32 results about "Muscle architecture" patented technology

An electrical lead system includes a shaft to which a series of expandable ring electrodes are attached that follows the contour of the vascular or muscular structures of the heart, such as cardiac veins, arteries, atrial appendages and trabeculae, and provides sensing of electrical cardiac impulses, pacing and high voltage shock or defibrillation. The lead system uses a variety of energy sources to stimulate the heart, such as ultrasound, electromagnetic and electric impulses.

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent robots, in particular to a structure decoupling driven variable-stiffness soft hand, which comprises a palm base. A long finger and two short fingers are arranged on three electrical interfaces in the front end of the palm base; each finger comprises a fingertip, a plurality of finger knuckles and a finger root arranged sequentially at intervals; a framework structure is connected among the fingertip, the plurality of finger knuckles and the finger root; muscle-like structures and muscular tissues are arranged on the fingers; and theframework structures, the muscle-like structures and the muscular tissues are made of SMA (shape memory alloy) materials. The structure decoupling driven variable-stiffness soft hand provided by the invention is reasonable in structure; and the SMA drives various parts of the fingers to act, and meanwhile, an electric current changes a temperature of the shape memory alloy so as to control a Youngmodulus, so that the stiffness of the fingers is variable, a more accurate grabbing action can be obtained; and the structure decoupling driven variable-stiffness soft hand has a simpler structure and solves the problems of mechanical fatigue and wear, and risks caused during an interaction process of a manipulator and people can be further reduced, so that a practicable structure model for softhand development is provided.

A system for detecting and analyzing electrical activity in the anatomy of an organism underlying an electrode array provides signals corresponding to electrical activity adjacent each electrode. Such signals are correlated to the underlying anatomy of the organism and representative outputs presented through various types of output devices. Such outputs may include variations in coloration or other qualities in correspondence with representations of underlying anatomical structures. The system includes novel electrode structures (200, 224, and 284) and methods for producing and attaching electrode arrays (240 and 280) to the organism. The exemplary form of the invention is used in connection with the diagnosis of muscle activity in the lower lumbar regions of humans. Levels of muscle activity detected are analyzed by correlation with the muscular structures underlying the electrode array. Forms of the invention may be used in other applications.

A novel infant mannequin system for documenting features of a specific human infant comprises a infant head form with two eye members, a nose member, a mouth aperture having two lips, and a head form having a facial image of a specific human infant. The system comprises an infant body form, a skeletal structure, a muscular structure, a skin covering, and a hair receptacle system located on the head form. The system comprises an abdomen compression diaphragm located underneath the skin covering. A function simulation system comprises a microprocessor, a power source, a data port and an activation switch located in the torso. The function simulation system comprises a heartbeat output simulator, a thermal circulation system, an abdominal expansion system, and a sound generator. A body weight distribution member is located in the skeletal structure.

The invention discloses a processing method for improving quality of pork sliced ham. The processing method is characterized by comprising the steps of: thawing freezing-stored pork hindquarter, cutting, trimming, injecting, tenderizing, interval-tumbling for 6-10h, canning, smudging, steaming and cooking, cooling, slicing and vacuum-packaging. The pork sliced ham prepared by adopting the processing method has the characteristics of little steaming and cooking loss, small squeezing water loss rate and sterilization water loss rate, and good water holding capacity; and because the interval-tumbling process is carried out by adopting an aspiration tumbling mode under the conditions that meat loaves are in a vacuum state for a long time in a tumbling stage and a vacuum pump vacuumizes at intervals in a suspending stage, a preserving solution is more completely and effectively distributed in a muscle structure to be beneficial to the dissolution of salt soluble protein. Compared with the continuous tumbling mode, the interval-tumbling mode has the advantages that more salt soluble protein is generated, so that the binding among the meat loaves is facilitated; and during thermal processing, a stable protein gel structure is formed, thus the texture of the ham is improved.

A system for processing carcass parts includes an overhead conveyor and a saw module comprising supporting means for interacting with a lower end portion of each incoming carcass part, the supporting means adjusting an angular position of the carcass parts as a result of the carcass parts resting at least partly on the supporting means while being conveyed by the overhead conveyor. A positioning conveyor having a plurality of spaced-apart positioning pair structures arranged below the overhead conveyor and adjacent to the supporting means receives the carcass parts from the supporting means. Each carcass part is guided into a predetermined position within the positioning pair structures and cut at a predetermined position, e.g. defined by a 360° cut through skin and muscle structures of each of the carcass parts.

The present invention is process of preparing bionic artificial muscle material based on superfine electrically spun fiber and capable of being used in sensor, executor robot and other fields. The bionic artificial muscle material is film comprising oriented superfine fiber of 20 nm-10 micron diameter. It is prepared through an electrical spinning process including the following steps: 1. forming solution or melt of polymer material for the artificial muscle; 2. electrically spinning to form oriented superfine fiber film; and 3. treating the superfine fiber film for raised stretching function. The bionic artificial muscle material has high response speed, high energy converting efficiency and other advantages.

The invention provides a compound water retaining agent capable of improving bullfrog quality and an application method of the compound water retaining agent. Raw materials of the compound water retaining agent comprise polyphosphate and sodium bicarbonate, polyphosphate is basic, can increase pH of bullfrog and can also binds with polyvalent metal ions binding with structural protein of muscle, so that carboxyl groups get free from protein, the protein is enabled to be negatively charged, and electrostatic repulsion between the carboxyl groups is increased. Polyphosphate can provide higher ionic strength, can improve solubility of myofibrillar proteins and the like, is beneficial to transformation of muscle protein into a loose state and can also dissociate actomyosin, water retention ofmeat is improved, and tenderness of the meat is improved. Sodium bicarbonate can also provide a basic environment and improve meat bulkiness, so that the protein structure of the treated bullfrog getslooser, the water retention is improved substantially, the tenderness is improved, eating quality of the bullfrog is improved, and the market of the bullfrog is further expanded.

Methods of generating an innervated muscle structures are disclosed as well as bioengineered structures for tissue repair or regeneration. The methods can include the steps of obtaining populations of smooth muscle cells and neuronal progenitor cells and then seeding the cells together onto a matrix material, followed by culturing the seeded cells to form an innervated smooth muscle cell construct of directionally oriented smooth muscle cells. In one embodiment, the neuronal progenitor cells can be seeded first as neurospheres in a biocompatiable solution, e.g., a collagen/laminin solution, and allowed to gel. Next, a second suspension of smooth muscle cells can be deposited as separate layer. Multiple layer structures of alternating muscle or neuron composition can also be formed in this manner. Differentiation of the neuronal progenitor cells can be induced by exposure to a differentiation medium, such as Neurobasal A medium and/or exposure to a differentiating agent, such as B-27 supplement. The innervated muscle structures can be disposed around a tubular scaffold, e.g., a chitosan-containing tube and further cultured to form tubular, bioengineered structures and two or more innervated muscle structures can be joined together to form an elongate composite structure.

A treatment prosthesis is specifically designed to be efficiently fabricated without the use of bite rims or interocclusal records, thus resulting in a device that is beneficial in the development and training of patient tissues and muscular structures prior to the fitting of actual dentures. The treatment prosthesis, and the related method for fabrication, is efficiently designed using mathematical formulas and reference planes such that very little adjustment is necessary when incorporated into a patient's mouth. The treatment prosthesis includes several anterior teeth, thus providing some level of realism, while also including only occlusion rims on the posterior portions so that muscular development can be achieved without having to deal with natural interference created by typical cusp structures of molar teeth.

The invention provides an MR image-based piriformis syndrome model and a preparation method thereof, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining 3D high-resolution MRI scanning images of sciatic nerves, piriformis and adjacent muscles through an MR nerve imaging sequence, importing the obtained original image data into modeling post-processing software, perfroming image fusion, segmentation andreconstruction on pressed sciatic nerves, piriformis and adjacent muscle structures to obtain a piriformis syndrome three-dimensional anatomical model, importing the piriformis syndrome three-dimensional anatomical model into a color 3D printer to print an individualized 3D printing entity model, and effectively displaying the sciatic nerve compression form, walking and the spatial relation between the walking and the adjacent piriformis structures; so that the product meets the requirements of precise medical evaluation and operation, is used for preoperative planning, operation simulation and medical teaching training, and improves the teaching effect of medical training.

The invention discloses a magnetic simulation muscle structure which is provided with a first module, and a second module arranged in the first module; and the first module and the second module can be moved relatively through electromagnetic repulsion force. The simulation muscle structure is a simulation muscle device using the electromagnetic repulsion force, and a traditional driving mode using a servo motor as a robot is changed completely. Compared with another driving mode using electromagnetic attraction, the magnetic simulation muscle structure has the effects that the controllable expansion degree is achieved on the expansion stroke of simulation muscle is achieved, while the electromagnetic attraction can only attract and release once, namely that only one-time extension and contraction can be achieved, and the expansion degree of the electromagnetic attraction can not be controlled. Thus, the magnetic simulation muscle structure is achieved by using the repulsion force of amagnetic field, namely that not only can any expansion degree of the simulation muscle be achieved, but also control over the size of the required force can be achieved. Therefore, the magnetic simulation muscle structure has the advantages of high acceleration, low mechanical wear, small size, light weight, low noise, energy saving, high response speed, controllable expansion degree and other excellent driving characteristics.