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Apparatus and a system for thermally comforting a patient include pneumatic, convective providing thermal treatment for persons or animals, which is adapted for use in combination with a clinical garment such as a hospital gown, robe, bib, and other equivalents. The pneumatic convective device provides convective warming focused or directly primarily on the thorax or body core. The pneumatic convective device includes at least one inlet for being accessed through a clinical garment, a region in distribution with the inlet for distributing a stream of pressurized, thermally treated air, and a permeable member for emitting pressurized, thermally treated air from the distribution region.

An absorbent personal care article, such as a sanitary napkin or incontinence pad is described having a longitudinal centerline and a transverse centerline and including a pair of opposed first and second wings extending along the longitudinal sides of the article. The article further includes first and second protective strips attached to the sides of the article such that when the wings are folded under the article and around the wearer's undergarment, the first and second protective strips extend laterally outboard of the article and the edges of the wearer's undergarment to provide additional protection against leakage of body fluids deposited onto the absorbent personal care article

A contoured adjustable baby or pet bathing cushion with a substantially oval shaped outer portion and a depressed central portion, the substantially oval shaped outer portion being provided with adjustable tabs to facilitate adjustment of the length of the cushion to accommodate an infant, a larger baby, or a pet.

The invention relates to a system and method of processing an input three dimensional video signal comprising multiple views, the method comprising: determining a far disparity estimate indicative of the largest disparity value for the input three dimensional video signal, a near disparity estimate indicative of the smallest disparity value for a spatial region within the input three dimensional video signal, adapting the input three dimensional video signal by shifting the input three dimensional video signal backwards by means of a disparity shift based on the far disparity estimate and generating an overlay within the spatial region for the shifted three dimensional video signal based on the near disparity estimate and the disparity shift. The invention further relates to a computer program product implementing a method according to the present invention.

An orthopedic wrist splint with an initially generally planar malleable metal core covered by a layer of synthetic foam padding material on each of its opposite sides and protected by an outer cover of fabric. In one embodiment, depending on the orientation of the splint relative to the patient, the splint provides greater or lesser firmness of support when the core is bent to conform the splint to the patient's hand, wrist, and forearm. In another embodiment, a central part of the length of the splint lacks the metal core and is flexible, so that two parts of the splint are easily used on opposite sides of an arm or ankle, with the central part comfortably bent around an elbow or a foot, and with the splint firmly supporting the limb.

A lighting device comprising a first light source issuing a first beam and a second light source issuing a second beam. Said first and said second light source are dimmable and together issue light with a total light flux. At a mutually equal light flux of the first and the second beam, the glare level of the second beam is lower than the glare level of the first beam. The lighting device further comprises at least one (programmed) controller which, during operation, moderates said dim levels such that in at least a range of the illumination level a ratio of the dim level of the second beam to the dim level of the first beam increases in a gradual manner with increasing total light flux.

A vehicle steering system can keep the comfort of steering feeling for a driver, even in a situation, such as traveling on a cant road or in a crosswind, where a unidirectional-drift behavior of a vehicle occurs, and includes an electric motor, a steering angle sensor, a steering torque sensor, and an EPS_ECU that controls driving power of the electric motor, when the vehicle is traveling straight, based on vehicle information including a steering torque and a steering angle, to perform a control for applying an assist torque to a steering system. The EPS_ECU includes an integrating unit for calculating an integrated torque value obtained by integrating the steering torque, and a steering effort assist controlling unit for performing an anti-unidirectional-drift control over the driving power of the electric motor, when the integrated torque value exceeds the threshold value, so as to cancel the unidirectional-drift behavior of the vehicle.

The invention relates to an engine idle speed control-based AMT (Automated Mechanical Transmission) vehicle start control method, which comprises the following steps of: a, starting an engine, shifting to a start gear, controlling the engine to maintain an idle speed state by an electric control AMT, gently stamping a throttle to send out a starting signal; b, after receiving the starting signal, controlling a power source to drive a clutch to a semi-combined point; c, controlling an engine speed to be in a range of 650-1300 rpm by the electric control AMT, and detecting whether the ROTATING speed of an output shaft is more than 50 rpm or not; d, controlling the torque limit value of the engine to BE increaseD from 40% to 100% progressively by the electric control AMT and controlling the power source to drive the clutch to gradually combine, detecting whether the clutch sliding rate is less than 5% or not and whether the rotating speed of the output shaft is more than 120 rpm or not; and e, stopping controlling the engine by the electric control AMT, and ending a vehicle start process. The engine idle speed-control based AMT vehicle start control method has the beneficial effects of reducing abrasion of the clutch, increasing the comfort and economy as much as possible on the premise of maintaining dynamic property, and the like.

Method and arrangement for gear upshifting in a motor vehicle. The arrangement includes an internal combustion engine (1) with an engine-braking device (52), an automated disk-clutch (3), a multi-stage gearbox (9), in the casing (8) of which an input shaft (7), an intermediate shaft (11) and a main shaft (10) are mounted, and an intermediate shaft brake (50) for braking the intermediate shaft (11). When the upshifting takes place, the disk clutch (3) is disengaged and the intermediate shaft (11) is disengaged from the main shaft (10). The intermediate shaft brake (50) is activated so that the rotational speed of the intermediate shaft (11) is adapted to the next gear selected at the same time as the rotational speed of the engine (1) is adapted to the rotational speed of the input shaft (7) in the new gear by virtue of the engine-braking device (52) being activated.

The invention relates to a flame-retardant fabric, which is made of fiber materials, and specially comprises fiber materials in a weaving, knitting or non-woven form. The flame-retardant fabric is prepared by using a flame-retardant process, and the main ingredients of the flame-retardant fabric include a low molecular pre-shrinking body of tetrakis hydroxymethyl phosphonium sulfate (THPS) and amide, a surfactant, a flame-retardant finishing liquid of high-concentration polyethylene, so that the flame-retardant fabric has a durable flame retardant performance, and the flame retardant performance is not reduced with the increasing of the number of washing times; the flame-retardant finishing does not change the original features of the fabric fibers, so that the fabric is soft in handfeel, and small in strength loss, and the comfortableness and durability of the fabric are basically kept, therefore, the flame-retardant fabric has a characteristic that the fabric is carbonized after meeting fire and self-extinguished after leaving fire, and the spread of flames is effectively prevented; and the protective clothing prepared by using the fabric can prevent flames from causing harm to the human body.

An apparatus is provided for combined ergonomic support and situational sensory augmentation interface during an interactive session within a virtual environment generated by a computer system. The apparatus comprises a resilient body defining a mid portion extending laterally between a pair of side portions projecting transversely outward therefrom to terminate at respective free ends. The mid portion extends across a lap of a user. The mid and side portions collectively define an upper surface for hand and forearm support for the user and an inner side surface contoured about a cradle space for receiving a torso of the user in cradling manner. At least one actuator disposed on the resilient body is selectively driven in cooperation with the interactive session to generate tactile feedback to the user through at least one of the upper and inner side surfaces of the resilient body.

The invention relates to an intelligent regulating system for the air quality and temperature in a closed room and a use method of the intelligent regulating system. The system comprises a fresh air quality pretreatment unit, an indoor detection unit, an indoor fresh air control unit and an intelligent control unit. The fresh air quality pretreatment unit comprises a particulate filter and a small electric dust removal system. The indoor detection unit comprises a CO2, formaldehyde, temperature and infrared intensity detector. The indoor fresh air control unit comprises a fresh air flow and temperature controller. The intelligent control unit comprises a data processor and an intelligent control terminal. Indoor personnel inputs various parameters of the room into the intelligent control terminal, the data processor works out the required fresh air flow and temperature meeting the requirements of the indoor air quality and temperature through a preset model algorithm according to the input parameters and the detection result of the detector, and the fresh air flow and the temperature are fed back to the control unit for execution. The system has three working states and can be switched among the three working states according to different operating time lengths so as to achieve the purposes of adjusting and keeping the indoor air quality and temperature.

A machine and method for forming the infantile training trousers are disclosed. An inserting plate can insert the training trousers in folding unit for symmetrically folding it. The two waist pieces of said training trousers are smoothed by a finishing unit. The pieces for waist and legs are welded by the patterning wheel or moulding roller and ultrasonic head in welding unit. The waist edge is cut by the trimming unit for making it neat. The left and right waist pieces are than curled by the edge curling unit.

The invention discloses a health nursing pad absorber processing method and equipment thereof. The method comprises the following three steps: A, adsorbing wood pulp fiber and mixing the wood pulp fiber with polymer absorbent materials, B, compacting and dotted solidifying the absorber, and C, forming the absorber; the equipment is provided to realize the method. The method provided by the invention is suitable for various nursing pad products, can enhance extension strength of the nursing pad product, simplifies and realizes the manufacturing of absorber of nursing pad product, and reduces manufacturing cost of the nursing pad. The absorber produced by the invention adopts a novel structure made of polymer absorbent materials and wood pulp fiber, the polymer absorbent materials are uniformly disturbed in the wood pulp fiber, the sliding and moving of polymer absorbent materials are confined through doted solidification, so as to guarantee liquid absorption of the nursing pad product.

A method and system determine when a climate control system of a hybrid vehicle can be operated without use of its A / C compressor. The compressor is turned on to function when the compressor is coupled to an engine of the vehicle and the engine is running. The relative humidity inside the vehicle cabin is compared to a threshold to determine whether the compressor is required to function. If the engine is running and if the compressor is off, the compressor is turned on if the compressor is required to function. If the engine is running, the engine is turned off such that the compressor is turned off if the compressor is not required to function and if the vehicle is at idle. If the compressor was on, the compressor is turned off without turning off the engine if the compressor is not required and if the vehicle is being driven.

A denim fabric with high tenacity and / or moisture management and / or stretch materials is provided. Proportions of materials in the denim fabric may vary during the weave of the fabric to create different performance zones in the resulting garment with or without assembling different fabric pieces.

A thermostat based on indoor effective-temperature with cooling time a function of the difference between the inside temperature and temperature-set while off time is the remainder of a time cycle. This permits indoor temperature to vary with heat-load to provide comfort and conserve power under all heat-load conditions. During high heat-load conditions it can provide comfort and save a significant amount of power. It provides comfort down to temperature-set, when the heat load decreases in the evenings and at night. For low heat-load conditions, it eliminates cooling under-shoot and controlled off time reduces or eliminates stuffiness between cooling cycles.

The invention discloses a sensing type movement assisting bed. The sensing type movement assisting bed comprises an information acquiring system and a movement assisting system, wherein the information acquiring system is used for acquiring movement information of a user; and the movement assisting system assists in the user to finish actions according to user action information acquired by the information acquiring system. The sensing type movement assisting bed has the beneficial effects that pressure change caused by autonomic activities of the movement assisting bed user is sensed by a pressure sensor on a supporting device, and a movement assisting system is triggered to finish actions in an assisting manner; autonomic activities of muscles are encouraged, and the muscles are exercised effectively; according to human body behavior identification, the patient can be assisted to finish various actions, pressure is automatically adjusted and supported, and the comfortable degree of the human body and functional positions are maintained; the supporting device on the outer side of a pressed portion is higher than the plane of the body of the user to limit movement of the body of the patient, and the user is prevented from falling to the ground; a certain gap is maintained between pressed bottoms of the supporting device and a rectangular component so as to facilitate air circulation, moist of the pressed portion is avoided, and dangerous factors of pressure sores are relieved; and load of medical workers is relieved.

Method and arrangement for gear upshifting in a motor vehicle. The arrangement includes an internal combustion engine (1) with an engine-braking device (52), an automated disk-clutch (3), a multi-stage gearbox (9), in the casing (8) of which an input shaft (7), an intermediate shaft (11) and a main shaft (10) are mounted, and braking means (50) for braking the intermediate shaft (11). When the upshifting takes place, the disk clutch (3) is disengaged and the intermediate shaft (11) is disengaged from the main shaft (10). The braking means (50) is activated so that the rotational speed of the intermediate shaft (11) is adapted to the next gear selected at the same time as the rotational speed of the engine (1) is adapted to the rotational speed of the input shaft (7) in the new gear by virtue of the engine-braking device (52) being activated.

The invention provides a preparation method of natural spice superfine powder and an application of natural spice superfine powder in tobacco sheets. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) preparing spice fine powder; (2) conducting low-temperature superfine grinding; and (3) adding spice superfine powder to a paper pulp making front tank, uniformly stirring the spice superfine powder, conducting paper making and drying processes on paper pulp, so that a fiber sheet base is formed, then directly dip-coating or spraying a concentrated solution on the sheet base, and conducting drying and slicing, so that the tobacco sheets are obtained. Special spice, which is prepared by virtue of a superfine grinding technology, has the characteristics of being intense and pure in aroma, tiny and uniform in particle, relatively good in dispersity and good in absorption ability, and meanwhile, the pure natural attribute of the finished product (the superfine powder) is guaranteed; the spice prepared by the invention, after applied to the tobacco sheets, can enrich aroma quantity and the spice can coordinate with cigarette flavor, so that smoke is soft and delicate, oral residue is relieved, irritation is reduced and offensive odor is masked, and the aroma can stably last for a long time; and the natural spice superfine powder, as a spice additive, is applicable to flavoring treatment of the sheets.

Apparatus and method for managing energy of a home or other structure are disclosed. An energy management system for a home network comprises a central device controller configured to communicate with energy consuming devices, energy generation devices and storage devices at a home. Power / energy measuring devices provide consumption measurements for the home and each device to the controller. A user interface has a client application configured to provide information to a user / consumer and to an energy provider / utility about energy consumption, energy generation and storage. An energy profile and a carbon footprint of an individual's home are generated along with recommendations for energy savings and / or possible addition of on site generation or energy storage.

A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion that is rotatably joined to a floor portion of a vehicle such that a rotation axis of the seat cushion extends vertically, the seat cushion being configured to support a buttocks of a seated vehicle occupant. The vehicle seat also includes a footrest that is joined to the seat cushion and is configured to support soles of feet of the seated vehicle occupant, the footrest being placed in a raised position in which, when seen in a seat side view, the footrest slopes rearwardly upwards such that heels of the seated vehicle occupant are raised up, and a rear portion of the footrest is placed vertically below a front end of the seat cushion.

A buckle pretensioner system includes a substantially L-shaped rail for guiding a buckle body of a buckle from a position where the buckle body engages with a tongue plate to a position corresponding to a lumbar region of a vehicle occupant. When a vehicle disposed with the buckle pretensioner system undergoes a sudden deceleration, a piston inside a cylinder is moved in a frontward direction of the vehicle by gas generated by the actuation of a gas generator, a buckle stay is pulled by a wire coupled to the piston, and the buckle stay is moved along the shape of the rail. As a result, the buckle body supported by the buckle stay pivots from the position where the buckle body engages with the tongue plate to a vehicle occupant restraining position of a webbing belt, and then is pulled to the lumbar region-corresponding position.

The invention discloses a production technology of warp knitting velvet fabric. The technology comprises the step of weaving, premolding, raising, lustring, shearing, dyeing, adding adjuvants, drying, secondary lustring, secondary shearing and molding. The invention discloses the production technology of the warp knitting velvet fabric. The production technology of the warp knitting velvet fabric is based on the improvement of the production technology of a traditional velvet fabric, greatly improves stereoscopic effect and luster of the dacron superfine fiber velvet fabric, and effectively keeps softness and hand feeling comfort of the velvet itself. The warp knitting velvet fabric is simple in technology and mature in equipment.

A controller causes a blowout air switching device to switch an air blowout portion to a first blowing state if air blown from the air blowout portion is in a pre-temperature controlled state. If air blown from the air blowout portion is in a temperature controlled state, the controller causes the blowout air switching device to switch the air blowout portion to a second blowing state. Furthermore, in the first blowing state, a first air outlet is opened while a second air outlet is closed. Conversely, in the second blowing state, the first air outlet is closed while the second air outlet is open. Thus, it is possible to avoid blowing insufficiently temperature controlled air against a seated occupant, without having to suppressed the blowout airflow rate when a seat air-conditioner starts air-conditioning.

An orthopedic wrist splint with an initially generally planar malleable metal core covered by a layer of synthetic foam padding material on each of its opposite sides and protected by an outer cover of fabric. In one embodiment, depending on the orientation of the splint relative to the patient, the splint provides greater or lesser firmness of support when the core is bent to conform the splint to the patient's hand, wrist, and forearm. In another embodiment, a central part of the length of the splint lacks the metal core and is flexible, so that two parts of the splint are easily used on opposite sides of an arm or ankle, with the central part comfortably bent around an elbow or a foot, and with the splint firmly supporting the limb.