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Disclosed is a method for attaching a sensor to an inflatable balloon. The method involves bonding the sensor to the balloon with an adhesive while the balloon is in an expanded state and then collapsing the balloon after the adhesive has at least partially cured. The method reduces the possibility of a failure of the bond between the sensor and the balloon. The method is particularly useful in the construction of a tissue ablation catheter for forming a lesion along a substantially circumferential region of tissue wherein a sensor is used for monitoring the temperature of the tissue being ablated.

A robotic surgical system for performing minimally invasive medical procedures includes a robot manipulator for robotically assisted handling of a laparoscopic instrument having a manipulator arm, a manipulator wrist supported by the arm and an effector unit supported by the wrist, wherein the manipulator arm provides three degrees-of-freedom by means of a first joint, a second joint and a third joint, each having an associated actuator, for robotically positioning the wrist, the wrist providing two degrees-of-freedom by means of a fourth joint and a fifth revolute joint having an associated actuator, for robotically setting the yaw angle and the pitch angle of the effector unit respectively; the effector unit includes a laparoscopic instrument actuator and provides one degree-of-freedom by means of a revolute sixth joint having an associated actuator for robotically setting the roll angle of the LIAs which includes a seat with an associated coupling mechanism for mounting an instrument stem adaptor to the effector unit, and an actuation mechanisms cooperating with the instrument stem adaptor for actuating a laparoscopic instrument connected to the adaptor. The effector unit is configured such that the rotation axis of the revolute sixth joint coincides with the longitudinal axis of a laparoscopic instrument mounted to the effector unit and the effector unit includes a sensor assembly having a 6 degree-of-freedom (DOF) force/torque sensor and a 6 DOF accelerometer. The sensor assembly connects the LIA to the sixth revolute joint.

A system and method for assessing the quality of spot weld joints between pieces of metal includes an ultrasound transducer probing a spot weld joint. The ultrasound transducer transmits ultrasonic radiation into the spot weld joint, receives corresponding echoes, and transforms the echoes into electrical signals. An image reconstructor connected to the ultrasound transducer transforms the electrical signals into numerical data representing an ultrasound image. A neural network connected to the image reconstructor analyzes the numerical data and an output system presents information representing the quality of the spot weld joint. The system is trained to assess the quality of spot weld joints by scanning a spot weld joint with an ultrasound transducer to produce the data set representing the joint; then physically deconstructing the joint to assess the joint quality.

An energy-based tissue-sealing system and method provide higher sealing quality by measuring and using optical feedback parameters that are directly correlated to structural changes of tissue. The tissue-sealing system includes a sealing energy source, an instrument having a mechanism for grasping and deforming the tissue and for delivering sealing energy to the tissue, a light source, optical sensors, and a controller for controlling parameters of the sealing energy generated by the sealing energy source based upon the optical parameters of the tissue structure sensed by the optical sensors. At the beginning of a sealing procedure, the controller may monitor an initial optical parameter of the tissue and select a target trajectory of tissue optical parameters based on the initial optical parameter. During the sealing procedure, the controller monitors at least one optical parameter of the tissue structure and controls at least one parameter of the sealing energy based on the at least one optical parameter.

The embodiment of the invention provides a random access response method and a random access response device. The method comprises the steps as follows: user equipment (UE) sends a random access request, wherein the random access request carries information including a UE identifier; the UE receives a random access response, and if the UE identifier carried in the random access response is accordant with the UE identifier in the random access request, the UE determines that a current random access is failed, and re-initiates a random access attempt; and if the random access response does not carry the UE identifier, the UE returns to the random access process in which the random access request does not carry the UE identifier information. Therefore, the problem that how to design the random access response in a new generation wireless communication system (NR system or 5G system) to meet the characteristics and the requirements of the random access process of the new generation wireless communication system is solved.

The invention relates to a temperature probe (1) for insertion into the human or animal body, having an unfoldable balloon (2) on a catheter (5), on the outer skin (3) of which balloon (2) one or more temperature sensors (10) is/are disposed. The catheter (5) can be moved by way of a cable (9, 11) and according to one aspect of the invention an ultrasound sensor is disposed on its tip. Position sensors (12) can also be provided on the outer skin of the balloon (2). The temperature probe (1) is used to monitor the temperature distribution in the esophagus (6) during a catheter ablation.

Provided are three-dimensional air touch feedback apparatus and method for a mobile apparatus. The present invention provides an air touch feedback apparatus, including: a display unit which outputs a 3D floating image; a touch detecting unit which is disposed at a side edge of a display unit and includes a plurality of sensors to detect a body of a user and receives position information on at least one image object of the 3D floating image from the display unit to determine an air touch position where the body of the user is in contact with the image object; and a feedback providing unit which receives air touch position information from the touch detecting unit and radiates an ultrasonic wave to the air touch position at the side edge of the display unit.

A simulator simulates interaction between a surgical tool and biological tissue, providing real time visual and/or haptic feedback. The simulator receives tool input device information representative of a user's movement of a physical tool. The simulator simulates, based on the tool input device information, an interaction between the simulated tool and simulated biological tissue. The simulator uses multiple computational threads, some of which provide their calculations to interrelated threads for use. The simulator displays a visual representation of the simulated interaction between the simulated tool and the simulated biological tissue and provides haptic feedback to the user. The threads may operate asynchronously and have different spatial and/or temporal resolutions. Threads may be selectively activated and deactivated. Threads may move their spatial coverage.

The invention relates to a rehabilitation device which guides a patient to perform a motion with a correct spatial trajectory, by the device applying one or more pushing, assisting, reminding, responding and/or resisting forces during a motion(or intent to move)by the patient. The forces are applied by an actuator, for example, a robotic articulated arm or a spherically jointed lever. The applied forces act as a force fields, optionally continuous, which impeded and/or guides a patient. The device can be programmable with various trajectories(paths and/or velocities)and/or forces. The forces at one point in the trajectory can vary responsive to an actual trajectory by the patient and/or responsive to a rehabilitation plan and/or improvement of the patient. The device can learn a motion entered by a physiotherapist and replay it for the patient.

To realize a method for detecting variations in conditions (drift of the exposure and drift of the focus) in exposure equipment at a product wafer level in lithography process, the process is specified in such a way that calculation results of feature quantities such as electron beam images, line profiles, dimensions, etc. under various sets of the exposure and the focus are stored as a library, and an electron beam image of the product wafer is compared with these pieces of data in the library so that detection of drifts of the exposure and the focus a check of the results on the screen can easily be performed.

An on-line shopping system and method to provide coordinated items and ensembles including shoes, shirts, bags, and other consumer products is provided. Manufacturers determine ensembles of “relevant” items. The items and ensembles are presented to shoppers where they are able to provide feedback as to how “relevant” the items are in their opinion based on lifestyle, profession, use and other factors. Ensembles may be reorganized according to shopper feedback and customized for future shoppers having qualities in common with the shoppers who have already provided feedback.

Semantic errors in a natural language text document are automatically detected by matching sentences in the document with stored ontology-based extraction rules that express both logically correct and logically incorrect relationships between the classes and properties of an ontology for a predefined knowledge domain of relevance to the natural language text document. The matching identifies logically correct and incorrect statements in the document which may be used for various applications such as automatic grading.

A key input device is provided. The key input device includes a pressure key having a pressing surface, a pressure sensor formed on an opposite surface side of the pressing surface of the pressure key, a flexible member formed on a side portion of the pressure key, a vibration actuator attached to the flexible member, and a controller for controlling the vibration actuator according to a pressure detected by the pressure sensor, or includes a touch key having a touch surface, a touch sensor formed on an opposite surface side of the touch surface of the touch key, a flexible member formed on a side portion of the touch key, a vibration actuator attached to the flexible member, and a controller for controlling the vibration actuator according to a touch detected by the touch sensor.

A foldable cart assembly having a user tracking arrangement so as to follow movement of the user during motion over a field. The cart assembly has a plurality of ultrasound and RF sensors in communication with corresponding sensors in a remote handset transmission device carried by the user. The sensors provide timing, direction and distance information to a central processor on the cart for instructing individual electrical motors empowering the respective direction and speed of rotation of the cart's wheels.

The invention relates to a light-dimmer driving circuit. The light-dimmer driving circuit comprises a power supply input module, a transformer, a current output driving module, a pulse width modulation (PWM) module, an input voltage sampling module, an output voltage sampling module and a control center, wherein the power supply input module is mainly used for rectification and filtering of an input voltage signal, the transformer is used for voltage reduction of the voltage signal output by the power supply input module, the current output driving module is used for driving of current output according to the voltage signal which is transformed, the PWM module is used for adjusting output power of the current output driving module according to a control signal in the control center, the input voltage sampling module is used for sampling of the input voltage signal and transmitting the input voltage signal to the control center, the output voltage sampling module is used for sampling of output voltage and transmitting the output voltage to the control center, and the control center is used for controlling a PWM signal according to an input voltage sampling signal, an output voltage sampling signal and an input current signal. According to the light-dimmer driving circuit, due to the fact that the control center is used for controlling the PWM signal according to the input voltage sampling signal, the output voltage sampling signal and the input current signal, the output power of the current output driving module is enabled to change evenly, flicker-free light adjusting is achieved, constant current output is achieved, and range of the light adjusting is wide.

A measurement system having a miniature, wireless inertial measurement unit (IMU) disposed within or on a moving object, such as a ball or other member, to calculate the kinematics of the moving object.