42 results about "Normal weight" patented technology

A system includes a power management unit that may be configured to estimate the power consumed by at least a portion of each of one or more processor cores during operation of each processor core. The power management unit may be configured to generate a sum of activity values and normal weight factor values for a predetermined set of signals within each processor core to estimate the power consumed. The power management unit may also be configured to adaptively generate and selectively use new weight factor values to estimate the power consumed based upon a total measured dynamic power consumed by each processor core during operation.

The invention relates to a seed production method for a deep-color shin(foot) undersized broiler, comprising the following steps: a deep-color shin(foot) slow feathering undersized cock is hybridized with a recessive white feathering hen with normal weight to breed a deep-color shin undersized slow feathering hen, namely the parent-breeding hen. The parent-breeding hen can, after laying eggs, be mated with the deep-color shin normal weight fast feathering cock to produce a commercial baby boiler. The commercial cock and the commercial hen have deep-color shin and normal weight, and growth speed thereof is not affected. The seed production method provided by the invention reduces breeding costs of the parent-breeding hen and simplifies breeding methods, which improves economic benefit of breeding the breeding hen without impacting the profits in breeding the commercial broiler; in addition, both the parent-breeding and the commercial broilers are capable of automatic sexing.

In accordance with an embodiment, a method for producing an aggregate is disclosed comprising mixing incinerator bottom ash (“IBA”) from a municipal solid waste incinerator and pulverized fuel ash (“PFA”) from coal combustion. The method further comprises agglomerating the mixture, such as by pelletizing, and pyroprocessing the agglomerates, such as by sintering or vitrification, to form the aggregate. The addition of PFA to IBA has been found to facilitate production of lightweight and normal weight aggregates. Preferably, the IBA or the mixture of IBA and PFA is wet milled prior to agglomerating. A preferred proportion of IBA to PFA is 40% / 60%. The agglomerates may be coated with an inorganic material to create a surface layer on the aggregate. Organic material may be included in the mixture to increase the porosity of the aggregate. A lightweight sintered aggregate comprising IBA and PFA and an aggregate comprising IBA and PFA are also disclosed.

As the obesity rate climbs nationwide, obese and morbidly obese patients will continue to pose special lifting challenges to the healthcare industry. Obesity among American adults has nearly doubled during the past two decades. One in 80 men weights >300 pounds and one in 200 women weights >300 pounds. Getting assistance is crucial when moving these patients. With these rising numbers, have come the numerous complications relating to medical treatment for these bariatric patients. Healthcare providers must consider the additional costs associated with handling of the bariatric patient along with safety issues relating to both the bariatric patient and caregiver. Also, moving extremely obese patients can prove to very dangerous or even fatal. The most economical assistance to move bariatric patients to and from the hospital bed can only be provided by some mechanical aid. The management of bariatric patients produces special challenges, and the best way to ensure safe patient handling is through the use of special mechanical equipment that meet the size and weight requirements of these bariatric patients and that can be operated in very confined spaces. The target population is estimated to be the 4.5 million extremely obese persons in the United States, with a Body Mass Index (BMI) >35 that will become patients in some health care facility. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that care for obese patients costs an average of 37 percent more than people of normal weight. In 2003, obesity-related medical costs in the US reached >$ 75 billion. This apparatus will be the first of its kind to incorporate adaptive control techniques to present-day assistive lift device designs.

A vehicle seat assembly 12 is mounted to a vehicle base member 24 such as a riser or a vehicle floor. Weight sensor assemblies 32 for measuring weight on the vehicle seat are mounted to a seat structural component. The weight sensor assemblies 32 each include plate 44 having a bendable center body portion 46 for supporting a strain gage 48. The strain gage 48 measures bending in the center body portion 46 caused by normal weight force applications on the vehicle seat 12. A secondary resilient beam member 34 is mounted between each weight sensor 32 and the vehicle base member 24. The beam member 34 and the weight sensors 32 deflect to prevent failure of the weight sensors 32 in response to an overload force applied in an opposite direction to the direction of a normal weight force application. The beam member 34 prevents permanent deformation of the plate 44 and strain gage failure by allowing the weight sensor 32 to deflect upwardly away from the vehicle floor. An overload stop 68 reacts between the seat structural component and the vehicle floor to prevent seat separation under overload conditions.

The static or dynamic weighing apparatus for weighing an object or item, comprising a weighing assembly that includes a base with four (4) load cells attached to it, two (2) active load cells and two (2) passive load cells. Each active load cell has a mounting side and a weighing side. They are mounted to the base and to each other via a rigid weighing platform and are rotated 180° with respect to each other in the horizontal plane, thereby generating respective inverse error signals when an object or item is placed on or passes over the weighing platform. The two (2) passive load cells are mounted in the same manner. A combination of the voltage outputs from each of the respective two (2) load cells pairs negates all horizontally and vertically induced errors thus yielding a highly accurate two (2) times normal weight signal of the object or item being weighed. Error voltages felt by the passive assembly, representing any present vertical vibration, is removed via electrical circuitry from the actual active weighing voltage output, resulting in a true weight of the object or item being weighed. The resulting output voltage over the designated time interval then represents the true weight of the object or item being weighed. A voltage-to-frequency converter is employed to transmit the corrected true frequency output due to the actual analog output voltage resulting from the active weight being measured to a binary counter over a pre-specified time period. By counting a pulse train that varies directly to the applied voltage over a specified period of time results in a natural averaging weight and the resulting count is the average and true count of the representative weight of the object or item being weighed.

Apparatus and methods for treating obesity using chronic cervical vagal nerve stimulation (cVNS) of the left vagus trunk are disclosed. Four men and ten women, average age 46 years (SD±10) were treated with output current typically 0.75 mA, pulse frequency 30 Hz and width 250 or 500 μs, and duty cycle of 30 s power per five minutes. Mean intake weight was 91 kg (SD±27, range 46 to 137 kg) with body mass index (BMI) 43 kg / m2 (SD±5, range 18 to 49 kg / mn2). After 6-12 months, obese patients had marked weight loss while normal weights were maintained. Decrease in BMI was consistently proportional to initial BMI. Average weight loss at one year was 7 kg (SD±3, range −6 to +24) with mean drop in BMI of 2 kg / m2 (SD±3, range −2 to +8)k. All patients denied any major dieting or exercise.

A vehicle seat assembly 12 is mounted to a vehicle base member 24 such as a riser or a vehicle floor. Weight sensor assemblies 32 for measuring weight on the vehicle seat are mounted to a seat structural component. The weight sensor assemblies 32 each include plate 44 having a bendable center body portion 46 for supporting a strain gage 48. The strain gage 48 measures bending in the center body portion 46 caused by normal weight force applications on the vehicle seat 12. A secondary resilient beam member 34 is mounted between each weight sensor 32 and the vehicle base member 24. The beam member 34 and the weight sensors 32 deflect to prevent failure of the weight sensors 32 in response to an overload force applied in an opposite direction to the direction of a normal weight force application. The beam member 34 prevents permanent deformation of the plate 44 and strain gage failure by allowing the weight sensor 32 to deflect upwardly away from the vehicle floor. An overload stop 68 reacts between the seat structural component and the vehicle floor to prevent seat separation under overload conditions.

The invention discloses a production method of konjak and highland barley high-fiber slimming food, and relates to food and a preparation methods of the food. The production method belongs to the technical field of food processing. The konjak and highland barley high-fiber slimming food comprises the raw materials in parts by weight: 80-120 parts of konjaku powder, 180-240 parts of highland barley germ swelled powder, 90-140 parts of lactalbumin powder, 50-80 parts of white fungus grains and 0.1-0.4 parts of folic acid. The production method has the benefits that the content of a main component, namely glucomannan, in the konjac reaches as high as 50-65% in the konjak and highland barley high-fiber slimming food produced by the production method; a swelling coefficient of the glucomannan is large; the viscosity can reach above 100-300 times; the glucomannan can keep stable in a highly acidic stomach for a long time; therefore, the satiety is generated obviously after the konjak and highland barley high-fiber slimming food is eaten; the appetite can be controlled; the food intake is reduced; the daily nutritional requirements of fat persons or persons with abnormal weight on carbohydrate are met; and the purposes of losing weight and slimming are achieved.

The invention relates to an electroplating technology of a wear-resistant coating on a metal surface. A metal work piece after pre-electroplating treatment is placed in a prepared electroplating solution of 60 DEG C to 80 DEG C, a pH value is stably kept to range from 7.8 to 8.4, and a current density is kept at 4-9 A / dm in an electroplating process. The preparation process of the prepared electroplating solution comprises the following steps: constituents of the electroplating solution, namely 30-100g / L of nickel sulfate, 40-65g / L of sodium tungstate, 80-100g / L of ammonium citrate, 0.5-2g / L of saccharine and 0.5-2.5g / L of 1,4-butynediol are sequentially added, mixed and stirred uniformly, are diluted by water to the normal weight of a plating bath and are regulated by strong ammonia so that the pH value is from 7.8 to 8.4, and the solution is electrolyzed for at least six hours at the current density of 1-2A / dm2. The invention adopts the electroplating technology to deposite the wear-resistant coating on the metal surface, does not discharge waste water and does not pollute the environment.

A seismic isolation bearing comprises a lower plate, an upper plate, and a cylindrical roller in rolling contact with an upwardly facing bearing surface of the lower plate and a downwardly facing surface of the upper plate. The lower plate is fixable to a base, while the upper plate is fixable to a superstructure, for example a bridge deck. One or both bearing surfaces are sloped to form a central trough at which the cylindrical roller resides under normal weight of the superstructure, and toward which the roller is biased when relative displacement between the lower and upper plates occurs to provide a constant restoring force. A pair of sidewall members are fixed to the lower plate to withstand strong forces directed laterally with respect to the isolation axis along which rolling displacement occurs, and a pair of sliding guides carried one at each end of the roller provide dry frictional damping as they engage an inner wall surface of a corresponding sidewall member. The isolation bearing preferably comprises a locking mechanism that prevents relative displacement under normal non-seismic horizontal loading, but allows the bearing to function as intended under seismic loading. Visco-elastic or viscous dampers, linear springs, and nonlinear springs such as hardening springs are preferably mounted between the lower and upper plates to reduce bearing displacement, dissipate energy, and otherwise adjust periodic motion characteristics of the bearing. Further embodiments providing isolation along orthogonal X and Y axes are also disclosed.

The present invention is for composition containing extract of Northern White Kidney Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), extract of Red Kidney Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and extract of Green Tea (Camellia Sinensis ). This invention as a supplemental compound, aids in weight reduction both in overweight and obese individuals. This invention helps normal weight subjects in improving their quality of life by maintaining their normal weight. Included is also folic acid, (B6) and B12 and the whole supplement is bound by a vegetable matrix. The present invention is directed to methods for inducing weight loss by inhibit the absorption of dietary lipids and starch, increase the metabolic rate and decrease the amino acid homocysteine in the blood, an amino acid known to cause risk of heart disease, by administering a composition of the invention. Due to the content of the green tea extract this invention is also meant to reduce and prevent occurrence of gastrointestinal cancer and cancer of the prostate.

The invention discloses a field counting and weighing method and a system for chicken. A platform composed of a frame, a support rod and a mesh material is built; a CCD camera is fixed above a weighing platform; pressure sensors for measuring the body-weight of chicken are respectively fixed at four corners of the lower part of the ground weighing platform in a farm; when 1-n chicken naturally stand on the weighing platform, and the total change of the measured body-weight of the chicken is smaller than a set threshold, the CCD camera is triggered to obtain an image of a region of the weighing platform; the quantity of the chicken on the weighing platform can be obtained by image treatment; the mean body-weight of the chicken is calculated according to the total body-weight and the quantity of the chicken on the platform. According to the field counting and weighing method and system, the interference caused by human factors in the weighing process is reduced; the effect on the body-weight of the chicken caused by chicken manure is reduced by a weighing platform design grid; the accuracy of the mean body-weight is improved; the poultry weight at different growth stages is obtained by a fixed time interval starting system; whether a problem exists in chicken house management such as feed supply is judged by comparing with a normal weight gain curve; the feeding time can be reflected.

A system includes a power management unit that may be configured to estimate the power consumed by at least a portion of each of one or more processor cores during operation of each processor core. The power management unit may be configured to generate a sum of activity values and normal weight factor values for a predetermined set of signals within each processor core to estimate the power consumed. The power management unit may also be configured to adaptively generate and selectively use new weight factor values to estimate the power consumed based upon a total measured dynamic power consumed by each processor core during operation.

The invention discloses a novel weight measuring instrument. The weight measuring instrument comprises a position sensing module, a data storage module, a display module and an indicating lamp module, wherein the position sensing module and the data storage module are electrically connected; the data storage module and the display module are electrically connected; the display module and the indicating lamp module are electrically connected. According to the invention, the position sensing module, the data storage module, the display module and the indicator light module are additionally arranged, before weight measurement, the position of the weight measuring instrument can be sensed in advance, and so long as the weight measuring instrument is in the level position, a normal weight value can be measured, so that the weight error is reduced.