165 results about "Damage control" patented technology

Devices and methods for achieving hemostasis and leakage control in hollow body vessels such as the small and large intestines, arteries and veins as well as ducts leading to the gall bladder and other organs. The devices and methods disclosed herein are especially useful in the emergency, trauma surgery or military setting, and most especially during damage control procedures. In such cases, the patient may have received trauma to the abdomen, extremities, neck or thoracic region. The devices utilize removable or permanently implanted, broad, soft, parallel jaw clips with minimal projections to maintain vessel contents without damage to the tissue comprising the vessel. These clips are applied using either standard instruments or custom devices that are subsequently removed leaving the clips implanted, on a temporary or permanent basis, to provide for hemostasis or leakage prevention, or both. These clips overcome the limitations of clips and sutures that are currently used for the same purposes. The clips come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The clips may be placed and removed by open surgery or laparoscopic access.

Devices and methods for achieving hemostasis and leakage control in hollow body vessels such as the small and large intestines, arteries and veins as well as ducts leading to the gall bladder and other organs. The devices and methods disclosed herein are especially useful in the emergency, trauma surgery or military setting, and most especially during damage control procedures. In such cases, the patient may have received trauma to the abdomen, extremities, neck or thoracic region. The devices utilize removable or permanently implanted, broad, soft, parallel jaw clips with minimal projections to maintain vessel contents without damage to the tissue comprising the vessel. These clips are applied using either standard instruments or custom devices that are subsequently removed leaving the clips implanted, on a temporary or permanent basis, to provide for hemostasis or leakage prevention, or both. These clips overcome the limitations of clips and sutures that are currently used for the same purposes. The clips come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The clips may be placed and removed by open surgery or laparoscopic access.

Provided a system and method for detecting an event while discriminating against false alarms in a monitored space using at least one sensor suite to acquire signals, transmitting the signals to a sensor system device where the signal is processed into data packets, transmitting the data packets to a data fusion device, where the data packets are aggregated and algorithmic data fusion analysis is performed to generate threat level information. The threat level information is distributed to a supervisory control system where an alarm level can be generated when predetermined criteria are met to indicate the occurrence of an event in the monitored space.

Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving hemostasis in traumatized patients. The devices utilize fluid impermeable outer surfaces and distributed pressure to achieve tamponade and hemostasis, primarily by exertion of pressure. The devices are capable of serving as carriers for throabogenic or antipathogenic agents. Peripheral haemostatic packing devices include optional adhesive hemostatic barriers to cover the entire wound area over the hemostatic pack. The hemostatic packing devices may be placed and removed by open surgery or laparoscopic access without generating excessive re-bleeding, and may further comprise antimicrobial or thrombogenic regions.

The present invention relates to compositions of aqueous compositions comprising relative permeability modifier (RPM) macromolecules and one or more formation damage control additives, for use in treating hydrocarbon-producing wells, formations, and equipment, as well as methods for the use of such compositions. Such compositions, comprising the RPM macromolecule and the one or more formation damage control additive, such as a scale control agent, can result in the formation of a composition wherein the components exhibit a “synergistic” effect, whereby the ability of the formation damage control additive to prevent formation damage is enhanced relative to the use of the same additive separately.

A system and method for providing damage control caused by a virus epidemic in a network environment are advantageously provided according to the intention. The system according to a preferred embedment of the invention effectively and rapidly distributes antivirus protection and cure measures within the network so as to reduce the level of damage during the virus epidemic. The method according to the invention contains the spread of a computer virus in a network system by detecting the traffic flow and analyzing the identical sections in files modified in a short time period. The network system accordingly includes a management server, a management information database (MIB) having a plurality of tasks for performing work in the network system, and a plurality of device node. Each network task corresponds to an event occurring in the system. Damage control caused by a virus epidemic in a network environment is controlled and level of damage is accordingly reduced.

The invention discloses a flooding damage control method for water-diversion fracture main channels of drill-hole-grouting plugged overburden rock. The method comprises the steps: collecting surface-drilling columnar data of all coal mining areas according to development characteristics of altitude of water-diversion fractured zones of overburden rock mined under specific mining conditions, determining stratum positions of all key strata in the overburden rock by adopting a key stratum position distinguishing method, then, determining development altitude of a water-diversion fractured zone of each area and areas of distribution of communicating strata and water-bearing strata of each area by an overburden rock water-diversion fractured zone altitude prediction method, finally, laying out the range of distribution of the water-diversion fracture main channels in areas of the communicating water-bearing strata of the water-diversion fractured zones. and determining a grouting drilling type and drilling construction parameters according to borehole tunnel positions, coal bed cover depth and ground drill distribution conditions; after drilling construction is completed, pumping slurry to areas of the water-diversion fracture main channels so as to plug water-diversion fracture channels. The flooding damage control method for the water-diversion fracture main channels of the drill-hole-grouting plugged overburden rock, disclosed by the invention, is determined, can adapt to different mining conditions and can provide a guarantee for water resource protection, flooding damage control and the like of coal mining of mining areas, the use method is reliable, and the practicability is high.

A method for using Augmented Reality (AR), in conjunction with a real or simulated thermal imager. A primary application is to train emergency first responders. Particularly, the system uses a thermal imaging camera or standard video camera, and tracking system to provide a tracked viewpoint in an AR environment. The augmented portions of the environment can consist of fire, smoke, extinguishing agent, or other emergencies. This allows for inexpensive, flexible, and realistic on-site training of fire fighting, damage control, search and rescue, and other first responder techniques using thermal imaging.

The invention discloses a cultivation method of pollution-free tea, provides a complete cultivation method of pollution-free tea, including garden selection and building, selective tea tree planting, late fertilizer and water management, disease and pest damage control and tea picking, and solves the problem that the yield and quality of tea produced by the existing pollution-free tea cultivation method is unsatisfactory to consumers. The steps of the method are all under pollution-free management, problems to be noticed in various small steps during the whole cultivation process are considered, tea trees are managed later by biogenic pesticides and organic fertilizers, tea pollution is avoided comprehensively, the yield and quality of the pollution-free tea are increased further by the use of phased reasonable fertilizer application and correct classified tea picking, and the cultivation method is highly practical.

The invention provides a replaceable beam-column joint earthquake damage control device. The device comprises flange energy consumption fuses which are arranged in connection gaps of beam flange plates arranged in pairs; the upper face and the lower face of each flange plate are both provided with the corresponding flange energy consumption fuse; the flange energy consumption fuses are provided with bolt holes; the flange energy consumption fuses are fixedly connected with beam flanges through friction type high-strength bolts. The replaceable beam-column joint earthquake damage control device is simple and reliable in structure and convenient to install; damage control can be performed on the structure, and connecting joints are protected; vibration energy caused by an earthquake is dissipated, and vibration responses of a building under an earthquake are reduced; replaceability is good, and after an earthquake ends, damaged elements can be fast replaced under the condition that use of the building is not affected.

The invention discloses the underwater self-sailing platform mechanic system. The platform mechanic system, the detecting and launching device, the main cabin, the battery cabin and the tail cabin are orderly integrated. The outer bracket of the main cabin and the base plate are connected with the releasing devices; the said releasing devices are connected with the pressures load water cabin; the said water cabin is set with the water-injecting valve and cabin; the shell of the main cabin is equipped with the platform control system and the center of the shell is set with the oil tank driving device that drives the water cabin; the self-damaging control valve is on the shell; the outside of the shells of the said detecting and launching devices are equipped with the revolving and leveling devices of the sensor modules; the said tail cabin is set with the level helm and the vertical helm and the tail end has the airscrew.

A color switchable stress / fracture sensor in combination with a structure. The combination apparatus includes a structure requiring stress and / or fracture detection, and at least one elasto-mechanoluminescent material at least partially dispersed in and / or on the structure and / or in a coating on the structure. The combination apparatus further includes at least one fracto-mechanoluminescent material at least partially dispersed in and / or on the structure and / or in a coating on the structure, and at least one fiber optic cable positioned to receive and transmit sufficient light emitted from the elasto-mechanoluminescent material due to stress applied to the elasto-mechanoluminescent material and to receive and transmit sufficient light emitted from the fracto-mechanoluminescent material due to fracture of the fracto-mechanoluminescent material.

The invention relates to a gradient stress plasticity modification method which specially aims at damage control and fine structure regulation of high-entropy alloy material characteristics. The purpose of the method is to solve the problems that a high-entropy alloy casting state structure is mainly composed of bulky pine-tree crystals, and the comprehensive mechanical property of the high-entropy alloy casting state structure is poor. A preparation method mainly comprises the steps that a high-entropy alloy ingot is prepared; homogenization heat treatment, analogue simulation and canned forging are conducted; and a high-entropy alloy ingot blank is obtained. When the high-entropy alloy ingot is processed, preset variable cross-section canning is mainly adopted, the stress state of the interior of a high-entropy alloy material in the process is effectively controlled, and the gradient three-way compressive stress combined with deformation characteristics is formed. By means of the gradient stress plasticity modification method, initiation and propagation of microcracks induced by lattice distortion can be effectively inhibited finally, crystalline grains are refined, the comprehensive mechanical property is improved, and effective modification of the high-entropy alloy is achieved.

A security, tracking and damage control system for use primarily within the commercial transportation industry. The system consists of a line containing a weight sensor within a security pad, and deploys LAN wireless communication between facility traffic control and tractors (trucks), yard tugs and receptor / detector transceivers located in line. A communications terminal, located in the truck, is preprogrammed at trucking company to include driver name, ID, truck number, and trucking company. Shipper will program trailer number and commodity, and any other relevant information pertaining to the shipment. This information will be relayed by shipper to consignee and will be verified automatically along with driver ID and truck number, when truck arrives at facility.

The invention discloses a novel earthquake damage control system for a thin-wall hollow pier. The novel earthquake damage control system comprises a pier base, a thin-wall hollow pier, high-tenacity fiber-enhanced cement-based composite material expanded sections, an unbonded prestressed tendon and steel energy consumption elements, wherein the thin-wall hollow pier is arranged on the upper end surface of the pier base, so that the torsional strength and the energy-dissipating capacity of the thin-wall pier are improved. The high-tenacity fiber-enhanced cement-based composite material expanded sections are arranged on the inner side and the outer side of the lower part of thin-wall hollow pier; a series of steel energy consumption elements are arranged in the thin-wall hollow pier along the pier height; the lower part of the unbonded prestressed tendon is anchored on the pier base; and the upper part of the unbonded prestressed tendon is anchored at the center of the first steel energy consumption element from bottom to top. By virtue of the unbonded prestressed tendon, the self-resetting capacity of the pier after the earthquake is provided; and the crack width of the pier after the earthquake is reduced. By virtue of the high-tenacity fiber-enhanced cement-based composite material expanded sections, the axis-compression ratio of the bottom section of the thin-wall hollow pier is reduced; the shear-bearing capacity and the anti-bending capacity of the thin-wall hollow pier are increased; and the steel energy consumption elements can be arranged as rapid exchange components, so that the repairability after the earthquake is increased.

The invention relates to the application of a sand-fixing agent in sand-fixing and control of sand damage. The sand-fixing agent is composed of 88-94% polyvinyl alcohol, 1-2% boric acid and 4-10% sawdust. When using, add water to dilute, stir evenly, and then spray evenly. The sand-fixing agent is a colorless, transparent, slightly turbid liquid with no peculiar smell, viscosity of 12Pa.s-15Pa.s, no sinking at 10-70°C, and experimental compressive strength of 1.0Mpa-12.1Mpa at low temperature of 10-20°C The weight loss rate is 0-1.8%, the intensity loss rate is 0-42% after 300 hours of ultraviolet light irradiation, and the wind erosion amount is 0.05g.h-1.100cm2 under the experimental wind speed of 5.0-25.0m / s. 0.5 cm thick consolidation layer. In the control of wind and sand hazards in the wild, the effective period is 5-10 years. In addition, it is water-resistant, environmentally friendly, has good mechanical properties, and does not produce secondary pollution.

The present invention discloses a mine conversion of thermal energy circulate producing system, which belongs to deep working high-temp heat damage control and resource using field. The system includes: refrigeration workstation, pressure converting workstation, cool-down workstation, ground workstation and mine gushing water system; cold extracting end of refrigeration workstation connects with water drain end of mine gushing water system, water output end of refrigeration workstation connects with ground workstation by pump house, refrigerated water supply pipe and refrigerated water return pipe of refrigeration workstation connect with pressure convert workstation to form upper circulate subsystem, refrigerated water output tube and refrigerated water return pipe of pressure convert workstation connect with cool-down workstation to form lower circulate subsystem, top of cool-down workstation is equipped with wind circulate subsystem, wind circulate subsystem of cool-down workstation is equipped with cold air outlet. Not only deep working high-temp heat damage control is realized, but also heat damage resource is utilized,and the structure of the system is simple.

Hydraulic valve circuits capable of variably limiting respective maximum hydraulic pressures at which an assembly of bidirectional hydraulic power devices can move respective clamping members, such as forks or clamp arms, selectively in a closing movement toward each other, in an opening movement away from each other, or in a side-shifting movement in unison with each other, so as to provide damage-control capabilities for the control of the clamping members. The circuits preferably include one or more pressure-regulating valves interconnected with the assembly of power devices, and capable of variably limiting a maximum side-shifting pressure, at which said assembly can cause said side-shifting movement, in response to a maximum pressure selection. The circuits preferably include at least one override assembly, capable of overriding the maximum pressure selection to thereby lower the maximum side-shifting pressure automatically irrespective of the maximum pressure selection.

The invention discloses a permanent magnet tuning mass damping device used for bridge expansion joint damage control. The permanent magnet tuning mass damping device used for bridge expansion joint damage control comprises a mass block, permanent magnets which are distributed on the inner side and the outer side of the mass block and are covered with graphene coatings, an inner copper plate, an outer copper plate and a plurality of springs; the positions of the inner copper plate and the outer copper plate are fixed, the mass block is suspended on an upper fixed plate of the device through the springs, and when a box beam horizontally vibrates, the mass block swings, and the inner copper plate cuts a magnetic induction line generated by the permanent magnet on the inner side of the mass block; when the box beam vertically vibrates, the mass block vertically moves, the outer copper plate cuts a magnetic induction line generated by the permanent magnet on the outer side, and vibration energy is dissipated through the resistance heat effect of the copper plates. The device is simple in structure and convenient to mount, the defect that oil leakage appears in a traditional viscous fluid damping device is overcome, the service life of the damping device is greatly prolonged, the device damping efficiency is improved, in addition, the damping device can control beam end horizontal and vertical displacement at the same time, the expansion joint distorted destruction probability caused by the beam end corners is greatly reduced, and generation and development of the expansion joint damage are controlled.

Disclosed is an energy consumption steel column system with replaceable hysteretic dampers. An energy consumption column comprises two column limbs, rigid chain rods, the multiple sets of hysteretic dampers, connection bolts and hinged support seats. The column limbs are connected through the rigid chain rods. The column limbs of the energy consumption column are connected with the hysteretic dampers through bolts. The energy consumption column penetrates through a full-height or most floors and is connected with a frame beam in a hinged mode. The bottoms of the column limbs are connected with foundations through the hinged support seats. During site construction, the energy consumption column is buried in a wall body in a planar mode. The energy consumption steel column system has the beneficial effects that the two column limbs are combined to act and provide large resistant-lateral rigidity and bearing capacity and serve as an integral type key component to reduce deformation concentration of the structural floors effectively, and thus structural damage control is achieved. The rigidity of the hysteretic dampers is far smaller than that of the column limbs, so that flexural yielding occurs when lateral deformation of the column limbs is small, and seismic energy is consumed and dispersed. The hysteretic dampers are prospective structural damage parts and connected through bolts, and can be replaced conveniently after being damaged in an earthquake. The energy consumption column is a factory prefabricated component and is connected through the bolts on a site, the construction speed is high, and energy conservation and environment protection are achieved.

The invention discloses a test device and a test method for studying erosion damage under the condition that joints between bags of a pipe bag dam are broken. Water flow states such as stable unidirectional water flow, reciprocating water flow and wavy water flow are provided for a pipeline sandbox system through a water flow control system, the hydraulic boundary condition of a pipeline side wall breakage is simulated, and water flow related information and sand particle related information in a test process are acquired by an information acquisition system, so that the simulation of the erosion damage process generated under the conditions that the joint pipelines of the pipe bag dam are broken under the action of different water flows is completed. According to the test device and method provided by the invention, the rule of erosion damage under the condition that joints of the pipe bag dam are broken is revealed from the macroscopic aspect, the dynamic change characteristics of a sand body structure can be observed from the mesoscopic point of view, and an erosion damage mechanism under the condition that the joint pipelines of the pipe bag dam are broken is revealed and a distinguishing criterion and method of erosion damage are summarized by establishing a relation between water flow and macroscopic and mesoscopic variables of particles and phenomena so as to seek damage control measures.

This invention is a simple, inexpensive, damage resistant, compact tray for use in rural type mailboxes to facilitate an improved, safer and easier manner in posting and receiving mail. It is designed with five major additions to the arts of existing mail tray patents: 1. The nature of this invention is specifically designed for mass production to result in an inexpensive tray available to peoples of all income brackets. 2. It is also designed for damage control keeping incoming and outgoing mail free from damage, with emphasis on water damage. 3. It is designed to allow mail receipiants ease of access when approaching in an automobile. 4. Multiple materials may be used in its construction, all working equally well. 5. All of the necessary arts found in the various inventions of this nature have been consolidated in this invention.

The invention provides a plant disease and insect damage control composition including, as active ingredients, dinotefuran and at least one fungicidal compound; and a plant disease and insect damage prevention method that includes applying such a composition to a plant body, soil, plant seed, stored cereal, stored legume, stored fruit, stored vegetable, silage, stored flowering plant, or export / import timber. The invention provides a new plant disease and insect damage control composition and a plant disease and insect damage prevention method with very low toxicity to mammals and fishes, the composition and method showing an effect against plural pathogens and pest insects, including emerging resistant pathogens and resistant pest insect, by application to a plant body, soil, plant seed, stored cereal, stored legume, stored fruit, stored vegetable, silage, stored flowering plant, or export / import timber.

The invention provides a plant disease and insect damage control composition including, as active ingredients, dinotefuran and at least one fungicidal compound; and a plant disease and insect damage prevention method that includes applying such a composition to a plant body, soil, plant seed, stored cereal, stored legume, stored fruit, stored vegetable, silage, stored flowering plant, or export / import timber. The invention provides a new plant disease and insect damage control composition and a plant disease and insect damage prevention method with very low toxicity to mammals and fishes, the composition and method showing an effect against plural pathogens and pest insects, including emerging resistant pathogens and resistant pest insect, by application to a plant body, soil, plant seed, stored cereal, stored legume, stored fruit, stored vegetable, silage, stored flowering plant, or export / import timber.

The invention discloses a task-driven ship damage control conversational training simulation system. The task-driven ship damage control conversational training simulation system comprises an expert knowledge base module used for storing expert knowledge of ship damage control training tasks, a task selection module used for selecting training tasks, an expert problem generation module used for generating expert problem texts and problem prompt information, a voice synthesis module used for converting the expert problem texts into audio signals, a voice recognition module used for receiving an answer audio signal and recognizing as natural language, a natural language comprehension module used for converting the natural language into answer text information, an answer judging module used for judging answer accuracy, and an expert dialog management module used for problem switching prompting. The task-driven ship damage control conversational training simulation system enables trainees and an expert system to complete damage control full-flow simulation training in a voice chat manner, can correct and prompt users of incorrect or missed control passwords, is strong in immersion, and can display complicated control links to truly reflect the real damage control process.

The invention relates to a method for cultivating excellent propagating materials for large-sized sympodial bamboos, which includes the steps: firstly, choosing a land; secondly, building a nursery in spring and summer; thirdly, selecting female parents; fourthly, performing cutting to obtain the female parents; fifthly, performing land preparation for planting, turning soil at the depth more than 30cm, digging ponds 134-167 per mu according to 2mX2m, setting the specification of the ponds to be 35-40cm in depth, 40-50cm in width and 40-50cm in length, planting the female parents in the prepared nursery timely, and irrigating rooting water; sixthly, performing tending management including irrigation, moisture preservation, fertilizing, soil loosening, weeding and disease and pest damage control; seventhly, topping new plants which substantially grow in fixed shapes at the height 2-4m, or not performing topping; and eighthly, collecting propagating materials and cutting off shoots. By the method, the quality of the propagating materials is guaranteed, transport cost of the materials is reduced, and cultivation cost of bamboo seedlings is reduced effectively.

The invention discloses a light cultivation method of rice by mechanized hill-direct-seeding, comprising the steps, such as mechanized crushing and returning of wheat, land preparation, rice seed selection, rice seed treatment, seed and fertilizer synchronization in mechanized hill-direct-seeding, moisture management, disease and pest damage control, mechanized harvesting, and straw returning. Themechanized manner replaces the manual manner to arrive at light cultivation of rice by hill direct seeding. Compared with traditional rice planting modes, the method of the invention employs seed andfertilizer synchronization in mechanized hill-direct-seeding to achieve single fertilizer application for rice, and the difficulty in rice topdressing is overcome; fertilizer is applied below the lateral side of rice seeds, the problem that contact between the fertilizer and the seeds affects seed germination is avoided, rice root burning is avoided, downward growth of seed roots is promoted, theability of hill-direct-seeded rice to resist lodging is enhanced, and green yield increase and efficiency increase for rice are promoted.