Patents Issued in May 2, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240138633
    Abstract: Compositions are provided for dissolvable solid unit dose formulations that can be used with a wand apparatus to clean a toilet surface. The formulations include anionic surfactant, a carbonate or bicarbonate salt, an organic acid, and virgin soap pellets wherein a ratio of the virgin soap pellets to the surfactant is from about 0.5:1 to about 2:1, preferably about 1:1 to about 1.5:1, and most preferably about 1.2:1 to 1.3:1. Compressed compositions retain sufficient hardness to facilitate cleaning a toilet surface but are still able to have a time to breakage when submerged in toilet water of less than 5 minutes to enable easy disposal by flushing with toilet water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Rodriguez, Daniel Thomas Piorkowski, Juan Salas, John Daniel Konikowski
  • Publication number: 20240138634
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclonic stage which comprises a stationary portion and an openable portion. The openable portion is rotatably mounted by a rotatable mount between a closed position in which a cyclone chamber is closed and an open position in which the cyclone chamber is open. The stationary portion comprises an upper portion of the first cyclonic stage and the openable portion comprises a lower portion of the first cyclonic stage. The rotatable mount is located at a rearward end of the openable portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Publication number: 20240138635
    Abstract: A cleaner head for a vacuum cleaner, the cleaner head being configured to apply suction to a horizontal surface to be cleaned by the vacuum cleaner. The cleaner head includes: first and second agitator elements each being mounted for rotation about a respective axis. Each agitator element includes a first, free end and a second end, each agitator element has a shape which tapers towards the first end in a direction along the axis of rotation, the first and second agitator elements are cantilevered from opposing sides of a hub portion of the cleaner head at their respective second ends, and each agitator element is arranged such that when the cleaner head is applying suction to the horizontal surface, the position of the axis at the first end of the element is closer to the surface than the position of the axis at the second end of the element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventor: Andrew Paul FUSSELL
  • Publication number: 20240138636
    Abstract: A motorized suction brush comprising a roller is described, the roller being rotatable and being configured to rub the surface to be cleaned, an electric motor, either a battery or a transformer being electrically connected to the electric motor, and a transmission for connecting the roller to the electric motor so as to rotate the roller, wherein the suction head further comprises a fluid dispensing device, wherein said fluid comprises steam and/or comprises a liquid with a cleaning substance and/or a disinfectant substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Riccardo ROSCHI
  • Publication number: 20240138637
    Abstract: A cleaning accessory for a vacuum cleaner comprises a housing. At least one rotatable cleaning brush is rotatably mounted to the housing and configured to engage a surface to be cleaned. The at least one rotatable cleaning brush comprises at least one flexible cleaning element projecting outwards from a side of the housing. The at least one flexible cleaning element is arranged to rotate in a cleaning position and rotate in a disengaged position whereby the at last one flexible cleaning element engages the surface to be cleaned when rotating in the cleaning position and the at last one flexible cleaning element is remote from the surface to be cleaned when rotating in the disengaged position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Derek Muir, Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, Lance Zhang, Alex Zang
  • Publication number: 20240138638
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaning device comprises a housing having a dirty air inlet and a clean air outlet. An airflow path extends between the dirty air inlet and the clean air outlet. A dust container is mounted to the housing wherein the airflow path goes through the dust container. A motor fan assembly is mounted in the housing and is configured to create an air flow along the airflow path in a blow mode and a suction mode. A controller is configured to control the motor fan assembly in the blow mode and the suction mode. The controller is configured to control the motor fan assembly to pulse the motor fan assembly at first fan speed when in the blow mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Gerard Malcolm Heselwood, Ross A. Billings
  • Publication number: 20240138639
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaning device comprises a housing having a dirty air inlet and a clean air outlet. An airflow path extends between the dirty air inlet and the clean air outlet. A dust container is mounted to the housing wherein the airflow path goes through the dust container. A motor fan assembly is mounted in the housing and is configured to create an air flow along the airflow path in a blow mode and a suction mode. A controller is configured to control the motor fan assembly in the blow mode and the suction mode. The controller is configured to control the motor fan assembly to pulse the motor fan assembly at first fan speed when in the blow mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Michael C. Doyle, Gerard Malcolm Heselwood, Ross A. Billings, Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko, Andrew Cross
  • Publication number: 20240138640
    Abstract: A maintenance base station includes at least one function component, a man-machine interaction component and a controller. The man-machine interaction component is configured to receive a user input and determine a man-machine interaction signal based on the user input. The man-machine interaction signal indicates a device type and a device task type. A device indicated with the device type at least includes a cleaning robot or the function component of the maintenance base station. The controller electrically connecting the function component and the man-machine interaction component, and is configured to receive the man-machine interaction signal and call the corresponding device to work based on the man-machine intction signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: JUN WU, ZHEXIN GAO, JUN YANG, GUICHAO YANG, LIRONG YE, GUODONG ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240138641
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a surface cleaning apparatus that includes an illumination system having lighting to illuminate a floor surface or other area being cleaned. The lighting for the illumination system includes a plurality of lights, light sources, and/or lighting zones disposed around a housing of the apparatus. The illumination system can output a condition, status, state, alert or error to a user by emitting visible light and varying an intensity, color, wavelength, temperature, or animation of the light. Methods for operating the illumination system are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Sang Hoon Chung, Mike Luyckx, Chris J. Harmelink, Patryk Donald Akhurst, Isaac Busken-Jovanovich, Christopher L. Hogg, Churu Yun
  • Publication number: 20240138643
    Abstract: A floor cleaner including a recovery tank that receives a fluid and a suction airflow from a suction inlet and separates the suction airflow from the fluid. The recovery tank includes a top side, a bottom wall opposite the top side, a sidewall that extends from the bottom wall. The bottom wall and the sidewall at least partially define a storage volume of the recovery tank. The recovery tank further includes an inlet duct having an inlet aperture configured to direct the fluid from the inlet duct into the storage volume, and a baffle wall connected to the sidewall, the baffle wall facing toward the top side of the recovery tank. The inlet aperture is directed along an inlet direction toward the sidewall adjacent the baffle, and the inlet aperture is disposed above the baffle in a direction from the bottom wall to the top side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Robert B. Lawson, Rafael Davila
  • Publication number: 20240138644
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wet mop module for a cleaner, the wet mop module including a water supply nozzle configured to discharge water from a water tank to a mop, in which the water supply nozzle includes a nozzle body having a water discharge port formed at one end thereof, the water discharge port being configured to discharge water to the mop, and the water discharge port is formed to be inclined, thereby preventing a water droplet from clogging the discharge port, and preventing debris contained in a water droplet from clogging the discharge port as the formed water droplet is dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Jaewon JANG, Yeongjae LEE, Minwoo LEE
  • Publication number: 20240138645
    Abstract: A cleaning base station includes a base, a first electrode, an infrared module, and a guiding member. The base includes an open chamber accommodating a cleaning robot, and the open chamber includes a chamber sidewall extending in an arc shape. The first electrode is arranged on the chamber sidewall and contacts a second electrode of the cleaning robot. The infrared module is arranged on the chamber sidewall and aligns the cleaning robot. The guiding member is arranged on the chamber sidewall and protrudes from the chamber sidewall, the guiding member is capable of extending into a guiding groove defined on the cleaning robot, the guiding member includes a guiding part, the guiding part is positioned on one end of the guiding member far away from the chamber sidewall, and a cross-sectional size of the guiding part gradually decreases along a direction away from the chamber sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Junjian Huang, Xue Liang, Yewei Kang, Jiwen Li, Lirong Ye
  • Publication number: 20240138646
    Abstract: A dock for receiving a floor cleaner with a cleaning head, the dock including a receiving unit for receiving the cleaning head of the floor cleaner, and a hair removal unit for removing hair from a cleaning head received by the receiving unit. The hair removal unit may take a number of forms, for example a cutter and/or hook, a toothed comb, or a tapered roller. The removal of hair from the cleaning head of the floor cleaner may improve or maintain cleaning performance, and/or improve the aesthetics of the floor cleaner during use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventor: Oliver DODGSON
  • Publication number: 20240138647
    Abstract: A cleaning article defining an XY plane and a Z direction perpendicular to the plane. The cleaning article has discrete tufts of tow fibers disposed on a carrier sheet. The discrete tufts have bond lines external to the tufts. The bond lines interrupt the Z-direction thickness of the tufts, to provide channels for improved collection and retention of debris from a target surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Nicola John POLICICCHIO
  • Publication number: 20240138648
    Abstract: A dust collecting device removably connected to at least a portion of a broom, the dust collecting device including a main body to at least partially cover a broomstick of the broom, at least one disinfecting wipe disposed within at least a portion of the main body to cleanse an external surface in response to moving across the external surface and prevent a trail of debris, and a broom receiving groove disposed on at least a portion of the main body to connect the main body to the broomstick of the broom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Jennifer Kongguillermo
  • Publication number: 20240138649
    Abstract: A dishwasher may include a tub configured to accommodate one or more items to be washed, a spray arm rotatably mounted to the tub, and configured to spray water onto the one or more items to be washed, a sump disposed at a bottom surface of the tub and configured to store water and to supply stored water to the spray arm, a fixed gear unit fixed to the tub with gear teeth arranged along an outer circumferential surface of the fixed gear unit, a rotary gear unit rotatably mounted on the spray arm and configured to engage the gear teeth of the fixed gear unit, and a link member connected to the rotary gear unit and the spray arm, where the spray arm may include, a main arm with a pair of arms, and a pair of auxiliary arms rotatably connected to the main arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Seyoung WOO, Joonho PYO, Daegyu KIM
  • Publication number: 20240138650
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a loofah dish sponge includes cutting a first cover layer and a second cover layer from the dried-out fibrous loofah skeleton, positioning a slightly smaller sized inner layer in between the first and second cover layers with their respective external sides facing outward and away from the internal layer, deforming and sewing the peripheral edges of the first and second cover layers together, thereby forming an internal volume in between thereof allowing the inner layer placed inside to freely “float” in this space. The sponge is made without using any synthetic materials. It features superior durability, improved ergonomics, impedes mold growth after use and is fully compostable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Alfonso Ramon Gorena Jean, Rodrigo Maldonado de Hoyos, Kendra Jean Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20240138651
    Abstract: In the endoscopic examination support apparatus, three three-dimensional model generation means generates a three-dimensional model of a luminal organ in which an endoscope camera is placed, based on endoscopic images acquired by imaging an interior of the luminal organ with the endoscope camera. The unobserved area detection means detects an area estimated not to be observed by the endoscope camera, as an unobserved area, based on the three-dimensional model. The display image generation means generates a display image including information indicating an observation achievement degree for each of a plurality of sites of the luminal organ, based on the detection result of the unobserved area. The endoscopic examination support apparatus may be used to support user's decision making.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyasu SAIGA, Tatsu Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240138652
    Abstract: In the endoscopic examination support apparatus, three three-dimensional model generation means generates a three-dimensional model of a luminal organ in which an endoscope camera is placed, based on endoscopic images acquired by imaging an interior of the luminal organ with the endoscope camera. The unobserved area detection means detects an area estimated not to be observed by the endoscope camera, as an unobserved area, based on the three-dimensional model. The display image generation means generates a display image including information indicating an observation achievement degree for each of a plurality of sites of the luminal organ, based on the detection result of the unobserved area. The endoscopic examination support apparatus may be used to support user's decision making.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyasu SAIGA, Tatsu Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240138653
    Abstract: An endoscope includes an insertion section extending along a longitudinal axis and including a distal end portion, the distal end portion includes a distal end structural member including a conduit integrally formed as a through hole with the distal end structural member, the conduit configured so that a fluid flows through the conduit, the conduit includes a nozzle and a supply conduit located proximally relative to the nozzle, wherein a cross-sectional area of the supply conduit is greater than a cross-sectional area of the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Jin KAWANOYA, Naoki MATSUMURA, Giichi KANETA, Yoshihiro YOKOMAE
  • Publication number: 20240138654
    Abstract: An endoscope including: a shaft assembly; and a handle assembly. The shaft assembly includes: a fiber tube; an outer shaft tube arranged around the fiber tube; and a support proximally extending from the outer shaft tube. The handle assembly is arranged around the support, and an electrical connection is arranged on an outer surface of the support extending from a proximal end of the support in a distal direction such that the electrical connection is arranged at least in part between the support and the handle assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH
    Inventor: Alrun THUEMEN
  • Publication number: 20240138655
    Abstract: An endoscope includes an insertion portion, an operation portion, and a fitting mechanism coupling the insertion portion and the operation portion so as to be decouplable. The fitting mechanism includes a plate portion and a convex portion, and a fitted-shape portion and a hole. The convex portion is fitted to the fitted-shape portion. The hole exposes at least one of the plate portion or the convex portion to outside. The fitting mechanism is provided at a position around a center axis, corresponding to a bending wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Yasuaki KASAI, Takuya TOYOOKA
  • Publication number: 20240138657
    Abstract: Provided herein is multi-camera endoscope including an elongated member mounted on a handle, the elongated member includes a proximally positioned shaft, and a distally positioned tip component wherein the tip component includes a slanted front surface tilted to define an acute angle. Further provided are systems including the same and methods of use thereof in medical procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Golan SALMAN, Amram AIZENFELD
  • Publication number: 20240138658
    Abstract: A medical visualisation device includes a main device part and the auxiliary component couplable to the main device part. The main device part includes an image sensor adapted to generate image data indicative of a view from the main device part, a light emitter adapted to provide illumination of the view, and a main coupling part having one or more main terminals electrically connected to the light emitter and the image sensor. The auxiliary component includes a device wireless communication module adapted to communicate with a monitor wireless communication module of a monitor device, the device wireless communication module being adapted to transmit encoded image data using a downstream data channel to the monitor wireless communication module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Brian NIELSEN, Kasper Rieland JAKOBSEN, Chun-Chieh CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240138659
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an endoscopic apparatus and associated methods. The apparatus may include a steerable tool having a first flexible tube concentrically nested within a second flexible tube. The apparatus may include an end cap disposed on the steerable tool, an image sensor disposed on the end cap, and one or more light sources disposed on the end cap. The apparatus may be configured for accessing a region within a middle ear cavity of a patient. As such, the apparatus may further include a flexible tube, through which the steerable tool may extend, as well as a pre-curved rigid tube, through which the flexible tube may extend, thus allowing the apparatus to be deployed for middle ear access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: EndoTheia, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Gafford, Jake Childs, Laura Davis, Caleb Rucker, Patrick Anderson, Scott Webster, Robert Webster
  • Publication number: 20240138660
    Abstract: A bending tube of an insertion appliance includes a first region including a first plurality of slits, a second region provided proximally relative to the first region and including a second plurality of slits, and a guiding surface on an inner circumferential surface of the bending tube, the guiding surface extending in a circumferential direction, and including a channel configured to slidably house a wire. Each slit of the first plurality of slits is at different position in the circumferential direction, and at different positions in a longitudinal direction. Each slit of the second plurality of slits is provided at different position in the circumferential direction, and at different position in the longitudinal direction. The first plurality of slits is distributed over a first angle in the circumferential direction, and the second plurality of slits is distributed over a second angle smaller than the first angle in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Satoshi HORIE, Eijiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20240138661
    Abstract: A flow diverter is disclosed. The flow diverter can be removably securable to a medical device. The flow diverter can have a body and a cavity. When the body is removably secured to the medical device and when a flow of gas flows from the medical device into the cavity, the flow of gas can be divertible from a first direction to a second direction, and/or when the body is removably secured to the medical device and when the flow of gas flows from the medical device into the cavity, the flow of gas can be divertible out of the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Grumpy Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Sameer SHARMA, Luke Emerson HESS
  • Publication number: 20240138662
    Abstract: An endoscope includes a circuit board on which a light source is arranged, a light guide extending in the endoscope, which receives the light from the light source and guides it to an illumination device of the endoscope, and a holder having a light guide hole for inserting the light guide, wherein the cross-section of the light guide corresponds to the cross-section of the light source for optimizing the light transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: PENTAX MEDICAL BULGARIA LTD., PENTAX MEDICAL BULGARIA LTD.
    Inventor: Anh Minh DO
  • Publication number: 20240138663
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a flow of fluid to an endoscope. An illustrative container and tube set arranged and configured to couple to an endoscope may comprise, a first container configured to contain a fluid, a first water supply tube including a first lumen extending therethrough and in fluid communication with the first container, a branched connector positioned in line with first water supply tube and including a first fluid inlet, a first fluid outlet, and a second fluid outlet, a second container having a second fluid inlet in selective fluid communication with the second fluid outlet of the branched connector, a second water supply tube including a second lumen extending therethrough and in selective fluid communication with the bottom portion of the second container, and a first gas supply tube in operative fluid communication with the second container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Edward Corbeil, Ryan V. Wales, Barry Weitzner
  • Publication number: 20240138664
    Abstract: A device for inhibiting condensation distortion on an optical element of a medical instrument configured for insertion into a body cavity is provided. The device may include a housing; a cavity within the housing, the cavity being sized to removably retain at least a portion of the medical instrument therein, wherein the portion includes the optical element; a plasma activation zone within the cavity and arranged such that when the at least a portion of the medical instrument is retained within the cavity, the optical element is located within the plasma activation zone; a plasma generator configured to be activated to cause formation of a plasma cloud in the plasma activation zone in a vicinity of the optical element; and a controller configured to activate the plasma generator for a time period sufficient to cause the optical element to become hydrophilic prior to insertion into the body cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: PLASMATICA LTD.
    Inventors: Adam Sagiv, Amnon Lam
  • Publication number: 20240138665
    Abstract: An imaging system, optionally an intra-oral camera, includes a blue light source and a barrier filter over a camera sensor. Optionally, the imaging system can also take white light images. Optionally, the system includes positively charged nanoparticles with fluorescein. The fluorescent nanoparticles can be identified on an image of a tooth by machine vision or machine learning algorithms on a pixel level basis. Either white light or fluorescent images can be used, with machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithms, to score the lesions. However, the white light image is not useful for determining whether lesions, particularly ICDAS 0-2 lesions, are active or inactive. A fluorescent image, with the fluorescent nanoparticles, can be used to detect and score active lesions. Optionally using a white light image and a fluorescent image together allows for all lesions, active and inactive, to be located and scored, and for their activity to be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kai Alexander JONES, Nathan A. JONES, Steven BLOEMBERGEN, Scott Raymond PUNDSACK, Yu Cheng LIN, Helmut NEHER, JR.
  • Publication number: 20240138666
    Abstract: A system includes an adapter and an insertion device. The device includes a shaft extending longitudinally from a proximal end to a distal end. The shaft includes first and second working channels extending therethrough. The adapter includes a proximal portion coupled to the distal end and a distal portion defining a chamber receiving a stone. The proximal portion includes an outlet extending through a portion thereof positioned so that, when the adapter is in desired alignment, a fluid supplied to the first channel is directed out of the adapter via the outlet to an area surrounding the adapter. The adapter further includes an inlet channel extending longitudinally through the proximal portion to a distal opening which is open to the chamber. The inlet channel is configured so that, when negative pressure is applied thereto, the fluid is drawn through the distal opening through the inlet channel to the second channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael S.H. CHU
  • Publication number: 20240138667
    Abstract: A system includes a scope device, an adapter and an outer sheath. The device includes a scope cap and a shaft extending longitudinally from a proximal end to a distal end. The shaft includes a working channel. The cap is coupled to the distal end such that cap's inlet opening is in communication with and in alignment with the channel. The adapter has a substantially tubular body mountable over the cap such that a distal chamber defined via the adapter and the cap is open to and in communication with the opening thereof so that, when a negative pressure is applied through the channel, a suction force applied is applied through the distal chamber to draw the stone one of into and against the chamber from the area. The sheath delivers a fluid to the area via a space extending between sheath's interior and shaft's exterior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael S.H. CHU
  • Publication number: 20240138668
    Abstract: Provided is a method, performed by an augmented reality (AR) device, of measuring a user's vision. The method includes: obtaining, by using a camera of the AR device, a background image including an image of at least one physical object; identifying an edge of the image of the at least one physical object in the background image; determining a first region for measuring the vision of the user on the background image based on the edge of the image; determining a second region corresponding to the first region on a display of the AR device; outputting a virtual object for measuring the vision of the user to the second region; obtaining a user input signal for vision measurement after the outputting the virtual object; and determining a vision prescription value of the user based on the user input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyookeun LEE, Harry Edward Milton, Sunghwan Shin, Bonkon Koo, Seungjae Lee
  • Publication number: 20240138669
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an adaptive optics system including at least one active pixel sensor array that detects light and sends a signal to a processor. The adaptive optics system also includes a wavefront correction system including at least one wavefront control structure and the processor, and that executes instructions on the processor to produce a digital image in which at least one wavefront distortion in the light detected by the active pixel sensor array is partially or fully corrected. The disclosure also provides methods of using the adaptive optics system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Steven T. Charles
  • Publication number: 20240138672
    Abstract: The invention provides an imaging system (102) for imaging a fundus (104) of an eye (106), which has an optical axis (116). The imaging system (102) has a light source (108), an illumination path (118) along which light travels from the light source (108) to the eye (106), a light sensor (10) and imaging optics (44) defining an imaging axis (114), and at least one objective lens (112) aligned with the optical axis (116). At least a part of the illumination path (118) is substantially coaxial with the imaging axis (114), and the optical axis (116) is tilted with respect to the imaging axis (114).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Hans Einar Overjordet, Anders Eikenes, Jukka Alasirnioe
  • Publication number: 20240138673
    Abstract: A surgically implanted ocular optical array that can be used in both therapeutic and diagnostic applications is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Wayne H. Woods, JR., Christopher Shelby
  • Publication number: 20240138674
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus comprises an optical arrangement that causes or imitates, for forming at least one image that is in focus, a longitudinal chromatic and/or spherical aberration of an optical spectrum of light, while the retina is configured to locate within a longitudinal aberration range of the aberration in response to a distance between the ophthalmic apparatus and the eye being within a working range of the ophthalmic apparatus. An image capturing arrangement captures one or more images of the retina through the imaging channel while the distance between the ophthalmic apparatus and the eye is within a working range of the ophthalmic apparatus. A filter filters at least one image from the one or more images of the retina that is in focus for further processing in a data processing unit of the ophthalmic apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Ilkka ALASAARELA
  • Publication number: 20240138675
    Abstract: A visualization system for dynamically visualizing an eye includes a laser module operable for outputting a primary laser beam along a beam axis, a beam splitter positioned in the beam axis and configured to direct a first beam portion along the beam axis and a second beam portion along a detection axis that is orthogonal to the beam axis. A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) scanner is arranged on the beam axis and configured, in response to the first beam portion, to output a scanning laser along a visualization path. An avalanche photodiode (APD) detector receives the second beam portion. A 4F correlator optical system has a spatial filter arranged along the visualization path. An optional optical flat may be disposed between the eye and the 4F correlator optical system to achieve stereo parallax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Alcon Inc.
    Inventor: Steven T. Charles
  • Publication number: 20240138676
    Abstract: A camera for diagnosing ophthalmic disorders and control method for the same according to an embodiment of the present invention allow not only a skilled ophthalmologist, but also non-specialists, beginners, etc. to easily obtain a fundus image in a preferable form that can be read for diagnosis. In addition, the present invention can stably obtain a fundus image in the preferable form that can be read for diagnosis by a non-specialist or a beginner even in the case of a non-mydriatic method in which the fundus image must be acquired in an instant before the patient blinks by flashing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: ILOODA Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Han KIM
  • Publication number: 20240138677
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus comprises an illumination channel for illuminating a retina of an eye in response to a distance between the ophthalmic apparatus and the eye being within a working range of the ophthalmic apparatus. An imaging channel collects light reflected from the retina. An image capturing arrangement captures images of the retina through the imaging channel while the distance between the ophthalmic apparatus and the eye is within a working range of the ophthalmic apparatus. A chromatic arrangement causes and/or imitates a longitudinal chromatic aberration of light directed toward an eye while a longitudinal aberration range is at least partially overlapping with a frontal section of an eye between an outer surface of a cornea and a rear surface of a crystalline lens in response to a distance between the ophthalmic apparatus and the eye being within a working range. A collection optics collects light reflected from the frontal section of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Ilkka ALASAARELA
  • Publication number: 20240138678
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a highly reliable implantable device of an implantable biological sensor. Before use, the fixed seat cannot move relative to the slidable seat, achieving reliable transportation. In use, the lower end face of the slidable seat is pressed against the skin; the lower end face of the first snap-fit protrusion squeezes the upper end face of the vertical snap-fit plate; the first snap-fit protrusion is gradually away from the support of the vertical snap-fit plate, whereby the inside vertical face of the vertical snap-fit plate pushes the first snap-fit protrusion inward, and the fixed seat moves downward relative to the slidable seat, achieving good controllability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Dan Yan, Sheng Fu, Guanhua Li, Zhe Zhang, Qinglong Dong
  • Publication number: 20240138679
    Abstract: In various examples, an audible frequency generating system for use in an implantable device including a housing of the implantable device. The housing includes at least one wall formed to at least partially surround an interior of the housing. A frequency generator is configured to produce an audible sound within the interior of the housing. At least one conductor is electrically coupled to the frequency generator. A fastening element secures the conductor to the at least one wall of the housing, wherein the frequency generator is constrained within the housing by the at least one conductor secured to the at least one wall of the housing, such that the frequency generator includes a floating configuration relative to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Patricio Bolognini, Luis Daniel Villamil, Fernando Escotto
  • Publication number: 20240138680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a calibration cradle for a three-dimensional scanner. Particularly, the calibration cradle comprises: a cradle body into which a front end portion of a three-dimensional scanner is inserted and seated; a calibration pattern plate (hereinafter, abbreviated as “pattern plate”) which is disposed inside the cradle body to correct the scanning of the three-dimensional scanner; and a pattern movement part which automatically axially rotates and axially reciprocates the pattern plate in the cradle body when the three-dimensional scanner is coupled to the cradle body, whereby the present invention provides an advantage of improving the convenience and reliability of performing calibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: MEDIT CORP.
    Inventors: Dong Hoon LEE, Myoung Woo SONG, Young Seok JEONG
  • Publication number: 20240138681
    Abstract: A method for performing acoustic imaging and measurements may include generating a nonlinear frequency modulation (NLFM) chirp waveform based on a frequency response of at least one transducer. The method may further include generating an apodized signal by applying a window function to the NLFM chirp waveform. The method may further include exciting the at least one transducer with the apodized signal. The method may further include compressing received signals by using one or more matched filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Danhua Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240138682
    Abstract: An electronic device may include: a first temperature sensor configured to measure a first temperature of a skin surface when a user comes into contact with a main body of the electronic device; a first heating element spaced apart from the first temperature sensor by a first predetermined distance; a second temperature sensor spaced apart from the first heating element by a second predetermined distance and configured to measure a second temperature inside the main body; and a processor configured to: estimate heat flux based on the first temperature and the second temperature; estimate a blood perfusion rate of the user based on a temperature of the first heating element and the first temperature, and estimate a core body temperature of a user based on the first temperature, the estimated heat flux, and the estimated blood perfusion rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ho Taik LEE, Woochul KIM, Bok Soon KWON, Sang Kyu KIM, Gimin PARK, Sungho KIM, Jiyong KIM, Seungjai WOO, So Young LEE, Hong Soon RHEE
  • Publication number: 20240138683
    Abstract: A method for performing thermal screening is described. The method includes capturing at least one non-thermal image of a scene having a person; capturing at least one thermal image of the scene having the person; determining a region of interest of the non-thermal image; determining, based on a body sub-region of the non-thermal image corresponding to the body of the person within the scene, a distance value representative of a physical distance of the person from the thermal camera; determining a region of interest of the thermal image corresponding to the region of interest of the non-thermal image; determining a raw temperature value for the person based on the region of interest of the thermal image; and normalizing the raw temperature value based on at least the distance value to determine a normalized temperature value. A corresponding system and non-transitory computer-readable medium are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Riccardo Badalone, Amir Abbas Haji Abolhassani, Aldo Enrique Vargas Moreno, Felix-Olivier Duguay, Soodeh Farokhi, François Magnan, Mostafa Erfani
  • Publication number: 20240138684
    Abstract: A method for determining material properties of a plurality of tissues in a subject includes receiving a first sequence of cardiovascular images of a region of interest of the subject and a first set of pressure data associated with the first sequence of cardiovascular images and receiving a second sequence of cardiovascular images of the region of interest of the subject and a second set of pressure data associated with the second sequence of cardiovascular images. The method can further include transforming, using a processor, the first sequence of cardiovascular images to a first three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) mesh with heterogeneous material distribution, transforming, using the processor, the second sequence of cardiovascular images to a second 3D FE mesh with heterogeneous material distribution, and performing, using the processor, an iterative optimization process on the first and second 3D FE meshes to determine one or more material properties of at least one of the plurality of tissues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Bharath NARAYANAN, Max Louis OLENDER, Farhad Rikhtegar NEZAMI, David MARLEVI, Elazer R. EDELMAN
  • Publication number: 20240138685
    Abstract: A system to measure blood pressure of a person comprises a software that is configured to obtain two or more sensor information from one or more sensor near simultaneously. The sensor information comprises data points, from which at least one data feature can be derived. Based on the data features derived from the data points, a value of the cardiovascular time delay can be derived. The system can further derive a blood pressure value based on the cardiovascular time delay, and provide the value of the blood pressure, the cardiovascular delay, or other metrics derived from the cardiovascular delay to a user. The sensors can be placed in one or more mobile or wearable devices, which can communicate with each other wirelessly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Bodymatter, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan Patrick Archdeacon
  • Publication number: 20240138686
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a device for inferring blood pressure information that can infer blood pressure information conveniently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Hideki SHIMIZU