503 results about "Flexible fiber" patented technology

Hydrogel devices for surgical implantation to replace damaged cartilage in a mammalian joint (such as a knee, hip, shoulder, etc.) are disclosed, with one or more of the following enhancements: (1) articulating surfaces that have been given negative surface charge densities that emulate natural cartilage and that interact with positively charged components of synovial fluid; (2) anchoring systems with affixed pegs that will lock into accommodating receptacles, which will be anchored into hard bone before the implant is inserted into a joint; (3) a three-dimensional reinforcing mesh made of strong but flexible fibers, embedded within at least a portion of the hydrogel.

Floorboards with a surface of flexible fibers for laying a mechanically joined floating floor, and methods for manufacturing and profloorings containing such floorboards.

A removable stent for implantation into a lumen in a human body. The stent is made from a soft, flexible fiber having an outer surface. An outer bioabsorbable/degradable coating is applied to the outer surface of the filament causing it to become rigid. The coating softens in vivo through absorption and/or degradation such that the stent is readily passed or removed from the lumen as a softened filament after a pre-determined period of time through normal flow of body fluids passing through the lumen or by manual removal.

An improved system and method for deploying medical electrical leads is disclosed. The system includes a guiding device such as a guidewire used to navigate the vascular system of a body. The guiding device includes a fixation member that can be deployed to maintain the guiding device at a desired location within the vascular system. The fixation member may be an inflatable device such as a balloon, or alternatively, may be an expandable device constructed of flexible fibers that has both an expanded and a contracted state. The system may further include a coupling member located adjacent to the guiding device. The coupling member may be a rail extending distally from a proximal end of the guiding device to a point proximal the fixation member. In an alternative embodiment of the invention, the coupling member is a channel included in the body of the guiding device adapted to slidably engage an electrode assembly. The coupling member is adapted to allow the electrode assembly to be slid to the distal end of the coupling member and deployed at a predetermined implant site. In one embodiment of the invention, the coupling member is movable with respect to the guiding device. This allows the coupling member to be re-positioned to multiple implant sites to deploy more than one electrode while the fixation mechanism remains stationary within a patient's vascular system. According to yet another aspect of the invention, the guiding device includes a lumen to delivery fluoro visible medium.

A casting product for forming a hard structure about an object including a flexible fibrous substrate impregnated with a fluid-activated resin and a protective flexible casing surrounding the impregnated substrate. The casing includes a sealable passageway defined between the atmosphere and the interior of the casing, and is configured to permit injection of fluid, and removal of vapors and extant fluid with a vacuum from the casing.

The invention relates to a low-density ablation thermal insulation type composite and a preparation method thereof. The composite adopts phenolic aerogel of the nanometer particle structure as a matrix and adopts a flexible fiber blanket or a fiber weaving body as a reinforcement body, and the composite is obtained through the steps of phenolic resin preparation, phenolic resin solution preparation, thermal treatment of the flexible fiber blanket or the fiber weaving body, steeping of the flexible fiber blanket or the fiber weaving body with the phenolic resin solution, a sol-gel reaction, aging, drying and curing of the composite and the like. Compared with the prior art, the composite is excellent in thermal protective performance, good in mechanical performance, high in designability, simple in preparation technology, low in cost and easy to process and mold, promotes later-period dimensional cutting, meets different thermal protective needs under the medium heat flow and medium and low heat flow environments, and can be applied to manned space flight and deep space detection aircrafts, outer thermal protective layers of various tactic and strategic weapons working for a short time, and inner ablation heat insulation and thermal protective layers of engines, disposable hypersonic vehicles and the like.

A method of capturing and removing metallic debris created on a target side of a target metal specimen undergoing laser micromachining entails providing a barrier that encompasses the immediate volume surrounding a laser cutting head output nozzle to contain the ejected debris and extracting the debris through a vacuum outlet. A preferred system implementing this approach to debris management includes a barrier in the form of a flexible fiber brush configured in the shape of a ring and positioned to trap ejected debris within a localized area surrounding a target area where the laser beam is incident on the target metal specimen. The ring brush is made of material that is robust to molten metals. An inert gas directed at a high flow rate along the target surface of the metal specimen carries ejected surface debris trapped in the ring brush toward a vacuum outlet.

An evanescent optically coupled electronic device including: a backplane wave guide or mother board including a set of parallel carriers that define a first plurality of parallel channels and include a first array of optical fibers having exposed cores in the first plurality of parallel channels; at least one electronic card or daughter board including a high speed optical waveguide bus; a flexible fiber ribbon or film including waveguides made up of individual optical fibers of locally increased refractive index joined by a web of suitable material forming the high speed optical waveguide bus and optically connecting the backplane waveguide and the at least one electronic card with no 90° angle turns; and a mechanism for retaining the first array of optical fibers having exposed cores in abutting and facing evanescent optical contact with the individual optical fibers in the flexible fiber or ribbon.

A flexible fiber reinforced composite rebar structure includes a plurality of continuous fibers embedded within a thermoplastic resin. The rebar structure has an elliptical cross sectional shape with an aspect ratio of about two to one and a twist with a twist pitch of about 30 cm. The thermoplastic resin matrix enables the rebar structure to be bent in the field by the application of heat to soften the structure and thereafter cooled to return to a rigid state.

The invention relates to a MXene-based flexible polyurethane fiber membrane strain sensor. The sensor is prepared from a flexible substrate and a conductive layer; the flexible substrate is TPU flexible fiber film, the thickness of the fiber film is 100-300 micrometer; the conductive layer is an Mxene conductive layer wrapping the surface of the flexible substrate, the thickness of the conductivelayer is 20-50 micrometer; and the two ends of a thin film are connected with wires. Accordingly, the strain sensitivity of the sensor is improved, and the strain sensing range of the sensor is widened.

The present disclosure provides a mat including a compressible first layer, openings formed through one or more first portions and columns disposed in/proximate to the openings. One or more second portions, or at least one column, or both may be configured to be depressed to provide support and traction. The present disclosure further provides a towel including an absorption layer and a compressible region of flexible fiber disposed on one or more first portions of a top surface of the absorption layer. The towel may further include one or more columns disposed either on one or more second portions or in/proximate to openings formed through the one or more second portions. The compressible region of flexible fiber may be configured to be depressed in a compressed configuration to provide support and traction. The mat or the towel may be further adapted to form a grip apparatus.

A flexible infrared delivery apparatus useful for endoscopic infrared coagulating of human or animal blood and tissue or for other uses employs a source of infrared radiation which is not a laser and an elongated flexible fiber optic member which transmits radiation from the source to a contact portion at a distal end of the member and to a material such as human or animal tissue proximate the contact portion. The elongated member has an outer diameter which enables it to be inserted into and through an accessory channel of an endoscope to view the human or animal tissue or material to be treated with infrared radiation. A connector on the proximal end of the member allows the elongated member to be quickly connected to and disconnected from the apparatus where the member is aligned for receiving infrared radiation from the source. The contact portion defines a size, direction and shape of a radiation delivery area from the member to the human or animal tissue or material proximate the contact portion.

This friction material has a fibrous base material and preferably is a wet friction material for use in a fluid environment. The fibers have a small diameter and a high tensile modulus resulting in flexible fibers that performs well in a high temperature, high pressure fluid environment. The fibers have a diameter ranging from 1 to 20 micrometers and a tensile modulus greater than 70 Gpa. In the preferred embodiment, the small diameter fibers are small diameter carbon fibers or small diameter mineral fibers.

The invention relates to a compound leak preventive for an oil-based drilling fluid, and a preparation method of the compound leak preventive, and belongs to the technical field of a chemical drilling fluid treating agent for an oil field. The compound leak preventive for the oil-based drilling fluid comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: a) 40-50 parts of globular gel which is polymerized by an inverse emulsion, b) 20-30 parts of 5-18micron rigid material, c) 0-20 parts of a flexible fiber which is greater than 75-380 microns, and d) 5-10 parts of expanded graphite of 45-75micron flexible particles. The compound leak preventive for the oil-based drilling fluid is prepared from the components including the four substances in a manner of mixing evenly on general mixing equipment. The compound leak preventive for the oil-based drilling fluid disclosed by the invention is prepared from granular materials, fiber materials and expansive materials; the components have a deformation block function, and have good compatibility and mud cake improving properties with the oil-based drilling fluid; and the problem of permeability loss in the drilling process can be effectively solved.

A task light assembly including a long flexible fiber optic element capable of transmitting light between light inlet and light outlet ends; a light source at the light inlet end of the fiber optic element; and a reel assembly for supporting the light source and the light inlet end of the fiber optic element and for allowing movement of the fiber optic element between a storage position with the light outlet end of the fiber optic element supported in a storage position, and an extended use position with the light outlet end of the fiber optic element at a work location remote from the storage position.

A fiber application machine for the production of composite material parts, comprising a system for displacing a fiber application head, a fiber storage, and a fiber conveyor for conveying the fibers from the fiber storage to the application head, the fiber conveyor being placed in the internal passage of at least one flexible tubular sheath, the machine further comprising a cooling system adapted to inject cold gas in the internal passage of the sheath.

The present invention relates to road structure and construction technology, and is especially road structure with flexible fiber and emulsified asphalt stabilized aggregate layer as the base layer and its construction process. The road structure includes one bottom layer; one base layer and one paved surface layer, and the base layer of rolled flexible fiber and emulsified asphalt stabilized aggregate is formed through mixing flexible fiber, emulsified asphalt, cement and water to form cementing material, adhering aggregate, stuffing, admixture, etc with the cementing material, and rolling. The rolled flexible fiber and emulsified asphalt stabilized aggregate has improved early plastic shrinking, dry shrinking and hot shrinking performance, obviously raised anticracking performance, toughness, impact strength, frost resistance, erosion resistance and water stabilty, and doubled antifatigue performance. The road with the said base layer has raised performance and increased service life.