Abstract: A portable grill with a battery power system includes a primary direct-current power source and a secondary direct-current power source. The primary power source can connect onto the outside of the grill via a clip. The secondary power source, which can be disposed within the grill so as not to be exposed to outside elements, can continue to power the grill when the user removes and/or replaces the primary power source during the operation of the grill. A user feedback system can remotely alert the user with information regarding the time or power remaining in the primary power source.

Abstract: A cooking apparatus includes a heat source, a supporting device for food, a supporting frame to support the supporting device, a central edge, and two lateral edges connected to the central edge. The lateral edges have a front lower border, a front upper border and a front intermediate border that connects the front lower border with the front upper border. The supporting device for food is placed onto the front upper borders of the two lateral edges and has its lateral border in contact with the front intermediate borders of the lateral edges.

Abstract: The grilling set made of natural material comprises a wooden frame with a cavity cut into it to position the ignition material, wherein ventilation holes are positioned on the sidewalls or the end-walls of the cavity. There are grooves and/or slots on the sides of the surface of the frame for a means for keeping the grilling product above the ignition material, which come in the form of rectangular wooden holders and wooden rods. The ignition material is charcoal briquette burning at a low temperature or thermal-treated wood, and the ignition device is made of natural materials. The wooden holders have slots on at least one of the longer sides, and the holders are mounted into the grooves on the end-walls of the wooden frame horizontally or vertically during use. The wooden rods are mounted into the holes on the end-walls of the cavity of the wooden frame under an about 45° angle or the rods are placed into the slots on the holder to form a grate above the ignition material.

Abstract: A self-cleaning solid fuel grilling device comprises a grilling cavity and a firepot disposed within the grilling cavity. In addition, the embodiment includes an evacuation cavity disposed beneath the firepot. The evacuation cavity is in communication with the grilling cavity.

Abstract: A beverage brewing apparatus includes at least one material storing unit, at least one brewing unit, at least one brewing cup and a matching system. The material storing unit is suitable for storing materials. The matching system is suitable for matching the brewing cup and the material storing unit, so that the brewing cup is suitable for receiving materials from the material storing unit. The matching system is suitable for matching the brewing cup and the brewing unit, so that the brewing unit is suitable for brewing materials in the brewing cup.

Abstract: The Fat Separator Skimmer (FSS) is a ladle; it has an outlet hole in the bottom of the ladle, and a locker for opening and closing outlet hole. The locker close outlet hole to intake mixture liquid of soup and fat or oil by on the top of a bowl of the ladle, then open for soup drain off through outlet hole and it shut off to retain fat in the skimmer. Repeating this process allows for the accumulation of fat in the ladle that is later discarded.

Abstract: A hot air fryer cooking appliance includes a hot air blowing system, a vessel and a basket. The basket includes a manipulating handle having a bracket and the vessel including an upper edge and a receiving area for the handle. The bracket bears against the upper edge and the handle is housed in the receiving area when positioning the basket in the vessel. The basket includes on its outer and inner walls a first and a second assembly part, respectively. These assembly parts cooperate and ensure the lateral guiding of the basket when positioning the basket in the vessel until the handle reaches its position in its receiving area and the basket reaches a centered bearing position in the vessel, allowing the bottom of the basket to be kept away from the bottom of the vessel and to be laterally wedged in the vessel.

Abstract: A food holding tray and a system for holding prepared food items include a shell that defines at least one food receiving area internal to the shell. A plurality of sensors are arranged about the shell and directed into the food receiving area. A processor is communicatively connected to the plurality of sensors to receive signals from the sensors. The processor calculates holding data from the signals received from the sensors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of take-out food cases, more particularly to a take-out food case for keeping food fresh. The principle is as follows. The temperature information of the heat insulation portion is detected and fed back to the temperature controller by the thermocouple probe. When the detected temperature is lower than the minimum temperature preset by the temperature controller, carbon fiber heating pipes are controlled to heat the food by the temperature controller. When the temperature inside the heat insulation portion reaches to the maximum temperature preset by the temperature controller, carbon fiber heating pipes are controlled to stop heating by means of the temperature controller. When the take-out food case for keeping food fresh is not in use, ultraviolet sterilizing lamps are controlled to perform regular sterilization for the take-out food case by means of the timer.

Abstract: A moulding usable in a corner joint between two structures features a base stem for adherence to the first structure using double-sided tape, and a cap attached to a proximal end of the base stem for placement against an outer surface of the second structure. The base stem features a break line at which a distal portion of the base stem can be cut, snapped or torn from a proximal portion of the base stem. If a sufficiently sized gap is present between the first and second structures, the base stem is left fully intact and inserted into the gap. In the absence of a sufficient gap, the distal portion of the base stem is detached at the break line, reducing to the base stem to a size that fits between the cap and the outer surface of the second structure.

Abstract: A skin cleanser includes a surface, such as a silicone surface, with at least one textured portion for transmitting vibrational tapping to the skin. The skin cleanser includes at least one oscillating motor for generating the tapping motion to the skin. The textured portion includes touch-points or a wave that transmit the tapping motion to skin in contact with the textured portions. The touch-points may include thicker and thinner formations of the touch-points to provide firmer or softer vibrations to the skin. The touch-points are within about 0.5 to 2.5 mm in diameter. One configuration includes multiple oscillating motors configured to provide different vibration frequencies at around 50-300 Hertz and operable simultaneously.

Abstract: In a washing element holder (2), which on one side is closed off relative to the outside (s) with a sponge material (5) having pores (4), a washing device (1) has a washing element (3) which has at least one synthetic surfactant as a foaming substance and the principal constituent.

Abstract: A bathroom fixture includes a toilet paper holder, air blower style hand dryer, or paper towel holder, each having an outer housing, and which may further include additional components, such as a shelf for holding items, a beverage holder, a hook for hanging purses (or the like), a basket for holding items, a hand sanitizer dispenser holder, and/or a video screen and speaker for showing advertising and/or other audio/video content. The additional components may also include snap-fit attachments, so that they may be removably attached to the housing in any desired configuration, and so that the components are interchangeable with one another.

Abstract: A toilet seat device includes a main part, a toilet seat, a load sensor, a controller, and a memory. The toilet seat includes a seating part where a user is seated, and a support leg part supporting a load applied to the seating part. The load sensor is provided in the support leg part and detects the load applied to the support leg part. The controller performs at least a body weight measurement of the user based on a detection result of the load sensor. The controller includes a register mode and a normal-use mode in the body weight measurement. The register mode includes determining an estimated value for estimating the total body weight of the user from the seated load. The normal-use mode includes estimating a load value relating to the total body weight of the user based on the estimated value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a blower vacuum device having a housing with an air inlet and an air outlet, a motor accommodated in the housing, a fan driven by the motor, and a plurality of blowing accessories adapted to be connected to the air outlet respectively when the suction or blower device works. These different blowing accessories can perform various cleaning functions, thus meeting the cleaning demands in different places or in a specific area.

Abstract: A blower includes an impeller rotatable about a central axis extending in a vertical direction, a motor on a lower side of the impeller that rotates the impeller about the central axis, and a duct including an airflow passage in an inner space, a suction port through which a fluid flows in the inner space, and an air outlet through which the fluid is discharged from the inner space, the impeller being accommodated in the duct. The impeller includes blades arranged in a circumferential direction, an annular shroud that connects upper portions of the blades and includes an opening opposing the suction port in an axial direction, and a base plate that connects lower portions of the blades and extends in a radial direction. The duct includes a cover covering at least a portion of the blade and an upper portion of the shroud. An inner diameter of the shroud is equal to or larger than an outer diameter of the base plate.

Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone chamber. The cyclone chamber has an air inlet at a first end and an air outlet at an opposed end. A screen member extends from the air inlet to the air outlet at the opposed end.

Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber exterior to the cyclone chamber. The cyclone chamber has a sidewall extending from a first end to an axially opposed second end. A dirt outlet communicating with the dirt collection chamber is provided in the sidewall at a location intermediate the first and second ends of the cyclone chamber.

Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber. The cyclone chamber has a sidewall extending from a first end to an axially opposed second end. The dirt collection chamber has first and second axially opposed ends, the second end of the dirt collection chamber is located axially inwardly from the first end of the dirt collection chamber and the second end of the dirt collection chamber has a second end wall that is spaced axially inwardly from the second opposed end of the cyclone chamber.

Abstract: A cleaner including a cleaning module capable of easily removing foreign matters such as hair entangled in a brush unit is provided. The cleaner includes a main body including a suction port, a brush unit rotatably provided at the suction port, and a cleaning module detachably received in the main body and configured to remove a foreign matter entangled in the brush unit. The cleaning module includes a housing detachably received in the main body, a cartridge provided in the housing to be movable in a vertical direction, and a cutting unit provided at a lower portion of the cartridge and configured to cut the foreign matter entangled in the brush unit.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a head unit that suctions foreign substances from a surface to be cleaned together with air. The head unit includes a first suction guide having a first suction chamber therein and a second suction guide disposed on a rear side of the first suction guide and having a second suction chamber therein, and the first suction chamber suctions air through a first degree of vacuum and the second suction chamber suctions air through a second degree of vacuum higher than the first degree of vacuum.

Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus is disclosed having a forward portion and a rearward portion. The forward portion has a dirty air inlet, a front side, a rear side and a forward bridging section, the forward bridging section having a rearwardly extending air flow passage that is downstream from the dirty air inlet. The rearward portion positioned rearward of the forward portion, the rearward portion comprising a front side, a rearward side, a rearward bridging section, a lower planar surface, an upper surface and an up flow duct, the rearward bridging section being spaced rearward of the front side of the rearward portion. The rear side of the forward portion is spaced from and faces the front side of the rearward portion and the forward bridging section is connected to the rearward bridging section.

Abstract: A robot polisher has, in a box-shaped body part having a round shape in a plan view, right and left batteries, right and left wheel motors (not shown), and a pair of right and left wheels. The right and left wheel motors are rotationally driven by using the batteries as power supplies. The pair of right and left wheels can be individually rotated forward/backward by the respective wheel motors. On a lower housing, at the front-side lower part of the body part, a pair of right and left brushes are downwardly attached, which rotate in directions opposite to each other during traveling while being in sliding contact with a floor surface.

Abstract: An autonomous floor cleaner or floor cleaning robot can include an autonomously moveable housing and a drive system for autonomously moving the autonomously moveable housing over a surface to be cleaned based on inputs from a controller. A brush chamber, a debris receptacle, and a supply tank can be formed as a unitary assembly removable from the autonomously moveable housing.

Abstract: A riding floor cleaning machine having an intelligent system including a main frame sub-assembly, a steering and drive wheel sub-assembly, a solution tank sub-assembly, a recovery tank sub-assembly, a recovery tank cover sub-assembly, a control panel sub-assembly, a main controller sub-assembly, a seat and detergent system sub-assembly, a battery sub-assembly, a scrub head sub-assembly, a scrub head lift sub-assembly, a squeegee sub-assembly, a solution and detergent sub-assembly, and an intelligent system associated with at least one of the above-identified sub-assemblies, wherein the intelligent system selectively gathers, obtains, monitors, stores, records, and/or analyzes data associated with components of the riding floor cleaning machine, and controllably communicates and/or disseminates such data with another system and/or user.

Abstract: A cleaning robot including a body, a driving assembly for driving the cleaning robot to move, and a first cleaning assembly for cleaning a floor is disclosed. The first cleaning assembly includes a rotating shaft, mounting members mounted at both ends of the rotating shaft, a brush body provided outside the rotating shaft, and the rotating shaft is rotatable along with rotation of the mounting member, driving the brush body to clean the floor. The brush body includes a soft bag of an internal hollow structure and a brush portion extending outward from a surface of the soft bag, such that during cleaning, elastic space of the first cleaning assembly is increased, and a frictional force between the first cleaning assembly and the floor is reduced, thereby effectively protecting the floor and increasing the service life of the first cleaning assembly.

Abstract: An improved groove and crack cleaning tool that is economical in cost to manufacture, includes a rigid blade head with a blade tip at the end of the blade edge adapted to dislodge debris build-up commonly found between outdoor surfaces. In addition, groove and crack cleaning tool has a handle adapter built into the blade head for the attachment of different types of handles. The blade head having different thickness and length provide a tool that is simple and easy to use on many outdoors surface and during tool operation, the blade edge glide will slide over the outdoor surface without causing damage to that surface. The blade head is angled to easily wedge under any debris lodged in groove or cracks forcing the lodged debris generally upward.

Abstract: A fabric production method and a fabric, the production method includes the following steps: (1) selecting an impermeable fabric, an intermediate absorbent layer and a polyester brocade microfiber fabric; (2) sequentially performing alkali fiber-splitting treatment and degreasing treatment on the polyester brocade microfiber fabric; (3) cleaning the treated polyester brocade microfiber fabric ; (4) arranging the cleaned polyester brocade microfiber fabric as a surface material and the impermeable fabric as a base material, disposing the intermediate absorbent layer therebetween, and employing an ultrasonic laminating machine to laminate the three layers of materials into one; (5) slitting and crosscutting; (6) folding two ends of a strip of the composite material along a length direction thereof, and arranging a buckle, thus obtaining a semi-finished product; and (7) cleaning the obtained semi-finished product. The fabric has features such as powerful cleaning ability and good adsorption.

Abstract: A dishwasher for treating dishes according to an automatic cycle of operation can include a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber receiving dishes for treatment, a spray system providing treating liquid to the treating chamber, a low profile dish rack located in the tub and having a bottom wall and at least a side wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall, with a depending portion extending downwardly from the bottom wall and oriented at an angle to the bottom wall to define an incline angle, and at least one spray tube carried by the dish rack and located below the bottom wall, the spray tube having nozzles emitting spray into the depending portion.

Abstract: A dishwasher may include a washing chamber and a wash arm arrangement having a wash arm rotatably arranged in the washing chamber, and a satellite spray device arranged on the wash arm. The dishwasher may include at least one sensor configured to sense a rotational position of the wash arm and a control unit configured to monitor consecutive sensed rotational positions of the wash arm. The control unit may be configured to calculate a rotational speed of the wash arm based on an elapsed time and a rotational distance between two sensed rotational positions, and may be configured to estimate a current rotational position of the wash arm based on an elapsed time since a previously sensed rotational position and the calculated rotational speed. The control unit may adapt the pumping intensity of a pump of the dishwasher based on the estimated current rotational position of the wash arm.

Abstract: A dishwasher appliance equipped with flood protection features that proactively attempt to prevent, stop, and/or mitigate flood events is provided. The dishwasher appliance may also include features for determining the cause of the flood event. Moreover, methods for flood protection of the dishwasher appliance are also provided.

Abstract: An automatic dishwasher with a treating chamber, at least one dish holder, and a sprayer. The sprayer can be coupled to the dish holder and include a set of fan spray nozzles or a set of jet nozzles. The set of fan spray nozzles or the set of jet nozzles fluidly connect the sprayer and treating chamber. One or more angles in which fluid flows from the set of fan spray nozzles or the set of jet nozzles into the treating chamber can be adjusted.

Abstract: A dishwasher having a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber that receives dishes for treatment, a dish rack located in the tub and having a bottom wall and at least a side wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall, the side wall including a set of vertical tines.

Abstract: An adjustable conduit and docking assembly for use in a dishwasher appliance is provided. The adjustable conduit and docking assembly includes a conduit configured for receiving a docking station at different heights so as to accommodate a height adjustment of a rack assembly to which the conduit is attached. The conduit and docking assembly includes a multiport docking station to provide this functionality.

Abstract: A vortex optical fiber for use in an illumination subsystem of an optical imaging system (e.g., a stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy system) includes an elongated optically transmissive medium having a set of regions including a core region, a trench region surrounding the core region, a ring region surrounding the trench region, and a cladding region, the set of regions having a doping profile providing a ?neff for vector modes in an LP11 mode group of greater than 1×10?4 in the visible spectral range so as to simultaneously guide stable Gaussian and orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying modes at corresponding visible wavelengths.

Abstract: There is provided a wearable medical observation apparatus used by being worn on a head of a user, including: a first observation section having a configuration enabling a first observation of an observation target through an optical system including at least an objective lens; a second observation section having a configuration enabling a second observation of an observation target by a first medical observation image in which the observation target is imaged by a first imaging device; and a control section configured to control an observation state of the observation target.

Abstract: There is provided a medical observation apparatus, including: a medical imaging section configured to image an observation target; a support section configured to support the medical imaging section on a front end side; at least one grip detecting section installed on an outer circumference of the medical imaging section and configured to detect a grip of a user; and a control section configured to control the medical imaging section or the support section on the basis of a detection result of the grip detecting section.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for fluid management in an endoscopic procedure are disclosed. In one embodiment, a fluid management device may comprise a pair of electrodes and a controller connected to the pair of electrodes. In at least some embodiments, the controller may be configured to receive signals from the pair of electrodes and determine whether a fluid in a fluid reservoir is an ionic fluid or a non-ionic fluid based on signals received from the pair of electrodes. In at least some additional embodiments, the controller may be further configured to automatically set a fluid deficit alarm threshold based on the determination of whether the fluid in the fluid reservoir is an ionic fluid or a non-ionic fluid.

Abstract: A surgical apparatus includes a housing, a test port retainer, a pressure test chamber, and an image capture assembly. The housing includes a pressure test port. The test port retainer includes a test port retainer housing, a probe seal, and a liquid exclusion barrier. In one aspect, the test port retainer also includes a hydrophobic membrane mounted within the test port retainer housing. The pressure test chamber includes a manifold and a central tube. The first end of the central tube is affixed to the image capture assembly to form a pressure seal, and the second end of the central tube is coupled to the test port retainer so that the pressure test port communicates with the interior volume of the central tube through the test port retainer.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing an atraumatic sheath tip. Various disclosed embodiments seek to help reduce or avoid unnecessary tissue damage upon a sheath being extended to convey an elongated instrument for sampling or treatment. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a deformable sheath tip configured to be positioned at a distal end of a sheath. The sheath defines therein a lumen configured to convey an elongated instrument. The sheath tip has a base end disposable at the distal end of the sheath and a contact end. The sheath tip has a first column strength along an axis of the sheath tip that is less than a second column strength of the sheath and a first degree of deformability that is greater than a second degree of deformability of the sheath.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing a sheath tip with an angled distal face to conform the sheath to a surface of tissue toward which the sheath is being extended to potentially help reduce or avoid tissue damage upon extending a sheath to convey an elongated instrument for sampling or treatment. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a sheath tip configured to be positioned at an end of a sheath that is extendable toward a tissue at an angle to a surface of the tissue. The sheath tip has a distal end that is angled such that a periphery of the sheath tip at the distal end is configured to generally conform to the surface of the tissue.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing a sheath tip with an angled distal face to conform the sheath to a surface of tissue toward which the sheath is being extended to potentially help reduce or avoid tissue damage upon extending a sheath to convey an elongated instrument for sampling or treatment. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a sheath tip positionable at an end of a sheath configured to convey an elongated medical instrument to a location adjacent a detection range of a detecting device. The sheath tip includes a distal member that extends a finite distance beyond the end of the sheath. The distal member is detectable by the detecting device when the end of the sheath is within the finite distance of the detection range of the detecting device.

Abstract: An endoscope insertion observation apparatus includes a processor designed to perform functions including: detecting an insertion state of an insertion portion of an endoscope that is insertable into and extractable from a subject; determining whether or not the insertion portion has reached a second site in the subject from a first site in the subject and/or whether the insertion portion has reached the first site from the second site in the subject based on a detection result of the insertion state; and calculating a duration of movement of the insertion portion from the first site to the second site after determining that the insertion portion has reached the second site, or a duration of movement of the insertion portion from the second site to the first site after determining that the insertion portion has reached the first site.

Abstract: A surgical robotic system automatically calibrates tubular and flexible surgical tools such as endoscopes. By accounting for nonlinear behavior of an endoscope, the surgical robotic system can accurately model motions of the endoscope and navigate the endoscope while performing a surgical procedure on a patient. The surgical robotic system models the nonlinearities using sets of calibration parameters determined based on images captured by an image sensor of the endoscope. Calibration parameters can describe translational or rotational movements of the endoscope in one or more axis, e.g., pitch and yaw, as well as a slope, hysteresis, or dead zone value corresponding to the endoscope's motion. The endoscope can include tubular components referred to as a sheath and leader. An instrument device manipulator of the surgical robotic system actuates pull wires coupled to the sheath or the leader, which causes the endoscope to articulate.

Abstract: A three-dimensional endoscope system includes: an imaging unit configured to capture a first image and a second image having parallax with respect to each other; and an image generation unit configured to generate a display image for stereoscopic viewing by performing image processing on the first image and the second image captured by the imaging unit, wherein the image generation unit generates the display image based on the first image and a third image obtained by replacing a part of the second image with a part of the first image at a corresponding position.

Abstract: A plenoptic endoscope includes a fiber bundle with a distal end configured to receive light from a target imaging region, a sensor end disposed opposite the distal end, and a plurality of fiber optic strands each extending from the distal end to the sensor end. The plenoptic endoscope also includes an image sensor coupled to the sensor end of the fiber bundle, and a plurality of microlenses disposed between the image sensor and the sensor end of the fiber bundle, the plurality of microlens elements forming an array that receives light from one or more of the plurality of fiber optic strands of the fiber bundle and directs the light onto the image sensor. The plurality of microlens elements and the image sensor together form a plenoptic camera configured to capture information about a light field emanating from the target imaging region.

Abstract: A medical imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit having plural pixels each converting received light into an electric signal, thereby outputting an imaging signal; a memory to record the imaging signal; an evaluation-value calculation unit to calculate an evaluation value of an image generated from the imaging signal; an imaging signal selector to select an imaging signal to be displayed on based on the calculated evaluation value when inputting an instruction signal for selecting the imaging signal to be displayed; a memory controller to extract the selected imaging signal from the memory; and an image processing unit to process the extracted imaging signal controller to generate a display image. The evaluation-value calculation unit calculates the evaluation value by detecting the electric signal generated by each of the plural pixels included in a detection area that is a part of an effective pixel area for generating the display image.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes an insertion unit having at a distal end thereof a light-incident end portion that captures observation light from a subject, the insertion unit being insertable into an object to be examined; and an ultraviolet light source unit that emits ultraviolet light. The light-incident end portion is provided with an ultraviolet light absorption filter that generates heat by absorbing the ultraviolet light emitted from the ultraviolet light source unit.

Abstract: A view optimizing assembly, method and kit for use in combination with a laparoscope having a lens located on the shaft tip of the laparoscope, and a source of insufflation CO2. The invention includes a multi-lumen sheath assembly, a deflector assembly in fluid communication with the lumens of the sheath assembly, wherein the flow of CO2 through the lumens forms a vortex when coming into contact with the deflector assembly, thereby preventing fogging of the laparoscope lens.

Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an input portion configured to receive an ID that identifies at least one of an examiner or a subject; a storage portion configured to store examiner data with regard to a rotational position of a supporting arm member (support portion) about a vertical axis and a horizontal axis, the examiner data being predetermined to correspond to the ID; and a drive control portion configured to select the examiner data stored in the storage portion based on the ID received by the input portion, and to control a drive portion based on the examiner data and a detection result of the position detection portion so that the rotational position of the supporting arm member about the vertical axis and the horizontal axis coincides with a predetermined rotational position.