Abstract: A prosthetic joint and a method of controlling dorsiflexion and plantarflexion of the hydraulic prosthetic ankle joint. The method includes generating ground reaction forces with a hydraulic prosthetic ankle, wherein the prosthetic hydraulic ankle comprises a first chamber and a second chamber, and the ankle is connected to a prosthetic foot; rotating the prosthetic foot in response to the ground reaction force; transferring fluid between the forward and rear chambers in response to rotation of the foot; providing a feature to occlude or partially occlude the fluid transfer between chambers; providing a non-electronic mechanism for controlling the flow responsive to both a position of the joint and a rate of change of position of the joint, and wherein the mechanism is arranged such that a dwell at a particular joint location or locations will occlude the flow path.

Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat and a seatback. The seatback includes a frame that has opposing first and second frame members and first and second displaceable panels that are pivotably coupled to the first and second frame members. The first and second displaceable panels are movable between stored positions and deployed positions in response to a force exerted on the seatback.

Abstract: Disclosed is a neurostimulation system comprising: a neuromodulation device for controllably delivering neural stimuli; a headset configured to be worn by the patient and to display images of a virtual object to the patient; one or more sensors configured to perceive a gesture of the patient; and an external computing device. The neuromodulation device comprises: a plurality of implantable electrodes; a stimulus source configured to deliver neural stimuli via selected ones of the implantable electrodes to a neural pathway of a patient; and a control unit configured to control the stimulus source to deliver each neural stimulus according to one or more stimulus parameters. The external computing device comprises a processor in communication with the neuromodulation device, the headset, and the one or more sensors.

Abstract: An implantable device comprising: stimulus electrodes and measurement electrodes; a stimulus source to provide a neural stimulus to be delivered to a neural pathway of a patient to evoke a neural response; measurement circuitry configured to capture a signal window sensed on the neural pathway; and a control unit configured to implement closed-loop neurostimulation therapy by: controlling the stimulus source to provide the neural stimulus according to a stimulus intensity parameter; measuring a characteristic of the signal window; computing a feedback variable from an intensity of an evoked neural response in the signal window; adjusting the stimulus intensity parameter using the feedback variable; and repeating the controlling, measuring, computing, and adjusting to maintain the feedback variable at a target, thereby obtaining multiple measured intensities of neural responses; and computing one or more quantitative indicators of efficacy of the closed-loop neurostimulation therapy using the measured characte

Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat and a seatback. The seatback includes a frame that has opposing first and second frame members and first and second displaceable panels that are pivotably coupled to the first and second frame members. The first and second displaceable panels are movable between stored positions and deployed positions in response to a force exerted on the seatback.

Abstract: There is provided a method and implantable device for controlling a neural stimulus, the neural stimulus being defined by an artefact mitigation status. The method comprises generating a first neural stimulus for delivery to neural tissue, sensing a first signal subsequent to the first neural stimulus, generating a second neural stimulus for delivery to the neural tissue, and sensing a second signal subsequent to the second neural stimulus. The method further comprises determining an artefact mitigation measure (AMM) effect level based on the first sensed signal and the second sensed signal, and setting, in response to comparing the AMM effect level with an AMM effect threshold, the artefact mitigation status of a third neural stimulus to active.

Abstract: An implantable device for delivering closed-loop neural stimulation therapy. The device comprises: a plurality of electrodes; a stimulus source to provide neural stimuli via the electrodes to a neural pathway; measurement circuitry to process signals sensed at the electrodes; and a control unit. The control unit is configured to: control the stimulus source to provide a first neural stimulus according to a first stimulus parameter; measure an intensity of a neural response evoked by the first stimulus; compute a feedback variable from the neural response; adjust the first stimulus parameter; repeat the control, measure, compute and adjust to maintain the feedback variable at a target response intensity; control the stimulus source to provide, interleaved with the first neural stimuli, a plurality of second neural stimuli according to respective second stimulus parameters; and monitor the therapy by analysing the sensed signals subsequent to each second neural stimulus.

Abstract: Disclosed is a neuromodulation system comprising a neuromodulation device for controllably delivering a neural stimulus, and a processor.

Abstract: Disclosed is an implantable device for lead offset determination, comprising first and second electrode leads. A stimulus is delivered from one lead to tissue, and a signal is sensed from the tissue by the other lead. The sensed signal is processed to produce a measure of a stimulus artefact present in the signal. The stimulus artefact measure is used to produce a measure of an offset between the first electrode lead and the second electrode lead, such as by applying a distance-squared. analytical model to measures of stimulus artefact obtained from at least two sense electrodes. And/or, a compound action potential evoked by the stimulus is sensed from neural tissue, a latency of the evoked compound action potential is measured, and a measure of an offset between the first electrode lead and the second electrode lead is produced from the latency.

Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat and a seatback. The seatback includes a frame that has opposing first and second frame members and first and second displaceable panels that are pivotably coupled to the first and second frame members. The first and second displaceable panels are movable between stored positions and deployed positions in response to a force exerted on the seatback.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of adapting the operation of an implantable device for delivering neurostimulation therapy to a patient. The method comprises: delivering the neurostimulation therapy to electrically excitable tissue of the patient according to at least one therapy parameter; measuring a physiological characteristic of the patient; adjusting the at least one therapy parameter according to a schedule of adjustment and the measured physiological characteristic; and repeating the delivering, measuring, and adjusting.

Abstract: An apparatus supplying alternating current to a load.

Abstract: An alternative process and device for carrying out Fischer Tropsch (FT) syntheses is proposed, allowing the reactant entities that take part in the FT reaction to be activated and their contributions, whether by quantity or by proportion, to be adjusted. The process consists in making a particulate phase, optionally consisting of catalytic particles, flow through a reactor. While flowing through the reactor, the particulate phase is subjected at regular intervals to the action of a plasma obtained from a gas, such as hydrogen, thus enabling hydrogen activation for hydrogenation of carbon monoxide, or carbon monoxide activation in order to lengthen the carbon chains.

Abstract: An apparatus for receiving a golf club and positioning the head of the club and holding it in a predetermined position and providing a visual indication of that position at a location proximate the extending end of the golf club shaft so that an installer can properly align a grip that is to be installed on the shaft of the club. The apparatus includes a golf club holding mechanism, a club head positioning device, a club head position indicator, an aligner mechanism and a circuit by which the installer controls and monitors the operation of the apparatus.

Abstract: A golf bag having a seat assembly upon which a golfer may sit to rest. When the golfer desires to sit down, a specially configured storage pocket is opened, and a generally U-shaped support rod is moved from a retracted position to an extended position so that a foldable seat, preferably made of fabric, is in a taut stretched condition adjacent a top end of the storage pocket. The foldable seat is attached to a bight portion of the generally U-shaped support rod and is in a folded condition when the support rod is in its retracted position.