Diffuse reflective light curtain system
    1.
    发明授权
    Diffuse reflective light curtain system 有权
    漫反射光幕系统

    公开(公告)号:US6166371A

    公开(公告)日:2000-12-26

    申请号:US302333

    申请日:1999-04-30

    CPC分类号: G01V8/20 F16P3/144

    摘要: A Diffuse Reflective Light Curtain System comprises at least one light curtain defining a border of a work zone for a robotic machine. Each light curtain comprises a primary board having multiple wells formed therein. Light emitting diodes (LEDs) and light detectors are alternately placed in the multiple wells. The LEDs shine light up from the wells to form a curtain of light above the primary board. If an object comes into contact with the curtain of light emitted from the LEDs, the light is reflected back to toward the board and enters the wells of the board where the light detectors sense the presence of LED light. When the light detectors in the wells sense the presence of LED light, they send a signal to a controller to indicate that the light curtain has been breached by a foreign object. The controller, in turn, suspends the operation of the robotic machine that is protected by the light curtain. If multiple light curtains are used to define a plurality of work zones, sensors may be connected to the controller to determine the physical position of the robotic machine. The controller selectively enables or disables each of the light curtains based upon inputs received from the sensors to allow for foreign objects to enter particular work zones at different times during the operation of the robotic machine.

    摘要翻译: 散射反射光幕系统包括至少一个限定用于机器人机器的工作区边界的光幕。 每个光幕包括其中形成有多个阱的主板。 发光二极管(LED)和光检测器交替放置在多个井中。 LED从井中点亮,在主板上方形成一道光。 如果物体与LED发出的光线接触,则光被反射回朝向电路板并进入光检测器感测到LED灯的存在的板的阱。 当井中的光检测器感测到LED灯的存在时,它们向控制器发送信号以指示光幕已被异物破坏。 控制器又停止由光幕保护的机器人机器的操作。 如果使用多个光幕来定义多个工作区域,则传感器可以连接到控制器以确定机器人机器的物理位置。 控制器基于从传感器接收的输入选择性地启用或禁用每个光幕,以允许异物在机器人机器的操作期间的不同时间进入特定的工作区域。

    Fluid sample analysis by optical fourier transform imaging
    4.
    发明授权
    Fluid sample analysis by optical fourier transform imaging 失效
    通过光学傅立叶变换成像进行流体样品分析

    公开(公告)号:US5559596A

    公开(公告)日:1996-09-24

    申请号:US387484

    申请日:1995-02-13

    申请人: Steven H. Mersch

    发明人: Steven H. Mersch

    IPC分类号: G01N21/03 G01N21/41

    CPC分类号: G01N21/41 G01N21/0303

    摘要: An optical fourier transform image representative of characteristics of a liquid sample and particles within the fluid sample is quickly and inexpensively generated by an optical fourier transform system. A small liquid sample is received in a lenticular array liquid sample container with the fluid sample entering open-ended microchannels in the container preferably by capillary action. The container is formed of an optical material such that the fluid sample in the microchannels forms a grating when placed into an optical fourier transform system. Accordingly, the fourier transform image generated within the system is characteristic of the liquid sample forming the grating for the system. The liquid sample container is formed of two plates of optical acrylic, which may be coated or otherwise treated to make it non-hydrophobic to prevent the loss of moisture from liquid samples. A first one of the plates has an array of microgrooves formed into a first surface of the plate. A second plate defines a microgroove surface for engaging the first plate to close the microgrooves and turn them into the open-ended microchannels of the container. The two plates are aligned relative to one another by pins on one plate which are received in matching apertures in the other plate. The two plates are secured to one another by an appropriate adhesive. The first plate also defines a handle for holding and handling the container.

    摘要翻译: 通过光学傅里叶变换系统快速且廉价地生成代表液体样品和流体样品中的颗粒的特性的光学傅立叶变换图像。 将小液体样品接收在透镜阵列液体样品容器中,其中流体样品优选通过毛细管作用进入容器中的开放式微通道。 容器由光学材料形成,使得当放置在光学傅立叶变换系统中时,微通道中的流体样品形成光栅。 因此,系统内产生的傅立叶变换图像是形成系统光栅的液体样品的特征。 液体样品容器由两片光学丙烯酸酯制成,其可以被涂覆或以其他方式处理以使其非疏水性以防止液体样品中的水分损失。 板中的第一个具有形成在板的第一表面中的微槽阵列。 第二板限定了微槽表面,用于接合第一板以封闭微槽并将其转变成容器的开口微通道。 两个板通过一个板上的销相对于彼此对准,其被接收在另一个板中的匹配孔中。 两个板通过适当的粘合剂彼此固定。 第一板还限定用于保持和处理容器的手柄。

    Alternative current pathways for bipolar surgical cutting tool
    5.
    发明授权
    Alternative current pathways for bipolar surgical cutting tool 失效
    双极手术切割工具的替代电流通路

    公开(公告)号:US5531744A

    公开(公告)日:1996-07-02

    申请号:US348038

    申请日:1994-12-01

    摘要: A bipolar electrosurgical tool comprises a retractable cutting element movable along a cutting path and an electrical energy supply source which communicates electrical energy (e.g., radio frequency energy) through one or more energy delivering electrodes associated with a tissue affecting portion of the tool to tissue adjacent the electrodes. One or more additional electrodes, such as return electrodes, form a second pole of the bipolar electrical connection are also associated with the tissue affecting portion and are electrically isolated from the energy delivering electrode. Various combinations of electrically conductive and electrically isolated elements associated with the tissue affecting portion of the device can be used as the two poles of the bipolar system.

    摘要翻译: 双极电外科手术工具包括可沿着切割路径移动的可缩回切割元件和电能源,该电能源通过与工具的组织影响部分相关联的一个或多个能量输送电极将电能(例如射频能量)传递到邻近的组织 电极。 形成双极电连接的第二极的一个或多个附加电极,例如返回电极也与组织影响部分相关联并且与能量输送电极电隔离。 可以使用与器件的组织影响部分相关联的导电和电隔离元件的各种组合作为双极系统的两极。

    Light and bioelectric therapy pad
    8.
    发明授权
    Light and bioelectric therapy pad 有权
    光和生物电疗垫

    公开(公告)号:US09295854B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-29

    申请号:US13795385

    申请日:2013-03-12

    申请人: Steven H. Mersch

    发明人: Steven H. Mersch

    摘要: A light and bioelectric therapy pad that delivers light and bioelectric stimulation to adjacent tissue. The therapy pad includes an electrical tracing circuit containing elongated, parallel and spaced-apart approximate linear tracings (ALT) that provide current flow in opposite directions along the ALT during alternating positive and negative drive cycles of an alternating current (AC) supply. The ALT includes first and second header tracings wired to a row of light emitting diodes (LEDs), with the anodes of a first group of LEDs wired to the first header tracing, and the anodes of the remaining LEDs wired to the second header tracing. The ALTs are wired into the circuit with current flowing to the first header tracing at one end of the row of LEDs, and to the second header tracing at the opposite end, so that adjacent ALT provide current flow in opposite directions during both positive and negative drive cycles.

    摘要翻译: 一种轻和生物电疗治疗垫,将光和生物电刺激传递给邻近的组织。 治疗垫包括电跟踪电路,其包含细长的,平行的和间隔开的近似线性跟踪(ALT),其在交流(AC)电源的交替的正和负驱动周期期间沿着ALT在相反方向提供电流。 ALT包括连接到一行发光二极管(LED)的第一和第二标题跟踪,其中第一组LED的阳极连接到第一标题跟踪,并且剩余LED的阳极连接到第二标题跟踪。 ALT被连接到电路中,电流流动到LED排的一端处的第一头部跟踪,并且在相对端处连接到第二头部追踪,使得相邻的ALT在正和负两者期间在相反方向提供电流 驱动周期。