158 results about "Contour form" patented technology

A stackable tabletop includes a tabletop member having a top surface defining a peripheral edge portion and a first contour formed therealong and a bottom surface adapted for pivotally connecting two leg assemblies thereon, and an engaging rim, which is provided along a peripheral edge portion of the bottom surface of the tabletop member, defining a second contour formed therealong, wherein the second contour of the engaging rim has a size and shape geometrically matching with the first contour of the top surface. Therefore, the stackable tabletop is adapted to overlappedly stack on another stackable tabletop by engaging the second contour of the engaging rim of the stackable tabletop with the first contour of the top surface of the another stackable tabletop so as to substantially retain the two stackable tabletops in position and avoid a lateral relative movement between the stackable tabletop and the another stackable tabletop.

Vector quantization provides font contour data reduction. Characters are defined in a font collection using segmented outline forms and common references stored to curve segments for similar segments in different characters of the font collection. Compressing the font collection preferably includes applying an entropy encoding data reduction. The common references are stored in a segment storage location. Another aspect includes decompressing a font store containing a compressed collection of outline fonts. The uncompressed curve segments are scaled so as to match a requested size for a letterform.

A knee pad adapted to cover the knee of a user is made from a single sheet of durable, pliable sheet material, or from a plurality of separate segments made of such sheet material. It comprises a body having an open side, an elbow section and a leg section, said elbow section and a leg section joined to form a corner. A strap member is attached to extends between opposed sides of the leg section that enables the user to secure the knee pad to the user's knee with the knee placed into the open side and seated against the corner. Outer edges of the leg and elbow section are each inwardly contoured forming a concave indentation respectively in each of these outer edges.

The invention discloses a point group geographic entity selection method under the restriction of correlated elements. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) maintaining the contour form of a point-like geographic element group; 2) maintaining the density distribution characteristics of the point group, clustering the point elements according to the density, and sorting and selecting; and 3) restricting correlated elements. By the method, a map needed by a user can be obtained rapidly and effectively. The aesthetic quality of the map is ensured and the prominence is given to the key points for easy query analysis while strengthening the essence, abandoning the refuse and maintaining the logical relation and solitary relation between the map objects by analyzing the requirements of the user.

A medical affixation device for affixing a first body tissue portion to a second body tissue portion in vivo includes a main body portion having a first surface operably oriented in facing relationship with a first body tissue, wherein the first surface has a non-planar contour forming one or more body tissue contact portions and one or more non-contacting portion. The body tissue contact portions have an effective tissue contact surface area that is sufficiently large to prevent the body tissue contact portions from penetrating the first body tissue when the device is fully installed. The device further includes one or more prongs extending from the main body portion, and which are configured to penetrate the first body tissue upon installation of the device.

A combined steel oil control ring is provided which has steel side rails and a steel spacer expander. The spacer expander includes ear portions for contacting the side rails. The ear portions are substantially equally spaced with respect to each other along the internal circumferential portion of the spacer expander. The ear portions have radially external circumferential surfaces adapted to press the side rails radially outwardly by using the resilient force caused by the spacer expander. The spacer expander has up-and-down contours formed circumferentially along the radially external circumferential surface, for preventing the side rails from circumferentially rotating relatively to the spacer expander. The up-and-down contours each include at least two axially extending groove regions and at least three axially extending flat regions. The groove regions and flat regions are dimensioned to extend the life span of the contours and the dies.

The present invention is directed to a golf club having a reversible sole member. The reversible sole member provides a plurality of bounce contours. The user may select one of the plurality of bounce contours and orient the sole member so that the selected bounce contour forms the sole contour of the golf club head.

The invention relates to an anchorage device, in particular to a carbon fiber plate anchorage device used in civil engineering and building construction. The anchorage device consists of an anchor plate and a clamping piece; the anchor plate is a whole part and is internally provided with a wedged-shape through hole, the clamping piece is a two-piece type wedge block, the clamping piece is wedged into the anchor plate for tightly clamping the carbon fiber plate, then the wedge block is in close fit with the wedged-shape through hole in the anchor plate; the anchor plate is of a cylinder with rectangular or square or elliptic or circular cross section, the anchor plate is internally provided with the wedged-shape through hole with the rectangular or square or elliptic or circular cross section and tapering longitudinal section, and the folding contour formed after the clamping piece is wedged into the anchor plate for tightly clamping the carbon fiber plate is the same as that of the wedged-shape through hole with the rectangular or square or elliptic or circular cross section and tapering longitudinal section in the anchor plate; the clamping face of the clamping piece has a layer of a contact reinforcing material of the carbon fiber plate; and the contact surface of the clamping piece and the anchor plate is coated with lubricating oil or lubricating grease. The anchorage device has the advantages of reliable anchoring property, simple and compact structure, convenient manufacture, construction and operation, high efficiency and various shapes, and the anchorage device can meet the requirement of different construction environments.

The invention discloses a method for matching images of different sources based on a fit contour. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: first, in order to overcome noises, such as transformation, mutation, burr and the like, of metric space, performing curvature scale space-based contour denoising and fitting processing on extracted contours to obtain smooth contours on the same scale; then, performing centroid distance-based contour description on closed contours, and performing local curvature-based contour description on contours formed by open curves; next, establishing RST (rotating, scaling and translating) feature invariants on the contour description; and finally, performing corresponding reconstruction on the feature invariants to obtain a final matching point pair. By the method, the matching of the images of the different sources based on the contour is realized; and good robustness on the matching of the images of the different sources with rotating, translating and scaling changes is achieved.

The invention relates to an atrial septal defect occluder woven from degradable materials, which pertains to a medical apparatus technical field and comprises a bracket and membrane material inserted to the bracket and used for block blood from passing through; the bracket is made from degradable polymeric monofilament or degradable polymeric monofilaments together with shape memory alloy wires; the shape memory alloy wires are encircled outside a contour formed by the degradable polymeric monofilaments. In the atrial septal defect occluder, degradable polymeric material is adopted to completely or partially replace traditional Ni-Ti shape memory alloy. The atrial septal defect occluder of the invention is characterized by partial or complete biodegradability which means the atrial septal defect occluder can be partially or completely decomposed to small molecules innoxious to human body after being implanted in human body and then the small molecules are discharged from the human body so as to reduce reject reaction of human body and to improve the biocompatibility of interventional therapy materials.

A medium detecting device to detect information corresponding to a printing medium fed through a medium transport path, includes a detecting unit to detect a contour form information of the printing medium; and a discriminating unit to determine a format of the printing medium and feeding information based on the contour form information of the printing medium detected by the detecting unit.

The invention discloses an air direction control method for an air conditioner. The air direction control method for the air conditioner comprises the following steps: determining a hot point of a first preset type in an infrared image signal by the air conditioner when the infrared image signal acquired by an infrared image acquisition device is received; controlling the air direction of an air deflector of the air conditioner when an imaged contour formed by the hot point of the first preset type is matched with a preset image contour so as to avoid a direction which corresponds to the hot point of the first preset type. The invention also discloses an air direction control system for the air conditioner. According to the air direction control method and the air direction control system for the air conditioner, disclosed by the invention, a heat source which corresponds to the hot point of the preset type can be avoided during the running process of the air conditioner, and the accuracy and the intelligence of air direction control on the air conditioner are higher.

The present invention provides a method and system for creating customized packing for an item to be packed. An image of the item is created and an outline of the image is traced. The packing material is then cut to conform to the outline. In accordance with further aspects of the invention, the image is converted to an outline form by a raster-to-vector conversion. In further aspects of the invention, multiple outlines are configured in a packing configuration. The configurations may be edited and stored. In other aspects, manufacturing of customized packing for tools and tool kit management may be performed by the method of the current invention.

A turbomachinery component includes a surface exposed to hot working fluid flow. The surface has an undulating contour formed from a series of alternating protuberances and troughs. A set of three cooling outlets is associated with each trough.

The invention concerns a process for the production of hollow bodies of thermoplastic material. In the process according to the invention preforms in web or band form of plasticized material are shaped in a multi-part tool forming a mold cavity comprising two outer molds and at least one central mold which perform an opening and closing movement relative to each other. The central mold is provided with at least one component holder which can be moved of and into the tool plane defined by the central mold. In a first step the component holder is fitted with at least one insert portion, then the insert portion is placed by means of the component holder against the inside wall of an outer mold. In a further step introduction and shaping of the preforms within the tool is effected in a two-stage procedure, wherein firstly the preforms are respectively applied against a contour forming a part of the mold cavity by means of increased pressure and/or reduced pressure and shaped and then the intermediate products forming respective parts of the hollow body are joined together to form a finished product.

This invention discloses contoured, shape-enhancing jeans garments having permanent inner structures of a buttocks enhancing contoured form system at the posterior waistband portion and torso region; and, an anterior tummy slimming and smoothing pocket system, eliminating the need for additional or separate buttocks expanding, or shaping devices, or girdle type undergarments. The buttocks system is affixed at strategic points to the posterior of jeans garments; and the tummy system is similarly incorporated at the anterior of the garments. The buttocks system is comprised of a tapered open-cell foam pad with a stretchable posterior casing and anterior minimal stretch lining allowing for flexibility, comfort and conformity to the individual's physique with a free floating lower edge. The tummy system is specifically positioned to slim and smooth by covering and containing the tummy of the wearer. The wearer garners and aesthetically improves shaping of the buttocks, hips and flattened tummy for a more sexy, natural and sophisticated buttocks appearance while maintaining freedom of movement.

A method for repairing a component constructed in multiple layers from a layer composite material comprises a step of removing material of the layer composite material of the component in the region of damage to the component in order to form a scarfed cutout, such that a scarfed peripheral contour formed from a plurality of layers of the component is formed. Furthermore, fiber-reinforced plastic strips, which exhibit a curable plastic material in an uncured state, are applied in layers in the cutout in order to create a replacement-structure semifinished product that is complementary to and butts against the scarfed peripheral contour of the component. In a further step, the curable plastic material contained in the fiber-reinforced plastic strips is cured in order to create a replacement structure and for joining the replacement structure to the component.