Patents Issued in September 22, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160271385
    Abstract: A systems and method for coupling electrical energy to the medical instruments includes a tubular socket having a conductive region and a lumen for receiving a segment of a medical instrument. An energy source is electrically coupled to a conductor in contact with an outer surface of the tubular socket, such that the conductor and the conductive portion of the tubular socket conduct energy to the instrument. The segment of the medical is instrument is rotationally engageable with the tubular socket such that axially rolling of the tubular socket causes axial rolling of a portion of the instrument shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Sterlina, Galen C. Robertson, Nicholas J. Jardine, Andrew Lane, Lucas Tew
  • Publication number: 20160271386
    Abstract: An electrostimulation device including an electrode shaft that includes a plurality of electrodes, a delivery device that includes a cannula, through which the electrode shaft is insertable, a fixation member fixable on the cannula, and a locking mechanism for selectively permitting and preventing relative movement between the electrode shaft and the delivery device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ronnie Levy, Yiftach Beinart, Alon Shalev
  • Publication number: 20160271387
    Abstract: An implantable control module for an electrical stimulation system includes a connector to couple to a lead or lead extension; an electronics housing coupled to the connector and having a first major surface, a second major surface, and at least one side surface; and an electronic subassembly disposed within the electronics housing. The electronics housing includes a first portion formed of a first conductive material and a second portion formed of a second conductive material. The second portion forms at least part of the first major surface and extends to form an adjacent region of the side surface or the second major surface. In some embodiments, the first conductive material has a resistivity that is no more than 50% of a resistivity of the second conductive material. In some embodiments, the first conductive material is titanium and the second conductive material is a titanium alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Thomas W. Stouffer
  • Publication number: 20160271388
    Abstract: This accessory comprises a remotely steerable catheter (40) extended by a tip (50) comprising a base (52) to which the catheter (40) connects to and a cylindrical portion (54) defining a volume (56) suitable for housing the capsule (10). A sub-catheter (30) and the capsule are telescopically extendable with respect to the catheter between i) a retracted position and a deployed position wherein the capsule is removed from the connector and is carried by the distal end of the sub-catheter, and the distal end of sub-catheter and the proximal region (18) of the capsule being provided with disconnectable means of attachment (20, 36). The tip presents, between its base (52) and its cylindrical portion (54), a flexible portion (58) providing, between the base and the cylindrical portion, an elastic deformability in bending and compression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: SORIN CRM SAS
    Inventors: Jean-François Ollivier, Willy Régnier
  • Publication number: 20160271389
    Abstract: The Tongue Relaxer comprises of a flat body low voltage electronic therapeutic device as a precise means of releasing excessive and deep muscular restrictive muscular tension within the inside body, base, and root of the tongue. Specifically designed for Voice pedagogy, Speech therapy, Professional singers, Public speakers, however not limited to. Veterinary applications may apply as well! The Tongue Relaxer provides a more reliable, lightweight, yet economical device, that can be used by persons of almost any age under supervision.! Working singers, actors, or public speakers often times make very unhealthy choices in a desperate attempt to temporarily relieve this tension and free there voices in order to get through a performance.! The Tongue Relaxer is an extremely quick, direct, healthy, and effective means of addressing this issue of said tongue tension that eventually effects every singer and public speaker due to sudden environmental changes such as cold and dampness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Lawrence Keith Rubadou
  • Publication number: 20160271390
    Abstract: The present invention relates, generally, to scientific and medical system methods for diagnosis of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) lead conductor anomalies, in particular conductor migration and externalization within an ICD implantable cardiac lead. The method uses an “imaginary” component of the high frequency transmission line impedance having certain spectral changes that correspond to movements of the conductor or an “imaginary impedance”. This allows the detection of conductor migration and small insulation failures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Mark W. Kroll, Charles D. Swerdlow
  • Publication number: 20160271391
    Abstract: A non-pharmaceutical apparatus, system and process for treating and/or detecting biological targets, such as infectious diseases, are provided in various implementations. In one implementation, a medical device, system and/or process targets biologic targets such as microorganisms, fungi, bacteria and viruses resident in an infected environment. Further various method of detecting the biological targets are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Dragan Danilo Nebrigic
  • Publication number: 20160271392
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for managing pain uses separate varying electromagnetic fields, with a variety of temporal and amplitude characteristics, which are applied to a particular neural structure to modulate glial and neuronal interactions as a mechanism for relieving chronic pain. In another embodiment, a single composite modulation/stimulation signal which has rhythmically varying characteristics is used to achieve the same results as separate varying electromagnetic fields. Also, disclosed is an apparatus and method for modulating the expression of genes involved in diverse pathways including inflammatory/immune system mediators, ion channels and neurotransmitters, in both the Spinal Cord (SC) and Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) where such expression modulation is caused by spinal cord stimulation or peripheral nerve stimulation using the disclosed apparatus and techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ricardo Vallejo, David Leonardo Cedeno, Ramsin M. Benyamin
  • Publication number: 20160271393
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining multiple sites for multi-site cardiac stimulation are disclosed. The system can comprise an electrostimulation circuit that can deliver electrostimulation to one or more candidate sites in at least one chamber of the heart, such as a left ventricle of the heart, within the same cardiac cycle. The system can sense a physiologic signal during the electrostimulation of the heart, determine activation timings from first and second sets of physiologic signals respectively sensed at the plurality of candidate sites when the heart undergoes specified intrinsic activities or stimulation, and determine at least first and second selected sites, among a plurality of candidate sites, using the respective activation timings. The system can deliver multi-site stimulation such as to the first and second selected sites during a same cardiac cycle, simultaneously or separated by a specified temporal offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Yinghong Yu, Qi An, Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur
  • Publication number: 20160271394
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is, when treating circulatory disease such as acute myocardial infarction, to correct a reduction in myocardial contractility and thereby prevent arrhythmia and the like, as well as to reduce infarct size. Provided is a neurostimulation device having a stimulus application part configured so as to apply a stimulus to a cervical or thoracic vagus nerve portion in a human or an animal, and a stimulus regulation part configured so as to regulate the quantity of stimulus applied from the stimulus application part to the vagus nerve portion. The stimulus regulation part establishes a quantity of stimulus that is less than a value at which adverse effects would be produced, determines the heart rate and R wave interval of the human or animal, and controls the quantity of stimulus on the basis of these determinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji SUNAGAWA, Tomomi IDE, Kazuo SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160271395
    Abstract: In various method embodiments for operating an implantable neural stimulator to deliver a neural stimulation therapy to an autonomic neural target, the method comprises using the implantable neural stimulator to deliver the neural stimulation therapy to the autonomic neural target, and evaluating an evoked response to the neural stimulation bursts. The neural stimulation therapy includes a plurality of neural stimulation bursts where each neural stimulation burst includes a plurality of neural stimulation pulses and successive neural stimulation bursts are separated by a time without neural stimulation pulses. Evaluating the evoked response includes sensing the evoked response to the neural stimulation bursts where sensing the evoked response includes sensing at least one physiological parameter affected by the neural stimulation bursts, comparing the sensed evoked response against a baseline, and determining if the evoked response substantially returns to the baseline between neural stimulation bursts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew P. Kramer, Jason J. Hamann
  • Publication number: 20160271396
    Abstract: An electrical stimulation system for use with a plurality of electrodes implanted within a tissue region comprises a neurostimulator configured for delivering electrical stimulation energy to the plurality of electrodes in accordance with a set of stimulation parameters, thereby injecting a charge into the tissue region, a control device configured for receiving user input to modify the set of stimulation parameters, and controller/processor circuitry configured for, in response to the user input computing a charge injection metric value as a function of a physical electrode parameter and an electrical source parameter for a first set of the electrodes, wherein the electrode set comprises at least two electrodes, comparing the computed charge injection metric value to a safety threshold value, and performing a corrective action based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Gustav Karl Steinke, Michael A. Moffitt
  • Publication number: 20160271397
    Abstract: An improved architecture for an implantable medical device using a primary battery is disclosed which reduces the circumstances in which the voltage of the primary battery is boosted, and hence reduces the power draw in the implant. The architecture includes a boost converter for selectively boosting the voltage of the primary battery and for supplying that boosted voltage to certain of the circuit blocks, including digital circuitry, analog circuitry, and memory. However, the boost converter is only used to boost the battery voltage when its magnitude is below a threshold; if above the threshold, the battery voltage is passed to the circuit blocks without boosting. Additionally, some circuitry capable of operation even at low battery voltages—including the telemetry tank circuitry and the compliance voltage generator—receives the battery voltage directly without boosting, and without regard to the current magnitude of the battery voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Robert G. Lamont, Jordi Parramon
  • Publication number: 20160271398
    Abstract: A feedthrough of an implantable medical electronic device, including a ceramic or glass insulating body, a feedthrough flange surrounding the insulating body, and at least one connection element penetrating through the insulating body for external connection of an electric or electronic component of the device, wherein the feedthrough flange is joined from a number of pre-formed parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Kronmueller, Michael Arnold, Lilli Fries
  • Publication number: 20160271399
    Abstract: A feedthrough of an implantable electronic medical device, including a housing, an insulating body, a feedthrough flange surrounding the insulating body, and at least one connecting element penetrating the insulating body for externally connecting an electric or electronic component of the device, in particular multiple connecting elements, wherein a low-temperature hard solder connection or soft solder connection is provided between the insulating body and the feedthrough flange and/or between the insulating body and the, or at least one, connecting element and/or between the insulating body and the housing, the connection being formed in particular at a temperature of 900° C. or less, preferably less than 450° C., and still more preferably less than 400° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Marcel Starke
  • Publication number: 20160271400
    Abstract: A feedthrough of an implantable medical electronic device, including an insulating body, a feedthrough flange surrounding the insulating body, and at least one connection element penetrating through the insulating body for the external connection of an electric or electronic component of the device, wherein the feedthrough flange has at least one pre-stamped and bent and/or folded and/or deep-drawn sheet metal part, in particular, formed of a titanium sheet or titanium alloy sheet, and the sheet metal part has an extension that is integrally formed in one piece and is angled relative to the plane of extension of the feedthrough and is formed as a ground connection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Kronmueller, Michael Arnold, Lilli Fries
  • Publication number: 20160271401
    Abstract: An implantable medical device including a housing, an electrical circuit unit, and a feedthrough component, which is electrically connected to at least one contact of the electrical circuit unit, wherein the device further comprises a support fixedly connected to the electrical circuit unit. In order to reduce the number of steps during manufacturing, in particular, for the device with a sleeve-type housing, the support provides at least one fixture element adapted for a mechanical fixing of the feedthrough component relative to the electrical circuit unit within the housing. The disclosure further refers to a respective manufacturing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Rolf Klenner, Eric Austin, Ian Joseph Frank, Sascha Koch, Kathy Hartmann-Bax
  • Publication number: 20160271402
    Abstract: An implantable electromedical device, including a device housing in which electronic and electrical function units are housed, a device head having at least one electrode or one line terminal, and a feedthrough arranged between the device housing and device head for at least one electrical conductor element connecting the electrodes or the line terminal to a function unit, wherein the feedthrough includes a one-piece plastic main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Sontheimer, Josef Teske, Michael Arnold
  • Publication number: 20160271403
    Abstract: An implantable electromedical device, including a casing part accommodating an electronic or electric functional unit, an electrode disposed on the outside of the casing part or a line connection, and a feedthrough, which surrounds an orifice of the casing part and accommodates at least one metallic conductor element connecting the electrode or the line connection to the functional unit, and which has a metallic circumferential flange, wherein the feedthrough comprises a ceramic base body, around which the circumferential flange and in which the conductor element are directly shrunk in a positively and non-positively connecting manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Norbert Pscherer, Hermann Kalb, Erich Haas, Sahika Seidler
  • Publication number: 20160271404
    Abstract: The device comprises a sealed body housing electronic circuits, and extending from said body, a microlead comprising microcables connected to remote electrodes. The device has no connector between the microlead and the electronic circuits. Each microcable is permanently connected to its pole by connection means. The connection means comprises an insulating base hermetically crossed by feedthrough pins, a support for the base, conductive connection parts each comprising a first passage for a microcable and a second passage for a feedthrough pin, an insulating guiding and holding part mounted on the support and locked thereon. The guiding and holding part having cavities for the connection parts, each cavity opening in its bottom on a passage wherein a pin projects. The device also includes a transition and protection element encapsulating the guiding and holding part, the connection parts and the adjoining regions of the microcables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: SORIN CRM SAS
    Inventor: Willy Régnier
  • Publication number: 20160271405
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for providing neuromodulation are provided. One such system can include an implantable pulse generator. The implantable pulse generator can include a circuit board having a microcontroller that generates signals that are input into an ASIC. The ASIC serves as pulse generator that allows electrical pulses to be outputted into leads. The implantable pulse generator is capable of receiving and/or generating signals either via a wireless communication (e.g., a wireless remote control), a touching force (e.g., pressure from a finger), a motion sensor or any combination of the above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Raghavendra Angara, Miles Curtis, Christopher Biele, Saif Khalil, Jason Highsmith
  • Publication number: 20160271406
    Abstract: Methods and devices for testing and configuring implantable medical device systems. A first medical device and a second medical device communicate with one another using test signals configured to provide data related to the quality of the communication signal to facilitate optimization of the communication approach. Some methods may be performed during surgery to implant one of the medical devices to ensure adequate communication availability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: CARDIAC PACEMAKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Keith R. Maile, Brendan E. Koop, Brian L. Schmidt, Michael J. Kane, Jacob M. Ludwig, Jeffrey E. Stahmann, Lance E. Juffer
  • Publication number: 20160271407
    Abstract: A system and method to deliver a therapeutic quantity of energy to a patient. The system includes a capacitor having a rated energy storage capacity substantially equal to the therapeutic quantity of energy, a boost converter coupled with the capacitor and constructed to release energy from the capacitor at a substantially constant current for a time interval, and an H-bridge circuit coupled with the boost converter and constructed to apply the substantially constant current in a biphasic voltage waveform to the patient. The method includes storing a quantity of energy substantially equal to the therapeutic quantity of energy in a capacitor, releasing the quantity of energy at a relatively constant current during a time interval using a boost converter coupled with the capacitor, and delivering a portion of the quantity energy in a direction to the patient using an H-bridge circuit coupled with the boost converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: James G. Radzelovage
  • Publication number: 20160271408
    Abstract: A portable defibrillator and related methods thereof are provided. The portable defibrillator has a housing having a first housing piece separable from a second housing piece, wherein each of the first and second housing pieces has an electrode, wherein the housing has a special volume of less than about 26 inches (66 cm3), a linear three dimension sum of less than 14 inches (35.5 cm). A wire is connected between the first and second housing pieces. A battery and a capacitor are positioned within at least one of the first and second housing pieces. A controller controls release of a voltage from the battery to at least one of the electrodes of the first and second housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Carter Newton, Norman P. Soloway
  • Publication number: 20160271409
    Abstract: A medical device includes a display area that has a thin panel having a substantially flat front surface portion, a translucent layer on a back surface of the thin panel, a layer of text or graphics on a back surface of the translucent layer, and arranged so that the text or graphics is not visible to a user on the front side when light is not provided from inside the device housing, a switch to allow a user to select a first mode or a second mode for the device, and circuitry arranged to energize one or more light sources to provide light from behind the thin panel when the device is in the first mode, and to thereby make visible the text or graphics when the device is in the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ziad F. Elghazzawi, John Kubat, Fredrick Faller, Jing Pan, Peter A. Lund
  • Publication number: 20160271410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a treatment apparatus using high frequency waves, and to a method for controlling same. The treatment apparatus using high frequency waves comprises: a high frequency wave generating unit; a plurality of needles for providing, into the skin of a user, high frequency energy transferred from the high frequency wave generating unit; and a driving unit for inserting the plurality of needles into the skin of the user, wherein the apparatus further comprises a control unit for controlling the driving unit such that the plurality of needles are inserted into a first target point within the skin and then move to a second target point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Kwang Chon Ko
  • Publication number: 20160271411
    Abstract: A system including a cold plasma pressure treatment system including a pump configured to produce negative pressure at a first cold plasma treatment region, and a controller configured to control negative pressure at the first cold plasma treatment region with the pump and an electrical signal that forms cold plasma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Robert M. Hummel, David J. Jacofsky, Marc C. Jacofsky, Jeffrey I. Meyers, Steven A. Myers
  • Publication number: 20160271412
    Abstract: A system including a cold plasma treatment system, including a controller configured to produce an electrical signal that generates cold plasma, a cold plasma applicator coupled to the controller, including a roller with at least one cold plasma generating region and at least one massage region, wherein the cold plasma applicator is configured to provide a cold plasma treatment and a massage treatment with the at least one cold plasma generating region and a massage treatment with the at least one massage region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Robert M. Hummel, Marc C. Jacofsky, Steven A. Myers
  • Publication number: 20160271413
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for managing pain uses separate varying electromagnetic fields, with a variety of temporal and amplitude characteristics, which are applied to a particular neural structure to modulate glial and neuronal interactions as a mechanism for relieving chronic pain. In another embodiment, a single composite modulation/stimulation signal which has rhythmically varying characteristics is used to achieve the same results as separate varying electromagnetic fields. Also, disclosed is an apparatus and method for modulating the expression of genes involved in diverse pathways including inflammatory/immune system mediators, ion channels and neurotransmitters, in both the Spinal Cord (SC) and Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) where such expression modulation is caused by spinal cord stimulation or peripheral nerve stimulation using the disclosed apparatus and techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ricardo Vallejo, David Leonardo Cedeno, Ramsin M. Benyamin
  • Publication number: 20160271414
    Abstract: An apparatus for treatment of fungal infections and/or other foot skin disorders, comprises a shoe-type housing having a substantially hollow interior forming a treatment chamber, a supporting platform disposed within the hollow chamber; so that a foot of a patient positioned within the treatment chamber is supported by the platform, so that nails are disposed at the lower level of the front part of the chamber, whereas the heel of the foot is being elevated a rear part thereof. A delivery and control assembly for the aqueous solution is provided. At least one light delivery arrangement is disposed within or in the vicinity of the treatment chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Pavel V. Efremkin
  • Publication number: 20160271415
    Abstract: Disclosed is herein a teeth whitening apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Sang Ki Min
  • Publication number: 20160271416
    Abstract: A sleep mask includes a flexible eye cover configured to be worn by a pregnant female and configured to cover and shield the eyes of the wearer from ambient light. A source of light is carried by the flexible eye cover and positioned to emit light onto the eyelids of the wearer when asleep and penetrate the eyelids when closed. A processor is connected to the source of light and configured to activate the light in a manner to decrease endogenous melatonin levels and aid in regulating uterine contractions in the pregnant female.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: James OLCESE
  • Publication number: 20160271417
    Abstract: A device treats carbon monoxide poisoning and includes a light emitter that emits light having a wavelength of 600 to 750 nm. A catheter includes a catheter body that has a distal end portion formed of a light-transmissive material and that includes a plurality of lumens; a light emitter that emits light having a wavelength of 600 to 750 nm to allow the light to exit through a first lumen from the distal end portion of the catheter body; a balloon that is disposed around a circumferential surface of the distal end portion, that is in communication with a second lumen, and that guides the distal end portion to downstream blood flow in an inflated state; and a pressure sensor that is disposed at the distal end of the distal end portion and that is connected to a cable inserted through a third lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Takeshi Kashimura, Yasuhiko Taira, Masatsugu Niwayama
  • Publication number: 20160271418
    Abstract: A device for therapeutic irradiation with light of a portion of a person's skin located on the posterior between the lumbus and the popliteal fossa during the use of a toilet, may comprise: a light source; a controller electrically coupled to the light source, the controller being configured to control the intensity and duration of light emitted from the light source during a therapeutic session; one or more sensors comprising a first sensor coupled to the controller for detecting a person seated on the toilet; and a power source electrically coupled to the light source and the controller; wherein the controller is further configured to turn on, and keep turned on for the duration of the therapeutic session, the light source when the first sensor detects the person seated on the toilet, and wherein the light source is configured to illuminate the portion of the person's skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Philip Ferolito
  • Publication number: 20160271419
    Abstract: The invention provides a non-invasive skin treatment device (200) for generating a multiphoton ionization process at a target position (110) in skin tissue (102). The skin treatment device (200) comprises a laser source (105) configured and constructed for generating a laser beam (106), an optical system (109, 112) for focusing the laser beam into the target position below a skin surface (103), and a plasma unit (117) configured and constructed for generating a plasma (100) such that, in use, at least a portion of the plasma penetrates the skin tissue for generating at least one free electron at the target position. The skin treatment device further comprises a control unit (123) configured and constructed for controlling the laser source and the plasma unit such that, in use, at least a portion of the light of the laser beam is absorbed by said at least one free electron generated at the target position, thereby generating the multiphoton ionization process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: BABU VARGHESE, RIEKO VERHAGEN, MARTIN JURNA, JONATHAN ALAMBRA PALERO, MARGARET RUTH HORTON, VALENTIA BONITO
  • Publication number: 20160271420
    Abstract: A laser therapy apparatus includes a cap body shell, a printed circuit board, a power supply, and a plurality of light sources electrically coupled to the printed circuit board and powered by the power supply. The plurality of light sources includes at least one laser diode. The printed circuit board includes a plurality of cuts, each cut including at least two sides. The printed circuit board is also bent into a dome shape. A laser therapy apparatus may also include at least two photodiode proximity sensors configured such that the plurality of light sources will only light if both photodiode proximity sensors are within a predetermined distance of a scalp to be treated, and the plurality of light sources will turn off if either of the at least two photodiode proximity sensors is moved more than a predetermined distance away from the scalp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: CAPILLUS LLC
    Inventor: Carlos PINA
  • Publication number: 20160271421
    Abstract: The present invention provides a kit for immobilization of a patient body part for radiotherapy applications. The kit includes two moldable thermoplastic sheets, a lower sheet for covering the anatomical contours of a first area of the body part and an upper sheet for covering the anatomical contours of a second area of the body part which is not covered by the lower sheet. The upper and lower sheets form a double shell mask enclosing the body part. The sheets may be connected and retained by a fixation device. The sheets have different physical and visual properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Reginald Nieberding
  • Publication number: 20160271422
    Abstract: Method for irradiation planning of a target volume with a scanned particle beam, comprising the following steps: defining a target volume located in a body, subdividing the target volume into a plurality of individually approachable target points, defining a number of temporally consecutive irradiation sub-plans, dividing the target points of the target volume among the irradiation sub-plans in subsets, wherein the subsets are distributed over the entire target volume, and wherein mutually adjacent target points of the target volume are each assigned to different irradiation sub-plans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Alexander Gemmel, Christoph Bert
  • Publication number: 20160271423
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for a radiation irradiation device including a position-related information acquisition portion that acquires position-related information related to a position of a particular site; a model generation portion that generates a model outputting the position of the particular site based on the position-related information; and a particular site position calculation portion that outputs the position of the particular site based on the position-related information acquired by the position-related information acquisition portion, by using the model generated by the model generation portion. The model generated by the model generation portion is provided with a filter regulating an amount of change in the position of the particular site output by the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kunio TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160271424
    Abstract: The invention comprises a system for determining the state of a charged particle beam, such as beam position, intensity, and/or energy. For example, the charged particle beam state is determined at or about a patient undergoing charged particle cancer therapy using one or more film layers designed to emit photons upon passage of a charged particle beam, which yields information on position and/or intensity of the charged particle beam. The emitted photons are used to calculate position of the treatment beam in imaging and/or during tumor treatment. Optionally and preferably, updating a tomography map uses the same hardware with the same alignment used for cancer therapy at proximately the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: W. Davis Lee, Stephen L. Spotts, Susan L. Michaud
  • Publication number: 20160271425
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for quality assurance for verification of radiation dose delivery in arc-based radiation therapy devices using a 3D gamma evaluation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Lasse Heikki TOIMELA, Janne NORD
  • Publication number: 20160271426
    Abstract: Ultrasound technology, which is used to break apart kidney stones, might also be used to break up stomach blockages rather than a colonoscopy in some cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Michael Lewis Moravitz
  • Publication number: 20160271427
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for acoustic nerve stimulation. In one aspect, a system for acoustic nerve stimulation is disclosed. The system comprises an ultrasonic phased array chip device deployable into a living organism, the ultrasonic phased array chip device including a substrate and an acoustic signaling module on the substrate that includes an array of acoustic transducer elements operable to generate ultrasonic beams based on electronic control signals, capable to propagate the ultrasonic beams through biological nervous tissue to affect nervous signal firing; and a transmitter device wearable on an exterior of the living organism, wirelessly couplable with the ultrasonic phased array chip device to transmit the electronic control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Amit Lal
  • Publication number: 20160271428
    Abstract: A blower filter respirator system (1) has a filter element (3) for filtering ambient air (33), a blower unit (30) and a face part (7) with a tube element (9)—face part/tube combination (79)—for feeding an amount of breathing air (37) to a user (100). A pressure sensor (8) is on an outlet side (35) of the blower unit (30) measuring breathing air pressure values (81) by detecting a pressure difference on the outlet side (35) of the blower unit (30) against the ambient air (33). A control unit (5) is configured to operate the blower unit (30) and control breathing air (37) and is configured to determine a desired pressure value (83) for current operation with the face part/tube combination (79) from operation-related properties (530) of the blower unit (30) and specific properties of the face part/tube combination (79) and for comparing with the current pressure value (81).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Björn EHLER, Achim VOLMER, Martin SCHULZE
  • Publication number: 20160271429
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a breathing apparatus whose a breath monitoring apparatus does not comprise an inhale valve or an exhale valve and whose number of elements is less than that of the conventional breathing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Yuki HANAOKA, Kenichi ONO, Hiroyuki IDE
  • Publication number: 20160271430
    Abstract: An adjustable fall arrest system is disclosed, where the system employs a four-bar linkage and cantilevered beam arrangement to provide the fall arrest support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Gorbel, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Baughman, Keith Buddendeck, James G. Stockmaster, Dean C. Wright, Alexander Z. Chernyak, Brian G. Peets, Benjamin A. Strohman, Blake Reese
  • Publication number: 20160271431
    Abstract: There is provided a safety device for aircraft, that prevents an explosion of a fuel tank storing aviation fuel, the safety device including: a flame arrester that is arranged near an end of a ventilation passage on an aircraft outer side, as a part of the ventilation passage allowing the inside of the fuel tank and an outside of the aircraft to communicate with each other, to prevent a flame propagation into the fuel tank from the outside of the aircraft through the ventilation passage; and a heat transfer reducing part that is arranged closer to the outside of the aircraft than the flame arrester to prevent heat transfer to the fuel in the fuel tank from the flame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Yuta Takahashi, Shingo Kawano, Tsutomu Kawamizu, Atsushi Fujii, Shimpei Todaka, Ushio Komoda, Toshiyuki Umemoto
  • Publication number: 20160271432
    Abstract: A fire sprinkler head (12) has a valve (42) with an X-brace latch (54), and includes a flexible conduit (14). A sprinkler nozzle (16) is secured to a first end of the flexible conduit (14). The sprinkler nozzle (16) includes a first fitting (28), a sprinkler orifice (20) and fusible element (22). A second fitting (40) is secured to the second end of the flexible conduit (14) and includes the valve (42). The valve (42) has a valve element (44) which is moveable from a latched position to an unlatched position. A flexible link (56) extends from the sprinkler nozzle (16) to the X-brace valve latch (54). Breaking of the fusible element (22) releases the flexible link (56) to move from the latched position to the unlatched position, releasing the valve (42) for flow there-through.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Buddy Clayton Shipman
  • Publication number: 20160271433
    Abstract: A firefighting monitor system includes a monitor, a controller selectively generating signals to the monitor for controlling the monitor, and a computer. The computer is configured to receive input from a user relative to the monitor or the controller. The computer generates an output based on the input, and the output is transmitted to the controller for controlling the monitor or the controller in accordance with the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Todd B. Lozier, James M. Trapp, Lee R. Jones, Eric N. Combs
  • Publication number: 20160271434
    Abstract: A system for detecting and extinguishing fires occurring within a predetermined observation area in response to commands received from a monitoring center. The system includes a source of fire retardant liquid and a monitor for selectively directing liquid to the observation area. A valve is disposed in fluid communication between the source and the monitor and is selectively movable between a closed position wherein liquid is prevented from flowing through the valve, and an open position wherein liquid can flow through the valve. An infrared camera generates a signal in response to temperature changes occurring in the observation area. A network switch is provided for communicating with the monitoring center. A control unit in communication with the valve, the camera, and the network switch relays the signal to the monitoring center and moves the valve between the positions in response to commands received from the monitoring center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Jeremy Douglas Dusing, Bradley Steven Gladstone