567 results about "Radial line" patented technology

A security system for recording information outside a vehicle and delivering such information to a remote location includes a plurality of cameras mounted within a housing with radial lines of sight for providing a panoramic view of the surroundings. The present invention further includes a communication mechanism for transmitting an image to a remote location. A user interface includes one of a hand-operable video phone, personal computer and cellcorder. The present invention further includes an image stabilizing mechanism for maintaining the lines of sight along a linear path. The image stabilizing mechanism is secured to the housing and cameras. Such an image stabilizing mechanism includes a housing that has a motor, a gyro, and a helical spring member, which provide support as the vehicle is in motion.

An improved crimping mechanism well-suited for use with stented prosthetic heart valves. The crimping mechanism includes a plurality of jaws configured for linear non-rotational movement toward a central axis. A rotational plate is formed with a plurality of spiral grooves or tracks for engaging the jaws. Rotational movement of the spiral tracks produces linear movement of the jaws. Nesting of the inner ends of the jaws permits each to be acted on along different radial lines while their inner faces move together evenly to reduce the crimping aperture in a smooth fashion. The crimping mechanism is particularly well-suited for use with stented prosthetic heart valves, such as a prosthetic aortic valve, though it can also be applied to other stented heart valves, venous valves, and even stent grafts which tend to be fairly large.

A surgical method and apparatus for presbyopia correction removal of the sclera tissue are disclosed. Mechanisms based on sub-conjunctiva filled-in of the sclera area and cause the sclera-ciliary-body and zonule "complex" become more flexible (or less rigidity) are proposed. Total accommodation based a lens relaxation and lanes anterior shift is calculated and proposed as the guidance of the parameters for device design and clinical outcomes The preferred embodiments for the ablation patterns include radial lines, curved lines, ring dots or any non-specific shapes in a symmetric geometry. The surgery apparatus includes non-laser device of radio frequency wave, electrode device, bipolar device and plasma assisted device. Another preferred embodiment is to use post-operation medication such as pilocarpine (1%-10%) or medicines with similar nature which may cause ciliary body contraction for more stable and enhancement after the treatment.

The invention is a method for making a master mold to be used for nanoimprinting patterned-media magnetic recording disks. The method uses conventional optical or e-beam lithography to form a pattern of generally radial stripes on a substrate, with the stripes being grouped into annular zones or bands. A block copolymer material is deposited on the pattern, resulting in guided self-assembly of the block copolymer into its components to multiply the generally radial stripes into generally radial lines of alternating block copolymer components. The radial lines of one of the components are removed and the radial lines of the remaining component are used as an etch mask to etch the substrate. Conventional lithography is used to form concentric rings over the generally radial lines. After etching and resist removal, the master mold has pillars arranged in circular rings, with the rings grouped into annular bands.

Segmenting the prostate boundary is essential in determining the dose plan needed for a successful bracytherapy procedure—an effective and commonly used treatment for prostate cancer. However, manual segmentation is time consuming and can introduce inter and intra-operator variability. This present invention describes an algorithm for segmenting the prostate from two dimensional ultrasound (2D US) images, which can be full-automatic, with some assumptions of image acquisition. Segmentation begins with the user assuming the center of the prostate to be at the center of the image for the fully-automatic version. The image is then filtered to identify prostate edge candidates. The next step removes most of the false edges and keeps as many true edges as possible. Then, domain knowledge is used to remove any prostate boundary candidates that are probably false edge pixels. The image is then scanned along radial lines and only the first-detected boundary candidates are kept the final step includes the removal of some remaining false edge pixels by fitting a polynomial to the image points and removing the point with the maximum distance from the fit. The resulting candidate edges form an initial model that is then deformed using the Discrete Dynamic Contour (DDC) model to obtain a closed contour of the prostate boundary.

A resonator, a filter, and a duplexer are provided which are capable of very effectively suppressing the power loss caused by the edge effect, and which allow a great reduction in the overall size to be achieved. Also, a communication device including the above-mentioned filter or duplexer is provided. A ground electrode is formed over the bottom surface of a dielectric substrate, and a multiple spiral line pattern is formed on the top surface thereof. A radial line pattern is further formed on this surface with an insulation layer interposed therebetween. By thus disposing the radial pattern adjacently to the multiple spiral resonator constituted of the above-mentioned multiple spiral line, an electrostatic capacitance is added to the multiple spiral resonator. This reduces the occupation area of the resonator on the substrate, and improves the loss reduction effect.

Laser and non-laser means to remove a portion of the ciliary body tissue for the treatment of presbyopia and glaucoma are disclosed. Mechanisms based on elasticity increase the sclera-ciliary-body and zonule “complex” is proposed. Total accommodation based a lens relaxation and lanes anterior shift is calculated. The preferred embodiments for the ablation patterns include radial lines, curved lines, ring dots or any non-specific shapes in a symmetric geometry. The surgery apparatus includes lasers in UV (0.19 to 0.35 micron) and IR (2.8 to 3.2) micron, and non-laser device of radio frequency wave, electrode device, bipolar device and plasma-assisted device. Post-operation medication such as pilocarpine (0.5%-5%) or medicines with similar to reduce postoperative regression or enhance the accommodation is presented. A much deeper, about (0.8-1.4) mm, ablation depth supraciliary body is proposed for (50%/-200%) greater accommodation than the prior arts based on superficial scleral ablation or expansion.

A fused filament fabrication printer uses a plurality of fixed printing heads mounted to a structure over a build platform on which the model is built by constructing each layer of the model as the build platform is indexed through a multiplicity of successive print planes. The build platform may be in the form of a circular disk mounted for rotation about a z-axis and for linear motion along the z-axis between successive print planes, and for linear motion along a y-axis which is a selected radial direction perpendicular to the z-axis. Because the printheads are fixed, multiple printheads are easily affixed with respect to the build platform along the same radial line defining the y-axis transverse to the selected radial direction along which the build platform moves.

An improved crimping mechanism and method well-suited for use with stented prosthetic heart valves. The crimping mechanism includes a plurality of jaws configured for linear non-rotational movement toward a central axis. A rotational plate is formed with a plurality of spiral grooves or tracks for engaging the jaws. Rotational movement of the spiral tracks produces linear movement of the jaws. Nesting of the inner ends of the jaws permits each to be acted on along different radial lines while their inner faces move together evenly to reduce the crimping aperture in a smooth fashion. The crimping mechanism is particularly well-suited for use with stented prosthetic heart valves, such as a prosthetic aortic valve, though it can also be applied to other stented heart valves, venous valves, and even stent grafts which tend to be fairly large.

A grinding wheel including a circular grinding region (1) with a plurality of through-openings (3) formed therein, a central mounting region (2) coaxial with the grinding region (1), and a plurality of cutting bodies (4) having a rectangular base surface, projecting from the grinding region (1), and spaced from a center of the mounting region (2) by different radial distances, with each cutting body (4) having a longitudinal side (5) adjacent to the center of the mounting region (2) and a wide side (6) remote from the center of the mounting region (2), with the longitudinal side (5) and the wide side (6) forming together an edge (K), and with the longitudinal side (5) extending at an angle (B) of from 35° to 55° to a radial line (R) extending from the center of the mounting region (2) and passing tangentially to the edge (K).

A rotor stage of a turbine has a rotational axis, a shroud and radially inward thereof a turbine blade defined partly by a pressure side wall, a suction side wall and a tip portion. The tip portion has a pressure side tip rib and a tip cavity floor defining a tip cavity. The pressure side tip rib has a width W_ps, a height H_ps above the tip cavity and defines a tip gap G_ps with the shroud. The pressure side tip rib has a sloping side joining the tip cavity floor and having an angle α_ps to a radial line ZZ. The width W_ps is in the range G_ps to 5G_ps, the height H_ps is in the range 5G_ps to 15G_ps and the angle α_ps is in the range 20° to 70°.

A steerable antenna comprising an array of T-shaped slots. The location of the slots is moved to define an array of ring- or spiral-patterned phase constant regions. Distortions or contractions of the pattern occur by repositioning some or all of the slots forming the array. The antenna also comprises an intermediate insulating layer and a lower plate. The insulating layer is formed by a deformable dielectric medium. Deformation of the dielectric medium allows the beam angle to be altered.

A method producing full field radial grid (called here Radial-X Grid) for more accurate and efficient reservoir simulation and improving simulation work flow. The Radial-X Grid method produces both aerial and vertical gridding to divide a reservoir structure into simulation grid cells. The aerial gridding is performed by 1) specifying a reservoir boundary (including faults) and well locations; 2) distributing a set of concentric circles around each well location; 3) determining the circle-circle and circle-boundary intersection locations of these circles; 4) forming the aerial grid by selecting circles, arc segments of intersecting circles and radial lines which connect the ends of these arc segments to the corresponding well center; 5) and forming additional grid lines by selecting the connecting lines of two wells if their circles intersect, adding additional radial lines to certain wells, and connecting end points of certain selected arc segments. Thus, the aerial boundary of each individual grid cell is formed from elements selected from the group of arc segment, well radial line, reservoir boundary, connection line of well to well, arc segment end to arc segment end. The vertical gridding is performed by casting the aerial grid vertically downwardly through all the layers defined in the reservoir structure. The Radial-X Grid method is advantageous for petroleum reservoir simulation applications because it is easy to use, runs fast, produces no grid orientation effect, provides efficient use of grid cells, provides precision modeling and provides better reservoir boundary and fault conformance.

A plasma processing apparatus includes a cathode 54 having a large diameter part 56 and a long thin small diameter part 58, and the upper end surface of the large diameter part 56 faces the plasma forming space 76. The substrate 66 which is to be processed is mounted on the upper end surface of the large diameter part 56. The lower end of the small diameter part 58 is connected via the matching circuit 60 to the high frequency power source 62. The transmission path within the chamber comprises a large diameter coaxial line, a small diameter coaxial line and a radial line which connects them. The large diameter coaxial line includes the large diameter part 56, the first side wall 42 and the insulator 70. The radial line includes the lower surface of the large diameter part 56, the upper surface of the bottom plate 46 and the gap 72 between them. The small diameter coaxial line includes the small diameter part 58, the second side wall 68 and the gap 74. Appropriate impedance matching is achieved between the two coaxial lines and the radial line.

The alternating current detection coil is a toroidal coil, and comprises plural radial-line conductors which are formed on a front face and a rear face of a substrate, conductive connection parts and conductive through-holes which connect electrically each end of radial-line conductors, wherein plural winding turns are consecutively formed by a connection of each radial-line conductor on the front face and the rear face respectively, the winding turns comprise a forward coil and a backward coil, and each shape on the front face and the rear face of the radial-line conductors and the conductive connection parts are identical with each other. Consequently, when seen from a thickness direction of the substrate, areas of the forward coil and the backward coil are equal to each other, and an external magnetic field, which does not need to be detected, can be canceled each other by the forward coil and the backward coil, then a current detection accuracy can be improved.

Apparatus for configuring an externally coated workpiece are provided. In one example, the apparatus includes a tubular reconfiguration chamber having a plurality of slidably mounted outer walls, the outer walls slidably mounted along individual radial lines emanating from and orthogonal to the central longitudinal axis of the tubular reconfiguration chamber; and a device for adjusting and maintaining the temperature of the external coating of a work-piece located within the tubular reconfiguration chamber. In another example the apparatus includes a reconfiguration chamber; a nozzle in fluid communication with the reconfiguration chamber, a regulator in fluid communication with the nozzle, the regulator adapted to regulate the flow of a thermal transfer fluid exiting the nozzle, and a controller in communication with the regulator, the controller adapted to send control signals to the regulator to maintain the surface temperature of the external coating of the reconfigurable work-piece within a predetermined temperature range, the predetermined temperature range associated with a predetermined minimum hardness of the external coating of the reconfigurable work-piece.

Disclosed is a method for displaying a plurality of objects on a display (105). Each object has at least a first attribute and a second attribute. The method sets a range of first attributes to be displayed. A set of objects is then displayed having the same second attribute on a radial line of an ellipse based on a comparison between the range and the first attribute of the objects. Desirably the method is used for displaying information regarding a plurality of broadcast programs on the display, each broadcast program having attributes comprising at least time of transmission and channel of transmission. In that implementation a display period is set. The method then compares the time of broadcast transmission of one or more programs with the display period and then displays (eg. 600) information regarding a set of programs (602, 604, 606) having the same channel of transmission (eg. 12) on at least one radial line of an ellipse, based on the comparison. The described arrangements are particularly useful in displaying television electronic program guide (EPG) information.

The invention relates to a high power microwave radial line slit array antenna which comprises a coaxial input waveguide, a radial line leaky wave waveguide and an antenna housing, wherein an output port of the coaxial input waveguide is connected with an input port of the radial line leaky wave waveguide, and an output port of the radial line leaky wave waveguide is sealed through the antenna housing. Microwaves are inputted through a coaxial over-mode waveguide in a transverse electronic and magnetic (TEM) mode, folding conversion is carried out through a double layer radial line waveguide, and microwave radial inner feedback is achieved on a waveguide upper layer. Slit unit arrays arranged on an antenna aperture cut a radial electric field, distant field same-phase superimposed circular polarization radian is achieved, the whole axial dimension is small, and the structure is compact. Due to action of a radial line slow wave structure, the wavelength of the radial line waveguide is reduced, and generation of slit array grating lobes is restrained. Due to the fact that a high order reflection mode excited by a wide slit array is restrained through a reflection offset spiral groove in a lower layer waveguide, the whole antenna has high radiant efficiency. Due to the improvement on the slit unit structure and vacuum sealing of the antenna housing, the whole radiating system has high power capacity, and application requirements in the high power microwave field can be met.

The invention discloses a dual-polarization Doppler weather radar ground clutter inhibition method based on fuzzy logic, and the method comprises the steps: processing volume scanning data of a dual-polarization Doppler weather radar into 360 radial lines, wherein the interval between each two adjacent radial lines is one degree, and the data of each radial line comprises seven echo characteristic physical quantities: intensity, a mean Doppler speed, a spectrum width, a difference reflectivity factor, a difference propagation phase shift, and a correlation coefficient; setting the seven physical quantities which respectively comprise the intensity, the mean Doppler speed, the spectrum width, the difference reflectivity factor, the difference propagation phase shift, and the correlation coefficient; enabling seven fuzzy results to be assigned with corresponding weight values, carrying out accumulating and obtaining a ground clutter criterion of one echo point; Determining that the intensity echo of the point is the ground clutter when the ground clutter criterion of one echo point is greater than a threshold value; inhibiting the ground clutter of the dual-polarization Doppler weather radar through the ground clutter criterion of each echo point, and compensating a hole of a current layer after clutter inhibiting through employing the echo intensity value of a corresponding point in an upper layer in the volume scanning data.

The invention relates to a row cleaner for agricultural no-tillage planting machinery, especially to a biomimetic claw type floating stubble and grass clearing mechanism. The invention is intended to resolve the problems of effect on normal seeding operation and seeding quality or the like because of the winding, accumulation and clog on a colter by a mass of stalks and weeds coated on the protective cropland surface. The floating row cleaner mainly comprises a pair of finger-shaped grass-poking wheels connected with the ground, an installation rack for convergent arms, a cam for regulating depth and a lower limiting arm, wherein the finger-shaped grass-poking wheels are key parts. The pair of finger-shaped grass-poking wheels forming splay with each other is mounted on installation rack for convergent arms, wherein the centers of the pair of finger-shaped grass-poking wheels of the front ends converge at a point and are not interfered with each other. The middle of each finger-shaped grass-poking wheel is provided with a round disk whose circumference is distributed with a plurality of finger-shaped teeth uniformly. The plurality of teeth are radially distributed, line parts of the finger-shaped teeth form a certain angle with the radial line in radial direction of the round disk, and extend to the outer circle from arc.

The invention relates to a pre stack seismic data inversion method of globe physical exploration high accuracy depth domain, which has the following steps: single shot records are collected; according to pre stack shot gather data and through radial line track or wave-field continuation focus, wave-field continuation focusing operators of all detecting wave points are pointed to and the focusing operator of each imaging point is obtained; the focusing operator and the single shot record are implemented in a migration aperture, and focus point shot gather corresponding to each shot is obtained; the focusing operator and common focus point gather are implemented cross correlation operation in time domain and space domain at the same time, and net point gather is obtained; the net point gather is implemented Radon transform, and CFP-AVP gather of corresponding imaging point is obtained; each imaging point gather is stacked, and the whole 2D document pre stack high accuracy analysis sectional plane is obtained. The CFP-AVP analysis in the invention has the advantages of wide application condition, reliable analysis sectional plane and sound effect of supercritical information inversion.