25 results about "Acoustic shock" patented technology

The partial or full dehydration of organic or inorganic matter containing water by induction of matter into a vacuum and processing matter through a specially designed acceleration channel is disclosed. The inducted matter accelerates in air from zero speed to sub-sonic speed to reach supersonic speed. As the material transitions the sound barrier, it is subject to acoustic shock waves and an instant negative pressure drop occurs. The sound waves disintegrate, disinfect the material and extract part or all moisture from any organic or inorganic material.

An improved method of treating an appendage of a patient using acoustic shock waves has the steps of: providing an appendage in need of an acoustic shock wave treatment; placing an acoustic shock wave applicator on a surface of the appendage; placing a gaseous filled membrane on an opposite surface of the appendage; activating an acoustic shock wave generator or source to emit acoustic shock waves from an acoustic shock wave applicator; and wherein the acoustic shock wave is transmitted from the acoustic shock wave applicator through the surface sending the emitted acoustic shock waves into the tissue of the appendage and exiting the opposite surface of the appendage to the gaseous filled membrane where a reflection of the acoustic shock wave occurs sending reflected acoustic shock waves back through the appendage.

The device of the present invention allows for a method of treating a patient exhibiting proptosis of eye tissue by treating inflamed tissue behind the eye or treating the thyroid directly or treating a reflexology zone to reduce pressure and inflammation of the eye tissue using pressure pulses or shock waves. The treatment method for bulging eyes has the steps of placing an applicator head of an acoustic shock wave or pressure pulse generator or source on or near an eye or eyelid region, temple, thyroid or reflexology zone; coupling the applicator head directly or indirectly to an exposed surface of the region being treated; and activating the generator or source to emit pressure pulses or acoustic shock waves to the eye or eyelid region, temple, thyroid or reflexology zone to treat the eye tissue exhibiting high pressure and inflammation to reduce the pressure and inflammation.

The invention relates to an acoustic-seismic combined monitoring method and device for mountain river bed load, and the device comprises a sensing plate which bears the impact of river bed load particles, a seismic detector which collects a vibration signal, and a plurality of microphone elements which independently collect an acoustic signal. The method comprises the following steps of: extracting first-motion waves of a plurality of collected sound signals, passing through the amplitude of each node of a sensing plate, and generating a sound source intensity distribution image, thereby realizing the identification of the spatial position of a bed load on the sensing plate, and calculating a vibration signal wave packet through a system amplitude threshold value; constructing a correlation function to obtain the maximum positive amplitude of a vibration signal wave packet, calculating the particle size of bed load particles, correcting the eccentric error of the vibration signal, improving the recognition precision of the bed load particle size, and further calculating the sediment transport rate in real time. According to the method, the sound signal and the vibration signal are combined, the eccentricity error of the high-frequency geophone signal is recognized and corrected through the spatial position, the recognition precision of the grain size of the bed load is improved through the corrected geophone signal, and inversion calculation of the sediment transport rate is achieved.

Apparatuses and method to deliver calibrated and / or oriented high energy shocks into a vascular lesion. These apparatuses may include a catheter having a balloon, and a plurality of acoustic emitters including insulating ring mounts within the balloon configured to convert electrical energy into oriented acoustic shock waves.

The invention relates to the technical field of trenchless engineering, and discloses a long-distance heat distribution pipeline pipe-jacking track control system for complex geology, which comprises an ultrashort pulse laser used for generating a stable laser plasma channel along a pipe-jacking design axis as an absolute linear reference; the track correction module is used for correcting the accumulated error of the inertial navigation unit on line according to the detection result of a position sensitive detector on the pipe jacking machine on the channel; the sensing array self-calibration module is used for carrying out on-line self-calibration of three-dimensional coordinates on the distributed optical fiber earth sound sensing array laid along the line by using acoustic shock waves generated during channel generation; and the geological feed-forward module is used for processing the tunneling vibration signal by using the calibrated sensing array to generate a front geological model. According to the method, the problems of inertial navigation error accumulation and insufficient geological prediction capability are solved, and the precision and stability of long-distance pipe jacking track control are remarkably improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of soft soil foundation treatment, and particularly relates to an air jet flow-high-frequency sound wave synergistic effect soft soil foundation anti-clogging drainage device and method.The air jet flow-high-frequency sound wave synergistic effect soft soil foundation anti-clogging drainage device comprises an air compressor and a main air path connected with the air compressor and further comprises a plurality of drainage plates, and each drainage plate is provided with a spiral air pipe; the main gas circuit is connected with a spiral gas pipe through a plurality of branches, a Helmholtz resonance nozzle is arranged on the spiral gas pipe, the drainage channel is provided with a gas-liquid dual-purpose pump, the tail end of the drainage channel is communicated with a water collecting well, the water inlet end of the drainage channel is connected with each drainage plate through a connector and a drainage branch, and the water outlet end of the drainage channel is connected with the spiral gas pipe. According to the device, a desilting-(acoustic shock) dehydration-drainage integrated design method is adopted, and while filter membrane clogging of the plastic drainage plate is effectively removed, separation of bound water (or attached water) in sludge is promoted, which is the key to improvement of drainage efficiency, guarantee of consolidation quality and shortening of construction period. The problems of filter membrane clogging and low drainage efficiency of a traditional plastic drainage plate in soft foundation treatment are successfully solved. Even under the working condition of low water content, efficient desilting can be achieved, and the drainage consolidation quality and efficiency of the soft foundation are remarkably improved.

The partial or full dehydration of organic or inorganic matter containing water by induction of matter into a vacuum and processing matter through a specially designed acceleration channel is disclosed. The inducted matter accelerates in air from zero speed to sub-sonic speed to reach supersonic speed. As the material transitions the sound barrier, it is subject to acoustic shock waves and an instant negative pressure drop occurs. The sound waves disintegrate, disinfect the material and extract part or all moisture from any organic or inorganic material.

Systems and methods for treatment using acoustic shock waves within an enclosed negative pressure chamber to fragment or otherwise to modify plaque in a patient's penile shaft.

The present application relates to the technical field of automatic control and sensing data processing, in particular to a wisdom target range cooperative control system based on multi-modal perception, the system comprises a cooperative control module, which generates cluster cooperative instructions based on tactical logic and issues them to target nodes; a multi-modal perception execution module, which drives target actions in response to the instructions, and generates accurate impact point coordinates by multi-modal fusion calculation of acoustic shock time difference signals, taking the on-off signal of the target surface medium as the trigger reference; and a state feedback module, which receives hit data and renders local or global battle damage views of the target site; the present application solves the problems of poor anti-interference and inability of dynamic cooperation of single target reporting by multi-modal feature fusion calculation and wireless ad hoc network node scheduling, and has the beneficial effects of high target reporting accuracy, strong anti-interference and support for large-scale high-fidelity tactical exercises.

A method of treating a brain of a patient having inflammation or an infection in the brain from bacteria or molds or fungi or virus by destroying bacteria or molds or fungi or virus has the step of directing one or more sound wave treatments into the brain to destroy bacteria or molds or fungi or virus. The sound wave treatments cause an improved blood supply, a disruption of cellular membranes and a cellular communication causing the patient's brain cells to identify and attack the bacteria, mold fungi or virus and further causes recruiting or stimulating an increase in anti-microbial peptides. The method further can have the step of administering medications to the patient including, but not limited to anti-viral medications, antibiotics, anti-fungal medications or anti-mold medications, wherein the sound wave treatment extends the useful life of the medications. The fungus is Candida albicans.

A liquid beverage having a composition of stimulated energized fluid has a quantity of fluid; and enhanced molecules treated with acoustic shock waves or pressure pulses dispersed in the quantity of fluid. The quantity of fluid after being treated with the acoustic shock waves exhibits an increased entropy. The enhanced molecules are stimulated to enhance absorption when consumed increasing the energy absorbed by a drinker. In one embodiment, the beverage is an alcoholic beverage. The alcoholic beverage can be a beer, wine or whiskey. An alcohol percentage is increased after the acoustic shock wave treatment. In another embodiment, the beverage is a non-alcoholic energy booster drink. In yet another embodiment, the beverage is water.

Apparatuses, capacitor arrays, and methods for generating therapeutic compressed acoustic waves (e.g., shock waves). In the apparatuses and at least some of the methods, a plurality of electrodes can disposed in a chamber that is defined by a housing and configured to be filled with liquid, and a plurality of capacitors can be electrically connected to the electrodes and can be carried by (e.g., physically coupled to) the housing. Voltage pulses can be applied simultaneously to the plurality of electrodes (e.g., to begin to vaporize and ionize portions of the liquid to provide at least one inter-electrode conductive path between the plurality of electrodes) and to the capacitors to charge the plurality of capacitors). The plurality of capacitors can be configured to, upon reaching a threshold charge, discharge to the plurality of electrodes (e.g., to generate one or more arcs along the one or more inter-electrode conductive paths to vaporize additional portions of the liquid and generate one or more acoustic shock waves). In the capacitor arrays, a plurality of capacitors can be coupled to the one or more circuit boards with a first portion of the capacitors arranged in a first pattern defined by a plurality of capacitor sets, a second portion of the plurality of capacitors can be arranged in a second pattern defined by a plurality of capacitor sets, with the sets defining the first pattern connected in parallel, the sets defining the second pattern connected in parallel, and the circuit board(s) can be configured to be coupled to an electrode such that the electrode is in electrical communication with the capacitors and is fixed in at least two degrees of freedom relative to the one or more circuit boards.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems, devices, and methods of inducing physical effects in tissue, such as dermis, adipose, musculoskeletal, vascular, hepatic tissue, using unfocused or planar, non-cavitating acoustic shock waves. The physical effects include disruption of fibrous extracellular matrix of the targeted tissues. Embodiments of the present disclosure include applying rapid acoustic pulses (e.g., shock waves) to cause a breakdown in the fibrous extracellular matrix to reduce the appearance of cellulite or scars in a treatment area. Such unfocused or planar, non-cavitating acoustic shock waves may induce a tissue reaction, such as reduction of fibrosis, induction of angiogenesis, or lymphangiogenesis.

Systems and methods for treating Peyronie's disease, including systems for generating acoustic shock waves within an enclosed negative pressure chamber to fragment or otherwise modify plaque in a patient's penile shaft.

The invention provides a municipal road cavity detection method based on artificial intelligence, and belongs to the technical field of road cavity detection.The municipal road cavity detection method comprises the steps that a sound shock excitation device and a seismic wave sensor array are arranged in a detection area to synchronously collect double-source detection data, and signal preprocessing is conducted through band-pass filtering and a wavelet denoising algorithm; a sparse representation algorithm is adopted to convert into a sparse matrix, a condition number is optimized through a conjugate gradient method, space block splitting and global optimal registration fusion based on convex optimization are carried out on optimized data, principal component analysis dimension reduction is applied to extract a fusion feature matrix, a pre-trained convolutional neural network model is input to obtain a preliminary detection result, and a final detection result is obtained. And when the confidence coefficient is insufficient, calculating and optimizing a parameter vector through a sound shock parameter adjustment function and a seismic parameter adjustment function according to the detection environment parameters, and reconfiguring equipment parameters to carry out secondary fine detection, so that the technical problem of low road cavity detection accuracy is solved.

A method of treating an appendage using acoustic shock waves includes: providing an appendage in need of an acoustic shock wave treatment; placing an acoustic shock wave applicator on a surface of the appendage; placing a gaseous filled membrane on an opposite surface of the appendage; activating an acoustic shock wave generator or source to emit acoustic shock waves from an acoustic shock wave applicator; and wherein the acoustic shock waves are transmitted from the acoustic shock wave applicator through the surface sending the emitted acoustic shock waves into the tissue of the appendage and exiting the opposite surface of the appendage to the gaseous filled membrane where a reflection of the acoustic shock waves occurs sending reflected acoustic shock waves back through the appendage. A dose of formation-mitigating treatment composition may be delivered into a region of the appendage at which a material formation (e.g., collagen-containing plague) is located.

Systems and methods for treatment using acoustic shock waves within an enclosed negative pressure chamber to fragment or otherwise to modify plaque in a patient's penile shaft.

A treatment method to reduce or eliminate a patient's symptoms of abnormal blood pressure; the treatment has the step of: administering acoustic shock waves or pressure pulses directed to an area near the patient's kidneys. The treatment method further has the steps of: activating acoustic shock waves or pressure pulses of an acoustic shock wave or pressure pulse generator to emit acoustic shock waves or pressure pulses; subjecting the area at or near the patient's kidneys to acoustic shock waves or pressure pulses stimulating the area; and wherein the emitted acoustic shock waves or pressure pulses are focused or unfocused acoustic shock waves or pressure pulses.

The invention belongs to the field of converter dust removal, and relates to a method and device for eliminating accumulated dust through a sound wave vibration dust removal system. According to the technical scheme, a plurality of ultrasonic vibration devices are arranged on the upper portion of an evaporative cooler of the converter dust removal system, and at least two of the ultrasonic vibration devices are arranged at the same height; when the evaporative cooler works, a plurality of ultrasonic vibration devices are started, and at least two ultrasonic vibrators at the same height operate alternately in sequence; and the plurality of ultrasonic vibration devices at least drive the outer wall of the evaporative cooler to generate low-frequency vibration. The vibration frequency of the outer wall of the evaporative cooler is 33-35.6 Hz, and the vibration amplitude of the outer wall of the evaporative cooler is smaller than 1 mm.

An improved method of treating an appendage of a patient using acoustic shock waves has the steps of: providing an appendage in need of an acoustic shock wave treatment; placing an acoustic shock wave applicator on a surface of the appendage; placing a gaseous filled membrane on an opposite surface of the appendage; activating an acoustic shock wave generator or source to emit acoustic shock waves from an acoustic shock wave applicator; and wherein the acoustic shock wave is transmitted from the acoustic shock wave applicator through the surface sending the emitted acoustic shock waves into the tissue of the appendage and exiting the opposite surface of the appendage to the gaseous filled membrane where a reflection of the acoustic shock wave occurs sending reflected acoustic shock waves back through the appendage.

The device of the present invention allows for a method of treating a patient exhibiting proptosis of eye tissue by treating inflamed tissue behind the eye or treating the thyroid directly or treating a reflexology zone to reduce pressure and inflammation of the eye tissue using pressure pulses or shock waves. The treatment method for bulging eyes has the steps of placing an applicator head of an acoustic shock wave or pressure pulse generator or source on or near an eye or eyelid region, temple, thyroid or reflexology zone; coupling the applicator head directly or indirectly to an exposed surface of the region being treated; and activating the generator or source to emit pressure pulses or acoustic shock waves to the eye or eyelid region, temple, thyroid or reflexology zone to treat the eye tissue exhibiting high pressure and inflammation to reduce the pressure and inflammation.

The invention discloses a reusable acoustic-seismic-electric sensor mounting device and a reusable acoustic-seismic-electric sensor mounting method. The device comprises a cylindrical shell, a waveguide rod, an acoustic vibration electric sensor, a hole sealing liquid bag, a push cylinder, driving teeth, a fixing claw and a driving mechanism. The acoustic-vibration-electric sensor is fixed to a rear cavity of the push cylinder, one end of the waveguide rod is connected with the sensor, and the other end of the waveguide rod extends out of the shell and is inserted into a coal seam. The push cylinder drives the fixing claw to rotate through the driving rack and the driving teeth to be clamped into or withdrawn from the drilling wall; the front end of the push cylinder actively extrudes the hole sealing liquid bag, so that hole sealing liquid seeps from a guide hole in the front end of the shell, and tight coupling is achieved. And a wire passing pipe is arranged in the driving shaft to protect signal wire transmission. The method comprises the steps that the device is inserted into a drill hole, the driving shaft is rotated to synchronously unfold the fixing claws and extrude the hole sealing liquid bag, and reverse recovery is conducted after monitoring. The installation time is remarkably shortened, meanwhile, the recovery rate is increased, and the device is suitable for various drilling environments and has the advantages of being efficient, reliable and compatible in automation.

The invention discloses a carbon fiber composite material laminated plate lightning stroke multi-dimensional impact force test system and a multi-dimensional impact force action time sequence analysis method. The test system comprises a lightning current source with controllable source impedance and intensity, a tested metal plate, a carbon fiber composite material laminated plate, a lightning stroke multi-dimensional impact force measurement unit and a computer control and measurement data management unit, and analyzes the effect of the lightning current source with controllable source impedance and intensity on a tested object in different injection modes of lightning current. Multi-dimensional lightning impact force waveform characteristics are analyzed, and the time sequence superposition relation of lightning electromagnetic force, impact waves generated by surface explosion and acoustic impact waves generated by arc channel expansion in the acting process of lightning stroke and a tested object on the spatial-temporal scale is obtained through analysis; the internal relation between the surface structure states of the tested metal plate and the carbon fiber composite material laminated plate is determined; and a theoretical basis and a test data support are laid for a lightning stroke impact force damage mechanism of the carbon fiber composite material laminated plate and a composite material lightning protection structure design.