Abstract:
An extraction device for removing an implanted medical object, the device comprising: an elongated catheter body extending between a proximal end and a distal end along a longitudinal axis, the elongated catheter body defining an elongated aperture along the longitudinal axis, the elongated aperture being sized and shaped to receive the implanted medical object therein, the elongated catheter body further defining at least one waveguide receiving aperture extending between the proximal and distal ends of the elongated body; and at least one mechanical waveguide receivable in the at least one waveguide receiving aperture, the at least one mechanical waveguide extending between a proximal end operatively connectable to a mechanical wave generator and a distal end, the at least one mechanical waveguide configured to propagate at least one mechanical wave therealong.
Abstract:
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, includes a face (212) having a ball striking surface (210) configured for striking a ball (106) and a body (208) connected to the face and extending rearwardly from the face. The body has an impact - influencing structure (230) in the form of a channel positioned on at least one surface of the body. A majority of a force generated by impact with a ball is absorbed by the impact - influencing structure, and a majority of a response force generated by the head upon impact with the ball is generated by the impact - influencing structure. The face has increased stiffness as compared to existing faces, and include is a stiffening structure (250) to create the increased stiffness, such as a porous or cellular stiffening structure.
Abstract:
A ball striking device (102), such as a golf club head, includes a face(112) having a ball striking surface configured for striking a ball and a body connected to the face and extending rearwardly from the face. The body (108) has an impact-influencing structure (130) in the form of a channel positioned on at least one surface of the body. A majority of a force generated by impact with a ball is absorbed by the impact-influencing structure, and a majority of a response force generated by the head upon impact with the ball is generated by the impact-influencing structure. The face may have increased stiffness as compared to existing faces, and may include a stiffening structure (150) to create the increased stiffness, such as a porous or cellular stiffening structure.
Abstract:
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head (102), includes a face (112) having a ball striking surface (110) configured for striking a ball and a body connected to the face and extending rearwardly from the face. The body has an impact - influencing structure (130) positioned adjacent at least one peripheral edge of the face. A majority of a force generated by impact with a ball is absorbed by the impact - influencing structure, and a majority of a response force generated by the head upon impact with the ball is generated by the impact - influencing structure. The face may have increased stiffness as compared to existing faces, and may include a stiffening structure to create the increased stiffness.
Abstract:
A wave generator has a wave emitter including an elongated dispersive waveguide and a source operatively connected to a first end of the waveguide. The source covers at least partially a surface area thereof. A signal generator is in operative connection with the transducer to create electrical signals. A computer is in operative connection with the signal generator to cause it to generate the electrical signals. A mechanical input wave is created by the source at the first end of the waveguide. The mechanical input wave is constructed independently of data related to a mechanical wave received from a source in the medium and taking into account the different predetermined propagation velocities of at least two component waves of the mechanical input wave so that they combine with each other at a second end of the waveguide to form the desired mechanical output wave in the medium.
Abstract:
A sensor array for measuring various parameters in a machine environment, the sensor array comprising a number of oscillators, each of the oscillators comprising a feedback network, an amplifier and a limiter being connected together in a loop. The feedback network has a frequency which varies with the parameters to be measured. The amplifier consumes a current from a current supply and in cooperation with the feedback network produces a signal that alternates at the natural frequency of the feedback network. The limiter limits the amplitude of the signal within a predetermined amplitude range. All of the signals from the oscillators are multiplexed onto the output of the sensor array. Frequency analysis may then used to isolate the individual readings from each of the oscillators.
Abstract:
The present invention is concerned with a vacuum release suction device for regulating and controlling suction in an aspiration line, and which may be included in aspirators such as for example dentistry, surgery, or cosmetic tools. When operated, such tools generally generate noise which may become harmful to the tool user or for the patient on which the tool is used. More specifically, the suction device of the present invention includes a body having an inlet port and an outlet port defining a chamber in the body and a bypass inlet intersecting the chamber at an acute angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the chamber, such that a main fluid stream is generated with minimized occurrences of flow separation, turbulence and therefore minimized generated aerodynamic noise.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method and device for needleless injection of a liquid substance in the skin or other target tissue of a patient, in which droplets of the liquid substance are produced, and the droplets of liquid substance are directed toward the surface of the patient's skin or other target tissue at a velocity sufficiently high to inject the droplets of liquid substance in the patient's skin or other target tissue. According to an illustrative embodiment, the droplets of the liquid substance are accelerated toward the surface of the patient's skin or other target tissue in order to inject the accelerated droplets of liquid substance in the patient's skin or other target tissue. According to another illustrative embodiment, a high velocity jet of gas is produced, droplets of the liquid substance are produced and supplied in the high velocity jet of gas, the droplets of liquid substance are conveyed within the high velocity jet of gas, and the high velocity jet of gas is guided toward the surface of the patient's skin or other target tissue in order to inject the conveyed droplets of liquid substance in the patient's skin or other target tissue.
Abstract:
A mechanical wave generating system comprising: a generator device for generating mechanical waves; at least two mechanical waveguides each extending along a longitudinal axis between a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end being operatively connected to the generator device for receiving the mechanical waves therefrom; and a coupling device operatively connected to the distal end of the at least two mechanical waveguides for receiving and outputting the mechanical waves, wherein the at least two mechanical waveguides are oriented so that the longitudinal axes intersect at a focal point.
Abstract:
A puncturing device for puncturing a tissue, the device comprising: an elongated body extending between a puncturing end and a connecting end, the puncturing end being designed to puncture the tissue, a suture thread being securable to the elongated body, the elongated body comprising one of a lumen and a recess extending along at least a portion thereof, the one of the lumen and the recess lumen being designed for receiving a mechanical waveguide therein, the mechanical waveguide being configured for propagating mechanical waves therealong in order to be propagated up to the tissue.