3032 results about "Human power" patented technology

System determines impact of a helmet, comprising: accelerometer and processor, the accelerometer detecting acceleration of the helmet, the processor configured to process the signals from the accelerometer to determine impact of the helmet. System determines athletic performance, comprising: pressure sensor for sensing change in elevation; microprocessor for processing signals from the pressure sensor to determine vertical speed corresponding to the change in elevation; and display for reporting the vertical speed to a user. System assesses athletic performance, comprising: protective housing configured for attachment to a human-powered sport vehicle; GPS sensor configured with the housing for generating earth position signals; microprocessor configured with the housing for processing the signals to determine speed and distance traveled of the sport vehicle; and display configured with the housing for displaying one or both of the speed and distance traveled to a user of the human-powered sport vehicle.

A system provides comprehensive patient and resource status information (manpower and equipment required to maintain optimal patient care) in an organization (e.g., a hospital) for use in adjusting resources to meet existing and future conditions. A system for monitoring activity in a healthcare enterprise includes an acquisition interface for acquiring acuity data representative of severity of medical condition of an individual patient, for multiple different patients. A monitoring processor monitors data identifying orders initiated for treatment to be provided to an individual patient and data identifying laboratory test results received for an individual patient, for multiple different patients. A data processor generates data representing status of healthcare activity for multiple patients in response to the data identifying orders and laboratory test results and the acuity data, for multiple different patients. An interface processor provides the data representing status of healthcare activity to a healthcare worker.

A moving apparatus with a driving force assist mechanism traveled mainly by human power. This moving apparatus detects, in a non-contact manner, with respect to rotating portion such as traveling wheel, etc., rotation speed of the rotating portion to detect traveling state to deliver, from the driving force assist mechanism, assistant driving force corresponding to speed change information that a person who operates the moving apparatus intends to give on the basis of the detected traveling information to carry out traveling to thereby permit smooth traveling even in the case where traveling by only human power becomes difficult.

The Personnel And Vehicle Identification System Using Three Factors of Authentication (PAVIS-3) invention is a novel approach that combines the three authentication factors using contactless token, contactless biometric, and the unique position of said biometric presented by a person to allow rapid authentication and access to a base or building. This invention has the real potential to reduce manpower at base gates, building, and greatly improve system security. A vehicle with a contactless token such as an RFID, proximity chip, or barcode, approaches an entry lane at a base, the contactless token is read, verified, (first factor) queuing the individual's file with a biometric template and personal identification position. The biometric image is taken, reduced to a template, compared with the template in the database and if matched (second factor) the body position is examined to see if it matches the personal identification position (third factor) as a normal or covert distressed signal. If normal the vehicle is given a green light, if any match fails the vehicle is directed to the visitor's lane.

A system for determining a service outages and restorations that includes an outage management server (OMS) that generates reports outages and restoration information for metering endpoints. The outages may be caused by faults at various locations in the distribution network. The metering endpoint may include a transmitter having a battery backup that transmits the outage information upon a failure to detect a voltage at the endpoint. The transmission of the information may be filtered based on configurable criteria. The metering endpoints may also inform the OMS when power is restored. Thus, a utility may better service its customers by focusing manpower efforts using the outage and restoration information generated by the OMS.

A negative pressure wound therapy apparatus that can include a wound dressing, a fluid collection device, a vacuum pump comprising a pump motor, and tubing can be powered by auxiliary power sources such as high efficiency batteries, photovoltaic panels or cells, fuel cells, combustion generators, human powered generators, or other mechanical, electrical, or chemical power sources such as hand operated dynamos or wound springs, or any combination of the foregoing. Additionally, the apparatus can include a high efficiency pressure controller for controlling the output of the vacuum pump. In some embodiments, the pressure controller can control the pump without using a processor, and can have other features such as an intermittent delay function and an anti-stall mechanism to reduce the energy consumption of the apparatus.

This invention provides an environmentally-friendly system for operating a green fitness facility. It also provides for the use of a human-powered renewably energy source in a fitness facility. It further provides for the monetization of surplus power generated, carbon-credits earned through its operation method, and the promotion of an ecologically-minded fitness center.

The present invention discloses a human powered and electricity balanced personal vehicle, which comprises: a main body for bearing a driver; a set of powered wheels being two coaxial wheels; a manpower inputting device being provided for the driver to input manpower into the personal vehicle; an electricity converting device for converting electricity to power and inputting the power into the personal vehicle; a transmission device for receiving the manpower inputted by the manpower inputting device and the power inputted by the electricity converting device, and inputting mixed power of the manpower and power into the powered wheels; an operation device being provided for the driver to control the moving state of the personal vehicle; a plurality of vehicle movement detecting devices for detecting the moving state of the personal vehicle and the operating condition of the driver; and a control unit for receiving and analyzing the signals of the plurality of vehicle movement detecting devices and controlling the electrical output of the electricity converting device.

The invention discloses a pneumatic-muscle-driven exoskeleton assisting mechanism. One-arm members with four rotation freedom degrees are connected with both sides of the upper portion of a back support and are identical in structure. Each one-arm member comprises a shoulder joint part, an upper arm part, an elbow joint part and a forearm part which are connected successively. Two sides of the lower portion of the back support are connected with one-leg members with identical structures. Each one-leg members with identical structure comprises a hip joint part, a thigh part, a knee joint part, a shank part, an ankle joint part and a pressure shoe part. Each of the shoulder joint parts and the hip joint part has three rotation freedom degrees, and each of the elbow joint parts, the knee joint parts and the ankle joint parts has one rotation freedom degree. The exoskeleton assisting mechanism has 18 rotation freedom degrees altogether. The mechanism is simple in structure, low in weight, good in flexibility and capable of increasing wearer function power and being used in occasions of military actions, disaster relief, rescuing and the like, where human power is not enough to support required loads.

When large numbers of children play in a playground, part of the power of their play could be usefully harnessed resulting in large energy storage. This stored energy can then be converted for basic, low-power, applications in the school such as lighting, communication, or operating fans. Energy can be produced through the use of pneumatic (i.e., compressed air) systems such as cylinders, motors, valves, and regulators for the conversion of human power of children's play in school playgrounds and other public places. The energy of the compressed air can then be converted to electricity for purposes such as lighting and communication. This provides a low-cost, low-resource means of generation of electricity, especially for use in developing countries.

The invention relates to the body building field, in particular to a body automatic build system and a method based on the text mining field. The system mainly comprises a linguistic data pretreatment subsystem, a text mining subsystem and a body build subsystem, wherein, the linguistic data pretreatment subsystem is used for receiving and processing relevant data provided by a user, the text mining subsystem is used for analyzing and mining the relevant knowledge in the linguistic data, and the body build subsystem is used for organizing and building the final field body knowledge base. The body automatic build system and the method based on text mining of the invention can finish the automatic building of the body under the condition of few manual interventions, thus shortening the body building period, and saving a great amount of manpower, material resources and financial resource input during manual body building; and meanwhile, the system and the method can fully utilize internet information and electronic resources owned by users for better blending, reasoning and disambiguation and avoid the effect on the body knowledge base by the view of individual expert and scholar.

The Personnel And Vehicle Identification System Using Three Factors of Authentication (PAVIS-3) invention is a novel approach that combines the three authentication factors using contactless token, contactless biometric, and the unique position of said biometric presented by a person to allow rapid authentication and access to a base or building. This invention has the real potential to reduce manpower at base gates, building, and greatly improve system security. A vehicle with a contactless token such as an RFID, proximity chip, or barcode, approaches an entry lane at a base, the contactless token is read, verified, (first factor) queuing the individual's file with a biometric template and personal identification position. The biometric image is taken, reduced to a template, compared with the template in the database and if matched (second factor) the body position is examined to see if it matches the personal identification position (third factor) as a normal or covert distressed signal. If normal the vehicle is given a green light, if any match fails the vehicle is directed to the visitor's lane.

A human power amplifier includes an end-effector that is grasped by a human operator and applied to a load. The end-effector is suspended, via a line, from a take-up pulley, winch, or drum that is driven by an actuator to lift or lower the load. The end-effector includes a force sensor that measures the vertical force imposed on the end-effector by the operator and delivers a signal to a controller. The controller and actuator are structured in such a way that a predetermined percentage of the force necessary to lift or lower the load is applied by the actuator, with the remaining force being supplied by the operator. The load thus feels lighter to the operator, but the operator does not lose the sense of lifting against both the gravitation and inertial forces originating in the load.

The invention relates to an automation oral English evaluation and learning system, comprising a testing part, an grading part and a guiding part; the invention is realized by the following procedures that: (1) a standard pronunciation people corpus is set up; (2) an oral English evaluation corpus is collected; (3) the oral English evaluation corpus is labeled; (4) a standard sound acoustic model is built; (5) the error detection parameter of the sound is calculated; (6) an error detection mapping model for error detection parameter-toward pronunciation error labeled by experts is created; (7) an evaluation parameter-toward expert grading mapping model is created; (8) the oral error is guided to be corrected. The invention has the advantages of good interactivity and no limit on place, and overcomes the shortage of the teacher resource and resolves the limitation problem in the practicability aspect that more teachers are needed for teaching.

A set of accessory devices and a method that improves riding experience indoors and outdoors on devices using human propulsion and reciprocating motion. A mechanical accessory device that adds the stepping and reciprocating motion to a pedaling system, like those used on bicycles, tricycles, boats, individual power generators used indoors and outdoors with various positions, and movement range adjustments. A set of electronic accessories added gradually, that measures, records, transmits, processes and shares a large range of the parameters, generically called “riding experience” force and displacements, giving effort and work, GPS, accelerations, movie, etc. giving the path and rider vital and functional parameters, giving medical and exploratory results. A system that uses a code to process these information and transmits on the Internet, used on their indoors devices to reproduce the experience in their terms, transforming their devices in simulators, enabled to remotely control outdoors devices.

A method and apparatus for string load reduction and real-time pitch alteration on stringed instruments. A string load is substantially reduced with a camming surface actuator so that the pitch can be rapidly manipulated by an input force which is generated by human power or an electronically controlled motor. Various types of camming surfaces are provided as well as a load optimization calculation which determines the shape of a variable ratio camming surface. Multiple embodiments are described including a constant force pitch alteration device, a motorized control system with pitch compensation and real-time tracking of string pitch to multiple relative input signals, a control signal generator based on real-time position measurement of a control object relative to an electromagnetic radiation sensor, and methods for generating mechanical looping, vibrato, and polyphonic chorus effects which can be automated or dynamically controlled by a user. Other embodiments are described and shown.

The present invention relates to a personal, green-energy, transportation device with single wheel and self-balancing function. The personal, green-energy, transportation device can be propelled by the manpower and simultaneously execute the self-balancing function thereof. The device comprises: a body, a wheel, a pedal portion, a roller chain, an in-wheel motor, and a sensing-control module, wherein the sensing-control module detects the balancing condition of the body when the personal, green-energy, transportation device is driven, and then the sensing-control module controls the in-wheel motor to output a balancing torque for maintaining the self balance of the body.

The invention includes following subsystems and procedures: smoke-dust monitoring subsystem for monitoring concentration of smoke-dust in real time; subsystem of monitoring parameters of fume emission in use for detecting parameters including oxygen content, flow rate, pressure, and temperature in real time; subsystem of monitoring gaseous pollutant in use for sampling and controlling fume to carry out pretreatment; system control and data acquisition process subsystem in use for collecting signals output from the said subsystems, carrying out processing, storing, displaying, recording and statistical operations to implement transferring data in real time remotely; communication between program controlled pretreatment for fume and computer in central station of monitoring environmental protection. Using modern techniques such as sensor, detection, computer, network etc, the invention possesses advantages of high automation, good stability, quick processing and low operating cost.

Drivetrains and frames for vehicles, equipment, machines, etc. Some embodiments of the drivetrains and frames are particularly suited for human powered machines, such as bicycles and exercise equipment. In some embodiments, a drivetrain includes a reciprocating crank coupled to a crank pivot. A lever couples to the crank via a lever pivot positioned on the crank. A lever stop cooperates with a lever guide surface to guide a motion of the lever as the lever pivots about the lever pivot. The lever and / or the crank are operably coupled to a drive pulley, idler pulley, and / or compound pulley. In some embodiments, a drive cable operably couples the lever and / or the crank to the drive pulley, idler pulley, and / or the compound pulley. In one embodiment, one or more pulleys couple to the lever's distal ends. In some embodiments, the drivetrain includes a wheel hub adapted to receive torque from the crank via a drive pulley.

The invention relates to a method for monitoring and measuring a full section of a tunnel through three-dimensional laser, and belongs to the field of tunnel engineering construction monitoring. The method comprises the following steps of: arranging target points in a tunnel to be measured according to a requirement; determining whether to adopt one-station scan or multi-station scan according to the monitoring length of the tunnel; erecting an instrument at a proper position and scanning the full section of the tunnel; after the scan is finished, importing data into a computer; registering point cloud data acquired through the scan to generate a three-dimensional model by applying three-dimensional data processing software; and generating a comparison model by combining a previous three-dimensional model for the same tunnel at different time, and selecting a specific section and characteristic points to generate a variation analysis chart and a variation analysis sheet for a corresponding position. By the method, the full section of the tunnel is monitored in real time, the speed and accuracy of monitoring and measuring work are improved, manpower and material resources are saved, the speed and quality for monitoring and measuring the tunnel are improved, and reliable guarantee is provided for tunnel engineering construction.

A method of managing physical effort expended by a user of a human-propelled vehicle provided with a control unit connected to an electric motor that is powered by a battery and that is arranged to take the place at least in part of the user for the purposes of propelling and of braking the vehicle, as a function of a program executed by the control unit in order to manage the physical effort expended by the user. A vehicle adapted to this method.

In one embodiment, a human-powered dry powder inhaler comprises a human-powered compressible component operable to discharge an air pulse at an outlet at a pressure of about 1-40 psi; an inflatable reservoir operable to receive an air pulse discharged from the human-powered compressible component to provide an aerosol of a dry powder pharmaceutical formulation in the reservoir, the reservoir including an outlet valve; and a receiving mask in communication with the outlet valve and operable to receive an aerosol of dry powder from the reservoir and to deliver the aerosol to at least a mouth or nose of a patient. In another embodiment, the inhaler comprises a human-powered compressible component operable to discharge an air pulse at an outlet of a polymeric pressure release valve at a pressure of about 1-40 psi; and a receiving mask in communication with the outlet of the compressible component and operable to deliver an aerosol of dry powder to at least a mouth or nose of a patient. Methods for delivery of a dry powder pharmaceutical formulation to a patient are conducted in the absence of electrical power and circuitry and pre-pressurized propellant gas. Suitable dry powder pharmaceutical formulations may include myo-inositol and / or maltodextrin as a carrier and active ingredients such as vaccines or siRNA.

A safety monitoring apparatus and method thereof for human-driven vehicle are provided. The safety monitoring apparatus includes a sensing unit, a processing unit, and a warning unit. The sensing unit and the warning unit are electrically connected to the processing unit, respectively. The sensing unit is arranged on a steering member of the human-driven vehicle and is used for sensing whether the steering member is in contact with a hand of a driver and generating a sensing signal accordingly. The processing unit determines whether the hand of the driver is placed on the steering member. The warning unit is used for generating a safety warning message. When the processing unit determines that the hand of the driver has not been placed on the steering member according to the sensing signal, the processing unit drives the warning unit to generate the safety warning message to warn the driver.

System determines impact of a helmet, comprising: accelerometer and processor, the accelerometer detecting acceleration of the helmet, the processor configured to process the signals from the accelerometer to determine impact of the helmet. System determines athletic performance, comprising: pressure sensor for sensing change in elevation; microprocessor for processing signals from the pressure sensor to determine vertical speed corresponding to the change in elevation; and display for reporting the vertical speed to a user. System assesses athletic performance, comprising: protective housing configured for attachment to a human-powered sport vehicle; GPS sensor configured with the housing for generating earth position signals; microprocessor configured with the housing for processing the signals to determine speed and distance traveled of the sport vehicle; and display configured with the housing for displaying one or both of the speed and distance traveled to a user of the human-powered sport vehicle.

The invention relates to a water quality sampling robot for full-automatic surface water, which comprises a hull, a driving device, a control device and a sampling device, wherein the control device comprises a navigation device, a central processing unit and a communication module; the sampling device comprises a weather and water quality monitoring sensor, an underwater sensor and a sampling pipe retractable device; the navigation device comprises a GPS satellite positioning sensor, an electronic compass and an acceleration sensor; the navigation device is electrically connected with the central processing unit and the communication module; the communication module is connected with a base station through a wireless signal; the hull is provided with a radar, a laser ranging sensor obstacle avoiding device, a fixing agent dripping device and an insulation box; and the control device is electrically connected with the driving device and the sampling device to realize automatic sampling and automatic navigation on the hull. The water quality sampling robot has the advantages of small volume, light weight, adoption of electric drive and no pollution emission; and compared with large-scale sampling vessels, the water quality sampling robot not only saves energy consumption and labor power, but also reduces cost and use threshold.

Drivetrains and frames for vehicles, equipment, machines, etc. Some embodiments of the drivetrains and frames are particularly suited for human powered machines, such as bicycles and exercise equipment. In some embodiments, a drivetrain includes a reciprocating crank coupled to a crank pivot. A lever couples to the crank via a lever pivot positioned on the crank. A lever stop cooperates with a lever guide surface to guide a motion of the lever as the lever pivots about the lever pivot. The lever and / or the crank are operably coupled to a drive pulley, idler pulley, and / or compound pulley. In some embodiments, a drive cable operably couples the lever and / or the crank to the drive pulley, idler pulley, and / or the compound pulley. In one embodiment, one or more pulleys couple to the lever's distal ends. In some embodiments, the drivetrain includes a wheel hub adapted to receive torque from the crank via a drive pulley.

The invention relates to the technical field of measurement, and particularly relates to a measurement system based on a cloud technology. The measurement system based on the cloud technology comprises a cloud server, a cloud client and at least one measurement terminal connected through a network; the measurement terminal transmits data to the cloud server by network connection; the cloud client obtains the required measurement data from the cloud server; a user carries out operations such as inquiring, displaying, outputting, utilizing and estimating the measurement data through the cloud client, and achieves coordinated or associated measurement, which cannot be finished by the traditional measurement technology, of associated objects at difference scenes. Thus, the measurement time is shortened; a plurality of measurement terminals can carry out real-time monitoring and remote measurement on the measured object at the same time; the measurement system can be widely applied to associated measurements among a plurality of sites, a plurality of factories, a plurality of workshops, a plurality of suppliers and a plurality of parts; the rejection rate is reduced; the inventory time is reduced, and consumption of manpower and material resources is also reduced.