263 results about "Body remains" patented technology

The present invention discloses a surgical opening repair device and methods of use thereof. The device comprises an anchor attached to a suture. The device has been specifically manufactured and designed in order to overcome the currently existing obstacles which result when a surgical repair device remains in the abdominal cavity subsequent to the completion of a surgical procedure. The invention additionally discloses a method of surgical hernia by using the device disclosed herein. The present invention additionally discloses a method of repairing a laparoscopic opening which commonly results from a primary surgery. The method of repairing the laparoscopic opening quickly and efficiently closes the opening such that repair is complete even though materials that are foreign to the body remain in the body subsequent to the procedure.

A capsule-type endoscope comprising a capsule body, an image pickup element, illuminating elements, an image signal processing circuit, a memory, an image information transmitting circuit and an antenna for wireless transmission. The capsule body contains the pickup element, the illuminating elements, the processing circuit, the memory, transmitting circuit and the antenna. While the capsule body remains in a living body, the image pickup element takes images of an interior of the living body. The processing circuit processes the image, generating image information. The memory stores the information. The transmitting circuit reads the information and supplies it to the antenna. The antenna transmits the information by radio, from the living body.

A torsional vibration damper mountable to a rotatable shaft. The torsional vibration damper is a composite structure including a body formed of a polymer, such as a glass-reinforced polyamide, that surrounds an insert formed of a structurally-rigid material, such as a metal. The insert includes one or more support flanges that extend radially outward into the polymer body. When the torsional vibration damper is removed from the rotatable shaft, axial forces applied to the damper are transferred by the support flanges to the insert such that the polymer body remains substantially stress-free. In addition to, or instead of, the support flanges, the insert may include torque-locking structure that locks the polymer annular body with the insert to prevent relative rotation therebetween.

A display apparatus including a display main body that displays an image thereon and a base member, the display apparatus further including a lifting unit which includes a guide frame to stand on the base member and a lifting member coupled with the guide frame to move with the display main body; a pivoting unit which is provided between the display main body and the lifting member and supports the display main body to pivot around a pivot axis in clockwise and counterclockwise directions; and a locking unit which includes a moving member to be lifted together with the display main body and to move with a pivoting operation of the display main body, and a locking projection provided on the guide frame to limit the moving member from moving downward when the display main body remains pivoted.

The office gym exercise kit is a portable exercise kit that provides for a number of exercises to be performed by a user, including arm, leg and back exercises. The kit components are capable of attaching about a chair post and a chair back support to provide the exercises for the user. A flexible body is wrapped around the post and under the base of the chair then secured such that the flexible body remains in place around the chair post. A flexible band is wrapped around the chair back support. Both the flexible body and flexible band have retainers attached thereon. Several elastic straps are included in the kit. The elastic straps may be fastened to the flexible body and flexible band by latching onto the retainers. The user then exercises by extending the elastic straps with arms, legs or the like.

A system for storing cremated remains in one or more holders that may be comfortably held by an individual. The present invention comprises a “plush container”, such as a stuffed animal, and further comprises ornamental symbols or similar features for ornamentally symbolizing at least one characteristic of the entity associated with the cremated remains. For example, the system may comprise a symbolic depiction of a vocation or avocation associated with the individual's life. Preferred embodiments also comprise user customizable elements that include photographic and similar graphic imprinting.

An aesthetically pleasing vault and urn system for use in a memorial service and / or interring the cremated remains of persons and / or pets. The vault and urn are weatherproof and tamperproof closures that prevent unauthorized access to the cremated remains. The urn can be used alone or in combination with the vault. The vault and urn are covered with materials capable of resisting deterioration for extended periods of time. In one embodiment, the vault simulates the appearance of a traditional gravestone mounted on a concrete or mounted side-by-side with a second simulated traditional gravestone for holding the remains of a husband and wife, a pet and its owner or close friends.

A process for creating a shaped seed wafer is described. Ingredients for a growth medium are selected and mixed together. Pulverized remains or cremains from a pet or human are added. One or more varieties of perennial and / or annual seeds are added to the mixture. Water may be added during processing to get the mixture to stick together. The mixture with seeds is sheeted and shaped into a silhouette shape with a cutting tool before drying the shape to a final product. The product is a memorial flower or plant generating seed wafer that may be packaged and distributed for placing and germinating of plants at a desired location in memory of the deceased.

An energy-enhanced health-promoting sock structure is disclosed, wherein a sock body is provided with an energy-generating material that is distributed on at least one surface of the sock body at different densities and over different extents in accordance with a distribution density of acupuncture points on a human foot and requirements in selecting the acupuncture points on the foot, so that stimulating and conducting effects of various strengths can be produced at different meridians and acupuncture points of the foot. In addition, the sock body remains perfectly soft in areas that need not produce such effects and therefore provides a more comfortable wearing experience.

A method of manufacturing, and resulting pendant for hermetically sealing the crematory remains, hair samples or the like of a loved one or pet, utilizing a laser-welding operation to seal congruent front and rear concave housing members together, preserving the contents there within. The metal utilized is thin, therefore each housing member provides a continuous sacrificial lip of metal along the seam to prevent the laser from blowing a hole through the metal housing. Unlike conventional welding or soldering means, the laser produces very minimal heat build up, preventing damage to the contents therein during welding.

The present invention is a wallboard tape that simplifies the initial covering and installation of elongated wallboard joints formed by the abutting of adjacent wallboards. The wallboard tape includes a fibrous paper tape having a resin-impregnated body and a water-soluble, specially formulated water-activated adhesive layer applied to a surface of the body. The resin impregnated body remains relatively non-moisture absorbent during wetting of the adhesive layer thereby allowing the adhesive layer to dry several minutes after installation of the tape over a wall joint.

The invention discloses an evaporation crucible, and belongs to the technical field of OLED manufacturing. The evaporation crucible comprises a crucible body and heat conduction components, wherein the heat conduction components are arranged in the crucible body and are used for directly transmitting heat on the crucible body to an evaporation material located in the middle of the crucible body. The heat conduction components are arranged in the crucible body, and the heat of the crucible body is directly transmitted to the evaporation material located in the middle of the crucible body through the heat conduction components, so that the temperature difference between the evaporation material located in the middle of the crucible body and an evaporation material close to the inner wall of the crucible body is reduced; the phenomenon that the evaporation material located in the middle of the crucible body remains and is caked to remain in the crucible body is avoided, and the utilization rate of the evaporating materials is improved; and it is ensured that the whole evaporation speed of the evaporation materials in the crucible body is stable, and the evaporation film formation effect is ensured, so that the performance of a device is ensured, and the performance of the evaporation material in the middle of the crucible body is also ensured

A capsule orienting and separation apparatus is provided which allows a multiplicity of gelatin capsule shells to be uniformly oriented in a separable condition and for the caps of those shells to be separated from the capsule bodies. The apparatus allows a multiplicity of capsule shells all to be concurrently oriented in an upright disposition by a manually operated mechanism. The capsule caps are all uniformly oriented atop the capsule bodies and are exposed for gripping by a capsule cap lift assembly. The capsule caps are concurrently lifted from the capsule bodies while the capsule bodies remain in position in a matrix of openings in a capsule receiving tray. The capsules can then be filled with capsule filler material and tamped down as appropriate. The capsule caps are then all concurrently replaced on the capsule bodies and the capsule caps and capsule bodies are then concurrently permanently sealed together. All of the steps of orientation, filling, and sealing are performed with a manually operable mechanism.

Bias values of pitch axis and roll axis angular velocity sensors in a stationary state where a reference yaw axis of a two-wheeled inverted pendulum vehicle body is stationary in parallel with a vertical direction are acquired. Bias values of the pitch axis and roll axis angular velocity sensors in a turning state where a two-wheeled inverted pendulum vehicle is turned at a predetermined turning angular velocity in a state where the reference yaw axis of the two-wheeled inverted pendulum vehicle body remains parallel to the vertical direction are acquired. Mounting angle errors of the pitch axis and roll axis angular velocity sensors with respect to the two-wheeled inverted pendulum vehicle body are estimated on the basis of the bias values of the sensors in the stationary state, the bias values of the sensors in the turning state and the predetermined turning angular velocity.

Disclosed is a golf exercise weight machine for anaerobically strengthening the large rotary muscles of the body—including the upper thigh, trunk and abdomen, and shoulders—most used in performing a golf swing. Preferably, the device includes a floor mounted base to which a yoke is rotatably attached to fit around the shoulders and arms of a user, so that during operation the user's body remains oriented in the proper swing position so as to mimic and improve the golf swing by strengthening the appropriate muscles. A weight stack provides variable resistance during the simulated golf swing, and the device offers adjustment over multiple degrees of freedom and it can accommodate both right-and left-handed swings.

A printing system includes carriage assemblies, a preparation station, a printing station, and a selection station. The carriage assemblies receive flexible bodies and are coupled to a conveyance assembly that moves the carriage assemblies along a direction of travel. The preparation station receives the flexible bodies from the loading station and manipulates the flexible bodies to at least partially flatten printing surfaces of the flexible bodies. The printing station prints images on the flexible bodies. The selection station examines the images on the flexible bodies and selects one or more of the flexible bodies based on the images. The selection station also individually grips and removes selected flexible bodies from the carriage assemblies and conveys the selected flexible bodies to a first collection location while the other flexible bodies remain on the carriage assemblies and are conveyed to a different, second collection location.

An interment container includes upper and lower members that define an internal cavity. The remains of a deceased are placed within a liner adapted to be positioned within the internal cavity. The liner is peripherally sealed about the remains of the deceased, to prevent leakage of fluids from within the liner and infiltration of fluids into the liner. The liner includes lower and upper sections that define facing peripheral flanges which are sealed together by positioning a heating member between facing surfaces of the flanges, and imparting heat to the heating member so as to liquefy the adjacent material of the flanges. The liquefied material flows together about the heating member and the heating member is then cooled, such that the liquefied portions of the flanges solidify to integrally seal the flanges together.

The invention discloses a method for precisely repairing a defective face of remains based on the 3D printing technology. The method is characterized by using a full-face photo taken before death of the deceased or carrying out three-dimensional scanning on the defective face of the deceased to acquire data, generating a face three-dimensional model of the deceased by using computer three-dimensional modeling software and importing the face three-dimensional model into a 3D printer to print a face model, manufacturing repair materials of silica gel and sculpture mud by taking the 3D printing model as a mold or directly using a mask obtained through 3D printing as the repairing material, then coloring, fixing and finishing the repairing material and connecting the repairing material with the remains. Compared with a manual sculpture, the method has high vividness, the silica gel material has touch feeling of skin and is vivid in appearance; in particular, the time for which a remains cosmetic designer faces the remains can be shortened, and the safety and sanitation risks for the remains cosmetic designer can be reduced; and meanwhile, the automation degree of face repairing is improved.