Abstract: A wavelength locker integrated with a silicon photonics transmission system comprising a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate and an input via a power tap coupler to receive a fraction of a transmission signal with one or more frequencies from a primary output path of the silicon photonics transmission system. The wavelength locker further includes a splitter configured to split the input to a first signal in a first path and a second signal in a second path and a first delay-line-interferometer (DLI) coupled to the second path to receive the second signal and configured to generate an interference spectrum and output at least two sub-spectrums tunable to keep quadrature points of the sub-spectrums at respective one or more target frequencies. The wavelength locker is configured to generate an error signal fed back to the silicon photonics transmission system for locking the one or more frequencies at the one or more target frequencies.

Abstract: A wavelength locker integrated with a silicon photonics transmission system comprising a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate and an input via a power tap coupler to receive a fraction of a transmission signal with one or more frequencies from a primary output path of the silicon photonics transmission system. The wavelength locker further includes a splitter configured to split the input to a first signal in a first path and a second signal in a second path and a first delay-line-interferometer (DLI) coupled to the second path to receive the second signal and configured to generate an interference spectrum and output at least two sub-spectrums tunable to keep quadrature points of the sub-spectrums at respective one or more target frequencies. The wavelength locker is configured to generate an error signal fed back to the silicon photonics transmission system for locking the one or more frequencies at the one or more target frequencies.

Abstract: A method of dissecting tissue from a vagina includes preparing a patient for surgery, and providing a vaginal manipulator having a head attached to a shaft and a door that is hinged to the head. The method includes inserting the head of the vaginal manipulator into a natural opening of a vagina of the patient, pivoting the door relative to the hinge, and displacing a posterior wall of the vagina for access by a surgeon. The method includes dissecting recto-vaginal tissue away from an exterior surface of the posterior wall of the vagina.

Abstract: A wavelength locker integrated with a silicon photonics transmission system comprising a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate and an input via a power tap coupler to receive a fraction of a transmission signal with one or more frequencies from a primary output path of the silicon photonics transmission system. The wavelength locker further includes a splitter configured to split the input to a first signal in a first path and a second signal in a second path and a first delay-line-interferometer (DLI) coupled to the second path to receive the second signal and configured to generate an interference spectrum and output at least two sub-spectrums tunable to keep quadrature points of the sub-spectrums at respective one or more target frequencies. The wavelength locker is configured to generate an error signal fed back to the silicon photonics transmission system for locking the one or more frequencies at the one or more target frequencies.

Abstract: One aspect provides advancing a distal end of a needle out of a bore of a tool, and capturing a suture in a slot formed through an exterior surface of the needle, with the suture engaged with a penile implant. The method includes retracting the distal end of the needle and a portion of the suture into the bore of the tool, and inserting a shaft of the tool into a corpora cavernosum of a penis and forcing the distal end of the needle and the portion of the suture out of the bore of the tool and through a glans of the penis. The method includes retracting the needle into the bore and retaining the portion of the suture exterior to the glans of the penis. Pulling on the suture pulls the penile implant into the corpora cavernosum of the penis.

Abstract: A table saw includes a support arrangement and a table top assembly including a work piece support surface defining a plane and a saw blade opening in the work piece support surface. An undercarriage assembly, mounted to the table top assembly, supports a saw blade in an adjustable angular position and includes a motor assembly and an arbor shaft to support the saw blade in the saw blade opening. The bevel pivoting mechanism is configured to increase a distance between the motor or arbor shaft and the plane of the work piece support surface with a change to the angular position of the saw blade to substantially prevent the motor or arbor from contacting the table top assembly.

Abstract: A method of mounting a capacitive coupling plate to a power tool assembly including a drop arm assembly, an actuating device configured to transfer a force to the drop arm assembly, and a control system configured to control the actuating device includes connecting a capacitive coupling plate bracket formed from a non-conductive material to a drop arm frame of the drop arm assembly, and mounting the capacitive coupling plate to the capacitive coupling plate bracket.

Abstract: A cuff of an artificial urinary sphincter system includes a frame and an inflatable balloon. The frame has a first end spaced away from a second end by a gap, where the gap extends from a top edge to a bottom edge of the frame to provide an opening in the frame. The frame has a frame length measured along an interior surface of the frame from the first end to the send end of the frame to define a first quadrant that extends from the first end for a distance of about 25% of the frame length and a second quadrant that extends from the second end for a distance of about 25% of the frame length. A first inflatable balloon attached to the interior surface of the frame in the first quadrant of the frame.

Abstract: A vaginal manipulator includes a shaft, a head, and a door. The head has an anterior side opposite a posterior side and includes a core fixed to the shaft and a sleeve coupled in a sliding relationship to the core. The door has a distal end that is hinged to the sleeve and a proximal end that is movable away from the core of the head. A proximal end of the core defines a proximal end of the head and a distal end of the sleeve defines a distal end of the head, and the proximal end of the core is fixed to the shaft. The core includes a ramp and a recess that is sized to receive a portion of the door, and the door includes an inclined surface that is formed such that the distal end of the door is thinner than the proximal end of the door.

Abstract: A method of implanting a penile prosthetic in treating erectile dysfunction is described. The method includes providing a pump having a pump bulb including a mid-section having a first face that is planar in longitudinal cross-section and a second face that is concave and arced in longitudinal cross-section. The method includes implanting an inflatable member into a penis; implanting a reservoir into an abdomen; intraoperatively coupling the pump between the inflatable member and the reservoir; and implanting the pump in a scrotum.

Abstract: A power tool assembly includes a drop arm assembly movable along a drop path between a first drop arm assembly position whereat a shaping device portion supported by the drop arm assembly extends above a workpiece support surface and a second drop arm assembly position whereat the portion does not extend above the workpiece support surface, the drop arm assembly including a capacitive coupling plate bracket formed from a non-conductive material and connected to a drop arm frame, and a capacitive coupling plate mounted to the capacitive coupling plate bracket, an actuating device configured to transfer a force to the drop arm assembly when the drop arm assembly is at the first drop arm assembly position, and a control system operably connected to the capacitive coupling plate and configured to control the actuating device to transfer the force to the drop arm assembly when an unsafe condition is sensed.

Abstract: A table saw includes a safety system to protect a user from injury. The safety system detects a sensed condition and rapidly moves a saw blade away from the user. The safety system includes a dual ratchet mechanism to prevent the blade from rebounding back above a work surface after an initial rapid retraction of the blade. The table saw has a swing arm that rotates to move the blade below the work surface. A first ratchet engages a first contact surface of the swing arm after rotation of the swing arm over a first range of angular displacements to prevent counter rotation of the swing arm. A second ratchet engages a second contact surface of the swing arm after rotation of the swing arm over a second range of angular displacements to prevent counter rotation of the swing arm.

Abstract: A penile prosthetic includes an inflatable member that is implantable into a penis of a user, a reservoir that is implantable in an abdomen, and a pump. The pump is configured to be attached between the inflatable member and the reservoir and is implantable in a scrotum. The pump includes a pump bulb formed by first and second end sections, a mid-section and concave portions.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing system, method and control circuitry for quality assured manufacturing of at least two biopharmaceutical products. The manufacturing system (100) comprises a warehouse facility (210), a hydration facility (220), and at least two biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, wherein the warehouse facility (210) and hydration facility (220) are comprised in the macro structure (200). Each biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility is comprised in a respective micro node (300), and a control facility (230) in the macro structure (200) is configured to control interoperability of the macro structure (200) and the micro nodes (300) by means of a network spine interconnecting the macro structure (200) with each micro node (300).

Abstract: A method of implanting a prosthetic in a penis includes moving a dilation portion of a dilator in a distal direction and in a proximal direction within the corpora cavernosum, dilating a first portion of tissue in the corpora cavernosum, and leaving a second grooved portion of the tissue in the corpora cavernosum un-dilated and vascularized.

Abstract: A power tool assembly includes a drop arm assembly including a drop arm frame and an arbor shaft configured to support a shaping device at least partially above a workpiece support surface, the drop arm assembly configured to move within a drop plane to drop the shaping device completely beneath the workpiece support surface, a belt operably connected to the arbor shaft and configured to rotate the arbor shaft through a slave pulley, the slave pulley having a slave pulley axis of rotation, a motor including a power shaft operably connected to the belt through a motor end pulley, the motor end pulley having a motor end pulley axis of rotation, and an orbit bracket configured to orbitally support the drop arm assembly, the orbit bracket defining a drop arm orbit axis located between the motor end pulley axis of rotation and the slave pulley axis of rotation.

Abstract: A power tool assembly includes a drop arm assembly movable along a drop path between a first drop arm assembly position whereat a portion of a shaping device supported by the drop arm assembly extends above a workpiece support surface and a second drop arm assembly position whereat the portion of the shaping device does not extend above the workpiece support surface, an actuator housing configured to house a first actuating device at an active location at which a force from the first actuating device is transferred to the drop arm assembly, the actuator housing including a slit configured to position a second actuating device at an inactive location, and a control system configured such that when the first actuating device is housed, the control system controls the first actuating device to transfer the force to the drop arm assembly when an unsafe condition is sensed.

Abstract: A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is described. In one example, the method includes: detecting, by one or more processors of a controller within a UAV, whether flight control surfaces of the UAV are operating nominally; switching, by the one or more processors of the controller, in response to detecting that one or more of the flight control surfaces of the UAV are not operating nominally, to implementing a backup control mode configured to operate the UAV in flight with non-nominal operability of one or more of the control surfaces of the UAV; and operating, by the one or more processors of the controller, the UAV in the backup control mode.