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Apparatus and a system for thermally comforting a patient include pneumatic, convective providing thermal treatment for persons or animals, which is adapted for use in combination with a clinical garment such as a hospital gown, robe, bib, and other equivalents. The pneumatic convective device provides convective warming focused or directly primarily on the thorax or body core. The pneumatic convective device includes at least one inlet for being accessed through a clinical garment, a region in distribution with the inlet for distributing a stream of pressurized, thermally treated air, and a permeable member for emitting pressurized, thermally treated air from the distribution region.

A wearable finger motion sensor and a method of sensing using the same is provided. The wearable finger motion sensor includes finger rings having a predetermined recognition pattern on each ring, and a bracelet having a photographing tool for taking picture of the fingers, a device for recognizing movement of a finger from analyzing the photographed images, and a device for abstracting data corresponding to a moved finger.

An absorbent personal care article, such as a sanitary napkin or incontinence pad is described having a longitudinal centerline and a transverse centerline and including a pair of opposed first and second wings extending along the longitudinal sides of the article. The article further includes first and second protective strips attached to the sides of the article such that when the wings are folded under the article and around the wearer's undergarment, the first and second protective strips extend laterally outboard of the article and the edges of the wearer's undergarment to provide additional protection against leakage of body fluids deposited onto the absorbent personal care article

A lighting device comprising a first light source issuing a first beam and a second light source issuing a second beam. Said first and said second light source are dimmable and together issue light with a total light flux. At a mutually equal light flux of the first and the second beam, the glare level of the second beam is lower than the glare level of the first beam. The lighting device further comprises at least one (programmed) controller which, during operation, moderates said dim levels such that in at least a range of the illumination level a ratio of the dim level of the second beam to the dim level of the first beam increases in a gradual manner with increasing total light flux.

A vehicle steering system can keep the comfort of steering feeling for a driver, even in a situation, such as traveling on a cant road or in a crosswind, where a unidirectional-drift behavior of a vehicle occurs, and includes an electric motor, a steering angle sensor, a steering torque sensor, and an EPS_ECU that controls driving power of the electric motor, when the vehicle is traveling straight, based on vehicle information including a steering torque and a steering angle, to perform a control for applying an assist torque to a steering system. The EPS_ECU includes an integrating unit for calculating an integrated torque value obtained by integrating the steering torque, and a steering effort assist controlling unit for performing an anti-unidirectional-drift control over the driving power of the electric motor, when the integrated torque value exceeds the threshold value, so as to cancel the unidirectional-drift behavior of the vehicle.

The invention relates to an engine idle speed control-based AMT (Automated Mechanical Transmission) vehicle start control method, which comprises the following steps of: a, starting an engine, shifting to a start gear, controlling the engine to maintain an idle speed state by an electric control AMT, gently stamping a throttle to send out a starting signal; b, after receiving the starting signal, controlling a power source to drive a clutch to a semi-combined point; c, controlling an engine speed to be in a range of 650-1300 rpm by the electric control AMT, and detecting whether the ROTATING speed of an output shaft is more than 50 rpm or not; d, controlling the torque limit value of the engine to BE increaseD from 40% to 100% progressively by the electric control AMT and controlling the power source to drive the clutch to gradually combine, detecting whether the clutch sliding rate is less than 5% or not and whether the rotating speed of the output shaft is more than 120 rpm or not; and e, stopping controlling the engine by the electric control AMT, and ending a vehicle start process. The engine idle speed-control based AMT vehicle start control method has the beneficial effects of reducing abrasion of the clutch, increasing the comfort and economy as much as possible on the premise of maintaining dynamic property, and the like.

The invention relates to a flame-retardant fabric, which is made of fiber materials, and specially comprises fiber materials in a weaving, knitting or non-woven form. The flame-retardant fabric is prepared by using a flame-retardant process, and the main ingredients of the flame-retardant fabric include a low molecular pre-shrinking body of tetrakis hydroxymethyl phosphonium sulfate (THPS) and amide, a surfactant, a flame-retardant finishing liquid of high-concentration polyethylene, so that the flame-retardant fabric has a durable flame retardant performance, and the flame retardant performance is not reduced with the increasing of the number of washing times; the flame-retardant finishing does not change the original features of the fabric fibers, so that the fabric is soft in handfeel, and small in strength loss, and the comfortableness and durability of the fabric are basically kept, therefore, the flame-retardant fabric has a characteristic that the fabric is carbonized after meeting fire and self-extinguished after leaving fire, and the spread of flames is effectively prevented; and the protective clothing prepared by using the fabric can prevent flames from causing harm to the human body.

An apparatus is provided for combined ergonomic support and situational sensory augmentation interface during an interactive session within a virtual environment generated by a computer system. The apparatus comprises a resilient body defining a mid portion extending laterally between a pair of side portions projecting transversely outward therefrom to terminate at respective free ends. The mid portion extends across a lap of a user. The mid and side portions collectively define an upper surface for hand and forearm support for the user and an inner side surface contoured about a cradle space for receiving a torso of the user in cradling manner. At least one actuator disposed on the resilient body is selectively driven in cooperation with the interactive session to generate tactile feedback to the user through at least one of the upper and inner side surfaces of the resilient body.

The invention relates to an intelligent regulating system for the air quality and temperature in a closed room and a use method of the intelligent regulating system. The system comprises a fresh air quality pretreatment unit, an indoor detection unit, an indoor fresh air control unit and an intelligent control unit. The fresh air quality pretreatment unit comprises a particulate filter and a small electric dust removal system. The indoor detection unit comprises a CO2, formaldehyde, temperature and infrared intensity detector. The indoor fresh air control unit comprises a fresh air flow and temperature controller. The intelligent control unit comprises a data processor and an intelligent control terminal. Indoor personnel inputs various parameters of the room into the intelligent control terminal, the data processor works out the required fresh air flow and temperature meeting the requirements of the indoor air quality and temperature through a preset model algorithm according to the input parameters and the detection result of the detector, and the fresh air flow and the temperature are fed back to the control unit for execution. The system has three working states and can be switched among the three working states according to different operating time lengths so as to achieve the purposes of adjusting and keeping the indoor air quality and temperature.

The invention discloses a health nursing pad absorber processing method and equipment thereof. The method comprises the following three steps: A, adsorbing wood pulp fiber and mixing the wood pulp fiber with polymer absorbent materials, B, compacting and dotted solidifying the absorber, and C, forming the absorber; the equipment is provided to realize the method. The method provided by the invention is suitable for various nursing pad products, can enhance extension strength of the nursing pad product, simplifies and realizes the manufacturing of absorber of nursing pad product, and reduces manufacturing cost of the nursing pad. The absorber produced by the invention adopts a novel structure made of polymer absorbent materials and wood pulp fiber, the polymer absorbent materials are uniformly disturbed in the wood pulp fiber, the sliding and moving of polymer absorbent materials are confined through doted solidification, so as to guarantee liquid absorption of the nursing pad product.

A denim fabric with high tenacity and/or moisture management and/or stretch materials is provided. Proportions of materials in the denim fabric may vary during the weave of the fabric to create different performance zones in the resulting garment with or without assembling different fabric pieces.

A thermostat based on indoor effective-temperature with cooling time a function of the difference between the inside temperature and temperature-set while off time is the remainder of a time cycle. This permits indoor temperature to vary with heat-load to provide comfort and conserve power under all heat-load conditions. During high heat-load conditions it can provide comfort and save a significant amount of power. It provides comfort down to temperature-set, when the heat load decreases in the evenings and at night. For low heat-load conditions, it eliminates cooling under-shoot and controlled off time reduces or eliminates stuffiness between cooling cycles.

The invention discloses a sensing type movement assisting bed. The sensing type movement assisting bed comprises an information acquiring system and a movement assisting system, wherein the information acquiring system is used for acquiring movement information of a user; and the movement assisting system assists in the user to finish actions according to user action information acquired by the information acquiring system. The sensing type movement assisting bed has the beneficial effects that pressure change caused by autonomic activities of the movement assisting bed user is sensed by a pressure sensor on a supporting device, and a movement assisting system is triggered to finish actions in an assisting manner; autonomic activities of muscles are encouraged, and the muscles are exercised effectively; according to human body behavior identification, the patient can be assisted to finish various actions, pressure is automatically adjusted and supported, and the comfortable degree of the human body and functional positions are maintained; the supporting device on the outer side of a pressed portion is higher than the plane of the body of the user to limit movement of the body of the patient, and the user is prevented from falling to the ground; a certain gap is maintained between pressed bottoms of the supporting device and a rectangular component so as to facilitate air circulation, moist of the pressed portion is avoided, and dangerous factors of pressure sores are relieved; and load of medical workers is relieved.

Method and arrangement for gear upshifting in a motor vehicle. The arrangement includes an internal combustion engine (1) with an engine-braking device (52), an automated disk-clutch (3), a multi-stage gearbox (9), in the casing (8) of which an input shaft (7), an intermediate shaft (11) and a main shaft (10) are mounted, and braking means (50) for braking the intermediate shaft (11). When the upshifting takes place, the disk clutch (3) is disengaged and the intermediate shaft (11) is disengaged from the main shaft (10). The braking means (50) is activated so that the rotational speed of the intermediate shaft (11) is adapted to the next gear selected at the same time as the rotational speed of the engine (1) is adapted to the rotational speed of the input shaft (7) in the new gear by virtue of the engine-braking device (52) being activated.

A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion that is rotatably joined to a floor portion of a vehicle such that a rotation axis of the seat cushion extends vertically, the seat cushion being configured to support a buttocks of a seated vehicle occupant. The vehicle seat also includes a footrest that is joined to the seat cushion and is configured to support soles of feet of the seated vehicle occupant, the footrest being placed in a raised position in which, when seen in a seat side view, the footrest slopes rearwardly upwards such that heels of the seated vehicle occupant are raised up, and a rear portion of the footrest is placed vertically below a front end of the seat cushion.

An orthopedic wrist splint with an initially generally planar malleable metal core covered by a layer of synthetic foam padding material on each of its opposite sides and protected by an outer cover of fabric. In one embodiment, depending on the orientation of the splint relative to the patient, the splint provides greater or lesser firmness of support when the core is bent to conform the splint to the patient's hand, wrist, and forearm. In another embodiment, a central part of the length of the splint lacks the metal core and is flexible, so that two parts of the splint are easily used on opposite sides of an arm or ankle, with the central part comfortably bent around an elbow or a foot, and with the splint firmly supporting the limb.