38 results about "Potential space" patented technology

An active cannula which does more than merely maintain a passage is usable to create and / or enlarge a passage, to position a scope or instrument, to move or locate tissue, etc. The cannula can vary in size or shape as needed, intraoperatively. Because a cannula of the present invention is expandable, the surgeon can make a relatively small incision, stretch the tissue with the expandable cannula, contract the cannula and remove it, allowing the skin to come back to its unstretched condition. Thus, a smaller incision can be made to fit the same size instrument. The cannulas can assume such a non-circular shape, to fit into a natural skin opening and cause less trauma. The devices can be used to seal off a space, expand an existing space or a potential space for working or visualization, move tissue (for example, to stretch an incision), or protect tissue.

To more accurately control insertion of penetrating instruments (e.g., trocars, needles, or the like) into a body cavity, organ, or potential space, an accelerometer is coupled to the penetrating instrument. The accelerometer may by employed to measure or detect the sudden lack of resistance which occurs when the penetrating instrument penetrates to a predetermined depth (e.g., through the abdominal cavity, vein, or outer bone) in a more accurate and reliable way instead of practitioners' subjective feeling. An acceleration sensor (i.e., accelerometer) coupled to the penetrating instrument (e.g., trocar or the like) may transform the physical variable ‘resistance change’ into an electronic signal that is then processed in an electronic circuit, and finally triggers an audible / visible alarm and / or feeds an actuating mechanism to control movement of the penetrating instrument.

An active cannula which does more than merely maintain a passage is usable to create and / or enlarge a passage, to position a scope or instrument, to move or locate tissue, etc. The cannula can vary in size or shape as needed, intraoperatively. Because a cannula of the present invention is expandable, the surgeon can make a relatively small incision, stretch the tissue with the expandable cannula, contract the cannula and remove it, allowing the skin to come back to its unstretched condition. Thus, a smaller incision can be made to fit the same size instrument. The cannulas can assume such a non-circular shape, to fit into a natural skin opening and cause less trauma. The devices can be used to seal off a space, expand an existing space or a potential space for working or visualization, move tissue (for example, to stretch an incision), or protect tissue.

A spinal clip for creating a potential space within the spinal canal and thus stabilizing the spine without the need for additional spinal components is embodied in different forms. The spinal clips are configured to provide a clamping or holding force against and / or to the spinous processes, transverse processes and / or the lamina of adjacent vertebrae. In one form, the spinous process clips utilize pivoting to effect clamping or holding. In another form, the spinous process clips utilize rotation to effect clamping or holding. Such rotation may be between clamping or holding members or via a screw system. In yet another form, the spinous process clips utilize ratcheting to effect clamping or holding. In a still further form, the spinous process clips utilize expansion to effect clamping or holding. Depending on the form of clamping or holding, the spinous process clips can provide infinite adjustment of the clamping or holding force within an adjustment range, or provide discrete steps or levels of the clamping or holding force.

The invention provides a hybrid particle swarm tabu search algorithm for solving a job-shop scheduling problem. Compared with other meta-heuristic algorithms, the algorithm has the characteristic of ''elite memory'' according to a PSO and has the characteristic of fast convergence, the PSO is taken as an initial solution source of TSAB tabu search, and an encoding and decoding mechanism for mapping a particle swarm continuous solution space into a discrete space of the job-shop scheduling problem is designed. A real number solution of the PSO is converted into an integer solution of the tabu search algorithm through a real integer encoding method and the integer solution of the tabu search algorithm is converted into the real number solution of the PSO through a real integer decoding method after one-time iteration; and a chance of accurate search is made in a potential space to own more exploration in a global search space. An improved PSO with a balancing strategy is provided, and a balance operator beta is introduced. The performance of the algorithm is greatly strengthened through these improvements and the actual job-shop scheduling condition is combined. The algorithm is high in practicability and good in usability.

The invention relates to a method for predicting space epitope of protein antigen according to antibody species classification. The method comprises the steps of 1) collecting data: classifying and collecting antigen-antibody structure data according to the antibody species source information (such as mouse source, human source and the like) to obtain classified data sets, and collecting descriptive features of protein interactive binding sites; 2) building model: computing the descriptive features for the collected classified data sets, and building antigen space epitope prediction model for antigens which bind antibodies of different species sources according to the interspecies difference; and 3) predicting epitope: according to the species source of antibody to be bound, selecting the antigen space epitope prediction model to predict the potential space epitope for antigen with unknown epitope. The method of the invention predicts the space epitope of protein antigen according to antibody species classification, comprehensively utilizes the amino acid physicochemical feature and three-dimensional space local structure feature in the protein, has ingenious design, and notably improves prediction accuracy. Thus, the method is suitable for being applied on a large scale.

The invention provides a wardrobe with an adjustable storage space. The wardrobe comprises a wardrobe body with a built-in accommodation space, and is characterized in that horizontal partition boards used for horizontally dividing the accommodation space of the wardrobe body from the top to the bottom into layers are arranged in the wardrobe body; every two adjacent horizontal partition boards are supported by an elastic element and connected with each other through the elastic element, the horizontal partition boards can move vertically in the wardrobe body under the supporting of the elastic elements, the horizontal partition board at the bottommost layer is connected with the bottom of the wardrobe body through an elastic element; a limiting device used for preventing the horizontal partition boards to move upwards vertically is arranged at the lower part of the wardrobe body. According to the wardrobe, all the horizontal partition boards supported by the elastic elements can move vertically in the wardrobe body, so that the placing space of each layer can be adjusted as required. Meanwhile, when one layer is full of clothing, the clothing can be appropriately compressed under the squeezing of the elastic elements, so as to release more potential space and achieve the purpose of improving the storage space usage rate.

The invention discloses a flight plan security judgment early-warning method based on four-dimensional flight path operation, and relates to the technical field of air traffic. The invention aims at solving a problem that there is no quantification method for the flight plan security based on the four-dimensional flight path operation currently. The method comprises the steps: calculating a space-time accessible domain between each two planned flight path point for each aircraft; determining the occurrence position and time of a conflict through recognizing a potential space-time conflict region of each aircraft, and considering the aircraft movement under the impact of various uncertain factors as the irregular Brownian movement; calculating the conflict probability of each aircraft underthe flight plan as the quantification basis for the flight plan security. Through the optimization of the flight plan, the method can effectively improve the security of the air traffic, and balancesthe conflict between the high-speed increasing demands for the air traffic and the limited space resources. The method is suitable for the judgment early warning of the security of the flight plan.

The invention provides an image restoration method and system based on a conditional generative adversarial network. The image restoration method comprises the steps: firstly, training a conditional generative adversarial network CGAN on a CelebA data set, then inputting a to-be-restored image into the CGAN to generate a series of fake images similar to the to-be-restored image, and defining a loss function composed of context loss and perception loss, wherein the context loss ensures the similarity between the image to be restored and the restored image content, and the perception loss guarantees to visually output a complete and vivid image; and finally, mapping the to-be-repaired image to a small potential space by utilizing a back propagation algorithm of the loss function, and inputting the mapped vector into the CGAN to generate an optimal forged image of the to-be-repaired image. The image restoration method has the advantages that the image restoration method based on the conditional generative adversarial network is provided to solve the problems of unstable training and collapse of the generative adversarial network fundamentally and thoroughly, and obtain an optimal forged image in combination with context loss and perception loss functions to complete image missing area restoration.

The invention provides a multi-description encoding and decoding method and system based on a convolutional auto-encoder. The encoding method comprises: receiving image information, carrying out convolution processing on the image information by using a convolution auto-encoder to obtain convolution characteristics, compressing the input image information into a potential space representation by the convolution auto-encoder, and then reconstructing output through the characteristics of the convolution auto-encoder, so that the output is infinitely close to the input; Dividing the obtained convolutional features into two descriptions, each description comprising two subsets, respectively encoding the two descriptions to obtain two multi-description code streams, and respectively transmitting the two multi-description code streams through different channels. On the premise that the packet loss problem is solved, the coding efficiency can be improved, and a reconstructed image with higheraccuracy can be obtained.

The invention relates to the technical field of spacecraft orbit dynamics, and discloses a method for searching for rendezvous objects and a rendezvous sequence among a large number of space targets considering J2 perturbation, in which three mutually embedded layers of optimization processes for solving the number of rendezvous objects, rendezvous time and the rendezvous objects under the restrictions of a given total fuel amount, a given total rendezvous time, a given minimum post-rendezvous retention time and the like are established. The outermost optimization process is used for determining the number of the rendezvous objects, an intermediate optimization process is used for determining the rendezvous time, and the innermost optimization process is used for determining the rendezvous objects. The method provided by the invention has the advantages that effects of J2 perturbation on the space targets and an orbit of a service spacecraft are considered, the specific rendezvous objects and starting and ending times of the rendezvous objects can be determined among the large number of the potential space targets, and the determined number of the rendezvous objects is the maximum number under the given restrictions, so that the capability of the service spacecraft can be exerted to the largest extent, the optimum task execution effects can be obtained, and remarkable engineering application values can be achieved.

The invention discloses a garment matching recommendation method based on the integration of face attribute analysis. According to the invention, the shopping records and the browsing records of a user are comprehensively analyzed. Meanwhile, pictures which are shared by the user on a social network, and the face attribute characteristics of the user are also comprehensively analyzed. After that,a whole set of garment matching is recommended to the user. Based on a parameterization model obtained through learning, the collocation degree between different garment products, and the matching degree between garments and face attributes are speculated. In this way, the matching of garments, high in fitness for the user, is recommended for the user. According to the invention, the tensor decomposition method is adopted for the interaction between users and commodities, between face attribute characteristics and commodities, and between different commodities. Moreover, the gradient decreasing method is adopted for solving the problem of the multi-modal characteristics of fashion commodities and learning a nonlinear function to map characteristic vectors from the feature space to the potential space.

An endoscopy device for facilitating the use of an endoscope, comprising at least one airway tube and a mask carried at one end of the at least one airway rube, the mask having a distal end and a proximal end and a peripheral formation capable of conforming to, and of fitting within, the actual and potential space behind the larynx of the patient so as to form a seal around the circumference of the laryngeal inlet, the peripheral formation surrounding a hollow interior space or lumen of the mask and the at least one airway tube opening into the lumen of the mask, the device further comprising a conduit adapted for passage of an endoscope into the oesophagus of a patient when the mask is in place.

The invention relates to the technical field of treatment and prevention of the water disaster in a separation layer of a coal mine and provides a method for treating the water disaster in the separation layer of the mine. The method comprises the following steps: forming a sampling hole in the ground surface; sampling various rock layers through the sampling hole to acquire layer information of various key layers; forming a plurality of grouting holes respectively extending to a grouting layer in the advancing direction of a working face in the ground surface, wherein the grouting layer is the key layer below a water-bearing layer and the layer of a target key layer and a weak layer below the target key layer; injecting water into various grouting holes through a high pressure pump; mining the coal in the advancing direction of the working face, judging whether the hydraulic pressure of each grouting hole is reduced at the same time, if so, then injecting premixed pulverized fuel ashinto the corresponding grouting hole through the high pressure pump. The grouting time is judged according to the change of the hydraulic pressure in the preformed grouting hole, the formation of theseparation layer is intervened in advance, and the potential space of the grouting layer originally used for storing underground water is fully filled with pulverized fuel ash slurry.

The invention discloses a method for detecting a heart surface transmural potential distribution, which is combined with the transmural potential space sparseness and the L1 norm regularization method. According to human anatomy geometry information obtained by medical imaging equipment and the electrical conductivity characteristic of a torso volume conductor, a human heart to lung to torso surface model is established; a transfer matrix between a heart surface transmural potential and a body surface potential is established through a boundary element method and a heart surface element method; the heart surface transmural potential can be obtained by combining with the L1 norm regularization method of space differential operator V through the obtained body surface potential and transfer matrix. The L1 norm regularization method provided by the invention for detecting the heart surface transmural potential has the advantage of utilizing the actual distribution characteristic priori information of the transmural potential to effectively solve the problem of pathological characteristics in ECG inverse problems, obtain more accurate heart surface transmural potential distribution and correctly detect heart electrical activity information.

The invention relates to an artificial airway device (1) to facilitate lung ventilation of a patient, comprising an airway tube (2) and a mask (3) canned at one end of the airway tube, the mask (3) having a distal end (4) and a proximal end (5) and a peripheral formation (6) capable of conforming to, and of fitting within, the actual and potential space behind the larynx of the patient so as to form a seal around the circumference of the laryngeal inlet, the peripheral formation (6) surrounding a hollow interior space or lurnen (7) of the mask (3) and the airway tube (2) opening into the lumen (7) of the mask, the mask having a conduit (8) for receiving, in use, oesophageal matter, an outer, in use, surface of the peripheral formation (6) defining a channel (10) for use in facilitating drainage of oesophageal matter.

The method and apparatus as shown in FIGS. 8-10 in which a fluid expandable member (208) is positioned in concentric relation about a needle (202). The fluid expandable member (208) is expanded into the nucleus pulposus potential space bordered by the annulus fibrosus of an intervertebral disk. Then, thermoplastic material in a flowing state is injected by a needle (202) within the annulus fibrosus to collapse the fluid expandable member (208) and occupy the space formerly occupied by the fluid expandable member (208).

The invention discloses an oil well pump efficiency improvement potential space determination method. The method comprises the following steps of obtaining actual liquid production capacity Q1 of a wellhead of an oil well, theoretical displacement Q0 of an oil well pump and production capacity Q2 of the wellhead of the oil well; according to the actual liquid production capacity Q1 of the wellheadof the oil well and the theoretical displacement Q0 of the oil well pump, determining actual pump efficiency eta s of the oil well pump; according to the production capacity Q2 of the wellhead of theoil well and the theoretical displacement Q0 of the oil well pump, determining maximum pump efficiency eta max realizable for the oil well pump; and according to the actual pump efficiency eta s of the oil well pump and the maximum pump efficiency eta max realizable for the oil well pump, calculating oil well pump efficiency improvement potential space A. According to the method, the oil well pump efficiency improvement potential space can be determined.

A spinal clip for creating a potential space within the spinal canal and thus stabilizing the spine without the need for additional spinal components is embodied in different forms. The spinal clips are configured to provide a clamping or holding force against and / or to the spinous processes, transverse processes and / or the lamina of adjacent vertebrae. In one form, the spinous process clips utilize pivoting to effect clamping or holding. In another form, the spinous process clips utilize rotation to effect clamping or holding. Such rotation may be between clamping or holding members or via a screw system. In yet another form, the spinous process clips utilize ratcheting to effect clamping or holding. In a still further form, the spinous process clips utilize expansion to effect clamping or holding. Depending on the form of clamping or holding, the spinous process clips can provide infinite adjustment of the clamping or holding force within an adjustment range, or provide discrete steps or levels of the clamping or holding force.

The invention relates to a devices and methods for lung ventilation in a patient. In particular, there is provided a laryngeal mask airway device for facilitation of lung ventilation in a patient, comprising an airway tube opening at one end into the interior of a hollow mask portion, the mask portion including a backplate and a cuff, the mask portion shaped to conform to and to fit readily into the actual and potential space behind the larynx and to seal around the circumference of the laryngeal inlet without penetrating into the interior of the larynx, the airway tube extending from a proximal end to a distal end and having a tab disposed near said proximal end, a sealed airway passage extending from the proximal end of the tube to the glottic opening when the cuff is at the inserted location, characterized in that the tab is adapted to be biasable towards the philtrum of the patient in use.

The invention provides a convolutional neural network-based unsupervised multi-modal subspace clustering method. The method mainly comprises a multi-modal encoder, a self-expression layer and a multi-modal decoder. The process of the method is as follows: firstly, for input multi-modal data, the spatial fusion is realized through an encoder and the input data are fused into a potential space expression through a space fusion network. Secondly, a fused result is input into the self-expression layer, and the combined expression is coded in the potential space through self-expression. Finally, the combined expression generated by the output of the self-expression layer is input into the multi-modal decoder, so that different modalities are reconstructed. In this way, a final clustering resultis obtained. According to the invention, the problem that the existing subspace clustering method depends on the spatial correspondence between modals and the data dimension can be increased is solved. The combined expression can be obtained by utilizing the self-expression of the modal, and the accuracy of subspace clustering is improved.

Layers of materials are laminated together preserving potential spaces that can transmit pressure generated by the use of gases or fluids. Alternatively, pre-manufactured pressure conduits of suitable dimensions and geometries are integrated between the layers. Transmission of pressure to such conduits results in expansion of a compacted device to a predetermined shape. Maintenance and / or variation of said pressure results in preservation of said shape, fine static control of surface geometries and even remote control of precise movements. Osmotic Pressure is not required to achieve Turgor type control.

Use of the peritoneal space provides a more direct tracking of blood glucose, capturing faster glucose kinetics, avoiding membrane / encapsulation effects, having less lag time and lag time variability, and eliminating the effect of variations in skin temperature, cardiac output, and body position during sleep. A peritoneal sensor system may be implanted within the peritoneal space and may generally include a sensor / sampler portion, which is implanted in the peritoneal space, and a control portion / controller, which may be implanted elsewhere, such as subcutaneously, or may be external to the patient.

An intraoral continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) interface comprises a tube connected to a source of positive air pressure, and a shield connected to, or integrally formed with, the tube and adapted to be inserted within buccal sulci in such a way that facilitates oral cavity sealing. The shield has a central part formed with an aperture in communication with the tube, and right and left longitudinally extending projections adjoining, and of substantial bilateral symmetry with respect to the central part. Each of the projections has adjoining upper and lower regions and each of the regions has adjoining proximal and distal portions, Each of the projections is dimensioned such that a distal portion has a thickness substantially equal to, or greater than, a buccal sulcus potential space gap, and is configured, when inserted within a buccal sulcus, in such a way so as to adhere to the oral mucosa, to occupy the entire volume of buccal sulcus potential space, and to seal the oral cavity.

The invention relates to a food-disease association prediction method based on disease weighting and food category constraints. The method comprises the following steps: a disease weighting relationship is constructed by using international disease classification data; a food similarity network is constructed by using an ingredient table; a food group relationship is constructed by using a food classification system, a known binary food-disease association network is constructed; the representation of the food and the disease in potential space is randomly initialized; the disease weighting relationship and the food group relationship are introduced, and the representation of the food and the disease in potential space is learnt; and by using the representation of the food and the diseasein potential space, a food and disease association predicting result is outputted. The design is reasonable, the sparse problem of food and disease association data is overcome, the accuracy of the food and disease association predicting model is enhanced, and besides, the model calculation time complexity and the food number in the food group form a linear relationship, the calculation complexityis reduced, and consumption of calculation resources is reduced.

A system for heating or cooling a liquid beverage and maintaining desired range of drinking temperature is described by utilizing a container having a concave shape for the body of the container, a converging neck portion with cylindrical chimney with threaded sleeve that receives a threaded closure for closing and sealing the cap. The type of threads or closing method in not novel nor claimed as part of the invention, but rather the combination of thinness between the front side of the container and rear side of the container, the height and width aspect ratio, the concave shape in conjunction with a complementing-shaped protective insulating and heat reflecting sleeve, and temporary heat source or cooling source. The shape of the container allows the liquid contents of the container to be rapidly heated or cooled, with the heated or cooled state retained for an optimal duration by application of the thermally insulative and thermally reflective sleeve, which includes as a benefit of the shape of the container and sleeve, a designed-in potential space for application of a precisely sized temporary heat source or cooling source which maintains the temperature of the contents of the container in a desired heated or cooled state.

An endoscopy device for facilitating use of an endoscope, comprising at least one airway tube and a mask having a distal end, a proximal end and a peripheral formation .xi.beta.) capable of conforming to, and fitting within, the actual and potential space behind the larynx of the patient to form a seal around the circumference of the laryngeal inlet, the peripheral formation establishing separation between a laryngeal; chamber side and a pharyngeal side, the device further comprising a conduit adapted for passage of an endoscope into the oesophagus of a patient when mask is in place, conduit including a distal end for cooperation with the oesophageal sphincter, the conduit having a laryngeal side, a pharyngeal side, a right side and a left side, and an outlet wherein at the outlet the width between the left side and the right side is smaller than the width of the conduit.

A pharmaceutical delivery system enabling the oral transmucosal administration of active pharmaceutical agents in a situation where rapid transmucosal administration is preferred to prevent the delay and decomposition of the agents in passing through the intestinal tract. The delivery system comprises a supportive substrate with bilateral lingual vestibular flanges connected at the anterior midline to form a ‘U’ like shape for fitting in the potential space of the bilateral lingual vestibules, and further comprising a handle or tab for holding the device in the mouth of a patient with altered consciousness to prevent aspiration or premature swallowing. The pharmaceutical dosage-form is formulated and shaped to contact the mucosal tissues and may include mucoadhesive compounds, retentive compounds, and / or additional payload enhancers, such as permeation enhancers and flavor enhancers.

The present invention provides an endoscopy device for facilitating the use of an endoscope. The endoscopy device comprises at least one airway tube and a mask carried at one end of the at least one airway rube, the mask having a distal end and a proximal end and a peripheral formation capable of conforming to, and of fitting within, the actual and potential space behind the larynx of the patientso as to form a seal around the circumference of the laryngeal inlet, the peripheral formation surrounding a hollow interior space or lumen of the mask and the at least one airway tube opening into the lumen of the mask, the device further comprising a conduit adapted for passage of an endoscope into the oesophagus of a patient when the mask is in place.