Abstract: A method and a wearable apparatus for disease diagnosis are provided. The method is applied to the wearable apparatus with an image capturing unit and a display unit. In this method, a plurality of input images in a field of view of the wearable apparatus are captured by using the image capturing unit, wherein each of the input images contains an array of pixels. The variations of the pixel values in a time domain are analyzed. The pixel variations within a specific frequency range are magnified and the magnified pixel variations are added onto the original ones to generate an output image. The output image is overlapped with a current image in the field of view of the wearable apparatus and displayed on the display unit.

Abstract: A condenser lens includes a bottom surface, a top surface, and an outwardly curved side surface coupling the bottom surface and the top surface. The bottom surface defines a receiving chamber. The receiving chamber is configured to receive a light source. The top surface is inwardly depressed until reaching a reflection surface. The reflection surface is configured to substantially reflect all light received at the bottom surface. The outwardly curved side surface is configured to substantially reflect all light reflected by the reflection surface, whereby light reflected by the outwardly curved side surface is output from the top surface. The present disclosure further provides a lamp having a condenser lens.

Abstract: An illuminating device includes a circuit board, a plurality of LED (light emitting diode) elements, a first envelope with a first opening, a second envelope with a second opening and a third envelope with a third opening. The LED elements are arranged on and electrically connected with the circuit board. The first envelope covers and faces the circuit board. The second envelope covers and faces the LED elements. The third envelope covers and faces the second envelope. The second opening is coupled to the first opening to surround the LED elements and the circuit board. The third opening is coupled to the first opening to surround the LED elements, the circuit board and the second envelope.

Abstract: An automatic stair-climbing robot platform is provided. The automatic stair-climbing robot platform of the present invention includes a personal computer module; a USB-CAN interface module; a motor module, including a plurality of motors and controlled by the USB-CAN interface module; a Kinect sensor module, obtaining point cloud data and image data by sensing a terrain ahead and transmitting the point cloud data and image data to the personal computer module; a first inertial measurement unit, measuring a body tilt of the Kinect sensor module, and transmitting data of the body tilt of the Kinect sensor module to the personal computer module; and a second inertial measurement unit, measuring a body tilt of the automatic stair-climbing robot platform, and transmitting data of the body tilt of the automatic stair-climbing robot platform to the personal computer module.

Abstract: A flexible substrate includes a base layer, a metallic layer, a solder mask layer and an identifying code, the metallic layer is disposed at a first surface of the base layer, the metallic layer comprises a plurality of traces and at least one bottom block used for defining marked position, wherein the traces and the at least one bottom block are covered with the solder mask layer, wherein above the perpendicular direction of the at least one bottom block of the metallic layer, a pre-marked area is defined on an exposing surface of the solder mask layer and by an outlined edge of the at least one bottom block, and the identifying code is formed within the pre-marked area of the solder mask layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stent, comprising: a plurality of radially-expandable rings arranged along a longitudinal axis, wherein each radially-expandable ring may comprise a plurality of bar arms and a plurality of crowns, and adjacent crowns are connected by the bar arms therebetween; and a plurality of connectors between the radially-expandable rings for connecting such radially-expandable rings; wherein a cross-sectional shape of the bar arms, the crowns or the connectors may comprise helical structures, specific cross-sectional shapes, or a combination thereof. New stent manufacturing techniques, such as the 3D additive printing, could be used for making these proposed stents feasible.

Abstract: A flexible substrate includes a base layer, a metallic layer, a solder mask layer and an identifying code, the metallic layer is disposed at a first surface of the base layer, the metallic layer comprises a plurality of traces and at least one bottom block used for defining marked position, wherein the traces and the at least one bottom block are covered with the solder mask layer, wherein above the perpendicular direction of the at least one bottom block of the metallic layer, a pre-marked area is defined on an exposing surface of the solder mask layer and by an outlined edge of the at least one bottom block, and the identifying code is formed within the pre-marked area of the solder mask layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stent, comprising: a plurality of radially-expandable rings arranged along a longitudinal axis, wherein each of the radially-expandable rings may include a plurality of bar arms and a plurality of crowns, the adjacent crowns being connected by the bar arms therebetween, and a plurality of connectors being disposed in between and connecting the radially-expandable rings, wherein the bar arms may include a first material, and the crowns may include a second material which may be different from the first material. Novel techniques for manufacturing a stent, such as 3D additive printing methods, could be used for realizing the disclosed stents.

Abstract: A circuit board for bearing a plurality of light emitting diodes includes a base and a bent portion. The bent portion extends and bends from a lateral periphery of the base. The base and the bent portion are integrally formed. An outer surface of the bent portion resists other component to embed and fix circuit board. This disclosure also discloses a light emitting diode lamp having the circuit board.

Abstract: An LED lamp includes a tube and a light bar received in the tube. The tube includes a base and a lamp window. A lengthwise first slot is defined on a center bottom of the base. The light bar includes a first surface, an opposite second surface, a first side and an opposite side. The first side and the second side are respectively coupled with the first surface and the second surface. Several light emitting diodes are mounted on at least one of the first surface or the second surface. The first side of the light bar is inserted into the first slot of the base. The second side of the light bar is close to a center bottom of the lamp window.

Abstract: An LED lamp includes a light source, a lamp holder and a lamp body. The lamp body is connected between the light source and the lamp holder. The lamp body comprises a hollow main body, a plurality of fins, a cup, a tube and a plurality of ridges. The hollow main body is connected to the lamp holder. The fins are connected between the hollow main body and the cup. A plurality of channels are defined between the fins. A hole is defined in the cup, and the tube is connected to the hole of the cup. The ridges are formed on the cup and around the tube. The light source is formed on the ridges. The light source comprises a plurality of LED elements and a plurality of circuit printed boards.

Abstract: A drainage device with a low-noise drainage shell for air-conditioning equipment is disclosed to include a housing, a motor, a radiating fan, a drainage shell, and a drainage blade. The motor is mounted in the housing. The radiating fan is mounted in the housing above the motor. The drainage shell mounted in the housing and has a drainage partition block extended from an inside wall thereof to divide the inside space of the drainage shell into an accommodation trough and a drainage trough in communication with each other. The drainage partition block has a backwardly downwardly tilted sloping surface. Thus, the sloping surfaces of the drainage partition block can guide the drain water smoothly to the drainpipe to reduce the water resistance, thereby significantly reducing the level of water drain noise.

Abstract: A drainage device with a low-noise radiator fan for air-conditioning equipment is disclosed to include a housing, a motor, a radiator fan, a drainage shell, and a drainage blade. The motor is mounted in the housing. The radiator fan includes a plate member, fan blades arranged at a bottom side of the plate member around the border area, and a ring cap covering the fan blades at a bottom side and having an air passage hole at the center thereof. Thus, the ring cap forces hot air to flow through the air passage hole of the ring cap into the inside of the radiator fan to prevent wind shear disturbance, enabling the intake flow of hot air to be further guided by the fan blades to the atmosphere to significantly reduce the level of air exhaust noise.

Abstract: A bioabsorbable polymeric stent with time dependent structure and properties and methods of treating a diseased blood vessel with the bioabsorable polymeric stent are disclosed. The structure and properties of the stent change with time and allow the vessel to be restored to a natural unstented state. The bioabsorbable stent loses mechanical integrity in a controlled manner due to modification of selected structural elements.

Abstract: A drug eluting depot stent is provided. The stent has two free ends and a tubular body connected therebetween. The tubular body includes a series of rings having undulating structures. Each of the undulating structure has a bar arm and a crown connected thereto. The bar arm has a first end portion, a second end portion and a mid-section defined therebetween. The bar arm has opened regions defined at the first end portion, the mid-section, and the second end portion, respectively. The opening ratio of the mid-section is larger than that of the two end portions. With the aforementioned structure, the stress concentration at the crown region can be re-distributed towards the bar arm, and thus effectively prolonging the fatigue life of the stent.

Abstract: An expandable stent is implanted in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery, peripheral artery, or other body lumen. The stent includes a plurality of rings connected by links. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen. The stent can be compressed or crimped onto a catheter to a very low profile since links are integrally formed from a portion of the struts forming the rings. The stent is constructed so that the cylindrical rings are very close together in order to provide maximum scaffolding, and if the stent has a drug coating, to provide a uniform drug delivery over the length of the stent. The connecting links are integrally formed from a portion of the struts forming the rings so that the links can have a maximum length thereby providing increased longitudinal flexibility of the stent.

Abstract: A drainage fitting is mounted to an air-conditioner drainage device having a waste collector provided with an inlet and an outlet. The drainage fitting is composed of a drainage connector having an annular protrusion externally and defining an upper part and a lower part, between which the annular protrusion is located, the lower part being mounted inside the outlet, the annular protrusion being stopped against the waste collector; at least two guide members being fixed to the waste collector and located at two opposite sides around the outlet and each having a guide recess facing the other, and a locating member having a hollow portion, against which the upper part of the drainage connector can be stopped, and having two sides inserted into the guide recesses to lie against the annular protrusion.

Abstract: A computer for assisting in determining the strength of fixing a craniofacial surgery patch comprises a storage device for storing a medical image and a central processing unit, the central processing unit carry out a method for assisting in determining the strength of fixing a craniofacial surgery patch. The method includes obtaining a medical image; establishing a skull model according to the medical image; receiving a patch setting command, and disposing a patch model on the skull model according to the patch setting command; generating an internal grid mesh data of the skull model disposed with the patch model; executing a biomechanical simulation of a patch structural strength according to the skull model disposed with the patch model, the internal grid mesh data and a boundary condition; and providing a stress distribution, a strain distribution or a displacement distribution of the patch model to assist in determining.

Abstract: A water level sensor switch installed in a sidewall of a water tank for detecting its water level is disclosed to include a housing having two bearing portions clamped on two opposite sides of the sidewall of the water tank and a tightening up screw fastened to a vertical wall at a different plane relative to the bearing portions and stop against the sidewall of the water tank to affix the housing to the water tank, a micro switch mounted in the housing, and a float connected to a switching lever of the micro switch outside the housing for biasing the switching lever up and down subject to the level of water in the water tank.