Patents Examined by Valerie L Woodward
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Patent number: 11596571Abstract: A continuous passive motion apparatus is provided that includes a thigh support (40) connected by a hinge structure (38) to a base plate (36). The plate (36) is itself connected to a base (34). A bladder (54), which inflates to the form of a vertically elongate column, is cyclically inflated and deflated to lift the thigh support (40) in movements about a hinge (46) connecting it to an upper hinge plate (42) of the hinge structure (38). The hinge structure also includes a lower hinge plate (44). A foot support (72) is connected by a cord (68) to the thigh support (40).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: MEDEV INNOVTIONS (PTY) LTD.Inventors: Giovanni Sergio Milandri, Geoffrey Darren Foat
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Patent number: 11583468Abstract: The present invention A massaging apparatus for human breast, said apparatus comprised of: an electrical pump, a bra having: at least two inflatable tubes having two opening at their edges integrated at each side of the bra encircling one breast organ, wherein each inflatable tube is connected by T shape connector, wherein through pipe to the electronic pump and control module for controlling the inflation of the tubes; wherein the tube are inflated simultaneous at both edges creating dual simultaneous pressure at different size of the breast organ.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: FEEDWELL LTDInventor: Dov Barkay
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Patent number: 11576591Abstract: A gas sensor kit includes a gas sensor that measures a gas concentration of an exhalation gas of a subject and a gas supply unit that supplies a therapeutic gas, supplied through a tube, to the subject. In the gas sensor, the gas sensor has a convex portion that is supported when connected with the gas supply unit, and the gas supply unit has at least one locking claw that supports the convex portion when connected with the gas sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiko Takatori, Masayuki Inoue, Kenichiro Kabumoto
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Patent number: 11571537Abstract: A system for aligning a patient interface for use in delivering a flow of a breathing gas to the airway of a patient with an adhesive arrangement that is structured to secure the patient interface to the patient. The system includes a base that is structured to be disposed on a surface, the base having a central member protruding upward from the base to a contoured surface. The central member includes a pair of protruding alignment elements that extend further upward from the contoured surface and which are sized and structured to engage apertures in both of the adhesive arrangement and the patient interface in a manner which aligns such components with each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Lauren Patricia Chodkowski, Natasha A. Gilbert
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Patent number: 11559707Abstract: Provided is an oxygen candle starting device, comprising a pull line column (17) and a percussion cap (15), wherein a pull line hole (155) is provided in the pull line column in an axial direction of the pull line column, a percussion cap cavity (154) is provided inside one end of the pull line column, a fire-preventing cavity is provided inside the other end of the pull line column, and the pull line hole passes through the fire-preventing cavity and the percussion cap cavity; the percussion cap is mounted in the percussion cap cavity, and sand grains (16) are packaged in the fire-preventing cavity.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SHAANXI STAR EXPLOSION SAFETY POLYTRON TECHNOLOGIES INCInventors: Xinguo Wen, Aiping Ma
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Patent number: 11554240Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for portable and compact nitric oxide (NO) generation that can be embedded into other therapeutic devices or used alone. In some embodiments, an ambulatory NO generation system can be comprised of a controller and disposable cartridge. The cartridge can contain filters and scavengers for preparing the gas used for NO generation and for scrubbing output gases prior to patient inhalation. The system can utilize an oxygen concentrator to increase nitric oxide production and compliment oxygen generator activity as an independent device. The system can also include a high voltage electrode assembly that is easily assembled and installed. Various nitric oxide delivery methods are provided, including the use of a nasal cannula.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Third Pole, Inc.Inventors: Gregory W. Hall, Kevin Cedrone, Philip E. Silkoff, Wolfgang Scholz
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Patent number: 11548454Abstract: Noise caused by vibration of a door hole seal is reduced. A door hole seal includes a first sheet having a slit formed therein and a second sheet covering the slit from an exterior side of a vehicle. At least a specific region of the second sheet is made of a rubber-like elastic body, the specific region extending from a portion corresponding to the slit to a vertically lower end of the second sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoya Sasaki, Hiromu Oda, Satoshi Endo
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Patent number: 11547828Abstract: A mask system includes a frame adapted to attach headgear, a sealing arrangement releasably connectable to the frame, and an elbow provided to the sealing arrangement and adapted to be connected to an air delivery tube that delivers breathable gas to the patient. The sealing arrangement defines a breathing chamber and is adapted to form a seal with the patient's face. The sealing arrangement includes structure to establish a positive connection with the frame and with the elbow.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Brent James Dravitzki, Enrico Brambilla, Lemmy Nga, Nigel Quarmby, Aaron Samuel Davidson, Joel Edward Gibson, Anthony Paul Barbara, Justin John Formica, Angelene Marie Ozolins, Robert Thomas Burnham, Lachlan Richard Goldspink
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Patent number: 11547813Abstract: An aerosol medicament delivery adapter comprises a first conduit, second conduit and a diverter element. The first conduit encloses a flow path chamber and extends between an upstream first end and a downstream second end. The second conduit comprises an aerosol medicament delivery conduit that includes an upstream first end adapted to be fluidly coupled to a particle generator, and a downstream second end luidly coupled to the first conduit at a Y-junction proximate the upstream first end of the first conduit. The diverter element comprises a flow diverter chamber disposed within the first conduit or the second conduit. The cylindrical flow diverter chamber includes a transitional flow cross-section and a principal axis, extending between a first end and a second end thereof. The diverter element creates flow eddies for enhancing an entrainment of aerosol particles, delivered via the second conduit, within a pressurized gas flow along the flow path within the first conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventor: Steven Charles Stegman
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Patent number: 11544417Abstract: A method of generating a customized headgear that includes a plurality of physical features and being usable with a mask component that supplies a flow of breathing gas to the patient's airways. The method includes receiving one or more parameters pertaining to the patient's head, subjecting at least some of the parameters to one or more algorithms to determine at least one of a length of a physical feature of the plurality of physical features and an angle between a pair of physical features of the plurality of physical features, generating an outline of at least a portion of a body which, when formed, is usable to assemble therefrom at least a portion of the headgear, and outputting a pattern usable to enable the formation of the at least portion of the body from at least a first sheet of at least a first material.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventor: Peter Chi Fai Ho
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Patent number: 11540973Abstract: A system and method of using a lead introduced to a subject proximate to a region of pain is contemplated to deliver pain relief without the need for multiple needle insertions or electrical stimulation. The three-dimensional lead may include spring-like characteristics and/or coils to translate mechanical energy into the therapy.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SPR Therapeutics, LLCInventors: Meredith McGee, Nathan Crosby, John Chae, Joseph W. Boggs
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Patent number: 11534565Abstract: A breathing assistance apparatus has a pressurised gases source featuring a lightweight impeller with a plastic shaft. The impeller is shroudless. The plastic shaft is supported within the stator by a bearing structure. The resilient motor mount couples the stator and the housing and provides compliance and/or damping for the motor.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Johannes Nicolaas Bothma, Scott Bent, Adam John Darby
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Patent number: 11534563Abstract: Systems slow breathing with positive pressure therapy. In embodiments, a current interim breathing rate target is set, and periodically magnitude of a variable pressure waveform scaled to the current interim breathing rate target is increased if breathing rate is greater than the interim rate target to lengthen breath duration. The magnitude of the pressure increase may be a function of the difference between the interim rate target and the breathing rate. The interim rate target may be reduced in response to slowing breathing rate. The waveform cycles, inhalation to exhalation, when airflow decreases to a cycle threshold. Different interim rate targets have different cycle threshold functions that allow easier cycling as the interim rate targets decrease. Similarly, the waveform triggers, exhalation to inhalation, when airflow increases to a trigger threshold. Different interim rate targets have different trigger threshold functions that allow easier triggering as the interim rate targets decrease.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Inventors: Dion Charles Chewe Martin, David John Bassin
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Patent number: 11534359Abstract: The present invention provides an actuator-equipped knee ankle foot orthosis in which a control device calculates a thigh phase angle based on an angle-related signal detected by a thigh orientation detecting means at one sampling point, applies the thigh phase angle at that sampling point to an assisting force control data, which is stored in the control device in advance and indicates the relationship between the thigh phase angle and a size of the assisting force to be imparted to a lower leg-side brace, to obtain the size of the assisting force to be imparted to the lower leg-side brace at that sampling point, and executes operational control for an actuator unit such that the assisting force having the size is output.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignees: Suncall Corporation, National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto UniversityInventors: Rei Takahashi, Yuichi Sawada, Yoshiyuki Higashi, Tadao Tsuboyama, Noriaki Ichihashi, Koji Ohata, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 11529489Abstract: A respiratory mask assembly for delivering breathable gas to a patient includes a frame and a cushion. The cushion has a non-face contacting portion structured to be connected to the frame, a face-contacting portion structured to engage the patient's face, and a central portion that interconnects the non-face contacting portion and the face contacting portion. The frame may be structured to allow a forehead support to assume multiple positions, to compensate for replacement cushions that may have a different profile, shape or size. The cushion is structured to compensate for variations in strap tension, treatment pressure and/or movement of the patient. Headgear may be provided with a strap assembly in which one or more straps is provided with selectively adjustable elasticity or extensibility that may be automatically changed in dependence of treatment pressure and/or treatment type.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Robert Henry Frater, Joanne Elizabeth Drew, Philip Rodney Kwok, Patrick John McAuliffe, Aaron Samuel Davidson, Robin Garth Hitchcock, Michael Kassipillai Gunaratnam, Donald Darkin, Gary Christopher Robinson
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Patent number: 11523966Abstract: In embodiments, a CPR chest compression system includes a retention structure that can retain the patient's body, and a compression mechanism that can perform automatically CPR compressions and releases to the patient's chest. The compression mechanism can pause the performing of the CPR compressions for a short time, so that an attendant can check the patient. The CPR system can include a user interface that can output a human-perceptible check patient prompt, to alert an attendant to check the patient during the pause. The compression mechanism can during a CPR session retreat a distance away from the patient's chest whereby the patient's chest can expand without active decompression of the patient's chest beyond the chest's natural resting position.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.Inventors: Erik von Schenck, Anders Nilsson, Sara Lindroth, Jonas Lagerström, Bjarne Madsen Härdig, Thomas Falk
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Patent number: 11524134Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for portable and compact nitric oxide (NO) generation that can be embedded into other therapeutic devices or used alone. In some embodiments, an ambulatory NO generation system can be comprised of a controller and disposable cartridge. The cartridge can contain filters and scavengers for preparing the gas used for NO generation and for scrubbing output gases prior to patient inhalation. The system can utilize an oxygen concentrator to increase nitric oxide production and compliment oxygen generator activity as an independent device. The system can also include a high voltage electrode assembly that is easily assembled and installed. Various nitric oxide delivery methods are provided, including the use of a nasal cannula.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Third Pole, Inc.Inventors: David G. Zapol, Gregory W. Hall, Wolfgang Scholz, Benjamin Apollonio, Frank Heirtzler, Andrew Ferencz
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Patent number: 11517500Abstract: Disclosed is a massage apparatus. The massage apparatus includes a vibration array including a plurality of vibration devices, a driver configured to vibrate the plurality of vibration devices, and a processor configured to control the driver to generate a stimulus at a stimulus point between the plurality of vibration devices by simultaneously vibrating two or more vibration devices among the plurality of vibration devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Moonsub Jin, Beomoh Kim
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Patent number: 11517498Abstract: A lip plumping device includes a positive pressure device having a striking rod and striking head attached on the an end of the striking rod; a force-generating element to propel the striking head with energy which upon impacting on a target spot on a lip or in an area around the lip increases blood flood to the target spot on the lip or in the area around the lip which produces a lip plumping effect; and a button that controls the force-generating element. The target spot and a striking force of the positive pressure device is controlled by instructions from a computing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: L'OREALInventor: Lily Truong
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Patent number: 11511128Abstract: There is provided a phototherapy apparatus, in which the therapeutic light is delivered through one or more massage components. The massage component provides mechanical massage to the subject biological tissue and modifies the properties of the subject tissue in thickness, density, etc. to facilitate the absorption of the therapeutic light and enhance the effect of the phototherapy procedure. The light source of the phototherapy apparatus is actively cooled by a synthetic jet cooler.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: LiteCure LLCInventors: Brian Pryor, Sean Xiaolu Wang