74 results about "Tongue Base" patented technology

Embodiments of the invention include methods and devices to prevent or treat upper airway disorders in mammals related to impaired airflow. One aspect of this invention is a tongue retractor (LTR) that indirectly retracts tongue base by its implant site in the frenulum area. This simplifies the insertion, adjustment and maintenance of the device. Another aspect of this invention describes a highly localized and fully implantable LTR that is inserted into the base of tongue to stiffen lax surface mucosa or mechanically couple it to internal tongue structures. Another aspect of this invention is an LTR inserted in or around the pharyngoglossal fold. This site allows retraction and stiffening of tongue base tissue as well as the soft palate and lateral pharyngeal wall.

A tongue location monitoring system, including, one or more position circuits that respond to transmissions from a transceiver, a transceiver that transmits to the one or more position circuits, a control circuit coupled to the transceiver: wherein the control circuit determines the location of a person's tongue based on the responses of the position circuits; and wherein either the transceiver or the position circuits are implanted in the muscle of the person's tongue or placed on the tongue, and the latter is placed outside the person's head.

Laser for thermal shrinkage of soft tissue of uvula, soft palate, nasal turbinate or tongue base for the treatment of snoring, nasal obstruction or sleep apnea are disclosed. The preferred laser includes infrared laser about 0.7 to 1.85 micron, pulse duration about 100 microsecond to 5 seconds, spot size of about 2 to 5 mm and power of about 2 to 20 W at the treated area. The laser energy is delivered to the treated area by an optical fiber and a hand piece to cause a localized temperature about 65 to 85 degree Celsius for sufficient shrinkage of the treated soft tissues. Optical fiber bundles to produce high-power diode laser output or multi-wavelength are also disclosed.

A system and method are disclosed for the securement of tissue and in particular for placement of a tongue base suspension fiber for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. The system incorporates disposable connectors with releasable needles to facilitate the placement of fibers with minimal increase in suture site dilation or trauma.

With a method and a System for tongue based control of computers and/or aids, particularly for severely disabled persons it is the intention to ease the communication capabilities of severely disabled persons and their control of their aids, where the costs of producing the system are low, thereby avoiding the drawbacks of the prior art. This goal is achieved with a method and a system, where the method comprises that the interaction between the arrangement and the tongue is based on induction, whereby the arrangement is equipped with at least one coil being able to interact with at least one piece of a magnetic responsible material fixed to the tongue, and that the signals transmitted to the device further comprise the position of the coil in the arrangement and/or the position of the magnetic responsible material fixed to the tongue, and the system comprises that the arrangement is equipped with at least one coil being able to interact with at least one piece of a magnetic responsible material fixed to the tongue, and that the signals transmitted to the device further comprise the position of the coil in the arrangement and/or the position of the magnetic responsible material fixed to the tongue.

A mouth-operated computer input device includes a mouthpiece to be positioned in a user's mouth, and an optical device carried by the mouthpiece for emitting light from a surface area thereof. The optical device controls movement of a cursor on a computer display based upon movement of the user's tongue across the surface area. The optical device includes a light emitting device for emitting the light, and a sensor adjacent the light emitting device for sensing the light reflected from the user's tongue. A processor calculates movement of the user's tongue based upon the light reflected therefrom.

The invention discloses a method for recognizing a fissured tongue based on a support vector machine. The method for recognizing the fissured tongue based on the support vector machine comprises the following steps that (1) a fissured tongue feature training sample set is established; (2) a fissured tongue classifier based on the support vector machine is established; (3) the fissured tongue classifier based on the support vector machine is used for conducting recognition, and whether each sample to be detected in a fissure feature sample set of the tongue to be detected belongs to a fissured tongue picture is recognized. According to the method for recognizing the fissured tongue based on the support vector machine, reorganization can be further conducted based on a detected suspected tongue fissure area. The method is the continuation of an existing computer fissured tongue detection method. By the adoption of the method for recognizing the fissured tongue based on the support vector machine, through training of a disposable sample set, recognition work can be completed, setting of any other parameters and artificial factor intervention are not needed in the recognition process, and full-automatic recognition of the fissured tongue is achieved.

The invention provides a tongue image processing method and device and electronic equipment, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a tongue image, collected by an image collection device, of atarget tongue, carrying out the image processing operation of the tongue image, obtaining a to-be-analyzed image, and determining the tongue image attribute of the target tongue based on the HSV value of the to-be-analyzed image, wherein the tongue image attributes comprise tongue nature, tongue color and tongue coating types. According to the invention, the tongue nature, tongue color and the tongue coating type of the tongue image can be obtained through analysis.

A lockset comprises a lock sleeve, a lock core, an apical axis, a spring and a lock tongue. The lock core is provided with an axial guide hole running through along the radial direction; the lock-key hole end of the lock core is provided with a guide disk and the other end of the lock core is provided with a lock tongue base; the front end of the lock sleeve coordinating with the lock-key hole end of the lock core is provided with a guide platform and the rear end thereof is provided with a rotary cavity; a guide slot along the axial direction is arranged on the inner wall of the lock sleeve. The lockset also comprises a slider; the slider is fixedly connected with one end of the apical axis, is positioned in an apical axis hole and stretches out of the guide hole and coordinates with the guide hole in a sliding way; the slider coordinates with the guide slot and the guide disk coordinates with the guide platform. Due to such a structure, the separation of the lock core from the lock sleeve can be realized after the slider moves comparatively short distance in the guide slot of the lock sleeve and the apical axis moves comparatively short distance in the lock core. Compared with that the apical axis has a cone and a middle part in the prior art, the length of the apical axis is shortened, so is the length of the lock sleeve and the lock core, and the materials are saved. Compared with the prior art, pintels and stop pins are saved, the structure is simplified and the lockset can adapt to thinner door bodies.

The invention discloses a driving mechanism for a bionic animal tongue. The driving mechanism for the bionic animal tongue comprises a tongue tip part, a tongue middle part, a tongue base, a cylinder and a steel wire rope, wherein the tongue tip part is fixedly connected with the cylinder through the steel wire rope; the tongue middle part is positioned at the front end of the tongue base; the tongue middle part is hinged to the tongue base; the tongue tip part is positioned at the front end of the tongue middle part; the tongue tip part is hinged to the tongue middle part; the steel wire rope runs through the jconnecting part of the tongue middle part and the tongue base; the cylinder is positioned above the tongue base and is fixedly connected with the tongue base; the tongue tip part and the tongue middle part are arranged in an inclined manner. The driving mechanism for the bionic animal tongue has the advantage as follows: the driving mechanism for the bionic animal tongue can curl up a tongue in the inclined direction, so that a bionic animal is more lifelike.

The invention discloses a multifunctional oral implant practice model, which comprises a maxillary model and a mandible model. The maxillary model comprises maxillary soft tissue, a maxillary bone, maxillary teeth and a maxillary connection member. The maxillary connection member is fixedly arranged in the middle of the top surface of the maxillary bone; the maxillary soft tissue wraps the maxillary bone part; and the maxillary teeth are fixedly inserted into corresponding maxillary alveolar sockets. The mandible model comprises mandible soft tissue, a mandible bone, mandible teeth, a mandible tongue base, a mandible neural tube and a mandible connection member. The mandible connection member is fixedly arranged in the middle of the bottom surface of the mandible tongue base; the mandible bone circularly wraps the front side and left and right sides of the mandible tongue base, and wraps the whole mandible neural tube; the mandible soft tissue wraps the mandible tongue base and the part, except the bottom surface, of the mandible bone; and the mandible teeth are fixedly inserted into corresponding mandible alveolar sockets. Training contents are arranged in one set of maxillary and mandible oral cavity model as many as possible, thereby achieving the effects of simulation of clinical simulation, operation convenience of a short-term training class and people availability of production cost.

The invention provides an intelligent bionic animal system and an application method of the intelligent bionic animal system. The intelligent bionic animal system includes a supporting module, whereinthe supporting module comprises a trunk assembly and a limb assembly; the trunk assembly is internally provided with a mobile terminal control system; the limb assembly comprises a large joint skeleton, a small joint skeleton and a claw joint skeleton; the limb assembly is connected with the trunk assembly, the large joint skeleton is rotatably connected with the trunk assembly and the small joint skeleton, and the small joint skeleton is rotatably connected with the claw joint skeleton; a jaw includes the upper jaw and the lower jaw, a tongue includesa tongue base, a middle part of the tongue and a tail part of the tongue, the tongue base and a head assembly are fixedly installed, and the tongue base, the middle part of the tongue and the tail part of the tongue are elastically connected; a processor controls the air flow generated by an air pump and a fan to synchronize with the movement of the trunk assembly and the air flow is proportional to the movement amplitude, and a sound produced by a vocal system synchronize with the opening and closing of the upper jaw and the lower jaw, and the volume is proportional to the opening angle.

The invention discloses a soft material deformation characterization method based on equivalent thickness bulk modulus IVMET, and the method comprises the steps that an equivalent volume model is built according to the three-dimensional deformation of a soft material through employing an equivalent volume method, and the bulk modulus of the soft material is calculated more accurately; and furthermore, based on the calculation of the equivalent thickness bulk modulus, the influence of the material thickness on the material bulk modulus is eliminated, and the attribute of the soft material can be represented more accurately. Moreover, according to the soft material deformation characterization method based on the equivalent thickness bulk modulus (IVMET), the soft material containing complex added components can be characterized, so that the influence of various added components on the performance of the soft material is analyzed. The invention further discloses a method for carrying out deformation characterization on different areas of the human tongue based on the IVMET, deformation characterization can be carried out on the different areas of the human tongue, and a basis can be provided for the selection and characterization of oral cavity bionic soft materials.