Abstract: A coffee beverage system is described including a coffee bean packaging cartridge and a coffee brewing apparatus. The packaging cartridge includes a container holding coffee beans and transportation component for transporting the coffee beans towards an exit opening of the cartridge. The coffee apparatus comprises a grinder for grinding the coffee beans from the cartridge and a brewing device for brewing coffee on the basis of ground coffee obtained by means of the grinder. The system is further provided with a metering chamber for receiving coffee beans which are transported with the aid of the transportation component into the metering chamber. In use, the metering chamber will hold a predetermined amount of coffee beans. The metering chamber comprises a bottom portion which forms a part of the grinder, said bottom portion being arranged in the coffee apparatus for rotating around an axis extending in a vertical direction.

Abstract: An ultrasound probe (202) having an operational indicator assembly (204) for indicating operational data relating to the ultrasound probe (202), and especially data relating to the sterility of the ultrasound probe (202), is provided. The ultrasound probe (202) has a housing (203) fabricated from materials suitable for internal and non-internal medical use. At least one ultrasound transducer (209) is housed by the housing (203) and positioned to direct ultrasound energy along a propagation path to the patient. The operational indicator assembly (204) indicates operational data relating to the ultrasound probe (202) to an operator thereof, and especially data relating to the disinfection status of the ultrasound probe (202).

Abstract: An apparatus for use in a magnetic resonance system including an operative component configured to perform a useful operation in a magnetic resonance system; an electrical cable connected with the operative component to provide electrical communication with the operative component; and a resonant circuit including at least a portion of the electrical cable, the resonant circuit having a first impedance pole at a first magnetic resonance frequency and a second impedance pole at a second magnetic resonance frequency different from the first magnetic resonance frequency.

Abstract: A coffee beverage system is described including a coffee bean packaging cartridge and a coffee brewing apparatus. The packaging cartridge includes a container holding coffee beans and transportation component for transporting coffee beans towards an exit opening of the cartridge. The coffee apparatus comprises a grinder for grinding the coffee beans from the cartridge and a brewing device for brewing coffee from ground coffee obtained by the grinder. A metering chamber holds a predetermined amount of coffee beans and comprises a bottom portion which forms a part of the grinder, said bottom portion rotates around an axis extending in a vertical direction. A second coffee bean packaging cartridge includes a second dosing device separate from the first dosing device for preparing and/or supplying a dose of coffee beans to the entrance opening of the coffee brewing apparatus independent of the coffee brewing apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus with a DC power source and power-consuming electronic circuits and a method of transferring power between these components include converting the DC voltage of the power source into an AC voltage which is then transferred via a connector to the electronic circuits.

Abstract: Cartridge for holding and supplying coffee bean material. The cartridge includes a housing enclosing an interior volume. The housing has an outlet for releasing the coffee bean material from the interior volume and for supplying the coffee bean material to an external apparatus. The cartridge further includes a conveyor for transporting the coffee bean material towards the outlet. The conveyor include a moveable structure for contacting the coffee bean material. The moveable structure is, at least partly, present in the interior volume. The conveyor further include manually operable actuation component for manually actuating the moveable structure. The manually operable actuation component is, at least partly, provided outside of the interior volume.

Abstract: A laser-based light source includes a laser device configured to generate laser light of a predetermined laser wavelength and emit this laser light as a laser beam. A light-conversion device is configured to convert at least part of the laser light into converted light and a laser-output sensor is configured to determine a laser-output signal proportional to the output of laser light emitted by the laser device. Further, a converted-light sensor is configured to determine a converted-light signal proportional to the output of converted light emitted by the light-conversion device. A controller is configured to receive the laser-output signal and the converted-light signal, to determine a safe-to-operate parameter, based on the laser-output signal and the converted-light signal, and to control the operation of the laser-based light source based on a comparison of the safe-to-operate parameter with a at least one predefined threshold.

Abstract: An instrument system that includes an elongate instrument body and an optical fiber sensor is provided. The optical fiber sensor includes an elongate optical fiber that is coupled to the elongate instrument body, wherein a portion of the optical fiber is coupled to the elongate instrument body in a manner to provide slack in the fiber to allow for axial extension of the elongate instrument body relative to the optical fiber.

Abstract: Robotic medical instrument systems and associated methods utilizing an optical fiber sensors such as Bragg sensor optical fibers. In one configuration, an optical fiber is coupled to an elongate instrument body and includes a fiber core having one or more Bragg gratings. A controller is configured to initiate various actions in response thereto. For example, a controller may generate and display a graphical representation of the instrument body and depict one or more position and/or orientation variables thereof, or adjust motors of an instrument driver to reposition the catheter or another instrument. Optical fibers having Bragg gratings may also be utilized with other system components including a plurality of working instruments that are positioned within a sheath lumen, an instrument driver, localization sensors, and/or an image capture device, and may also be coupled to a patient's body or associated structure that stabilizes the body.

Abstract: A patient monitoring station includes a display that displays a plurality of sectors. A controller displays the patient data received from one or more remote medical devices in a corresponding sector of the display. The controller is programmed to collapse one or more sector in response to one of (1) not receiving patient data from the corresponding remote patient monitor or (2) receiving patient data not indicative of a pending patient event or alarm condition; and expand at least sectors that receive patient data indicative of a pending patient event or alarm condition.

Abstract: Elements are added to a light emitting device to reduce the stress within the light emitting device caused by thermal cycling. Alternatively, or additionally, materials are selected for forming contacts within a light emitting device based on their coefficient of thermal expansion and their relative cost, copper alloys being less expensive than gold, and providing a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than copper. Elements of the light emitting device may also be structured to distribute the stress during thermal cycling.

Abstract: A compliant bonding structure is disposed between a semiconductor device and a mount. In some embodiments, the device is a light emitting device. When the semiconductor light emitting device is attached to the mount, for example by providing ultrasonic energy to the semiconductor light emitting device, the compliant bonding structure collapses to partially fill a space between the semiconductor light emitting device and the mount. In some embodiments, the compliant bonding structure is plurality of metal bumps that undergo plastic deformation during bonding. In some embodiments, the compliant bonding structure is a porous metal layer.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a solid state light emitting device having a plurality of light-sources, the method comprising the steps of: providing a substrate having a growth surface; providing a mask layer on the growth surface, the mask layer having a plurality of openings through which the growth surface is exposed, wherein a largest lateral dimension of each of said openings is less than 0.

Abstract: A high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) transducer comprising a piezoelectric array with a layer of piezoelectric material having a patient-facing front surface and a back surface, the front surface comprising a transmitting surface, and a plurality of electrodes located on the front and back surfaces of the piezoelectric material for applying electrical signals to the piezoelectric array. Electrical connections between an electrode on the back surface to an electrode on the front surface of the piezoelectric array are made through non-magnetic conductive vias extending through the layer of piezoelectric material.

Abstract: A multi-chip light emitting device (LED) uses a low-cost carrier structure that facilitates the use of substrates that are optimized to support the devices that require a substrate. Depending upon the type of LED elements used, some of the LED elements may be mounted on the carrier structure, rather than on the more expensive ceramic substrate. In like manner, other devices, such as sensors and control elements, may be mounted on the carrier structure as well. Because the carrier and substrate structures are formed independent of the encapsulation and other after-formation processes, these structures can be tested prior to encapsulation, thereby avoiding the cost of these processes being applied to inoperative structures.

Abstract: A device includes a substrate (10) and a III-nitride structure (15) grown on the substrate, the III-nitride structure comprising a light emitting layer (16) disposed between an n-type region (14) and a p-type region (18). The substrate is a RAO3 (MO)n where R is one of a trivalent cation: Sc, In, Y and a lanthanide; A is one of a trivalent cation: Fe (III), Ga and Al; M is one for a divalent cation: Mg, Mn, Fe (II), Co, Cu, Zn and Cd; and n is an integer ?1. The substrate has an inplane lattice constant asubstrate. At lease one III-nitride layer in the III-nitride structure has a bulk lattice constant alayer such that [(|asubstrate?alayer|)/asubstrate]*100% is no more than 1%.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining a boundary condition estimate. The boundary condition estimate includes at least an estimated outlet resistance of a vessel with a stenosis. The method further includes correcting the boundary condition estimate based on a severity of the stenosis, thereby creating a corrected boundary condition. The method further includes determining an FFR index based on the corrected boundary condition. The method further includes displaying the FFR index. A computing system includes a computer readable storage medium with instructions that iteratively determine at least an FFR index based on a severity of a stenosis of a vessel. The computing system further includes a computer processor that processes the instructions and generates the FFR index based on the severity of the stenosis of the vessel.

Abstract: A device includes a semiconductor structure comprising a III-nitride light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region and a plurality of layer pairs disposed within one of the n-type region and the p-type region. Each layer pair includes an InGaN layer and pit-filling layer in direct contact with the InGaN layer. The pit-filling layer may fill in pits formed in the InGaN layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electro-optical device provided with an electrode (10). The electrode comprising an electrically conductive structure extending in a plane. The structure comprises a grid of elongated elements (12) with length L and a width dimension D in said plane. The electrically conductive structure further comprises one or more contactfields (14) having an inscribed circle with a radius of at least 2D and a circumscribed circle with a radius of at most three times L. The area occupied by the contactfields (14) is at most 20% of the area occupied by the grid of elongated elements (12).