41 results about "Transect" patented technology

The present invention provides systems, apparatus and methods for selectively applying electrical energy to body tissue in order to incise, dissect, harvest or transect tissues or an organ of a patient. The electrosurgical systems and methods are useful, inter alia, for accessing, dissecting, and transecting a graft blood vessel, such as the internal mammary arteries (IMA) or the saphenous vein, for use in a by-pass procedure. A method of the present invention comprises positioning an electrosurgical probe adjacent the target tissue so that one or more active electrode(s) are brought into at least partial contact or close proximity with a target site in the presence of an electrically conductive fluid. A high frequency voltage is then applied between the active electrode and one or more return electrode(s). During application of the high frequency voltage, the electrosurgical probe may be translated, reciprocated, or otherwise manipulated such that the active electrode is moved with respect to the tissue. The present invention volumetrically removes the tissue at the point of incision, dissection, or transection in a cool ablation process that minimizes thermal damage to surrounding, non-target tissue.

A surgical instrument which can be utilized to hold, view, transect, and suture tissue. The surgical instrument can include a tissue-receiving cavity which can be placed in fluid communication with a vacuum source such that the tissue can be held in the cavity. The surgical instrument can further include a housing and a cutting element, wherein the cutting element can be moved relative to the housing to resect the tissue positioned within the cavity. The surgical instrument can also include a passage configured to receive a suture applicator which can be moved between first and second positions to incise the tissue. In at least one embodiment, the passage can be configured to align and orient the suture applicator relative to the tissue positioned within the cavity. The surgical instrument can further include a passage configured to slidably receive an endoscope where the passage can align and orient the endoscope.

The present invention relates to the field of monitoring systems, and specifically, to monitoring systems for measuring fish size, fish quantity and total fish biomass in a fish farming operation. The fish are located in a seacage in a body of water. A mobile platform is placed on the surface water above the seacage and is moved in a transect pattern above the seacage. A transducer with associated transceiver attached to the mobile platform generates an echo pattern that is converted by a processor into estimates relating to fish size, fish quantity, and total fish biomass data of the fish located in the seacage.

Devices and methods for measuring subsurface thermal fluxes and for estimating a rate of change in the amount of a reactive material within a subsurface formation using the measured thermal fluxes are described herein. The methods of measuring subsurface thermal fluxes may use at least one array of temperature sensors distributed along a vertical transect projecting from the surface and into the subsurface of a region of interest. Methods of estimating a rate of change in the amount of a reactive material within a portion of the region of interest based on perturbations of the thermal profile within the subsurface due to an endothermic or exothermic degradation of the reactive material within the portion of the region of interest are also described herein.

An algorithmic method is described for sensor-based real-time application of an agricultural material. Method includes means for characterizing and treating crop biomass variability without the use of a grower managed reference crop. Crop variability is determined statistically by driving one or more transects through the field in order to collect crop canopy information for sensor calibration purposes.

The invention discloses a plant-machine compound type sand barrier design method, namely a method for promoting quick ecological restoration of a moving dune. The method mainly consists of technologies of laying a line transect, laying a grass grid sand barrier, planting a plant living sand barrier, directly seeding the plant living sand barrier and the like. The design principle is that the grass grid sand barrier is laid first to fix drift sand, meanwhile the plant living sand barrier is planted and directly seeded, the plant sand barrier can continue to play a windproof and sand-stabilizing function after a mechanical sand barrier loses efficacy, and the comprehensive sand stabilization effect is good. The method solves the difficult problems in the past that the governing difficulty of the tall moving dune in a high and cold area is large, the plant cover is hard to recover, and the drift sand is hard to stabilize, explores a new ecological restoration mode for preventing serious sandy desertification, and is a quick ecological restoration method for the moving dune in the high and cold area.

The invention relates to a U-shaped anti-seepage channel grooving process and the device thereof, firstly excavating earth channel with U-shaped transect, arranging U-shaped concrete block in the earth channel, and covering the top and grooving, where the two top ends of the U-shape are provided with outward top wings. And the device can make continuous seamless U-shaped concrete block on the spot, able to raise irrigating speed, reduce loss of soil and water, reducing water feeding cost, improve farm appearance, and improve yield and quality of farm produces.

Prescribing a drip line for use in a field includes: accessing soil conditions data that includes vertical transect data relating to at least one vertical transect of soil in a field; based on a plant type and a length of time between a first watering and a second watering of a plant via the drip line, determining, a desired plant available water content of a portion of the soil within the at least one vertical transect to be substantially achieved as a result of the first watering; and based on the vertical transect data, the determined desired plant available water content, climate conditions data and geographical conditions data, determining perforation spacing and flow rate for a set of emitters for the drip line such that the desired plant available water is substantially achieved in the portion of the soil.

A nerve elevator tool is disclosed for the recovery of nerve tissue from living or cadaveric donors with minimal or no damage to internal tissues or the external integrity of the body. The elevator tool includes a dissecting head affixed to a shaft with a handle. Advancing the dissecting head through the body with the attached shaft and handle causes the elevator to “strip” tissues and structures from around the nerve and transect or rupture nerve branches with minimal avulsion, which then pass over and around the dissecting head. Once a sufficient section of nerve has been stripped, the second end of the nerve can be transected to completely free the nerve section, which can then be removed.

The invention discloses a calibration method for the soil resistivity and soil water content of a rocky mountainous area. The soil profile is dug at the depth of 100 cm at the position of a fixed transect line for measurement of the resistivity of a slope, undisturbed soil is collected through a ring knife for measuring the soil bulk density, the porosity and the capillary water holding capacity, and a square ring knife is sued for sampling for measuring the content of gravel; soil is taken according to the sequence from 0 cm of the soil layer to 100 cm on the lower layer, and the soil is aired and screened; fine soil is flatly laid in boxes in a layered mode, the boxes are weighed, the soil of all the layers is evenly distributed into the three boxes, and the boxes are numbered and weighed; a multi-electrode resistance instrument method and an initial resistivity conversion imaging system are adopted; water controlling correction is carried out; the relation of the soil resistivity and the gravel volume content is corrected; the relation of the soil resistivity and the soil bulk density is corrected; a calibration relation equation only for the soil water content and the soil resistivity is obtained, and thus the soil water content of a continuous space of the slope is obtained through the soil resistivity. It is convenient to use a multi-electrode resistance instrument for measuring the soil resistivity of the slope of the mountainous area.

The invention discloses an anomalous concrete tubular pile comprising a centre bore coaxially arranged with the pile shaft and end boards arranged at the two ends of the pile shaft, which is characterized in that the pile shaft positioned between the end boards is coaxially provided with a groove, and the transect of the groove is in semicircular shape, V-shape or U-shape, which are symmetrically or equally arranged around the pile shaft. The anomalous concrete tubular pile not only can be used for semi-rigid pile-soil composite foundation but also can be driven into soil as rigid pile; the tubular pile has the advantages of large superficial area, strong bearing capacity, and small use amount of concrete, and is particularly suitable for the geology of coastal areas and the Yellow River flood plain areas.

The invention is concerned with a kind of pneumatic upper air wrecking car. The scaling ladder carried on frame is pneumatic or deflated rubber air cell with concave transect, and the concave faces up and forms a slide like an air cell. This invention has small bulk of whole car body and is easy for moving, and can enter into dense area with householders. The insulating rubber air cell is safe in utilization for the people at higher position for saving. They can save themselves by sliding form the rubber air cell through the landing platform and using the matched lifting cable under the directions of person on the earth.

The invention discloses a method of setting a rocky desertified area vegetation investigation sampling unit; dividing a sample land into three grades according to its terrain and vegetation conditions, and setting a sampling unit respectively by means of direct parallel line process, rope segment netting process and preserved coordinate process, wherein the direct parallel line process includes setting parallel lines with tapes, and capturing sample points along the parallel lines, extending transects or setting small quadrats at equal intervals, the rope segment netting process includes segmenting the parallel lines through rope marking mesh, and sampling along the segmented parallel lines, and the preserved point coordinate process includes determining positions of the parallel lines and taking samples according to GPS (global positioning system) preserved points and azimuth information, and avoiding obstacles by detouring. The method according to the invention provides a sample, feasible, accurate and efficient solution for how to maintain quadrats isometric, maintain the parallel lines parallel and avoid sampling preferences in difficult site vegetation investigation, and the method is significant to the accurate understanding of desertified vegetation changes and guidance for the treatment of stony desertification.

The invention discloses a calibrator for cage guide installation, and the calibrator comprises a detecting scale and a calibrating mechanism, wherein the detecting scale comprises a first knife-straight edge, a second knife-straight edge, a third knife-straight edge, a U-shaped frame, a locking plate and a locking screw; the calibrating mechanism comprises a bracket, a transverse adjusting mechanism, a longitudinal adjusting mechanism and a fastening mechanism; and the detecting scale is used for detecting, and the calibrating mechanism is used for adjusting the position of the calibrator. By using the calibrator disclosed by the invention, the verticality, twisting degree and apposition degree of cage guide installation are detected by forming a loop by the knife-straight edges and a cage guide; compared with methods of carrying out artificial observation on line transects by using a scale and carrying out knocking approximation by using a hammer in the prior art, the device has the advantages that a fundamental improvement is achieved, the experience requirements on installation personnel are also greatly reduced, and the calibration on the cage guide can be realized just through operating buttons of the calibrator, therefore, the calibrator has extremely strong practicability, and can be used for dramatically reducing the cost of cage guide installation.

The invention discloses a large-area mineral fiber board ceiling structure. The structure comprises a hanging steel bar, wherein a main keel is hung on the hanging steel bar, and the main keel is provided with a drywall provided with mineral fiber boards; the mineral fiber boards and the drywall are fixedly connected with the main keel through screws, and the contacting corners of adjacent mineral fiber boards are fixedly connected with each other through compression joint devices; each compression joint device comprises a transect and a longitudinal section, each transect is arranged perpendicular to each longitudinal section, and a cross is formed by each transect and each longitudinal section; openings are arranged on the lower portions of each transect and each longitudinal section, and a clamping strip is arranged on the internal wall of each opening; a connecting pressure plate is arranged between each transect and each longitudinal section. The mineral fiber board ceiling structure has the advantages of being convenient to install, simple in structure and good in acoustic absorption and insulation; by adopting the compression joint device for connection and fixation, the large-area mineral fiber board ceiling structure is suitable for installation of large-area mineral fiber board ceilings, and not likely to deform.

The invention provides an in-mold inoculation insert for thick-transect nodular iron castings, which is prepared from the following components in percentage by weight: 75-80% of silicon iron, 2% of silicon-calcium alloy, 5% of rare-earth magnesium silicon iron, 3% of aluminum-iron alloy, 5% of manganese-iron alloy and 5-10% of steel scrap. The preparation method comprises the following steps: weighing the components according to the percentage by weight; adding the steel scrap and manganese-iron alloy into an acidic intermediate frequency furnace, vertically inserting a graphitic carbon bar in the middle, adding the silicon iron, and heating to 1500-1550 DEG C to melt down the substances in the furnace; deslagging the liquid in the furnace, adding the aluminum-iron alloy, and melting into an iron liquid; preheating a casting ladle to 50-100 DEG C, adding the silicon-calcium alloy and rare-earth magnesium silicon iron, pouring the iron liquid into the casting ladle, and melting into the final iron liquid; and carrying out mold casting on the final iron liquid, and forming to obtain the in-mold inoculation insert. The weight of the in-mold inoculation insert can reach 2kg or so; and the in-mold inoculation insert has the advantages of low melting point, short melting time and favorable inoculation effect.

A tube file type sensitive blood returning intravenous needle is characterized by including a blood returning tee (1), an elastic film (8), a protective cover (9), and an intravenous needle pipeline (3), wherein the blood returning tee (1) is fixedly with the intravenous needle pipeline (3) at the exit, a concave inward interface (13) arranged at the inlet, the side port is sealed by the elastic film (8), the blood returning tee (1) forms an independent whole structure with the intravenous needle (2) and the pipeline thereof. The middle of the blood returning tee (1) is a blood returning tube (18), and the side port is rectangle, while the transect is of tube shape. The elastic film (8) is blocked at the rectangle opening from the outside; the blood returning tube (18) and the elastic film (8) are combined to form a pipe, wherein the two copulaes are not fixed and sealed. The device realizes the fast and expedite fluid stable flow, and does not generate air stockpile problems and time resort, also due to adopting the film type elastic film induction blood vessel pressure, the more sensitive blood returning assistant judgment function is realized, meanwhile can be matched stochastically and flexibly or used independently.

The invention provides the method of the blast furnace transect mine charred between the phases several fan surface step advancing the cloth and the roof instrument, it belongs to the puddling. Using the methods of loading the mine, the tar synchronously or loading tar firstly, loading the mine afterward, adopting the several room loading the material and the definite angle of loading the tar, loading the mine and the step advancing angle, the material is loaded with the manner of the mine, tar phases several fan surfaces. The mine and the tar is loaded the surface of the throat of the stove with the shape of the mine, the tar several fan surface, the center sequence clean tar pole in the range of the core of the material pole, at the same time, the tar spinning ladder and the mine spinning ladder which glue the center series clean tar pole is formed in the material pole; the mine, the tar are formed the two, the three, the four loading filling frame which is the shape of the spinning ladder in the stove, the changing of the filling frame of the mine and the tar in the stove to solving the problem of the bad ability of the breathe freely when loading the mine and the tar in the shape of the layer and the standoff airflow, so the smelting process of the blast furnace is level off and controllable.