 25, 2007) was a prolific inventor and mechanical engineer.
He was responsible for at least 78 patents, and hundreds of inventions. Three of his most notable inventions were over the wire balloon angioplasty,T.U.N.A., and Somnoplasty. He worked out of his garage or basement workshops.
He was a graduate of the Stockholm Institute of Technology earning a mechanical engineering degree in 1945.
In 1948, Ingemar Lundquist immigrated to the United States and he became an American citizen in 1950.