452 results about "Tool design" patented technology

Disclosed herein are tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.

A block-out cover is installed in a jack module to prevent entry of undesirable objects. The block-out cover includes at least one window and at least one locking arm. The locking arm secures the cover to the jack module. The window receives a removal tool designed to remove the cover from the jack module. The removal tool includes a body, a lever secured to the body to engage the cover and a prong with a cam surface. The cam surface of the prong deflects the cover from locking engagement with the jack module allowing the removal tool to remove the block-out cover.

The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates a viewer's viewing experience of a presentation as shown on the viewer's own machine. The system and method provide the viewer with navigation and annotation control of the viewer's view of the presentation without affecting the presenter's presentation and / or the presenter's display of the presentation. When viewing a presentation, the viewer can annotate at least a portion of the presentation with text, audio, ink markings, as well as insert URL or other web-based information. Searches can be conducted during the viewing of the presentation to further supplement content in the presentation. The search results including the pertinent URLs can be added in whole or in part to the relevant portions of the presentation. Furthermore, the viewer can view the presentation in a variety of perspectives and zoom levels to gain context over the presentation or parts thereof.

A system for manufacturing a tool within a laser sintering system includes a chamber enclosing a sinter material. The laser sintering system grows or sinters the tool from the sinter material in response to signals from a controller, which generates the signals as a function of a predetermined tool design. The predetermined tool design includes several sections that are grown separately and are later coupled together.

A hybrid evolutionary algorithm (“HEA”) technique is described for automatically calculating well and drainage locations in a field. The technique includes planning a set of wells on a static reservoir model using an automated well planner tool that designs realistic wells that satisfy drilling and construction constraints. A subset of these locations is then selected based on dynamic flow simulation using a cost function that maximizes recovery or economic benefit. In particular, a large population of candidate targets, drain holes and trajectories is initially created using fast calculation analysis tools of cost and value, and as the workflow proceeds, the population size is reduced in each successive operation, thereby facilitating use of increasingly sophisticated calculation analysis tools for economic valuation of the reservoir while reducing overall time required to obtain the result. In the final operation, only a small number of full reservoir simulations are required for the most promising FDPs.

A system for sintering a tool within a laser sintering system includes a chamber enclosing a sinter material. The laser sintering system grows or sinters the tool from the sinter material in response to signals from a controller. The controller generates these signals as a function of a predetermined tool design. A heat sink is positioned within the chamber to cool features of the tool, thereby limiting warping of these features during sintering of the tool.

The invention provides a combination-typed mixing friction welding tool. The invention is characterized in that the tool consists of a shaft shoulder and a mixing needle; the shaft shoulder and the mixing needle with different structure design and different material can be exchanged with each other, and a whole welding tool can be formed after assembly. The combination design of the invention can provide greater flexibility for the preparation of the mixing friction welding tool, and provides the possibility for the replacement of the damageable part of the mixing needle. The mixing friction welding tool design of the invention can be applied to the working condition, in which the mixing needles are easy to be broken and abraded.

The invention relates to spinal fusion implants or grafts and to apparatus for the installation thereof. More specifically, the invention is a serrated cutting or abrading tool designed to be pushed into an intervertebral space and thereby remove and partially penetrate the cortical bone layer that defines the endplates of the respective mutually adjacent vertebral bodies.

A system for the imaging, processing and evaluation of tissues provides prognostic and diagnostic details regarding diseased tissue. A set of quantitative measures were developed and integrated in an image-base analysis software tool designed for OCT images. The system and methods in this invention is significant because it allows assessing the optical properties and structure morphology differences between normal healthy subjects and diabetic patients with retinopathy up to ETDRS level 35 and without retinopathy.

The invention discloses a full three-dimensional digital knowledge base system and an application method of a knowledge base. The knowledge base system comprises a flow control module, a specific knowledge design module, an interaction control module, an equation editing module, a search control module, a computing control module and a knowledge base small functional module and is an independent knowledge driving system capable of being hung on different CAD (Computer-Aided Design). The application method of the knowledge base can be applied to various fields such as products, processes, tool design, product inspection and the like in the mechanism manufacture industry. A designer expresses knowledge such as purposes, industry design specifications, standard manuals, design experience, computational formulas and the like through an open programming-free visual knowledge editing function and stores the knowledge into the knowledge base, a database and a model base for reusing; and wizard design is realized through parameter passing, data acquisition and interaction and platform interaction. The system has the advantages of strong generality, convenience and rapidness, no leakage of enterprise core technology experience knowledge and the like and provides means for technical innovation and knowledge and experience accumulation.

An electric household appliance for processing foods comprises a main body including an electric motor unit and its control elements, at least a working accessory comprising a tool designed to be driven by the motor unit and a safety device including a first member housed in the appliance main body and a second member connected to the accessory. The member is a transceiver and the second member is a transponder, the transceiver and transponder being designed to be inductively coupled by a radiofrequency or microwave electromagnetic field when the accessory is installed on the appliance body. Preferably, the transponder connected to the accessory comprises a power circuit derived from the electric power induced in the transponder antenna and additional safety elements for deactivating the powering circuit.

A system and method for determining an updated disease classification code for a patient within a managed care population consisting of (i) a patient condition processing unit for receiving a plurality of patient-related data, (ii) a diagnosis repository database coupled to the patient condition processing unit for storing a preestablished disease classification code for the patient, and (iii) a disease classification code application tool designed to convert medical chart data of the patient into an observed disease classification code for the patient wherein the observed disease classification code is forwarded to the patient condition processing unit and stored in a diagnosis repository database as the updated disease classification code. The updated disease classification code can then be forwarded to the treating physician, reimbursement agency, or any other agency requiring such data. The patient-related data can consist of analog or electronic information relating to patient descriptions, including diagnosis, symptoms, exacerbations and treatment made by the treating physician, patient enrollment data, patient enrollment data, laboratory data, prescription drug data, insurance claims data, data from a diagnostic medial device (such as a heart monitor), etc.

The invention relates to a tool magazine and automatic tool changer comprehensive performance detecting system, which adopts a three-shaft acceleration sensor, a wireless vibration sensor, an industrial camera, a PSD (position sensory device) camera and a sound pressure sensor as detecting elements for detecting the comprehensive performance of a large-sized tool magazine and an automatic tool changer thereof. An IEPE (integrated electronics piezo electric) analog quantity collection card, a wireless gateway, an image collection card and an analog voltage collection card are adopted as a data collection or a signal transmission device to detect performances of the large-sized tool magazine and the automatic tool changer on the five aspects such as vibration of the tool magazine, vibration of a mechanical arm, positioning error of the tool magazine, the tool changing movement precision of a mechanical hand and the working noise of the entire machine and to transmit collected signals to an industrial personal computer. LabVIEW is adopted as a tool to design processing software special for analyzing and calculating data and for analyzing, operating and storing the acquired experimental data. The tool magazine and automatic tool changer comprehensive performance detecting system has the advantages of strong portability, wide measurement range, high measurement precision, low requirement on the professional technical level of an operator and the like and has strong practical application value.

A multi-use tool designed to be easily handled and transported. The two main compartments include a utility knife and a tape measure. Numerous other tools can be included in this device including hammer, level, screwdriver, saw, file and wrench.

Technologies are provided herein for a modular deposition tool design that allows for both, the fast interchanging of materials and for easy cleaning of all wetted surfaces. A drive assembly for use in a solid freeform fabrication system, includes a drive module having a drive mechanism and a detachable material bay assembly that is detachable from the drive module. The material bay assembly includes a material bay holder, a material deposition tool, and a corresponding material bay actuation mechanism that can engage with the drive mechanism of the drive module when the material bay assembly is coupled to the drive module such that when the drive mechanism of the drive module is actuated, the material bay actuation mechanism is actuated, which causes the material deposition tool to deposit material from a material bay inserted in the material bay holder.

A method for mortgage and closed end loan portfolio management in the form of an analytic tool designed to improve analysis of past and future performance of loan portfolios. In accordance with one aspect thereof, the invention aggregates loan units into loan vintages, wherein the loans in each vintage originate within a predetermined time interval of one another. The invention compares different vintages to one another in a manner such that the ages of the loans in the different vintages are comparable to one another. An early warning component of the system predicts delinquency rates expected for a portfolio of loans during a forward looking time window.

The present invention provides tools and methods of processing microelectronic substrates in which the tools maintain high throughput yet have dramatically lower footprint than conventional tools. In preferred aspects, the present invention provides novel tool designs in which multiple tool functions are overlapped in the x, y, and / or z axes of the tool in novel ways.

A system for applying hair extensions to natural hair growing on the scalp of an individual comprises flared cylindrical tubes, a threading hook and a crimping tool. The threading tool is used to feed scalp hair through the flared tube. The hair extension is then inserted into the flared end or the tube and the tube is crushed flat trapping the threaded scalp hair and hair extension within the crushed structure. The removal of the hair extension is facilitated by use of a removal tool designed to open the crimped flared tube.

A device (1) is described for reworking the running surface (17) of a rail head (2) by machining having a framework (5) guided along the rail head (2), in which two machining tools, which are drivable to rotate in opposite directions and can frontally approach the running surface (17), are mounted on both sides of the rail head (2). In order to be able to provide advantageous machining conditions, it is proposed that the machining tools be designed as face millers (11), whose rotational axes (12) extend in a common plane (13) and whose cutting areas overlap one another transversely to the longitudinal direction of the rail head (2), and the two face millers (11) be connected via a transfer case (10) to a common rotational drive (9).

The present invention relates to a coordination-centric framework for implementing a software system in a distributed computing environment. In a presently preferred embodiment the software system is a software design environment having authoring, synthesis, and debugging tools. The coordination-centric framework is flexible enough to interconnect tools and robust enough that tool designers can use it for all aspects of tool interconnection without requiring costly workarounds. The coordination-centric framework uses modular and reusable software elements and standardized interfaces to connect the software elements.

Downhole drilling tools designed and manufactured to reduce bit axial force and torque and to enhance drilling efficiency comprising laying out some cutters in one spiral direction of rotation about a bit rotational axis and other cutters in an opposite spiral direction of rotation; evaluating forces acting on cutters during simulated engagement with a downhole formation (straight and transitional drilling); and modifying cutter layout with respect to a spiral direction of rotation. Some embodiments further comprise, prior to simulation, placing cutters in cutter groups / sets at respective locations to obtain a level of force balance. Multilevel force balanced downhole drilling tools may be designed using five respective simulations: cutter group level, neighbor cutter group level, cutter set level, group of N (N=3 or N=4) consecutive cutters level and all cutters level. Cutter layout procedures and algorithms to minimize respective bit forces and in some embodiments to obtain force balance are described.

A tool designed to be used in vertical, horizontal or deviated wells with the aim of maintaining the tubed pipe filled with the drilling fluid supplied by the well, and of circulating said fluid through the well-pipe space, facilitating the sliding of the tubing and producing the cementation of said space when the pipe has been installed; capable of being intercalated with the drilling equipment between the block and the hanging elevating arangement that takes the tubes that are gradually coupled to make up the casing pipe. The tool of the invention is placed between the amelas that extend from the rig support to the adjacencies of the pipe elevating device of the drilling equipment, comprising a support array, responsible for positioning said tool hanging from the rig hook and aligned between the amelas; a positioning dynamic array, responsible for producing vertical upward and downward movements, which generate the matings or decouplings of the tool on the tubed pipe, and a packaging array through which, during the matings, a hermetic blockage self-adjustable elastic seal is established during the passage of well fluid towards the inside of the tubing pipe.

This invention provides a graphical tool by which a designer or engineer may quickly, accurately and efficiently check the relational information between elements of a computer model. By way of example, in one embodiment, the invention may be used to quickly validate the design rules, like minimum spacing requirements for instance, between the connections (or nets) in a schematic that exists in a computer aided design package. Since a designer must enter such design rules for each net, the invention first imports these design rules from the computer model. The invention then imports a standard set of design rules. After comparing the standard set of design rules to the standard set of design rules, the invention presents a graphical display to a user indicating where the model rules matched the standard set and, correspondingly, where they did not match. In one embodiment, a matrix grid is displayed with the model elements listed in an index row and column. Matches are then displayed as coefficients within the matrix, while mismatches are displayed as an alternate coefficient. The invention allows a designer to quickly identify data entry errors that may have occurred in the creation of the model.

The invention discloses a tool for graphical design and verification of a general workflow, comprising a general workflow system structure, and a system structure of flow design and verification method. The tool leads the user to conveniently design the general workflow by a Web graphical interface, extends description information for the flow links of visible flow further, carries out correctness verification to the combined flows according to a mapping rule from the link control information to edge control information and realizes a flow correctness verification function. The workflow designed by the tool is not localized by a certain software platform; furthermore, the method has a formalization foundation and can carry out the correctness verification for the flow link combination.

A multi-function tool designed for the needs of healthcare professionals. The multi-tool may include individual tools that a healthcare professional uses on a regular basis, including a gas cylinder wrench, an integrated pill slicer, a set of EKG calipers, a sharp / dull neurological response tester, and a gripping device for I.V. caps. Additional features may include a penlight or laser pointer and a fold out ruler. A tool carrier includes features that healthcare professionals also regularly use, such as a tape roll holder and dispenser and retractable ring for keys and security badges.

A self-propelled robot having a protective guard, at least one tool designed for the treatment of a surface, movement means comprising at least two motor-driven wheels to allow the movement of the self-propelled robot on a travel path, at least one mechanical power transmission designed to actuate the self-propelled robot and in which the one mechanical power transmission comprises at least one motor element and at least one driven element which are operatively associated by a magnetic field. The mechanical power transmission is operatively associated with at least two motor-driven wheels of the movement means.