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20100030895 | SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY MANAGING AND SUPPORTING A PLURALITY OF NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS - Converged network management application and system is provided that delivers a management platform as a service that can view and/or manage all managed networks in the aggregate, or any one of them individually (including individual devices within the managed networks), in a secure and efficient manner, providing continuously available intelligence in real time on the managed networks and systems, and overcoming integration issues including conflicting address schemas, the need to avoid unnecessary infrastructure, and the need acquire all necessary information in real time within applicable memory and bandwidth constraints. | 02-04-2010 |
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20100002546 | TIMEPIECE INCLUDING A STRIKING MECHANISM - In a timepiece with a striking mechanism, for example a minute repeater watch, in order to prevent the control stem ( | 01-07-2010 |
20100246338 | TIMEPIECE MOVEMENT INCLUDING A KARUSSEL - The timepiece movement includes a barrel, an escapement that has an escape wheel and pinion ( | 09-30-2010 |
20110158055 | DYNAMOMETRIC DEVICE FOR INDICATING THE REMAINING BARREL TORQUE IN A TIMEPIECE - The invention concerns a dynamometric device ( | 06-30-2011 |
20130194900 | MECHANISM FOR ADVANCING A KARUSSEL CAGE OR TOURBILLON CAGE BY PERIODIC JUMPS - A mechanism for advancing, by periodic jumps, a pivoting cage for an escapement mechanism, including: a retaining mechanism authorizing or preventing the pivoting of the cage, depending on its movement; and a stopping mechanism authorizing or preventing the pivoting of the retaining mechanism, depending on its angular position. A constant force device causes periodic cooperation of the retaining mechanism, which includes a flirt arranged to perform complete revolutions and is connected to an input thereof, with the stopping mechanism, which includes a star wheel and is connected to an output thereof, whose trajectories interfere with each other, to pivot the cage when the stopping mechanism allows the pivoting of the retaining mechanism and to stop the cage when the stopping mechanism locks the retaining mechanism. | 08-01-2013 |
20140204719 | TIMEPIECE BARREL ASSEMBLY WITH REDUCED CORE DIAMETER - Timepiece barrel assembly ( | 07-24-2014 |
20140211595 | TIMEPIECE BARREL WITH REDUCED CORE DIAMETER - Timepiece barrel assembly, including a mainspring mounted between a drum and a receiving surface of a core coaxial to the drum about an axis. The core includes in series from a first end towards a second end: a means of fixing a ratchet, and/or a first pivot shoulder in a plate; a pivot shoulder of the drum; a collar radially projecting relative to the shoulder and resting on an inner face of the drum towards the spring; set back radially relative to the collar, the receiving surface; set back radially relative to the receiving surface, a pivot shoulder of a cover for closing the barrel; and a second pivot shoulder in a plate. | 07-31-2014 |
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20150212490 | TIMEPIECE REGULATING MEMBER - A timepiece regulating member including a balance wheel oscillating about an axis subjected to a torque exerted by a torsion return mechanism. The balance includes an attachment mechanism causing it to oscillate integrally with a torsion wire forming the torsion return mechanism specific to the balance, a largest dimension of the cross-section of a useful part of the torsion wire which is subjected to torsion is less than 100 micrometres, a smallest dimension of the cross-section of the useful part is less than 50 micrometres, a total length of the torsion wire is less than 6 millimetres, and the regulating member includes a mechanism tensioning the torsion wire. | 07-30-2015 |
20150338828 | MELODY SELECTION MECHANISM FOR A STRIKING TIMEPIECE - Timepiece or watch ( | 11-26-2015 |
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20130239482 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY BLOCKING A CAVITY OF AN ENERGIZED ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for remotely blocking a cavity of a component of an energized electrical transmission system. A protector has a blocking part for blocking the cavity of the component. The protector has a hotstick connector. A dielectric hotstick has an engagement part such as a hook at a remote end of the dielectric hotstick. The hook may be removably connected to the external point of attachment for remote installation of the blocking part blocking the cavity within a component, such as a piece of equipment or support structure. The blocking part may be remotely installed blocking the cavity using a dielectric hotstick operated by a user who is in a position outside a safe Limit of Approach. The blocking part may comprise a compressible material such as rubber or memory foam. | 09-19-2013 |
20140326496 | BOOM TIP COVER - A protector for a boom tip for use within an electrical power transmission system, the protector comprising: one or more walls having a boom tip enclosure side, an exterior side, and one or more terminal edges that define a boom tip entrance; and a guide shoulder contoured along the boom tip enclosure side to define an installation path for a part of the boom tip to contact and follow relative to the protector. A method of installing a protector on a boom tip for use within an electrical power transmission system, the method comprising: positioning the protector so that the boom tip is between one or more terminal edges of the protector, and a part of the boom tip is adjacent an initial portion of a guide shoulder contoured along a boom tip enclosure side of the protector; and advancing the protector into an installed position over the boom tip by allowing the part to follow an installation path defined by the guide shoulder. | 11-06-2014 |
20150068798 | ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSMISSION PROTECTORS WITH COMPONENT GRIPPERS, AND RELATED METHODS - A dielectric cover for protecting a component of an electrical power transmission system, the dielectric cover comprising: an enclosing part having enclosing portions that are configured for relative movement to each other to enclose the component; and a gripping part having gripping portions that are configured for relative movement to each other to grip the component, the movement of the gripping portions being independent of the relative movement of the enclosing part. | 03-12-2015 |
20150130200 | HOT STICK ADAPTER, COMBINATION, AND METHOD - An adapter for a dielectric hot stick, the hot stick having a hook, the hook being movable along an axis of travel that includes a retracted position where the hook is within an axial passage in the hot stick, and an extended position where the hook is extended past a work end of the hot stick, the adapter comprising: a frame with a hot stick seat shaped to be mounted on the work end of the hot stick, the frame defining a lever passage positioned to at least partially align with the axial passage in use; and a lever assembly pivotally connected to the frame, the lever assembly having a first end with a connector for the hook and being at least partially within the lever passage, and the lever assembly having a second end defining or connected to a tool part to move the tool part relative to the frame to carry out a function when the hook moves along the axis of travel. | 05-14-2015 |
20160035464 | BARRIER WALLS AND METHODS OF USE IN ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS - A method of protecting an exposed switch mounted on a structural frame in an electrical power transmission system, the switch having one or more insulators extended from the structural frame, first and second conductor connectors supported on the one or more insulators, and a blade connected to pivot to close and open an electrical path between the first and second conductor connectors, the method including mounting a barrier wall adjacent the switch and on the structural frame. | 02-04-2016 |
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20080217245 | ENHANCED CLEARANCE IN AN ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY INCORPORATING A PULSATILE PUMP - A continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) device is provided that weighs between 2 and 10 pounds. The CRRT device can be portable, mobile or completely worn on the person of the patient. Blood and dialysate are each pumped in a pulsed or pulsatile manner through a dialyzer such that a significant portion of the peak pulse of the blood flow coincides with a significant portion of a low pulse portion of the dialysate flow. An differential pressure between a dialysate inlet of the dialyzer and the blood inlet of the dialyzer periodically changes from a high differential pressure of between 70 and 120 mmHg for a first time period and a low differential pressure of between −10 and 10 mmHg for a second time period. The frequency of the high and low differential pressure cycle is between about 0.5 and 4 Hz. | 09-11-2008 |
20090247869 | Application of image-based dynamic ultrasound spectrography (IDUS) in detection and localization of breast micro-calcification - It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for the detection and localization of breast micro-calcification through a precise method of ultrasound impacting and ultrasound frequency wave detection which will enable the system to detect not only if there is a micro-calcification in the breast, but the precise location of the micro-calcification and the mass of the micro-calcification. The invention is also a method and system that provides bi-modal image guided stimulation of a targeted mass within the breast to determine the location and nature of the micro-calcification within the breast. | 10-01-2009 |
20100022936 | WEARABLE ULTRAFILTRATION DEVICE - An ultrafiltration device adapted to be worn on a portion of the body of a patient includes a blood inlet tube leading from a first blood vessel, a blood pump, an anticoagulant reservoir for infusing anticoagulants into the blood, a blood filter including a substrate through which the blood is circulated and filtered, a fluid bag for storing the excess fluid and a blood outlet tube leading to a second blood vessel. | 01-28-2010 |
20100094193 | WEARABLE ULTRAFILTRATION DEVICE - An ultrafiltration device adapted to be worn on a portion of the body of a patient includes a blood inlet tube leading from a first blood vessel, a blood pump, an anticoagulant reservoir for infusing anticoagulants into the blood, a blood filter including a substrate through which the blood is circulated and filtered, a fluid bag for storing the excess fluid and a blood outlet tube leading to a second blood vessel. | 04-15-2010 |
20110125073 | ENHANCED CLEARANCE IN AN ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY INCORPORATING A PULSATILE PUMP - A continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) device is provided that weighs between 2 and 10 pounds. The CRRT device can be portable, mobile or completely worn on the person of the patient. Blood and dialysate are each pumped in a pulsed or pulsatile manner through a dialyzer such that a significant portion of the peak pulse of the blood flow coincides with a significant portion of a low pulse portion of the dialysate flow. An differential pressure between a dialysate inlet of the dialyzer and the blood inlet of the dialyzer periodically changes from a high differential pressure of between 70 and 120 mmHg for a first time period and a low differential pressure of between −10 and 10 mmHg for a first time period and a low differential pressure of between −10 and 10 mmHg for a second time period. The frequency of the high and low differential pressure cycle is between about 0.5 and 4 Hz. | 05-26-2011 |
20110142700 | DUAL-VENTRICLE PUMP CARTRIDGE, PUMP, AND METHOD OF USE IN A WEARABLE CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY DEVICE - A dual channel pulsatile pump for use with a completely wearable renal replacement device is provided. | 06-16-2011 |
20140175010 | Enhanced Clearance In An Artificial Kidney Incorporating A Pulsatile Pump - A continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) device is provided that weighs between 2 and 10 pounds. The CRRT device can be portable, mobile or completely worn on the person of the patient. Blood and dialysate are each pumped in a pulsed or pulsatile manner through a dialyzer such that a significant portion of the peak pulse of the blood flow coincides with a significant portion of a low pulse portion of the dialysate flow. An differential pressure between a dialysate inlet of the dialyzer and the blood inlet of the dialyzer periodically changes from a high differential pressure of between 70 and 120 mmHg for a first time period and a low differential pressure of between −10 and 10 mmHg for a first time period and a low differential pressure of between −10 and 10 mmHg for a second time period. The frequency of the high and low differential pressure cycle is between about 0.5 and 4 Hz. | 06-26-2014 |
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20090321340 | FILTER CARTRIDGE FOR USE WITH A FILTER HEAD ASSEMBLY - A filter cartridge for use with a filter head assembly and for filtering a stream of pressurized fluid. The filter cartridge comprises a housing enclosing filtering media, a retainer to releasably engage a receiver in a filter head assembly, and one or more rotationally engagable locks securing the filter cartridge to the filter head assembly upon the rotational engagement of the filter cartridge with the filter head assembly. The housing includes an upper end having therein entry and exit passages to permit fluid to enter the housing, pass through the filtering media and exit the housing. Rotational engagement of the filter cartridge with the filter head assembly causes the retainer and said the receiver to releasably secure the filter cartridge to the filter head assembly and to thereby permit fluid to travel from the filter head assembly through the entry passage and to permit fluid to pass from the exit passage into the filter head assembly. The locks help to resist the rotational disengagement of the filter cartridge from the filter head assembly. | 12-31-2009 |
20100225125 | SAFETY LOCK - A safety lock is disclosed and comprises a body, a bolt and a handle. The body is securable to one member. The bolt is mounted to the body for reciprocation between projecting and retracted positions. In the projecting position, a bolt end portion protrudes beyond the body and is engageable in another member, to prevent relative movement of the members. In the retracted position, the end portion is incapable of engagement in the other member, to permit said relative movement. The handle is releasably engageable to the bolt. The handle, body and bolt are adapted such that when the handle is engaged to the bolt, the handle permits manual reciprocation of the bolt, and are further adapted such that when the handle is disengaged from the bolt and the bolt end portion is inaccessible for manual manipulation, the bolt is inaccessible for said manual reciprocation. | 09-09-2010 |
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20090058656 | INVERTED F ANTENNA WITH COPLANAR FEED AND RFID DEVICE HAVING SAME - An RFID device according to one embodiment includes an inverted F antenna having an active portion, a ground plane spaced from the active portion, and a feed coupled to and coplanar with the active portion; and an RFID controller coupled to the feed. An inverted F antenna according to another embodiment includes a substrate for an RFID device; an active portion coupled to the substrate; a ground plane spaced from the active portion; and a feed coupled to and coplanar with the active portion. An inverted F antenna according to yet another embodiment includes an active portion coupled to the substrate; a ground plane spaced from the active portion; a feed coupled to and coplanar with the active portion; and an extension portion being selectively coupleable to the active portion for altering a wavelength of the inverted F antenna. | 03-05-2009 |
20100007570 | SMALL PROFILE ANTENNA AND RFID DEVICE HAVING SAME - An antenna system for a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag in one embodiment includes a base portion; at least one angled portion oriented to have a tangential angle of between about 1 degree and about 179 degrees from a plane of the base portion; and an antenna trace on the at least one angled portion. An antenna system for an RFID tag in another embodiment includes a base portion; at least one angled portion having at least two sections each oriented to have a tangential angle of between about 1 degree and about 179 degrees from a plane of the base portion, the two sections having different overall angles relative to the base portion; and an antenna trace on the at least one angled portion. Additional systems and methods are presented. | 01-14-2010 |
20120223814 | RFID DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCURATE EQUIPMENT AND ASSET TRACKING - A method according to one embodiment includes conummicating with a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag coupled to a reusable transport item (RTI); and determining whether the RTI has passed a predetermined useful lifetime thereof based on information received from the RFID tag. A method according to one embodiment includes conummicating with a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag coupled to a reusable transport item (RTI); and determining both a horizontal and vertical position of the RTI. A method according to yet another embodiment includes communicating with a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag coupled to a reusable transport item (RTI); and performing an action based at least in part on at least one of a location and a determined inactivity of the RTI. | 09-06-2012 |
20120268327 | INVERTED F ANTENNA SYSTEM AND RFID DEVICE HAVING SAME - An RFID device according to one embodiment includes an active portion of a first inverted F antenna; a feed electrically coupled to the active portion; an active portion of a second inverted F antenna, a feed electrically coupled to the second active portion; a ground plane spaced from the active, portions; and an RFID controller coupled to the feeds. An RFID device according to another embodiment includes an inverted F antenna having an active portion, a ground plane spaced from the active portion, and a feed coupled to the active portion, wherein the active portion includes multiple aims, a first of the arms having a first length and a second of the arms having a second length; and an RFID controller coupled to the feed. | 10-25-2012 |
20140061315 | RFID TAG WITH REMOTE SENSORS AND/OR REMOVABLE BATTERIES - A system according to one embodiment includes a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag, the RFID tag having a housing; an interface configured for detachable coupling to a connector that is coupleable or coupled to an external module having at least one of a battery and a remote sensor; a controller for processing data derived from an output of the remote sensor; a memory for storing the data derived from an output of the remote sensor and/or the processed data; and an antenna coupled to the controller for enabling backscatter communication. | 03-06-2014 |
20150294209 | RFID TAG WITH REMOTE SENSORS AND/OR REMOVABLE BATTERIES - A method according to one embodiment includes mounting a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag on a barrier, and positioning an external module that is coupled to the RFID tag on another side of the barrier. A method according to another embodiment includes detaching a first external module from physical communication with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag, and attaching a second external module to the RFID tag. | 10-15-2015 |
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20140031923 | Trans-Aortic Surgical Syringe-Type Device for Deployment of a Prosthetic Valve - Prosthetic valve introducer systems and methods for deploying a heart valve prosthesis within a body lumen are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the valve introducer can include a delivery shaft to house a prosthetic valve and a distal tip, and a deployment element to push a prosthetic valve out of the distal tip of the delivery shaft. The valve introducer can include at least one finger gripping element. The delivery shaft can be inserted into a body lumen and advanced to a desired deployment location. In certain embodiments, the prosthetic valve can be deployed by pushing the deployment element in a distal direction, thereby pushing the prosthetic valve out of the distal tip of the delivery shaft. | 01-30-2014 |
20140067050 | Trans-Aortic Delivery System With Containment Capsule Centering Device - Heart valve delivery systems and methods of delivering and implanting heart valves using delivery catheters are disclosed. The delivery systems can include a handle assembly which can include a first control mechanism, a second control mechanism, and a decoupling mechanism. The delivery systems can also include a delivery catheter extending from the handle assembly. The delivery catheter can include an outer shaft, which can be controlled by the first control mechanism; a prosthesis containing capsule comprising a proximal capsule portion connected to the outer shaft, and a distal capsule portion releasably coupled to the proximal capsule portion. After deploying a valve prosthesis, the capsule can be closed by activating the decoupling mechanism in the handle to rapidly close the distal and proximal capsule portions together. The delivery system can also include a centering element to guide the distal and proximal capsule portions together. | 03-06-2014 |
20140135909 | Valve Prosthesis Deployment Assembly and Method - The delivery systems disclosed herein can create simultaneous movement of an inner and an outer sheath of the delivery system. The delivery systems can generally include a handle assembly and a delivery catheter. In certain embodiments, the inner shaft and the outer sheath can be slidably controlled by a control element in the handle. The handle assembly can include a housing with a thumbwheel acting as the control element. In certain embodiments, movement of the inner shaft and the outer sheath can be caused via a gear-type system. In certain embodiments, the handle assembly can include a rotatable housing. A control element can rotate the housing, which can cause a first boss associated with the outer sheath and a second boss associated with the inner shaft to move in opposite directions. | 05-15-2014 |
20150112430 | Systems, Devices and Methods for Transcatheter Valve Delivery - A heart valve therapy system including a delivery device and a stented valve. The delivery device includes an outer sheath, an inner shaft, an optional hub assembly, and a plurality of tethers. In a delivery state, a stent frame of the prosthesis is crimped over the inner shaft and maintained in a compressed condition by the outer sheath. The tethers are connected to the stent frame. In a partial deployment state, the outer sheath is at least partially withdrawn, allowing the stent frame to self-expand. Tension in the tethers prevents the stent frame from rapidly expanding and optionally allowing recapture. Upon completion of the stent frame expansion, the tethers are withdrawn. | 04-23-2015 |
20150359631 | Prosthetic Valve With Vortice-Inducing Baffle - A prosthetic valve comprising a stent frame, a valve structure, and a baffle structure. The stent frame defines a lumen. The valve structure is disposed within the lumen, and defines an inflow side and an outflow side. An outflow track is established within the lumen downstream of the outflow side and along which fluid flow from the valve structure progresses. The baffle structure is connected to the stent frame downstream of the outflow side and is configured to induce vortical flow, for example including a vortex ring. In some embodiments, the prosthetic valve is a transcatheter prosthetic mitral valve having three leaflets. | 12-17-2015 |
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20100029479 | PESTICIDAL COMBINATIONS - A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, parts of a plant and/or plant organs that grow at a later point in time, which comprises applying simultaneously on the plant, part of the plant, plant organs, plant propagation material or a surrounding thereof a combination comprising (I) tebuconazole, (II) azoxystrobin and (III) one or more of insecticides and/or fludioxonil, and optionally (IV) one or more customary formulation auxiliaries, provided that where tefluthrin and thiamethoxam are both present, then the combination comprises more than five active ingredients. | 02-04-2010 |
20100173773 | METHOD OF REDUCING MYCOTOXIN CONTAMINATION OF THE HARVEST - The present invention provides a method of reducing mycotoxin contamination of a plant and/or harvested plant material, said method comprising treating plant propagation material with one or more fungicides, germinating or growing said plant propagation material to produce a plant, and harvesting plant material from said plant. | 07-08-2010 |