427 results about "Body axis" patented technology

In a safety running system, a transverse travelling distance resulting when a subject vehicle travels to a current position of an oncoming vehicle is calculated based on the vehicle velocity and yaw rate of the subject vehicle, a relative transverse distance of the oncoming vehicle relative to a vehicle body axis of the subject vehicle is calculated based on a relative distance, relative velocity and relative angle between the subject vehicle and the oncoming vehicle detected by a radar information processor. When a relative transverse deviation obtained by subtracting the transverse travelling distance from the relative transverse distance resides within a range and that state continues to exist over a predetermined time period, it is judged that there is a collision possibility of the subject vehicle with the oncoming vehicle, and automatic steering is performed so as to avoid a collision.

An X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes a first X-ray tube configured to generate X-rays with which a subject to be examined is irradiated, a first X-ray detector configured to detect X-rays transmitted through the subject, a second X-ray tube which generates X-rays with which a treatment target of the subject is irradiated, a rotating mechanism which rotates the first X-ray tube, the first X-ray detector, and the second X-ray tube around the subject, a reconstructing unit configured to reconstruct an image on the basis of data detected by the first X-ray detector, and a support mechanism which supports the second X-ray tube. The central axis of X-rays from the second X-ray tube tilts with respect to a body axis of the subject. This makes it possible to reduce the dose on a portion other than a treatment target.

An electromechanical braking (EMB) connector for electrical communication between an interior of a brake caliper assembly and an exterior of the brake caliper assembly is disclosed. The EMB connector includes a body having a distal end for insertion into the interior of the brake caliper assembly and a proximal end for exposure on the exterior of the brake caliper assembly, with the distal end and the proximal end defining a body axis. The EMB connector also includes a load sensor connector for coupling with a load sensor disposed on the interior of the brake caliper assembly. The load sensor connector is compressible along a load sensor axis that is substantially perpendicular to the body axis. The EMB connector further includes a conductive component coupled to the load sensor connector. The conductive component enables electrical connection of the load sensor to the exterior of the brake caliper assembly.

Described herein are atherectomy catheters, systems and methods that include a distal tip region that may be moved laterally so that its long axis is parallel with the long axis of the main catheter body axis. Displacing the distal tip region laterally out of the main catheter body axis exposes an annular blade and opens a passageway for cut tissue to enter a storage region within the catheter. The annular blade may be internally coupled to a drive shaft that rotates the blade, and thus the exposed blade edge may have the same crossing profile (OD) as the rest of the distal end region of the catheter. Also described herein are gear-driven atherectomy devices that may use a cable drive shaft to actuate the annular blade. Both push-to-cut and pull-to-cut variations are described, as are methods for cutting tissue and systems including these atherectomy catheters.

An unmanned air vehicle (“UAV”) apparatus is configured to have a body and a body-conformal wing. The body-conformal wing is configured to variably sweep from a closed position to a fully deployed position. In the closed position, the body-conformal wing span is aligned with the body axis and in the fully deployed position the body-conformal wing span is perpendicular to the axial direction of the body. Delivery of the UAV comprises the steps of: positioning the span of a body conformal wing in alignment with the axis of the body of the UAV; initiating the flight of the UAV; and adjusting the sweep angle of the body-conformal wing as a function of the current speed, altitude, or attack angle of the UAV, with the adjustment starting at a 0 degree position and varying between a closed position and a fully deployed position. The UAV also has a control mechanism configured to variably adjust the sweep of the body-conformal wing to achieve a high lift over drag ratio through out the flight path of the UAV.

In an endoprosthesis (11h) for a joint, the two interacting joint parts (15h, 16h) are joined by a cord-type connection piece (21h), which is attached in the vicinity of the body axis (M2h, M2h') of the convex condyle (15h) and extends through a longitudinal groove (22h) in the flexion direction of the joint. The connection piece assures a play space (31h) between the contact surfaces (19h, h', 20h, h') of joint (11h). It is protected from friction on groove wall (55h, 55h') by an elevation (50h, 43h) in concave joint part (16h). An elevation (43h, 50h) at concave joint part (16h) and a depression (49h) at convex joint part (15h) interact in such a way that the lateral movement play space between depression and elevation determines the freedom of movement with respect to the lateroflexion of the joint. In preferred forms of embodiment, thanks to the spherical surfaces at least one pair of corresponding sliding surfaces (19h, 20h; 20h') on the two condyles lie flatly on one another, under load, in any position of the joint.

A prosthetic liner for receiving a residual limb has a body with an open proximal end and a closed distal end. The liner includes a seal having an annular sealing lip positioned about the body axis on the body distal end. The sealing lip includes a root that is secured to the body distal end, and a sealing edge that extends from the root so as to form an opening and is biased away from the body distal end.

A radiotomography apparatus according to the present invention includes a radiation detection device that irradiates radiation from a radiation source in multiple directions around an object to be examined and detects radiation transmitted through the object from the multiple directions; a table on which the object lies and which can move the object in a body axis direction of the object; reconstruction parameter setting device that sets reconstruction parameters that include an amount of movement of the table in the body axis direction, and that are used to reconstruct an image of the object; a reconstruction view area calculating device that calculates a reconstruction view area for at least one data segment that is necessary for a reconstruction calculation that is determined for each spatial position that is reconstructed based on the set reconstruction parameters; a reference segment position setting device that sets a reference segment position in the calculated reconstruction view area according to a phase signal that is obtained by dynamic analysis of the object; an effective segment calculating device that calculates a data segment including the set reference segment position as an effective segment using a predetermined weight function; and an image creating device that creates an image by reconstructing the calculated effective segments. It is thus possible to provide a radiotomography apparatus that can both enhance temporal resolution and reduce ineffective radiation exposure.

Arrangement for ascertaining function-determining geometric parameters of a joint of a vertebrate, especially a hip or shoulder joint of a human being, in preparation for the installation of a joint replacement implant, especially a hip or shoulder socket or an associated stem implant, by means of an optical coordinate-measuring procedure, having a stereocamera or stereocamera arrangement for the spatial recording of optical transducer signals, a mobile multipoint transducer which is in the form of a movable sensor for sensing bony references in the joint region in order to determine the coordinates thereof, at least one bone-fixed multipoint transducer which is configured for rigid attachment, especially screwed or clamped attachment, (in a region sufficiently distant from the joint) to an extremity originating from the joint, especially close to the proximal end of a femur or a humerus, an interactive sequence controller for controlling the sequential registration and storage of a set of measurement point coordinates supplied by the mobile multipoint transducer and sets of measurement point coordinates recorded in a first plurality of positions of the bone-fixed multipoint transducer in a plurality of rotated positions of the extremity and their subsequent processing in accordance with a previously stored processing sequence, an evaluation unit for evaluating the sets of measurement point coordinates supplied by the multipoint transducers and recorded by the camera arrangement for the purpose of determining the geometric parameters, which comprises means for determining the transversal, vertical and sagittal body axes as well as means for carrying out an iterative procedure, especially an adjustment calculation in accordance with the least squares method, to determine the coordinates of the center of rotation of the joint, and an output unit, which is connected to the sequence controller and to the evaluation unit, for issuing manipulation proposals to an operating surgeon in accordance with the predetermined process sequence and in dependence upon the results of the determination of the geometric parameters, and for displaying the results of the evaluation.

A laser levelling apparatus includes a platform, a base assembly, a body assembly, a head assembly and a laser assembly. The body assembly is rotatable about a body axis relative to the base assembly, the head assembly is rotatably supported by the body and rotatable about a head assembly axis transverse to the body axis and the laser assembly supported by the head assembly and rotatable about a laser assembly axis which is transverse the head assembly axis. The laser assembly has a laser diode and focusing elements and laser collimator the laser beam with the laser assembly. The head assembly is mounted between a first shaft end mounted at a first position of the body and a second shaft end mounted at the second position of the body opposed to the first position. A head assembly collimator is used to adjust the axis of rotation of the head assembly. A base assembly leveller is used to adjust the level of the base relative to the platform in at least two transverse directions. The base leveller, laser collimator and head assembly collimator together and head assembly collimator together provide for collimator of the beam along three orthogonal axes.

This invention relates to a system for estimating the position, speed and orientation of a vehicle (10), comprising means for determining the components of two noncollinear constant unit vectors b, b according to vehicle body axes; means for determining the components of said noncollinear constant unit vectors {right arrow over (g)}t, {right arrow over (e)}t according to Earth's axes; means for determining the three components of angular velocity b of the vehicle in body axes; means for correcting said angular velocity b with a correction uω and obtaining a corrected angular velocity {circumflex over (ω)}b=b+uω; a control module (14) implementing a control law to calculate said correction uω, where said control law is: uω=σ(b×ĝb+<?img id="custom-character-00007" he="3.13mm" wi="1.78mm" file="US20070213889A1-20070913-P00901.TIF" alt="custom character" img-content="character" img-format="tif" ?>b×êb)  [1]where σ is a positive scalar, such that upon using said corrected angular velocity {circumflex over (ω)}b=b+uω as input to a module for integrating the kinematic equations, the latter are stable in the ISS sense and the error in the estimation of the direction cosine matrix {circumflex over (B)} and of the Euler angles {circumflex over (Φ)} is bounded.

A method and system for calibrating a wireless sensor device are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises determining a vertical calibration vector and determining a rotation matrix using the vertical calibration vector to line up native axes of the wireless sensor device with body axes. In a second aspect, a wireless sensor device comprises a processor and a memory device coupled to the processor, wherein the memory device includes an application that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to determine a vertical calibration vector and to determine a rotation matrix using the vertical calibration vector to line up native axes of the wireless sensor device with body axes.

A combined radiation therapy / PET apparatus includes: an open PET device having multi-ring detector rings that are opposed to each other in the direction of the body axis so as to leave a gap therebetween; and a radiation therapy apparatus for performing radiation therapy through the gap. When imaging the condition of an affected area and a treatment beam for monitoring in radiation therapy of irradiating the affected area with X-rays, gamma rays, or particle beams, the apparatus covers a region of interest in the irradiation field of the radiation therapy with the field-of-view of the open PET device, thereby making possible the positioning of the irradiation field and treatment monitoring using PET images.

This invention relates to a system for estimating the position, velocity and orientation of a vehicle, by determining the components of two noncollinear constant unit vectors b,b according to vehicle body axes; and determining the components of the noncollinear constant unit vectors {right arrow over (g)}t,{right arrow over (e)}t according to Earth's axes. The system further determines the three components of angular velocity b of the vehicle in body axes; corrects the angular velocity b with a correction uω and obtains a corrected angular velocity {circumflex over (ω)}b=b+uω; a control module implementing a control law to calculate the correction uω, where the control law is:uω=σ(b×ĝb+b×êb)  [1]where σ is a positive scalar,such that upon using the corrected angular velocity {circumflex over (ω)}b=b+uω as input to a module for integrating the kinematic equations, the latter are stable in the ISS sense and the error in the estimation of the direction cosine matrix {circumflex over (B)} and of the Euler angles {circumflex over (φ)} is bounded.

A scout image of a subject is displayed. An operator designates at least one range in a body-axis direction, of the scout image. Further, the operator graphically inputs or key-inputs and sets imaging condition parameters such as a helical pitch, a noise index and the like for a shuttle mode helical scan with being made independent every ranges. Thus, conditions such as helical pitch and noise index for the shuttle mode helical scan can efficiently and intelligibly be set independently for each region or organ, and hence the control / optimization of imaging conditions is enabled.

A device for relieving back strain for a user who is supporting a substantial weight which is off the user's vertical body axis at his or her front side. The device alleviates the aforementioned difficulties by utilizing the otherwise detrimental forces generated by the off-axis weight to press a rigid plate behind and adjacent to the spine of the device user against the user's spine. This rigid plate is preferably contoured to mirror the shape of the human spine. The device in one embodiment is used as a baby carrier. In another it is used with an abdominal support during pregnancy. In a third embodiment it provides support for the breasts of large breasted women.

A magnetic resonance imaging system includes a high-frequency magnetic field generating unit for generating and applying a high-frequency magnetic field to a subject placed in a static magnetic field, a gradient magnetic field generating unit for generating a gradient magnetic field to be superimposed on the static magnetic field, and a sequencer for controlling the high-frequency magnetic field generating unit and the gradient magnetic field generating unit to acquire, within a specified part of the heartbeat of the subject, MR data that pertains to a plane through which an axis substantially identical to the body axis of the subject in a k-space extends, and to cause the plane to rotate, at every heartbeat, about the axis substantially identical to the body axis.

An X-ray diagnostic system is provided, which uses X-rays to image the lower limb of an object under conditions suitable for a flow of an X-ray contrast agent injected into the object. In the system, a C-shaped arm supports both an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector so that an object-laid tabletop is located between both the tube and the detector. For instance, one of the tabletop and the C-shaped arm is relatively moved with respect to the other so that the object is imaged along a body-axis direction thereof. The apparatus is able to perform a fluoroscopic scan to obtain a body-axis directional fluoroscopic image of the agent-injected object and to set imaging parameters, region by region in the body-axis direction, necessary for an imaging scan using the fluoroscopic image. The imaging parameters are used for the imaging scan of the agent-injected object.

A visceral fat measurement device includes a first electrode pair and a second electrode pair to be arranged in a body axis direction at a back surface of an abdomen of a subject; a current generation unit for flowing current between electrodes of the first electrode pair; a potential difference detection unit for detecting a potential difference between electrodes of the second electrode pair current is flowed between the electrodes of the first electrode pair; and a visceral fat mass calculation part for calculating visceral fat mass of the subject based on the detected potential difference between the electrodes of the second electrode pair.

The invention discloses a device and a method for indirect thermal desorption disposal of persistent organic pollutant contaminated soil. The device comprises a contaminated soil pretreatment system, a feeding system, a thermal desorption system, a discharging system, a tail gas purification system and an automatic control system, wherein the contaminated soil pretreatment system is connected with a feed opening of the thermal desorption system through the feeding system, a solid discharge opening of the thermal desorption system is connected with the discharging system, and a gas discharge opening of the thermal desorption system is connected with an inlet of the tail gas purification system. According to the method, after pretreatment, contaminated soil is conveyed to the thermal desorption system for desorption for 10-40 min at the temperature of 400-600 DEG C, and desorption exhaust gas adopts a technology including procedures of cyclone dust removal, two stages of spraying, drying and activated carbon adsorption / gliding arc degradation. The device and the method adopt indirect heating, so that risks of generation of poisonous materials such as dioxine and the like are avoided effectively; and a double-layer cylinder rotary kiln type furnace body, the furnace body axis and the ground form a 0-degree angle, and accordingly, the operation and maintenance costs are reduced.

A drill bit comprising a cutter assembly, further comprising a planar table and a cutter substrate coupled to the planar table, wherein the cutter substrate has a cutter body axis and wherein the planar table is operable to rotate about the cutter body axis. The planar table may be exposed to the rock formation for cutting purposes but may rotate to reduce the time that any specific portion of the cutting edge is exposed to the formation to extend the life of the planar table, among other benefits.

A terminal element for fiber optic communication has an elongated body defining a body axis and having a first end from which an optical fiber extends along the body axis. The body has a second end with an angled surface offset at an angle from the body axis. The fiber extends through the length of the body, and terminates at a fiber end surface flush with the angled surface. A lens element is positioned adjacent to the angled surface. The fiber may be hermetically sealed to the body at a position away from first end, and may be sealed with a flexible material at the first end.

Described herein are atherectomy catheters, systems and methods that include a distal tip region that may be moved laterally so that its long axis is parallel with the long axis of the main catheter body axis. Displacing the distal tip region laterally out of the main catheter body axis exposes an annular blade and opens a passageway for cut tissue to enter a storage region within the catheter. The annular blade may be internally coupled to a drive shaft that rotates the blade, and thus the exposed blade edge may have the same crossing profile (OD) as the rest of the distal end region of the catheter. Also described herein are gear-driven atherectomy devices that may use a cable drive shaft to actuate the annular blade. Both push-to-cut and pull-to-cut variations are described, as are methods for cutting tissue and systems including these atherectomy catheters.

A plurality of detector rings in which detectors arranged densely or spatially in a ring shape or in a polygonal shape are arranged, with an open space kept in the body axis direction, coincidences are measured for some of or all of detector pairs connecting the detector rings apart from the open space to perform three-dimensional image reconstruction, thereby imaging the open space between the detector rings as a tomographic image. Therefore, the open space is secured, with the deteriorated quality of an image suppressed, thus making it possible to easily gain access to a patient under PET scanning from outside a gantry and also provide irradiation of particle beams for cancer treatment as well as X-ray CT scanning.

The present invention provides a vertical magnetic field MRI apparatus which is capable of speeding up imaging for taking an image of any cross section of a wide area such as a total body, while suppressing increase of the number of channels and maintaining high sensitivity in a deep portion of a subject. A receiver coil unit 500 incorporates a bed coil unit 600 whose longitudinal direction agrees with a body axis direction of the test object 103, and an upper coil unit 700 which is detachably mounted on the bed coil unit 600. The bed coil unit 600 is provided with a carrying surface 601 for placing the test object 103 thereon and multiple lower sub-coils arranged in a lower part of the carrying surface 601, and the upper coil unit 700 is provided with multiple upper sub-coils which are connected to the lower sub-coils. The upper sub-coils are separated into two parts; one arranged in a flexible inner support 20-1 covering the installation surface 601 and another arranged in a flexible outer support 20-2 covering the external side of the inner support 20-1. The upper sub-coils and the lower sub-coils are connected by mounting the upper coil unit 700 on the bed coil unit 600, thereby forming the multiple types of sub-coils.

The system includes a mobile vessel having a body axis and a steering mechanism. A three-axis gyroscope is mounted within the vessel. A three-axis magnetometer is mounted within the vessel. A programmable device communicates with the three-axis gyroscope, the three-axis magnetometer, and the steering mechanism. The three-axis gyroscope may include three single axis gyroscopes.

A heel effect compensation filter is configured to have a thickness distribution that uniforms an X-ray intensity angular distribution that is nonuniform in the body axis direction of a subject in an X-ray flux irradiated space. The space is formed by an X-ray flux diverging from an anode in a body width direction of the subject and diverging in a shape of an approximate sector in the body axis direction due to the heel effect, when the X-ray flux generated on the anode by irradiating a thermoelectron beam flux from a cathode to the anode is irradiated on the subject. The thickness distribution can be obtained using a predetermined formula.

A medical, implantable electrode device, in particular a cardiological electrode device, comprises an elongate electrode body (2) having a proximal and a distal end (1) for insertion into the body of the patient and multiple strut-like anchoring elements (4), which are attached laterally to the electrode body (2) before the distal end (1) for fixing the electrode device in the patient and are distributed around the circumference, which each project having their longitudinal axis (SL) at an acute angle (W1) opening in the direction of the proximal end in relation to the electrode body axis (KL). The anchoring elements have a preferred direction around the circumference in such a way that upon engagement of the anchoring elements (4) in a body part of the patient, a rotation of the electrode body (2) is opposed by a greater resistance in one rotational direction than in the opposite direction.