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20090024013 | Physical Performance Monitoring and Monitors - Methods and systems are disclosed for determining an anaerobic threshold and/or an oxygen consumption rate in a human or animal subject. The methods include exposing a tissue of the subject to illumination radiation, collecting emitted radiation from the tissue, the emitted radiation including a portion of the illumination radiation reflected or transmitted from the tissue, processing the emitted radiation to form a spectrum of the tissue, and determining, based on the spectrum of the tissue, the anaerobic threshold and/or the oxygen consumption rate of the subject. | 01-22-2009 |
20100123897 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRECTING OPTICAL REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS - We disclose measurement systems and methods for measuring analytes in target regions of samples that also include features overlying the target regions. The systems include: (a) a light source; (b) a detection system; (c) a set of at least first, second, and third light ports which transmit light from the light source to a sample and receive and direct light reflected from the sample to the detection system, generating a first set of data including information corresponding to both an internal target within the sample and features overlying the internal target, and a second set of data including information corresponding to features overlying the internal target; and (d) a processor configured to remove information characteristic of the overlying features from the first set of data using the first and second sets of data to produce corrected information representing the internal target. | 05-20-2010 |
20110184683 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYTE MEASUREMENT - Methods are disclosed for determining a value associated with an analyte in a sample. The methods include: determining a set of spectra from a model for light attenuation in the sample, where the model includes contributions from at least two different sources of light attenuation in the sample; determining a set of spectral correction factors associated with the analyte in the sample based on the set of spectra; and using the set of spectral correction factors to determine the value associated with the analyte of interest. | 07-28-2011 |
20110205535 | SPECTROSCOPIC SENSORS - Disclosed herein are sensors that include: (a) a circuit board that includes an electronic processor; (b) a plurality of radiation sources, each source being attached to the circuit board; and (c) a spectral detector attached to the circuit board, the spectral detector being configured to analyze radiation derived from one or more of the plurality of radiation sources. During use, the sensors are configured to be worn on a portion of a body of a subject. The electronic processor is configured to cause two or more of the plurality of radiation sources to direct incident radiation to the subject, to cause the spectral detector to analyze radiation from the subject, and to determine one or more properties of the subject based on the radiation from the subject. Methods of making and using these sensors are also disclosed. | 08-25-2011 |
20110264411 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRECTING OPTICAL REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS - We disclose measurement systems and methods for measuring analytes in target regions of samples that also include features overlying the target regions. The systems include: (a) a light source; (b) a detection system; (c) a set of at least first, second, and third light ports which transmit light from the light source to a sample and receive and direct light reflected from the sample to the detection system, generating a first set of data including information corresponding to both an internal target within the sample and features overlying the internal target, and a second set of data including information corresponding to features overlying the internal target; and (d) a processor configured to remove information characteristic of the overlying features from the first set of data using the first and second sets of data to produce corrected information representing the internal target. | 10-27-2011 |
20150131098 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRECTING OPTICAL REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS - We disclose measurement systems and methods for measuring analytes in target regions of samples that also include features overlying the target regions. The systems include: (a) a light source; (b) a detection system; (c) a set of at least first, second, and third light ports which transmit light from the light source to a sample and receive and direct light reflected from the sample to the detection system, generating a first set of data including information corresponding to both an internal target within the sample and features overlying the internal target, and a second set of data including information corresponding to features overlying the internal target; and (d) a processor configured to remove information characteristic of the overlying features from the first set of data using the first and second sets of data to produce corrected information representing the internal target. | 05-14-2015 |
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20130092145 | BROWNING CONTROL FOR AN OVEN - An oven includes a cooking chamber configured to receive a food product, a user interface configured to display information associated with processes employed for cooking, first and second energy sources, and a cooking controller. The first energy source provides primary heating and the second energy source provides secondary heating for the food product. The cooking controller may be operably coupled to the first and second energy sources. The cooking controller may include processing circuitry configured to enable an operator to make a browning control selection via the user interface by providing operator instructions to a selected control console rendered at the user interface. The selected control console may be selected based on a cooking mode of the oven. The browning control selection may provide control parameters to direct application of heat to the food product via the second energy source. | 04-18-2013 |
20130306052 | JET PLATE FOR AIRFLOW CONTROL IN AN OVEN - A jet plate for directing a flow of air in a cooking chamber of an oven may include a body and a plurality of air delivery orifices. The body may be configured to be disposed along a sidewall of the cooking chamber proximate to a rack or pan support. The air delivery orifices may pass through the body. The air delivery orifices may be disposed to extend transversely across the body and may be distributed along a longitudinal length of the body such that a density of air delivery orifices proximate to one portion of the jet plate is higher than a density of air delivery orifices at another portion of the jet plate. | 11-21-2013 |
20140297467 | Content Provider Feeds in a Food Product Asset Related Network - A method for enabling network communication relating to a food preparation asset may include receiving, from a third party participant, a registration request to join a community including asset operators that operate at least one food preparation asset and registering the third party participant as a community member. The method may further include providing the third party participant with access to a communication network for sharing content items related to the asset and providing the third party participant with content creation tools to facilitate the creation of content items that include instructions associated with operation of the asset relative to preparation of a food product. The method may further include enabling the third party participant to distribute the content items to the asset operators via the communication network. The content items may include at least identifying information to identify the third party participant and a contact link to enable the asset operators to contact the third party participant. The content items may provide at least one instruction specific to operation of the asset. | 10-02-2014 |
20140310189 | Data Usage and Aggregation in a Food Product Asset Related Network - A method for enabling network communication relating to a food preparation asset may include receiving, from a third party participant, a registration request to join a community including asset operators that operate at least one food preparation asset, registering the third party participant as a community member, providing the third party participant with access to a communication network for sharing information related to the asset, receiving data indicative of asset related activity, providing the third party participant with data indicative of asset related activity, and enabling the third party participant to establish communications with the asset or asset operators via the communication network based on the data indicative of asset related activity. | 10-16-2014 |
20140330908 | Cloud Based Recipe Distribution in an Enterprise Management System - A content distribution platform may include processing circuitry having a processor and memory. The memory may store a plurality of content items associated with at least one content library. The processor may be configured to enable distribution of the content items to at least a selected asset among a plurality of food preparation assets via a network. The content items may include at least visible content descriptive of a food item preparable using the selected asset and invisible content including non-human readable instructions for enabling the selected asset to prepare the food item. | 11-06-2014 |
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20110172550 | USPA: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMS DEVICE COMMUNICATION INTERFACE - A system for supplementing communications capabilities of a patient monitoring device, the system including a card fitting within a device slot and configured to receive patient monitoring information from the device via the interface slot; a memory device hosted by the card and configured to store patient monitoring information; a wireless transceiver hosted by the card; an asset management database hosted by the card; and a processor communicably coupled to the wireless transceiver and the asset management database, the processor configured to format the patient monitoring information into a stream of one or more frames, each of the one or more frames associated with an EMS incident during which the patient monitoring information was gathered, the processor further configured to store the one or more frames to the asset management database and to transmit the stream of one or more frames with the wireless transceiver. | 07-14-2011 |
20110295078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTION, ORGANIZATION AND DISPLAY OF EMS INFORMATION - A system for collecting and displaying emergency medical services information according to embodiments of the present invention includes a patient monitoring device configured to monitor a patient, a navigation device, a patient charting device, a database, a display device, and a processor communicably coupled to the defibrillator, the navigation device, the patient charting device, the database, and the display device. According to embodiments of the present invention, the processor is configured to receive emergency medical services information from the defibrillator device, the navigation device, and the patient charting device, store the emergency medical services information in the database, and display the emergency medical services information on the display device according to an information template. According to some embodiments, aggregated data feeds from one or more such processors are stored in a remote server and available to remote enterprise users via a secure web interface. | 12-01-2011 |
20130096649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMS DEVICE COMMUNICATION INTERFACE - A system for supplementing communications capabilities of a patient monitoring device, the system including an interface device configured to communicably couple with and to receive the patient monitoring information from the patient monitoring device, a memory device hosted by the interface device and configured to store at least a portion of the patient monitoring information, a wireless transceiver hosted by the interface device, a database hosted by the interface device; and a processor communicably coupled to the wireless transceiver and the asset management database, the processor configured to format the patient monitoring information into one or more data objects, each of the one or more data objects associated with an EMS incident during which the patient monitoring information was gathered, the processor further configured to store the one or more data objects to the database and to transmit the one or more data objects with the wireless transceiver. | 04-18-2013 |
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20140205918 | STORAGE ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - A storage element for a solid electrolyte battery is provided. The storage element has a main member having a porous matrix of sintered ceramic particles in which particles that are made of a metal and/or a metal oxide and jointly form a redox couple are embedded. Along a preferred direction, the storage element has a certain concentration gradient of the particles made of the metal and/or the metal oxide and/or a certain gradient of a pore density and/or a pore size, thereby allowing the diffusion behavior of oxygen ions within the main member to be controlled and thus the charge and discharge kinetics, the life and the capacity of the battery to be improved. | 07-24-2014 |
20140220443 | STORAGE ELEMENT AND PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - A storage element for a solid electrolyte battery is provided, having a main member of a porous ceramic matrix in which particles, that are made of a metal and/or a metal oxide and jointly form a redox couple, are embedded, the particles having a lamellar shape. | 08-07-2014 |
20140220447 | STORAGE ELEMENT FOR A SOLID ELECTROLYTE BATTERY - A storage element for a solid electrolyte battery is provided, having a main member including a porous ceramic matrix in which particles that are made of a first metal and/or a metal oxide and jointly form a redox couple are embedded. The storage element further includes particles made of another metal and/or an associated metal oxide, the other metal being electrochemically more noble than the first metal. | 08-07-2014 |
20140295297 | STORAGE ELEMENT FOR A SOLID ELECTROLYTE ENERGY STORE - A storage element for a solid electrolyte energy store and a method of producing a storage element are provided. The storage element has a three-dimensional grid structure made of a material that comprises an electron-conducting redox pair. | 10-02-2014 |
20140342217 | STORAGE ELEMENT - A storage element for a solid-electrolyte battery is provided, having a main body which is composed of a porous matrix of sintered ceramic particles, and also having a redox system which is composed of a first metal and/or at least one oxide of the first metal, wherein a basic composition of the storage element comprises at least one further oxide from the group comprising Y2O3, MgO, Gd2O3, WO3, ZnO, MnO which is suitable for forming an oxidic mixed phase with the first metal and/or the at least one oxide of the first metal. | 11-20-2014 |
20150140454 | STORAGE STRUCTURE OF AN ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE CELL - A storage structure of an electrical energy storage cell is provided having an active storage material, wherein the active storage material has a particle size distribution which has a d | 05-21-2015 |
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20150111133 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A STORAGE STRUCTURE OF AN ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE CELL - A method for producing a storage structure of an electrical metal-air energy storage cell is provided, having an active storage material and an inert material, the method including the following steps: producing a porous green body, which includes the active storage material, infiltration of the porous green body with an infiltration medium, which contains the inert material, and heat treatment of the infiltrated green body to produce an inert enveloping structure, which at least partially envelops grains of the active storage material. | 04-23-2015 |
20150325842 | STORAGE STRUCTURE OF AN ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE CELL - A storage structure of an electrical metal-air energy storage cell is provided including an active storage material and an inert material, wherein particles of the inert material have an aspect ratio of less than 0.7, and wherein subregions of the inert particles are incorporated in a grain volume of grains of the active storage material. | 11-12-2015 |
20150325895 | ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORE - An electrical energy store is provided, including a storage cell, which in turn has an air electrode, which is connected to air channels in an air supply device, and a storage electrode, wherein the storage electrode adjoins a storage structure, wherein electrical contacts rest on the storage electrode, further wherein contact pins which protrude out of a surface of the storage structure are integrated in the storage structure, and the contact pins are in electrical contact with the storage electrode. | 11-12-2015 |
20160056518 | ENERGY CONVERSION CELL HAVING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CONVERSION UNIT - An energy conversion cell includes an electrochemical conversion unit. The energy conversion cell has an electrically positive side with a process gas supply and an electrically negative side. The electrochemical conversion unit, which has a self-supporting substrate and a number of functional layers, is disposed between the two sides. The electrochemical conversion unit has a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a porous metallic, self-supporting substrate. | 02-25-2016 |
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20100282561 | METHOD FOR KISS POINT ADAPTATION - A method for adjusting the point of engagement of a friction clutch of a step-variable transmission for a motor vehicle, in particular a friction clutch of a dual clutch transmission. The friction clutch is controllably actuated by means of a clutch actuator and at least one synchronizer shifting clutch is controllably actuated by means of a shift actuator for the engagement and disengagement of a gear ratio of the spur-gear transmission. A set-point of the clutch actuator for the point of engagement of the friction clutch is adjusted as a function of a speed gradient value, which ensues from a transitional state with the friction clutch actuated and the shifting clutch actuated, once the shifting clutch is opened. The transitional state is established by setting the clutch actuator and the shift actuator to a respective transitional value substantially at the same time or, at least in sections, in parallel. | 11-11-2010 |
20110284336 | Method for Reducing the Noise in the Drive Train of a Motor Vehicle - A method reduces the noise in the drive train of a motor vehicle having an automatic transmission or a manual transmission with a controllable oil pressure supply and/or automatic starting clutch. An engine sided drive unit is connected to the transmission input shaft by way of a spline connection, wherein noises in the drive train are caused by a clearance fit in the spline connection between the engine sided drive unit and the transmission input shaft. The transmission control is adapted for reducing the noise when in neutral. | 11-24-2011 |
20140274560 | Device and Method for Controlling a Motor Vehicle Drive Train - A method and arrangement is provided for controlling a motor vehicle drive train equipped with at least one drive motor, a torque converter, an automatic transmission and at least one electronic drive control device. In the drive control device, a function module is implemented for carrying out a creep control. This creep control can be activated independently of a brake actuation, when the actual rotational speed of the driving motor is greater than a defined desired rotational speed of the driving motor, and when the actual rotational speed of the driving motor cannot be reduced because of at least one defined condition as the minimally possible rotational speed of the driving motor. | 09-18-2014 |
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