1341 results about "Body compartment" patented technology

A method and apparatus using photo-stimulation to treat or pretreat a sample site prior to analyte concentration determination is presented. More particularly, photo-stimulation at or near at least one sample site is used to enhance perfusion of the sample site leading to reduced errors associated with sampling. Increased perfusion of the sample site leads to increased volume percentages of the target analyte and/or allows the blood or tissue constituent concentrations to more accurately and/or precisely track corresponding sample constituents in more well perfused body compartments or sites such as arteries, veins, or fingertips. In one embodiment, analysis of the photo-stimulated site is used in conjunction with glucose analyzers to determine the analyte concentration with greater ease, accuracy, or precision and may allow determination of the analyte concentration of another non-sampled body part or compartment.

A vehicle seat having: a seat cushion and a seat back formed by covering a surface of a seat pad with a top cover member; a plurality of air holes which penetrate the seat pad to reach a surface of the top cover member; a plurality of air outlets which project from a surface of a duct to be connected to the air holes; and an air blower to pressure and feed air inside a vehicle compartment to the air holes through the duct and the air outlets, wherein a member which has an elastic modulus larger than that of the seat pad forming the seat cushion is interposed between the seat cushion and the duct.

A computer system that installs in the proximity of the vehicle's operator by attaching to the vehicle's wiring harness (e.g., via a power outlet in the vehicle cabin). The device, gathers data relating to the operational state of the vehicle's battery, calculates various health information of the battery from the gathered data, and provides the health and operational state of the battery to the vehicle's operator. To facilitate battery health calculations, the device receives input from a temperature sensor that is remote to the battery, such as a temperature sensor in the device's housing or in the vehicle cabin. The temperature reading can be used to approximate the temperature of the battery. The computer system can also support non-battery related functions, such as navigation, theft deterrence, etc. Algorithms utilizing battery health data over multiple load cycles to determine the health of a battery are also disclosed.

A mobile computing system for a motor vehicle includes a mobile computing device, which can be mounted in the trunk or other convenient location, and a suitable user interface system, such as a display screen, keyboard, etc., mounted in the vehicle cabin. The computing device can accommodate user-removable, plug-in electronic modules that perform specialized processing, communications, control or other specialized tasks relating in some way to the vehicle mission or purpose. The power supply can similarly be modular. For example, individual power supply modules can plug into power supply bays, each of which services a group of electronic modules.

A method and system for controlling an engine in order to maintain a comfortable cabin temperature within a vehicle that is equipped with an engine, a battery and a heating/cooling apparatus including determining an acceptable range of cabin temperatures, monitoring cabin and outside air temperatures, controlling automatic starting of the vehicle engine when both temperatures are outside of the acceptable range and running the engine only as is minimally necessary to maintain the cabin temperature within the acceptable range.

The invention discloses an intelligent door control system of a rail train, which comprises control modules, driving modules and a monitoring and diagnosing module, wherein each carriage is controlled by a control module, a driving module is arranged on each door, and in each carriage, the control module and the driving modules are communicated by adopting a CAN (controller area network) bus so as to realize a control mode where one control module corresponds to multiple driving modules. The control modules are connected with a train bus. The operation processes are as follows: the control modules receive control signals such as door opening, door closing and the like transmitted on the train bus, send TCMS (train control and monitor system) communication commands to the driving module on each door by the CAN bus or in other communication manners according to the obtained control signals so as to control opening and closing actions of the doors by electric motors, and carry out collection and tentative diagnosis on real-time monitoring data of the driving modules on the electric motors. The intelligent door control system can carry out real-time monitoring and diagnosis on running states of the control modules, the driving modules and the electric motors, so as to estimate safety degree of a door system and improve running reliability of a train.

Gain characteristics depending on the frequency of a reference signal from speakers to a passenger position in a motor vehicle, i.e., gain characteristics which are an inversion of vehicle cabin sound field characteristics, are set in a first acoustic corrector. At the passenger position, a gain characteristic curve that is flat at various frequencies is achieved to prevent gain peaks and dips from occurring at the passenger position. A sound effect generated at the passenger position is made linear depending on the state of a noise source, or more specifically, a noise source caused by an accelerating action on the motor vehicle.

The invention belongs to the technical field of tunnel detection of railway engineering systems and particularly relates to a method and a rail vehicle for full-section comprehensive detection of railway tunnels. The rail vehicle comprises a rail vehicle floor board, a cab and a carriage. Line-scan cameras are arranged on an arch frame which is arranged on the rail vehicle floor board, air-coupled shield antennas, and a GPS (global positioning system) mainframe, ground penetrating radar and infrared thermal imagers are arranged on the rail vehicle floor board. A GPS receiver is arranged at the top end of the cab, a laser scanner is arranged at the tail of the top plate of the carriage, and an industrial personal computer is arranged in the carriage. By multiple detection systems, one-time full-section detection of tunnel lining states and tunnel bottom damages can be realized, high detection accuracy, high efficiency, shortening of maintenance time and saving of maintenance cost are realized, influences on normal transportation of the railway tunnels are low, and loss caused by stopping of transportation is reduced.

A vehicle seat, an adjusting system and a method for moving at least one vehicle seat arranged in a vehicle cabin, particularly an aircraft seat, comprising seat components that are coupled or guided together, such as a seat part, a backrest and a leg rest, the location and/or inclination of which can be adjusted by means of at least one or more adjusting units. The adjusting system allows a separation of the basic functions from driving devices, with an electronic device for collision-free movement and for adjusting custom-designed functions and facilitating the adaptation of the custom-designed functions. The movement sequences and movements of the respective individual seat components and the seat components in relation to one another and the movements of the components or seats within an environment or group of seats are accomplished by means of a movement model in a coordinate system.

The invention provides a fire simulation experiment system for a rail tunnel rescue station. The system comprises a simulation tunnel, a simulation rescue station platform, a simulation railway train, a smoke exhaust system, a fire monitoring system, a fire suppression system and a fire parameter measurement system. By the experiment system, the research of a series of basic theory problems and engineering practice problems of fire development, smoke flow, fire monitoring and suppression and the like generated when the fire of the tunnel rescue station is positioned on the top of a carriage, inside the carriage and at the bottom of the carriage can be comprehensively carried out. By the system, a whole set of solution is provided for the research on the effectiveness of a fire monitoring and suppression technology and a smoke control technology under the condition of different longitudinal wind speeds and the evolution law of characteristic parameters such as a temperature field, a poisonous and harmful gas concentration field, thermal radiation and the like in the scene that a train in an extra-long railway tunnel is stopped at the rescue station in the fire process.

A container inspection equipment with cobalt-60 gamma-ray source and cesium iodide or cadmium tungstate detector includes a cobalt-60 gamma-ray source, a cask, a front collimator, a rear collimator, a cesium iodide or cadmium tungstate detector, signal and image processing systems, container trailer system, and automatic control system. The cask of the cobalt-60 gamma-ray source, the beam shutter, and the front collimator are fixed on the same chassis to form an integration and placed in the source room. The rear collimator, cesium iodide or cadmium tungstate array detector and the radiation catcher are fixed on the same chassis to form an integration and placed in the detector room. A container inspection tunnel is formed between the source room and the detector room. The equipment is mainly used for inspecting smuggling goods and contrabands etc., in large containers, container trucks, train carriage and air containers. The equipment either can be installed in the sea port and land frontier customs or installed at the air port, vital communication line, and railway station.

An extendable ramp apparatus is provided for automatically extending a ramp. The apparatus comprises a generally rectangular frame with a track for movement of a carriage pivotally connected to a ramp along the track. The ramp pivots downwardly as it is extends from the frame until it encounters a surface. A bidirectional motor is provided with a cabling arrangement to reciprocate the carriage and ramp along the track. Shock absorbers may slow the carriage movement as the ramp is extended so that hard contact of the ramp with a surface is minimized. An innovative capstan arrangement provides more rapid movement of the ramp as it retracts but provides more power during ramp extension, so that vertical movement of the ramp is slowed as the ramp is extended. The apparatus may find application in vehicles such as trucks, vans, and boats whenever it is desired to move goods or people between surfaces of different heights, such as a truck bed and the ground.

In a hand-free driving warning process for a vehicle, when a grip state of a steering wheel is in a hand-free driving state, and the vehicle is in a travel state stipulated previously, a danger degree is derived based on a position of a vehicle compartment where a non-grip hand exists. In deriving the danger degree, when the non-grip hand is in a high danger position, a high level is set; when the non-grip hand exists in a low danger position, a middle level or a low lever is set. In the low level, any warning is not outputted; in the middle level, a warning is outputted in a sound volume smaller than a usual sound volume; and in the high level, a warning is outputted in the usual sound volume or greater.

A device and method are provided for determining the volume ECV_hydr(t) of a body compartment of a patient at a time t by conducting measurements at the time t of the patient to determine at least one anthropometric measure X(t), the extracellular water volume ECV(t), and the intracellular water volume ICV (t) of the patient. The extracellular water volume ECV_basic(t) of a first compartment with weight W_basic(t) of the patient at the time t is derived by using X (t), the extracellular water volume ECV_sec(t) of a second compartment of the patient at the time t is derived by using ICV (t), and ECV_hydr(t) as the extracellular water volume of a third compartment of the patient is derived with weight W_hydr(t). The extracellular volume ECV_hydr(t) is a measure for the hydration status of the patient.

The invention relates to compositions and methods for drug delivery suitable for promoting the transmucosal absorption of drugs, especially drugs with poor intrinsic bioavailability, such as peptides, proteins, vaccines, and nucleic acids. The delivery system of this invention preferably comprises fatty acid esters and their hydrophilic derivatives that associate with water and other polar solvents to form reverse micelles tha are physically stabilized in the presence of gastrointestinal fluid, water, and other hydrophilic solvents. Such stable reverse micelles are formed by suitable mixtures of polymeric or non-polymeric compounds with amphiphiles. Micelles made using these methods undergo phase transformation more slowly resulting in delayed drug release profiles and sustained absorption. When administered as a pharmaceutical to mucosal surfaces following oral ingestion or intranasal administration, therapeutic molecules principally solubilized in the aqueous phase are protected from digestion by mucosal enzymes and other mucosal degradative processes and are taken up by absorptive cell mechanisms and reach appropriate body compartments. The reverse micelle compositions may comprise mono-, di-glycerides and/or their transesterifed products containing C6-C12 fatty acids chains, wherein the transester groups consist of hydrohilic moieties.

The invention relates to the technical field of van vehicles, in particular to a logistics vehicle and a container thereof. The container comprises a container body which comprises a container plate assembly, a chassis assembly, a skirt assembly and a back door plate assembly; and the container plate assembly is arranged on the chassis assembly, the skirt assembly is arranged under the chassis assembly, and the back door plate assembly is simultaneously connected with the container plate assembly, the chassis assembly and the skirt assembly. The logistics vehicle comprises the container. The container is simple in structure, small in dead load and convenient to assemble.

The present invention includes an improved sprinkler design having a magnetic sensing system for determining the position of the riser nozzle, a waterproofed motor housing and related cables, configurable sprinkler body compartments, and a pilot valve with a check valve assembly, both of which are located within the sprinkler body.

Methods of modulating, adjusting, and maintenance of the glutathione redox status of an individual, or cell, tissues, bodily fluids, or body compartments of the individual, are disclosed, as are compositions suitable for such modulating, adjusting, and maintenance. The modulation or adjustment is achieved by altering the amounts of reduced glutathione versus oxidized glutathione in the individual, or cells, tissues, bodily fluids, or body compartments of the individual. Modulation, adjustment, and maintenance of the redox status of an individual enables treatment, prevention or suppression of diseases or symptoms associated with diseases. These methods are achieved by using quinone derivatives.