Paquette, CA
Dan Paquette, Amherstburg CA
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20080303197 | MODULAR WELDING FIXTURE - A tooling fixture is disclosed that includes a weldment having spaced apart lateral members interconnected by opposing side members. Spaced apart trunnions support the side members for rotation about an axis, in one example. A locating pin is arranged between each side member and trunnions to enable quick and accurate location of the tooling fixture relative to the trunnions. The pins are at a right angle relative to the axis, in one example. Tooling plates are removable secured to each of the lateral members. Adjustable brackets are secured to the tooling plates and support tooling that cooperates with a workpiece supported on the tooling fixture. In one example, jack blocks, shims, squaring plates and stops are used to permit precise adjustment and repeatable relocation of the tooling in three directions. | 12-11-2008 |
Jean-Robert Paquette, Hanmer CA
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20150157002 | FISHING BAIT HOLDER - A fishing bait holder includes an outer wall and a base defining a bait holding space having a bait opening for receiving bait to be held, the base comprising a porous base member configured to allow water to pass through the porous base member while not allowing the bait to pass through the porous base member. The fishing bait holder includes a bait lifter for fitting inside the bait holding space, the bait lifter configured to allow a user to lift the bait within the bait holding space, thereby facilitating the user's access to the bait. | 06-11-2015 |
Jonathan Paquette, Blainville CA
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20100217092 | Surgical tool for measurement of valve annulus and cusp geometry - A surgical tool for visually assessing or measuring the aortic structures contained within a generally tubular aortic root. The surgical tool is appropriately configured and sized to be insertable within an aortic root during surgery. The surgical tool comprises a handle portion and a cylindrical portion connectable thereto. The cylindrical portion defines an external cylindrical surface and extends in height along a tool axis between a base portion and a top portion. The cylindrical portion being optically clear or having at least a section thereof that is sufficiently transparent whereby, in use, when the surgical tool is placed within the aortic root and the aortic structures are in contact with the external cylindrical surface, the aortic structures are visible through said optically clear or sufficiently transparent section. The cylindrical portion preferably further comprises an array of reference datum and measurement increments visible through the optically clear section such that the visualization and measurement of the aortic structures may be effected with reference to the array. | 08-26-2010 |
20110144450 | Tissue retractor with movable blades and articulating wrist joint - A surgical retractor for retracting a body tissue comprising a plurality of cooperating tissue-retracting blades connected to a retractor housing through a linkage arrangement. The tissue-retracting blades are movable between a closed-blade configuration wherein said blades are in proximity to one another and an open-blade configuration wherein said blades are in a spaced apart spatial relationship. The blade spatial relationship being variably selectable by the degree of actuation input applied to a first actuator that is coupled to both the retractor housing and the linkage arrangement. The tissue-retracting blades are also movable, together as a blade assembly in a selected blade spatial relationship, when a second actuation input is applied to a second actuator to articulate a pivoting wrist joint configured in the retractor housing. Actuating the wrist joint through the second actuator allows the surgeon to vary the orientation of the spaced apart blades relative to the housing through an angular displacement of the blades about a wrist pivot axis. | 06-16-2011 |
20130073033 | EXPANDABLE ANNULOPLASTY RING AND ASSOCIATED RING HOLDER - Devices and methods are provided for surgical repair of dilated aortic root to restore aortic valve competence while preserving native leaflets. In one aspect of the invention an expandable annuloplasty ring is provided for external placement at the base of a dilated aortic root. The expandable ring is capable of elastically expanding between a first diastolic diameter and a larger second systolic diameter to provide a physiologically representative surgical repair of the aortic root. In a further aspect of the invention, is provided a holder assembly for aortic annuloplasty ring and suitable for other cardiac valve prosthesis. The holder assembly consists of a holder body pivotingly coupled to a handle member through a ball-and-socket arrangement. | 03-21-2013 |
Maxime Paquette, Val-Des-Monts CA
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20080230988 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL LOGICAL PUZZLES - Semiregular or irregular polyhedron-based puzzles have at least two different types of faces. The dividing method used to create the puzzles requires that bisecting planes parallel to the faces be chosen to exclude at least one type of face. Preferably, the base polyhedron has a Buckyball (soccer ball) shape. Applying this dividing method to a Buckyball polyhedron results in (i) a center element with six axes passing through geometrical centers of pentagonal faces, (ii) twelve pentagonal rotating elements, and (iii) thirty mobile elements of tetrahedral shape. The mobile elements are exchangeable between adjacent groups. In another embodiment, sliding elements are superimposed over the mobile elements to enable sliding motion in addition to shifting/rotating motion. Different indicia patterns can be used to modulate the difficulty level of the puzzle. The same dividing method can be used on a sphere to obtain a completely spherical puzzle. | 09-25-2008 |
20090091080 | DIVIDING METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL LOGICAL PUZZLES - A dividing method used to easily divide any given solid into perfectly interfitting parts by using at least one guiding polyhedron to establish an axis system serving as guiding paths for associated geometrical figure contours used to slice said given solid. This axis system is coincident with all or a subset of the geometrical centers of each face of the guiding polyhedron, with midpoints of the edges of the polyhedron, and with the vertices of the polyhedron. The dividing method is based on five different techniques: a selecting technique, a sizing technique, a multi-slicing technique, a multi-pivoting technique, and a multi-guiding technique. This dividing method can create extremely challenging, aesthetic and symmetrical three-dimensional puzzles having shifting and optionally sliding features. This dividing method works with polyhedron-based solids, spherical solids and odd-shaped solids of any kind. | 04-09-2009 |
20090091570 | DIVIDING METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL LOGICAL PUZZLES - A dividing method used to easily divide a solid or hollow structure into perfectly interfitting parts by using at least one guiding polyhedron to establish an axis system serving as guiding paths for associated geometrical figure contours used to slice the structure. This axis system is coincident with all or a subset of the geometrical centers of each face of the guiding polyhedron, with midpoints of the edges of the polyhedron, and with the vertices of the polyhedron. The dividing method is based on five different techniques: a selecting technique, a sizing technique, a multi-slicing technique, a multi-pivoting technique, and a multi-guiding technique. This dividing method can create extremely challenging, aesthetic and symmetrical three-dimensional puzzles having shifting and optionally sliding features. This dividing method works with polyhedral, spherical and odd-shaped structures. | 04-09-2009 |
20090127783 | SHIFTABLE CUBIC PUZZLE WITH SUPERIMPOSED SLIDABLE ELEMENTS - A cubic puzzle improves on the Rubik's Cube by adding slidable elements to exterior surfaces of the cube. The improved cubic puzzle has a plurality of cubic elements connected to an interior central element, the cubic elements of each of the six surfaces of the cube being grouped into six rotatable groups of cubic elements that can be rotatably shifted relative to the central element about one of the three orthogonal axes of the cubic puzzle. The cubic puzzle further includes a plurality of slidable elements slidably disposed on exterior faces of the cubic elements. | 05-21-2009 |
20090127784 | KEYED ACCESS TO HOLLOW THREE-DIMENSIONAL PUZZLES - A three-dimensional puzzle such as, for example, a spherical puzzle, has shiftable, and optionally also slidable, puzzle elements that are arranged to enclose a hollow center. The enclosed hollow center defines a secret compartment for optionally containing a prize or other object. The secret compartment can be accessed by manipulating the puzzle elements to match a predetermined (and optionally reprogrammable) pattern that unlocks the puzzle to thus provide access to the secret compartment. A set of keys and corresponding keyways on certain puzzle elements provides the requisite interlocking of elements. Only when the keys are properly aligned with respective keyways can the puzzle be opened to reveal the interior compartment. This puzzle can be a coreless-type puzzle or a puzzle having an inner center element. The puzzle can be spherical, polyhedral or odd-shaped provided there is a suitable opening path for engagement of keys and keyways. | 05-21-2009 |
20090218765 | ODD-SHAPED THREE-DIMENSIONAL LOGICAL PUZZLES - A method used to convert easily any given odd-shaped solid into perfectly interfitting elements to create three-dimensional puzzles. The method is based on steps producing mobile elements, carrying elements and optionally a center element and implementing holding means, retaining means and translating-rotating motions. Procedures also explain how to add secret compartment features to the odd-shaped puzzle family. This method and procedures can create extremely challenging, and aesthetic three-dimensional puzzles having shifting and optionally sliding features. This method and procedures work with odd-shaped solids, spherical solids and polyhedral solids of any kind. | 09-03-2009 |
Michel Paquette, Toronto CA
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20140243688 | FLUID TEMPERATURE AND FLOW SENSOR APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CARDIOVASCULAR AND OTHER MEDICAL APPLICATIONS - Apparatus ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140249386 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MEASURING A BLOOD PRESSURE GRADIENT - An apparatus ( | 09-04-2014 |
Michel Paquette, St-Etienne-Des-Gres CA
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20110308215 | Robotic tree trimmer - A robotic tree trimmer has a hydraulic system adapted to be mounted to a tractor and comprising an extendible vertical mast. A first hydraulic motor attached to the vertical mast and adapted to linearly extend and rotate the vertical mast 180 degrees around a first vertical axis. An extendible horizontal boom attached to a distal top end of the vertical mast and having an extension member on an end opposite the distal top end of the vertical mast; a second hydraulic motor attached to the extension member and used to rotate a trimming apparatus 360 degrees around a second vertical axis variably spaced from the first vertical axis by the extendible horizontal boom. The trimming apparatus including a trimming member and a hydraulic piston that is attached between the trimming member and the extension member at a position that is spaced from the connection between the second hydraulic motor and the trimming member to thereby provide the ability to pivot and adjust the angle of the trimming member with respect to the horizontal boom, such that the trimming member can be moved in a variety of positions, angles, heights in order to trim trees of varying positions and sizes in a variety of desired shapes. | 12-22-2011 |
Michel Paquette, Etobicoke CA
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20130314893 | HIGH BRIGHTNESS ILLUMINATION SYSTEM AND WAVELENGTH CONVERSION MODULE FOR MICROSCOPY AND OTHER APPLICATIONS - An illumination system comprising a laser light source and a wavelength conversion module for generating high brightness illumination by photoluminescence. The wavelength conversion module comprises an optical element comprising a wavelength conversion medium, set in a mounting for thermal dissipation, and an optical concentrator. The shape of the optical element and its reflective surfaces provides improved light extraction at the converted wavelength, and allows for more effective cooling. It provides a compact light source with a configuration suitable for applications that require high brightness and narrow bandwidth illumination at a selected wavelength, e.g. for fluorescence microscopy, or other applications requiring étendue-limited optical fiber coupling. The system, which preferably uses a solid state laser diode, provides an alternative to conventional arc lamps, and addresses limitations of other available solid state LED light sources to provide high brightness at some wavelengths, particularly in the 580nm to 630nm range. | 11-28-2013 |
Nancy Paquette, Quebec CA
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20150292004 | DETECTION OF TOXIGENIC STRAINS OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE - Primers and probes for detection of toxin-producing (toxigenic) strains of | 10-15-2015 |
Nancy Paquette, Quebec City CA
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20090208948 | DETECTION OF TOXIGENIC STRAINS OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE - Primers and probes for detection of toxin-producing (toxigenic) strains of | 08-20-2009 |
Patrice Paquette, Melbourne CA
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20150366694 | EXOSKELETON AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - An exoskeleton designed to be worn by a user is generally configured to support and transfer the load supported by the head, the neck and/or the torso (shoulders, chest and/or back) of the user down to the ground. The exoskeleton is generally passive and comprises at least three interconnected sections: torso, hip, and leg sections. Each of the sections generally comprises of a plurality of interconnected rigid members which form the load-bearing structure of the exoskeleton. When a user wears the exoskeleton, load normally carried by the head, neck and/or torso of the user is at least partially supported and transferred to the ground by the exoskeleton, thereby reducing the load effectively supported by the user itself. The leg sections of the exoskeleton are designed to ensure that the load-bearing final location is located on the inner side of the feet, in accordance with human biomechanics. | 12-24-2015 |
Pierre Paquette, Montreal CA
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20120222340 | SOLAR RECHARGEABLE SELF ILLUMINATED TAG - A self illuminated display board attached to a transparent material, like a window. The board contains a message or logo or picture illuminated by one or more light sources. When lighting conditions are strong, a solar panel tied to the main board recharge an energy storage device. When lighting conditions are low, the energy storage device powers the light source. | 09-06-2012 |
Remi Paquette, Blainville CA
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20140320314 | ENERGY CONSUMPTION EVALUATION SYSTEM HAVING REDUCED ENERGY CONSUMPTION - There is described a system for measuring energy consumption of individual electrical devices amongst a plurality of electrical devices. The system is adapted to determine in real time energy consumption while reducing its own consumption of energy by adjusting a transmission rate to between status sensing devices and a consumption evaluation device. The transmission rate is adjusted as a function of learned energy consumption habits and/or consumption characteristics of individual electrical devices. | 10-30-2014 |
Ricky G. Paquette, Montreal CA
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20080313785 | PROTECTIVE GLOVE WITH ANGULAR ARTICULATED LOCKING THUMB - A protective glove system is disclosed wherein each glove has an articulated thumb skeleton disposed in the thumb member. The thumb skeleton comprises a plurality of sections pivotably joined together to enable the thumb to articulate between open and closed positions. At least one pivot axis is not perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the second section of the skeleton. A locking mechanism is provided for preventing the thumb skeleton sections from bending backwards, thereby preventing hyperextension of the wearer's thumb. | 12-25-2008 |
Roger Paquette, Saint-Antoine-Sur-Richelieu CA
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20110011163 | METHOD FOR TESTING A MECHANICAL INTEGRITY OF AN INSULATING LAYER COVERING A CONDUCTOR IN A CABLE - A method for testing a mechanical integrity of an insulating layer covering a conductor in a cable, a longitudinal void being defined inside the insulating layer in a region of the conductor. A first end of the insulating layer is blocked. A compressed gas is injected at a second end of the insulating layer so that the gas enters and travels the longitudinal void inside the insulating layer towards the first end. A gas pressure inside the insulating layer is measured at least near the second end. Injection of the compressed gas is stropped after a predetermined injection time period. A variation of the gas pressure inside the insulating layer is monitored during a diagnostic time window succeeding to a transitional time period following the stopping of the injection. Integrity of the insulating layer is determined based on the variation of the gas pressure during the diagnostic time window. | 01-20-2011 |