Patents Issued in October 25, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180304072
    Abstract: A percutaneous, multi-pronged lead includes a lead body having a multi-pronged distal end portion. At least one of the prongs has an electrode connected thereto. Each of the prongs is configured to transition from a stored configuration into a deployed configuration such that the prongs at least partially wrap around a target tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Ali REZAI, Milind DEOGAONKAR
  • Publication number: 20180304073
    Abstract: A medical lead is configured to be implanted into a patient's body and comprises a lead body, and an electrode coupled to the lead body. The electrode comprises a first section configured to contact the patient's body, and a second section capacitively coupled to the first section and configured to be electrically coupled to the patient's body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: James M. Olsen, Gregory A. Hrdlicka, Carl D. Wahlstrand, Thomas Barry Hoegh
  • Publication number: 20180304074
    Abstract: In an exercise instrument controller, a type determination unit specifies, from among a plurality of types, the type of exercise for which an exercise instrument is used. An association determination unit specifies association between a body part that is exercised and the exercise instrument based on the type that has been specified. A setting processing unit sets an operation detail of the exercise instrument based on user's manipulation. An instrument control unit controls, by transmitting information indicating an operation detail for each exercise instrument based on the association between the body part and the exercise instrument that has been specified and the operation detail that has been set, exercise by the exercise instrument. A display control unit controls a screen display regarding the association between the body part and the exercise instrument, the operation detail, and an exercising status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20180304075
    Abstract: Example systems for positioning an implantable electrode may include a stimulation circuitry, a sensing circuitry, and processing circuitry. The stimulation circuitry may generate electrical stimulation deliverable to a patient. The sensing circuitry may sense electromyographic (EMG) responses. The processing circuitry may control the stimulation circuitry to deliver the electrical stimulation at a plurality of different stimulation metric levels at each of a plurality of different positions. The processing circuitry may sense, via the sensing circuitry, electromyographic (EMG) responses to the electrical stimulation. The processing circuitry may score one or more of the different positions for chronic implantation of at least one implantable electrode. The scoring may be based on a stimulation metric level greater than a predetermined metric threshold sufficient to evoke at least some of the sensed EMG responses, and a level of the at least some of the sensed EMG responses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Xin Su, David A. Dinsmoor, Jason E. Agran
  • Publication number: 20180304076
    Abstract: Presented herein are implantable medical devices, such as tissue-stimulating prostheses, that are configured to deliver simultaneous stimulation to a recipient. In one embodiment, a tissue stimulating prosthesis comprises a plurality of current sources, a plurality of electrodes (e.g., a linear array of electrodes), and a hardwired electrical network of switches, sometimes referred to herein as a “sparse switch network.” The sparse switch network is configured to connect each of the current sources to more than one of the electrodes, and to connect each of the electrodes to only a subset of the current sources. The sparse switch network is configured to prevent adjacent electrodes from being connected to the same current source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Torsten Lehmann, Tony Mikael Nygard
  • Publication number: 20180304077
    Abstract: A cochlear implant device comprises a receiver, a processing device, a first electrode and a second electrode. The receiver is configured to receive outside voice signal. The processing device is coupled to the receiver, configured to receive and transfer the voice signal to an electrical stimulation signal. The first electrode connects to the processing device, disposed on stapes footplate ligament or oval window. The second electrode connects to the processing device, disposed on round window. Wherein the electrical stimulation signal is applied to stapes footplate ligament, oval window or round window to stimulate acoustic nerve through the first electrode or the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Chia-Fone Lee, Yuan-Fang Chou, Chung-Yu Wu, Ming-Dou Ker, Chung-Chih Hung, Xin-Hong Qian
  • Publication number: 20180304078
    Abstract: A cochlear including a cochlear lead, a housing including a magnet pocket and a magnet aperture, a magnet, located within the magnet pocket, having a top surface adjacent to the magnet aperture that defines a top magnet outer perimeter and a bottom surface adjacent to the bottom wall that defines a bottom magnet outer perimeter that is greater than the top magnet outer perimeter, an antenna within the housing, a stimulation processor within the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Scott A. CRAWFORD, James George Elcoate SMITH
  • Publication number: 20180304079
    Abstract: A device for treating disorders of a secreting gland in an eyelid includes an eyeball protection cap for covering an eyeball of a patient to protect the eyeball; and a support body for fixing the eyeball protection cap and enabling an eyelid of the patient to be located between the eyeball protection cap and the support body in order to support the eyelid in a state of being in contact with the eyelid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Young Han KIM, Dong Hun MOON, Myoung Joon KIM
  • Publication number: 20180304080
    Abstract: An implantable neurostimulator-implemented method for managing tachyarrhythmias upon a patient's awakening from sleep through vagus nerve stimulation is provided. An implantable neurostimulator, including a pulse generator, is configured to deliver electrical therapeutic stimulation in a manner that results in creation and propagation (in both afferent and efferent directions) of action potentials within neuronal fibers comprising the cervical vagus nerve of a patient. Operating modes of the pulse generator are stored. An enhanced dose of the electrical therapeutic stimulation is parametrically defined and tuned to prevent initiation of or disrupt tachyarrhythmia upon the patient's awakening from a sleep state through at least one of continuously-cycling, intermittent and periodic ON-OFF cycles of electrical pulses. Other operating modes, including a maintenance dose and a restorative dose are defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: CYBERONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Imad Libbus, Badri Amurthur, Bruce H. KenKnight
  • Publication number: 20180304081
    Abstract: An antenna assembly includes a metal layer configured to emit linearly polarized electromagnetic energy to a receiving antenna implanted underneath a subject's skin; and a feed port configured to connect the antenna assembly to a signal generator such that the antenna assembly receives an input signal from the signal generator and then transmits the input signal to the receiving dipole antenna, wherein the antenna assembly is less than 200 um in thickness, and wherein the metal layer is operable as a dipole antenna with a reflection ratio of at least 6 dB, the reflection ratio corresponding to a ratio of a transmission power of the antenna assembly in transmitting the input signal and a reflection power seen by the antenna assembly resulting from electromagnetic emission of the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Chad David Andresen, Richard LeBaron, Laura Tyler Perryman
  • Publication number: 20180304082
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a method and system or controlling symptoms of patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease. In some examples, one or more biomarkers indicative of a patient's present symptoms are determined. The biomarkers may be used to control therapy delivered to the patient in a closed-loop manner. In addition, biomarkers may be used as an indication of therapy effectiveness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Pedram Afshar, Timothy J. Denison, David E. Linde, Scott R. Stanslaski
  • Publication number: 20180304083
    Abstract: The method and system described herein relate to stimulating nerve tissue using a pulse generator. A stimulus is created that comprises a signal that is produced from a frequency spectrum having a power spectral density per unit of bandwidth proportional to 1/f?, wherein ? is excludes 0. The stimulus is provided from the pulse generator to at least one stimulation lead; and applied to nerve tissue via one or several electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Dirk De Ridder
  • Publication number: 20180304084
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed filtered feedthrough assembly attachable to an AIMD includes an insulator hermetically sealing a ferrule opening of an electrically conductive ferrule with a gold braze. A co-fired and electrically conductive sintered paste is disposed within and hermetically seals at least one via hole extending in the insulator. At least one capacitor is disposed on the device side. An active electrical connection electrically connects a capacitor active metallization and the sintered paste. A ground electrical connection electrically connects the gold braze to a capacitor ground metallization, wherein at least a portion of the ground electrical connection physically contacts the gold braze. The dielectric of the capacitor may be less than 1000 k. The ferrule may include an integrally formed peninsula portion extending into the ferrule opening spatially aligned with a ground passageway and metallization of an internally grounded feedthrough capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Robert A. Stevenson, Christine A. Frysz, Keith W. Seitz, Thomas Marzano, Marc Gregory Martino
  • Publication number: 20180304085
    Abstract: At least one of a first medical device and a second medical device may be implanted within a patient while the second medical device may optionally be proximate but external to the patient. At least one of the medical devices has an antenna having at least two electrodes and at least one of the medical devices has an antenna having at least three electrodes. The medical devices can communicate via conducted communication through the patient's tissue between a first pair of electrodes and a second pair of electrodes. At least one of the pairs of electrodes can be selected in accordance with the signal strength of the communication vector between the first and second pairs of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey E. Stahmann, William J. Linder, Keith R. Maile
  • Publication number: 20180304086
    Abstract: Techniques provided herein are directed toward providing a robust downlink communication frame that enables medical implants with highly inaccurate LOs to reliably provide uplink communications to an interrogator device. The downlink communication frame can include, among other things, a plurality of uplink trigger subframes that enable timing of uplink communication of the various medical implants with which the interrogator device is communicating. These uplink trigger subframes may be modulated in a special manner as to distinguish them from other subframes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Osvaldo Alcala, Linhai He
  • Publication number: 20180304087
    Abstract: A system may include a processor configured to automatically obtain magnetic resonance imaging compatibility information relating to compatibility of an active implantable medical device implantable in a patient with an MRI modality from at least two information sources. The processor may also be configured to automatically determine compatibility of the active implantable medical device with the magnetic resonance imaging modality based on the magnetic resonance imaging compatibility information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hrishikesh Gadagkar, James Zimmerman, James M. Olsen, Robyn L. Jagler, Timothy R. Abraham, Jeffrey R. Dixon
  • Publication number: 20180304088
    Abstract: This document presents a system for managing treatment for an emergency cardiac event. The system includes memory, one or more electronic ports for receiving ECG signals, and a treatment module executable on one or more processing devices. The module is configured to generate transform values for a time segment of ECG, obtain one or more previous values derived from one or more earlier time segments of the ECG, and determine, based on the generated transform values, and the one or more previous values, at least one of: a) a future therapeutic action for treating the emergency cardiac event, or b) a phase of the cardiac event. The module is further configured to cause one or more output devices to present an indication of at least one of the therapeutic action or the phase of the cardiac event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Weilun Quan, Christopher Luke Kaufman, Gary A. Freeman
  • Publication number: 20180304089
    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: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Kwang Chon Ko
  • Publication number: 20180304090
    Abstract: A photoelectric resonance chip includes, a chip main body, signal receiver having a first coil, encoding device, signal generator having a second coil; and at least one light wave generating element and at least one electric wave generating element. When a user carries the chip main body on their body, the first coil converts the type of external microwave from energy wave to current, the signal receiver receives the signals and transmits them to the encoding device, the encoding device increases the frequencies of the signals by means modulation to enlarge the power thereof and transmits them to the signal generator, the second coil converts the type of the signal from current to energy wave, the signal generator feeds the enlarged microwave back to the user's body, and the microwave fed back to the body carries light wave energy and electric wave energy to flow around the whole body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: JIN-SHENG TSENG, JING-WEN LIAO, SHU-HUA SHIAO
  • Publication number: 20180304091
    Abstract: A method of treating an ischemic event in tissue of a subject in need thereof, includes applying light to a tissue susceptible to ischemic reperfusion injury, the light having a wavelength selected from two wavelength ranges selected from 730-770 nm, 850-890 nm, 880-920 nm, and 930-970 nm, thereby to reduce ischemic reperfusion injury in the tissue of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Maik Huttemann, Thomas Sanderson, John Kamholz, Kwaku Nantwi, Karin Przyklenk, Icksoo Lee, Lawrence Grossman
  • Publication number: 20180304092
    Abstract: Intraoral phototherapy devices receive light from an associated light source and propagate the light into an oral cavity of a patient. The device comprises a light guide that receives light from an external light source. The light guide comprises a main body portion made of an optically transparent soft flexible biocompatible polymeric material sized and shaped to conform to contours of the oral cavity when inserted therein to direct the light to targeted regions of the oral cavity. The main body portion comprises a pair of spaced apart side wings sized and shaped to be received between a patient's teeth and cheeks on opposite sides of the oral cavity and a center flap intermediate the side wings for transmitting and directing the light to targeted regions of the oral cavity. A controller delivers light to the light guide in a controlled manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Vedang KOTHARI, Peter BROER
  • Publication number: 20180304093
    Abstract: The present invention detects a lesion site using an ultrasonic probe and irradiates a laser on the detected lesion site to treat the lesion site, thereby having advantages of saving operation time, focusing a laser only on an exact lesion site so as to be treated, reducing an error with respect to the lesion site because even if an irradiation angle of the laser irradiated from a first irradiation part is changed, a target point reached by the laser remains the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Moonho SON
  • Publication number: 20180304094
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for administering low-level light therapy (LLLT). The systems, devices, and methods aim to accelerate wound healing and reduce the incidence of infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Adam Hicks, Brandon Fross, John Mendoza, Laurel Piper, Siegfried Schlunk, Eliza Stedman, Ahbid Zein-Sabatto
  • Publication number: 20180304095
    Abstract: An optical neurostimulation and detection system and method are disclosed. The system includes a medical device including an implantable body, and a stimulation controller that connects to the medical lead device and provides a light source. One or more light emitter modules of the lead body couple light signals of the light source into modulated light signals, and the modulated light signals are emitted through the one or more light emitter modules to stimulate neural cells and/or neural tissue of a subject. In a preferred embodiment, the light emitter modules include a surface acoustic wave (SAW) transducer that couples the light source into the modulated light signals. Such a system provides emitted light incident upon the neural tissue of a much higher resolution than current systems and methods and can provide long-term implantation with fewer side effects and less tissue damage than current systems and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Joseph J. Register, Carlos A. Segura, Gregg E. Favalora
  • Publication number: 20180304096
    Abstract: An infrared sudation device includes a support element (1) extending along a longitudinal axis (X) and a cover element (2a, 2b) of semicylindrical shape mounted on the support element (1) so as to delimit an internal volume extending in the longitudinal direction between the support element and the internal surface of the cover element. The internal surface of the cover element is covered at least in part with a heating layer (3a, 3b) able to emit far-infrared radiation in at least part of the internal volume. The infrared sudation device includes a housing of photocatalyst (4), permeable to the infrared radiation emitted, supporting a photocatalyst (5) and arranged in proximity to the internal face of the heating layer (3a, 3b) so as to allow the photocatalyst to be activated using the energy supplied by the infrared radiation emitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Shogoro UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20180304097
    Abstract: Radiation therapy treatment planning methods facilitate predicting achievable dose distributions by training a prediction model for clinical DVH curves based on simplified DVH curves obtained using standardized methods. Machine learning applied on pairs of clinical and simplified DVH curves enables predicting actual clinical DVH curves based on simplified DVH curves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: RaySearch Laboratories AB
    Inventor: Rasmus BOKRANTZ
  • Publication number: 20180304098
    Abstract: A radiation system includes a radiation source providing therapeutic radiation, a first gantry supporting a second gantry carrying the radiation source. The first gantry is rotatable about a first axis passing through an isocenter, thereby allowing the radiation source to aim therapeutic radiation at a target volume from a plurality of locations in a first plane. The second gantry carrying the radiation source is rotatable about a second axis passing through the isocenter non-parallel with the first axis, thereby allowing the radiation source to aim therapeutic radiation at the target volume from a plurality of locations in a second plane non-coplanar with the first plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: David Humber, Josh Star-Lack, Stanley Mansfield, Ross Hannibal
  • Publication number: 20180304099
    Abstract: Systems and methods directed to adaptive radiotherapy planning are provided. In some aspects, provided system and method include producing synthetic images from magnetic resonance data using relaxometry maps. The method includes applying corrections to the data and generating relaxometry maps therefrom. In other aspects, a method for adapting a radiotherapy plan is provided. The method includes determining an objective function based on dose gradients from an initial dose distribution, and generating an optimized plan based on updated images, using aperture morphing and gradient maintenance algorithms without need for organ-at-risk contouring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: X. Allen Li, Eric S. Paulson, Ergun Ahunbay, Cun-geng Yang, Vern Hart
  • Publication number: 20180304100
    Abstract: A method includes generating a hyperthermia heat plan for tissue of interest, generating a hyperthermia adapted radiation therapy plan for the tissue of interest, controlling a heat source (126) to deliver heat to the tissue of interest according to the hyperthermia heat plan, and controlling a radiation source of a radiation therapy system (100) to deliver radiation to the tissue of interest according to the hyperthermia adapted radiation therapy plan. A system includes a radiation treatment planner (124) configured to generate a hyperthermia adapted radiation therapy plan for the tissue of interest, a radiation therapy system (100) configured to deliver radiation in accordance with the hyperthermia adapted radiation therapy plan, and a hyperthermia heat delivery system (126) configured to deliver heat in accordance with a hyperthermia plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Shyam BHARAT, Ajay ANAND, Robert Michael STARUCH, Shriram SETHURAMAN, Vijay PARTHASARATHY, Ehsan DEHGHAN MARVAST
  • Publication number: 20180304101
    Abstract: An ultrasound stimulation helmet (100) configured to regulate an endogenous neurotrophic factor in a brain or expression of proteins related to a neurodegenerative disease comprises: a main body (1) having a forehead perimeter adjustment knob (12), a back head perimeter adjustment knob (13), a fastening support frame (14), and multiple position adjustment knobs (15); and multiple ultrasound probes (2) detachably mounted on the main body (1), wherein the ultrasound probe (2) has a frequency adjustment button and an intensity adjustment button to respectively control an output frequency and output intensity of the ultrasound probe (2), and other ultrasound parameters and an angle of the ultrasound probe (2) itself are adjustable as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Feng-Yi Yang
  • Publication number: 20180304102
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for evaluating the whitening effect of oral care composition on a stained egg comprising staining an eggshell, applying the oral care composition to a portion of the stained eggshell to obtain a treated eggshell area, calculating a ?E value for the difference in color of the treated eggshell area compared to untreated stained eggshell when calculated in L*a*b color space, wherein the oral care composition comprises at least one high cleaning silica for stain removal. Further disclosed herein are methods for demonstrating the whitening effect of an oral care composition on a stained egg comprising showing an egg that has been stained to at least one consumer and brushing an oral care composition comprising at least one high cleaning silica for stain removal on a portion of the stained eggshell to obtain a treated eggshell area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Yan Gao, Zhaoyu Wen, Guangxin Lin, Yun Xu, Zhiping Zhong
  • Publication number: 20180304103
    Abstract: A user insertion system, that includes (a) a belay tether connectable to a support and configurable for descending a user; (b) an attachment device installable onto the support between the support and the belay tether; (c) a user braking device connectable between the belay tether and the user; and (d) a tip resistant system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Cory Alan Cooper, Darren Craig Tidwell, Garrett Fritzsche, Christopher Yooshin Jang, Brock M. Flieger, Alan James Vaillencourt, JR., Miranda Leigh Bray, Shane Michael Riley, Nathanael Jordan Szuch, Philip T. Strunk
  • Publication number: 20180304104
    Abstract: A descender device for manually raising and lowering an object or person on a rope has a housing (which has opposing first and second ends and opposing side walls), an attachment means (provided at the first end of the housing and configured for attachment to an anchor point or to the object or person to be raised or lowered), rope entry and exit ports (at the second end of the housing), a drive pulley (around which the rope may be engaged), a centrifugal brake (configured to limit the speed of rotation of the drive pulley), a gear assembly, a wheel (arranged to be gripped by a user of the device), and a rope retaining means provided on an outside of the housing. The wheel is connected to the gear assembly. The rope retaining means comprises a projection and at least one groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: CHECKMATE LIFTING & SAFETY LTD
    Inventors: Oliver AUSTON, Christopher Joseph STOCKBRIDGE
  • Publication number: 20180304105
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hinged, two-wheeled device for improving the safety of an individual or object descending along a rope from an elevated position. The device includes a two-piece hinged framed held open by a torsion spring. Each part of the frame contains a wheel with a cut out/channel with a knurled surface to increase the friction between the rope and the device and to prevent the device from disengaging during use. The rope is placed between the two wheels and the handle is pulled down, clamping the device around the rope. The two wheels are connected to viscous rotary dampers that slow the speed of the wheels during descent, preventing the user/object from accelerating in a free-fall and controlling the descent rate to a relatively constant, safer speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: AUBURN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jake MacKay, BRENT GILBERT, LOGAN BROST, RICHARD GILLILAND, MARK MORGAN PELT, CALEB CLEMONS, ZACHARY MARTIN, WESLEY S. HUNKO
  • Publication number: 20180304106
    Abstract: A personal protection suit has a selectively sealable hood (1) for protection against CBRN threats. In one series of embodiments, the hood (1) is separable from a jacket body (5) by a releasable attachment means (11), and has a mask hood seal (2) for sealing with a mask. In one series of embodiments the hood (1A) has a deployable face mask (60) stored within the hood (1A). The hood (1) can be removed without breaking the seal between the mask and mask hood seal (2) to minimise contamination during donning and doffing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: DEVOL KITCHENS LTD
    Inventors: Paul O'Leary, Robin McLellan
  • Publication number: 20180304107
    Abstract: A protective system for aircraft pilot comprises a breathing mask, an eye protection and a safety device. The breathing mask is designed to supply the pilot with a respiratory gas and the breathing mask comprises an oxygen supply duct intended to be connected to an aircraft cockpit. The eye protection comprises a screen intended to extend between the pilot's eyes and an external space. The safety device comprises a display device and a support. The display device is able to display, notably in front of a pilot's eye, information intended to assist in the piloting of the aircraft. The support carries the display device so as to keep the display of information in front of the pilot's eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Zodiac Aerotechnics
    Inventors: Pierre Juran, Matthieu Fromage, Frédéric Duranton, Jérémy Jacotey
  • Publication number: 20180304108
    Abstract: A system for filtering breathing air and an apparatus for accomplishing the same. The invention describes a nasal filtration system that can be inserted into the nasal passages. The filters include cavities through which air is inhaled or exhaled. The filter performs as a mechanical filter to catch and prevent the inhalation of undesirable particulate. Further, the filter comprises a disinfectant agent, such as colloidal silver, which kills germs, bacteria, and viruses to prevent the spreading of disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Arch Holdings, LP
    Inventor: James Robert Curtis
  • Publication number: 20180304109
    Abstract: A sprinkler (1), includes a sprinkler housing, a fluid channel which is provided in the sprinkler housing and has a fluid inlet (10) and at least one fluid outlet (8), a closure element (4), which is movable from a blocking position into a release position, wherein the closure element (4) closes the fluid channel in the blocking position and releases same in the release position, a thermally activatable triggering element (25), which keeps the closure element (4) in the blocking position until thermally activated, and a sealing element (5), which is arranged between the sprinkler housing and the closure element (4) and is designed to close the fluid channel in a fluid-tight manner in the blocking position. A sealing element (5) is radially and axially compressed in the blocking position in order to apply the sealing effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan SCHNELL, Frank ROENNFELDT
  • Publication number: 20180304110
    Abstract: A sprinkler assembly (10) having a receiving member (12), a fluid tight seal (44) and a sprinkler frame (14). The receiving member includes an inner surface (22) defining an internal passageway and a central axis (A-A) of the assembly. The frame of the sprinkler includes an internal surface (38) that defines a fluid passage. The sprinkler assembly includes cooperating positioning elements (28, 40) which engage and couple the sprinkler frame to the receiving member for at least one of an axial and rotational adjustment between the frame and receiving member. The engaged positioning elements facilitate formation or location of the fluid tight seal between the sprinkler frame and receiving member, the seal being spaced from the engaged positioning elements. In one aspect of the assembly, the sprinkler frame and receiving member are made of plastic material (e.g. CPVC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Tyco Fire Products LP
    Inventors: Bernhard Abels, Manuel R. Silva, JR., Mathew R. Ancone
  • Publication number: 20180304111
    Abstract: A sprinkler head employing balls for a heat-sensitive disassembling unit is provided, in which the time period from when a fusible alloy starts to melt until when the sprinkler head is activated is shortened. A sprinkler head includes a frame having a stepped portion projecting inward. The stepped portion has an upper inclined surface provided at the inner-peripheral upper edge thereof and with which balls come into contact, and a guide part provided at the inner-peripheral lower edge thereof and that allows any of the balls that is displaced from the upper inclined surface to move downward from the stepped portion. When a fusible alloy melts, the ball displaced from the upper inclined surface moves along the guide part and is quickly released to the outside of the frame. Hence, the time period from when the fusible alloy starts to melt until when the sprinkler head is activated is shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicants: SENJU SPRINKLER CO., LTD., NOHMI BOSAI LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinori Karihara, Masakatsu Kikuchi, Takumi Ishikawa, Masashi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20180304112
    Abstract: A physical exercise device includes a base frame positionable generally horizontally on a floor surface, an upright frame connected to the base frame, the upright frame rising from the base frame and having a grip portion above the base frame, and a cushion disposed on the base frame and below the grip portion, a distance between the cushion and the grip portion being such that a user is able to lie on the cushion and grasp the grip portion with at least one hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Samuel Cheh SHIH
  • Publication number: 20180304113
    Abstract: An exercise machine has a mobile base and an upright support extending upwards from the mobile base. An upper support assembly extends forward from an upper portion of the upright support and an exercise device is suspended from the upper support assembly at a location spaced forward from the upright support. The exercise machine may include a compact and safe counterbalancing gas spring mechanism that tends to move the exercise device away from the exerciser, and that requires a force to be applied to move an exercise device down towards the exerciser. The exercise machine may include an exercise device that is rotatable along a vertical axis, and may be coupled to an adjustable monitor for a wide range of uses. The exercise machine may be used by a exerciser lying supine, sitting in a chair or wheelchair, or standing in front of or adjacent the exercise machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Gary GOLDISH, Andrew HANSEN, Eric NICKEL, John FERGUSON, Stuart FAIRHURST
  • Publication number: 20180304114
    Abstract: A system of stackable yoga blocks having flat top and bottom surfaces that includes magnets at the top and bottom surfaces. The magnets are positioned so that the poles of the magnets will be properly aligned so that the magnets will be attracted to each other when the yoga blocks are stacked. In the preferred embodiment, the yoga blocks are formed from foam in the shape of a cuboid having flat top and bottom surfaces. Disc magnets are placed at the flat top and bottom surfaces of the blocks with the proper polarity and positioning so that the blocks will adhere to each other when stacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Amanda Feinstein
  • Publication number: 20180304115
    Abstract: An exercise device has a frame supporting guide links to which foot support links are pivotally attached. An arc center drive assembly is provided to raise and lower the foot receiving areas of the foot support links. Vertical drive elements couple a crank system to the arc center drive assembly to control the raising and lowering of the foot receiving areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Larry D. Miller
  • Publication number: 20180304116
    Abstract: A foldable vertical stepping exercise machine allows a user to perform exercise through vertical stepping motions. The exercise device includes a base assembly having an upper portion and a lower portion such that the lower portion rests on a support surface. The exercise device includes a stepping assembly having a pair of foot rests and a pulley mechanism attached to the upper portion of the base assembly. The pulley mechanism connects to the pair of foot rests such that the pair of foot rests slides up and down a vertical length of the exercise device. The exercise device includes a connector assembly slidably attaching the pair of foot rests to the upper portion of the base assembly so that the pair of foot rests move alternately up and down the vertical length of the exercise device while the user performs the stepping exercise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Wei-Teh Ho, Willy Wei Yu Ho
  • Publication number: 20180304117
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of stationary exercise machines having reciprocating foot and/or hand members, such as foot pedals that move in a closed loop path. Some embodiments can include reciprocating foot pedals that cause a user's feet to move along a closed loop path that is substantially inclined, such that the foot motion simulates a climbing motion more than a flat walking or running motion. Some embodiments can further include reciprocating handles that are configured to move in coordination with the foot via a linkage to a crank wheel also coupled to the foot pedals. Variable resistance can be provided via a rotating air-resistance based mechanism, via a magnetism based mechanism, and/or via other mechanisms, one or more of which can be rapidly adjustable while the user is using the machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Rasmey Yim, Marcus L. Marjama, Kevin M. Hendricks, Thomas H. Moran
  • Publication number: 20180304118
    Abstract: Interactive system provides training and assessments relating to joint stabilization capabilities and reaction-based performance for diverse populations. This system may enhance the subject's ability to generate and deliver power as a direct byproduct of properly timed decelerations originating with the effectors and supported by the verticality of the spine. Said decelerations also provide functional means for improving joint stabilization capabilities via improved co-contraction of the shoulder(s) joints and other anatomical locations on the subject. The resulting data may serve as the basis for predictive analytics relating to joint stabilization and the associated risk of orthopedic injuries. This system may also train/improve the dampening of internal forces resulting from aggressive weight bearing movements, and more effectively dissipate the force of received physical impacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Barry James French
  • Publication number: 20180304119
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed to track sport implements and/or objects of interest. An example apparatus includes a first coil to generate a first magnetic field having a first vertical component with a zero magnitude along a first line of interest and a second coil partially overlapped with the first coil, where the second coil is to generate a second magnetic field. The example apparatus also includes a sensor to measure a magnitude of the first magnetic field in the first line of interest and a processor to determine an object of interest has crossed the first line of interest based on the magnitude of the first magnetic field measured by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Songnan Yang, Zhen Yao, Xue Yang, Stephanie Moyerman
  • Publication number: 20180304120
    Abstract: A stretch stride system comprising a mat having a first stride pattern and a second stride pattern positioned thereon. The first stride pattern may include two or more step patterns spaced at a first interval. The second stride pattern may include two or more step pattern spaced at a second interval. The first interval and the second interval may be determined using different extended step lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Robert Albert Skulman
  • Publication number: 20180304121
    Abstract: A device for moving the back and core muscles while sitting includes a rocking assembly that sits atop a base assembly, and optionally a height adjustment mechanism between the rocking assembly and the base assembly. The rocking assembly includes a rocking mechanism that sits between a base plate or platform and a seat. The rocking mechanism can be, for example, a hollow or solid hemispheric- or dome-shaped rocking mechanism, an eccentric bicylinder rocking mechanism, and/or a rocking mechanism based on an arrangement of halfpipe members. The rocking mechanisms of the exercise chair allow to the seat to rock, wobble, and/or swivel with a side-to-side rocking motion, a front-to-back rocking motion, or both a side-to-side rocking motion and a front-to-back rocking motion, and are attached to base plate and seat via a fastener that includes a solid strut that passes through the rocking mechanism and includes a plurality of Belleville washers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: KINETIC FURNITURE OF VERMONT, LLC
    Inventors: Turner Osler, Alexis Osler