118 results about "Decrease weight" patented technology

Devices suitable for implantation in a body of a host and systems and methods for their manufacture are provided. The implantable devices include a composite material formed at least from a matrix material and hollow gas-filled beads. In preferred embodiments, the composite material includes a polymeric matrix mixed with hollow air-filled glass beads, which are mixed and cured to form at least a portion of the body of the implantable device. Implantable devices including this composite material have decreased weight and / or overall density as compared to implantable devices without the beads incorporated therein, which is believed to improve the acceptance and function of the implantable device in vivo. Additionally, implantable devices concerned with transmitting and receiving via RF are believed to achieve improved RF performance due to a reduced dielectric constant provided by the incorporation of beads within the composite material.

Devices suitable for implantation in a body of a host and systems and methods for their manufacture are provided. The implantable devices include a composite material formed at least from a matrix material and hollow gas-filled beads. In preferred embodiments, the composite material includes a polymeric matrix mixed with hollow air-filled glass beads, which are mixed and cured to form at least a portion of the body of the implantable device. Implantable devices including this composite material have decreased weight and / or overall density as compared to implantable devices without the beads incorporated therein, which is believed to improve the acceptance and function of the implantable device in vivo. Additionally, implantable devices concerned with transmitting and receiving via RF are believed to achieve improved RF performance due to a reduced dielectric constant provided by the incorporation of beads within the composite material.

A knitted spacer material including the use of a stretch yarn component for stretch, compression resistance, decreased weight, and improved drape and / or conformability.

A family of materials wherein nanostructures and / or nanotubes are incorporated into a multi-component material arrangement, such as a metallic or ceramic alloy or composite / aggregate, producing a new material or metallic / ceramic alloy. The new material has significantly increased strength, up to several thousands of times normal and perhaps substantially more, as well as significantly decreased weight. The new materials may be manufactured into a component where the nanostructure or nanostructure reinforcement is incorporated into the bulk and / or matrix material, or as a coating where the nanostructure or nanostructure reinforcement is incorporated into the coating or surface of a “normal” substrate material. The nanostructures are incorporated into the material structure either randomly or aligned, within grains, or along or across grain boundaries.

A fabric having a face surface and a back surface forming a fabric plane, wherein the fabric is further processed to produce spaced apart, repeated patterned domes extending out of the fabric plane, the domes forming channels therebetween, producing a molded formed 3-D fabric for evaporative cooling and / or insulation as well as comfort, stretch, compression resistance, decreased weight, and improved drape, softness, and / or conformability, depending upon the yarn component and fabric properties.

Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for preconditioning and / or providing neuroprotection to the animal central nervous system against the effects of ischemia, trauma, metal poisoning and neurodegeneration, including the associated cognitive, behavioral and physical impairments. In one embodiment, the method is accomplished by stimulating and stabilizing hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α). HIF-1α is known to provide a neuroprotective benefit under ischemic conditions. Patients at risk for certain diseases or disorders that are associated with risk for cerebral ischemia may benefit, e.g., those at risk for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Wilson's disease or stroke or those patients having head or spinal cord injury. Patients undergoing certain medical procedures that may result in ischemia may also benefit. Initially, the possibility of ischemia or neurodegeneration is recognized. Intranasal therapeutic agents are administered to the upper third of the nasal cavity to bypass the blood-brain barrier and access the central nervous system directly to avoid unwanted and potentially lethal side effects. Therapeutic agents include those substances that interact with iron and / or copper such as iron chelators, copper chelators, and antioxidants. A particular example of such therapeutic agents is the iron chelator deferoxamine (DFO). Intranasal administration of DFO is known to stimulate and / or stabilize HIF-1α and provides an efficient and safe method for pre-conditioning the brain to protect against cerebral ischemia. Moreover, DFO is shown to decrease weight loss in subjects when administered pre and / or post stroke.

Building panels, especially laminated floor panels are shown, which are provided with a locking system and several core grooves at the rear side in order to save material and decrease weight.

A nozzle comprising a thin, flexible substantially planar polymeric film having a plurality of pores with structures allowing for generation of an aerosol at reduced extrusion pressure is disclosed. The pores can comprise at least two sections, or steps, in which the thickness of the membrane is reduced in stepwise fashion, or the pores can be tapered. Nozzles formed comprising pores having such structures permit aerosol generation at lower extrusion pressures, thereby allowing for decreased weight of aerosolization devices, increased efficiency, increased portability and increased battery life. The pore structures also allow for the use of thicker, more easily processed polymeric films in manufacturing while having a thinner, more efficient aerosolization area. The use of decreased extrusion pressures also results in increased uniformity in aerosol generation and improved reliability of other components.

The present invention is a lighting system for providing illumination to an aircraft evacuation slide. Light sources are safely utilized with an existing evacuation slide, a substantial improvement over prior assemblies that use a hard, plastic housing enclosing the light source. The invention increases light transmission, eliminates housing cracking, inadvertent puncturing, clouding, and decreases weight and cost of conventional slide systems. Each assembly comprises a mounting surface and a printed circuit board thereon, light sources, preferably light-emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted on the mounting surface, the light sources illuminating the aircraft evacuation slide, and a flexible containment covering, such as a heat shrink wrap that covers the assembly and protects the light sources. A protective shield can cover the mounting surface while allowing the LEDs to protrude through an aperture in the shield, protecting the LEDs from damaging forces while allowing light to illuminate the landing area.

The present invention deals with a transverse flux machine of the switched reluctance variety. The transverse flux machine consists of multiple phases where each phase is spaced axially along the shaft. Axial spacing provides many benefits including a decreased weight and a capability to use simple wound bobbin coils for the windings. An embedded cooling loop is provided within the coils themselves. This cooling loop provides internal temperature regulation for the windings and allows for a higher efficiency among other benefits.

Building panels, especially laminated floor panels are shown, which are provided with a locking system and several core grooves at the rear side in order to save material and decrease weight.

A wall panel is provided that is comprised of a plurality of spaced foam insulative blocks. Between each block is a metal stud that spans the height of the wall panel and provides sufficient strength to counteract any compressive loads the wall panel may encounter. The presence of the insulation panels provides large surface areas for the receipt of a thin layer of cementious or gypsum based material that is adapted to receive nails and be easily cut. In addition, the decreased weight of the exterior wall allows for the omission of reinforcing internal structure within the exterior wall which is found in the prior art, thereby providing a lightweight and easy to fabricate wall.

An aquatic gliding board such as a surfboard is constructed using a honeycomb material for the core. The composite outer skin of the surfboard is constructed of materials having similar flexibility properties as found in a traditional foam / fiberglass surfboard. In a particularly preferred embodiment an aluminum honeycomb core is employed along with a fiberglass skin in order to achieve a surfboard with decreased weight and increased strength to resist failure in bending relative to a traditional foam / fiberglass surfboard, but having similar flexibility characteristics to such a traditional surfboard, or having increased flexibility relative to such a traditional surfboard.

Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for preconditioning and / or providing neuroprotection to the animal central nervous system against the effects of ischemia, trauma, metal poisoning and neurodegeneration, including the associated cognitive, behavioral and physical impairments. In one embodiment, the method is accomplished by stimulating and stabilizing hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α). HIF-1α is known to provide a neuroprotective benefit under ischemic conditions. Patients at risk for certain diseases or disorders that are associated with risk for cerebral ischemia may benefit, e.g., those at risk for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Wilson's disease or stroke or those patients having head or spinal cord injury. Patients undergoing certain medical procedures that may result in ischemia may also benefit. Initially, the possibility of ischemia or neurodegeneration is recognized. Intranasal therapeutic agents are administered to the upper third of the nasal cavity to bypass the blood-brain barrier and access the central nervous system directly to avoid unwanted and potentially lethal side effects. Therapeutic agents include those substances that interact with iron and / or copper such as iron chelators, copper chelators, and antioxidants. A particular example of such therapeutic agents is the iron chelator deferoxamine (DFO). Intranasal administration of DFO is known to stimulate and / or stabilize HIF-1α and provides an efficient and safe method for pre-conditioning the brain to protect against cerebral ischemia. Moreover, DFO is shown to decrease weight loss in subjects when administered pre and / or post stroke.

The invention discloses an experimental test system and method of disturbing creep of rock under pressure action of infiltration water. According to the system, a first support pillar is fixedly arranged on a base, first and second reinforcing beams are pivoted to the first support pillar, a movable support is arranged on the second reinforcing beam and is contacted with the first reinforcing beam, one end of the first reinforcing beam is fixedly connected with a weight holder and a vibrator, a frequency modulator is externally connected with the vibrator, the vibrator produces vibration withdifferent amplitude values and different frequencies through modulation of the frequency modulator, and axial disturbance with different amplitude values and different frequencies is further producedfor a test piece; impact disturbance of different strengths is realized through free falling bodies of weights in different masses from different heights; a creep loading test can be realized by increasing or decreasing weights on the weight holder; different confining pressure and different seepage water pressure can be loaded to the test piece; experimental test of creep of the rock under the conditions of different axial pressure, different confining pressure, different seepage water pressure and different disturbing characteristics is realized, and the creep characteristic of the rock under the complicated condition can be better researched.

An incrementally-sized Standard-Sized eating-ware system and process comprise a plurality of formulas to establish and assign Standard Sizes to eating-ware. The Standard Sizes' total volumetric capacity equivalents are based on a series of incrementally-sized flat surfaces. These capacity equivalents comprise volume inside eating-ware and directly above it. Standard Sizes guide and control amount and rate of food consumed. The system and processes provide a plurality of incrementally-sized Standard-Sized eating-ware components having successively decreasing Standard Sizes appointed to be utilized in a graduated manner over a period of time and deployed during intervals to provide gradual, unnoticeable food adjustment, which enables users to modify eating habits for effective weight management while minimizing the perception of change. Numerical and letter representations of Standard Size and Calorie Density Mark guide users in selecting eating-ware components to maintain, prevent, increase or decrease weight.

A tire includes a carcass structure including at least one carcass ply, the carcass structure including a crown portion and two axially opposite side portions terminating in beads for mounting the tire on a rim; a tread band; and a belt structure interposed between the carcass structure and the tread band. The bead includes a bead core. The bead core includes: at least one first elongated element including at least one metal wire, and at least one second elongated element including at least one carbon fiber. The bead core results in an increased bead, forcing an improved bead unseating resistance and a decreased weight.

A cell phone including a built-in antenna, the cell phone having a reduced physical size of an antenna element, a decreased weight and satisfying an impact resistance, and suppressing a variation in a dimension caused by mass production and considering an actual use state in which a hand or the like approaches. A dielectric between an antenna element and a ground is a support member of a cyclo-olefin polymer in a plating grade having an impact resistance which is obtained by blending styrene type rubber, polyolefin type rubber (elastomer) or both of them, and the antenna element is constituted by a plating formed on a main surface of the dielectric.

The invention relates to a method of preparing a thermoplastic vulcanizate comprising: a) melt processing a blend of thermoplastic polymer and vulcanizable elastomer in a multi-screw extruder having at least three intermeshing screws, wherein said screws have 3-170 mixing zones, and said extruder having a L / D ratio of 15-100, and a screw profile that has 3 to 17 meshes per L / D; b) adding at least one curing agent to the melt-processed blend of a) in at least one location in the first 46% of the length of said extruder, or adding at least one curing agent to the melt-processed blend of a) in a second extruder, so as to initiate curing of the blend: and, curing at least partially said elastomer by reactive melt processing. Improved processing, reaction kinetics and efficiencies are achieved, as well as thermoplastic vulcanizate products having decreased weight gain when placed in mineral oils.

The invention relates to an energy-storage scheduling method and device for an intelligent power grid, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a power generator uncertainty model, a load uncertainty model and an electric car charging uncertainty model in the intelligent power grid, wherein the intelligent power grid comprises a wind power generator, an energy storage apparatus, and an electric car charging station; carrying out the stochastic load flow calculation of the intelligent power grid through employing a two-point estimation method based on a fourth-order Gram-Charlier series expansion equation, carrying out the random sampling of a stochastic load flow calculation result, and obtaining an expected load flow distribution; determining a constraint condition according to the expected load flow distribution, solving a pre-built target function through employing a particle swarm optimization algorithm based on a segmented inertia decreasing weight, and obtaining an optimal energy storage scheme meeting the constraint condition; and carrying out the scheduling of the energy storage device according to the optimal energy storage scheme. The method can effectively inhibit the uncertainty of the intelligent power grid, and enables the intelligent power grid to operate safely and stably.

The invention discloses a GIS mechanical fault diagnosis method and system based on the chaotic cuckoo algorithm. For two common GIS mechanical faults of screw loosening and metal particle vibration,a VMD parameter is optimized with the chaotic cuckoo algorithm; GIS normal vibration signals and fault signals are subjected to VMD decomposition, and feature vectors with different fault type signalsare extracted; feature vector sets of training samples are clustered with the K-means clustering algorithm optimized through linearly decreasing weight PSO, and different clustering centers are obtained; feature vector sets of test samples are identified through the minimum euclidean distance rule, and diagnosis of GIS mechanical faults is achieved.

An apparatus and method for an electric bike retrofit for disc brakes vehicle include an electric motor coupled with a rotor brake. The apparatus and method provide advantages in that the drive gear for the electric motor may be integrated with the brake rotor decreasing weight and minimizing necessary parts. The electric motor may mount to the existing brake caliper mounts and drive the brake rotor without the use of a chain, belt, or the like. Multiple gear ratios may be incorporated into the brake rotor allowing for shifting and increased efficiency of the electric drive system.

A Chinese-medicinal tea for decreasing fat in human body and losing weight without by-effect is prepared from 10 Chinese-medicinal materials including haw, cassia seed, lotus leaf, tuckahoe, etc.

An aquatic gliding board such as a surfboard is constructed using a honeycomb material for the core. The composite outer skin of the surfboard is constructed of materials having similar flexibility properties as found in a traditional foam / fiberglass surfboard. In a particularly preferred embodiment an aluminum honeycomb core is employed along with a fiberglass skin in order to achieve a surfboard with decreased weight and increased strength to resist failure in bending relative to a traditional foam / fiberglass surfboard, but having similar flexibility characteristics to such a traditional surfboard, or having increased flexibility relative to such a traditional surfboard.

This invention enables broad commercial use of heat pipe technology in designs ranging from traditional outdoor apparel to high-end sport garments and special tasks garments. Heat pipes of popular mesh or velvet patterns provides integrated heat sink functionality that decreases weight, size and cost of thermal designs. Products of the invention are lightweight, flexible and even elastic that provides maximum comfort to their users.

A lightweight, collapsible, readily repairable, minimum thickness reel for cable, conduit, tubing or the like and the components of which are preferably molded of synthetic resin material. The end flanges of the reel each have a flat inner surface and a cellular outer surface for decreased weight. Molded, foldable ribbed tubing support units are interposed between the inner surfaces of the end flanges for receiving and supporting cable, conduit or tubing wound therearound when the support units are extended. The planar, inner surfaces of the end flanges have recesses for complementally receiving the rib portions of the leg segments of respective support units so that when the reel is in its collapsed condition the reel is not substantially thicker than the combined thickness of the side by side end flanges. The end flanges are molded of a synthetic resin material in a mold which receives pre-molded leg segments with a release agent thereon which results in concomitant forming of the recesses for the folding leg segments of the support units. A blowing agent may be incorporated in the resin in which the flanges are molded so that a relatively thin, tough, abrasion resistant skin is formed while the interior of the wall structure of the flange is of decreased density.

A device of an improvement on the structure of linear actuator primarily includes a motor body and an output shaft, and at one end of the motor body fixed a gear case in which two sets of planetary gear trains fitted, by which a sun gear of one of the planetary gear trains is disposed at the top of output shaft; according to the above mentioned structure, the mesh teeth number between planetary gear is more to enhance the efficiency of resisting shocks and absorbing vibrates for attaining the intention of reducing cost, decreasing weight, diminishing volume, and promoting better outlook.

The big diameter parabolic antenna with floor supporting and charging expansion relates to satellite communication antenna to send and receive electromagnetic wave. Wherein, the reflecting object comprises a group of unit charging chamber 1-1 with floor 3 fixed between two chambers; the floor 3 fixes to separation plate 2-1 of holding frame assembly with back end connected to center link frame 4 and top end adhered reflector layer 6; the back end of unit charging chamber fixes to charging device 5; the reflection object has caliber Phi of 5-25m and composes inner layer of aluminum foil material and side layers of plastic thin membrane. This invention decreases weight, volume and cost, and fits to ideal satellite communication antenna.