37 results about "Tip 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 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.

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.

An intraoral device (1) includes upper cooperating elements (2) adapted to cooperate with the upper jaw (4) and lower cooperating elements (3) adapted to cooperate with the lower jaw (5); a bracket (19) fixed in the cooperating elements (2,3), the bracket (19) supports a target (18) aiming at inducing mandibular advancement and attracting the tip of the tongue; the target (18) being centered, in a transverse plane, with regard to the cooperating elements (2,3). The device (1) further includes stimulating elements (17) for stimulation of the tongue muscles, preferably the genioglossus, involving reflex exploration of the stimulating elements (17) by the tongue. The device (1) may be used for relieving obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, snoring and/or other airway disorders.

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 invention relates to the technical field of clothes template machines, in particular to a clothes template machine stamping head convenient to use. The clothes template machine stamping head comprises a base, a connecting rod, pressing covers and a stamping cutter. The connecting rod is connected to the center of the base. The stamping cutter is connected to the bottom of the connecting rod. The pressing covers are connected to the bottom of the base and arranged on the periphery of the stamping cutter in a sleeving manner. Compression springs and tongue cores are arranged on the base. The pressing covers are provided with sliding grooves. The hook-shaped tongue cores are arranged on the two sides of the base. Meanwhile, the sliding grooves are correspondingly formed in the two sides of the pressing covers, hook tips of the tongue cores are embedded in the sliding grooves, and a movable connecting mechanism is formed. The clothes template machine stamping head is convenient and fast to use, the difficulty of cutter replacing is greatly lowered, time is saved, and efficiency is improved.

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.

The invention relates to the field of rehabilitation apparatus control, and discloses a method and a system for quickly identifying a three-dimensional position of a tongue based on a magnetic mark. The system for quickly identifying the three-dimensional position of the tongue based on the magnetic mark comprises a permanent magnet arranged at the tip of the tongue, a head-mounted magnetic sensor, a sensor array and a neural network, the head-mounted magnetic sensor senses the magnetic field around the permanent magnet, the sensor array senses the magnetic induction intensity of the permanent magnet, and the input end of the neural network is in communication connection with the output end of the head-mounted sensor. The three-dimensional position information of the tongue can be quickly output by sensing the magnetic field around the permanent magnet through the head-mounted magnetic sensor and the sensor array, the problem that the nonlinear calculation optimization speed is low is solved by outputting the three-dimensional position information through the neural network, and quick recognition is ensured; the method is adaptive to people with different head sizes, and is portable.

The present invention provides Chinese medicine tongue picture-Zang Fu corresponding and sectional quantizing method. The tongue picture is divided into nine sections vertically, including the tongue tip lung area, the tongue tip heart area, tongue root kidney area, and tongue middle area between the tongue tip and the tongue root. The present invention provides one new type of Chinese medicine tongue picture-Zang Fu corresponding and sectional quantizing method including different quantizing method for the characteristic analysis of different tongue areas, and obtains excellent tongue surface characteristics for diagnosis and analysis.