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An intratubular anastomosis apparatus for joining organ portions of a hollow organ after intussusception which includes an anastomosis ring, and a crimping support element. The anastomosis ring includes a length of a wire formed of a shape memory alloy for crimping adjacent organ portions against the crimping support element so as to cause anastomosis. The anastomosis ring and the shape memory alloy assumes a plastic state, when at a first, lower temperature and an elastic state, when reaching at least a second, higher temperature. The crimping support element provides a support for crimping the organ portions against the support element. Using the anastomosis ring and crimping support element of the present invention reduces the risk of leakage and no staples or sutures remain within the anastomosed organ portion.

An implantable electrical stimulation lead includes a lead body having a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, a distal tip, a longitudinal length, and a longitudinal surface. Segmented tip electrodes are disposed circumferentially about the distal tip of the lead body and are electrically-isolated from each other. Each segmented tip electrode has an inner surface and an opposing outer stimulating surface exposed along the longitudinal surface of the lead body. A portion of the lead body is disposed against the inner surfaces of each of the segmented tip electrodes and circumferentially between each of the segmented tip electrodes. A non-tip electrode is disposed along the distal end portion of the lead body proximal to the segmented tip electrodes. Terminals are disposed along the proximal end portion of the lead body. Conductors electrically couple the terminals to the segmented tip electrodes and to the non-tip electrode.

A gaming system is provided with biometric facilities for identifying or verifying the identity of a player or perspective player. In one aspect reference biometric data is stored in a portable biometric data storage device such as a smart card, PCMCIA card or the like and is preferably left in the possession or control of the individual or individuals to whom the biometric data relates. The reference biometric data is read in individual gaming terminals and compared, in individual gaming terminals to measured biometric data of a player or perspective player. In one aspect, gaming terminals use biometric verification or indication to implement a practical and feasible cashless gaming terminal.

A method for forming an implantable medical device, such as a stent, is provided, in which electric discharges are applied to a metal surface of the implantable medical device. The electric discharges pit the surface. The pitted surface improves retention of a coating on the device and increases the amount of coating that can be carried by the device. An electric discharge machining process is described for applying electric discharges to the surface of the implantable medical device or portion thereof.

Coating compositions and methods of use, allowing for improved water and/or nutrient usage by seeds, plants, shrubs, and vegetation, among others, are disclosed.

A protective cover (10) is disclosed that can be interchanged among a variety of baby seats. It includes a canopy (11) and a sealing element (22) that can interchangeably and flexibly seal around a variety of baby seats. It may also contain a removable hood (20) that may shield a portion of an insect resistant mesh (15) so that a side mesh (15b) remains open for air and viewing of the occupant under the protective cover (10). Furthermore, the hood (20) may be attached at an approximate midpoint (26) of the canopy (11) to allow versatility in deploying the hood in a rearward direction and fastening the hood with attachment element (38). Likewise, the hood (20) may be folded in a forward direction and attached with attachment element (38) to a forward contour of a baby seat. The protective cover may include a protective foot shield (14) located under the hood (20) that may protect, for instance, feet of an occupant from a stinger or biting proboscis of a flying insect when the feet may touch the inside surfaces of the cover. Another feature of the present invention may include the ability of the present invention to be folded to a reduced state for easy storage and held in the reduced state by an integral restraining element which could be the hood (20). Another feature could be an inclement weather filtering configuration of mesh that could be located on the side to filter light, for instance, to a reduced level for the occupant's comfort.

The invention relates to a test tube carrier (4) for transporting test tubes in a transport system, said carrier (4) comprising a base (8) having a recess made thereto for accommodating the bottom of a test tube/vial (1), and support members (9, 10) adapted to the carrier base (8) for clamping a test tube (1) inserted in said recess and supporting the same. The support members (9, 10) are permanently affixed to said carrier base (8) and comprise elongated portions with their free ends bent toward the vertical center axis of the carrier base and said upper ends providing a support surface (22) for making supportive contact to the test tube. The bottom of the carrier base recess for accommodating a test tube is advantageously made flat and the carrier base is provided with test tube support members whose support surfaces (22) extend to at least two different heights from the top level of the carrier base (8).

Implantable medical devices employing a sol-gel composition coatings that functions as a bioactive material reservoir, and the use of sol-gel composition coatings for improved adhesion of organic and inorganic substrates are disclosed.

The invention relates to a virtual key based on Bluetooth communication as well as an anti-theft lock system and an application method thereof. The system comprises a lock node, a user node, a server and the virtual key, wherein the virtual key is generated on the server and is saved in the server, and a user can download the virtual key through a communication network; when the user wants to open a gate, unlocking requests are sent to a gate lock, a car lock and the like with Bluetooth modules, and the virtual key is downloaded; the lock node can verify the legality of the virtual key through inspecting the virtual key so as to unlock for the current user; an unlocking message can be generated during each-time unlocking, is transmitted back to the server through Bluetooth after being processed by a corresponding algorithm and is saved in the virtual key to generate a new virtual key. The virtual key provided by the invention can be used in intelligent buildings in modern wisdom cities, can also be used in bicycles, drawers and the like, has the biggest advantages that the keeping of the key is simplified, and the use efficiency of the key is improved, and has the characteristics of high in safety and convenient to use.

A removable ball of the foot insert for placement into footwear at a position in correspondence with a forefoot portion of the footwear includes a substantially planar member made from a viscoelastic gel, the planar member including a lower surface and an upper surface, and a plurality of parallel, spaced apart, sinusoidally shaped spring walls formed from a viscoelastic gel and extending from the lower surface of the planar member at a predetermined area corresponding to a ball of the foot when the insert is inserted into the footwear, for separating bones of second and third metatarsals of the foot, the spring walls having heights that generally decrease outwardly from a center of the predetermined area, and the viscoelastic gel of the planar member having a hardness greater than a hardness of the viscoelastic gel of the spring walls.

A lid for a drinking cup may include a rim portion and a raised cover portion. The rim portion may be adapted to matingly engage an upper peripheral edge of the drinking cup so as to selectively maintain the lid in a covering relationship on the cup. The raised cover portion may extend from the rim portion, and have a perimeter adapted to impede spillage of liquid over a peripheral edge of the lid. Liquid spilled or released on the cover portion or perimeter portion may drain away from the periphery of the cover portion and into the drinking opening or a recess in the cover portion that is adapted to receive a reclosable tab.

The invention provides compositions and methods for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of conditions affecting breast tissue. The compositions can include one or more therapeutic agents or diagnostic agents, and an effective carrier. The composition can be specifically adapted for transdermal permeation through the mammary papilla, areola, or a combination thereof, and into underlying breast tissue.

A portable device accessory is used to hold, grip or manipulate a portable device such as and not limited to mobile phones, MP3 players, portable entertainment/computing devices, and/or gaming devices. The accessory possesses two suctions cups connected by a neck and having an aperture for receiving a jack on earphone. Certain embodiments of the accessory will have tabs, ridges, groove and/or a space to receive earphones. The accessory permits a jack of earphones to be threaded through an aperture and the cord of the earphones to be wrapped around the accessory. The suction cups may be inverted to conceal the cord wrapped around a neck of the accessory and tabs may be used to hold inverted suction cups together.

This invention relates to a bony fixation system and method for use as a prosthetic implant. The system and method includes a plate dimensioned to be situated between adjacent bony structures, such as adjacent vertebrae. Screws are provided in one embodiment and are dimensioned or configured to be inserted into a bony structure and to lock against each other to retain the screws and consequently secure the plate in place against the bony structure.

In one exemplary embodiment, the present invention provides a container system having an outer shell defining a cavity that is configured to receive a first medical device component therein. A support tray is sized for receipt within the outer shell of the container system and is supported above the first medical device component. In one exemplary embodiment, the support tray defines a second cavity that may receive a second medical device component. In addition, a retention tray may be positioned within the cavity of the support tray and supported above the second medical device component. The retention tray facilitates the retention of the support tray within the outer shell and also facilitates the retention of the first and second medical device components in their desired positions within the container system. Additionally, positioned to extend across an opening in the outer shell is a cover.

A method and apparatus for correcting vision, including a corneal-pocket keratome device to create a corneal pocket and a lens to be inserted and retained in the corneal pocket to effect correction. The corneal-pocket keratome includes a drive unit having cutting head elements which contact the subject eye during corneal pocket formation. The cutting head elements may be removeable and may be disposable. The cutting head elements include a corneal restraint device, which may be a positioning ring to position an eyeball with the cornea protruding through the ring; a keratome blade assembly with a corneal-pocket blade; and may also include an applanation shoe surface to restrain the cornea, in addition or instead of the positioning ring. The applanation shoe may be pivotable away from the surgical area. The corneal-pocket blade may include a guide which travels with the blade. The blade assembly oscillates laterally while extending forward into the cornea to form the pocket, and the amplitude of the lateral oscillation is preferably increased as the blade goes beyond an opening incision into the cornea. Lenses for this invention preferably include a feature to impede accidental lens movement after the lens is disposed within the corneal pocket, which may be a swelling after insertion or a circumferential irregularity. Lenses may be of Fresnel or non-Fresnel type, and may employ annular changes in the index of refraction of the lens material, as well as changes in refractive shape which may be annular or not, to effect variations in focal length for relieving presbyopia, astigmatism, and combinations of those as well as myopia and hyperopia. Drive control and vacuum for the positioning ring are provided under user command by a control unit having user inputs.

The invention relates to a preparation method of tobacco extract granules, which comprises the following steps: firstly taking and cutting up tobacco leaves and/or tobacco stalks, taking water or ethanol or ethyl ether as a solvent for extraction, settling and filtering to obtain tobacco extract, then concentrating to the relative density of 1.00-1.30, and controlling the temperature to 20-40 DEGC to obtain tobacco extract concentrate or tobacco extractum; and including beta-cyclodextrin and flavouring essence for tobacco according to the mass ratio of 1-3:1 with the inclusion time of 1/5-3 hours to obtain a flavouring essence and beta-cyclodextrin inclusion compound, and then spray drying the flavouring essence for tobacco and beta-cyclodextrin inclusion compound and the tobacco extractconcentrate together to obtain tobacco spray dried powder; or directly spray drying the tobacco extractum to obtain the tobacco spray dried powder; and then adding excipient material to the tobacco spray dried powder for dry method or wet method granulation to obtain the tobacco extract granules. The tobacco extract granules obtained in the method disclosed by the invention are applied to cigarettes to improve the tar and harm reduction effect of the cigarettes, and can be used for aroma compensation, the utilization rate of waste tobacco leaf raw material is improved, and the cost of the cigarettes is reduced.

The invention relates to a treatment method of sludge generated by urban sewage treatment plant and industrial sludge and discloses a sludge treatment method based on hydrothermal carbonization. The sludge treatment method comprises four steps: sludge preheating treatment, hydrothermal carbonization, waste heat recovery and dehydration desiccation. By adopting the sludge treatment method, as the sludge is converted to hydrothermal carbon by adopting a hydrothermal carbonization technology, pathogenic microorganisms in the sludge are completely killed, most heavy metal pollutants in the sludge are dissolved out, and organic toxic substances in the sludge are effectively decomposed, so that the energy recovery utilization rate is high, and the sludge treatment method is clean, environment-friendly, rapid and effective and has high product additional values.

To provide a piston for an internal combustion engine including a skirt which causes a relatively small frictional resistance and can maintain a favorable frictional property over an extended period of time. In a piston for an internal combustion engine having a skirt 4 on whose sliding surface a resin coating layer is deposited, the skirt 4 comprises a thin walled portion 51 located in a circumferentially middle part thereof and a pair of thick walled portions 52 provided on either lateral side of the thin walled portion 51. The resin coating layer 44 at least in the part thereof deposited on the thick walled portions 52 is formed with a plurality of dimples 45. The skirt may comprise a skirt main body 41 extending axially at a fixed distance from the central axial line of the piston in an axially middle part thereof, and a first reduced diameter portion 42 depending from the lower end of the skirt main body and having a progressively smaller diameter toward a lower end thereof. The dimples 45 may be arranged along a first boundary 6 between the skirt main body and first reduced diameter portion.

The present invention discloses compositions having particles comprising, inorganic element; one or more active ingredient and optionally a release rate modulating agent, suitable for the delivery of active ingredients to human and animal tissues. The particles are nanoparticles or microparticles or mixtures thereof, made preferably by sol-gel method. The compositions are useful for application to the topical or mucosal surfaces preferably in the form of creams, gels, lotions, dry powders, spray, foam and other suitable forms.

Sterile injectable formulations, which comprise the following: (a) a ablation agent in an amount effective to cause necrosis of tissue, and (b) a biodisintegrable viscosity adjusting agent in an amount effective to render the formulation highly viscous, (c) an optional imaging contrast agent, (d) an optional therapeutic agent, and (e) an optional liquid selected from water and an organic solvent. Also described are novel prostatic ablation formulations, which comprise a prostatic ablation agent selected from free-radical generating ablation agents, oxidizing ablation agents and tissue fixing ablation agents. Further aspects of the invention relate to methods of treating a variety of diseases and conditions, including benign prostatic hypertrophy, in which above injectable formulations are injected into the tissue of a subject, optionally with the assistance of a non-invasive imaging technique.

In one aspect, an elastically averaged alignment system is provided. The alignment system includes a first component having an alignment member, and a second component having an inner wall defining an alignment aperture. The alignment aperture is configured to receive the alignment member to couple the first component and the second component. The alignment member includes at least one retention member configured to engage the second component to facilitate retaining at least a portion of the alignment member within the alignment aperture. The alignment member is an elastically deformable material such that when the alignment member is inserted into the alignment aperture, the alignment member elastically deforms to an elastically averaged final configuration to facilitate aligning and stiffening the first component and the second component in a desired orientation.

The invention relates to a depth bidirectional feature pyramid enhancement network for small-scale target detection, comprising: determining a backbone network of a network encoding end; determining adepth bidirectional feature pyramid enhancement network of a small-scale target detection end. Design Bottom-Up characteristic pyramid; Design Top-Down pyramid; Target Detection Subnetwork: Using strategies in detection of the two stages in faster-rcnn, wherein the two stages include candidate frame extraction and target classification respectively. In the RPN stage, regression of a target frameand prediction of whether the probability the target's are performed by use of the convolution of the convolution kernel of 3*3 on an output characteristic graph of each scale of the top-down characteristic pyramid. the screened candidate target frame and the output characteristic graph of the top-down characteristic pyramid of the corresponding scale are subjected to ROI-pooling, and finally twofull connection layers are used to adjust the frame and classify the specific categories of the target; Object Detection Results are output.

A method of using nickeliferous laterite to reduce ferronickel directly in tunnel kiln relates to a method of reducing ferronickel. Comparing with high furnace smelting ferronickel and electric furnace smelting ferronickel having problems such as great invest, high manufacturing cost and produced ferronickel with high carbon content, the method of the invention is finished as: selecting nickeliferous laterite as material, the nickeliferous laterite contains 0.75-2.60% by weight of nickel, 8.00-55.0% by weght of iron; adding weight ratio of nickeliferous laterite and reductant as 1.00:0.25-0.55 into reducing pot, then putting the reducing pot in tunnel kiln, through preheating and stoving, heating reducing, cooling, taking off to get qualified reduced directly nickeliferous laterite. The invention selects natural nickeliferous laterite as material to reduce nickeliferous laterite, having advantages such as technology which easy to control, simple operation, low dissipation of energy, environment protection without pollution, low manufacturing cost, low installion cost and produced ferronickel with low carbon content.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a pixel circuit and a display device. The pixel circuit comprises a data voltage write-in module, a driving module, a storage module, a light emitting module and a leakage current suppression module. The data voltage write-in module is used for writing data voltage into the control end of the driving module. The storage module is used for storing data voltage of the control end of the driving module. The driving module is used for driving the light-emitting module to emit light according to the data voltage of the control end of the driving module. The leakage current suppression module is electrically connected with the control end of the driving module and is used for maintaining the potential of the control end of the driving module. The potential of the control end of the driving module is not easy to release in the light emitting stage, so that the potential of the control end of the driving module can be well maintained, and the display effect is improved. Moreover, the driving frequency of the pixel circuit can be reduced, and the power consumption of the whole display device comprising the pixel circuit is reduced. And the area of the storage module can be reduced, so that the pixel density can be improved.

The invention discloses an SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) image speckle reduction method based on sparse representation, which mainly solves the problems of incomplete detail information and unsmooth homogeneous regions for SAR image speckle reduction in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps of: carrying out logarithmic transformation on an original SAR image Y; carrying out overlapping blocking on an image Y' subjected to logarithmic transformation; taking the own information of the image blocks as control factors and carrying out sparse representation on the control factors; carrying out dictionary learning by adopting an approximate KSVD (K Singular Value Decomposition) algorithm to obtain a self-adaptive dictionary and updated sparse representation coefficients; obtaining an image W by adopting the self-adaptive dictionary and the updated sparse representation coefficients, and carrying out exponential transformation on the image W to obtain an image R; and carrying out nonlinear anisotropic diffusion on a difference image V obtained from the original SAR image Y and the image R subjected to the exponential transformation, thereby obtaining a final speckle-reduced image. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the homogeneous regions of speckle reduction results are smooth, point targets are clear and visible, and edge information iskept complete and the like, besides, the method is suitable for a preprocessing process of SAR image understanding.

A method is provided for encapsulating permanent magnets of a rotor of a generator. Magnets, which are shorter than a rotor yoke in an axial direction, are placed outside of the yoke leaving a short portion of the yoke free at both ends. Spacers of a non-magnetic material are placed between the magnets. End barriers are placed on the free portions of the yoke. A thin sheet of a non-magnetic material is folded around the magnets and the spacers, covering the entire length of the rotor, including the barriers. An air tight membrane is placed on the outside of the sheet and sealed to the ends of the yoke so that the membrane and the yoke together form an air tight enclosure. A vacuum is applied to the air tight enclosure between the membrane and the yoke. Resin is infused into the air tight enclosure and set.

The invention provides a lower body garment comprising an interior layer comprising an elastic material to be worn around a wearer's leg, an outer shell, and a tunnel pocket system positioned between the outer shell and interior layer. The tunnel pocket system defines a tunnel extending from the exterior pocket of the outer shell and terminating in an interior pocket positioned in or on the elastic material of the interior layer. In use, the wearer can access the interior pocket through the exterior pocket. The elastic material of the interior layer facilitates retention of items stored in the pocket against the wearer's leg, thereby reducing movement of items when the wearer moves. Retention of items stored in the pocket against the wearer's leg can be further enhanced by providing that the pocket be of elastic material.

The combination of a figurine toy and a smartphone-type device, along with display-controlling software apps, the figurine toy having a receptacle, receiving pocket or mating area adapted and structured to temporarily receive and retain the smartphone-type device such that the visual display of the smartphone-type device presents animated facial features for the figurine toy, the smartphone-type device covering the static facial features of the figurine toy when received by the figurine toy.

A method using the convolution nerve network to remove magnetic resonance image downsampling artifacts is provided; the method uses a sample magnetic resonance image with the artifact as an input image, and uses the convolution nerve network framework to process the image, thus finally obtaining a result image with no artifact; the method comprises the following steps: 1, obtaining an optimal model, T1, preprocessing the sample magnetic resonance image; T2, building the convolution nerve network basic framework; T3, initializing the convolution nerve network basic framework parameters; T4, using training data to optimize the convolution nerve network basic framework parameters, thus obtaining an optimal model; 2, using the optimal model to remove artifacts of the to-be-processed image so as to obtain a target image, T5, substituting the preprocessed to-be-processed image into the optimal model, and outputting the result image. The optimal model can effectively remove the artifacts caused by downsampling, thus obtaining high resolution and contract ratio, and well keeping image details.