Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for securing a driveline to a portion of skin are disclosed herein. The driveline can connect an external controller to an implantable blood pump. The skin anchor can include a driveline capture portion. The driveline capture portion can receive the driveline and fix a position of the driveline with respect to the driveline capture portion. The driveline capture portion includes: a driveline receiver that can receive the driveline; and a driveline anchor that can engage the driveline to fix the position of the driveline with respect to the driveline receiver. The skin anchor can include a force distribution portion. The force distribution portion can engage a portion of skin and fix a position of the portion of skin with respect to the force distribution portion.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for wireless power transfer and communications are provided. In one embodiment, a wireless power transfer system comprises a transmit resonator configured to transmit wireless power, a receive resonator configured to receive the transmitted wireless power from the transmit resonator, a medical device configured to receive power from the receive resonator, a controller configured to change an operating parameter of the medical device resulting in a change to a sonic signature of the medical device, and a listening device configured to determine an intended communication from the implanted medical device or the implanted receive resonator based on the change to the sonic signature coming from the implanted medical device.

Abstract: A novel and useful topological, scalable, and reprogrammable quantum computing machine having one or more quasi-unidimensional chord lines along which the movement of a particle is constrained. The unidimensional passage has localized energy levels that can be controlled with classic electronics. The chord line has two or more quantum dots between which a quasi-unidimensional channel is formed for the particle to travel from one qdot to the other. The tunneling path may be polysilicon, metal, thin oxide, or induced depletion region. The chord line can be in a two-dimensional space for a planar process or in a three-dimensional space with multiple layers of signal processing for a three dimensional process. A quantum structure has semiconductor dots with a layer that provides the chord line for the quantum particle evolution to occur from one dot to the other. The various layers may include polysilicon, metal, thin oxide, or induced depletion region either fully overlapped or partially overlapped.

Abstract: An LED light bulb, comprising of: a lamp housing; a bulb base connected to the lamp housing; a stem connected to the bulb base and located in the lamp housing; a single flexible LED filament, disposed in the lamp housing, the flexible LED filament comprising: a plurality of LED sections; a plurality of conductive sections, located between the adjacent two LED sections, where each of the conductive sections includes a conductor, the conductor is copper foil; at least two conductive electrodes; and a light conversion layer comprising a phosphor layer and a silicon layer superposed on the phosphor layer, disposed on the LED chips and at least two sides of the conductive electrodes, and a portion of the conductive electrodes is exposed by the light conversion layer, the LED chip comprising a upper surface and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface of the LED chip, the phosphor layer directly contacts the upper surface of the LED chip, and a base layer contacts the lower surface of the LED chip; the base la

Abstract: The present invention concerns an electronic smoking device that includes a battery portion (12) comprising a battery (18), an atomizer/liquid reservoir portion (14) comprising a multicameral liquid reservoir (34), and an atomizer (26) operable when connected to the battery (18) to atomize liquid stored in the multicameral liquid reservoir (34). The multicameral liquid reservoir (34) comprises a first chamber (202) comprising an unflavored fluid, a second chamber (204) comprising a flavored fluid, the first chamber (202) and the second chamber (204) being disposed in communication with each other via an opening (206), and a plurality of reservoir walls (208) enclosing the two chambers. A portion of the plurality of reservoir walls (208) enclosing the second chamber (204) comprising a flexible portion (40), the flexible portion (40) when acted upon causing the flavored fluid to migrate from the second chamber (204) to the first chamber (202) through the opening (206).

Abstract: A spray gun has a base body, a liquid-conducting device and a fastening nut, wherein the thread has a recess and the liquid-conducting device has at least one element which is radially projecting from a central liquid-conducting tube, the element fitting into the recess, so that, after unscrewing the fastening nut, the liquid-conducting device can be gripped at the projecting element in order to withdraw the liquid-conducting device from the base body. Further, a set includes a liquid-conducting device with a liquid-conducting tube, in which is arranged a sleeve with a bore.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to improved medical blood pump devices, systems, and methods. For example, blood pumps may be provided that include a housing defining a blood flow path between an inlet and an outlet. A rotor may be positioned in the blood flow path. A motor stator may be driven to rotate the rotor to provide the blood flow through the pump. Axial and/or tilt stabilization components may be provided to increase an axial and/or tilt stabilization of the rotor within the blood flow path. In some embodiments, biasing forces are provided that urge the rotor toward a bearing component. The biasing force may be provided by adjusting drive signals of the motor stator. Additionally, or alternatively, one or more magnets (e.g., permanent/stator magnets) may be provided to bias the rotor in the upstream and/or downstream direction (e.g., toward a bearing (chamfer, step, conical), or the like).

Abstract: Novel and useful semiconductor structures using preferential tunneling through thin insulator layers. Semiconductor quantum structures are implemented using tunneling through a thin oxide layer. The quantum dots are fabricated with semiconductor wells, 3D fins or combinations thereof, while the tunneling path and any optional quantum transport path is implemented with gate layers. The oxide layer between the gate and the well is thin enough in the nanometer semiconductor processes to permit significant tunneling. Having a thin oxide layer on only one side of the well, while having thick oxide layers on all other sides, results in a preferential tunneling direction where tunneling is restricted to a small area resulting in aperture tunneling. The advantage being constraining quantum transport to a very narrow path, which can be approximated as unidimensional. In alternative embodiments, more than one preferential tunneling direction may be used. These techniques can be used in both planar and 3D (e.g.

Abstract: Novel and useful quantum structures that provide various control functions. Particles are brought into close proximity to interact with one another and exchange information. After entanglement, the particles are moved away from each other but they still carry the information contained initially. Measurement and detection are performed on the particles from the entangled ensemble to determine whether the particle is present or not in a given qdot. A quantum interaction gate is a circuit or structure operating on a relatively small number of qubits. Quantum interaction gates implement several quantum functions including a controlled NOT gate, quantum annealing gate, controlled SWAP gate, a controlled Pauli rotation gate, and ancillary gate. These quantum interaction gates can have numerous shapes including double V shape, H shape, X shape, L shape, I shape, etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to electronic smoking devices and in particular to a tray for at least a portion of an electronic smoking device. The tray (100) comprises at least one cavity (101) for containing the portion. The tray (100) is configured to be reversibly deformed from a default form into a deformed form by finger interaction with interaction elements of the tray (100) having a distance to each other of at least 90% of the average distance between thumb tip and index finger tip or a middle finger tip of an adult. The tray (100) is configured to return to the default form once the finger interaction is terminated. The default form provides the at least one cavity (101) for containing the portion in an inaccessible manner and the deformed form is required for accessing the portion.

Abstract: An impeller includes a hub, and a plurality of blades supported by the hub, the blades being arranged in at least two blade rows. The impeller has a deployed configuration in which the blades extend away from the hub, and a stored configuration in which at least one of the blades is radially compressed, for example by folding the blade towards the hub. The impeller may also have an operational configuration in which at least some of the blades are deformed from the deployed configuration upon rotation of the impeller when in the deployed configuration. The outer edge of one or more blades may have a winglet, and the base of the blades may have an associated indentation to facilitate folding of the blades.

Abstract: Aspects of the instant disclosure relate to electronic cigarettes. More particularly, to electronic cigarettes including a circumferential light guide that distributes light transmitted by a light source, and controller circuitry that variably illuminates the circumferential light guide of the electronic cigarette based on a user's draw strength.

Abstract: Sensors for catheter pumps are disclosed herein. The catheter pump can include a catheter assembly comprising a catheter and a cannula coupled to a distal portion of the catheter. The cannula can have a proximal port for permitting the flow of blood therethrough. The catheter assembly can include a sensor to be disposed near the proximal port. A processing unit can be programmed to process a signal detected by the sensor. The processing unit can comprise a computer-readable set of rules to evaluate the signal to determine a position of the cannula relative to an aortic valve of a patient.

Abstract: The invention relates to electronic smoking devices (10) with an atomizer/liquid reservoir portion (14). In order to provide that additives can be used without bringing the additives in contact with an atomizer (26) of the atomizer/liquid reservoir portion (14), the invention provides an additive reservoir (40) for the electronic smoking device (10), which comprises an additive storage volume (42), a through hole (44) and an additive outlet opening (46) that opens the additive storage volume (42) to the through hole (44). Furthermore, the invention provides that the atomizer/liquid reservoir portion (14) comprises a receiving section (36) for the additive reservoir (40).

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic smoking device (10) with a first gas conduit (42) and a second gas conduit (46), wherein an atomizer (26) is arranged in the first gas conduit (42) and the second gas conduit bypasses the first gas conduit (42). In order to be able to change particle sizes of vapor provided by the atomizer (26), the electronic smoking device (10) is adapted to change flow resistances of the first and the second gas conduits (42, 44), while maintaining a total flow resistance of the first and the second gas conduits (42, 44).

Abstract: In a picture coding method for generating a coded signal corresponding to each picture by coding a plurality of coded signals, a switching picture which is capable of switching a plurality of coded signals and subsequent pictures of the switching picture can refer to only a group of pictures of the same time in the coded signals. More specifically, the case where picture numbers of an adjacent picture of an S picture and the S picture are not continuous is not considered as an error.

Abstract: A method and a system are disclosed for solving a mixed-integer programming problem, the method comprising obtaining an indication of a mixed-integer programming optimization problem; until a performance criterion is met: providing the mixed-integer programming optimization problem to an optimization oracle adapted for solving the mixed-integer programming optimization problem using a feasibility pump technique and comprising an optimization solver, initializing parameters of an optimization oracle and an initial solution pair, the parameters comprising Monte-Carlo simulation parameters, a list of neighborhood functions and a measure of fractionality, and performing iterative calls to the optimization solver until a stopping condition is met; and providing at least one corresponding solution obtained from the optimization solver.

Abstract: The invention relates to dosage regimens for administering pharmaceutical compositions comprising 3-[5-amino-4-(3-cyanobenzoyl)-pyrazol-1-yl]-N-cyclopropyl-4-methylbenzamide for the treatment of a human patient suffering from COPD, or suffering from an acute exacerbation of COPD, or at risk of developing an acute exacerbation of COPD, or to prevent a reoccurrence of an acute exacerbation of COPD, or to prevent a treatment failure of an acute exacerbation of COPD, and to methods of prevention or reduction in the rate of acute exacerbations of COPD in a human patient.

Abstract: A novel and useful controlled quantum shift register for transporting particles from one quantum dot to another in a quantum structure. The shift register incorporates a succession of qdots with tunneling paths and control gates. Applying appropriate control signals to the control gates, a particle or a split quantum state is made to travel along the shift register. The shift register also includes ancillary double interaction where two pairs of quantum dots provide an ancillary function where the quantum state of one pair is replicated in the second pair. The shift register also provides bifurcation where an access path is split into two or more paths. Depending on the control pulse signals applied, quantum dots are extended into multiple paths. Control of the shift register is provided by electric control pulses. An optional auxiliary magnetic field provides additional control of the shift register.

Abstract: A wireless device is configured to receive scheduling information at a predetermined time interval from a wireless node. The scheduling information includes a plurality of reception definitions. Each reception definition indicates a reception start time, a reception duration, and assigned frequency information. Each reception definition is derived from a wireless device identification associated with the reception definition. The wireless device is configured to receive data associated with at least one of the reception definitions.