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Abstract: A patient interface includes a cushion having a body with a front portion and a rear portion. The front portion has a lower opening structured to receive a flow of a treatment gas and a coupling mechanism. The rear portion is structured to engage a user's face and provide a generally continuous seal therewith. The patient interface further includes a frame having a torus shaped portion defining an opening. The opening has at least a portion of the coupling mechanism disposed therein.

Abstract: A plastic film for use as a temporary vehicle seat cover to be installed by an automotive manufacturer. The seat cover protects the vehicle's seat from dirt before the vehicle is purchased by a consumer. The plastic film also has minimal acoustic properties so that the vehicle seat does not interfere with routine automotive acoustic testing known as the Buzz, Squeak, and Rattle test. The plastic film also has a high degree of visual clarity to allow a potential consumer to view the vehicle's seat. The plastic film further has a differential of the coefficient of friction on the opposed sides of the film to minimize movement and noise of the film when a driver is in the vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lower receiver that defines an aperture extending between a bolt stop well and an actuator well, the lower receiver including a bolts stop and a first actuator lever on one side of the lower receiver and a bolt stop actuator that includes a tooth that extends through the aperture, a second bolt release lever on the other side of the lower receiver and a rod connecting the tooth and the second bolt release lever, wherein the tooth engages the bolt stop so that actuation of the second bolt release lever moves the bolt stop and where the first and second release levers move in unison.

Abstract: An elongated flexible conduit (4) includes an flow element (24) having a first elongated wall segment (32) and a second elongated wall segment (44) that are connected together at their sides to form a wall (28) that is continuous in a circumferential direction perpendicular to the direction of elongation (8). The flow element is movable between a first configuration and a second configuration (68), with the first configuration being an expanded configuration, and with the second configuration being a collapsed configuration. The flow element can be moved from its expanded configuration to its collapsed configuration, such as for purposes of packing during traveling, and can then be moved from its collapsed configuration back to its expanded configuration in any of a variety of fashions in order to return the flow element to a condition in which it can carry a flow of breathing gas from a CPAP machine (12) to a CPAP mask (16).

Abstract: A patient interface device (100) for a pressure support system that includes a fluid coupling conduit (6) and a gas flow generator (4) that produces a flow of breathing gas for a patient. The patient interface device includes: a frame member (120) secured to the patient and an adjustment assembly (110), which includes a body member (130) coupled to the frame member. The body member is fluidly coupled to the fluid coupling conduit. A dial member (160) is coupled to each of the frame member and the body member. When the frame member is under tension and oriented concavely with respect to the dial member, the adjustment assembly is structured to move between a first position and a second position. The frame member exerts a force on the dial member. When the adjustment assembly moves from the first position to the second position, the force increases.

Abstract: Techniques for rendering realistic depictions of conversational gestures are provided. Embodiments include generating a data model for a first conversational gesture type, by analyzing captured video data to determine motion attribute data for a plurality of conversational gestures. Additionally, upon receiving a request to splice a gesture of the first conversational gesture type into a first animation, embodiments determine a locomotion of a first virtual character, while the first virtual character is interacting with a second virtual character within the first animation. A gesture of the first conversational gesture type is then stylized, using the generated data model and based on the determined locomotion of the first virtual character within the animation. Embodiments splice the stylized gesture into the locomotion of the first virtual character within the received animation data.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lower receiver that defines an aperture extending between a bolt stop well and an actuator well, the lower receiver including a bolts stop and a first actuator lever on one side of the lower receiver and a bolt stop actuator that includes a tooth that extends through the aperture, a second bolt release lever on the other side of the lower receiver and a rod connecting the tooth and the second bolt release lever, wherein the tooth engages the bolt stop so that actuation of the second bolt release lever moves the bolt stop and where the first and second release levers move in unison.

Abstract: Techniques for rendering realistic depictions of conversational gestures are provided. Embodiments include generating a data model for a first conversational gesture type, by analyzing captured video data to determine motion attribute data for a plurality of conversational gestures. Additionally, upon receiving a request to splice a gesture of the first conversational gesture type into a first animation, embodiments determine a locomotion of a first virtual character, while the first virtual character is interacting with a second virtual character within the first animation. A gesture of the first conversational gesture type is then stylized, using the generated data model and based on the determined locomotion of the first virtual character within the animation. Embodiments splice the stylized gesture into the locomotion of the first virtual character within the received animation data.

Abstract: A co-extruded plastic film for use in a refuse-containing bag that is used in an autoclaving process. The plastic film has three layers that are co-extruded together, and the plastic film includes an inner layer, a middle layer, and an outer layer. The inner and outer layers include a thermoplastic polyolefin and a quantity of polypropylene, and the thermoplastic polyolefin comprises at least 40% by weight of the inner layer, and the polypropylene comprises less than 50% by weight of the inner and outer layers. The middle layer has at least 50% by weight of a thermoplastic polyolefin, and at least 7% by weight of a filler. Polypropylene comprises less than 50% by weight of the plastic film, and the film is capable of withstanding an autoclaving process in which the environmental temperatures reach 250° F. for twenty minutes or longer.

Abstract: A plastic film for use as a temporary vehicle seat cover to be installed by an automotive manufacturer. The seat cover protects the vehicle's seat from dirt before the vehicle is purchased by a consumer. The plastic film also has minimal acoustic properties so that the vehicle seat does not interfere with routine automotive acoustic testing known as the Buzz, Squeak, and Rattle test. The plastic film also has a high degree of visual clarity to allow a potential consumer to view the vehicle's seat. The plastic film further has a differential of the coefficient of friction on the opposed sides of the film to minimize movement and noise of the film when a driver is in the vehicle.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for use with a window having a hinge coupling a sash to a frame includes a keeper and a locking lug. The keeper includes a generally planar base plate that is abutable to a surface of either the sash or the frame and two wings extending upwardly from the base, each of the wings having an upwardly and inwardly extending portion extending from the base plate and an inwardly extending portion extending inwardly substantially parallel to the base plate from the upwardly and inwardly extending portion. The two inwardly extending portions define a gap therebetween. The planar base further includes at least one self locating leg extending outward and coplanar with the base. The self locating leg adapted to abut a portion of the sash or the frame. Thus, the keeper is positionable without a fixture.

Abstract: A patient interface includes a cushion having a body with a front portion and a rear portion. The front portion has a lower opening structured to receive a flow of a treatment gas and a coupling mechanism. The rear portion is structured to engage a user's face and provide a generally continuous seal therewith. The patient interface further includes a frame having a torus shaped portion defining an opening. The opening has at least a portion of the coupling mechanism disposed therein.

Abstract: A patient interface device (8) includes a frame (14) including a faceplate (18) having an outer surface (18A) and an inner surface (18B), the inner surface having an inward facing portion (74) which is oriented generally perpendicular to a patient's face when disposed on a patient's head. A cushion assembly (16) is coupled to the frame. The cushion assembly includes a support frame (44) including a coupling portion (48) having a bottom surface (48A) and an opposite top surface (48B) and a sealing cushion (46) coupled to the coupling portion of the support frame. The sealing cushion includes a first portion (62) extending from the bottom surface of the coupling portion and a second portion (64) extending from the top surface of the coupling portion, wherein an outward facing portion (72) of the second portion of the sealing cushion sealingly engages the inward facing portion of the frame.

Abstract: An elongated flexible conduit (4) includes an flow element (24) having a first elongated wall segment (32) and a second elongated wall segment (44) that are connected together at their sides to form a wall (28) that is continuous in a circumferential direction perpendicular to the direction of elongation (8). The flow element is movable between a first configuration and a second configuration (68), with the first configuration being an expanded configuration, and with the second configuration being a collapsed configuration. The flow element can be moved from its expanded configuration to its collapsed configuration, such as for purposes of packing during traveling, and can then be moved from its collapsed configuration back to its expanded configuration in any of a variety of fashions in order to return the flow element to a condition in which it can carry a flow of breathing gas from a CPAP machine (12) to a CPAP mask (16).