30 results about "Tip of the tongue" patented technology

Floor panel which is bounded in a horizontal plane by a top side, which is provided with a decorative layer or the like, and an underside, which is provided for bearing on an underlying surface, the floor panel being provided with means for the releasable connection of at least two panels, it being the case that the connecting means are formed on at least one first side edge such that locking takes place in the transverse direction (Q) and vertical direction (V), that form-fitting elements for locking in the vertical direction (V) with a further panel are formed on a second side edge, which runs at an angle to the first side edge, that the form-fitting elements are spaced apart from one another in the transverse direction (Q) and in the vertical direction (V) on two spaced-apart, essentially vertically oriented walls, in which case a tongue is formed on the first side edge, the tongue extending in the longitudinal direction of the side edge, and a recess, corresponding to the tongue, is formed on an opposite side edge, the underside of the tongue, starting from the tip of the tongue, having a continuously curved contour.

A bilingual authoring apparatus includes a user interface (20) for inputting partially translated text including a text portion in a source language and surrounding or adjacent text in a target language. A bilingual dictionary (34) associates words and phrases in the target language and words and phrases in a source language. A context sensitive translation tool (30, 32, 38) communicates with the user interface, receives the partially translated text, and provides at least one proposed translation in the target language of the text portion in the source language. The at least one proposed translation in the target language is derived from the bilingual dictionary based on contextual analysis of at least a portion of the partially translated text.

Isometric muscle manipulation results in a reduction in breathing airway restriction and the incidence and magnitude of sleep apnea and snoring. The method comprises exercises including, raising the tip of the tongue upward and backward in the mouth to touch the area between the hard palate and the soft palate of the mouth and then pressing the tongue upwardly, raising the flat tongue upward pressing it against the hard palate, placing the jaw in a slightly open attitude and pressing the tongue against the floor of the mouth, expanding the nasal and oral pharynx, and placing the jaw in the closed attitude and then protruding the jaw to a forward position.

Provided is a device which effectively improves obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), which places a small psychosomatic burden on the patient, and which is unlikely to cause a decrease in compliance or adverse side effects.

The tongue position controller of the present invention includes: a mounting portion composed of a splint applied to a lower jaw dentition, and a capsule which is arranged on an inner curved portion of an upper surface of the splint, which is composed so as to cover at least a portion of a tongue when the splint is applied to the lower jaw dentition, and which has a through hole positioned at a tip of the tongue when the splint is applied; a pressure generating device that generates a negative pressure; and a tube that connects the through hole and the pressure generating device.

A snoring and obstructive sleep apnea prevention and treatment device has an oral device portion with a centrally disposed plate portion. The plate portion has a suction cup on its tongue facing side which helps hold it in place and to keep the tongue from moving back towards the throat, thus preventing snoring and sleep apnea. A hood portion fits around the tip of the tongue further preventing the tongue from sliding back into a user's throat. In one embodiment, an inflatable balloon portion is provided to prevent soft tissue from contacting portions of the tongue. In another embodiment, a plate is used in place of the balloons. Additionally, oxygen may be supplied to a posterior portion of the device. Dental adhesives such as denture adhesive may be used to further restrict movement.

A snap fit mechanism has an elastic tongue provided on a base of the mechanism. On the tip of the tongue is provided an engaging claw that has an engaging inclined face. A far end of the engaging inclined face from the base is arranged so as to be located between the outside face of the elastic tongue and the centerline C in a longitudinal direction of the elastic tongue. Further, on the tip of the elastic tongue is provided an engagement-maintaining inclined face which gives an outward load to the elastic tongue on receiving an accidental load thereon so as to reduce the inward elastic deformation of the elastic tongue, thereby preventing the accidental release of the engagement of the tongue.

The invention relates to a horizontal deeply-concealed wear-resistant tongue rail and stock rail structure. The structure can effectively prolong the service life of a tongue rail and comprises the tongue rail and a stock rail, wherein the horizontal slicing depth of the working edge of a tightly attaching section of the stock rail is 6mm; and with respect to the tongue rail which does not adopt the technology, the width of a rail head of the tongue rail is increased by 6mm at positions which have the same distance away from the tip of the tongue rail, the working edge of the tongue rail has a gradient of 1:5, and the non-working edge has a gradient of 1:3. The horizontal deeply-concealed wear-resistant tongue rail and stock rail structure has the advantages that: the horizontal slicing depth of the working edge of the tightly attaching section of the stock rail is 6mm, so that on the one hand, the robustness of the tongue rail can be improved, and on the other hand, the length of a front-end weak cross section can be shortened, and the service life of the tongue rail is effectively prolonged.

The invention discloses an oral-cavity fixing device. The oral-cavity fixing device comprises first support rods, a rotary shaft, handles, a first fixing sleeve, fixing parts, a second support rod, first protrusions, a slider, a thin rope, a second fixing sleeve, grooves, first springs, second protrusions, retaining blocks and second spring. The oral-cavity fixing device has the advantages that the grooves are arranged in the top surface of the arc-shaped first fixing sleeve and the bottom surface of the second fixing sleeve, teeth are located in the grooves when the device is used, and the tip of the tongue can be prevented from being bitten by the teeth; the first fixing sleeve and the second fixing sleeve are fixedly connected with the fixing parts, and the fixing parts clamp the handles; when the device is used, the handles are pressed down to compress the springs inside the first support rods to reduce the distance between the fixing sleeves, a person can conveniently bite the grooves, the springs reset when the handles are released to allow the fixing grooves to distract the oral cavity, the first protrusions on the lateral walls of the second support rods are abutted againstthe second protrusions to fix the second support rods so as to fix the oral cavity, the handles are taken out from the fixing parts, and medical equipment can conveniently move inside the oral cavity.

It is intended to provide a centrifugal blower capable of suppressing the generation of noise including periodic noise that is caused by interference between a tongue and an impeller. The centrifugal blower is provided with an impeller (2) provided with plural blades around a rotating shaft; a casing (3) which houses the impeller (2) and has a suction portion at one end in an axial line direction of the rotating shaft; a spiral flow passage (4) formed around the impeller (2) in the casing (3); and a tongue (6) for suppressing inflow of air from a winding end to a winding origin of the spiral flow passage (4). The centrifugal blower is characterized in that an extension (20) is provided at a tip of the tongue (6) in a reverse rotational direction that is reverse to a rotational direction of the impeller (2) in such a manner that it projects in the reverse rotational direction by a length that varies depending on the position in the axial line direction and that the gap between itself and the impeller (2) in the radial direction of the impeller (2) is kept approximately constant.

A buckle is formed of a base having two side walls, a cover for accommodating and supporting the base, and having a tongue insertion hole formed at one end side of the two side walls of the base, and guide portions provided on each of the two side walls to protrude inwardly therefrom for leading a tongue to be inserted through the tongue insertion hole. The guide portions lead a tip of the tongue smoothly without blocking even when the tongue is inserted from the tongue insertion hole at a maximum slant posture defined by the tongue insertion hole relative to the buckle. The tongue can be smoothly inserted into the buckle to improve the manipulation feeling in inserting the tongue.

An adjustable soft palate support and an implantation method are provided. The adjustable soft palate support is a flat implant made of a material capable of being implanted into a human body for a long term, including a hard palate connecting end and a support. The support is a flat implant capable of being inserted into a soft palate, and is connected to the hard palate connecting end. The hard palate connecting end includes a connecting structure and an adjustment mechanism connected to a hard palate. The connecting structure on the hard palate connecting end is configured to fix the support to the hard palate, and the adjustment mechanism on the hard palate connecting end is configured to control the movement or a curvature of the support or a lifting degree of the soft palate. Since the hard palate connecting end is fixed to the hard palate, and the support is implanted into a muscular layer of the soft palate, a relaxed and collapsed soft palate and a root portion of a tongue are lifted by using the hard palate as a supporting point. Since swallowing occurs frequently in a non-sleep state, the adjustment mechanism is set to be in an on state, so that the support implanted into the soft palate can move with the natural swinging of the soft palate, so as to reduce interference with swallowing; and before sleep, a control key of the adjustment mechanism on the hard palate is pushed with a finger or an apex of tongue to set the adjustment mechanism to be in an off state, so that the support implanted into the soft palate can lift the soft palate, and change a central axis of the soft palate during natural swinging by lifting the soft palate towards the tongue root, so as to enlarge an airway of a pharynx during breathing, thereby achieving the objectives of treating snoring and obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS).

The invention relates to a locking device (1) for a female connector part for cooperation with an elongate, male connector part (30), said female connector part being intended for use in a pacer housing. Said female connector part comprises a longitudinal bore defining a longitudinal space for said locking device. Said locking device comprises one or several tongues (19, 19′) being swingable between two positions, a first position in which the tips of the tongues (19, 19′) can engage said male elongate connector part (30) and a second position in which the tips of the tongues (19, 19′) will not engage the male elongate connector part (30). Said tongues are biased towards said first position by means of a spring force. A pivot (9) is associated with each tongue and each tongue has a first part engaging said connector means (30) and being located on one side of said pivot and a second part being located on the other side of said pivot. Longitudinally acting means (4) are provided to act on said second part of said tongues (19, 19′) for actuating said tongues from said first position against said bias to said second position.

A dental appliance apparatus is disclosed herein. In various aspects, the dental appliance may include a body removably attachable to one or more teeth selected from premolars and molars, and a flange extending forth from lingual portions of the body to contact a tongue at one or more locations proximate the premolars and the molars in order to cause a contraction of the genioglossus that positions the tongue anteriorly and downward toward the mandible by stimulation of the hypoglossal nerve. The dental appliance may include a connector connected to the body, and the connector may pass about buccal-labial sides of the anterior teeth. A bumper may be included on a labial side of the connector, and the bumper may contact the lips to promote pursed lips breathing. An anterior flange may extend lingually from the connector to stimulate the hypoglossal nerve proximate a tip of the tongue in order to cause contraction of the genioglossus to position the tongue anteriorly and downward toward the mandible. This Abstract is presented to meet requirements of 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b) only. This Abstract is not intended to identify key elements of the apparatus and methods disclosed herein or to delineate the scope of this disclosure.

The present invention discloses a fludrocortisone acetate oral cavity instant film agent. The fludrocortisone acetate oral cavity instant film agent comprises a fludrocortisone acetate clathrate, a film forming material and a filler. The fludrocortisone acetate clathrate is prepared by clathration of cyclodextrin or/and cyclodextrin derivatives and fludrocortisone acetate. Aiming at problems thata fludrocortisone acetate liquid preparation is poor in stability, and marketed tablets are large in volume and slow in dissolution, and unfavorable for use of patients in neonatal period, infants andyoung children, etc., the oral cavity instant film agent is designed to solve problems that in common oral instant film agents, the fludrocortisone acetate is relatively slow in dissolution rate andpoor in stability is poor. The fludrocortisone acetate instant film agent is small in volume and light in mass, can be dissolved once placed at the tip of the tongue, is pleasant in mouthfeel, quick in onset and good in absorption, and satisfies drug administration requirements of the patients in the neonatal period, infants and young children, etc.

The invention relates to cooling chili sauce and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: firstly, an appropriate amount of vegetable oil is heated in a pot until smoke comes out, and garlic and fresh gingers are added to be stir-fried to be fragrant; soybean sauce is added to be stir-fried until the soybean sauce is dark in color and emit fragrance, chili powder is added, the mixture is continuously stir-fried for 5-10 minutes, and fire is turned off; after the fire is turned off, moringa oleifera leaf powder and fructus phyllanthi powder are immediately added, the mixture is stirred evenly, the stirred mixture is filled, the filled mixture is sealed, and the sealed mixture is sterilized to obtain the finished products. When the cooling chili sauce is tasted, the spiciness can be felt in the mouth and lip, and also be felt in the tip of the tongue, but the throat part can feel cool and sweet. The spicy piquant taste is very light, after the chili sauce is eaten in the stomach, no sense of excitement is felt in the stomach, and no hot sense is felt. The chili sauce has sweet and sour tastes, and is long in aftertastes, good in palatability, and free of a moringa oleifera flavor. The provided chili sauce is spicy to mouth, but does not have spicy sense in heart, feels cool and non-irritable in belly after the chili sauce is eaten, does not cause internal heat, constipation and other symptoms, and is a good choice for people who love spicy tastes.

The invention discloses an intertooth controller comprising a trigger and a control object which is connected with the trigger in a signal mode; the trigger is installed on teeth inside an oral cavity; the trigger is excited by the lick and touch motion by a tongue when controlling so as to make the trigger send control instructions to the control object. In terms of flexibility, the tongue is thebody part next to the finger. By installing the trigger in the oral cavity, the tongue, especially the tip of the tongue, can excite the trigger. Such a control scheme can replace the handling of thehandheld mode to a certain extent, and in particular replace the way of sliding through a finger press and a finger touch. This will make it easier for specific people to operate electrical appliances and electronic products.

The invention discloses a Scutellaria baicalensis-Pu'er tea cream and a preparation process thereof. According to main points of a technical scheme in the invention, the Scutellaria baicalensis-Pu'ertea cream is prepared from the following raw materials by weight: 2 parts of Scutellaria baicalensis, 1 part of cooked Pu'er tea and 1 part of rose flowers. The preparation process comprises the following steps: 1, material preparation; 2, extraction: carrying out water extraction on the raw materials by using a traditional Chinese medicine extraction pot, wherein a ratio of tea to water is 1: 15to 1: 10; 3, filtering: selecting a filter screen with a size of 100 to 200 meshes for filtering, and pumping tea juice obtained after filtering into a liquid storage tank; 4, concentration: concentrating the tea juice stored in the liquid storage tank so as to obtain extract; 5, spray drying: anhydrating the extract by using a high-speed centrifugal drier so as to prepare powder; 6, water returning and profiling: adding cooled Scutellaria baicalensis tea water into the obtained tea powder, carrying out uniform mixing under stirring, and putting the obtained mixture into a die for profiling; 7, drying in shade: air-drying a profiled tea cream in a shady and cool place; and 8, packaging: individually packaging the tea cream with tinfoil so as to obtain the finished Scutellaria baicalensis-Pu'er tea cream. The Scutellaria baicalensis-Pu'er tea cream provided by the invention has the advantages of a dark tea soup color, mellow taste and overall permeation of tea fragrance at the root of the tongue, the body of the tongue, the tip of the tongue and the throat.

The invention relates to the technical field of tongue surface cleaning in oral cavity, and particularly relates to a tongue surface cleaning device in a reversed-S shape having an acute angle and upper and lower arcs and a production method of the tongue surface cleaning device. The tongue surface cleaning device includes the acute angle, an upper-edge arc, a left-head upper arc, a middle streamline body, a right-tail lower arc, a tail end, a front end, a contracted arc streamline body, an arc streamline body, an expanded arc streamline contraction body and a main body material. Parameters ofthe production method are set based on the lengths of a palm and a tongue, and the shaping design is based on the arc of the tongue and the circular arc of the shallow fossa of the palm. The invention has the obvious beneficial effects that the tongue surface cleaning device is uniform in use strength, flexible and smooth in angle, clear in direction-sense, effective by using the actions of digging, scraping and pushing and capable of removing accumulated filth of the root, the middle surface and the tip of the tongue, improving the oral environment and making the breath fresh and natural.

An electrical receptacle connector includes a mount member, a tongue, first terminals, second terminals, and a shielding plate. The mount member and the tongue are received in a metallic shell. The terminals and the shielding plate are on the mount member and the tongue. The tongue includes terminal grooves and recesses. The terminal grooves are formed on a first surface of the tongue. Each of the recesses is recessed toward a tip of the tongue from an inner sidewall in the corresponding terminal groove. Flat contact portions of the first terminals are held in the terminal grooves. End portions of the flat contact portions are received in the recesses. Therefore, upon the tongue is deflected, the flat contact portions are constrainted in the recesses and not detached from the tongue, thereby improving stability and reliability in the contact with an electrical plug connector.

An in-mouth barrier against entry of insects, pollen and particulates in to the open mouth of a user, particularly in strenuous outdoor exercises, needs to be comfortable and fully effective for various extents of an agape mouth, and ideally should require no conscious effort to re-position in even long exercise durations. A filter frame surrounding a screen is formed to the dental arch so as to envelope both rows of teeth except possibly the molars. A flange on the frame holds the frame on the mandibular teeth and prevents the frame from moving down. The end of the flange lies under the tip of the tongue and prevents the frame from moving up. The frame thus remains comfortably inside the vestibule and covers the mouth for the various extents it may be opened to.