75 results about "Tongue Base" patented technology

Embodiments of the invention include methods and devices to prevent or treat upper airway disorders in mammals related to impaired airflow. One aspect of this invention is a tongue retractor (LTR) that indirectly retracts tongue base by its implant site in the frenulum area. This simplifies the insertion, adjustment and maintenance of the device. Another aspect of this invention describes a highly localized and fully implantable LTR that is inserted into the base of tongue to stiffen lax surface mucosa or mechanically couple it to internal tongue structures. Another aspect of this invention is an LTR inserted in or around the pharyngoglossal fold. This site allows retraction and stiffening of tongue base tissue as well as the soft palate and lateral pharyngeal wall.

A tongue location monitoring system, including, one or more position circuits that respond to transmissions from a transceiver, a transceiver that transmits to the one or more position circuits, a control circuit coupled to the transceiver: wherein the control circuit determines the location of a person's tongue based on the responses of the position circuits; and wherein either the transceiver or the position circuits are implanted in the muscle of the person's tongue or placed on the tongue, and the latter is placed outside the person's head.

Laser for thermal shrinkage of soft tissue of uvula, soft palate, nasal turbinate or tongue base for the treatment of snoring, nasal obstruction or sleep apnea are disclosed. The preferred laser includes infrared laser about 0.7 to 1.85 micron, pulse duration about 100 microsecond to 5 seconds, spot size of about 2 to 5 mm and power of about 2 to 20 W at the treated area. The laser energy is delivered to the treated area by an optical fiber and a hand piece to cause a localized temperature about 65 to 85 degree Celsius for sufficient shrinkage of the treated soft tissues. Optical fiber bundles to produce high-power diode laser output or multi-wavelength are also disclosed.

A system and method are disclosed for the securement of tissue and in particular for placement of a tongue base suspension fiber for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. The system incorporates disposable connectors with releasable needles to facilitate the placement of fibers with minimal increase in suture site dilation or trauma.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine synthesis remote diagnosis system which comprises a data collection subsystem, a signal processing subsystem, a computer unit, a pulse simulation subsystem and a calibration subsystem. The data collection subsystem collects signals of the body temperature, the face, the coated tongue, the tongue base, the sound and the radial artery pulse of a patient; the signal processing subsystem processes data collected by the data collection subsystem and transmits the data through a communication network and therefore remote connection of a patient and a doctor can be achieved; the doctor can exert floating, medium, sinking and other pressures through the pulse simulation subsystem according to the received pulse data and feeds back the pressures to the radial artery of the wrist of the patient to feel the pulse. Four ways of looking, listening, questioning and feeling the pulse for diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine are synthesized, the physical condition of the patient can be truly felt without face-to-face consultation between the doctor and the patient, remote medical treatment is achieved, and convenience is provided for the patient for doctors' office visiting.

Embodiments of the invention include methods and devices to prevent or treat upper airway disorders in mammals re lated to impaired airflow. One aspect of this invention is a tongue retractor (LTR) that indirectly retracts tongue base by its implant site in the frenulum area. This simplifies the insertion, adjustment and maintenance of the device. Another aspect of this invention describes a highly localized and fully implantable LTR that is inserted into the base of tongue to stiffen lax surface mucosa or mechanically couple it to internal tongue structures. Another aspect of this invention is an LTR inserted in or around the pharyngoglossal fold. This site allows retraction and stiffening of tongue base tissue as well as the soft palate and lateral pharyngeal wall.

A tongue location monitoring system, including, one or more position circuits that respond to transmissions from a transceiver, a transceiver that transmits to the one or more position circuits, a control circuit coupled to the transceiver; wherein the control circuit determines the location of a person's tongue based on the responses of the position circuits; and wherein either the transceiver or the position circuits are implanted in the muscle of the person's tongue or placed on the tongue, and the latter is placed outside the person's head.

A mouth-operated computer input device includes a mouthpiece to be positioned in a user's mouth, and an optical device carried by the mouthpiece for emitting light from a surface area thereof. The optical device controls movement of a cursor on a computer display based upon movement of the user's tongue across the surface area. The optical device includes a light emitting device for emitting the light, and a sensor adjacent the light emitting device for sensing the light reflected from the user's tongue. A processor calculates movement of the user's tongue based upon the light reflected therefrom.

A method, computer-readable medium, and system for predicting a response to tongue-base therapies (particularly as it relates to obstructive sleep apnea) are provided. The method includes generating with a processing element a plurality of images of at least a portion of a patient's anatomy, acquiring data indicative of the portion of the patient's anatomy from the images, and determining a probability of a patient's response to a tongue-base treatment based on the acquired data.

With a method and a System for tongue based control of computers and / or aids, particularly for severely disabled persons it is the intention to ease the communication capabilities of severely disabled persons and their control of their aids, where the costs of producing the system are low, thereby avoiding the drawbacks of the prior art. This goal is achieved with a method and a system, where the method comprises that the interaction between the arrangement and the tongue is based on induction, whereby the arrangement is equipped with at least one coil being able to interact with at least one piece of a magnetic responsible material fixed to the tongue, and that the signals transmitted to the device further comprise the position of the coil in the arrangement and / or the position of the magnetic responsible material fixed to the tongue, and the system comprises that the arrangement is equipped with at least one coil being able to interact with at least one piece of a magnetic responsible material fixed to the tongue, and that the signals transmitted to the device further comprise the position of the coil in the arrangement and / or the position of the magnetic responsible material fixed to the tongue.

The invention provides an electronic lock and an emergency unlocking method thereof and relates to the field of locks. The electronic lock is simple in structure and reliable in performance, emergency unlocking can be conducted on the locked lock, and meanwhile, illegal operation of emergency unlocking under the non-emergency situation also can be effectively prevented, so that unified management and monitoring of the lock is ensured. The electronic lock comprises a locking pin and a lock tongue base of a main lock body. An electronic locking mechanism comprises a blocking shaft and a locking block matched with the blocking shaft in a contact mode. The telescopic motion of the blocking shaft drives the locking block to lock or loosen the locking pin. An emergency unlocking mechanism comprises a sliding block and an anti-push mechanism. The sliding block is slidably arranged on the lock tongue base and provided with a locking block hole. The locking block is arranged in the locking block hole. When the locking block locks the locking pin, the sliding block can push the locking block to be away from the blocking shaft. The anti-push mechanism is arranged in a lock tongue base containing cavity and can lock the sliding block, limit sliding of the sliding block and release locking of the sliding block during emergency unlocking.

The invention discloses a portable scooter with a foldable pedal. The portable scooter comprises the pedal which forms a foldable structure by connecting the pedal front section with the pedal rear section in a hinged mode, and a locking mechanism with a pressing unlocking structure is arranged between the pedal front section and the pedal rear section. Preferably, the locking mechanism comprises a lock tongue which forms a normally closed locking state through an elastic component and a lock tongue base, and the lock tongue is limited from disengaging through a safety pin. A direction column and the pedal form the foldable structure, a stand column of the direction column is of a telescopic structure, and a pressing nail is arranged on the direction column; the locking mechanism is pressed through the pressing nail to make the safety pin out; the safety pin is provided with a wedge face for locking and guiding. The portable scooter has the advantages that the scooter is of a triple folding structure after being folded, the occupied space is small, carrying is convenient, and carrying or air consignment can be conducted through a backpack; after the pedal is unfolded, the state is stable, the driving safety is good, and folding and opening are convenient to operate.

A mouth-operated computer input device includes a mouthpiece to be positioned in a user's mouth, and an optical device carried by the mouthpiece for emitting light from a surface area thereof. The optical device controls movement of a cursor on a computer display based upon movement of the user's tongue across the surface area. The optical device includes a light emitting device for emitting the light, and a sensor adjacent the light emitting device for sensing the light reflected from the user's tongue. A processor calculates movement of the user's tongue based upon the light reflected therefrom.

The invention discloses a method for recognizing a fissured tongue based on a support vector machine. The method for recognizing the fissured tongue based on the support vector machine comprises the following steps that (1) a fissured tongue feature training sample set is established; (2) a fissured tongue classifier based on the support vector machine is established; (3) the fissured tongue classifier based on the support vector machine is used for conducting recognition, and whether each sample to be detected in a fissure feature sample set of the tongue to be detected belongs to a fissured tongue picture is recognized. According to the method for recognizing the fissured tongue based on the support vector machine, reorganization can be further conducted based on a detected suspected tongue fissure area. The method is the continuation of an existing computer fissured tongue detection method. By the adoption of the method for recognizing the fissured tongue based on the support vector machine, through training of a disposable sample set, recognition work can be completed, setting of any other parameters and artificial factor intervention are not needed in the recognition process, and full-automatic recognition of the fissured tongue is achieved.

A case includes a first case section and a second case section defining an interior. The first case section includes a groove extending along the first case section. The second case section includes a tongue extending along the second case section into the groove. The groove includes a groove inner wall proximal to the interior of the case and a groove outer wall distal from the interior of the case. The tongue extends from a tongue base end to a tongue free end and includes a tongue inner wall proximal to the interior of the case and a tongue outer wall distal from the interior of the case. The tongue free end is in contact with the groove inner wall and spaced apart from the groove outer wall and the tongue base end is in contact with the groove outer wall and spaced apart from the groove inner wall.

The invention provides a tongue image processing method and device and electronic equipment, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a tongue image, collected by an image collection device, of atarget tongue, carrying out the image processing operation of the tongue image, obtaining a to-be-analyzed image, and determining the tongue image attribute of the target tongue based on the HSV value of the to-be-analyzed image, wherein the tongue image attributes comprise tongue nature, tongue color and tongue coating types. According to the invention, the tongue nature, tongue color and the tongue coating type of the tongue image can be obtained through analysis.

There is provided a suture passer device used in procedures of robotic assisted minimally invasive suspension of the hyoid and tongue base in treatment of sleep apnea. The suture passer device is a dual use suture passer, having both suture insertor and extractor functionality on a single unitary instrument section of the device by means of insertion and extraction hooks positioned on an elongated needlelike body which is connected to a handle grip. The insertion and extraction hooks receive a suture via an opening in the body of the instrument, with the suture capable of removal and fastening to the extraction hook by robotic forceps. Procedures for using the device are disclosed which include a single point of entry on a patient and the device moved to first and second positions above and below the hyoid bone during robotic assisted surgery.

The invention discloses a magnetic core lock. The magnetic core lock comprises a lock structure mounting plate, a spring mounting plate, a lock tongue base, compression springs, a sliding lock cylinder, a lock structure box, a magnetic core key, a sliding guide hole, a pair of spring limiting columns, a lock tongue part, an inclined ridge type sliding groove, spring clamping columns, a traction magnetic block and an inclined ridge type sliding block, and the inclined ridge type sliding block is arranged in the inclined ridge type sliding groove in a matched manner. The lock structure box is fixed to the back face of the lock structure mounting plate, the sliding lock cylinder and the lock tongue base are contained in the lock structure box, and an attraction magnetic block is arranged at the front end of the magnetic core key. By means of the magnetic characteristic that the magnetic core key and the traction magnetic block attract each other, the lock tongue part of the lock tongue base can be driven to complete telescopic motion by pulling up the magnetic core key, and a lock structure is opened; and during management, all lock structures can be opened only through one magnetic core key, and the management efficiency of a cinerary casket is greatly improved.

A lockset comprises a lock sleeve, a lock core, an apical axis, a spring and a lock tongue. The lock core is provided with an axial guide hole running through along the radial direction; the lock-key hole end of the lock core is provided with a guide disk and the other end of the lock core is provided with a lock tongue base; the front end of the lock sleeve coordinating with the lock-key hole end of the lock core is provided with a guide platform and the rear end thereof is provided with a rotary cavity; a guide slot along the axial direction is arranged on the inner wall of the lock sleeve. The lockset also comprises a slider; the slider is fixedly connected with one end of the apical axis, is positioned in an apical axis hole and stretches out of the guide hole and coordinates with the guide hole in a sliding way; the slider coordinates with the guide slot and the guide disk coordinates with the guide platform. Due to such a structure, the separation of the lock core from the lock sleeve can be realized after the slider moves comparatively short distance in the guide slot of the lock sleeve and the apical axis moves comparatively short distance in the lock core. Compared with that the apical axis has a cone and a middle part in the prior art, the length of the apical axis is shortened, so is the length of the lock sleeve and the lock core, and the materials are saved. Compared with the prior art, pintels and stop pins are saved, the structure is simplified and the lockset can adapt to thinner door bodies.

The invention discloses a driving mechanism for a bionic animal tongue. The driving mechanism for the bionic animal tongue comprises a tongue tip part, a tongue middle part, a tongue base, a cylinder and a steel wire rope, wherein the tongue tip part is fixedly connected with the cylinder through the steel wire rope; the tongue middle part is positioned at the front end of the tongue base; the tongue middle part is hinged to the tongue base; the tongue tip part is positioned at the front end of the tongue middle part; the tongue tip part is hinged to the tongue middle part; the steel wire rope runs through the jconnecting part of the tongue middle part and the tongue base; the cylinder is positioned above the tongue base and is fixedly connected with the tongue base; the tongue tip part and the tongue middle part are arranged in an inclined manner. The driving mechanism for the bionic animal tongue has the advantage as follows: the driving mechanism for the bionic animal tongue can curl up a tongue in the inclined direction, so that a bionic animal is more lifelike.

Provided is a friction tongue lock body reversing structure. An oblique plane is formed on the surface, opposite to a touching tongue of a friction tongue, of a friction tongue base. The displacement of a left vertical edge of a boss when the supporting driving boss of the touching tongue of the friction tongue swings from a position making contact with a side plate to a position where the boss leans on the oblique plane is larger than the distance that the tail end of the friction tongue is hidden into the side plate before reversing of a reversing control plate is relieved. Accordingly, after the limitation on a shifting block by the reversing control plate is relieved, and when the touching tongue of the friction tongue swings backwards to lean on the oblique plane of the friction tongue base under the action of a friction tongue spring, the whole friction tongue slides out of a friction tongue slide hole of the side plate, and therefore the reversing of the whole friction tongue assembly can be achieved in a manner than the friction tongue rotates by 180 degrees in the friction tongue slide hole of the side plate when the friction tongue assembly rotates in a bottom plate horizontally. Big reversing notches do not need to be formed in the bottom plate and a cover plate, and the trouble that the side plate needs to be disassembled to achieve reversing is avoided. Therefore, the friction tongue lock body reversing structure is reasonable in structure and can ensure the stress strength and beauty of a lock shell, and the reversing adjustment is convenient.

The invention discloses a multifunctional oral implant practice model, which comprises a maxillary model and a mandible model. The maxillary model comprises maxillary soft tissue, a maxillary bone, maxillary teeth and a maxillary connection member. The maxillary connection member is fixedly arranged in the middle of the top surface of the maxillary bone; the maxillary soft tissue wraps the maxillary bone part; and the maxillary teeth are fixedly inserted into corresponding maxillary alveolar sockets. The mandible model comprises mandible soft tissue, a mandible bone, mandible teeth, a mandible tongue base, a mandible neural tube and a mandible connection member. The mandible connection member is fixedly arranged in the middle of the bottom surface of the mandible tongue base; the mandible bone circularly wraps the front side and left and right sides of the mandible tongue base, and wraps the whole mandible neural tube; the mandible soft tissue wraps the mandible tongue base and the part, except the bottom surface, of the mandible bone; and the mandible teeth are fixedly inserted into corresponding mandible alveolar sockets. Training contents are arranged in one set of maxillary and mandible oral cavity model as many as possible, thereby achieving the effects of simulation of clinical simulation, operation convenience of a short-term training class and people availability of production cost.

The invention provides an intelligent bionic animal system and an application method of the intelligent bionic animal system. The intelligent bionic animal system includes a supporting module, whereinthe supporting module comprises a trunk assembly and a limb assembly; the trunk assembly is internally provided with a mobile terminal control system; the limb assembly comprises a large joint skeleton, a small joint skeleton and a claw joint skeleton; the limb assembly is connected with the trunk assembly, the large joint skeleton is rotatably connected with the trunk assembly and the small joint skeleton, and the small joint skeleton is rotatably connected with the claw joint skeleton; a jaw includes the upper jaw and the lower jaw, a tongue includesa tongue base, a middle part of the tongue and a tail part of the tongue, the tongue base and a head assembly are fixedly installed, and the tongue base, the middle part of the tongue and the tail part of the tongue are elastically connected; a processor controls the air flow generated by an air pump and a fan to synchronize with the movement of the trunk assembly and the air flow is proportional to the movement amplitude, and a sound produced by a vocal system synchronize with the opening and closing of the upper jaw and the lower jaw, and the volume is proportional to the opening angle.

The invention provides a cycle lock suitable for a children cart. A locking tongue base is connected into a lock bracket in a sliding mode. A spring is arranged between the locking tongue base and the lock bracket. The spring pushes the locking tongue base to move in the direction far away from the lock bracket. A locking tongue body is connected to the locking tongue base in a rotating mode. The lock bracket is provided with a locking groove. According to the scheme, after the locking tongue base is locked by a locking tongue and a locking part, the height of a lock catch relative to the lock bracket is decreased, and moving parts on the children cart are tightly attached to a frame. When the moving parts on the children cart need to be opened, the locking tongue base is pressed down once again so that a tongue part can enter a loosened guide groove. The locking tongue base is loosened, the tongue part can enter a locking guide groove along the locking part under the action of the spring, and the lock catch returns to be in a normal state relative to the position of the lock bracket. At this moment, the moving parts on the children cart can be raised by a certain height without being tightly attached to the frame, the moving parts on the children cart are opened in the state, and operation is quite convenient.