1368results about "Flow control" patented technology

In some embodiments, a system can include a fluid delivery assembly and a motor drive assembly. The fluid delivery assembly is configured to be releasably mechanically and, optionally, electrically coupled to the motor drive assembly. When the fluid delivery assembly is releasably coupled to the motor drive assembly, the motor drive assembly can control delivery of fluid from the fluid delivery assembly (e.g., to a patient). For example, the motor drive assembly can be releasably coupled to the fluid delivery assembly to control delivery of fluid from the fluid delivery assembly to provide continuous (e.g., non-pulsatile) fluid flow from the fluid delivery assembly.

A fluidics system includes a cassette having a saline subsystem, a contrast subsystem, and a vacuum subsystem. The fluidics system further includes a splitter and a first tubing set coupled to the cassette and splitter, the first tubing set having a single saline channel, a single contrast channel, and a single vacuum channel. The fluidics system further includes two or more hub assemblies, at least one of the two or more hub assemblies configured to have a third saline flow-path, a third contrast flow-path, and a third vacuum flow-path to provide saline, contrast and vacuum to the lumen of a catheter coupled to the at least one of the two or more hub assemblies. The fluidics system further includes a second tubing set having a plurality of tube groups, each tube group coupled to the splitter and to one of the two or more hub assemblies.

The present invention relates to a modular and scalable system for intelligent vertical farming infrastructure, using the latest in water recycling sciences, and artificial-intelligence based automation. This helps to combat the issue of sustainable Agriculture+its minimizing usage of water, energy, and space. It combines a vertical farming structure with multiple levels of cultivation with an irrigation and drainage system to achieve recirculation of water. The water recycling unit consists of rainwater harvesting, wastewater collection and multi-stage treatment subsystems, which can guarantee a continuous supply of high-quality recycled water for irrigation. The invention also combines a network of Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled sensors and AI-based control circuitry to track and manage environmental conditions (e.g. light intensity, humidity, temperature, and nutrient levels).

A novel embodiment of a pump system, for example, of the type that would be used in a wearable drug delivery system, comprises dual linear-actuated plungers disposed in a pump chamber. The plungers are coupled to a leadscrew having both left-hand and right-hand threads such that rotation of leadscrew in a first direction moves the plungers together and rotation of leadscrew in a second, opposite direction moves the plungers apart. Movement of the plungers away from each other draws one or more doses of a liquid drug from a reservoir into the pump chamber, while movement of the plungers together forces liquid drug to a patient interface for delivery to the patient.

The invention belongs to the technical field of anesthesia depth regulation and control, and particularly relates to an anesthesia depth self-adaptive regulation and control method and system based on a dynamic time sequence model, and the system comprises a portable computer which is used for operating a program, receiving electroencephalogram time sequence data output by a signal collection device, receiving a pressing event of a handle, and obtaining efficacy information of an effect part; a channel gating result is generated based on the information and used for conducting category division on a drug administration adjustment request, gating is conducted through a shared code LSTM and a two-channel LSTM head and an effect room concentration vector and a hysteresis band, the problem of rhythm dislocation caused by exponential smoothing lag and induction-waking asymmetry is solved, mistaken up-regulation or mistaken down-regulation and overshoot are reduced, and the accuracy of drug administration adjustment is improved. And the adjustment convergence time is shortened, so that the anesthesia depth is more stably maintained in a target interval.

An infusion system and pump with configurable closed loop delivery rate catch-up including an infusion system having a medication management unit and a medical device. The medication management unit has programming code to: provide a graphical user interface for modifying a drug library; receive a catch-up rate factor; update the drug library with the catch-up rate factor; and transmit the updated drug library to the medical device. The medical device has programming code to: receive the updated drug library; receive a desired infusion rate; calculate expected accumulated infusion volume from the desired infusion rate; request delivery of the infusion at the desired infusion rate; determine actual accumulated infusion volume at a particular time; increase the infusion rate by the catch-up rate factor to generate a catch-up infusion rate when at the particular time the actual accumulated infusion volume is less than expected; and request infusion at the catch-up infusion rate.

The present invention relates to an infusion pump assembly. A wearable infusion pump assembly includes a reusable housing assembly including a mechanical control assembly including a pump assembly, at least one shape memory actuator configured to actuate the pump assembly, and at least one valve assembly. The wearable infusion pump assembly also includes a disposable housing assembly including a reservoir for receiving an infusible fluid. A releasable engagement assembly is configured to releasably engage the reusable housing assembly with the disposable housing assembly. A switch assembly is configured to enable a pairing function of the infusion pump assembly.

The invention discloses an insulin pump safety reminding system based on remote communication, and the system comprises an insulin pump terminal which is used for collecting equipment operation parameters, and receiving and executing a verified operation instruction; the patient monitoring terminal is bridged with a data transfer interface, a local data encryption cache interface, a graded early warning display interface and a remote man-machine interaction interface of the insulin pump terminal and the hospital comprehensive management platform; the graded authorization user terminal receives early warning information related to the insulin pump terminal, checks the state of a patient and initiates a remote operation request; the hospital comprehensive management platform is in communication connection with each terminal, manages each terminal, performs data aggregation and intelligent analysis, generates early warning information based on a multi-dimensional rule, and performs authority management and auditing and multi-source data fusion application; and the safety communication and control module is used for guaranteeing data transmission safety, operation instruction compliance and system emergency fault-tolerant operation. According to the invention, cross-time-space safety protection and active early warning can be realized, the treatment safety and management efficiency are improved, and the method is suitable for medical and pension institutions at all levels.

A gate linkage control method and device and a series water supply and power generation system are provided. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring a water demand and current water level information of the series water supply and power generation system, the current water level information at least comprising current riverway water level information and current water diversion trunk canal water level information; determining a gate opening degree control strategy of a first water diversion gate and a second water diversion gate according to the water demand and the current water level information of the series water supply and power generation system; and carrying out linkage control on the first water diversion gate and the second water diversion gate according to the gate opening degree control strategy.

A robotic construction system for use in constructing a structure, the construction system including a base, a boom extending from the base, an articulated delivery head attached proximate an end of the boom, the delivery head including a nozzle configured to deliver a construction material and a controller configured to control movement of the boom and the delivery head to thereby move the nozzle and deliver construction material, wherein the boom moves with a slower dynamic response over larger distances and the delivery head provides a faster dynamic response over smaller distances.

The invention relates to an infusion speed alarm method and system. The infusion speed alarm method comprises the steps that a multi-mode sensing data set is formed; according to the multi-mode sensing data set, whether the conditions of dripping speed abnormity, pressure sudden increase, too large bubbles, pipeline blockage or backflow exist or not is judged, and corresponding abnormal feature information is generated; inputting the abnormal feature information into a prediction model and a fuzzy logic controller of a long short-term memory network, outputting a prediction result of a future infusion speed in an infusion process, and dynamically adjusting an alarm threshold according to the prediction result; executing graded early warning based on the prediction result and the dynamic adjustment alarm threshold value to obtain a graded early warning result of infusion speed alarm; uploading the grading early warning result to a centralized monitoring end of a nurse station through wireless communication to obtain a nursing response result; and performing iterative optimization on the prediction model and the fuzzy logic controller based on reinforcement learning. The accuracy of infusion speed alarm can be improved.

A technical solution for monitoring operation of a medical delivery device such as a wearable patch pump for occlusion is provided that employs sensing pump motor current during at least one of a dispense stroke and an aspirate in a pump cycle. The solution can be implemented alone or in combination with other occlusion sensing methods that use one or more of pump measurement data such as pump stroke duration (e.g., duration of aspirate stroke or dispense stroke in a rotational metering-type pump or a reciprocating-type pump), end-stop or limit switch activation, and duration difference between aspirate and dispense strokes to detect occlusion. Accuracy of occlusion detection based on measured data in a fluid delivery device is improved by using dead band normalization of loaded measured data to unloaded measured data.

The present invention achieves a larger flow rate of a fluid control valve without increasing a size of an orifice or an actuator. The fluid control valve includes an orifice having a valve seat surface and a valve body having a seating surface to be seated on the valve seat surface. The orifice has a plurality of inflow ports and a plurality of outflow ports that are open along a first direction on the valve seat surface. The plurality of inflow ports and the plurality of outflow ports are arranged side by side in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

The invention discloses a high-pressure injection system and method. The high-pressure injection system comprises an equipment body, an injection propelling device, a needle cylinder pipeline suite, a medicine bottle replacing device, a bubble induction sensor, a gravity sensor, a pressure sensor and a control system, wherein the injection propelling device, the needle cylinder pipeline suite, the medicine bottle replacing device, the bubble induction sensor, the gravity sensor and the pressure sensor are installed on the equipment body; wherein the medicine bottle replacing device is used for containing and automatically replacing medicine bottles; the needle cylinder pipeline suite is communicated with the needle cylinder pipeline suite through a puncture outfit, and can selectively suck liquid medicine and continuously inject multiple patients; the injection propulsion device drives a needle cylinder piston to realize precise injection; the bubble induction sensor, the gravity sensor and the pressure sensor are respectively used for monitoring pipeline bubbles, medicine bottle weight and needle cylinder pressure in real time; the control system coordinates all the components, and full-automatic execution of medicine bottle replacement, medicine liquid extraction, pipeline exhaust and injection control operation is achieved. Full automation of the injection preparation process is achieved, the radiography examination efficiency is remarkably improved, the labor intensity of medical workers is reduced, and the safety and accuracy of the injection process are ensured.

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent monitoring, and discloses a full-automatic sediment monitoring method and system.The method comprises the steps that a water sampling and distributing unit samples a target water area based on real-time sampling control parameters and conveys a sampled first water sample to a flow cell unit based on sampling control parameters; the flow cell unit simulates and forms a water sample monitoring water area environment matched with the target water area condition; the detection unit detects the water sample in the flow cell unit through a target detection method based on the detection control parameters to obtain a sediment detection result at least containing the sediment content; the reserved sample unit is used for extracting a reserved sample water sample for verifying the sediment detection result from the flow cell unit based on the reserved sample control parameters, and storing the reserved sample water sample and corresponding multi-dimensional water sample parameters. Therefore, the sediment condition of the related water area can be automatically and intelligently tested based on the full-automatic sediment monitoring system, and the testing efficiency and testing accuracy of the sediment condition can be improved.

A pneumatic gauge and pressure control device includes a pneumatic gauge that is manually movable from a neutral position to: (i) a fill position for compressed air to flow from a compressed air source into a system; or (ii) a vent position for compressed air to be vented from the system. The pneumatic gauge can rotate or slide from the neutral position to the fill and vent positions. A method for controlling a flow of compressed air with respect to a pneumatic system includes manually moving a pneumatic pressure gauge from a neutral position to a fill position to cause compressed air to be communicated from an associated compressed air source into the pneumatic system and / or moving the pneumatic gauge from the neutral position or from the fill position to a vent position to cause compressed air to be vented from the pneumatic system.

A medical fluid measuring device for measuring a fluid supplied to a patient comprising: a conduit comprising an inner diameter of less than 3 mm, wherein the conduit comprises: an inlet for receiving the fluid, and an outlet configured to be connected to a proximal end of a catheter to supply an outlet fluid to a patient; and a flow meter assembly for measuring the outlet fluid flow, wherein the flow meter assembly is configured to measure a fluid flow of less than 100 mL / min.

Components for a medical infusion fluid handling system, such as an APD system, in which one or more lines (such as solution lines), spikes or other connection ports may be automatically capped and / or de-capped. This feature may provide advantages, such as a reduced likelihood of contamination since no human interaction is required to de-cap and connect the lines, spikes or other connections. For example, a fluid handling cassette may include one or more caps that cover a corresponding spike and include a raised and / or recessed feature to assist in removal of the cap from the cassette. A solution line cap may include a hole and recess, groove or other feature to engage with a spike cap and enable removal of the cap.

A wearable fluid delivery device (FDD) has a fluidic module and an electromechanical module. The fluidic module has a fluid path from a fluid reservoir to an outlet to a patient that is separate from the electromechanical module and its components that control the delivery of the fluid to the patient. A pump that can be disposed in the fluidic module, or in the electromechanical module and external to the fluid path. The FDD can have a releasably coupled first housing and second housing that enclose a respective one of the fluidic module and the electromechanical module. The first and second housings when connected have respective ones of aligned sensor opening and sensor access opening to create a sensor access area and permit a sensor to detect a pressure in the fluid path and thereby provide a pressure sensing system external to the fluid path.

An apparatus, system and method for regulating fluid flow are disclosed. An apparatus for infusing fluid into a patient includes a housing, a tube-contact member, a rotating arm, and a tube-retention cover. The housing has an opening on a front side of the housing. The opening is sized to receive a drip chamber having an inlet tube and an outlet tube. The tube-contact member contacts one of the inlet tube and the output tube of the drip chamber when inserted into the opening. The rotating arm is coupled to the tube-contact member and is configured to rotate along an axis. The tube-retention cover is configured to close when the drip chamber is initially loaded into the opening.

Disclosed herein are drug delivery devices including catheter assemblies, infusion systems, pre-filled syringes, methods of use, combination products, kits of parts, and drug products with parts lists for independent sourcing, for use in the otic administration of a drug product to a subject in need thereof.

The invention relates to the technical field of high-pressure injection control, and discloses a high-pressure injector intelligent control system based on the 5G technology. An injection pressure dynamic adjusting module driven by a microcontroller of the system analyzes pressure fluctuation characteristics and generates a primary pressure compensation instruction; the fluid state reconstruction module is used for calculating fluid state reconstruction parameters in combination with the real-time flow velocity data; the multi-channel cooperative control module distributes a pressure compensation weight and generates a channel cooperative instruction set based on reconstruction parameter analysis; the abnormal pressure tracing module monitors abnormal pressure sudden change points of each unit, traces corresponding fluid state parameter change tracks and outputs tracing mark data; the injection path optimization module re-plans a propulsion path trajectory based on the marked data to generate a three-dimensional path optimization parameter table; and the safety threshold self-correction module dynamically adjusts the boundary value of the pressure threshold sequence according to the track offset, and outputs an updated safety threshold parameter set to the microcontroller.

Systems and methods for mitigating backflow in subcutaneous infusion devices are disclosed. A medical device can include base having a surface configured to be placed against a patient's skin and a subcutaneous assembly coupled to the base and configured to be inserted through the patient's skin when the surface of the base is placed against the patient's skin. The subcutaneous assembly includes an infusion cannula defining a lumen extending therethrough and configured to infuse fluid therethrough, and a sensor configured to sense a biological analyte. An expandable member (e.g., a swellable material) is coupled to a radially outer surface of the subcutaneous assembly. The expandable member is configured to expand in a radially outward direction when in the presence of bodily fluid, thereby at least partially blocking a flow path from the distal end portion of the infusion cannula to the sensor.

A method of administering insulin to a patient to achieve and maintain euglycemia is disclosed. The method includes administering insulin to the patient at a drip rate that is based on a current blood glucose level of the patient and a weight of the patient. Insulin is administered during an initial phase, a transition phase (during which blood glucose level decreases slower than during the initial phase), and a maintenance phase. During the maintenance phase, the method includes adjusting the drip rate periodically based on a current drip rate and a percentage change in blood glucose level during a period of time. In addition, the maintenance phase considers a lookback period in which the drip rate is adjusted based on trends during the lookback period.

Systems and method for dispensing chemical include an eductor having a diluent inlet, a chemical pickup port, a discharge port, and a venturi fluidly coupled between the diluent inlet and the discharge port; a selector valve fluidly coupled to the diluent inlet and configured to control a flow of diluent into the diluent inlet; a sensor configured to measure a flow characteristic of the flow of diluent; and a controller operatively coupled to the selector valve. The controller includes at least one processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including opening the selector valve to allow the flow of diluent into the diluent inlet; determining a dispense duration based on the measured flow characteristic and an amount of a chemical to be dispensed; and in response to determining that the dispense duration has elapsed, closing the selector valve.

The invention discloses a shoulder operation rapid rehabilitation regulation and control system combined with an analgesia path, and the system firstly collects signals in real time through a multi-mode physiological sensing network, constructs a shoulder dynamic function spectrogram reflecting pain and functional states, and recognizes a functional abnormality core region; then, a targeted drug infusion system is controlled, and a personalized analgesia path matched with the physiological response of the object is generated in combination with a multi-physics field coupling model and a model prediction control algorithm; thirdly, calculating the comprehensive rehabilitation confidence coefficient for quantifying the rehabilitation potential by analyzing the space-time correlation between the functional spectrogram and the analgesia path; and finally, based on the comprehensive rehabilitation confidence, generating a safe, effective and object-tolerant personalized rehabilitation training instruction set by using a multi-target rehabilitation optimization model, and driving rehabilitation equipment to execute. The method has the following advantages and effects: precise space-time matching and dynamic coordination of analgesia and rehabilitation training are realized, so that the rehabilitation efficiency and quality are remarkably improved on the premise of ensuring safety.

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent identification, and particularly discloses an extravasation early warning system and method in an injection process based on a sensor and intelligent identification. The system is provided with an individualized initial monitoring threshold determination module, an intelligent monitoring patch index analysis module, an injection pump linkage index analysis module, an in-injection-process extravasation risk analysis module, a multi-level alarm and linkage intervention response module and an injection process closed-loop tracking module. The problems that a traditional infusion pump block alarm is not sensitive and unclear to exosmosis detection, an existing exosmosis detection device is tedious in operation, difficult to detect early-stage exosmosis or prone to generating false alarms, mainly depends on manual observation of skin surface signs, is low in accuracy, has technical shortages and is poor in safety and the like are solved. And non-contact optical detection equipment is possibly interfered by skin pigments, ambient light and the like, so that the detection stability is poor.

A method of adjusting a position of an infusion container includes determining a current fluid pressure of a first fluid in a fluid path at or upstream of a fluid junction. When the determined current fluid pressure satisfies a predetermined threshold: an indication of a fault condition associated with the current fluid pressure of the fluid being above the predetermined threshold is displayed. A motor operably coupled to the adjustment device automatically changes the height of the infusion container relative to the reference point to an adjusted height that results in a reduced flow of the first fluid beyond the fluid junction that mixes with the flow of the second fluid from the infusion container. The method includes determining an updated fluid pressure of the first fluid in the fluid path after the motor automatically changes the height of the infusion container to the adjusted height.