105 results about "Apposition" patented technology

An improved endoscopic tissue apposition device (50) having multiple suction ports (86) permits multiple folds of tissue to be captured in the suction ports (86) with a single positioning of the device (50) and attached together by a tissue securement mechanism such as a suture (14), staple or other form of tissue bonding. The improvement reduces the number of intubations required during an endoscopic procedure to suture tissue or join areas of tissue together. The suction ports (86) may be arranged in a variety of configurations on the apposition device (50) to best suit the desired resulting tissue orientation. The tissue apposition device (50) may also incorporate tissue abrasion means (852) to activate the healing process on surfaces of tissue areas that are to be joined by operation of the device to promote a more secure attachment by permanent tissue bonding.

An electrode catheter is introduced into a hollow anatomical structure, such as a vein, and is positioned at a treatment site within the structure. Tumescent fluid is injected into the tissue surrounding the treatment site to produce tumescence of the surrounding tissue which then compresses the vein. The solution may include an anesthetic, and may further include a vasoconstrictive drug that shrinks blood vessels. The tumescent swelling in the surrounding tissue causes the hollow anatomical structure to become compressed, thereby exsanguinating the treatment site. Energy is applied by an electrode catheter in apposition with the vein wall to create a heating effect. The heating effect causes the hollow anatomical structure to become molded and durably assume the compressed dimensions caused by the tumescent technique. The electrode catheter can be moved within the structure so as to apply energy to a large section of the hollow anatomic structure. In a further aspect, the location of the electrodes is determined by impedance monitoring. Also, temperature sensors at the treatment site are averaged to determine the site temperature.

The invention provides a method of providing a metallic orthopaedic implant with a micron or nanometer-scale surface roughness to facilitate acceptance of tissue and bone growth or apposition after implantation while maintaining the structural integrity of the orthopaedic implant. The invention also provides a metallic orthopaedic implant comprising a metallic body and metallic elements adhered to a portion of the surface of the metallic body to define a three-dimensional porous surface geometry, wherein at least some of the metallic elements have a micron or nanometer-scale surface roughness.

A fastening device having a bellows made of a material that changes shape when activated by a catalyst, and having a pleated structure that contracts from an extended state to a contracted state upon activation. The shape changing material may be a shape memory metal alloy, shape memory polymer or elastic memory composite. A method of using this fastener provides apposition and compression of abutment surfaces to join together two pieces of material, and is suitable for joining apposing bone surfaces together to heal fractures via the use of orthopedic hardware.

This invention relates to the design of tissue covering elements for use in vacuum assisted tissue apposition systems, wherein the geometry of the covering elements favours the application of contractile forces over compressive or extensive forces at the tissue interface.

A method and system for approximating a position using a Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS) having a plurality of GNSS satellites and an augmentation system, the method including the steps of obtaining an initial code pseudorange measurement and an initial carrier phase measurement from a signal transmitted by a GNSS satellite in the GNSS system, receiving a code correction from the augmentation system, using the code correction to correct the initial code pseudorange measurement and the initial carrier phase measurement to mitigate for errors in the signal, to result in a corrected code pseudorange measurement and a corrected carrier phase measurement, and using a code dominated measurement in a filter which outputs apposition and ambiguity estimate.

An intervertebral disk prosthesis having an essentially hollow cylindrical base element (1) which is provided with a casing (2) that is embodied as a bellows, a top end (3), and a bottom end (4), and a central longitudinal axis (5). The base element also includes an upper apposition plate (6), which is disposed perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (5) at the top end (3) of the base element (1) and rests on the base plate of the vertebra, and a lower apposition plate (7), which is arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (5) at the bottom end (4) of the base element (1) and leans on the cover plate of a vertebra. The casing (2) serves a spring element having a defined spring rate.

Methods and devices for fastening tissue are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a tissue fastener is provided and includes a male fastening member having a base plate with at least one post extending therefrom and having a tissue-piercing tip. A protective member is coupled to the male fastening member and is movable between an open position in which the tissue-piercing tip is enclosed within the protective member such that the tissue-piercing tip is prevented from penetrating tissue, and a compressed position in which the tissue-piercing tip is exposed to penetrate tissue. A female fastening member is configured to mate to the male fastening member and to engage tissue therebetween.

The invention discloses a light ecological concrete brick and a preparation method thereof. The light ecological concrete brick is formed by that cement, gravel, pearlite or expanded vermiculite, saw dust (or straw dust, paper scrap and the like), mixed microorganism and water are mixed at certain ratio, are shaped by a mould and are naturally hardened, wherein the mixed microorganism comprises six floras, i.e. bacillus, nitrobacteria, photosynthetic bacteria, saccharomycete, lactic acid bacteria and actinomycete. The light ecological concrete brick of the invention has favourable and long-lasting water purification function because of containing multiple microorganisms and can suspend and even float on the water because of containing light and porous pearlite or expanded vermiculite components with strong adsorption force, which is more favourable for the apposition growth of the microorganism and enlarges contact area with water. The invention can be widely applied on purifying various kinds of water, such as rivers, lakes, ditch water, swimming pools, aquariums and the like.

This invention belongs to magnetic electricity material domain, which conretely relates to using fictitious multichannel phase-locking enlarging principle to implement test material magnetic electricity function method and device of computer control. This invention make phase-locking amplifier fictitious, which is that computer software implements function of phase-locking amplifier. It is very convenient to carry out phase-locking agnification process for random multipath signal by using fictitious phase-locking amplifier. Therefore, it not only precisely automatically survey dE and dH, improve magnetic electricity function measurement precision, but also work frequency limit is boosted a lot compared to hardware phase-locking amplifier, meanwhile decrease manufacture cost of magnetic electricity measuring device. This invention also combines control and measurement of apposition cocurrent offset magnetic field to boost automaticity of magnetic electricity measuring device, thereby improve precision and efficiency of magnetic electricity measurement.

A method of attaching an implant to a bone, the implant comprising a hydrated polymer comprising a lubricious hydrated surface and an attachment surface comprising accessible chemical functional groups. The method includes the steps of treating the implant or the bone with an isocyanate-containing compound; placing the attachment surface in apposition to the bone; and allowing the isocyanate-containing compound to cure to bond the implant to the bone. The invention also includes a medical implant having a hydrated polymer comprising an attachment surface comprising a thermoplastic material, the hydrated polymer having an interpenetrating polymer network with at least two polymers, the hydrated polymer having a low coefficient of friction on at least one surface.

The invention discloses a fast construction method of a high-salt wastewater biological treatment system. The method is characterized in that activated sludge of a urban sewage treatment plant is inoculated in a sequencing batch type biological reactor to form a biological film on a combination padding, a certain start running method and a sludge acclimation method are adopted to realize apposition growth of the activated sludge in a high-salt environment with the salt content of 3 percent (calculating NaCl, the same below) in the reactor without adding halophilic bacteria, and a complex microbial biological film treatment system suitable for microbe to growth with the definite salt content is formed at last.

A discriminating method of parallel series patter and its application in the machinery smell, the characteristics is that regarding the big scale smell sorts and intension confirm problem as assortment problem, and then regarding as approximation problem, giving settling respectively for the mode which is made up of classifier layer and function approximation mode layer. It includes the four implementation steps: (1) n pieces one output neural net of classifier layer takes charge of ensuring the types of n kinds of smell, one to one correspondence. The training subset of a network is made up of all representative smell samples and the part apposition smell samples. (2) n pieces one output neural net of function approximation mode layer takes charge of ensuring the intensity of n kinds of smell, one to one correspondence. The training subset of a network is made up of all representative smell samples. (3) The suppositional balance of imbalance training subset. (4) n+1 pieces one output neural net puts up decision. By using the invention, the machinery olfactometer can solve the simultaneous estimation problem of thousands upon thousands smell types and intensity.

A method of making a fluid impervious seam in a multilaminate fluid impervious medical fabric is disclosed. The multilaminate fluid impervious medical fabric includes at least two layers having different melting points, at least one of the layers is comprised of a fluid impervious material. The method includes overlapping two portions of the multilaminate fluid impervious medical fabric to form an overlapped region wherein the two layers having the innermost position in apposition to one another have a lower melting point relative to the melting point of the fluid impervious material layer. The two portions of multilaminate fluid impervious medical fabric are heat sealed together at the overlap at a temperature which is equal to or greater than the melting point of the innermost identical layers and which temperature is less than the melting point of the fluid impervious material layer. Thus, an integrated fused layer is created from the two layers having the innermost position in apposition to one another, while the fluid impervious material layer remains unmelted. A surgical product made in accordance with this method is disclosed.

The invention discloses an acrylic fiber and viscose (cotton) fiber apposition dyeing method relating to the technical field of blended yarn weaved fabric dyeing. The method comprises the following steps: (1) performing apposition dyeing pretreatment; (2) performing apposition dyeing; and (3) performing apposition dyeing post-treatment. The method has the advantages of simple production process, stable process control and energy conservation, and the related problems in the prior art can be solved.

The invention discloses a cotton-polyester blended fabric and a dispersive and reactive dye one-bath dyeing process. The process is characterized by comprising the following steps: injecting dispersive and reactive dyes and bath materials into a high-temperature high-pressure overflow dyeing machine slowly; then adding Na2SO4 solution and Na2CO3 solution into the high-temperature high-pressure overflow dyeing machine slowly, and carrying out high-temperature high-pressure apposition dyeing on cotton-polyester blended fabrics in the mixed dispersive and active dyeing solution; and carrying out scouring, soaping, washing and drying to ensure that the cotton-polyester blended fabrics are fully subject to color fixing, thus finishing the whole dyeing process. Compared with the cotton-polyester blended fabric two-bath two-step dyeing process, the dyeing process of the invention has the advantages that the time is shortened to 2.5-3.5 hours from 5-7 hours, the water consumption is reduced by 35%-40%, the electricity consumption, the steam consumption and the worker labor strength are lowered, and the production efficiency of enterprises is improved.

The invention provides a dyeing technique of true silk-tencel / cotton interwoven cloth, which comprises the steps of pretreating, dyeing and finishing. The dye liquor used in the dyeing technique comprises 0-5% (owf.) of Lanasol dye, 0-5% (owf.) of Novacron, 1-5 g / L of leveling agent, 15-45 g / L of glauber salt and 5-15 g / L of sodium carbonate. By adopting reactive dyes in different structures, theinvention solves the problem of interaction between true silk and tencel / cotton in the apposition dyeing treatment, and prevents the true silk and tencel / cotton from dyeing each other. In addition, by using the invention, the dyeing technique and color are easy to control and implement, thereby sufficiently displaying the design style, color and pattern effects of the fabric, highlighting the multicolor stereoscopic effect of the high-grade true silk-tencel / cotton interwoven cloth, enhancing the novelty, and satisfying the dyeing and finishing matched technique demands and market demands for novel shell fabric.

This invention belongs to environment protection technique field, which concretely relates to a multifunction nitrification anti-nitrification integrated self-generation dynamic state membrane bioreactor. This reactor is cartridge structure, which is made up of half aerating reacting region, aerating reacting region, and fore treatment reacting region from top to inferior surface. Fore treatment reacting region loads bulking agent. It can change reaction style (anaerobic or aerobic) with different water quality; self-generation dynamic state membrane components are in half aerating reacting region; recirculation of recirculation equipment is no apposition dynamia recirculation, and depends on filament band dynamia generated by weight and inletting water pump. This invention overcomes known membrane components of membrane bioreactor is of high cost, not easy to clean membrane pollution, high energy expenditure of recirculating pump and aerating. It has advantages of good water quality, multifunction, using little ground, convenient to use. It is suitable for processing industrial sewage and domestic sewage.

The invention discloses a frame type wet ecological floating bed, which comprises a floating bed frame, a floating bed substrate and a floating bed plant, wherein the floating bed frame is made of bamboo fiber. The bamboo fiber is high in corrosion resistance under water and has the service life of more than ten years; moreover, the bamboo fiber has the advantages of a membrane bioreactor, and is suitable for microbial interception and apposition growth; therefore, the sludge attached to the surface of a carrier is reduced, the problems of sludge blockage, washing and the like are avoided, the water quality is purified better, the water body pollutant is reduced, the water ecological system is repaired, and the environment is beautified.

The invention discloses an electrophilic suspended bio-carrier and a preparation method thereof. The electrophilic suspended bio-carrier comprises the following raw materials in parts by mass: 100-250 parts of high-molecular interstitial substance, 2-15 parts of electrophilic functional material, 2-20 parts of auxiliary material 1; 2-20 parts of auxiliary material 2 and 1-10 parts of auxiliary material 3. The electrophilic suspended bio-carrier is formed by the raw materials through mixing, granulation, screw extrusion, cooling and cutting. The electrophilic suspended bio-carrier provided by the invention is convenient to prepare, and the density of the electrophilic suspended bio-carrier is controllable within 0.91-0.97 g / cm<3>; according to the property that microbes have negative electricity in water, the electrophilic suspended bio-carrier is mixed with the positively charged functional material to endow the surface of the electrophilic suspended bio-carrier with positive charge to enhance the compatibility between the microbes and the electrophilic suspended bio-carrier. The electrophilic suspended bio-carrier is favorable for apposition growth of microbes and easy for biofilm culturing, has a short period, large biomass, high ammonia nitrogen removal efficiency and good effluent quality; the sludge settling property is good, and equipment operation is free from a sludge blockage phenomenon; the service life of the electrophilic suspended bio-carrier is long and manual replacement and maintenance are not needed.

The invention discloses a mixed reef body which comprises a floater, two supporting frames and a balancing weight. The floater, the supporting frames and the balancing weight are connected in sequence through a pulling rope. The two supporting frames are connected in series in the vertical direction. Each supporting frame comprises a center rod, a sliding sleeve and a plurality of sector supporting plates, wherein the sliding sleeve is in sliding connection with the center rod, and the sector supporting plates are arranged in the circumferential direction of the center rod, a plurality of alga cultivation bricks are arranged on each sector supporting plate, a connecting base is arranged on the top of the center rod, the sector supporting plates are rotationally connected with the connecting base in the vertical face, a supporting rod is hinged between the sliding sleeve and the lower surface of each sector supporting plate, the sliding sleeve is connected with the connecting base through a tension spring, the corresponding side edges of every two adjacent sector supporting plates are tightly attached to each other when the sliding sleeve is in the sliding stroke top dead center. An air exhaust valve is arranged on the floater. According to the mixed reef body, apposition growth of alga seedlings is facilitated, alga seedlings in the initial growth stage are well protected, the alga survival rate is improved, and meanwhile concentrated putting-in and management are convenient.

The invention discloses a basalt fiber cay ecological restoration multi-dimensional reef which comprises a polygonal prismatic platform frame or a circular platform frame, a central supporting component and a polygonal connector, wherein the polygonal prismatic platform frame comprises a plurality of equilateral polygonal components with side length being gradually increased, an outer inclined stay bar and an inner inclined stay bar from top to bottom; the polygonal connector is arranged on the inner side of the inner inclined stay bar and is fixedly connected with the inner inclined stay bar; and the central supporting component comprises a plurality of central connectors from top to bottom, horizontal supporting rods in uniform outward radial connection with the central connectors and central vertical columns connected with the central connectors from top to bottom. The basalt fiber cay ecological restoration multi-dimensional reef has the advantages of environment friendliness, high strength, long service life, corrosion resistance, plant modular production, short construction cycle, strong storm resistance, construction and mounting under various complex cay geological environments, benefit in coral apposition growth and capability of effectively repairing marine ecological environments.