114 results about "Replacement procedure" patented technology

Multi-filter endolumenal methods and systems for filtering fluids within the body. In some embodiments a multi-filter blood filtering system captures and removes particulates dislodge or generated during a surgical procedure and circulating in a patient's vasculature. In some embodiments a dual filter system protects the cerebral vasculature during a cardiac valve repair or replacement procedure.

There is described an image processing method in which a scene is repeatedly imaged to form a series of input images. For at least a subset of the input images, a colour calibration procedure is conducted which populates a foreground colour histogram with the frequency of occurrence of colour values in a stencil area of the input image, and populates a background colour histogram with the frequency of occurrence of colour values outside of the stencil portion of the input image. For at least a subset of the input images, a colour replacement procedure is conducted which updates the stencil area based on a determination, from the colour values of pixels within the input image, of likelihood values representing the likelihood of pixels belonging to an image area of interest, the likelihood value for each colour value being determined from a combination of the foreground and background colour histograms, replaces the original colour values of pixels within the updated stencil area of the input image with replacement colour values, and displays the image on which colour replacement processing has been conducted. In this way, a stencil area is determined based on foreground/background histogramming, and used both to define an area to which colour replacement processing is to be conducted, and also an area for use in further populating the colour histograms to calibrate the colour replacement processing.

Single filter and multi-filter endolumenal methods and systems for filtering fluids within the body. In some embodiments a blood filtering system captures and removes particulates dislodged or generated during a surgical procedure and circulating in a patient's vasculature. In some embodiments a filter system protects the cerebral vasculature during a cardiac valve repair or replacement procedure.

Single filter and multi-filter endolumenal methods and systems for filtering fluids within the body. In some embodiments a blood filtering system captures and removes particulates dislodged or generated during a surgical procedure and circulating in a patient's vasculature. In some embodiments a filter system protects the cerebral vasculature during a cardiac valve repair or replacement procedure.

A system, method, and computer program product for allowing any surgeon, including those surgeons who perform a fewer number of a replacement procedure as compared to a more experienced surgeon who performs a greater number of procedures, to provide an improved likelihood of a favorable outcome approaching, if not exceeding, a likelihood of a favorable outcome as performed by a very experienced surgeon with the replacement procedure, such as by understanding the prosthesis installation environment (e.g., cup/cavity interface) and to provide intelligent and interactive tools and methods to standardize the installation process and provide feedback regarding a quality of insertion/installation. Force sensing is included to aid in quantifying installation of an implant, particularly a cup into a pelvic bone.

Femoral head modular resurfacing systems are described. The systems primarily include a head component and a stem component. The configuration of the head component and stem components allow for minimum invasiveness into the femur head region, thus conserving greater amounts of bone tissue than would be possible with conventional hip replacement systems. The systems also provide for various angles and offsets to be achieved between the systems and the femur head. The systems are useful in partial hip replacement procedures, as well as total hip replacement procedures, in which case an optional acetabular component would also be employed.

Single filter and multi-filter endolumenal methods and systems for filtering fluids within the body. In some embodiments a blood filtering system captures and removes particulates dislodged or generated during a surgical procedure and circulating in a patient's vasculature. In some embodiments a filter system protects the cerebral vasculature during a cardiac valve repair or replacement procedure.

In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a cache management module for managing a cache memory device, comprising a groups management module adapted to define groups of allocation units in accordance with at least an operative criterion and to create a new group of allocation units whenever it is determined that in accordance with at least the operative criterion none of the one or more existing groups is appropriate to include an allocation unit, and a replacement procedure module adapted to manage the cache in terms of groups of allocation units, rather than in terms of discrete allocation units.

The present invention relates to a ground milling machine, in particular, a road cold milling machine, having a replaceable milling drum unit. To make this replacement procedure easier, the present invention proposes a fastening device between the milling part and the machine part of the ground milling machine. The present invention furthermore relates to a method for replacing a milling part on the ground milling machine, a fastening device being used for this purpose.

A system and method are provided for supplying a specified minimum level of power to a laptop computer or other device during a battery replacement procedure. In the system, a first battery has a plurality of terminal pairs, each terminal pair comprising positive and negative terminals. The system further includes a battery interface comprising two pairs of contact points, the contact points of each pair adapted to engage corresponding terminals of one of the terminal pairs to couple power from the first battery to the laptop. The power provided to the device by either of the terminal pairs is sufficient to supply the specified minimum level of power. A structure is configured to selectively support the first battery in both normal operating and battery exchange positions, with respect to the battery interface, so that the terminals of at least one terminal pair are always engaged with contact points of a contact pair when the first battery is in the normal operating or the exchange position, or is being moved therebetween. A second battery, substantially identical to the first battery, is adapted for placement with respect to the structure to bring terminals of a terminal pair of the second battery into engagement with contacts of one of the contact pairs, when the first battery is in the battery exchange position.

A system and method for allowing any surgeon, including those surgeons who perform a fewer number of a replacement procedure as compared to a more experienced surgeon who performs a greater number of procedures, to provide an improved likelihood of a favorable outcome approaching, if not exceeding, a likelihood of a favorable outcome as performed by a very experienced surgeon with the replacement procedure.

A bearing alignment tool and method of use is provided for aligning inner and outer races of a roller bearing of the class wherein the inner and outer races of the roller bearing are axially displaceable with respect to each other in order to accommodate thermal growth of a rotating shaft. A bearing replacement procedure includes: (a) affixing the roller bearing to the shaft at its inner race; (b) disposing the shaft in a housing; (c) aligning the inner and outer races of the roller bearing with respect to each other and the housing in a predetermined spatial relationship by affixing an alignment tool to the housing, wherein the alignment tool has (i) an outer aligning surface which engages the outer race of the roller bearing; and (ii) an inner aligning surface which engages the inner race of the roller bearing; (d) removing the alignment tool from the housing; and (e) securing the housing to a fixed position on a support while maintaining the predetermined spatial relationship established in step (c). The method and alignment tool are particularly useful for quickly replacing bearings on an afterdryer of a papermachine where precision alignment and downtime are significant considerations.

The invention discloses a multifunctional automatic tabouret of a computerized embroidery machine. The multifunctional automatic tabouret comprises a tabouret body, a left and right beam drawing the tabouret body to move along an X direction on a horizontal plane, a front beam drawing the tabouret body to move along a Y direction on the horizontal plane, a middle beam, a drive mechanism, a tightening device for X-direction cloth, a tensioning device for X-direction cloth, and a tightening device for Y-direction cloth. The invention has beneficial effects that a pneumatic device employed for pressurization has a simple structure, and automatic tightening and tensioning on the embroidery cloth during replacement of the embroidery cloth can be realized by only pressing a switch, so as to achieve a simple and fast replacement procedure of the embroidery cloth.

The invention discloses a PI chopped fiber reinforced flexible silicon dioxide aerogel composite material and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of high-performance porous materials. The method includes filling the silicon dioxide aerogel porous structure with polyimide fibers to obtain the flexibility-enhanced composite material. The composite material can recover to 60%-80% of the original length under 50% compression deformation. According to the preparation method designed by the invention, deionized water is used as a solvent, polyimide chopped fibers are used as a reinforcing phase, and the viscosity of sol is controlled through a surfactant, so that the chopped fibers with different lengths can be uniformly dispersed; and by optimizing the replacement procedure, the prepared composite material not only has good mechanical properties, but also has good heat insulation and heat preservation properties.

The invention discloses a working roll replacement auxiliary device of a rough mill. The working roll replacement auxiliary device comprises a machine frame, a hydraulic cylinder, a first hook body and a second hook body, wherein one end of the hydraulic cylinder is hinged to the machine frame, the other end of the hydraulic cylinder is provided with an ejection rod, the first hook body is connected with the top end of the ejection rod, and is provided with a first push surface and a first hook, a movement piece is arranged under the first hook body, the machine frame is provided with a rail corresponding to the movement piece, one end, away from the hydraulic cylinder, of the rail is provided with a groove, the second hook body is connected onto a working roll, and is provided with a second push surface and a second hook, the second push surface corresponds to the first push surface, and the second hook is buckled together with the first hook. When the movement piece is moved into the groove, the first hook is separated from the second hook. The invention also discloses a working roll replacement method. The working roll replacement auxiliary device has the beneficial effects that the coiling is convenient and rapid, the replacement procedure is simple, the operation is easy, the requirements of customers are met, and the like.

The invention discloses a method for realizing PROFINET industrial Ethernet gateway. The method comprises the following steps: a master station respectively sends a slave station name inquiry requestto each slave station through a DCP search protocol; the master station sends the slave station name inquiry request to each slave station. Receiving a master station name returned by each slave station. The address resolution of each slave station is performed by ARP protocol, and the address resolution results of each slave station are obtained. According to the address resolution result of eachslave station, IP address parameters are assigned to the corresponding slave station to establish a gateway with each slave station. The technical proposal provided by the embodiment of the inventiondoes not require an external PROFINET protocol special chip, solves the problem of complex maintenance and replacement procedures of the PROFINET protocol special chip, and reduces the cost. The invention also discloses an implementation device, a device and a storage medium of a PROFINET industrial Ethernet gateway, which have corresponding technical effects.