234 results about "Human muscle" patented technology

A method and system are provided for the visual display of anatomical forces, that system having: a motion capture system; a computer, receiving data from said motion capture system; and a computational pipeline disposed on said computer; that computational pipeline being configured to calculate muscle forces and joint torques in real time and visually display those forces and torques.

Systems and methods for sensing human muscle action and gestures in order to control machines or robotic devices are disclosed. One exemplary system employs a tight fitting sleeve worn on a user arm and including a plurality of electromyography (EMG) sensors and at least one inertial measurement unit (IMU). Power, signal processing, and communications electronics may be built into the sleeve and control data may be transmitted wirelessly to the controlled machine or robotic device.

Systems and methods for sensing human muscle action and gestures in order to control machines or robotic devices are disclosed. One exemplary system employs a tight fitting sleeve worn on a user arm and including a plurality of electromyography (EMG) sensors and at least one inertial measurement unit (IMU). Power, signal processing, and communications electronics may be built into the sleeve and control data may be transmitted wirelessly to the controlled machine or robotic device.

A device for correcting poor posture comprises a wearable garment comprising a back brace, a plurality of electrodes connected to the wearable garment and configured to electrically stimulate human muscles, and an electric muscle stimulation unit connected to the plurality of electrodes and configured to provide electrical power to the plurality of electrodes.

The invention discloses a humanoid robot based on pneumatic muscles. According to the humanoid robot, human muscles are simulated by the pneumatic muscles to drive movement of shoulder joints, elbow joints, wrist joints, waist joints, hip joints, knee joints and ankle joints, so that the humanoid robot has a function of completely simulating human movement. The humanoid robot has the advantages ofcompact structure, cleanness and good anti-explosion performance, and can be applied to scientific research, teaching demonstration and medical diagnosis.

A robotic structure includes a component that moves from a first position to a second position. Further, the robotic apparatus includes a robotic controller that (i) receives an input quantity and an output quantity that are computed from human motion data based on a human musculoskeletal model, (ii) computes at least one parameter based on the input quantity and the output quantity, and (iii) outputs the output quantity to the component upon an input of robotic motion data from the component.

The present invention is directed to a composition comprising a matrix suitable for implantation in humans, comprising defatted, shredded, allogeneic human muscle tissue that has been combined with an aqueous carrier and dried in a predetermined shape. Also disclosed is a tissue graft or implant comprising a matrix suitable for implantation in humans, comprising defatted, shredded, allogeneic human muscle tissue that has been combined with an aqueous carrier and dried in a predetermined shape. The composition and / or tissue graft or implant of the invention is usable in combination with seeded cells, a tissue growth factor, and / or a chemotactic agent to attract a desired cell.

The present invention is directed to a composition comprising a matrix suitable for implantation in humans, comprising defatted, shredded, allogeneic human muscle tissue that has been combined with an aqueous carrier and dried in a predetermined shape. Also disclosed is a tissue graft or implant comprising a matrix suitable for implantation in humans, comprising defatted, shredded, allogeneic human muscle tissue that has been combined with an aqueous carrier and dried in a predetermined shape. The composition and / or tissue graft or implant of the invention is usable in combination with seeded cells, a tissue growth factor, and / or a chemotactic agent to attract a desired cell.

The present invention relates to variant AAV capsid polypeptides, wherein the variant AAV capsid polypeptides exhibit increased transduction and / or tropism in human muscle tissue or cells as compared non-variant parent capsid polypeptides.

A rotary massage apparatus, which thermally massage muscles of human body while emitting anions and far-infrared rays by heating an electric heating element embedded inside of a ceramic layer that forms massage ball. The rotary heating massage apparatus is comprised of 1) a case, 2) an electric motor, 3) a worm (a gear looks like worm), connected to the electric motor, 4) a pair of worm wheels that are engaged to the worm, 5) two rotary shafts each of them is rotatably connected onto one worm wheel, 6) two rotary connection parts for applying electric power, each of them connects four connection wires of two heaters between the bottom surface of the rotary plate and the top surface of the case, 7) two rotary plates, having mounting holes thereon, and each of them is connected to one of the rotary shafts, 8) four massage balls mounted in the mounting holes with a predetermined height; and 9) four heating devices each one of them is comprised of a) a heating part having a heating element connected to a connection wire and molded inside the massage ball, and b) a rotary connection part for applying electricity through the connection wire of the heating part between the bottom surface of the rotary plate and the top surface of the case. The relative position of the massage balls are designed to stimulate the nerve part on the abdominal region of a human body.

A sutureless implant for replacing damaged natural chordae tedingeae of a human or possibly animal heart, the implant including a distal implant part, a proximal implant part, and an artificial chord. The distal implant part is configured to fit in a lumen of an implant delivery device and includes a self-spreading portion spreading radially outside when the distal implant part is released from the lumen, the self-spreading portion being capable of anchoring the distal implant part in human muscle tissue. The proximal implant part is configured to fit in the lumen of the implant delivery device and comprises a self-spreading portion spreading radially outside when the proximal implant part is released from the lumen, the self-spreading portion being capable of bearing on a tissue portion of leaflet tissue. The distal implant part and the proximal implant part are connected by the chord.

Vegetarian amino acid sources are combined to create a protein blend that closely matches human muscle tissue in terms of amino acid composition. “Closely matching” means that the amino acid composition of the protein blend is within five percent (5%) of the amino acid composition of human muscle for all of the amino acids of the human muscle. The protein blend can be used as food or food supplement to facilitate and bolster muscle anabolism for healthy humans desiring such result and also to treat and or ameliorate the effects of certain diseases and conditions such as sarcopenia, cancer cachexia, HIV wasting, malnutrition, primary muscle diseases (myopathy) and side effects of corticosteroid therapy.

The invention provides a wearable human gait mimicking lower limb rehabilitation walking aid device. The device comprises a support frame, a waist part, a thigh pole, a shank pole, foot parts, and a drive module. The drive module is installed on the support frame and is fixed above the waist part, the top end of the thigh pole and the bottom of the waist part are connected in a hinged mode to form a hip joint, the lower end of the thigh pole and the upper end of the shank pole are connected in a hinged mode to form the knee joint, and the lower end of the shank pole and the foot part are connected in a hinged mode to form the ankle joint. The drive module through multiplexed outputs drives multiple flexible cables, each flexible cable as driven by the drive module one-by-one correspondingly pulls the thigh poles and the shank poles on both sides, and the completion of the movement during the gait cycle by the thigh poles, the shank poles and the foot parts is achieved. According to the wearable human gait mimicking lower limb rehabilitation walking aid device, the flexible cables are used to drive each joint part of the lower limbs to simulate human muscles and power the walking, with some flexibility and in line with the motion characteristics of the lower limbs of human bodies, and when the two lower limbs are driven, just two gear motors are used, and the energy consumption is low.

The present invention is directed to an intermediate composition for producing a muscle tissue matrix suitable for implantation in humans, comprising shredded, allogeneic human muscle tissue that has been combined with an aqueous carrier, preferably a biocompatible acid solution, to form a muscle tissue slurry having a viscosity within the range of 1 centistoke to 20,000 centistokes measured at 25° C. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a tissue implant comprising a human muscle tissue matrix.

The invention discloses a hydraulic bionic muscle which comprises an elastic capsule, high pressure oil openings and mounting earrings, wherein the high pressure oil openings are fixedly connected with the two ends of the elastic capsule; the mounting earrings are arranged in the high pressure oil openings; the elastic capsule is a tubular body with tube openings in two ends; the tube wall of the tubular body is formed by compounding an inner layer, a middle layer and a surface layer; the inner layer is an elastic sealed layer; the middle layer is an anisotropic heterogeneous material layer; the surface layer is a grid protection layer woven by an elastic material. The hydraulic bionic muscle is used for a bionic running robot, is equivalent to the muscle between movement bones of the robot, improves the movement flexibility of the bionic running robot, finishes the movement process of the robot through adopting fuzzy control easily, realizes the personated robot movement, has the characteristics of simple and compact structure, and convenience in connection with a system, and also has the characteristic of simulating the biomechanics features of the human muscle.

The invention discloses a humanoid upper limb based on pneumatic muscle. The pneumatic muscle simulates human muscle for driving a shoulder joint, an elbow joint and a wrist joint to move, and the function of completely simulating the motion of the upper limb of a person is achieved. The humanoid upper limb is composed of a rib, a vertebra, a shoulder blade, a humerus, a fibula, an ulna, a spherical hinge, the pneumatic muscle and a pneumatic muscle fixing plate; the pneumatic muscle of a humanoid upper limb girdle muscle drives the shoulder joint to retract and stretch, bend and extend, inwards rotate and outwards rotate; arm muscle drives the elbow joint to bend and extend, inwards rotate and outwards rotate, and meanwhile the arm muscle and the upper limb girdle muscle cooperatively drive the shoulder joint to inwards retract, outwards stretch, inwards rotate and outwards rotate; and forearm muscle drives the wrist joint to bend and extend and retract and stretch and drives the elbow joint to bend and extend, inwards rotate and outwards rotate. The humanoid upper limb is driven by the pneumatic muscle, has the beneficial effects of being compact in structure, clean and good in anti-explosion performance, and can be used for teaching demonstration, medicinal diagnosis and scientific research.

Treating human muscle tissue by the oral administration of a formulation of creatine derivative and in particular creatine esters and more particularly ethyl esters of creatine are described. The formulations comprise a phosphate such as dicalcium phosphate, a biodegradable polymer such as a polyvinyl pyrrolidine and a starch. The formulation may further comprise other excipients such as metal salt of a stearate, e.g. magnesium stearates. The formulation is produced as flowable particles with a sieve size of about 20 to 60 which particles are coated with a shellac to mask taste, avoid moisture uptake, and extend shelf life.

An exercise machine utilizes the inherent capabilities of human muscles to exert greater forces during eccentric functions than during concentric functions. The exercise machine comprises a leverage arm pivotally connected to a frame. A force station is at a first distance from the pivotal connection. During a concentric muscle function, a person lifts first weights on the leverage arm. At the end of the concentric muscle function, a spotter applies a small force to the leverage arm at a second distance greater than the first distance from the pivotal connection. The small force produces a magnified load at the force station that the person resists during an eccentric muscle function. The leverage arm may be adjustable relative to the floor. The weight of the leverage arm may be counterbalanced. Various embodiments of the exercise machine utilize the same principles of physics for exercising different muscles.

The invention discloses an intelligent balloon man system and a control method thereof. The intelligent balloon man system comprises electric extensible rods and a pump and further comprises a skeleton frame, elastic skin, a muscle filling capsule and a control system. The skeleton frame is of a frame structure simulating a human skeleton, rotating joints are arranged at joints of the skeleton frame, and the electric extensible rods are serially connected on arm bones and leg bones of the skeleton frame and used for adjusting length of the arm bones and the bones to simulate changing of different people or growing periods; the muscle filling capsule simulates shape of human muscles, is adhered on the skeleton frame and positioned on the outermost layer of a model and wraps the elastic skin; the pump inflates and deflates the muscle filling capsule, and the control system controls on-off and inflation quantity of the pump. By controlling filling and exhausting of gas or liquid of the muscle filling capsule and controlling skeleton length to preset body size and shape, the problem that conventional human body models are unitary in body shape and time-consuming and labor-consuming in clothes or style changing is solved.

The present invention relates to variant AAV capsid polypeptides, wherein the variant AAV capsid polypeptides exhibit increased transduction and / or tropism in human muscle tissue or cells as compared non-variant parent capsid polypeptides.

The present invention is directed to an intermediate composition for producing a muscle tissue matrix suitable for implantation in humans, comprising shredded, allogeneic human muscle tissue that has been combined with an aqueous carrier, preferably a biocompatible acid solution, to form a muscle tissue slurry having a viscosity within the range of 1 centistoke to 20,000 centistokes measured at 25° C. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a tissue implant comprising a human muscle tissue matrix.

The invention discloses an upper-limb rehabilitation assistive exercise device driven by a dielectric EAP (Electroactive Polymer) and a method thereof, which relate to a medical rehabilitation appliance. The upper-limb rehabilitation assistive exercise device comprises a rocker, a cross hinge, a driver, a fixing rod, a connecting ring, a bracket and a base. The method comprises two exercise modes: in a passive exercise mode, changing an actual output moment of a driver set by changing voltage applied to the driver and an applying sequence in order to realize the rotation of the rocker, thereby driving the upper limbs of a patient to move; and in an active exercise mode, changing the actual output moment of the driver set by changing the voltage applied to the driver and the applying sequence, using the actual output moment as a damping moment, and overcoming the damping moment by moving the upper limbs of the patient in order to reversely rotate the rocker. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, convenient use, small size, low machining accuracy requirement and low cost; the characteristics of the dielectric EAP are similar to the characteristics of human muscle, and the flexible driving characteristic of the dielectric EAP increases the safety and the comfort of a rehabilitation exercise process.

The invention provides a 3D face expression control method and system. The method comprises the first step of creating a standard human head model, setting bones for the standard human head model with a face expression picture as reference and setting the number of the bones in an area format by reference to human muscle structure, the second step of adding a skin to the standard human head model so as to set the weight of each bone, wherein the weight of each bone refers to the range in which the bones influence the standard human head model and the value of influence, and the third step of adjusting the positions, directions and sizes of the bones so as to control the expression of the standard human head model. According to the method, any human head and any human body can be input for combination, the simulation effect on details of a human face is good, the computation complexity is low, operation is simple, and the method has good universality.

A muscle strength measuring apparatus has a force receiver connected to a force sensor. An upright bracing surface is rigidly positioned with respect to the force receiver to provide a testing space between the surface and the force receiver. The receiver is adjustable such that a person standing in the testing space can brace against the surface and exert a force against the force receiver with a first muscle on each side of the person's body, and can then adjust the position of the force receiver and exert a force against the force receiver with a second muscle on each side. Thus comparative strengths of muscles on opposite sides of the person's body can be accurately determined by measuring the isometric force exerted by corresponding muscles on each side.

A method for forming neuromuscular junctions includes forming functional neuromuscular junctions between motoneurons and muscle cells by co-culturing one or more human motoneurons and one or more human muscle cells in a substantially serum-free medium. A synthetic mammalian neuromuscular junction includes a human motoneuron functionally linked to a human muscle cell in a substantially serum-free medium. An artificial substrate may be used to support the one or more neuromuscular junctions.

Human muscle tissues involve striated and smooth muscles. Each muscle tissue possesses its own special function. Differences of physiology functions among the muscle tissues are mainly determined by their various initiation and signal transmission systems, defined as the pre-muscle molecular motor mechanism, or initiating and regulating mechanism. The current medications, drugs, and therapies for diseases and symptoms related abnormal increased muscle tone or excessive muscle contraction are aimed just at the pre-muscle molecular motor mechanisms, whereas without directly intending to effect on the muscle molecular motor mechanism i.e. the contractile apparatus mechanism at all, which, however, is in common for all kinds of muscle tissues. The muscle molecular motor mechanism mainly involves recycling of actin-myosin filament cross-bridge formation and sliding movement. In the process, bio-energy provided by ATP hydrolysis is necessarily required. Therefore, abnormal increased muscle tone or excessive contraction of muscle tissues under diseased conditions may be modified by inhibition of the muscle molecular motor with the actin-myosin ATPase inhibitor, which blocks hydrolysis of ATP, then reduces release of bio-energy for the muscle contraction.Our studies in vitro and in vivo have demonstrated that BDM, an ATPase inhibitor, thereby, its analogues, derivatives, and other chemicals possessing similar effect on ATPase may be used as bio-energy muscle relaxants (general muscle relaxants).

The invention provides a cupping device of compound energy electronic pulse drug introduction which is suitable for health care and physical therapy fitness of human body. By adopting the latest modern nanometer silver material technology, conventional natural jades, the high-tech rare earth permanent magnetic material technology, the modern low-frequency electronic pulse technology and combining the conventional Chinese physical treatment method of cupping physical treatment, the cupping device designs a compound novel cupping physical treatment device with the superposition of a plurality of energies, thus improving and extending the functions and application scales of electronic pulse instrument. The cupping device has the advantages of improving the human blood circulation, increasing the microcirculation, promoting the metabolism function, relaxing human muscles and stimulating the points to provide a novel compound energy physical treatment health care cupping electronic pulse device.

The invention discloses a humanoid robot system based on pneumatic muscle. The pneumatic muscle is used for simulating human muscle to drive motions of a shoulder joint, an elbow joint, a wrist joint,a waist joint, a hip joint, a knee joint and an ankle joint, and achieves the function of totally simulating human motions. The humanoid robot mainly consists of a fixed plate, a support piece, thighbone, fibula, feet, humerus, ulna and the pneumatic muscle. The humanoid shoulder joint, elbow joint, wrist joint, waist joint, hip joint, knee joint and ankle joint are respectively provided with three degrees of freedom. The system is driven by the pneumatic muscle, has the characteristics of compact structure, cleanness, explosion prevention, various functions and convenience for equivalent replacement of other demands, and can be used for exhibition, meeting, explosion removal and teaching demonstration.