Patents Issued in November 29, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070272218
    Abstract: Methods and fuel systems to reduce evaporative emissions of a volatile fuel. A fuel tank contains fuel, a carburetor mixes air with the fuel from the fuel tank, and a plurality of fluid paths route fuel amongst and/or between the fuel tank and the carburetor. A valve actuation device stops flow of fuel in one or more of the plurality of fluid paths and the carburetor is adapted to be drained of fuel during engine shutdown to reduce or prevent evaporative emissions from the fuel system. The carburetor is preferably designed so as to minimize a volume of fuel contained therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: John Woody
  • Publication number: 20070272219
    Abstract: An electronically controlled electromechanical valve having at least three ports through which a fluid can flow and at least three different stable positions in which at least 2 ports are in fluid communication. The valve includes a stationary outer housing including at least three bores, a rotating inner section that rotates about an axis and includes bores defining, with the bores of the housing, the at least three ports of the valve, and an electrical actuating system controlled by an electronic controller and configured to switch the valve from one position to another by rotating the inner section about its axis. A fuel system vapor management unit can include such a valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: Inergy Auto. Systems Research (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventor: David Hill
  • Publication number: 20070272220
    Abstract: A method and an equipment for reducing emission and fuel consumption in order to improve combustion in internal combustion engines, whereas, in order to achieve perfect combustion, prior to its entry into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, the mixture of fuel and air is led through a treatment area characterised by specific physical properties, so as to provide, by applying high voltage, the air stream a charge of first polarity and the fuel stream a charge of opposite polarity and simultaneously vibrating at least one of the air and the fuel stream by a frequency in the ultrasonic range, in given cases in several, succA method and an equipment for reducing emission and fuel consumption in order to improve combustion in internal combustion engines, whereas, in order to achieve perfect combustion, prior to its entry into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, the mixture of fuel and air is led through a treatment area characterised by specific physical properties, so a
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Peter Rozim
  • Publication number: 20070272221
    Abstract: An engine has a crankshaft, rotating about a crankshaft axis of the engine. An expansion piston is slidably received within an expansion cylinder and operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the expansion piston reciprocates through an expansion stroke and an exhaust stroke of a four stroke cycle during a single rotation of the crankshaft. A compression piston is slidably received within a compression cylinder and operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the compression piston reciprocates through an intake stroke and a compression stroke of the same four stroke cycle during the same rotation of the crankshaft. A ratio of cylinder volumes from BDC to TDC for either one of the expansion cylinder and compression cylinder is fixed at substantially 26 to 1 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: David Branyon, Jeremy Eubanks
  • Publication number: 20070272222
    Abstract: An air gun chamber structure is composed of a valve seat, a valve, a valve cap screw, a nozzle, a nozzle seat, and related fittings. The valve seat is divided into two parts by a baffle, the valve is limited to a rear side of the valve seat by the valve cap screw, and the nozzle is limited to a front side of the valve seat by the nozzle seat. A pillar at a front end of the valve is transfixed into a vent-hole at a center of the baffle and is inserted into an opening at a rear end of the nozzle, an outer wall of the valve is provided with an indent section, at a position where the valve passes through the vent-hole, and a proper notch part is located at a portion of rear end of the valve which is inserted into an air hole at a center of the valve cap screw. In normal times, the rear end of valve is kept at being tightly connected into the air hole. Accordingly, after the valve is subjected to an impact, a time difference will be formed that a bullet will be ejected first prior to pulling back a slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Lin Ching Ho
  • Publication number: 20070272223
    Abstract: A method of maintaining and restoring the gloss of polished concrete, terrazzo, marble and granite floors utilizing floor maintenance machines is disclosed. The rotating head of the floor machines has either a brush having flexible bristles impregnated with abrasive particles or a maintenance pad having fibers which have been impregnated with an abrasive material and which are woven or otherwise distributed through the pad. The use of these abrasive pads and brushes with conventional floor maintenance machinery in routine floor maintenance operations maintains or restores the gloss of non-resilient flooring that is exposed to heavy traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Jeffrey Stuckey, Joseph Owens, Joseph Urbanic
  • Publication number: 20070272224
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooking oven for bread, patisserie and pastry products or similar, including at least one cooking chamber with a fixed or moving floor, on which products are supported during cooking, whether directly or on a suitable cooking support, such as a plate a mesh or a cooking mold. There is also a radiant heating device for the floor arranged under the floor, called a floor hotplate. The floor and the floor hotplate have a space therebetween, the space being provided for closed-circuit convective circulation of a heating fluid, the floor having a permeable embodiment for a complementary heating of the products through the same by convection. The oven permits a combination at the floor of heating by conduction and radiation with heating by convection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: MECATHERM, Societe Anonyme
    Inventors: Rene Voegtlin, Suzanne Voegtlin
  • Publication number: 20070272225
    Abstract: A cooking grill assembly includes a foldable grill, wherein the components may be conveniently stored for transport, wherein the components include a lower support stake for insertion into soft ground or a free-standing base for use on hard ground, an upper extension post having at one of its ends a parallelogram linkage for vertically repositioning the cooking grill and for releasably securing the grill in a desired position, the other end of the upper extension post adapted to be rotatably mounted on the support stake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: James McNeely, Kael James Forster Crichton
  • Publication number: 20070272226
    Abstract: Afterburner, to be installed in already existing stoves, for reduction of emissions from a stove, where the afterburner is based on the principle of supplying fresh, heated air in a zone (14) above a combustion chamber (13). The afterburner is characterised in that it consists of a folded plate (1) with holes (4, 6) for after-installation on the inside of a rear or side wall in a traditional stove constructed without an aperture for secondary air, and for cooperation with at least one aperture for secondary air (2) arranged in the rear or side wall when the plate (1) is installed in an already existing traditional stove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Johan Hustad
  • Publication number: 20070272227
    Abstract: A gas heating device comprising a gas burner, a combustion chamber for the flames of the gas burner and a convection air conduit with an air inlet and an air outlet for evacuating a convection air stream that has been heated in the gas heating device. The aim of the invention is to enable the gas heating device to be used for various purposes. To achieve this, the combustion chamber of the gas burner and the convection air conduit are connected to allow the passage of fluid. An exhaust gas stream can thus mix with the convection air stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Cesar Astiz Montoya, Vicente Angel Echeverria, Francisco Javier Caballero
  • Publication number: 20070272228
    Abstract: A gas fired furnace capable of operating with a 16:1 turndown ratio or greater. The furnace includes a plurality of burners (10) grouped into at least (14a) first and second (14b) groups, each group connected to a source of combustible gas through a control valve (30a, 30b, 30c). The control valve (30c) controlling at least one group of burners is of a modulating type having an output proportional to a control signal applied to the valve. The burners fire into associated heat exchange tubes (20a), each tube having an inlet (24) and an outlet. The tube outlets are connected to a collector chamber (44) that includes a baffle plate (60) that divides the collector into two sections, one of the sections communicating with the outlets of the tubes associated with the first group of burners, the other section communicating with the outlets of the heat exchanger tubes associated with the other group of burners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Terrance Slaby
  • Publication number: 20070272229
    Abstract: Barbecue grill consisting of housing containing possible charcoal rack and one or more cooking grills. Attached below housing is a biomass gasifier/combustion unit providing charcoal starting and combustion air control for charcoal combustion or providing primary heat for cooking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: James Bernard Becker, Shivayam Ellis
  • Publication number: 20070272230
    Abstract: An exhaust hood captures and contains a thermal plume with a minimum of exhaust air by defining a short-throw planar jet around a protected perimeter. Corner interference is mitigated by various mechanisms including having at least one of adjacent planar jets run only partly along a respective edge such that said first and second curtain jets do not meet at said corner; having a direction of the planar jets proximate corners where they meet being intermediate between respective directions of the jets along respective main portions of of the perimeter; or having a direction of the jets of one of the adjacent edges be horizontal while the other is vertical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Philip Meredith, Andrey Livchak
  • Publication number: 20070272231
    Abstract: A lubricious porcelain coated steel wire oven rack. The preferred coated steel wire oven rack includes a plurality of elongated steel wire members joined together to form an oven rack having an outer surface. The plurality of elongated steel wire members are made from a cold drawn steel rod material containing from about 80 to about 99.9% by weight of iron, up to about 0.08% by weight of carbon and from about 0.001 to about 0.2% by weight of a carbon stabilizing transition metal, preferably selected from the group consisting of Vanadium, Tantalum, Titanium and Niobium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: SSW HOLDING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Ambrose
  • Publication number: 20070272232
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention an unvented cartridge fireplace firebox that is simple and inexpensive to manufacture, has trapezoidally shaped sidewalls and a back wall that are lined with high gloss ceramic tile, a perforated metal shelf supporting a simulated logset and one or more alcohol fuel cartridges, and a self closing, nearly transparent, single panel wire screen with a latch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Michael Weinberger
  • Publication number: 20070272233
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for a solar collector having intergral control of the maximum temperature that it can reach, thereby avoiding excessive stagnation temperatures in the collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Stephen Harrison, Qin Lin, Lucio Mesquita, David Valletta
  • Publication number: 20070272234
    Abstract: A solar collector structural support system that affixes to a mounting surface without penetrating the mounting surface is disclosed. The invention in the preferred embodiment includes a base assembly comprising: a plurality of leg members, a center junction elements configured to receive (a) the proximal end of each of the plurality of leg members and (b) a support member configured to securely uphold at least one of the one or more one solar collectors, and at least one footing adapted to frictionally engage the mounting surface. Multiple base assemblies may be interconnected using peripheral junction elements to form arrays of solar collectors of arbitrarily large size. The peripheral junction element is configured to couple the leg members of multiple base assemblies. When connected with the present invention, a plurality of solar concentrators form an array with greater structural integrity and less susceptibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Nathan Allen, Gregg Luconi
  • Publication number: 20070272235
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an inhaler aid which maximizes utility of an inhaler for the minute powdery curative medicine, and which is used by being attached to the inhaler so that people including a user can objectively ascertain in each case whether an inhalation operation has been correctly performed. In the present invention, the inhaler aid with the reed for the minute powdery curative medicine has a configuration characterized in that the reed is fitted into a right side of a main unit made of silicon rubber, and the inhaler aid is attached to a mouthpiece portion of a conventionally used inhaler for the minute powdery curative medicine such that the aid equipped with the reed is placed between the inhaler for the minute powdery curative medicine and a mouth of a patient, and when an intake operation has been performed without fail, a sound is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Akihiko Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20070272236
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cap (1) which is placed onto an aerosol container (2) in order to permit blinding of clinical studies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: ALTANA PHARMA AG
    Inventor: Jutta Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20070272237
    Abstract: A flexible fastening device in one embodiment includes a male fastening unit including a hook member securely looped around a mask strap, and a slotted stud having two side trigger members; and a female fastening unit including a clip put on a breathing tube of snorkel, and a hollow clasp projected from the clip and including an internal space and an opening in communication with the external and the space. Pressing the trigger members will decrease the size of the stud, inserting the stud into the space by passing the opening, and stopping the pressing will expand the stud to lock the stud in the space. Pressing the trigger members again will decrease the size of the stud, and pulling the stud will remove same out of the space by passing the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Chih-Cheng Shiue
  • Publication number: 20070272238
    Abstract: A flexible fastening device includes a male fastening unit including a hook member securely looped around a mask strap, and a stud, and a female fastening unit including a clip put on a breathing tube of a snorkel, and two opposite latched members projected from the clip. The clip includes a bent bridge interconnected the latched members. The latched members include an aperture formed between its open ends. A space is defined by the latched members and the bridge and is communication with the external through the aperture. In a fastened position of the male and the female fastening units the stud is lockingly received in the space. Compressing opposite portions of the clip toward each other will deform the bridge, splay the latched members, and enlarge the aperture so as to permit a subsequent pulling of the stud out of the space through the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Chih-Cheng Shiue
  • Publication number: 20070272239
    Abstract: At least some of the illustrative embodiments are a humidifier system comprising an outer housing defining an internal volume, a dividing member within the internal volume that divides the internal volume into a first chamber and a second chamber (the first and second chambers fluidly independent of each other), a first inlet port and first outlet port (the first inlet and outlet ports in fluid communication with the first chamber), and second inlet port and a second outlet port (the second inlet and outlet ports in fluid communication with the second chamber).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: ACOBA, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Alonzo Aylsworth, Charles Aylsworth, Lawrence Spector
  • Publication number: 20070272240
    Abstract: At least some of the illustrative embodiments are hose systems for use with a positive airway pressure device comprising a first hose configured to fluidly couple on a device end to a first outlet of the positive airway pressure device and on a patient end to a first naris of a patient, and a second hose configured to fluidly couple on a device end to a second outlet of the positive airway pressure device and on a patient end to a second naris of the patient (wherein the second hose is fluidly independent from the first hose). The hose system is configured such that the first hose only couples to the first outlet and the second hose only couples to the second outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: ACOBA, LLC.
    Inventors: Alonzo Aylsworth, Charles Aylsworth
  • Publication number: 20070272241
    Abstract: A method of providing breathing assistance is provided. A plurality of a patient's breaths are assisted using a breathing assistance system. The plurality of breaths may include one or more pause breaths and one or more non-pause breaths, and the occurrence of pause breaths during the plurality of breaths may be randomized. Each pause breath may include a pause maneuver during which one or more valves of the breathing assistance system are closed to create a constant volume defined at least by the patient's lungs and one or more components of the breathing assistance system. One or more measurements may be taken during or proximate the pause maneuver, and one or more patient characteristic values may be determined based at least on the one or more measurements. The one or more patient characteristic values may include values for at least one of an elastance and a compliance associated with the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Warren Sanborn, Fernando Isaza, Francisco Lopez
  • Publication number: 20070272242
    Abstract: A breathing support system is provided. The system may include a breathing support device configured to deliver gas to a patient and a display device associated with the breathing support device. The display device may be configured to display a work of breathing graphic indicating one or more work of breathing measures regarding the patient's breathing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Warren Sanborn, Peter Doyle
  • Publication number: 20070272243
    Abstract: A ventilator circuit is provided for use with a ventilator and a low pressure low flow oxygen source to provide a hyper-oxygenated mixture of air and oxygen at the onset of inspiration. The ventilator circuit achieves this result by using its inspiratory limb to store oxygen between breaths. As a result, the oxygen content of dead space gas is increased before delivery to the distal alveoli of the patient. Accordingly, the ventilator circuit achieves an efficient use of available oxygen and requires less oxygen to a desired oxyhemoglobin percentage at the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: IMPACT Instrumentation, Inc.
    Inventors: Leslie H. Sherman, George Beck
  • Publication number: 20070272244
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing a mini/microenvironment, separating a determined zone from a surrounding space while providing said zone a window access opening without loss of protection against hazardous agents either entering or leaving the protected zone. More particularly, an embodiment describes personal respiratory protection provided against hazardous airborne particulates and pathogens without the requirement of a solid barrier over the oral-nasal portion of the face. High breathing resistance, impaired voice communication, thermal stress, and uncomfortable straps holding a mask tightly over the mouth and nose are eliminated. Thereby, considerable increased comfort during long-term use is realized without compromising protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Warner Witmer
  • Publication number: 20070272245
    Abstract: A breathing bag, mask and/or tube of an anesthesia breathing circuit having printed thereon one or more of characters, stimuli, images, reflective surfaces, activity panels, puzzles, trivia, pleasing colors, decorative features and/or other calming and friendly items or indicia is disclosed. The enhancements may be visible by the patient prior, during and/or after the surgical procedure. The invention may also include any other item which enhances or supplements medical equipment such that the equipment is much more pleasing to a child during a surgical procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Stephen Ripple, Albert P. Martinez
  • Publication number: 20070272246
    Abstract: A mask includes a flexible backing and an expandable membrane. The flexible backing is configured to overlay the eyes and nose of a wearer. The expandable membrane is coupled to the backing. The expandable membrane fills the non planar surfaces of the face when the backing exerts a pressure onto the membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Alpha Ulm
  • Publication number: 20070272247
    Abstract: There is provided a cannula which may include a spacer adapted to maintain a minimum distance between at least a portion of an oral cavity and at least a portion of an oral breath collector and at least one nasal breath collector. There is also provided a method for sampling exhaled breath including positioning a cannula on a face of a subject, wherein the cannula may include a spacer adapted to maintain a minimum distance between at least a portion of an oral cavity and at least a portion of an oral breath collector and at least one nasal breath collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: ORIDION MEDICAL LTD.
    Inventor: Ron Porat
  • Publication number: 20070272248
    Abstract: The invention is to provide an elastic nonwoven mask comprised of a butterfly folded filtration portion, two integrated loops, and a folding ridge with identical upper and lower fold curve being symmetrical to the central point of the folding ridge. The filtration portion includes at least one layer of elastic nonwoven fabric, and the integrated loops are extended from the filtration portion on two ends. The upper and lower sides of mask are identical for the convenience of fitting onto the wearers' nose-line without the necessity of distinguishing the upper curve for nose and the lower curve for chin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Flora Lin
  • Publication number: 20070272249
    Abstract: A respiration assist mask having an input gas feed tube, a ventilation interface, a facial interface and nasal inserts. The gas feed tube can connect to the ventilation interface and form a seal. The ventilation interface may be joined with the facial interface to form a seal between the ventilation interface and the facial interface, as well as between the facial interface and the face of a user. Additionally, nasal inserts may be inserted into a portion of the facial interface and form a seal between the inserts and the facial interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Sanjay Chandran, Shara Hernandez, Louis Collazo
  • Publication number: 20070272250
    Abstract: There is provided a non-invasive pulsation and counterpulsation medical treatment apparatus for treating reduced cardiac output in heart patients. A flexible cuff is passed over the patient's lower body and/or extremities, and is attached through a lever arm to an electromechanical actuator. Through a mechanical linkage, the actuator sequentially tensions and releases the cuff, thereby sequentially compressing and releasing pressure on the patient, and thereby augmenting the patient's blood pressure. The actuator includes an electric solenoid which axially extends and retracts a shaft. The shaft oscillates the lever arm. A curved plate on the apparatus supports the patient's body or extremity in a fixed position during the treatment. A pressure sensor in the cuff transmits pressure data to an operator or electronic processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: MICHAEL PAUL LEWIS
  • Publication number: 20070272251
    Abstract: The retainer for one or more intubation tubes includes a bracket having a first part divided into first and second sections each adapted to engage a tube and retain same in alignment with a nostril, and a second part connected to the first part, and adapted to engage another tube and retain same in alignment with the mouth. Straps are provided for encircling the head and engaging the bracket to secure the retained to the head of the patient. The first and second sections of the first part are elastically connected to permit the distance therebetween to be adjusted. Flexible teeth on the inside surfaces of the parts are provided for engaging the tubes on the bracket in a unidirectional position adjustable manner so as to permit insertion but not withdrawal of the tube relative to the bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: John Hodge
  • Publication number: 20070272252
    Abstract: Apparatus for preventing fluid transfer through an opening connecting an oviduct to a uterine cavity includes a body having a base with a periphery and a seal carried by the body for overlying and engaging uterine tissue leading to the opening. The seal receives fibroblast in-growth to create a hermetic seal between the oviduct and the uterine cavity. A peripheral anchor portion extends from the base for securing the body to the uterine tissue leading to the opening, the base overlying the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Terry Ray, James Zeluff
  • Publication number: 20070272253
    Abstract: A male condom provides full coverage around genital area during intercourse effectively against sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. The condom is consisting of two parts. The first part is an elongated tubular that has one open end and one closed end. The second part is an elastic protective film with six adhesive tapes connected to the open end of first part and covers scrotum, entire pubic hair, and peripheral area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Yuxiang Jason Lin
  • Publication number: 20070272254
    Abstract: A device for positioning a patient who is to undergo a lumbar puncture in particular a device having a plane of so-called sagittal symmetry, comprises a rigid or semi-rigid cushion that includes: a placing surface provided with an anterior edge and resting on the patient's thighs, a front leaning surface for the patient's abdomen and thorax, rising above the placing surface from the anterior edge and having a convex profile in the plane of sagittal symmetry to position the patient's spine in kyphosis, this front leaning surface, opposite the anterior edge, leading into a housing for supporting and laterally centring the patient's head, centred along the plane of sagittal symmetry, and two side faces in which a clasping surface opens oriented in opposite direction to the front leaning surface to allow at least part of the upper limbs to clasp the cushion against the patient's abdomen and thorax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Serge Rochatte
  • Publication number: 20070272255
    Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods that are used by a parturient during labor. More particularly, the present invention relates to devices and methods for preventing and managing shoulder dystocia. The present invention further relates to devices and methods for assisting a parturient with laboring efforts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Syed Rizvi
  • Publication number: 20070272256
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent immobilization device which is able to be moulded direct on a patient and which is provided to cover at least a part of a patients' body that needs to be fixed, supported and/or immobilized, which immobilization device is at least partly made of a plastic material. The immobilization device is at least partly made of a sheet of a material comprising at least one thermoplastic elastomer which is a copolymer of ethylene with at least one ?-olefin having 3-10 carbon atoms, or a blend of two or more of such copolymers. The present invention also relates to a method for producing such an immoblisation device, according to which the plastic material is first heated to a temperature which is 15-20° C. above the melting temperature, then cooled to a temperature which may be supported by the body and moulded on the body part of the patient that needs to be immobilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Steven Cuypers, Bogdan Bogdanov
  • Publication number: 20070272257
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods employ magnetic force to resist tissue collapse in targeted pharyngeal structures and individual anatomic components within the pharyngeal conduit during sleep.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Lionel Nelson, Ronald Lax, Eric Doelling, Jinfang Liu, Peter Muller, Ryan Boucher, Michael Reo
  • Publication number: 20070272258
    Abstract: An insertion aid device includes a handle to hold the insertion aid device and a tongue depressor to depress the tongue of the patient. A curved wedge-shaped tongue depressor maintains the patient's mouth in an open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Nick Pastron
  • Publication number: 20070272259
    Abstract: A surgical procedure according to which a member containing a material is inserted between two anatomical structures; and the member is caused to change state and expand into engagement with at least one of the structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: SDGI Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall Allard, Kent M. Anderson, Aurelien Bruneau, Eric C. Lange
  • Publication number: 20070272260
    Abstract: An implantable interface system for a medical device system providing selective interconnectivity between conduits and therapy elements. The interface system contains connecting elements that each provide a robust connection between a selected conduit and a selected therapy element. The interface system enables the use of a surplus of therapy elements so that treatment to the same site (in the case of electrode migration or failure), or to different sites but within the spatial domain of the interface's elements may be delivered through the spare/excess therapy elements without the need for additional major surgical procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Alexei Nikitin, Ivan Osorio, Mark Frei, Naresh Bhavaraju
  • Publication number: 20070272261
    Abstract: A crimped filament tow, suitable for use in making cigarette filter rods, is made by a process in which porous particles, such as activated carbon particles, are adhered to the filaments by an adhesive. Deactivation of the adsorbent surfaces of the particles by the adhesive is limited by loading the particles with a material, such as water, which can generate a gaseous emission, such as steam, from the particles so as to open up access to the adsorbent interior surfaces of the particles. The filaments, which may be cellulose acetate, may have a cross-section having concave portions, such as are provided by multi-lobal cross-sections, in which the adhered particles may lie to protect them against shedding by abrasion of the filaments against machine surfaces. The particles and the adhesive may be applied to the banded tow at the same time, in the form of a dispersion of the particles in the adhesive, and may be applied directly before the crimping step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Craig Day, John Travers
  • Publication number: 20070272262
    Abstract: A cutting unit for cutting continuous cigarette rods, wherein a cutting head is locked in position on a fixed supporting body by an automatically releasable locking device, and, to make a change in format, is rotated, with respect to the supporting body and after the locking device is released, about an axis of rotation by an actuating device negative-feedback-controlled by a detecting device for determining angular displacement of the cutting head about the axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Fiorenzo Draghetti, Emanuele Seren
  • Publication number: 20070272263
    Abstract: A separator device (51) for receiving hair, for a method of application of a thickening assembly, comprises first separation tooth elements (52), equidistant and such as to subdivide a portion of hair into portions containing basically the same quantity of receiving hair; a bearing surface (53) for arranging in position said adhesive tape (2), delimited on one side by said first tooth elements (52); and second tooth elements (55), arranged on the opposite side with respect to said first tooth elements (52), having with respect to the latter a greater density and interspaces such as to arrest the receiving hair inserted therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: David Gold
  • Publication number: 20070272264
    Abstract: An eyelid has a natural lash line containing natural eyelashes. An eyelash adornment apparatus for the eyelid includes a plurality of lash subassemblies. Each lash subassembly includes an elongated mounting portion and a plurality of elongated lash filaments. Each lash filament has a filament base and an oppositely disposed filament tip. The filament base is attached to the mounting portion with the filament tip extending from the mounting portion. The lash subassemblies are each adapted for affixation to the eyelid. A chosen one of the lash subassemblies, when affixed to the eyelid, is operative to provide at least one of a different visual impression than a visual impression provided by an other one of the lash subassemblies when affixed to the eyelid, and a different visual effect upon the natural eyelashes than a visual effect provided by the other one of the lash subassemblies when affixed to the eyelid. A method of adorning an eyelash of a wearer is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Alexsandra Byrne
  • Publication number: 20070272265
    Abstract: A cosmetic composition comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, at least one film-forming polymer (A) chosen so that a material, obtained by drying the at least one polymer (A) in an aqueous or alcoholic medium at ambient temperature and at a relative humidity of 50%±5%, exhibits a mechanical profile defined by at least: (a) an elongation at break (?b) of greater than or equal to 160%; (b) an instantaneous recovery (Ri) of from 25 and to 70% after an elongation of 150%; and (c) a recovery (R300) at 300 seconds of from 30 and to 100% after an elongation of 150%; wherein the at least one film-forming polymer (A) comprises at least one monomeric residue comprising an unsaturated acid unit, the acid number of which is greater than 82. Processes for obtaining such cosmetic compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Christine Dupuis, Henri Samain, Bertrand Lion
  • Publication number: 20070272266
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a cordless hair styler (100) which has a flexible body (102) comprising a flat flexible sheet of fabric which can be wrapped and unwrapped about rigid members (110, 112, 116) of the cordless hair styler to hold the rigid members in a selected storage and operative positions with respect to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Peter Rijskamp
  • Publication number: 20070272267
    Abstract: A set of curved plastic curling rods are employed in administering a permanent curl to eyelashes. The arcuate rods are of round profile and are provided in a number of rod diameters from 4 mm to 8 mm. The curling rods are of a durable autoclavable material, and can be sterilized and reused.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Nadine Wagner