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Devices, systems and methods related to endoscopic surgery, particularly related to robotic surgical operations, provide a tissue stabilizer for endoscopically stabilizing a target tissue within a patient's body. For stabilizing a beating heart during a closed-chest coronary artery bypass grafting procedure, a stabilizer is inserted through an endoscopic cannula and provides sufficient surface area to contact the heart and effectively stabilize the target tissue area. The stabilizer can straddle a blood vessel, such as a coronary artery, which is targeted for an anastomosis. Vessel occlusion fasteners may occlude the target blood vessel prior to the anastomosis procedure.

Disclosed are devices and systems for spinal fixation and dynamic stabilization. Elongated members may be positioned lateral to spinous processes and coupled to two or more vertebrae. Interspinous members may be positioned between adjacent spinous processes and coupled to the elongated members. One embodiment of an interspinous member comprises a body and two lateral portions. The lateral portions may couple to the elongated members to position the interspinous members. An interspinous member and the positioning of the interspinous member may allow selected movement between the adjacent spinous processes.

A bio-compatible stabilization system includes one or more inserters and a connector for traversing a space between one or more bony structures. The stabilization system is designed to reduce or eliminate stress shielding effects while functioning as a tension band. The connector includes an extendable member and an over-extension limiter that limits extension of the extendable member.

Spinal implants are disclosed that can be used for annular repair, facet unloading, disc height preservation, disc decompression, or for sealing a portal through which an intervertebral implant was placed. In some embodiments, an implant is placed within the intervertebral disc space, primarily within the region of the annulus fibrosus. In some embodiments, the implant is expandable. In some embodiments, the implant has a sealing tail structure comprising a tail flange and a linkage. In some embodiments, the sealing tail structure limits the extrusion or expulsion of disc material, either annulus fibrosus or nucleus, into the posterior region of the spine where it could impinge on nerves. In some embodiments, the tail structure is retained in place within the annulus fibrosus by means of an anchor. In some embodiments, the anchor is constructed from multiple components.

The invention provides a thin-wall sliding sleeve disassembling fixture. The thin-wall sliding sleeve disassembling fixture comprises a puller nut and a puller screw. The puller screw is in threaded connection with the puller nut. One end of the puller screw is provided with a clamping jaw. The puller screw is in threaded connection with the clamping jaw. A bracket and a hydraulic system are installed between the puller nut and the clamping jaw. The bracket and the hydraulic system are sheathed on the puller screw. The bracket is adjacent to the clamping jaw. The hydraulic system is adjacent to the puller nut. Through controlling the hydraulic system to boost pressure and reduce pressure, the disassembly of a thin-wall sliding sleeve can be realized. The thin-wall sliding sleeve disassembling fixture is small in volume, light in weight, smooth and steady in movement, and safe and convenient in operation, and capable of preventing the deformation of the thin-wall sliding sleeve and thescratching of a hole wall in an disassembling process.

A linearly expanding spine cage has a minimized diameter in its unexpanded state that is equal to the diameter of an insertion groove cut into adjacent vertebral bodies. The cage conformably engages between the endplates of adjacent vertebrae to effectively distract the disc space, widen neuroforamina, stabilize the motion segments and eliminate pathologic spine motion. Angular deformities can be corrected, and natural curvatures maintained. The cage enhances spinal arthrodesis by creating a rigid spine segment. Expanding linearly (vertically, along the vertical axis of the adjacent spine) rather than uniformly, the cage height increases and holds the vertebrae with fixation forces greater than adjacent bone and soft tissue failure forces. Stability is thus achieved immediately, enabling patient function by eliminating painful motion. The cage width remains stable, so as to decrease impingement upon a second cage, or upon soft tissue structures in the immediate vicinity, including neural or vascular elements.

The present invention provides an S-shaped acceleration and deceleration control method for changing speed and position of an object on line. The method comprises the acceleration phase speed planning, the deceleration phase speed planning, the constant speed phase speed planning, the real speed reduction point predication, the maximum speed processing, the surplus distance compensation, the online object speed changing algorithm and the online object position changing algorithm. An acceleration and deceleration discretization speed planning method is employed and the user input parameters are combined to calculate the operation time of a seven-phase speed planning phase. It is determined whether the maximum acceleration and the maximum speed can reach the criterion or not, the integration problem of a sampling period Ts according to the acceleration/deceleration acceleration, the acceleration/deceleration speed and the final position L after discretization is considered, and the real reachable acceleration/deceleration acceleration, the acceleration/deceleration speed and the feed rate are corrected. The S-shaped acceleration and deceleration control method for changing speed and position of the object on line greatly simplifies an original calculation formula and saves lots of operation time of a computer, and the surplus distance employs a one-time compensation method in the speed reduction process.

Devices for stabilizing tissue during a surgical procedure. The beating heart may be stabilized during a surgical procedure on the heart, using a described stabilizing device. In one example, a stabilizing device is introduced through an opening in the chest and brought into contact with the beating heart. By contacting the heart with the device and by exerting a stabilizing force on the device, the motion of the heart caused by the contraction of the heart muscles id effectively eliminated such that the heart is stabilized and the site of the surgery moves only minimally if at all.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional printer with a replaceable nozzle. The three-dimensional printer comprises a three-dimensional adjusting mechanism, and the printing nozzle which performs three-dimensional printing under the adjustment of the three-dimensional adjusting mechanism, wherein the printing nozzle comprises a nozzle bottom plate, a nozzle thermal preservation sleeve which is fixed on the nozzle bottom plate and is provided with a printing through hole and a positioning notch, a material tube which is radially clamped on the nozzle bottom plate, and a linear stepping motor; the material tube is axially clamped in the positioning notch through a material tube pressing plate which is in sliding fit with the nozzle bottom plate; a piston presser used for pushing a piston in a first material tube is fixed at the output end of a lead screw of the motor. When materials in the material tube are used up or the materials are needed to be replaced, the printing nozzle is controlled to automatically replace the material tube, and a three-dimensional object consisting of multiple materials can be printed. The piston is driven to be extruded by adopting the linear stepping motor, thrust is high and can be accurately controlled, and the blockage of the nozzle is avoided. According to the printer, liquid foods and multiple liquid materials such as gel and ceramic powder can be printed.

A power transmission includes a first rotating member driven by an external drive source, an electromagnetic solenoid provided to the first rotating member, a second rotating member fixed to a main shaft of a rotary apparatus, and an mechanism for engaging and disengaging a plunger of the electromagnetic solenoid from the second rotating member. When the rotary apparatus is not used, the energy of the external drive source may be prevented from being wasted by interrupting the torque transmission from the first rotating member to the second rotating member by the operation of the mechanism for engaging and disengaging.

A gait generating system of a legged mobile robot is provided with a device for determining a desired trajectory of an external force to be applied to a robot 1, a device for determining a parameter of a desired gait (current time gait) for a predetermined period on the basis of a desired trajectory of an external force or the like, a device for determining a parameter of a virtual cyclic gait that follows the current time gait on the basis of the desired trajectory of the external force or the like, a device for correcting the current time gait parameter such that a body motion trajectory of the robot 1 of the current time gait converges to a body motion trajectory of the cyclic gait, and a device for sequentially determining an instantaneous value of the current time gait on the basis of the corrected current time gait parameter. With this arrangement, in an environment wherein an external force acts on a robot as necessary, a desired gait that allows continual stability of the robot to be secured can be generated even if the external force suddenly changes.

The invention relates to a drawer-type power control cabinet assembly capable of dehumidifying, which comprises a control cabinet part (1), a drawer push-out part (5) and foot margins (25) fixed on a floor. The control cabinet part (1) and the drawer push-out part (5) are fixedly connected together; a plurality of power control drawer boxes (2) are arranged up and down in the control cabinet part (1); the drawer push-out part (5) are used for pushing out the power control drawer boxes (2) in the control cabinet part (1); the drawer push-out part (5) comprises a supporting body, a lifting driving part, a push-out driving part and a latch driving part; the lifting driving part comprises a lifting motor (4), a lifting driving screw (16) and a guide rod (15); and the lifting motor (4) is connected with the upper end of the lifting driving screw (16) so as to drive the lifting driving screw (16) to rotate.

A multi-reflecting TOF mass analyser has two parallel, gridless ion mirrors each having an elongated structure in a drift direction (Z). These ion mirrors provide a folded ion path formed by multiple reflections of ions in a flight direction (X), orthogonal to the drift direction (Z). The analyser also has a further gridless ion mirror for reflecting ions in the drift direction (Z). In operation ions are spatially separated according to mass-to-charge ratio due to their different flight times along the folded ion path and ions having substantially the same mass-to-charge ratio are subjected to energy focusing with respect to the flight and drift directions.

Disclosed is a sliding mechanism apparatus used for slidably opening and closing a slider-type cellular phone. A guide member and a slider member are engaged with each other so as to enable to slide relative to each other. The end of one arm of a first torsion spring is connected to the slider member near the left edge thereof. The end of the other arm thereof is coupled to the right half area of the guide member. The end of one arm of a second torsion spring is connected to the slider member near the right edge thereof. The end of the other arm thereof is coupled to the left half area of the guide member. From the expanded original state of the first and second torsion springs, if an external force is exerted on the slider member or the guide member, the torsion springs are compressed into an acute angle and then spread again by means of the elastic force thereof. In this way, the slider member can move to the lowermost position or the lowermost position. In the first and second torsion springs, the distance between the ends of two arms is larger than at least half of the width of the slider member. Therefore, the first and second torsion springs can maximally utilize the width of the guide member while turning, thereby extending the maximum travel distance of the slider member.

For applying a motion filter of a video stabilization system to a sequence of video frames, an estimate of a motion in the current video frame compared to a first video frame of the sequence of video frames is received. Based on the received motion estimate and on at least one state variable of the motion filter, a correction value for the motion in the current video frame is computed. The at least one state variable is updated in the computation. In case the computed correction value exceeds a system constraint of the video stabilization system, the at least one state variable is adjusted in accordance with an extent by which the system constraint is exceeded. The correction value is then recomputed based on the motion estimate and on the adjusted state variable.

Surgical methods and devices allow closed-chest surgery to be performed on a heart of a patient while the heart is beating. A region of the heart is stabilized by engaging a surface of the heart with a stabilizer without having to stop the heart. Motion of the target tissues is inhibited sufficiently to treat the target tissues with robotic surgical tools which move in response to inputs of a robotic system operator. A stabilizing surface of the stabilizer is coupled to a drive system to position the surface from outside the patient, preferably by actuators of the robotic servomechanism. Exemplary stabilizers includes a suture or other flexible tension member spanning between a pair of jointed bodies, allowing the member to occlude a coronary blood vessel and/or help stabilize the target region between the stabilizing surfaces.

The invention discloses a corrugated double-inner-cavity gas-powered flexible micro finger, a control method and a grabbing system. The corrugated double-inner-cavity gas-powered flexible micro finger comprises a double-inner-cavity gas-powered flexible micro finger body composed of two independent pneumatic half-corrugated hollow rubber tube half-fingers I and II which are symmetrically arranged. A thin sheet type bending tilt angle sensor making contact with the two half-fingers is arranged between the two half-fingers. The two half-fingers are provided with a gas inlet and outlet I and a gas inlet and outlet II respectively. The outer side of the top face of each independent pneumatic half-corrugated hollow rubber tube half-finger is a corrugated surface, the bottom face of each independent pneumatic half-corrugated hollow rubber tube half-finger is a horizontal plane, and the top face and the bottom face of each independent pneumatic half-corrugated hollow rubber tube half-finger are connected into a whole to form a hollow sealing cavity. The bottom faces of the two independent pneumatic half-corrugated hollow rubber tube half-fingers I and II are aligned with each other and then are pasted on the thin sheet type bending tilt angle sensor. The corrugated double-inner-cavity gas-powered flexible micro finger has the advantages of being low in cost, safe in cleaning, easy and convenient to install, good in flexibility, smooth in motion, low in noise and free of pollution, having mechanical performance similar to that of biological muscles, and the like.

The present invention relates to a surveillance system for detecting forbidden movement in any direction at one or more locations along a road. The system comprises cameras that are in data communication with a control station for detecting the forbidden movement; mobile platforms that are movable along a desired path along the road; mechanical connectors for connecting the cameras to the mobile platforms, that create an adjustable projection of the spatial distance between the camera and the mobile platform; and a control station for receiving and processing data from and transferring data the cameras.

The invention relates to an acceleration or deceleration control method of numerical control system based on filter technique, which comprises the following steps: planning straight acceleration or deceleration by using the inputted workpiece program data; performing moving average filtering and filter compensation on the planned speed of the straight acceleration or deceleration to obtain a new planned speed value and a position value; performing interpolation on the position value; transmitting the interpolated position value to a servo driver in order to control a servomotor; wherein the moving average filtering of the planned speed of the straight acceleration or deceleration is implemented by adding a moving average filter after planning the straight acceleration or deceleration to control sudden changes of an accelerated speed, particularly comprising the following steps: calculating the speed with a method of planning the moving average filtering speed; changing the smooth degree of the straight acceleration or deceleration by selecting filter length (i.e. controlling the magnitude and the shape of the accelerated speed); and calculating a planned position according to the speed after filtering. The invention solves the vibration problem of a numerically-controlled machine tool during movement, and has the advantages of easy implementation, good compatibility and good flexibility.