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An endoscopic elevator apparatus cooperable with an insertion tube extending to a distal tip and having enhanced grasping and reduced scraping of an elongate medical device is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an elevator movably attached to the distal tip. The elevator has an inner side formed thereon defining a grasping slot for engagement with the endoscope. The elevator has a surface projection disposed thereon for inhibiting damage to the elongate medical device.

A co-molded plastic pinch clip with certain portions thereof formed from different materials. The clip is adapted to be secured to the body of a hanger, to a clothesline, or any other suitable element. The clip comprises a pair of complementary jaw members formed of a relatively hard plastic material joined together by a bridge-like member. The bridge-like member is joined, at each end, to the middle portion of each of the complementary jaw members by means of a living hinge. A substantially rigid, resilient member engages and presses against the outer surfaces of the complementary jaw members to maintain the relative positions thereof and, as well, force them into engagement at one end. Each jaw member includes a relatively soft plastic pad on the opposite sides of the opposite ends thereof such that a pair of soft plastic pads are disposed in abutting relationship at the inner engagable ends of the clip and a pair of soft plastic pads are disposed at the outer pressable ends of the clip.

The invention relates to a computer real-time analysis system for singing and playing, comprising a segmental package-inspection device of an acoustical signal, a real-time recording, storing, displaying and playing device of acoustical signal time-domain data, a device for drawing time-frequency-intensity joint picture with fast Fourier transform for a short time, a device for drawing time-frequency real-time spectrum with fast Fourier transform for a short time, a device for recognizing fundamental tone, harmonic tone and resonance peak of sound, analysis processing and displaying, a devicefor rhythm recognition of the sound, analysis processing and displaying, a device for analyzing and sorting-out into an opern and displaying according to the information such as fundamental tone, libretto, rhythm and tuning systems; and a device for modifying, recording, storing, evaluating, displaying, playing and transmitting an acoustical time-domain and frequency-domain signal. The system carries out computer real-time visualization and systematical and quantitative measurement and test to vocal music and instrumental music, and sing state and playing state can be recognized and guided byadopting the computer image and video automatic recognition technology.

A grasping apparatus for use with an elevator of an endoscope having enhanced grasping features for grasping an elongate medical device is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a body comprising a grasping surface and an opening formed through the grasping surface to receive the elevator. The opening of the body is configured to be disposed about the elevator of the endoscope. The grasping surface is configured to be disposed on the elevator for grasping of the elongate medical device.

A reusable bottle cap having identification means coupled to a novel bottle cap cover is disclosed and described herein. In a specific embodiment, the bottle cap has a stem having a series of successive U-shaped grooves or ridges. A slight taper in the stein provides that bottles of varying diameters can be accommodated by a single design. Further, the design is made from pliable polyethylene or polyurethane material to form an effective seal to the mouth of bottles of varying diameter. In a preferred embodiment, the novel bottle cap cover is generally bell (or alternatively barrel or conical) shaped and has a crown, a mid-portion, and a mouth portion. The mouth portion further has a lip wherein an inner recessed groove is machined around a circumference thereof. Additionally, the bottle cap comprises a flanged ring portion having a complementary lip to mate with the groove of the bottle cap cover. In an alternative embodiment, a marker provides identification; and the marker is coupled to the flanged ring portion via a living hinge. Other arrangements and features are additionally disclosed herein.

An elastic laminate fastening tab (2) comprising adjacent first and second closure elements (6, 8), each having a first face (10, 12) and a second face (14, 16), wherein the first face of each closure element is coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive (20, 22), an elastic film (18) attached to each closure element first face, the elastic film having two end portions (24, 26) connected to the first and second closure elements, respectively, and an intermediate portion therebetween, and a blanking film (28, 30) interposed between the closure elements and the elastic film. The invention also provides a fastening system comprising such a fastening tab and a method of manufacturing the same.

The present inventive concept relates to a hair cutting apparatus and method of use for hair cutting, and in particular, to a hair cutting apparatus and method of use for hair cutting that enable a user to cut hair with improved ease and efficiency using palm-down movements. The hair cutting apparatus includes a housing, and the housing has an outer gripping surface shaped to receive a palm of the user for ergonomic use. Attached to the housing is a motor that drives a first shearing blade to move over a second shearing blade in a cutting action.

A quick set clamp device 10 includes a clamp frame 12, a slide shaft 14 having a longitudinal dimension that cooperates with the clamp frame 12 to removably secure the clamp frame device 10 to an object, a biasing member 16 adjacently disposed to the slide shaft 14, the biasing member 16 having a first end 18 that engages an outer first end portion 20 of the clamp frame 12, a binding member 22 having a first portion that slidably engages the slide shaft 14, a retaining member 26 retractably secured to the outer first end portion 20 of the clamp frame 12, the retaining member 26 engaging a second portion 28 of the binding member 22, a first engagement member 30 secured to a first end 32 of the slide shaft 14, and a second engagement member 34 secured to an inner second end portion 36 of the clamp frame 12.

The invention relates to a billiard aiming method and a special billiard aiming device and belongs to the technical field of billiard training. According to the technical scheme, more than one auxiliary line of which the length is equal to the diameter or radius of each billiard extends from the central axis of a ball arm, the auxiliary line, a line with the endpoints aiming at the center of a target sphere or a collision point by using the auxiliary line, a connecting line of the center of a virtual sphere adjacent to the target sphere on an extension line of the connecting line of a pocket mouth and the center of the target sphere, and a line from the central axis of the ball arm which passes through the center of a cue ball to the other end of the auxiliary line form a parallelogram; by utilizing the principle that the corresponding sides of the parallelogram are parallel, when the auxiliary line is parallel to a connecting line between the pocket mouth and the center of the target sphere, the central axis of the ball arm is parallel to the line which aims at the center of the target sphere or the collision point, and the target ball can be shot into the pocket. The target ball can be directly aimed and shot, the aiming shot of a second target ball can be realized through pass shoot, even important reference indexes can be provided for aiming of bouncing balls.

The present invention is a gripping sleeve for enhancing a user's grasp of the handles and handholds of various tools and implements comprising: an elongated flexible hollow cylindrical sleeve having a first end, second end, interior wall surface, and exterior wall surface; and a lengthwise, non-radial slit from said first end to said second end, penetrating through said exterior wall surface to said interior wall surface.

The invention relates to a product design knowledge construction processing method, comprising the following steps: 1, establishing a product design knowledge ontology framework model to express and manage knowledge information included in design cases; 2, decomposing, extracting, organizing, classifying, and reconstructing collected product design case information, and constructing a product design knowledge base, 3, realizing the overall performance of the product design knowledge structure; combining the knowledge points of the product design according to a corresponding chronological order or an inherent logical relationship, expressing the whole structure of design knowledge, and forming a visualized design knowledge network; 4, building a user active control mechanism to support the user to modify a knowledge source. The method has the advantages of visually designing a knowledge network by using the product design case knowledge and the product design knowledge ontology model, integrally expressing the product design knowledge structure, and enhances the designer's grasp of the product design knowledge.

The present invention discloses a medical information management platform. The management platform comprises a background management system, a service system and a mobile terminal. The background management system comprises a background data storage module, a right validation module and an information management module, the service system is deployed in a medical mechanism, the service system comprises an image collection module, an information input module and an information output module, the mobile terminal comprises a terminal data storage module, a terminal input module, a data synchronism module and a display module. The medical information management platform can effectively solve the problems that that a current medical information platform cannot meet requirements that doctors fully obtain patient pathogenetic condition data information and the pathogenetic condition transfer is not convenient when patients are transferred to another hospital.

The invention provides a music sharing method and system. The method comprise steps of: generating one or more music information option corresponding to selected lyrics; receiving the selection of the music information options; generating shared content from the lyrics and the music information corresponding to the selected option; and sending the shared content to a social network. The music sharing method and system greatly facilitate the acquisition of music knowledge for people and help people improve their knowledge of music.

An e-commerce commodity information pushing optimization method is disclosed. The method is characterized by firstly, according to a consumption habit, classifying a user to a corresponding consumer group, and through a large data technology, acquiring a plurality of commodities which basically satisfy a consumer demand and factors which influence a consumer purchase behavior in the consumer group; then analyzing the factors which influence the consumer purchase behavior in the consumer group, determining an influence degree of each factor and then constructing an analysis model; and then calculating an influence weight size of each factor to each commodity and calculating a weight size of each commodity which satisfies the consumer demand; and finally, according to an influence weight, selecting the commodity with the highest influence weight to push. In the invention, different consumer demands can be satisfied.

Advantageous collar grips are provided to secure a grip on a camera lens ring, such as the focusing, zooming, or aperture control rings. A collar grip of a pliable and stretchable material can be placed around the lens ring to allow improved manipulation and thereby more accurate manipulation of the lens. Extended surface features on the collar grip can secure it to the lens ring and ensure an accurate grasp. The collar grip also provides increased diameter to the focusing ring, which can further aid in more accurate focusing ability.

A reusable bottle cap system includes a bottle cap and a bottle cap cover. The bottle cap includes a proximal handling portion and a stem that extends from the proximal handling portion to a distal end. The stem has opposing outside and inside surfaces. The outside surface includes a sealing feature for sealing to the mouth of a beverage bottle. The inside surface defines an opening extending to the distal end of the stem. The shell has an inside surface defining a cavity that is closed at a distal end. A pin extends from the distal end of the inside surface of the shell. The pin is received into the opening of the stem to provide a holding force to secure the bottle cap cover to the bottle cap.

The invention discloses a finger vein recognition method based on multi-scale local feature fusion. According to the method, texture direction response values are extracted by using a multi-scale direction template, local vein direction features on a first-order gradient are obtained through comparison, then an MLBP operator is calculated by taking the direction response values as a substrate to obtain local texture detail features on a second-order gradient, and finally fusion is carried out through an optimal weight mode. According to the multi-gradient feature fusion mode, the image information is fully utilized, the stability of the features is enhanced, the structure of the finger vein can be well highlighted, and the grasp of the features to the global information can be enhanced ina multi-scale mode calculation mode.

The invention relates to a method for determination of a state of a gearbox of a driveline of a motor vehicle at the putting into engagement of a clutch of said driveline. The method is characterised by the steps of: - establishing a first angular velocity representing the angular velocity of the gearbox input shaft; - establishing a second angular velocity representing the angular velocity of the gearbox output shaft; - determining said state of the gearbox on the basis of said first and second angular velocities; and/or the steps of: - establishing the vehicle's engine torque; - establishing an angular acceleration of the gearbox input shaft; - determining said state of the gearbox on the basis of said torque and angular acceleration. The invention relates also to a device, computer programme and computer programme product with programmes codes for improving the performance of a motor vehicle. The invention relates also to a motor vehicle which has such a device installed.

The invention discloses a primitive filling method and system based on a dynamic boundary group sequence. The primitive filling method comprises the following steps of obtaining the coordinates of a starting point of a primitive to be filled; scanning the area where the to-be-filled primitives are located row/column by row from the row/column where the starting point is located by using the scanning line, and stopping scanning until boundary points of the to-be-filled primitives do not exist in the scanned row/column; obtaining intersection point position coordinates of scanning lines and boundaries of to-be-filled primitives, marking boundary attributes of the scanning lines, and sequentially pressing the scanning lines and the boundaries of the to-be-filled primitives into a preset boundary group sequence stack; combining the intersection points in the boundary group sequence stack according to the sequence of entering the stack and boundary attributes to generate a single filling point and/or at least one filling line segment taking two adjacent intersection points as two end points; and filling a coordinate area covered by each filling point or filling line segment with a preset color. According to the method, the accuracy of the primitive boundary can be improved, a large number of recursion problems in a traditional filling method are avoided, the stack space is saved, and the primitive filling efficiency is improved.

A system for reducing tripping frequency of a power distribution line comprises a province dispatching data-side sub-system, a power grid operation and maintenance sub-system and a fiber transmissionline, wherein the fiber transmission line is used for connecting the province dispatching data-side sub-system and a power grid operation and maintenance sub-system, the province dispatching data-sidesub-system comprises a province dispatching data network, an acquisition server, a first data server, a first switchboard and a first photoelectric converter, the power grid operation and maintenancesub-system comprises a second photoelectric converter, an entity fireproof wall, a communication server, a second data server, a second switchboard and a working station, and an output end of the first photoelectric converter is connected with an input end of the second photoelectric converter via the fiber transmission line. A reliable and safe fault information control platform is formed by fully utilizing an existing network passage of a province power company and fault information of a province database; and by the system, the functions of fault information classified counting, comparisonanalysis, fault positioning, protection configuration setting and operation and maintenance suggestion can be provided according to fault tripping information and fault processing information.