mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
In combination, an introducer sheath and catheter (140, 302), the introducer sheath having a proximal end opening having an inner diameter and the catheter (140, 302) including a catheter body having a distal end (144, 318) and a proximal end with a lengthy distal portion of the catheter body having a constant outer diameter and a proximal portion (202, 306) tapering from a larger outer diameter to a smaller outer diameter in a direction extending from the proximal end to the distal end (144, 318) of the catheter body, characterized in that the tapered portion of the proximal portion (202, 306) extends over a limited distance from about 5 cm to about 15 cm with the larger diameter adjacent to a hub affixed to the proximal end of the catheter body and includes an outer diameter therealong greater than the inner diameter of the sheath proximal end opening such that during later stages of the catheter insertion through the introducer sheath and into the vasculature of the patient, the proximal portion (202, 306) closes off the proximal end opening of the introducer sheath to minimize blood flow therethrough.
A drug delivery device suitable for providing local analgesia, local anesthesia or nerve blockade at a site in a human or animal in need thereof, the device comprising a fibrillar collagen matrix; and at least one drug substance, the at least one drug substance being substantially homogeneously dispersed in the collagen matrix, and the at least one drug substance being present in an amount sufficient to provide a duration of local analgesia, local anesthesia or nerve blockade which lasts for at least one day after administration wherein the drug delivery device comprises a plurality of collagen sponges, each collagen sponge having 3.6 to 8mg/cm 3 type I collagen, and 2.0 to 6.0mg/cm 3 bupivacaine hydrochloride.
A method for repairing a metallic turbine component which includes at least two airfoils interconnected by a mid-span shroud, the method comprising: (a) applying a reinforcement plate to the mid-span shroud; (b) applying braze material; (c) heating the component to melt and flow the braze material between the reinforcement plate and the mid-span shroud; and (d) allowing the braze material to cool and solidify so as to bond the reinforcement plate to the mid-span shroud, characterized in that the braze material is applied to at least a portion of a perimeter of the reinforcement plate, and wherein the reinforcement plate includes at least one witness hole formed therethrough, the method further comprising allowing the braze material to flow into the witness holes. (a) applying a reinforcement plate to the mid-span shroud; (b) applying braze material; (c) heating the component to melt and flow the braze material between the reinforcement plate and the mid-span shroud; and (d) allowing the braze material to cool and solidify so as to bond the reinforcement plate to the mid-span shroud,
A light-sealed apparatus for use in detecting gaseous by-products in electrical equipment, said apparatus comprising: a housing; a light source arranged to emit light of a plurality of different predetermined wavelengths; a photocell configured to detect light emitted by the light source; and a membrane interposed between said light source and said photocell, the membrane being reactive to a plurality of gaseous by-products, wherein interaction of said membrane with each of the plurality of gaseous by-products causes the membrane to become substantially opaque to or translucent for different wavelength of light within said plurality of different predetermined wavelengths, wherein the photocell is configured to transmit an electrical signal on failure to detect the presence or absence of light of one or more of the plurality of different predetermined wavelengths; wherein said light source, membrane and photocell are included within said housing. a housing; a light source arranged to emit light of a plurality of different predetermined wavelengths; a photocell configured to detect light emitted by the light source; and a membrane interposed between said light source and said photocell, the membrane being reactive to a plurality of gaseous by-products, wherein interaction of said membrane with each of the plurality of gaseous by-products causes the membrane to become substantially opaque to or translucent for different wavelength of light within said plurality of different predetermined wavelengths, wherein the photocell is configured to transmit an electrical signal on failure to detect the presence or absence of light of one or more of the plurality of different predetermined wavelengths; wherein said light source, membrane and photocell are included within said housing.
A powdered oil and/or fat, comprising medium-chain fatty-acid triglyceride, an octenylsuccinic acid-treated starch mixture, and dextrin, wherein the octenylsuccinic acid-treated starch mixture comprises a first octenylsuccinic acid-treated starch having a viscosity of less than 30 mPa·s at 25°C in a 10 mass% aqueous solution, and a second octenylsuccinic acid-treated starch having a viscosity of 30 mPa·s or more at 25°C in a 10 mass% aqueous solution, and the content of the second octenylsuccinic acid-treated starch is 12 mass% or more and 45 mass% or less relative to the total of the octenylsuccinic acid-treated starch mixture, and the dextrose equivalent of the dextrin is 10 or more, and the content of the medium-chain fatty-acid triglyceride is 65 mass% or more and 85 mass% or less relative to the total of the powdered oil and/or fat.
A method for detecting an abnormality of a vehicle including a pair of front and back of bogies each having two pairs of right and left wheels on front and back sides while the vehicle is running on a track, the method comprising: an installation step of previously providing a wheel load sensor for measuring wheel loads of wheels on the track; an index definition step of previously defining an index represented by wheel loads of the four wheels provided in at least one of the bogies as an index for detecting a vehicle abnormality according to a type of the vehicle abnormality; a measurement step of measuring the wheel loads of the four wheels provided in at least one of the bogies by the wheel load sensor provided on the track; and a detection step of calculating a value of the index defined in the index definition step from the wheel loads measured in the measurement step, and detecting the abnormality of the running vehicle based on the calculated value of the index.
A wind power generation apparatus comprising: a blade configured to rotate when receiving wind; a hub configured to support the blade, the hub being capable of converting wind energy into rotational energy; a tower configured to support a load of the blade; a nacelle configured to support a rotor in a rotatable manner with respect to the tower, the rotor supporting the blade and being formed with the blade and the hub; a power generator capable of converting rotational energy of the rotor into electric energy, and a wind direction sensor that measures a wind direction, wherein rotor torque is input to the power generator from the rotor, when the rotor torque changes by a predetermined value or greater, generator torque generated by the power generator is changed, the change in the rotor torque occurring a plurality of times while the rotor rotates 360 degrees, characterized in that the generator torque at an azimuth angle (Φ) at which the tower shadow effect becomes greater based on the wind direction is controlled to become lower than the generator torque maintained constant so as to maintain constant power generation, and an amount of adjustment of the generator torque is determined in a feedforward manner. a blade configured to rotate when receiving wind; a hub configured to support the blade, the hub being capable of converting wind energy into rotational energy; a tower configured to support a load of the blade; a nacelle configured to support a rotor in a rotatable manner with respect to the tower, the rotor supporting the blade and being formed with the blade and the hub; a power generator capable of converting rotational energy of the rotor into electric energy, and a wind direction sensor that measures a wind direction, wherein rotor torque is input to the power generator from the rotor, when the rotor torque changes by a predetermined value or greater, generator torque generated by the power generator is changed, the change in the rotor torque occurring a plurality of times while the rotor rotates 360 degrees, characterized in that the generator torque at an azimuth angle (Φ) at which the tower shadow effect becomes greater based on the wind direction is controlled to become lower than the generator torque maintained constant so as to maintain constant power generation, and an amount of adjustment of the generator torque is determined in a feedforward manner.
A hearing aid with an input transducer, a processor, and an acoustic output transducer, said processor comprising estimating means adapted for estimating speech and noise, hearing loss means adapted to hold information on the hearing loss of the user of the hearing aid and a speech enhancement unit adapted for improving a speech intelligibility measure, wherein said speech enhancement unit comprises means for calculating a gradient of a speech intelligibility measure as a function of a hearing aid gain vector using a closed form expression wherein a gradient of the equivalent masking spectrum level with respect to the hearing aid gain vector is determined by using an energy summation approximation, wherein said hearing aid gain vector represents the frequency dependent gains that are applied in the hearing aid in a multitude of frequency bands, and wherein said speech intelligibility measure is a speech intelligibility index.
A wound dressing comprising - a backing layer comprising a nonwoven material, - an absorbent wound pad comprising super absorbent fibers and a net layer, the net layer being directed towards the wound side, - a perforated atraumatic wound contact layer comprising a polyurethane layer, an adhesive acrylic layer and an adhesive silicone layer as skin adherent, wherein the polyurethane layer is located between the adhesive acrylic layer and the adhesive silicone layer and wherein the perforated atraumatic wound contact layer and the backing layer extend beyond the wound pad thereby creating an edge region and wherein the backing layer and the perforated atraumatic wound contact layer are bonded together at the edge region. - a backing layer comprising a nonwoven material, - an absorbent wound pad comprising super absorbent fibers and a net layer, the net layer being directed towards the wound side, - a perforated atraumatic wound contact layer comprising a polyurethane layer, an adhesive acrylic layer and an adhesive silicone layer as skin adherent, wherein the polyurethane layer is located between the adhesive acrylic layer and the adhesive silicone layer and
Assembly of a play fountain, comprising a floor, a plurality of nozzles, preferably a reservoir for a liquid, in particular water, or means to connect the assembly to a liquid supply, and a control system for controlling one or more of the nozzles during operation of the assembly, characterised in that the floor comprises a plurality of mutually detachable floor modules comprising at least one nozzle and at least one pump.
A system, comprising: an implantable medical device (102, 302) configured to be implanted within a patient's body, the IMD (102, 302) comprising: a sensing component configured to obtain values of a first physiological parameter; a power source configured to provide power to the IMD(102, 302); and a first communication component configured to transmit, according to a study prescription, the values of the first physiological parameter, the study prescription comprising a communication scheme that is configured based on an impact on a longevity of at least one component of the IMD(102, 302); and an external monitoring device (106, 304) configured to be disposed outside of a patient's body, the EMD (106, 304) comprising a second communication component, configured to receive, from the first communication component, the values of the first physiological parameter, wherein fat least one of the IMD (102, 302) and EMD (106, 304) implements a prescription component configured to enable implementation of the study prescription, the prescription component comprising: a study selection component configured to select a diagnostic model from among a plurality of candidate diagnostic models; and a prescription generator configured to generate the study prescription based on the selected diagnostic model. a sensing component configured to obtain values of a first physiological parameter; a power source configured to provide power to the IMD(102, 302); and a first communication component configured to transmit, according to a study prescription, the values of the first physiological parameter, the study prescription comprising a communication scheme that is configured based on an impact on a longevity of at least one component of the IMD(102, 302); and an external monitoring device (106, 304) configured to be disposed outside of a patient's body, the EMD (106, 304) comprising a second communication component, configured to receive, from the first communication component, the values of the first physiological parameter, wherein fat least one of the IMD (102, 302) and EMD (106, 304) implements a prescription component configured to enable implementation of the study prescription, the prescription component comprising: a study selection component configured to select a diagnostic model from among a plurality of candidate diagnostic models; and a prescription generator configured to generate the study prescription based on the selected diagnostic model. a study selection component configured to select a diagnostic model from among a plurality of candidate diagnostic models; and a prescription generator configured to generate the study prescription based on the selected diagnostic model.
A fluid flow operated power generating system for generating electrical power, the system comprising: a turbine support; a turbine mounted to the turbine support and comprising an essentially vertical rotor having a plurality of vanes; a plurality of fluid guiding elements configured to increase the generated power through increasing the flow velocity of the fluid passing the turbine; whereby the turbine support is arranged or configured to be arranged at a foundation (13;10) at the bottom of a volume of water, in particular a sea or river; the guiding elements are formed by elongated dams (2,3,9,5,6,14,18) extending generally radially outward in a star-like configuration with respect to the turbine and the turbine is arranged centrally in this configuration, wherein the angle (α) between neighbouring guiding elements is smaller than 45 degrees for increasing the flow velocity essentially independently of the direction of the flow. the guiding elements are constructed on top of a foundation on the bottom of the volume of water; characterized in that the height of the dams is such that the top of the dams extends above the maximum level of the water; the dams are configured to form one or more funnels to increase the flow velocity of the fluid, the funnels being open at their upper side, and in that; a guiding element is comprised of a plurality of prefabricated guiding sub-elements to be arranged in an abutting manner on the foundation. a turbine support; a turbine mounted to the turbine support and comprising an essentially vertical rotor having a plurality of vanes; a plurality of fluid guiding elements configured to increase the generated power through increasing the flow velocity of the fluid passing the turbine; whereby the turbine support is arranged or configured to be arranged at a foundation (13;10) at the bottom of a volume of water, in particular a sea or river; the guiding elements are formed by elongated dams (2,3,9,5,6,14,18) extending generally radially outward in a star-like configuration with respect to the turbine and the turbine is arranged centrally in this configuration, wherein the angle (α) between neighbouring guiding elements is smaller than 45 degrees for increasing the flow velocity essentially independently of the direction of the flow. the guiding elements are constructed on top of a foundation on the bottom of the volume of water; characterized in that the height of the dams is such that the top of the dams extends above the maximum level of the water; the dams are configured to form one or more funnels to increase the flow velocity of the fluid, the funnels being open at their upper side, and in that; a guiding element is comprised of a plurality of prefabricated guiding sub-elements to be arranged in an abutting manner on the foundation.
A method for manufacturing a natural cheese product wherein cheese curd, at least one taste ingredient and at least one acid are mixed and heated in a mixer to a cheese mass having a temperature in the range from 40 °C to 90 °C and a pH in the range from pH 4.4 to pH 4.8, said cheese mass being added a base to bring pH within the range from pH 5.1 to pH 5.6, and mixed into a homogeneous cheese mass, and subsequently packaging the resulting natural cheese product.
A printing device comprising: a receiver configured to receive a command; a line head configured to print line by line on a print medium (Ra); and a controller configured to control the line head to print; wherein the controller is configured to: store image data specified by the first command to a storage device when a first command instructing image printing is received by the receiver, and control the line head to print an image on the print medium (Ra) based on the image data stored in the storage device when a second command different from the first command is received by the receiver; characterised in that: the first command includes an image data definition command containing image data, and an execute printing command instructing executing printing; and the controller is configured to: count a number of times an execute printing command is received by the receiver, and control the line head not to print when the count of the number of times of receiving the execute printing command is one time. a receiver configured to receive a command; a line head configured to print line by line on a print medium (Ra); and a controller configured to control the line head to print; wherein the controller is configured to: store image data specified by the first command to a storage device when a first command instructing image printing is received by the receiver, and control the line head to print an image on the print medium (Ra) based on the image data stored in the storage device when a second command different from the first command is received by the receiver; store image data specified by the first command to a storage device when a first command instructing image printing is received by the receiver, and control the line head to print an image on the print medium (Ra) based on the image data stored in the storage device when a second command different from the first command is received by the receiver; characterised in that: the first command includes an image data definition command containing image data, and an execute printing command instructing executing printing; and the controller is configured to: count a number of times an execute printing command is received by the receiver, and control the line head not to print when the count of the number of times of receiving the execute printing command is one time. the first command includes an image data definition command containing image data, and an execute printing command instructing executing printing; and the controller is configured to: count a number of times an execute printing command is received by the receiver, and control the line head not to print when the count of the number of times of receiving the execute printing command is one time. count a number of times an execute printing command is received by the receiver, and control the line head not to print when the count of the number of times of receiving the execute printing command is one time.
A reinforced carton, comprising: a plurality of first panels comprising a first sidewall panel and a second sidewall panel; and a plurality of adjoining second panels; wherein the plurality of first panels comprises one or more strength enhancing features; characterized in that the one or more strength enhancing features comprise a vertical line of intermittent perforations extending along a vertical length of and disposed at a center of the first sidewall panel and the second sidewall panel; wherein the plurality of first panels and the plurality of adjoining second panels are made out of a single piece of a corrugated paperboard stock having flutes with a vertical orientation, and wherein the vertical line of intermittent perforations is parallel to the flute orientation; and wherein the carton is a rectangular carton and the plurality of first panels and the plurality of adjoining second panels are configured to form the rectangular carton having four rectangular sidewall panels that comprise the first sidewall panel and the second sidewall panel. a plurality of first panels comprising a first sidewall panel and a second sidewall panel; and a plurality of adjoining second panels; wherein the plurality of first panels comprises one or more strength enhancing features; characterized in that the one or more strength enhancing features comprise a vertical line of intermittent perforations extending along a vertical length of and disposed at a center of the first sidewall panel and the second sidewall panel; wherein the plurality of first panels and the plurality of adjoining second panels are made out of a single piece of a corrugated paperboard stock having flutes with a vertical orientation, and wherein the vertical line of intermittent perforations is parallel to the flute orientation; and wherein the carton is a rectangular carton and the plurality of first panels and the plurality of adjoining second panels are configured to form the rectangular carton having four rectangular sidewall panels that comprise the first sidewall panel and the second sidewall panel.