1746 results about "Transverse plane" patented technology

A ladder for use with a clip applying device may include first and second protrusions extending from an end of the ladder along a lateral plane generally coplanar with the ladder or an orthogonal plane generally orthogonal to the ladder, in which the ladder may serially urge a clip outward from the surgical stapler, and the first and second protrusions may abut a cartridge in which the ladder is disposed.

An electrode position detection system for a welder having a laser that is projected in a lateral plane to laterally cross a welding wire at a location below a contact tip of a welding gun and a receiver that receive the laser bean after crossing the welding wire, and a measuring device that determines one or more parameter of the welding wire based on the received laser beam. Arc voltage measurements can also be used to determine one or more parameter of the welding wire.

The present invention is a MTP plate that has a first embodiment with a profile having bilateral mirror symmetry of the about a transverse plane with an angle of about 5° for dorsiflexion and an angle of about 10° for valgus. Both ends of the plate include a central arm having a slot for compression and two offset arms having offset ears with locking screw holes that provide for multiplanar compressive fixation. The bone contacting surface of the plate is radiused to allow the plate to be in snug contact with the bone. In a second embodiment of the plate for revision surgery, the proximal end of the plate includes a metatarsal extension and the plate has a central locking hole for securing bone graft.

The present invention relates to a shale gas reservoir crustal stress logging prediction method based on a rock physics model. According to the method, a shale gas reservoir rock physics model which takes kerogen particles into consideration is established, so as to predict a longitudinal and transverse wave velocity of the logging; based on the above, a maximum and minimum horizontal principal stress and a fracture pressure of the reservoir are calculated; and an accurate stress assessment of a shale gas reservoir is carried out while a transverse wave logging is not provided. The beneficial effects of the invention are that: the rock physics model in line with characteristics of the shale gas reservoir is established to improve precision of the prediction velocity; and based on the rock physical model, the maximum and minimum horizontal principal stress and the fracture pressure are obtained, so that while the measured transverse wave logging data are not provided, the underground stress can be predicted on the basis of a conventional logging curve, and the prediction result is high in accuracy.

An adhesive wafer for an ostomy faceplate or wound dressing comprising a backing layer, said backing layer having one surface facing the skin, said surface comprising a first and a second adhesive zone being separated from each others by a void volume, said void volume being defined by the backing layer, the first and the second adhesive zones and the skin surface and wherein the first and the second adhesive zones are capable of moving independently of each others with respect to the lateral plane of the backing layer.

The invention contemplates a strainer based upon a four-way, two-position rotary cylindrical plug valve having a hollow plug. The normal entry port for the sealing plug of the plug valve is a circular radial hole passing from the exterior of the plug into the interior cavity of the plug. The normal exit port for the sealing plug is a regular array of small holes across from and coaxial with the normal entry hole. The ports for the valve body are in two pairs positioned at 90° from each other, with the axes of the ports lying in the same transverse plane as the ports of the valve plug.

In its simplest conceptual form, the applicant's invention is the structure of a conventional shoe sole that has been modified by having its sides bent up so that their inner surface conforms to a shape nearly identical but slightly smaller than the shape of the outer surface of the sides of the foot sole of the wearer (instead of the shoe sole sides conforming to the ground by paralleling it, as is conventional). The shoe sole sides are sufficiently flexible to bend out easily when the shoes are put on the wearer's feet and therefore the shoe soles gently hold the sides of the wearer's foot sole when on, providing the equivalent of custom fit in a mass-produced shoe sole. This invention can be applied to shoe sole structures based on a theoretically ideal stability plane as a basic concept, especially including structures exceeding that plane. The theoretically ideal stability plane is defined as the plane of the surface of the bottom of the shoe sole, wherein the shoe sole conforms to the natural shape of the wearer's foot sole, particularly its sides, and has a constant thickness in frontal or transverse plane cross sections.

The invention relates to a space microgravity environment ground simulation experiment device. The device comprises a foundation, two support posts, a transverse air floating guide rail, a longitudinal air floating guide rail, a slide trolley and a weightless simulation control system. Two support posts are respectively mounted on the foundation horizontally, the transverse air floating guide rail is mounted on the two support posts, the longitudinal air floating guide rail is mounted on the transverse air floating guide rail, the slide trolley is mounted on the longitudinal air floating guide rail, weightless simulation control system is mounted on the slide trolley, and a controller is mounted on the slide trolley. The weightless simulation control system comprises a servo motor, a coiling wheel, a hang spring, a force sensor and an aircraft, the servo motor is connected with the coiling wheel, the coiling wheel is connected with the hang spring, the hang spring is connected with the force sensor, the force sensor is connected with the aircraft, and the controller is respectively connected with the force sensor and the servo motor in an electrical signal manner. The device is simple in structure, high in vividness, convenient to operate, easy to achieve, low in cost, and unlimited in experiment time.

An apparatus and method for an ultrasonic medical device to treat peripheral artery disease. The ultrasonic medical device comprises an ultrasonic probe having a proximal end, a distal end and a longitudinal axis therebetween. The ultrasonic probe is inserted into an insertion point in a leg opposite the leg having an occlusional deposit and is moved adjacent to the occlusional deposit. An ultrasonic energy source is activated to generate a transverse ultrasonic vibration along at least a portion of the longitudinal axis of the ultrasonic probe. The transverse ultrasonic vibration creates a plurality of transverse nodes and a plurality of transverse anti-nodes along the longitudinal axis of the ultrasonic probe, generating cavitation in a medium surrounding the ultrasonic probe to ablate the occlusional deposit causing peripheral artery disease.

The purely bound electromagnetic modes of propagation supported by waveguide structures comprised of a thin lossy metal film of finite width embedded in an infinite homogeneous dielectric have been characterized at optical wavelengths. One of the fundamental modes supported by the structure exhibits very interesting characteristics and is potentially quite useful. It evolves with decreasing film thickness and width towards the TEM wave supported by the background (an evolution similar to that exhibited by the sb mode in symmetric metal film slab waveguides), its losses and phase constant tending asymptotically towards those of the TEM wave. Attenuation values can be well below those of the sb mode supported by the corresponding metal film slab waveguide. Low mode power attenuation in the neighbourhood of 10 to 0.1 dB/cm is achievable at optical communications wavelengths, with even lower values being possible. Carefully selecting the film's thickness and width can make this mode the only long-ranging one supported. In addition, the mode can have a field distribution that renders it excitable using an end-fire approach. The existence of this mode renders the finite-width metal film waveguide attractive for applications requiring short propagation distances and 2-D field confinement in the transverse plane, enabling various devices to be constructed, such as couplers, splitters, modulators, interferometers, switches and periodic structures. Under certain conditions, an asymmetric structure can support a long-ranging mode having a field distribution that is suitable to excitation using an end-fire technique. Like asymmetric slab waveguides. The attenuation of the long-ranging mode near cutoff decreases very rapidly, much more so than the attenuation related to the long-ranging mode in a similar symmetric structure. The cutoff thickness of a long-ranging mode in an asymmetric finite-width structure is larger than the cutoff thickness of the sb mode in a similar asymmetric slab waveguide. This implies that the long-ranging mode supported by an asymmetric finite-width structure is more sensitive to the asymmetry in the structure compared to the sb mode supported by a similar slab waveguide. This result is interesting and potentially useful in that the propagation of such a mode can be affected by a smaller change in the dielectric constant of the substrate or superstrate compared with similar slab structures.

The present invention provides a light source (2) for light circuits on a silicon platform (3). A vertical laser cavity is formed by a gain region (101) arranged between a top mirror (4) and a bottom grating-mirror (12) in a grating region (11) in a silicon layer (10) on a substrate. A waveguide (18, 19) for receiving light from the grating region (11) is formed within or to be connected to the grating region, and functions as an 5 output coupler for the VCL. Thereby, vertical lasing modes (16) are coupled to lateral in-plane modes (17, 20) of the in-plane waveguide formed in the silicon layer, and light can be provided to e.g. photonic circuits on a SOI or CMOS substrate in the silicon.

A steering column assembly includes an upper jacket and a lower jacket partially disposed within said upper jacket. A bushing is disposed between the upper jacket and the lower jacket. The upper jacket and the lower jacket are collapsible along a longitudinal axis in response to a collision event. A first roller mechanism and a second roller mechanism are mounted to the upper jacket near a forward end and a rearward end of the bushing respectively for engaging the lower jacket in rolling engagement. The first and second roller mechanisms resist a resultant force caused by a bending moment created by a transverse load applied to a distal end of the upper jacket to minimize an increase in a sliding frictional force between the bushing and the lower jacket.

A reminder device can be attached to the bottom of a medicine container that has a cap. The reminder device has an indicator rotatably mounted on a base in order to rotate and indicate a scheduled event. The base adhesively or frictionally engages the bottom of the container opposite the cap. The base may have an opening for engaging the bottom of the medicine container. Along some transverse plane within the opening, the opening may be shaped to engage the container along most of its periphery. A user can adjust the indicator on the base to indicate a scheduled event when medicine is ingested.

A support structure for piezoelectric elements in a marine seismic cable is provided. The support structure comprises upper and lower cylindrical halves, each with channels formed therein. Two axial channels are adapted to retain three piezoelectric elements each. A third axial channel, positioned between the sensor element channels, is adapted to retain a flexible circuit. Transverse channels between the sensor element channels and the circuit channels accommodate extension from the flexible circuit. The piezoelectric elements are mounted within their respective channels with a resilient pad with adhesive on both sides. The piezoelectric elements are graded so that any group of three piezoelectric elements exhibits approximately the same sensitivity as any of the other three groups of piezoelectric elements on the support structure.

A rehabilitation and exercise device for facilitating and limiting motion and biomechanical forces along the horizontal and vertical axes in the saggital, frontal, and transverse planes of the human anatomy. The device consists of an elongated, substantially flat platform with somewhat rounded corners (24). The platform is made of a rigid material to prevent fracturing and bending and is further supported on the bottom surface by central support spines (30) and peripheral support spines (16). The platform provides a decreased slip top surface (10) by utilizing a recessed grid (20). The bottom surface of the platform (12) is configured with a larger diameter central platform attachment extension (28) and smaller diameter peripheral platform attachment extensions (32) which have internal recesses (14) configured at a predetermined set of points to accommodate rigid, somewhat rounded pegs (18) of varying shape and diameter. The peg attachments are secured to the bottom surface of the platform with a peg attachment insert screw (34) which rotates into a heilcoil (26) located in the internal recess. The platform allows specific facilitation or limitation of motion and biomechanical forces along the horizontal and vertical axes depending on the placement of human anatomy on the top surface (10) and peg size and placement on the bottom surface (12) of the platform.

Disclosed is a portable and adjustable trailer assembly that allows for easy assembling and de-assembling, foldability, portability, requiring small storage space, multi-functional utility, retrofittable to various vehicles, and at the same time light weight and cost effective. It comprises a frame assembly having a frame portion with front and rear ends, pivotally and hingedly coupled at its rear end to a first end of a platform portion, a second end of the platform portion coupled to a rear beam, the portions being releaseably locked with each other and folds out to configure a lateral plane when in operation, a wheel assembly mechanically coupled to the platform portion at its underneath; and a detachable and lockable drawbar assembly having first and second ends, mechanically coupled to the frame assembly at the first end and having means to connect to a tow vehicle at the second end.

An artificial joint as an endoprosthesis for a human joint, including a first joint part having two first functional surfaces, a second joint part having two second functional surfaces, the two first and second functional surfaces of each joint part being convex-concave, concave-convex, or convex-convex in a proximal-distal direction, a projection associated with the first joint part; and a recess associated with the second joint part. The recess is configured to engage with the projection so as to determine a relative position of the first and second joint parts in a transverse plane of the joint and to form a stop for a sliding movement of the first and second joint parts relative to each other. The two first functional surfaces are pivotable about a pivot axis with respect to the second functional surfaces and each of the first functional surfaces rolls and slides with respect to the second functional surfaces during an extension or flexion of the artificial joint. A respective posterior position in each angular position is determined as a function of the extension/flexion of the first and second joint parts so as to at least partially delimit a posterior sliding movement of first joint relative to the second joint part.

A power transmission line cone cutter head milling and extrusion deicing method and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a case body. The case body comprises: a deicing unit, a stop unit, an opening and closing unit, a walking unit, a storage battery, a high voltage taking electricity unit and a remote control unit. In the deicing unit, a conic milling cutter head is adopted and methods of transverse plane milling and inclined plane extruding are used to carry out mechanically deicing. The conic milling cutter head, on one hand, performs rotary motion so as to mill power transmission line icing and on the other hand performs translational motion along the power transmission line driven by the walking unit as a line-tracking mode so as to extruding the icing cut by the milling cutter head. Therefore, a rapid and high efficient deicing effect can be reached; the power transmission line during a deicing process can be protected from being damaged. The induction taking electricity unit of the high voltage power transmission line is used to real-timely charge the storage battery so that operational use time of the deicing apparatus can be increased.

The present disclosure provides various embodiments that may comprise an implant, to an instrument for implantation of the latter and to a method for manufacturing this implant which includes an elongated body between a free end and a head along a longitudinal axis on the one hand and turns of at least one threading on at least one portion of said body in proximity to the free end, along the longitudinal axis on the other hand, characterized in that the body includes a longitudinal internal conduit in at least one portion along the longitudinal axis, obtained by at least one first central machining operation parallel to the longitudinal axis and at least one second machining operation in a so-called transverse plane, not parallel to the longitudinal axis and crossing the wall of the body as far as the longitudinal internal conduit by making windows communicating between said longitudinal internal conduit and the outside of the body while preserving at least one portion of said turns and the wall of the body behind the turns, and preserving non-machined portions on the perimeter of said body.

Waveguide structures comprising a thin lossy metal film of finite width embedded in an infinite homogeneous dielectric support purely bound electromagnetic modes of propagation low mode power attenuation in the neighbourhood of 10 to 0.1 dB/cm is achievable at optical communications wavelengths, with even lower values being possible. Carefully selecting the film's thickness and width can make this mode the only long-ranging one supported. In addition, the mode can have a field distribution that renders it excitable using an end-fire approach. The finite-width metal film waveguide may be used for applications requiring short propagation distances and 2-D field confinement in the transverse plane, enabling various devices to be constructed, such as couplers, splitters, modulators, interferometers, switches and periodic structures. Under certain conditions, an asymmetric structure can support a long-ranging mode having a field distribution that is suitable to excitation using an end-fire technique.

An exoskeleton includes a first link that pivots in a transverse plane about a first vertical axis and a second link that pivots in a transverse plane about a second vertical axis. The second link is coupled to the first link. An arm support assembly is coupled to the second link and pivots about a horizontal axis. The arm support assembly includes a spring that generates an assistive torque that counteracts gravity. The arm support assembly provides the assistive torque to an arm of a wearer to support the arm of the wearer. The arm support assembly further includes a cam profile and a cam follower. Contact between the spring, cam follower and cam profile determines an amount of the assistive force provided by the arm support assembly. A cuff is coupled to the arm support assembly and the arm of the wearer.

A retrofit heat-sensitive shrink wrap sleeve is placed over a tetrahedral hand-held personal electronic device to be covered, having four adjacent lateral planar sides and two remaining planar sides perpendicular to the lateral planar sides. The sleeve is aligned with the device, and then shrunk to a form fit by heating all surfaces using an ordinary hair dryer. For certain devices such as personal music/video player devices (e.g.—iPod® of Apple Corporation), the sleeve is open at top and bottom thereby providing clearance for access to connectors which are typically placed on those surfaces of the device. For other types of device such as a personal digital assistant (PDA)/camera phone device, it is more appropriate for the sleeve to be open at both sides to permit access to connectors and ports on the side. In such case, a port is provided for the camera lens of the camera phone device.

The invention relates to a spraying machine. The spraying machine comprises a cab, a cab lifting device, a variable-tread assembly, a chassis power system, a spraying frame lifting device, a spraying rod assembly, a pesticide box assembly, a wheel assembly and a whole machine hydraulic system, wherein the cab lifting device comprises upper cab parallel rods, cab lifting cylinders, transverse cab stabilizing rods, a fixed cab lifting frame, lower cab parallel rods and a movable cab lifting frame; the upper cab parallel rods and the lower cab parallel rods are equal in length, one end of each parallel rod is hinged to the fixed cab lifting frame, and the other end of each parallel rod is hinged to the movable cab lifting frame; one end of each cab lifting cylinder is hinged to the corresponding upper cab parallel rod, the other end is hinged to the fixed cab lifting frame, and a cab is lifted and lowered under the telescopic action of the cylinders. The spraying machine adopts a hydraulic self-propelling manner, the tread can be adjusted to adapt to ridging spaces of different crops, large-area pesticide application can be performed, the height of a spraying rod can be adjusted according to crop height change, and flexible steering is realized.

An eyepiece unit with optical filters includes a set of waveguide layers including a first waveguide layer and a second waveguide layer. The first waveguide layer is disposed in a first lateral plane and includes a first incoupling diffractive element disposed at a first lateral position, a first waveguide, and a first outcoupling diffractive element. The second waveguide layer is disposed in a second lateral plane adjacent to the first lateral plane and includes a second incoupling diffractive element disposed at a second lateral position, a second waveguide, and a second outcoupling diffractive element. The eyepiece unit also includes a set of optical filters including a first optical filter positioned at the first lateral position and operable to attenuate light outside a first spectral band and a second optical filter positioned at the second lateral position and operable to attenuate light outside a second spectral band.

Applicator (1) for a cosmetic product, typically a mascara, comprising an application means (4) having an axial core (40) which is unitary with axial rod (3) at its lower part (31) and a stack (41) of a plurality of N elements which cooperate with axial core (40) through a typically central orifice (50) allowing the axial core (40) to extend therethrough, characterized in that: the elements are elements E (5) lacking complete rotation symmetry, and the axial core (40) and the plurality of elements E (5) operate jointly with an angular orientation means for elements E (5) with respect to axial direction (10), in a transverse plane (11) which is perpendicular to the axial direction (10), in a manner that each element E_i (5) is rotatably connected with axial core (40) and has a predetermined angular orientation α_i with respect to the axial core (40).

A film-supporting device is used with a waste-disposal unit. The device comprises an annular body. The annular body has an annular wall. The inward radial surface of the wall defines a central opening of the body. The outline of the central opening in a transverse plane of the device has variable diametrical dimensions with a first diameter of greater dimension than the second diameter. The outline has two of the first diameter of generally equal dimension and two of the second diameter of generally equal dimension. The device has tubular film about an outward radial surface of the annular body. A free annular end is dispensed outwardly from the annular wall. The free annular end is closed to form a bag. The opening of the bag is accessible through the central opening and is of optimized shape via the central opening for the disposal of waste. A method for disposing of waste on a scooping tool is also provided.

A method to define a curved slab region of interest that includes vessels while maximally excluding surrounding soft tissue and bone is provided. The thickness of the curved slab is automatically adapted to the thickness of the vessel and follows the tortuous vessel(s) so that an increase in tortuousity does not result in a disproportionate increase in the region of interest required to enclose the vessel. A plurality of boundary pairs is determined in the view plane to define a vessel. Vessel-intensities are determined for each one of the boundary pairs. The boundary pairs with associated intensities define the view of the vessel in the projection plane. Context-intensity could be defined in the area surrounding the boundary pairs in the projection and/or transverse plane. The method also includes several steps that will result in a better isolation and removal of non-vessel structures and view of the vessel(s) and its(their) branches.

The invention discloses a reciprocating smashing device for Chinese herbal medicines. A crankshaft bearing is rotationally connected with a device body. The middle of a crankshaft is connected with the upper end of a connecting rod in a sleeved mode. The lower end of the connecting rod is rotationally connected with the upper surface of the middle of a transverse plate. The two sides of the transverse plate are connected with guide grooves in a sliding mode. The guide groove in the left end is fixedly connected with the outer wall of a storage box, and the guide groove in the right end is fixedly connected with the device body. The lower end of the transverse plate is fixedly connected with the upper end of a vertical supporting rod, and the lower end of the vertical supporting rod is fixedly connected with a press head. The right portion of the crankshaft is fixedly connected with two semicircular bevel gears, and the semicircular bevel gears are provided with tooth parts engaged witha bevel gear. According to the reciprocating smashing device for Chinese herbal medicines, the crankshaft drives the connecting rod to push the press head to reciprocate up and down so that Chinese herbal medicines on a screening plate can be smashed, the bevel gear drives a driven shaft to rotate forwards and backwards in a reciprocating mode, the rotating driven shaft drives a sheave to do eccentric movement and further drives the screening plate to reciprocate left and right, a roller wheel moves left and right to drive a bottom plate to open and close in a reciprocating mode, and therefore the intermittent discharging function is realized. The reciprocating smashing device for Chinese herbal medicines is reasonable and practical in structure design, the smashing efficiency of Chineseherbal medicines is greatly improved, the automation degree is high, and labor is saved.

A solid state lighting apparatus characterized by its compact, predominately axial form factor, utilizes an axial thermal transfer member constructed of Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite (HOPG) to aid in the dissipation of waste heat generated during its operation. The lighting apparatus is chiefly comprised of a Light Emitting Diode (LED) die array and circuit structure assembly affixed to one end of the axial thermal transfer member and further includes a transversely mounted heat sink structure, running the length of, and being affixed to, opposite sides of the axial member. The axial member serves to distribute waste heat down its length, and simultaneously, into a transverse plane where the waste heat is dissipated into the transversely mounted heat sink structure. A fan may be utilized to evacuate the waste heat out of the lighting apparatus and into the ambient environment.

A ladder stabilizer adapted to attach to an upper end or lower end of an extension ladder includes a mounting plate connecting to a rung of the extension ladder by secure U-bolts, the mounting plate attached to a slide bar mounting bracket having a transverse channel with a tightening screw providing a force within the channel to lock and hold a pair of extendable service arms within the transverse channel to provide additional wide and secure lateral stabilization of the extension ladder either at the top of the extension ladder, where the extension ladder rests against a wall or roof, or at the bottom of the extension ladder where the extension ladder meets the ground.