44 results about "Excess weight" patented technology

The invention provides materials and methods for the treatment of obesity and excess weight, diabetes, and other associated metabolic disorders. In particular, the invention provides novel glucagon analogue peptides effective in such methods. The peptides may mediate their effect by having increased selectivity for the GLP-1 receptor as compared to human glucagon.

A food product, suitable for a controllled carbohydrate diet comprises identifiable pieces of cereal-like core held together with a binding agent, with the product being 30% or less in digestible carbohydrate. The product may be consumed as part of a weight loss or maintenance program, or as nutritional support in any case where escessive blood sugar is to be avoided, such as in subjects suffering from excess weight or obesity, hyperglycemia, insulin resistance and types I and I diabetes.

The invention discloses a constrained damping plate optimization design method based on a bidirectional evolutionary optimization algorithm and belongs to the technical field of optimal structural designing. The method includes the steps of establishing a finite element model of constrained damping plate; establishing a topological optimization model; setting parameters of the bidirectional evolutionary optimization algorithm; calculating sensitivities of constrained damping plate structural units; gradually deleting low-efficiency ones of the constrained damping plate structural units by the bidirectional evolutionary optimization algorithm, and restoring high-sensitivity deleted ones of the constrained damping plate structural units; stopping iteration when constraint conditions are met, and outputting an optimal layout of constrained damping material. The method has the advantages that a modal loss factor of the constrained damping plate is maximized under certain usage of the constrained damping material, and the constrained damping plate structure effectively damps on the premise of no excess weight being added.

As weight restrictions become more stringent, air, train and bus passengers are being faced with the increasing cost of excess baggage weight. The proposed system makes use of transducers built into the bag or its handle both for weight monitoring and for theft protection. In the weight monitoring mode, designed for use during packing, an excess weight alarm is triggered when a preset maximum value is exceeded. In the theft protection mode, the transducer signal triggers an alarm as soon as the bag is picked up, thus giving early warning of possible theft. In this mode the signal is preferably transmitted to an external device such as a cellular phone for remote audible and/or visible indication. Because the circuits are switched on only when the suitcase or bag is picked up, battery life is practically equal to shelf life, hence ensuring high system availability.

A strong, light weight walking aid with optional seat that can be used to assist a person in walking and resting on the walking aid. The walking aid collapses so that it can be stored in a small space and the handle can be removed and reattached to make it even smaller. The walking aid is constructed of a double tube aluminum frame to make it strong without adding excess weight. It is provided with a padded, sure-grip handle and can be provided with braking mechanisms on some or all of the wheels.

Provided are methods for selecting melanocortin receptor-specific compounds for attenuating food intake and for treatment of specific disease conditions, including treatment of obesity and related energy homeostasis or feeding disorders characterized by excess weight gain, without inducing a sexual response, and methods for selecting compounds for treatment of sexual dysfunction. Further provided are pharmaceutical preparations defined by such methods, and methods and preparations for attenuating food intake and treatment of said conditions.

Methods and devices create an intestinal braking effect, are non-invasive or minimally invasive, and may be reversible. These methods and devices are accomplished via stabilized implantable systems, and ingestible pills. In one embodiment, the implantable system comprises a device delivering a therapeutic substance to a target location within the gastrointestinal tract of a patient in order to initiate an intestinal braking effect which would promote sensations of satiety and stimulate excess weight loss for the patient.

The application discloses a road surface maintenance early warning method and device; the method of one specific embodiment comprises the following steps: obtaining maintenance data of each sub road section of an object road, wherein the maintenance data comprises the start time of each maintenance work of said sub road sections; obtaining vehicle traffic data passing each sub road section from the start time of the previous maintenance work, wherein the vehicle traffic data comprises vehicle traffic flow, and load capacity and excess weight of each vehicle; determining the traffic flow integral amount of said sub road section according to the vehicle traffic flow of each sub road section and the load capacity and excess weight of each vehicle passing the sub road section; forming early warning information of the road surface maintenance work of each sub road section in the object road according to the traffic flow integral amount of each sub road section of the object road. The method and device can realize dynamic early warning of the road surface maintenance work.

The inventive method for automatically analysing a cellular sample consists (a) in colouring the cell nucleuses of a sample, (b) inobtaining at least one digital picture of the sample, and (c) in digitally analysing said image and is characterised in that the cell nucleus colouring stage (2) is embodied in the form of a DNA-non-specific colouring. In order to use the inventive method, said invention also relates to a method for selecting a culture medium, a method for measuring substance toxicity and to a method for measuring the cytopathological characteristics of a virus. A method for selecting pharmacological substances for treating excess weight and obesity diseases and a method for selecting substances for treating osteoporosis are also disclosed.

A combination product includes as active substances, at least an inhibitor of the HMG-CoA-reductase enzyme and citrulline, or a bioequivalent compound thereof, for treating excess weight or obesity and/or the accumulation of body fat. A cosmetic treatment method for improving or slimming the figure and/or for stimulating the loss of excess weight and/or of cellulite and/or for limiting the accumulation thereof, includes the administration of a combination product including as active substances, at least an inhibitor of the HMG-CoA-reductase enzyme or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof, and citrulline, or a bioequivalent compound thereof, or one of theirs analogues, and the renewal of the administration until the expected cosmetic effect is obtained. The combination product such as previously defined for improving or slimming the figure and/or for stimulating the loss of excess weight and/or of cellulite and/or for limiting the accumulation thereof is also described.

The object of the invention are compositions and medical treatment methods with an inheritable, Gram-negative, strictly anaerobic and commensal bacterium of the family Christensenellaceae belonging to an OTU (Operational Taxonomic Unit) characterized by a 16S rRNA sequence SEQ ID NO: 1 or to an OTU characterized by a165 rRNA sequence SEQ ID NO: 2.

An inflatable game ball containing a noise suppression device and a method for inflating the game ball are described. More particularly, a free standing, noise suppression disk is fit snuggly within a central area of the hollow internal cavity formed by the bladder of the game ball. The diameter of the noise suppression disk is slightly larger than the diameter of the hollow internal cavity of the ball, while the thickness of the disk is sufficient to provide necessary rigidity to the game ball noise suppressor without adding excess weight to the ball. An exact amount of SF₆ is pre-filled in the balls, when combined with subsequent air, is determined to create the ultimate SF₆ to air ratio range at various altitude levels. Subsequently, the balls are only partially inflated at the time of manufacture with the SF₆ gas, and no air.