2050 results about "Nest" patented technology

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for sealing a subcutaneous tissue puncture. The method and apparatus increases the reliability of device function by creating a multi-level anchor nest in a carrier tube of a tissue puncture closure device. The multi-level nest allows an insertion sheath or other deployment member to slide between the carrier tube and the anchor to rotate and deploy the anchor within an artery or other lumen.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for sealing a subcutaneous tissue puncture. The method and apparatus increases the reliability of device function by creating a multi-level anchor nest in a carrier tube of a tissue puncture closure device. The multi-level nest allows an insertion sheath or other deployment member to slide between the carrier tube and the anchor to rotate and deploy the anchor within an artery or other lumen.

Spiral-wound materials, spirals, and shafts made therefrom that have wraps with edges that may nest within one another are described. Such edges allow the spiral to achieve a smaller bending radius, meaning tighter turns and more flexibility due to the ability of adjacent wraps to nest within each other when the shaft is bent. Spirals having wraps with edges capable of nesting can be used in the medical field for devices that track anatomy, such as endoscopes, colonoscopes, catheters, and the like.

A data structure, the distribution, may be provided to track the desired and / or actual location of computations and data that range over a multidimensional rectangular index space in a parallel computing system. Examples of such iteration spaces include multidimensional arrays and counted loop nests. These distribution data structures may be used in conjunction with locality-guided work stealing and may provide a structured way to track load balancing decisions so they can be reproduced in related computations, thus maintaining locality of reference. They may allow computations to be tied to array layout, and may allow iteration over subspaces of an index space in a manner consistent with the layout of the space itself. Distributions may provide a mechanism to describe computations in a manner that is oblivious to precise machine size or structure. Programming language constructs and / or library functions may support the implementation and use of these distribution data structures.

An apparatus and method for forming and joining a first sheet material (A) located in a nest (30) to a second sheet material (B) positioned on top of the first sheet material. The apparatus includes a positional pressure roller tool or positional pressure variance unit (50) for performing the forming and joining operations. The PPVU (50) may include both a main roller (58) and a touch-up roller (60). The PPVU (50) is operatively associated with a programmable positioning apparatus in the form of a robotic arm (52) and a machine cell (10) whereby the position of the robotic arm (52) relative to the nest (30) dictates the applied pressure at the interface between the roller (72) and the nest (30).

A method of fabricating a radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna on a substrate is disclosed. The antenna is fabricated on a substrate that includes already fabricated RFID chips. The substrate is connected with a carrier substrate and singulated to separate the plurality of RFID chips into a plurality of diesites. The antenna is connected to a RFID chip in an assembly order to form an a RFID tag. The method is repeated such that each successively connected antenna overlaps a previously connected antenna.

A system and device for installing and mounting conduit upon a surface such as a roof. The system made up of at least one support block having a base and an upper portion, a support rail and a variety of attachments for holding conduit to the rail. Each of the various blocks in the system configured to nest when oriented in a first direction to stack in an elevated position having a greater height when oriented in a second direction. These pieces are configured to work together to provide a mounting system with significant advantages over other devices that exist in the prior art.

A method of fabricating a rat's nest radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna is disclosed. The antennas are fabricated on a substrate that includes already fabricated RFID chips. The antennas can be loop antennas. An antenna is connected to a RFID chip in an assembly order and a RFID tag including the antenna and the RFID Chip is removed from a carrier substrate connected with the substrate in a disassembly order. The assembly order and the disassembly order prevent the overlapping antennas from being damaged or entangled upon disassembly. The antenna can be substantially larger than the RFID chip it is connected with and the resulting RFID tag can have a small size and small cost with the enhanced performance of a larger antenna without having to resort to a large off-chip external antenna or a large on-chip antenna that would increase chip area and cost.

An apparatus and method for forming and joining a first sheet material (A) located in a nest (30) to a second sheet material (B) positioned on top of the first sheet material. The apparatus includes a positional pressure roller tool or positional pressure variance unit (50) for performing the forming and joining operations. The PPVU (50) may include both a main roller (58) and a touch-up roller (60). The PPVU (50) is operatively associated with a programmable positioning apparatus in the form of a robotic arm (52) and a machine cell (10) whereby the position of the robotic arm (52) relative to the nest (30) dictates the applied pressure at the interface between the roller (72) and the nest (30).

A computer method, apparatus and storage medium is provided for creating quantitative aesthetic graphics from data. The invention utilizes a graph algebra to construct graphs and visually or otherwise represents the graphs as a quantitative aesthetic graphic representation. To create the quantitative aesthetic graphics from data, the data is indexed to form a data set. Thereafter, the data is converted into a variable data structure composed of an index set, a range and a function. The variable data structure is converted into a variable set by using at least one of a blend step, a cross step and a nest step. The variable set is mapped into a set of points and the set of points is mapped into an aesthetic representation.

This invention describes a compilation method of extracting and implementing an accelerator control program from an application source code in a processor based system. The application source code comprises arrays and loops. The input application source code is sequential, with loop, branch and call control structures, while the generated output of this invention has parallel execution semantics. The compilation method comprises the step of performing loop nest analysis, transformations and backend processes. The step of loop nest analysis consists of dependence analysis and pointer analysis. Dependence analysis determines the conflicts between the various references to arrays in the loop, and pointer analysis determines if two pointer references in a loop are in conflict. Transformations convert the loops from their original sequential execution semantics to parallel execution semantics. The back-end process determines the parameters and memory map of the accelerator and the hardware dependent software.

The invention provides a method for extracting small molecule oligopeptides from bird's nests by hydrolysis, which is to obtain a small molecular nano oligopeptide containing composition by hydrolyzing the bird's nests through the combination of enzymolysis and acid hydrolysis. The bird's nest oligopeptide composition is characterized in that: the molecular weight of the nano oligopeptides mainlyranges from 180 to 1,000D; preferably, the percentage of Gaussian distribution peak area of the nano oligopeptides with a molecular weight ranging from 180 to 1,000D in the composition is over 40 percent. The Cordyceps militarisoligopeptide extract provided by the invention retain other active ingredients such as polysaccharide, bird's nest sialic acid, micro elements and the like. The invention also relates to the use of the nano oligopeptide containing composition extracted from bird's nests in the preparation of medicines, health-care products and cosmetics.

A stackable planter comprising a plurality of planter trays has planter cups at a periphery for holding soil and plants. An inner rib of each planter tray defines a center portion of the planter tray. The center portion of one of the planter trays has a bottom wall that extends across the center portion and defines a recess for holding soil, whereby one or more plants may be planted in the center of the stackable planter. The planter trays are shaped to nest within one another when in a collapsed configuration. The stackable planter may be used indoors or outdoors and is portable in nature. Further configurations of the planter may provide a watering device with features configured to fit within the center portion of a planter trays.

An apparatus that automatically captures, stores and analyzes images of crystallization experiments contained in a number of crystallization plates. The apparatus includes a plate nest capable of accommodating protein crystallization plates of a plurality of different types, image acquisition optics, including an objective lens and an image capturing device, for focusing an image of a crystallization well, a light source including a bright field illumination device and a dark field illumination device, a nest positioning controller for moving the position of the plate nest with respect to the image acquisition optics to align various selected wells with said objective lens for imaging of the content of the wells. A database stores experiment information associated with each of the crystallization plates, the experiment information including identification of specific crystal forming parameter values, each of the crystallization plates is identified in said database by a unique identification code. A crystallization imaging controller controls crystallization imaging by retrieving the experiment information for each crystallization plate inserted into the apparatus, and controlling the nest positioning controller and the image acquisition optics in accordance with the retrieved experiment information. The apparatus captures multiple images of each crystal site using different light source and polarization conditions, and processes the multiple images to form extended fused images of each crystal site.

A piston nest (10) is provided that includes a plurality of spaced apart single nesting units (12) interconnected by a web (13). Each of the single nesting units is configured a hollow cylindrical body having a first open end about a distal end of the body and a second open end about the proximal end. The hollow cylindrical body also includes a first (24) and a second (26) retention member for retaining a piston within the single nesting unit. The first and the second retention members are spaced apart along a longitudinal axis of the hollow cylindrical body.

The invention discloses a method for preparing cubilose extract used in cosmetics. Steps are as follows: (1) cryogenic grinding cubilose, sieving, adding water 20 times the weight of the dry cubilose, ultrasonic extracting at room temperature for 1h, filtering, (2) adding water 30 times the weight of the dry cubilose into the filter cake, boiling for 60 minutes under mechanical stirring, (3) cooling to room temperature, regualting pH to 9.8 with Na2CO3 solution, adding alkali protease 1.5% the weight of the dry cubilose, carrying out hydrolysis in water bath at 55deg.C under mechanical stirring, (4) deactivating enzyme at 85deg.C for 20min, (5) cooling to room temperature, regulating pH to neutrality with thin HCl, (6) filtering, combining the filtrate with ultrasonic extract, and freeze drying to obtain powdered cubilose extract. The invention has simple process, good extract water-solubility, high extraction yield, rational product molecular weight distribution, good wetness protection, high product whitening activity, and good product stability; and avoid the influence of boiling to the thermo instable active ingredient in hydrolysis technology. The obtained cubilose extract is suitable for using as cosmetic compounding.

One embodiment of the invention is a method for forming a solver for a loop nest of code, the method comprising forming a time and space mapping of a portion of the loop nest, performing at least one optimization that is dependent on the time and space mapping to the portion of the loop nest, and forming a solver from the optimized portion of the loop nest.

The invention provides an underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning method based on a cuckoo search algorithm and belongs to the technical field of underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning. In detail, according to the problems existing in underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning, the method includes the five basic steps of modeling, initializing the cuckoo search algorithm, updating the positions of cuckoo nests, selecting the global optimum position, judging an end condition and outputting the optimum route. According to the method, simplicity, high efficiency and global searching capacity of the cuckoo search algorithm are utilized well. Compared with a traditional underwater vehicle route planning method, the underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning method is higher in intelligence and adaptability and is higher in flexibility and easier to implement compared with other intelligent optimization algorithms; the process of route planning is performed in a three-dimensional environment, a planned route is higher in practicability compared with a route planned in a two-dimensional environment, and the navigation requirements of an underwater vehicle can be met very well.

A waterslide bowl has a fixed rider path from entrance to exit. The bowl comprises a trough which is made of a plurality of sets of trough sections, attached together, in which the trough sections of a given set are the same and nest together side-by-side, permitting the rider surface of the bowl to be made from trough sections having a small number of different shapes. This reduces the number of molds that would otherwise be required to make the trough sections. The waterslide bowl may also have two or more separate troughs, nested together, whereby the bowl may be ridden in by multiple riders at the same time, each in his or her own trough.

The invention discloses a milling cutter wear prediction method and a state recognition method. The wear prediction method comprises the following steps that firstly, wavelet noise reduction processing is performed on milling vibration data, feature extraction is performed on vibration signals from three aspects including time domain, frequency domain and time domain, after an initial feature vector set is obtained, a correlation coefficient method is used for calculating the correlation between feature vectors and wear amount, and an optimal feature vector set is obtained by screening; then,an average relative error predicted by a least squares support vector machine is defined as a fitness function of an adaptive step size cuckoo search algorithm, and by searching for a nest position, input parameters of the least squares support vector machine are optimized; finally, the wear amount is predicted by using the optimal least square support vector machine. Through comparison with two other hybrid intelligent algorithms, the superiority of an ASCS- LSSVR algorithm is verified.

A piston nest (10) is provided that includes a plurality of spaced apart single nesting units (12) interconnected by a web (13). Each of the single nesting units is configured a hollow cylindrical body having a first open end about a distal end of the body and a second open end about the proximal end. The hollow cylindrical body also includes a first (24) and a second (26) retention member for retaining a piston within the single nesting unit. The first and the second retention members are spaced apart along a longitudinal axis of the hollow cylindrical body.

An apparatus for providing solitary bees for pollination, comprising a bee nest and a portable on-site incubator. The bee nest can comprise a plurality of corrugated sheets, each sheet comprising a plurality of flutes. When the sheets are stacked together, the flutes form cavities arranged in a tessellating pattern. The portable incubator can comprise a chamber for holding dormant adult bees, an opening providing access to the chamber, a passage for exiting of bees from the chamber, means for heating the chamber, means for controlling chamber temperature, and a power supply. Dormant adult bees placed in the incubator are stimulated into activity and leave the incubator. Female bees that leave later lay eggs in the bee nest.

The invention provides a method and device for making a visualized themed page. The method comprises the steps that a visualized operation interface of page making is entered; a layout assembly is selected according to themed demands, and a page frame of the layout assembly is displayed by the visualized interface; nest function assemblies and interactive assemblies are dragged in the established layout assembly according to the different themed demands, assembly settings are selected, and formats of the assemblies are customized; contents are edited in various established assemblies, so the themed page can be made; through page compatibility and page self-adaption, a graphic interface of the themed paper is adapted aiming at different terminals, and generated compatible and self-adaptive code documents are stored; and the code documents are transmitted to a server for online release, so that the display on the different terminals can be achieved through page compatibility and page self-adaption. According to the invention, efficiency can be increased through reduction of communication cost and avoidance of repeated coding compiling, so that the difficulty in themed page making is greatly reduced, and the themed page can be made more quickly.

The invention provides porous three dimensional scaffold structures that may be used to deliver a bioactive agent, such as cells, into a location within the body. In one example form, the porous three dimensional structure may be a stent. In another example form, the porous three dimensional structure may be a microscale or nanoscale device for the delivery of the bioactive agent. The scaffold may include a substrate and one or more nests connected to the substrate. The nest(s) extend away from the substrate to define an enclosed volume on the substrate within each nest. The nests have openings that extend from an outer surface of the nest to the enclosed volume within each nest. The scaffold includes a bioactive agent disposed within the enclosed volume of at least one nest on the substrate. The bioactive agent is delivered to the patient when the scaffold is located within the patient.

A potted plant holder features a number of post pieces that assemble to form a post structure that supports a number of hubs thereon, which in turn each support a number of branch-like supports. A reduced diameter end of each post piece nests within the other end of another post piece for easy assembly. Each branch has a simple wire structure with a bent end configured to form two parallel legs jutting perpendicular to the branch length for receipt of the legs in an outer opening of the hub around the post. A pot-size adapter features a ring of smaller diameter than an integral pot-supporting ring of the branch and hangers that suspend the smaller ring therefrom. A watering system features ring-shaped conduits that fit over the different levels of branches and branch conduits running outward along the branches of each level from the respective ring-shaped conduit.

A tape measure marker device is attachable to a common tape measure blade. The marker device has a central body portion with a pair of downwardly depending legs, each with an inwardly facing flange that helps hold the marker device to the tape measure blade. The ends of the facing flanges are spaced apart and together with the underside of the two legs and the central body portion form an open cavity that is configured to receive a common tape measure blade. The convex underside of the central body portion is adapted to nest with the top face of the tape measure blade. In operation, the marker device is manually slid along the tape measure blade until a registration mark, which may be printed, embossed or engraved on the surface of the device, aligns with a point that is to be measured. The coplanar underside of the flanges on the device allows the marker device and the tape measure blade to lie directly against a device that is to be measured. In a preferred embodiment the marker device is constructed of a resilient transparent or translucent resilient so that the graduated indicia markings on the measuring tape can be seen through the device, and so that the legs of the device can temporarily be manually spread apart wide enough for insertion of the tape measure blade.

The invention provides a method for solving a UAV multitask reconnaissance decision-making problem through a cuckoo search algorithm. First of all, a UAV shortest reconnaissance path planning optimization object is established; then a discrete cuckoo search algorithm is carried out, and values are set for initial parameters; an initial value fitness degree is calculated; whether a nest master bird has a monitoring function is determined; new bird's nests are generated and optimal ones are reserved; whether quite bad bird's nests are abandoned is determined; then a UAV reconnaissance information certainty index model and a UAV multitask reconnaissance gain model are established; values are set for the initial parameters based on the cuckoo search algorithm; the initial value fitness degree is calculated; new bird's nests are generated and optimal ones are reserved; whether quite bad bird's nests are abandoned is determined; and an optimal result is finally obtained. According to the invention, solution is carried out through the discrete cuckoo search algorithm and a basic cuckoo search algorithm, compared to a conventional algorithm, a solution result can overcome the disadvantages of too early convergence, slow operation speed and the like, and the result is obtained in real time.

An automated cold storage apparatus, and related method thereof, provides a sample process management system that is a revolutionary approach to the storage and retrieval regarding critical samples. The system—a significant technological breakthrough in laboratory automation—is the first ultra low temperature robotic system capable of being validated. Samples in containers are stored and retrieved robotically through an airlock climate-control chamber that is automatically dehumidified by a dry gas purge, such as a carbon dioxide or nitrogen purge or the like. This purge rapidly reduces ambient humidity to a desirable relative humidity (RH), e.g., less than about 15% RH, virtually eliminating the accumulation of frost. Microplates are systematically identified using barcode technology, for example. Once through the climate-controlled chamber, the containers (i.e., samples) are robotically transferred to the rotary mechanism. This mechanism transports the containers to a derived nest location upon the storage means, such as a carousel or to one of the stationary addresses.