65 results about "Natural processes" patented technology

The present invention is directed towards implantable, inflatable, bioabsorbable medical prostheses. In particular, the present invention relates to an implantable, inflatable, bioabsorbable method and device for occluding septal defects such as an atrial septal defect. A double button shaped device is contained in a catheter to allow for easy positioning and re-positioning of the apparatus to ensure proper placement and deployment. The device is charged with a filling solution so that it temporarily stabilizes the defect for a period of time typically varying from weeks to a year while it provides a structure to support natural tissue growth. The device is eventually replaced by natural tissue as it degrades and is absorbed or eliminated from the body by natural processes.

The present invention uses specific cultivation system and method to produce vegetables with a nitrate nitrogen (NO₃—N) concentration below 450 ppm (NO₃—N (mg/kg)≦450 ppm). An advanced water cultivation system and a scheduled nutrient injection and removal method are used to achieve the specification of a nitrate nitrogen concentration less than 450 ppm. The nutrient supply and recycle system sets a time period prior to harvest to recycle nutrients and consume the nitrate nitrogen of the vegetables by supplying fresh water only, so that nitrate nitrogen remained in the vegetables can be consumed completely by the natural process of photosynthesis and the nitrate nitrogen concentration of these vegetables is much below those produced by traditional farming, water cultivation, organic cultivation or wildlife or those cannot achieve a low nitrate nitrogen under natural conditions. The invention is definitely a breakthrough on the quantitative control of harmful ingredients.

The proposed advanced multi-level protective system comprises two types of barriers, harmoniously complementing to each other: a portable barrier for the protection of individual houses at the height of the floods up to 0.8-0.9 meters, and more powerful protective quick-installable barriers, suitable for mechanized installation and resistant to higher water flows up to 1.2-2 meters. The proposed advanced protective system comprises a number of additional means capable of weakening against dangerous natural processes that give rise strong water flows, and these means can weaken these flows and increase the efficiency of proposed protective barriers.

System and method for detecting the authenticity of products by detecting a unique chaotic signature. Photos of the products are taken at the plant and stored in a database/server. The server processes the images to detect for each authentic product a unique authentic signature which is the result of a manufacturing process, a process of nature etc. To detect whether the product is genuine or not at the store, the user/buyer may take a picture of the product and send it to the server (e.g. using an app installed on a portable device or the like). Upon receipt of the photo, the server may process the receive image in search for a pre-detected and/or pre-stored chaotic signature associated with an authentic product. The server may return a response to the user indicating the result of the search. A feedback mechanism may be included to guide the user to take a picture at a specific location of the product where the chaotic signature may exist.

An apparatus and method for electrically induced thrombosis. The surgical device includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is for placement adjacent to, near, or within a treatment site of a patient. The second electrode can be movable with respect to the first electrode. When the electrodes are charged by an electricity source, negatively charged blood components are attracted to the positively charged electrode while being repelled from the negatively charged electrode. Due to the electric potential between the adjacent electrodes, thrombosis is induced. The negatively charged blood and components form a thrombus or a clot adjacent to the positively charged electrode. The surgical device can be used to induce the otherwise natural process of thrombosis. When the surgical device is used in a treatment site such as a puncture or incision, the thrombosis can seal the opening created by the treatment site.

An apparatus and method simulates more accurately the natural statistics of a physical reverberation process. A new filter design is provided having a comb shaped group delay. Gain minimums at a plurality of frequencies are combined with a delay line to create a constant reverberation time independent of frequency while allowing for temporal spreading. In addition, the connection topology between the plurality of energy transmission networks is temporally randomized to facilitate energy distribution within the reverberation apparatus. Both the temporal and spectral responses are actively changed on each iteration of the energy recirculation. By making the response have a high echo density and a lack of spectral coloration in the decay, the illusion of a natural process is enhanced.

By implicitly gathering information about users' needs, a computing environment can dynamically respond to user preferences and personal capabilities by enabling computer users to configure their computing experience. The system detects user problems during the natural course of interacting with the system and suggests adjustments to make their tasks easier and more enjoyable. The system may allow configuration of settings that affect a user's ability to receive important information from or provide input to the system.

The invention discloses a high-yield planting method for abelmoschus manihot. The high-yield planting method includes selecting lands and plowing the lands; growing seedlings; transplanting the seedlings; carrying out top application; killing weed; preventing and treating plant diseases and insect pests; carrying out daily management work. The high-yield planting method has the advantages that the spacing of plants is reasonably controlled, and accordingly the high-yield planting method is favorable for aeration, light transmittance and nutrition absorption; weed killers and pollutant pesticides are omitted, the plant diseases and the insect pests are prevented by the aid of natural processes, fertilization and top application are reasonably arranged, accordingly, the yield of the abelmoschus manihot can be increased, the quality of the abelmoschus manihot can be improved, and the planting cost can be lowered.

The present invention is directed to a debridement and/or implant cleaning tool (1) in which the means for cleaning (4) is made of a biodegradable material. Thus, if parts of the means for cleaning (4) come loose during use, these will be degraded by natural processes in the body and will not remain in the body and cause negative body reactions.

The invention pertains to the use of nanotechnology in photovoltaic (PV) cells. The apparatus is comprised of a multilayer crystalline media within which are embedded adaptive nanofilaments. The system efficiently emulates the natural process of photosynthesis and includes an efficient storage capability. A method of fabrication of the components and the apparatus is also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus intended for the detection of low frequency electric waves that can be extracted from water, organic liquids and biological matter. This field phenomenon, that we here refer to here as a “bioharmonic”, is an active frequency, or harmonically related series of frequencies, that are a result of a dynamic interplay of natural processes including physical, chemical and electromagnetic interactions. We have discovered that these interactions influence the organization of signal waveform characteristics at very low frequencies. The apparatus produces a low frequency electrical wave that is coupled to a liquid or solid sample by way of a coupling electrode having a very high impedance. As the detected signal also displays field properties, the electrode does not need to be in contact with the sample in order to extract a unique signal. The resultant signal is rectified and passed through a logic gate where it is conditioned using a low pass filter on the gate output stage before amplification. A darlington type transistor is used to amplify the signal by a minimum factor of twenty thousand.

The invention relates to a preparation method of wolfberry cooking wine, and especially relates to a preparation method of wolfberry cooking wine with the alcohol degree of 18-25% (vol) and based on brewed liquor or yellow rice wine. The preparation method of the wolfberry cooking wine comprises the following steps: preprocessing a main raw material wolfberry by adopting an ultralow temperature refrigeration sublimation technology to prepare freeze-dried wolfberry whole powder, extracting, and carrying out fine filtration. Main ingredients comprise hawthorn fruit and dried orange peel. The wolfberry cooking wine has pure color and clarified body, and has the mellow aroma of natural wolfberry. Each 100mL of the cooking wine contains 10-20g of natural wolfberry nutritional components. The method is mainly characterized in that base wine used in the immersion process is brewed liquor or yellow rice wine, and the raw material wolfberry is completely integrated and coordinated to other plant components in natural process state to naturally complete the preparation. The wolfberry cooking wine has the unique mellowness of wolfberry, the preparation method is a brand new cooking wine preparation method, and the wolfberry cooking wine makes high-end cooking and characteristic dishes better, and is a high-quality nutritional cooking wine.

The invention discloses a cardamine hupingshanesis water-soluble activated selenium polypeptide extract. The extract is obtained in the following steps that cardamine hupingshanesis is smashed and subjected to water extraction to obtain a water extract, the water extract is filtered by means of a filter screen, residues are removed to obtain filtrate, the filtrate is pressurized and filtered by a filter membrane to obtain microfiltration liquid, the microfiltration liquid is pressurized and filtered by an ultrafiltration membrane with the molecular weight being 1000-3000 Dalton to obtain ultrafiltration liquid, the ultrafiltration liquid is pressurized and filtered by a nanofiltration membrane with the molecular weight being 150 Dalton to remove inorganic salt and water to obtain a nanofiltration concentrated solution, ethyl alcohol is added into the nanofiltration concentrated solution, and the mixture stands still and is filtered to obtain precipitate, namely the cardamine hupingshanesis water-soluble activated selenium polypeptide extract. Large-molecular impurities like pectin, polysaccharide and starch are effectively removed sequentially through microfiltration, ultrafiltration and nanofiltration, and high-purity cardamine hupingshanesis water-soluble activated selenium polypeptide with the molecular weight being 150-3000 Dalton is obtained. The method is a pure physical natural process and is suitable for large-scale production and extraction of cardamine hupingshanesis water-soluble activated selenium polypeptide.

The invention discloses a blood serum model and a cell model of in vitro HBV (Hepatitis B Virus) infection and a building method thereof. The blood serum model is formed by mixing virus-removed hepatitis B great three positive blood serum with HepG2.2.15 viral particles, wherein the copy number of the virus-removed hepatitis B great three positive blood serum is that HBV-DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) >10<8>copies/mL. The cell model is formed by co-culturing normal hepatic cell/hepatoma cell and the blood serum model. The models disclosed by the invention have the advantages that the cell is wide in source and easily available; the general characteristic of the hepatoma cell is maintained; and the hepatoma cell can be limitlessly subcultured. The method disclosed by the invention is simple and convenient and capable of well simulating the natural process of HBV entering the cell.

A system is provided for acquiring increased proficiency in a new or target language by enabling frequent repeated hearing and mimicking of discrete audio sound bites in the target language, wherein the sound bites and their frequency of repetition may be easily selected by the user before or during use. The sound bites may be played singly or in sequential groups or user defined groups, and automatically repeated as necessary or desired to achieve audio imprinting of the sound bites by simply listening and repeating the sounds without substantial intellectual effort or attempts at memorization. The system enables user selected or sequential hearing and mimicking of specific sound bites or groups of sound bites repeatedly in each use session in the context of meaning, without requiring dedicated language learning time, and thereby helps reproduce the natural process of initial native language acquisition which occurs without substantial intellectual effort and memorization.

The present invention provides a method for creating lenticular prints, generally for use as postcards, in which an historical photograph is interlaced with a contemporary photograph. In order to provide a more accurate illusion of morphing between photographs, the photographer determines the approximate position and orientation of the original camera lens, the approximate equivalent focal length and f-stop (i.e., lens aperture) of the original lens. He may also attempt to duplicate other parameters of the original photograph, such as the time of day and time of year, as well as other physical conditions such as cloud cover and snowfall. No matter how hard a photographer may try, some historical photographs will be impossible to simulate, as certain conditions may be impossible to replicate. Natural processes or man-made changes, such as new buildings or the destruction of old buildings may either preclude or hamper complete simulation of the original photograph.

The invention discloses a natural circulation type variable-frequency electromagnetic heating device. The natural circulation type variable-frequency electromagnetic heating device comprises a heat source generating device, a heat exchanging device, temperature sensing probes and a control system, wherein the temperature sensing probes are arranged on the heat source generating device and the heatexchange device respectively, the heat source generating device is connected with the heat exchange device by a circulating pipe with a heat conduction oil, and the heat source generating device, theheat exchanging device and the temperature sensing probes are electrically connected with the control system. According to the natural circulation type variable-frequency electromagnetic heating device, a variable-frequency electromagnetic heating pot body is heated by utilizing a variable-frequency electromagnetic induction principle, and the heated heat conduction oil can be circulated in a heat preservation tank body by combining the atmospheric pressure in the natural process, so that not only is energy saved greatly, but also the heat conduction area is increased, and the heat conductionefficiency is improved.

GI tract treatment and monitoring devices configured for temporary implantation in the GI tract and non-invasive removal via natural body processes are disclosed. Methods of implantation, treatment and monitoring with disclosed devices are also disclosed. Devices include bio-active fixation that allows removal from the body by natural processes after a time that may be engineered in the fixation elements. In some embodiments, devices are configured to be implanted on GI tract tissue and transmurally migrate into the GI tract to be passed from the body. In other embodiments, devices are configured for placement within the GI tract via a delivery tube such as an NJ/NG tube. Embodiments include stimulation devices for treating conditions such as ileus and sensors for monitoring GI leaks and/or biological or chemical markers for various GI tract conditions.