2046 results about "Nest" patented technology

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for sealing a subcutaneous tissue puncture. The method and apparatus increases the reliability of device function by creating a multi-level anchor nest in a carrier tube of a tissue puncture closure device. The multi-level nest allows an insertion sheath or other deployment member to slide between the carrier tube and the anchor to rotate and deploy the anchor within an artery or other lumen.

Spiral-wound materials, spirals, and shafts made therefrom that have wraps with edges that may nest within one another are described. Such edges allow the spiral to achieve a smaller bending radius, meaning tighter turns and more flexibility due to the ability of adjacent wraps to nest within each other when the shaft is bent. Spirals having wraps with edges capable of nesting can be used in the medical field for devices that track anatomy, such as endoscopes, colonoscopes, catheters, and the like.

An apparatus and method for forming and joining a first sheet material (A) located in a nest (30) to a second sheet material (B) positioned on top of the first sheet material. The apparatus includes a positional pressure roller tool or positional pressure variance unit (50) for performing the forming and joining operations. The PPVU (50) may include both a main roller (58) and a touch-up roller (60). The PPVU (50) is operatively associated with a programmable positioning apparatus in the form of a robotic arm (52) and a machine cell (10) whereby the position of the robotic arm (52) relative to the nest (30) dictates the applied pressure at the interface between the roller (72) and the nest (30).

A method of fabricating a radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna on a substrate is disclosed. The antenna is fabricated on a substrate that includes already fabricated RFID chips. The substrate is connected with a carrier substrate and singulated to separate the plurality of RFID chips into a plurality of diesites. The antenna is connected to a RFID chip in an assembly order to form an a RFID tag. The method is repeated such that each successively connected antenna overlaps a previously connected antenna.

A system and device for installing and mounting conduit upon a surface such as a roof. The system made up of at least one support block having a base and an upper portion, a support rail and a variety of attachments for holding conduit to the rail. Each of the various blocks in the system configured to nest when oriented in a first direction to stack in an elevated position having a greater height when oriented in a second direction. These pieces are configured to work together to provide a mounting system with significant advantages over other devices that exist in the prior art.

A computer method, apparatus and storage medium is provided for creating quantitative aesthetic graphics from data. The invention utilizes a graph algebra to construct graphs and visually or otherwise represents the graphs as a quantitative aesthetic graphic representation. To create the quantitative aesthetic graphics from data, the data is indexed to form a data set. Thereafter, the data is converted into a variable data structure composed of an index set, a range and a function. The variable data structure is converted into a variable set by using at least one of a blend step, a cross step and a nest step. The variable set is mapped into a set of points and the set of points is mapped into an aesthetic representation.

This invention describes a compilation method of extracting and implementing an accelerator control program from an application source code in a processor based system. The application source code comprises arrays and loops. The input application source code is sequential, with loop, branch and call control structures, while the generated output of this invention has parallel execution semantics. The compilation method comprises the step of performing loop nest analysis, transformations and backend processes. The step of loop nest analysis consists of dependence analysis and pointer analysis. Dependence analysis determines the conflicts between the various references to arrays in the loop, and pointer analysis determines if two pointer references in a loop are in conflict. Transformations convert the loops from their original sequential execution semantics to parallel execution semantics. The back-end process determines the parameters and memory map of the accelerator and the hardware dependent software.

An apparatus that automatically captures, stores and analyzes images of crystallization experiments contained in a number of crystallization plates. The apparatus includes a plate nest capable of accommodating protein crystallization plates of a plurality of different types, image acquisition optics, including an objective lens and an image capturing device, for focusing an image of a crystallization well, a light source including a bright field illumination device and a dark field illumination device, a nest positioning controller for moving the position of the plate nest with respect to the image acquisition optics to align various selected wells with said objective lens for imaging of the content of the wells. A database stores experiment information associated with each of the crystallization plates, the experiment information including identification of specific crystal forming parameter values, each of the crystallization plates is identified in said database by a unique identification code. A crystallization imaging controller controls crystallization imaging by retrieving the experiment information for each crystallization plate inserted into the apparatus, and controlling the nest positioning controller and the image acquisition optics in accordance with the retrieved experiment information. The apparatus captures multiple images of each crystal site using different light source and polarization conditions, and processes the multiple images to form extended fused images of each crystal site.

A computer method, apparatus and storage medium is provided for creating quantitative aesthetic graphics from data. The invention utilizes a graph algebra to construct graphs and visually or otherwise represents the graphs as a quantitative aesthetic graphic representation. To create the quantitative aesthetic graphics from data, the data is indexed to form a data set. Thereafter, the data is converted into a variable data structure composed of an index set, a range and a function. The variable data structure is converted into a variable set by using at least one of a blend step, a cross step and a nest step. The variable set is mapped into a set of points and the set of points is mapped into an aesthetic representation.

The invention provides an underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning method based on a cuckoo search algorithm and belongs to the technical field of underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning. In detail, according to the problems existing in underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning, the method includes the five basic steps of modeling, initializing the cuckoo search algorithm, updating the positions of cuckoo nests, selecting the global optimum position, judging an end condition and outputting the optimum route. According to the method, simplicity, high efficiency and global searching capacity of the cuckoo search algorithm are utilized well. Compared with a traditional underwater vehicle route planning method, the underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning method is higher in intelligence and adaptability and is higher in flexibility and easier to implement compared with other intelligent optimization algorithms; the process of route planning is performed in a three-dimensional environment, a planned route is higher in practicability compared with a route planned in a two-dimensional environment, and the navigation requirements of an underwater vehicle can be met very well.

A waterslide bowl has a fixed rider path from entrance to exit. The bowl comprises a trough which is made of a plurality of sets of trough sections, attached together, in which the trough sections of a given set are the same and nest together side-by-side, permitting the rider surface of the bowl to be made from trough sections having a small number of different shapes. This reduces the number of molds that would otherwise be required to make the trough sections. The waterslide bowl may also have two or more separate troughs, nested together, whereby the bowl may be ridden in by multiple riders at the same time, each in his or her own trough.

The invention discloses a milling cutter wear prediction method and a state recognition method. The wear prediction method comprises the following steps that firstly, wavelet noise reduction processing is performed on milling vibration data, feature extraction is performed on vibration signals from three aspects including time domain, frequency domain and time domain, after an initial feature vector set is obtained, a correlation coefficient method is used for calculating the correlation between feature vectors and wear amount, and an optimal feature vector set is obtained by screening; then,an average relative error predicted by a least squares support vector machine is defined as a fitness function of an adaptive step size cuckoo search algorithm, and by searching for a nest position, input parameters of the least squares support vector machine are optimized; finally, the wear amount is predicted by using the optimal least square support vector machine. Through comparison with two other hybrid intelligent algorithms, the superiority of an ASCS- LSSVR algorithm is verified.

A piston nest (10) is provided that includes a plurality of spaced apart single nesting units (12) interconnected by a web (13). Each of the single nesting units is configured a hollow cylindrical body having a first open end about a distal end of the body and a second open end about the proximal end. The hollow cylindrical body also includes a first (24) and a second (26) retention member for retaining a piston within the single nesting unit. The first and the second retention members are spaced apart along a longitudinal axis of the hollow cylindrical body.

An inspection system for locating multiple features on an exterior of an object includes a fixture, a camera, a computer and software. The fixture secures the object and includes a plurality of nest points for mating with specific positions on the exterior of the object, and a reference point located at a specific position relative to the nest points and within a best-plane of the object. The camera is positioned normal to the best-plane of the object and obtains video imaging of a plurality of the features and the reference point. The computer communicates with the camera and collects the video imaging. The software determines the actual parameters of the features relative to the reference point based on the video imaging.

A potted plant holder features a number of post pieces that assemble to form a post structure that supports a number of hubs thereon, which in turn each support a number of branch-like supports. A reduced diameter end of each post piece nests within the other end of another post piece for easy assembly. Each branch has a simple wire structure with a bent end configured to form two parallel legs jutting perpendicular to the branch length for receipt of the legs in an outer opening of the hub around the post. A pot-size adapter features a ring of smaller diameter than an integral pot-supporting ring of the branch and hangers that suspend the smaller ring therefrom. A watering system features ring-shaped conduits that fit over the different levels of branches and branch conduits running outward along the branches of each level from the respective ring-shaped conduit.

The invention provides a method for solving a UAV multitask reconnaissance decision-making problem through a cuckoo search algorithm. First of all, a UAV shortest reconnaissance path planning optimization object is established; then a discrete cuckoo search algorithm is carried out, and values are set for initial parameters; an initial value fitness degree is calculated; whether a nest master bird has a monitoring function is determined; new bird's nests are generated and optimal ones are reserved; whether quite bad bird's nests are abandoned is determined; then a UAV reconnaissance information certainty index model and a UAV multitask reconnaissance gain model are established; values are set for the initial parameters based on the cuckoo search algorithm; the initial value fitness degree is calculated; new bird's nests are generated and optimal ones are reserved; whether quite bad bird's nests are abandoned is determined; and an optimal result is finally obtained. According to the invention, solution is carried out through the discrete cuckoo search algorithm and a basic cuckoo search algorithm, compared to a conventional algorithm, a solution result can overcome the disadvantages of too early convergence, slow operation speed and the like, and the result is obtained in real time.