102 results about "Physical disability" patented technology

Disclosed are virtual reality systems, in particular immersive virtual reality systems, their parts, construction and use. The systems and / or parts thereof may be used by adults or children, and may be adapted to support, often within a single device, a large range of users of different sizes and medical condition. Users with physical disabilities have difficulties using existing immersive technologies such as those using accessories like head-mounted displays and data gloves. Such users are provided with immersive virtual reality outputs that allow them to see virtual representations of their body parts which appear in a correct spatial position relative to the users' viewpoint.

The present invention is directed to a protective hat suitable for every day wear by infants, children, senior citizens or physically disabled individuals. Such hat protects at least the sides, top or rear of the wearer's head from injuries due to falls or bumps against hard objects while conducting routine, daily activities. Generally, the head protector of the present invention may comprise: (1) a cap member: and (2) one or more flexible, resilient shock absorbent pads. The cap member may be constructed so as to fully enclose and / or encapsulate the one or more pads.

The subject invention provides for methods of reducing the relapse rate and / or reducing the accumulation of physical disability in a relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis human patient, the method comprising orally administering to the patient a daily dose of 0.6 mg laquinimod.The subject invention also provides for pharmaceutical oral unit dosage forms of 0.6 mg laquinimod for use in reducing the relapse rate and / or for use in reducing the accumulation of physical disability in a relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis human patient.

An instrument holder, which may be separate from or integral with the instrument for persons with or without physical disabilities. A central bore enables insertion of instruments of varying shapes. Gripping surfaces include a compound bevel downward and with a decided right or left hand slope. Elements from a top palm rest to the lower planar surface are volute, forming a right or left hand spiral. At the rear, the palm rest curves aft and under terminating in the bevelled vertical detente. The hand specific side forms a concave surface sufficient to accommodate fingers, joints, knuckles, or hand webbing between finger joints, flaring outward joining the lower planar surface. From the upper rear bevel detente, the back forms a slightly convex surface connecting with the bottom. The body and instrument path is reversible exposing the larger circumference area of the palm rest along with other control surfaces. One version having an hour glass-shaped body with a truncated periphery forming a gripping surface with a curved concave surface portion enable the user to grip the device in any one of a variety of different ways.

The invention discloses an intelligent self-tracking trolley control system based on voice control. The control system combines a photoelectric sensor and a voice identification technology, adopts Sunplus a 16-bit singlechip SPCE061A as a control processor of the system, obtains the path information by a reflection-type infrared photoelectric sensor, and adjusts the motion direction and speed of a trolley according to the position of a black line in the path information so as to realize the self-tracking function; besides, a voice processing API function is compiled in combination with the resources inside the chip SPCE061A to realize the intelligent control of voice human-computer interaction. The control system is simple in structure and small in volume, can realize flexible, reliable and stable operation of the trolley, and can be applied to the fields of intelligent wheelchairs for physical disabilities, service robots, unmanned vehicles, unmanned production lines, warehouses, and the like.

The apparatus and method help physically-disabled persons perform point-and-click activities or input text or control characters, which typically require the user to simultaneously control two independent dimensions to select options presented on a computer display. Computer users operate a control in a single dimension (i.e., two directions—first embodiment) or in just one direction (second embodiment). Different input strategies allow a person using the one- or two-directional control method to emulate pointer functions and input characters or character strings. An embodiment augments antagonistic muscle groups for persons exhibiting adequate control in one direction but not the other. An additional embodiment uses available two-dimensional pointers but restricts their operation to one dimension. The output of existing sensors is converted to a form that can be input directly to a computer to be used with a one-dimensional control strategy.

Mobility device for physically disabled people 1, comprising a chassis 10 with at least one motor for maneuvering the entire mobility device 1; a pivot arm 20, which at its lower end 22 is pivotably connected to the chassis 10; and a pelvis support 40, which is connected to an upper end 23 of the pivot arm 20; wherein a physically disabled person 2 can sit with the pelvis support 40 attached to its body, can move around with the mobility device 1 in a standing position on the chassis 10, and can change on its own from sitting to standing position, wherein all elements of the mobility device 1 except the elements directly contacting the body of the person 2 extending above pelvis height h of the sitting person 2 can be lowered or moved to or below this height h. The present invention further comprises a method for erecting of a sitting physically disabled person 2 and for fixing of the person 2 in standing position onto a motor-driven mobility device 1.

Systems, devices, features, and methods for obtaining, enhancing, or using data for or with a geographic database, such as a navigation database, are disclosed. For example, one method includes receiving input to enable a probe sensor that is associated with a device used by a being with a physical disability. Geographic data is collected via the probe sensor when the device is in use by the being with the physical disability. The collected geographic data is provided to a data collection facility to develop data corresponding to a geographic and / or navigation database.

A toilet seat lift aids the elderly and / or the physically disabled in utilizing a toilet. The toilet seat lift includes a conventionally shaped toilet seat affixed with arms, similar to arms on a chair, which are located approximately 8 inches above the seat surface. A control panel with raising and lowering control buttons is provided on one of the arms. An electrical or battery operated hydraulic power pack provides power to a hydraulic cylinder, which raises and lowers the seat. The toilet seat lift attaches to a conventional toilet by use of the two mounting flanges provided for a conventional toilet. The toilet seat lift utilizes a pair of hydraulic cylinders that telescopically expand and contract so as to raise and lower the toilet seat as desired.

A facial feature analysis system for command applications for users with physical disabilities, like impaired users of wheelchairs, patient beds or other appliances is provided. The disclosed system includes a virtual filter bank and a virtual discriminator. The virtual filter bank comprises a feature localization main module having an ancillary data bank which supplies a special signal Sg for control functions. The system calculates face localization based on parameters of a holistic face-model, calculates feature localization based on parameters of an adaptive face graph, calculates feature extraction using stored feature values corresponding to selected validation and provides output signals using a signal delivery main module controlled by static and dynamic classification. The virtual discriminator bank calculates a user adapted allocation based on a face feature of the user and provides a periphery allocation for at least one command modus. and for calculating execution signals for said manipulators.

Disclosed are virtual reality systems, in particular immersive virtual reality systems, their parts, construction and use. The systems and / or parts thereof may be used by adults or children, and may be adapted to support, often within a single device, a large range of users of different sizes and medical condition. Users with physical disabilities have difficulties using existing immersive technologies such as those using accessories like head-mounted displays and data gloves. Such users are provided with immersive virtual reality outputs that allow them to see virtual representations of their body parts which appear in a correct spatial position relative to the users' viewpoint.

The present invention is a combination walker and wheelchair which enables a person with back problems and other physical disabilities to walk from one location to another without assistance from a third person with correct walking posture and arm movement, thereby allowing long walks versus crutches of current design and also enables the person to comfortably sit in the chair in spite of the person's back pains. The ergonomically friendly design includes a high level transverse bar which enables the invention to be pushed by a person's hands, arms and chest or enables the person to lean against the invention; a foldable main structural frame; a detachable back support and seat; and rotatable wide armrests made with compressive materials thereby allowing the chair structure the maximum width to get through standard doors and still have even wider comfortable armrests. Therefore, the present invention can be used as a walker, a wheelchair, a transportation chair, a golf trolley, and a spectator chair.

An improved projectile throwing apparatus is described comprising a handle, an elongate shaft, and a throwing head for throwing a projectile, such as a golf ball. The throwing head may be interchangeable with golf shafts of varied lengths, with lacrosse shafts, or other shafts to achieve accurate, long distance golf ball throws. The throwing head may be shaped to achieve throws of different distance, launch angle, and trajectory, optionally imparting spin with a retrograde ramp at the distal end of the throwing head. The throwing apparatus is useful for golf-type game play, including for those with physical disabilities, as well as for a training and instructional aid for golf, lacrosse, and other sports.

A method for analyzing relativity between electroencephalograph and myoelectricity based on autonomous and stimulation movement modalities comprises the steps of performing system setup, and using a LabVIEW 8.6 to generate synchronizing pulse signals; respectively collecting electroencephalograph signals and electromyography signals including electroencephalograph signals and electromyography signals in autonomous movement modalities and in stimulation movement modalities; analyzing electroencephalograph and electromyography time-domain signals in the autonomous movement and stimulation movement modalities according to time domain pictures of electroencephalograph and electromyography signals of a subject in the autonomous movement and stimulation movement modalities; removing noise of the electromyography signals in the stimulation modality; performing time-frequency analysis on electroencephalograph signals based on Morlet wavelet transformation; and performing coherence analysis. The method can obtain activating or restraining information of electroencephalograph in different time frequency in initiative and passive states to be used for guiding and feeding back recovery indexes of physical disability patients of apoplexy patients and the like, thereby enabling recovery to be a quantitative process instead of a qualitative definition.

The invention belongs to the technical field of human-machine interaction. In order to acquire higher accuracy rate, higher information transmission rate and convenience in operation, the invention provides a method for audio-visual combined stimulation of a brain-computer interface based on covert attention, which comprises the steps of: (1) initializing a system, wherein a user is connected with computer brain-computer interface equipment through an electrode at a scalp; (2) generating a brain characteristic signal; (3) acquiring a brain electric signal; (4) processing the brain electric signal; (5) performing Fisher separability analysis; and (6) performing pattern recognition by using a support vector machine. The method is mainly used for assisting physical disabilities in operating external equipment such as computers and the like.

The invention relates to an identification method based on EEG phase synchronization. According to the method, phase synchronization characteristics of EEG are calculated by a phase locking value mainly, and different individuals are identified by means of linear discriminant analysis. The method includes: data collection, data preprocessing, filtering, phase synchronization characteristic calculation, eigenvector dimensionality reduction, eigenvector classification, and classification accuracy calculation. Classification results show that good classification results are obtained by using EEG phase synchronization as biological identification characteristics and different individuals can be effectively identified. Compared with the traditional biological identification characteristics, the EEG phase synchronization characteristics provide better safety and imperceptibility, and the method is applicable to certain persons with physical disabilities or injuries.

A facial feature analysis system for command applications for users with physical disabilities, like impaired users of wheelchairs, patient beds or other appliances is provided. The disclosed system includes a virtual filter bank and a virtual discriminator. The virtual filter bank comprises a feature localization main module having an ancillary data bank which supplies a special signal Sg for control functions. The system calculates face localization based on parameters of a holistic face-model, calculates feature localization based on parameters of an adaptive face graph, calculates feature extraction using stored feature values corresponding to selected validation and provides output signals using a signal delivery main module controlled by static and dynamic classification. The virtual discriminator bank calculates a user adapted allocation based on a face feature of the user and provides a periphery allocation for at least one command modus, and for calculating execution signals for said manipulators.

The invention relates to a retractable and adjustable device for assisting a handicapped person driving a vehicle to get on and get off the vehicle. In view of the difficulty for the handicapped person to move the limbs by self to get in the vehicle for driving, the device is designed to realize the function that the handicapped person can get into the driver's seat by self from a wheel chair outside the vehicle or when the handicapped person is in a standing state with the help of other assistant appliances. The device comprises a transitional plate module (3), a lifting system (4), a transitional shaft (12), and a mounting pedestal (5), wherein a left mirror and a right mirror of the lifting system (4) are arranged symmetrically and connected through the transitional shaft (2); the transitional plate module (3) is connected with the lifting system (4) through bolts; and the transitional plate module (3) and the lifting system (4) are welded on the mounting pedestal (5). Through drilling mounting holes corresponding to the bolts for assembling and arranging the mounting pedestal on the vehicle, the device can be arranged in a space between the vehicle driver's seat and a vehicle door to avoid taking a larger space.

The present invention relates to a bed for patients, which is used in the nursing of physically disabled individuals and patients with severe symptoms who have limited ability to move due to a medical condition such as a stroke or an accident. The bed is provided with a bathtub in such a way as to allow relatively uncomplicated nursing in a way which maintains the patient's mental stability and bodily cleanliness by allowing immediate washing and hair washing while the patient is lying on the bed.

The invention provides a wavelet analysis and Welch algorithm personal identification method, belonging to the technical field of neural engineering in the biomedical engineering. The method comprises the following steps: preparation of simulation programs: the simulation programs are realized through programming languages according to a certain thought and are debugged in advance; acquisition of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals: 6 electrodes are selected to acquire the EEG signals of the participants having different motor imagery processes; preprocessing of the EEG signals; extraction of the features of the EEG signals: a system for extracting the features of the EEG signals is adopted to extract the features of the EEG signals of each participant mainly by applying wavelet analysis and the Welch algorithm; and identification of the EEG signals: the unknown EEG data are input into a neural network to be identified and authenticated. The method is suitable for the population suffering from physical disabilities and visual defects, and has good applicability.

The device of the invention, starting from the conventional structure of these types of terminals, combines a great variety of peripherals therein, which makes it extremely versatile as well as suitable to use by people with physical disabilities, with an ergonomic and strong design that allows multiple transactions possibilities, multiple communication possibilities, emitting voice messages corresponding to transactions carried out, all these with a high brightness screen, a keypad with Braille reliefs and a joystick to operate the device, also having a scanner and an opening mechanism for the printer cover which prevents it from opening accidentally.

An automatic book page turning device and a book sterilization machine based on the device solve the problems that the crowd with physical disability turn pages difficultly when reading books, an existing book sterilization machine can only disinfect and sterilize surfaces of the books, and the disinfection and sterilization effect in book pages is poor. The automatic book page turning device comprises a book carrying and pressing mechanism and a page turning mechanism, a book is placed on the book carrying and pressing mechanism to be fixed, and the page turning mechanism is located above the book carrying and pressing mechanism, fixed to the side wall of the book carrying and pressing mechanism and used for automatically turning inner pages of the book. A box door is arranged on one side of a box body of the book sterilization machine. The automatic book page turning device is fixed to the bottom of the box body and used for clamping the book and automatically turning the inner pages of the book through control of a control system. A sterilization device is fixed to the top of the box body and located over the automatic book page turning device. The book is sterilized page by page by means of the sterilization device through control of the control system. The automatic book page turning device and the book sterilization machine are suitable for automatically turning pages of the book and sterilizing the inner pages of the book.

An improved projectile throwing apparatus is described comprising a handle, an elongate shaft, and a throwing head for throwing a projectile, such as a golf ball. The throwing head may be interchangeable with golf shafts of varied lengths, with lacrosse shafts, or other shafts to achieve accurate, long distance golf ball throws. The throwing head may be shaped to achieve throws of different distance, launch angle, and trajectory, optionally imparting spin with a retrograde ramp at the distal end of the throwing head. The throwing apparatus is useful for golf-type game play, including for those with physical disabilities, as well as for a training and instructional aid for golf, lacrosse, and other sports.

The invention discloses a multi-angle adjusting nursing sickbed in the internal curative department. The multi-angle adjusting nursing sickbed comprises a bed board, telescopic cylinders, supporting legs, bolts for adjusting the tightness degree, universal wheels, a lifting supporting rod, a movable back plate, a hinge, an inflating headrest, an infusion frame, a call button, a fixing base, a table board and a trash bin; the telescopic cylinders are arranged at the lower side of the bed board, the supporting legs are arranged at the lower side of the telescopic cylinders, the bolts for adjusting the tightness degree are arranged at the connecting positions of the telescopic cylinders and the supporting legs, and the universal wheels are arranged at the lower sides of the supporting legs; the lifting supporting rod is arranged at the left side of the bed board, the movable back plate is arranged at the upper side of the lifting supporting rod, the hinge is arranged on a connecting plate for the lifting supporting rod and the movable back plate, and the inflating headrest is arranged on the upper side of the movable back plate. The multi-angle adjusting nursing sickbed in the internal curative department has the advantages of being simple, convenient to use, capable of being adjusted at multiple angles, reasonable in structure, diversified in function, convenient to operate and suitable for a patient who has physical disability and lies in the bed often, lifting of the movable back plate can be adjusted freely, and work intensity of nurses is effectively relieved.

The subject invention provides for methods of reducing the relapse rate and / or reducing the accumulation of physical disability in a relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis human patient, the method comprising orally administering to the patient a daily dose of 0.6 mg laquinimod.The subject invention also provides for pharmaceutical oral unit dosage forms of 0.6 mg laquinimod for use in reducing the relapse rate and / or for use in reducing the accumulation of physical disability in a relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis human patient.

A sport wheelchair comprises a chair-shaped wheelchair frame which is composed of a chair seat, handrails and a chair back. Two sides of front-back part at the lower end of wheelchair frame are respectively installed with a guiding wheel and a main wheel. The upper end of chair back of wheelchair frame is installed with a hand-push handle. A bracket positioned on the front lower part of chair seat is rotatablely installed with a lower limb movement device which comprises a rotating shaft, a crank and a pedal. The rotating shaft is rotatablely installed at the front end of bracket. Two ends of the rotating shaft are respectively installed with a crank. The other end of crank is installed with the pedal. A main shaft is installed between two main wheels. A lower limb movement transmission mechanism is installed between the main shaft and the rotating shaft. The invention has an advantage that the upper limb and lower limb of wheelchair user is exercised by external force driving through the upper-lower front-back rotation of movement handle of upper limb movement device and pedal of lower limb movement device driven by the main shaft. The healing effect of cerebral thrombosis patient, people with upper limb or lower limb disability and the public with physical disability caused by motor nerve blocking of old people is increased.

The invention provides a nervonic acid composition and application thereof in neuroprotection, and belongs to the field of medicines. By organically compounding nervonic acid, phosphatidylserine, DHA,celery seed oil, Chinese herb extracts and nutrient supplements according to an assistant and guide principle, the nervonic acid composition integrates a nerve cell nutrient, a nerve fiber repair agent, a neurotransmitter activator, a nerve energy security agent and other mechanisms, so that the permeability of a nerve cell membrane is improved by using multiple systems and multiple ways, the release of a neurotransmitter is promoted, the conduction of nerve impulse is accelerated, a nerve information passage is repaired and dredged, and the brain function is activated or reversed. The nervonic acid composition breaks through the limit and the defect of a certain component which is singly applied, and becomes an important product for preventing and treating encephalopathy. Experiments onmore than 3,000 volunteers by trial products prove that the nervonic acid composition has a comprehensive health-care effect on the nervous system, and particularly has a satisfactory effect of preventing and reversing physical disability, language barrier and mental disorder of patients suffering from cerebral apoplexy.

The invention relates to a culture medium for carpinus putoensis gemmas which is prepared by a 1 / 3MS salt, an MT vitamin, an IBA (indolebutyric acid) which is 0mg / l to 60mg / l, an inose which is 50mg / l to 150mf / l, a gelrite which occupies 0.2 percent to 0.4 percent of the total weight of the culture medium and a cane sugar which occupies 1.5 percent to 4.5 percent of the total weight of the culture medium. The culture medium can culture abacterial test-tube gemmas effectively and induce rooting, thereby rapidly culturing and reproducing a mass of regrowth. The process for tissue-culturing and rapidly reproducing carpunus putoensis by using the tissue culture medium comprises the following four steps: the first one is the collection and disinfection of explants, the second one is the culture of abacterial gemmas, the third one is the root induction with binary form and the last one is the domestication of transplants. The invention firstly takes the gemmas as explants to tissue-culture and rapidly reproduce carpinus putoensis saplings, which overcomes the physical disabilities of the tree like bad germination, short life of pollen, low sprout rate and insufficient effective pollination period and provides biological engineering technical measures for the reproduction and preservation of the tree, thereby saving the carpinus putoensis species resource which is almost extinct.