39 results about "Chemicals exposure" patented technology

A proximity network map defines who and what objects have come in contact of each other including location and time. This map selects the list people who have come in contact with known infected people based on contagious disease epidemiology criteria to control its spread, or to prevent radiation poisoning, limit bio-chemicals exposure, etc. These people then undergo testing and quarantine procedures. It monitors hygiene practices and reduces nosocomial infections in hospitals and mitigates the pandemic flu threat by controlling contamination. It controls people interaction, information flow in a high security environment, control crime or gang activities. Each person or object carrying a proximity-sensing unit with unique ID records all units it encountered over a period of time. This information is stored with time stamp in a relational database and transferred to network servers. The databases are then replication throughout via a central web database server for retrieval and analysis.

A bioactive catalytic material is disclosed for providing protection from chemical exposure. The material is composed of enzymes immobilized within polyelectrolyte multilayers and a polymerizable end-capping layer to render stability to enzymes. Also disclosed is the related method for making a bioactive catalytic material and their deposition on substrates of varying size, shape and flexibility for providing active protection from chemical exposure.

A proximity network map defines who and what objects have come in contact of each other including location and time. This map selects the list people who have come in contact with known infected people based on contagious disease epidemiology criteria to control its spread, or to prevent radiation poisoning, limit bio-chemicals exposure, etc. These people then undergo testing and quarantine procedures. It monitors hygiene practices and reduces nosocomial infections in hospitals and mitigates the pandemic flu threat by controlling contamination. It controls people interaction, information flow in a high security environment, control crime or gang activities. Each person or object carrying a proximity-sensing unit with unique ID records all units it encountered over a period of time. This information is stored with time stamp in a relational database and transferred to network servers. The databases are then replication throughout via a central web database server for retrieval and analysis.

Microencapsulated chemical(s), as water-soluble solid particles, are embedded in at least one the paint layers on the surface of a magnesium article used in an automobile. If the protective paint film is scratched or otherwise mechanically disturbed to expose the surface of the magnesium article the capsules will be ruptured. This will expose the encapsulated chemical(s) to ambient water enabling them to dissolve and form an aqueous solution capable of reacting with the exposed magnesium to form a protective passivating layer on the exposed magnesium to resist corrosion. In a second embodiment the encapsulated chemicals include a deliquescing compound for extraction of moisture from the atmosphere sufficient to induce dissolution of the passivating layer-forming chemical(s) and trigger the formation of the passivating layer in the absence of ambient water.

The invention relates to the environment ecological risk assessment field, and in particular relates to an organic chemical exposure level forecasting model and data analysis system for a surface water environment medium based on mass balance and dynamic subduction under the surface water environment. The organic chemicals are finally discharged into the surrounding water environment along with the modern industrial production wastewater after being treated, and volatized into atmosphere along with the water, and then enter water bottom sediment through adsorption effect or settlement effect. An exposure forecasting model system which is simple in model structure, clear in forecasting rule, easy to understand and effective is established, the model in an appropriate level can be selected according to the research aim and requirements, and the model has significance to the environment exposure and security management of the organic chemicals and the environment ecologic risk assessment.

A filter medium of an air purifying respirator captures one or more substances from the air in a worker's environment as the worked breathes. Air contaminants captured by the respirator filter media can be subsequently analyzed and measured. An air flow meter placed at an air channel of the respirator measures air flow and / or total air volume inspired by the worker wearing the respirator. Personal chemical exposure of the worker can be assessed from the filter media measurements and air flow data.

A method of avoiding harmful chemical emission concentration levels, the method comprising implementing a cognitive suite of workplace hygiene and injury predictors (WHIP) that has learned to identify chemical emission sources and indicators of harmful chemical emission concentration levels, detecting an indicator, and implementing a corrective action by at least one of altering the operation of a chemical emissions source, modifying a time of a scheduled task, or changing prescribed personal protective equipment.

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system includes a command center having a computing device an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a body, the UAV to communicate wirelessly with the command center via a network, the UAV having a control system with a power source, a geospatial tracking device, and a multi-channel communication portal; a camera secured to the body and in communication with the control system; and one or more equipment attachment sites; site assessment tools to attach to or within the one or more equipment attachment sites, each of the site assessment tools to record a data associated with an emergency site, such as weather conditions, road conditions, traffic, visibility, radiation, and chemical exposure; the UAV is to receive commands from the command center to deploy to the emergency site; and the UAV is to receive the data and transmit the data to the command center via the multi-channel communication portal.

A highly durable coating composition particularly suited for use on printed articles requiring protection from exposure to the natural elements, chemical exposure, or abrasion. The coating composition generally comprises a fluoropolymer resin, an acrylic polyol resin and a melamine resin. Optionally, a polyisocyanate crosslinking agent may also be included to accelerate curing of the coating.

A micro-colorimetric sensor for sensing target chemicals that converts time sequence information into a spatial distribution of color. By tracking the spatial color distribution, chemical exposure over time is thus detected, which overcomes the limitation of traditional colorimetric sensors. A porous media is coated on a top surface of the substrate. Multiple sensing chemicals are fused in parallel linear channels into the porous media coating. A plate is affixed over the substrate top surface to cover the plurality of parallel linear channels. An air sample is diffused along the porous media to get a clear pattern of spatial color distribution and color images are captured. Optical parameters like gradient of spatial color distribution, intensity, and absorbance, etc., can be tracked to calculate analytes concentrations.

A disposable heated glove for heating a wearer's hand includes a fabric material for covering the palm and back of the hand, four finger portions for covering the wearer's fingers and a thumb portion for covering the wearer's thumb. The glove also includes five small elongated pouches with each pouch being associated with a different one of the finger and thumb portions. A quantity of exothermic chemicals is sealed within each of the pouches whereby removing chemicals from one of the pouches results in the destruction of the pouch so that it cannot be reused. In one embodiment, the chemicals are activated to create heat by manually manipulating the same to mix the chemicals. In another embodiment, the chemicals are activated by exposing them to the atmosphere.

Method and apparatus is described for optimizing the design of products, such as but not limited to mechanical products, by simultaneously subjecting the products to multiple stimuli, such as but not limited to temperature, vibration, pressure, ultraviolet radiation, chemical exposure, humidity, mechanical cycling, and mechanical loading.

An aqueous coating composition comprising an active hydrogen-containing polymer, an isocyanate, and beta-hydroxyalkylamide is disclosed. The polymer can be any number of polymers containing hydroxyl, amine and / or thiol groups, such as an acrylic polyol, a polyester polyol, and mixtures thereof. The hydroxylalkylamide has been shown to decrease the time in which the coating achieves hardness and, in the case of the polyester polyol system, increases the hardness that is achieved. The present compositions also provide resistance to chemical exposure. Methods for coating a substrate and the substrates coated thereby are also disclosed.

Catalytic enzyme-modified textiles are disclosed for providing protection from chemical exposure. The textiles are composed of a cloth substrate, at least one polyelectrolyte layer, at least one enzyme layer to degrade the chemical agent, and at least one capping layer. Also disclosed is the related method for making catalytic enzyme-modified textiles.

The invention discloses a method for measuring the emission power of an ultraviolet lamp in water. The method comprises the following steps of: placing an ultraviolet lamp arranged in a quartz sleevein water, and placing a chemical exposure meter on a perpendicular bisector of the ultraviolet lamp; recording absorbance values of the ultraviolet lamp collected by the chemical exposure meter beforeand after irradiation by controlling positions of the chemical exposure meter at different distances from the ultraviolet lamp; calculating a radiation illuminance curve of the ultraviolet lamp withthe change of distance by a system; fitting the radiation illuminance curve with a radiation illuminance curve calculated by a radiation illuminance calculation formula by the system to obtain the emission power of the ultraviolet lamp. The invention also discloses a system for measuring the emission power of the ultraviolet lamp in water. The method and the system provided by the invention can measure the actual ultraviolet emission power of the combination of the underwater ultraviolet lamp and the quartz sleeve, the cost is low, the operation method is simple and the measurement can be carried out in a conventional laboratory, so that the method and the system can be widely applied to the field of ultraviolet lamps.

Singulation of individual electronic packages fabricated as part of a common matrix, is accomplished by mask patterning and chemical exposure in combination with physical sawing. In one embodiment of a singulation process in accordance with the present invention, an initial, shallow saw cut into inter-package regions of the matrix exposes underlying metal to subsequent chemical etching steps. In an alternative embodiment, a separate photoresist mask may be patterned over the matrix to selectively expose metal in inter-package regions to chemical etching.

A software system for providing assistance to third party healthcare payors and others in recouping funds to which they have a subrogation right. The system generally comprises a web enabled computer server and a dynamic information gathering module for instructing a processor to search a health insurance claims database for all claims of record meeting a specified criteria and display, and a search window for allowing a user to enter a selected black box drug and date range for searching said health insurance claims database. The software application can identify individuals who took a particular drug and had an adverse outcome, and can identify specific diagnoses which can be imputed back to drugs or chemical exposure (such as mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos, and liver toxicity caused by acetominophen (including combination drugs containing acetaminophen). The software system assists health insurers in collecting funds subject to a subrogation claim.

Provided is a method of limiting exposure of a dispense chemical to air and meet dispense objectives in a dispense nozzle system, the method comprising: providing a sample requiring a dispense process of a dispense chemical using a dispense nozzle system; performing an opening cycle of dispense process steps to get the dispense nozzle system ready; dispensing a dispense chemical onto the sample; and performing a closing cycle of dispense process steps to prepare the nozzle system for non-use; repeating the operations of performing the opening cycle of dispense process steps, dispensing the chemical, and performing the closing cycle of dispense process steps a prescribed number of times depending on an application.

The present invention relates to methods useful for treating and / or preventing radiation- and / or chemical-induced toxicity in non-malignant tissue using a protease activated receptor-1 (PAR-1) inhibitor. In particular, use of a protease activated receptor-1 (PAR-1) inhibitor to treat and / or prevent acute and chronic adverse effects of radiation and / or chemical exposure (e.g., to one or more of the following: intestine, lung, oral mucosa, or other organs).

A screen for detecting, identifying, and characterizing chemicals as toxicants is based on the affect of the chemical on gene expression in animal cleavage stage embryos. A microarray screen for detecting and measuring the affects of chemicals on gene expression in animal cleavage stage embryos. A screen for detecting, identifying and characterizing chemicals as toxicants based on the common or differential affects on gene expression in animal cleavage stage embryos and neurulation stage embryos. Markers of chemical exposure and teratogenesis identified using the screen disclosed herein. A treatment that enables the transfer of biotinylated PCR products or DNA to a membrane following gel electrophoresis by depurinating the PCR or DNA products and denaturing the PCR products or DNA.

A bacteriorhodopsin based chemical sensing architecture based upon the collective response of bacteriorhodopsin and a number of its mutants; the wild type protein and a selection of genetically-engineered variants was able to respond differentially to a selection of amines. The observable response to the presence of a target chemical was manifested through a modulation of bacteriorhodopsin's photokinetic properties, which are monitored through pump-probe techniques using a custom prototype flash photolysis system. Differential responsivity exists at two levels; (1) bacteriorhodopsin proteins (wild-type and genetically-engineered variants) respond differentially upon exposure of a target chemical, and (2) the response pattern exhibited by the proteins differs from chemical to chemical. This dichotomy forms the basis for a BR-mediated chemical sensing technology that is highly sensitive and selective and may therefore discriminate between different chemicals.

The invention discloses a method for predicting the exposure level of chemicals of an anaerobic-anoxia-aerobic wastewater treatment system (shortened as STP(A2 / O)). An STP(A2 / O) concept model is built according to co-existence relationship of environmental mediums such as air, water, suspended solids and sludge and mass flow process of the chemicals by taking the anaerobic-anoxia-aerobic wastewater treatment system as a basic technique; by defaulting environmental exposure scene parameters, the exposure level can be predicted by just inputting the molecular weight of the chemicals, the steam pressure (P), the water solubility (S), the anaerobic organism degradation rate (k10), the anoxia organism degradation rate (k12), the aerobic organism degradation rate (k5), the adsorption coefficient (Koc) and the emission load (ERC). The prediction method is simple, feasible, few in actually-measured parameters and high in prediction accuracy and has a great signification for evaluating exposure risk of the chemicals.

A method of treatment for a tissue organ or entire body of a patient prior to or after exposure to chemicals or radiation or both comprises the steps of activating an acoustic shock wave generator or source to emit acoustic shock waves; and subjecting the tissue, organ or entire body to the acoustic shock waves stimulating said tissue, organ or body wherein the tissue, organ or body is positioned within a path of the emitted shock waves.

The invention discloses an exposure level prediction method of organic chemicals of an anaerobic-aerobic treatment system of wastewater (STP(A / O) for short). The method comprises the following steps: by taking A / O biological treatment system of wastewater as a basic process, constructing a STP(A / O) concept model according to a coexisting relationship of gas, water, suspended particles and a sludge environment-friendly medium and a mass flow process of the chemicals; and by defaulting an environmental exposure scene parameter, just inputting the molecular weights of the chemicals, a vapor pressure (P), water solubility (S), anaerobic biodegradation rate (k10), aerobic biodegradation rate (k5), adsorption coefficient (Koc) and discharge (ERC) to predict the exposure level. The prediction method is simple and feasible, fewer in measured parameters and relatively high in predicting accuracy, and has important meaning for evaluating exposure risk of the chemical.

A fertilizer and insecticide capsule attaching to an in-ground sprinkler system allowing lawn and garden chemicals to be dispensed simultaneously to a lawn or garden while watering it. Lawn and garden chemicals in tablet or liquid form can be used interchangeably with ease. This method of chemically treating a lawn or garden greatly reduces or eliminates chemical exposure to a user while dispensing chemicals onto a lawn or garden. The present invention is easy to install and use, and saves a user time by combining process of watering a lawn or garden with process of chemically treating a lawn or garden.

The present invention provides a system and method for tracking chemical applications and providing warnings regarding chemical exposure times. According to a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a method which includes the steps of: receiving chemical application data; retrieving data regarding the chemical characteristics of the applied chemicals; receiving geo-location data identifying a target application area for the applied chemicals; calculating a probable application area based on a calculation of the potential drift of the applied chemicals beyond the target application area; calculating a buffer zone around the probable application area; calculating a safety boundary around the probable application area; calculating a geo-fence for the determined buffer zone; calculating a geo-fence for the probable application area; calculating an effective period for the probable application area; receiving location data regarding a registered user; comparing the received location data against the calculated geo-fence boundaries for the determined buffer zone and the probable application area; determining whether the first user is within a determined buffer zone; transmitting a notification or warning message to the user regarding entry into the buffer zone; determining whether the first user is within the probable application area; transmitting a notification to the user regarding entry into the probable application area; tracking the total time the first user is within the probable application area; and transmitting a notification to the first user regarding the total time the first user is within the probable application area.

The invention discloses a method for predicting the exposure of chemicals in a wastewater aerobic treatment system (referred to as STP (O)). By adopting the wastewater aerobic biochemical treatment system as a basic process, according to symbiotic relationship among gas, water, suspended solids and sludge environmental media and the mass flow process of the chemicals, an STP (O) conceptual model is constructed and the prediction of the exposure level is completed by virtue of default environmental exposure scene parameters and only need of inputting the molecular weight, the vapor pressure (P), the water solubility (S), the aerobic biodegradation rate (k5), adsorption coefficient (Koc) and emissions (ERC) of the chemicals. The prediction method is simple, less in measured parameters and higher in prediction accuracy and is of important significance of exposure risk assessment of chemicals.

Singulation of individual electronic packages fabricated as part of a common matrix, is accomplished by mask patterning and chemical exposure in combination with physical sawing. In one embodiment of a singulation process in accordance with the present invention, an initial, shallow saw cut into inter-package regions of the matrix exposes underlying metal to subsequent chemical etching steps. In an alternative embodiment, a separate photoresist mask may be patterned over the matrix to selectively expose metal in inter-package regions to chemical etching.

A cleaning system which includes an enclosure and having a door with a transparent window. The door is opened and closed to load and unload products to be cleaned. An operator puck on the outside of the enclosure couples magnetically to another actuator puck on the inside of the enclosure. This coupling allows an operator to move and direct the inside puck to actuate spray or air blast functions, without opening the enclosure. The outside operator puck includes one or more switches which turn on the various electronic components such as the liquid pump, light, or air blast valve. The cleaning system enables a user to efficiently direct cleaning action to parts inside to minimize the cleaning time, and to prevent exposure of chemicals. The cleaning fluid is cycled out of the enclosure continuously, and into a “trap” box, through a pump and back into the cleaner box in a closed loop cycle. This system reduces exposure of users to cleaning chemicals and their vapors prevent the chemicals from being deposited into the environment.