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Amundson, US
Daniel Jon Amundson, Cincinnati, OH US
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| 20110041325 | Modular Converting Line for Fabricating Absorbent Articles - The present disclosure relates to converting lines for manufacturing absorbent articles. The converting lines include a plurality of process equipment converting modules connected with each other along a machine direction (MD). Adjacent converting modules may be releasably connectable to each other with converting module couplers. The converting modules may also have substantially identical dimensions, wherein each converting module defines the same or substantially the same MD length, CD width, and height. The converting modules may also be sized to be received within a standard shipping container. The converting lines may includes a plurality of accessory service modules supported by respective converting modules and connected with each other along the machine directions. The accessory service modules may also be adapted to be received within standard shipping containers. Adjacent accessory service modules may be releasably connected to each other with accessory module couplers, which may include quick-disconnect couplers. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110060447 | System and Methods For Registering A Controlled Web To A Pitched Unit Operation - Systems and methods for registering a web to an on-line pitched unit operation. | 03-10-2011 |
David Amundson, Boulder, CO US
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| 20090069694 | Coronary sinus access catheter with forward-imaging means - A coronary access catheter system simplifies the insertion of objects into distal branches of the coronary sinus. The system incorporates a real-time forward-imaging means to view the os and the branches of the coronary sinus. Preferably, the catheter uses near-infrared light as the forward-imaging means, but it could also include ultrasound or electromagnetic transducer. As the image is viewed, the catheter tip can be steered into the coronary sinus os and deflected in a tight radius bend on the distal end to navigate the short radius, right angle turns found in the coronary sinus branches. At that point, a flexible sheath can be placed over the guide catheter or objects such as guidewires can be inserted into channels of the guide catheter. The system consists of a catheter and image acquisition unit, which displays the forward image. | 03-12-2009 |
David C. Amundson, Boulder, CO US
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| 20080287942 | RF Ablation Catheter with Side-Eye Infrared Imager - An ablation catheter has an imager useful in connection with an ablation operation such as used in the treatment of a cardiac arrhythmia. The catheter has an ablation electrode positioned on a catheter tip, and the imager is located on a side of the catheter. Because the catheter tip is generally articulated when the lesion is formed, this position of the imager provides an image that corresponds with the position of the catheter when it is used to form a lesion. Rings for recording tissue electrograms are also positioned on the catheter tip. This arrangement allows the user to accurately place and contact the electrode and to monitor the ablation process such as by viewing bubbles and thrombi that may undesirably be formed. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20100034227 | INFRARED IMAGING USING MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS - For an infrared imaging catheter, means of achieving a spread of wavelengths or multiple wavelengths through a stacking arrangement of “monochromatic” laser diodes or LED's are disclosed. Since a stack of diodes or LED's have different temperatures, they produce a wavelength spread many times greater than a single laser diode or LED. The wavelength spread reduces speckle in the corresponding image. Adding wavelengths also improves the corresponding infrared image, since different wavelengths have different light penetration capabilities and can emphasize different biological entities. | 02-11-2010 |
David Charles Amundson, Louisville, CO US
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| 20100198081 | Scanning light imager - This invention describes the detection of atherosclerotic plaque or cancer cells by a light probe inside a blood vessel or internal to an elongate organ. In one embodiment, vessel wall is imaged by employing a scanning mechanism using one emitting and one receiving fiber, whereby light is directed at a spinning mirror, approximately normal to the vessel or elongate organ surface. The light is reflected circumferentially around the vessel or elongate organ surface as the mirror rotates and received by a low-numerical aperture (NA) fiber, which transmits it to a light detector, thereby generating a set of light amplitudes circumferentially around the vessel/elongate organ surface. Multiple rings are acquired by translating the probe within the vessel/elongate organ. In another embodiment, adding a piezoelectric transducer in proximity to the distal ends of the fibers permits simultaneous ultrasound and light images to be created. | 08-05-2010 |
John David Amundson, Greenville, WI US
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| 20080248239 | Wet wipes having increased stack thickness - A product including a plurality of sheets formed from a basesheet material comprising at least 1.0 percent natural fibers. The plurality of sheets impregnated with a liquid, and having a moisture content between about 150 weight percent to about 600 weight percent. Each of the plurality of sheets folded to form at least one folded edge and the plurality of folded sheets placed one on top of another to form a wet wipes stack. The wet wipes stack having a Calculated per Layer Stack Thickness of greater than about 0.52 mm. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080272332 | MICROENCAPSULATED HEAT DELIVERY VEHICLES - Microencapsulated delivery vehicles comprising an active agent are disclosed. In one embodiment, the microencapsulated delivery vehicles are heat delivery vehicles capable of generating heat upon activation. The microencapsulated heat delivery vehicles may be introduced into wet wipes such that, upon activation, the wet wipe solution is warmed resulting in a warm sensation on a user's skin. Any number of other active ingredients, such as cooling agents and biocides, can also be incorporated into a microencapsulated delivery vehicle. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090065521 | WET WIPES DISPENSING SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to wet wipe dispensing systems for dispensing wet wipes capable of changing temperature upon use. In one embodiment, the dispensing system includes a wet wipe container and a lotion container that is held in assembly with the wet wipe container that contains a lotion that is kept separate from the wet wipes until the wet wipe is dispensed from the wet wipe container. The lotion includes a microencapsulated delivery vehicle that contains a temperature change agent that is capable of generating a temperature change upon contact with an aqueous solution. Once the wet wipe is dispensed from the system, an applicating device can apply the lotion to the wet wipe to facilitate contact between the temperature change agent in the microencapsulated delivery vehicle and the aqueous solution of the wet wipe. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090107618 | METHODS OF STRETCHING WET WIPES TO INCREASE THICKNESS - Methods for stretching nonwoven substrate material to reduce the basis weight of the material while maintaining or increasing thickness is disclosed. Additionally, the stretched substrate materials provide the same or improved strength as compared to conventional nonwoven materials and provide a softer feel to the user's skin. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090325838 | Patterned self-warming wipe substrates - Generally stated, the present disclosure relates to wiping substrates such as wet wipes and dry wipes that include a thermal grill utilized to deliver a warming sensation. In an exemplary aspect, disposed on at least one structural layer of the wipe substrate is a thermal grill. The thermal grill includes an alternating pattern of thermally active areas and secondary areas that provide a feeling of warmth to a user of the wipe across the entire surface of the wipe. The thermally active portions of the wipe include a temperature change substance that when in liquid communication with an activation agent is adapted to provide a temperature change of at least 5° C. from the temperature of the secondary portion. By providing a thermal grill with thermally active portions, the entire wipe gives the user of the wipe a warming sensation. | 12-31-2009 |
Karin Kristina Amundson, San Diego, CA US
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| 20100197005 | HUMAN MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES TO ACTIVIN RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE-1 - The present invention relates to antibodies including human antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof that bind to the extracellular domain (ECD) of activin receptor-like kinase-1 (ALK-1) and that function to abrogate the ALK-1/TGF-beta-1/Smad1 signaling pathway. The invention also relates to heavy and light chain immunoglobulins derived from human anti-ALK-1 antibodies and nucleic acid molecules encoding such immunoglobulins. The present invention also relates to methods of making human anti-ALK-1 antibodies, compositions comprising these antibodies and methods of using the antibodies and compositions. The invention also relates to transgenic animals or plants comprising nucleic acid molecules of the present invention. | 08-05-2010 |
Karl R. Amundson US
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| 20090206499 | ELECTROPHORETIC MEDIA AND PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - A first electrophoretic medium comprises an electrically charged particle suspended in a suspending fluid, the particle having a polymeric shell having repeating units derived from at least one monomer the homopolymer of which is incompatible with the suspending fluid. A second, similar electrophoretic medium comprises a suspending fluid, and first and second types of electrically charged particle suspended in the suspending fluid, the two types of particle having differing optical characteristics but both having polymeric shells. The polymeric shells are arranged such that homoaggregation of the two types of particles is thermodynamically favored over heteroaggregation. | 08-20-2009 |
Kurt Amundson, Berkeley, CA US
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| 20090292369 | Device and Method for Decreasing Energy Consumption of a Person by Use of a Lower Extremity Exoskeleton - A lower extremity exoskeleton, configurable to be coupled to a person, includes: leg supports configurable to be coupled to the person's lower limbs and designed to rest on the ground during stance phases, with each leg support having a thigh link and a shank link; two knee joints, each configured to allow flexion and extension between respective shank and thigh links; an exoskeleton trunk configurable to be coupled to the person's upper body, rotatably connectable to the thigh links of the leg supports, allowing for the flexion and extension between the leg supports and the exoskeleton trunk; two hip actuators configured to create torques between the exoskeleton trunk and the leg supports; and at least one power unit capable of providing power to the hip actuators. In use, power is supplied to the hip actuators in an amount to reduce the energy consumed by a user during a walking cycle. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100094185 | Device and Method for Decreasing Oxygen Consumption of a Person During Steady Walking by Use of a Load-Carrying Exoskeleton - A lower extremity exoskeleton includes: at least one power unit; two leg supports designed to rest on the ground; two knee joints configured to allow flexion and extension between respective shank and thigh links of the leg supports; an exoskeleton trunk rotatably connectable to the leg supports; and two hip actuators configured to create torques between the exoskeleton trunk and the leg supports. In use, the hip actuators create a torque to move the leg supports backward relative to the exoskeleton trunk during a stance phase, which pushes the exoskeleton trunk forward. A second torque may be used to move the leg supports forward relative to the exoskeleton trunk into a swing phase. Additionally, a swing torque may be generated during the swing phase to move the leg support forward relative to the exoskeleton trunk. This results in decreased oxygen consumption and heart rate of a user wearing the exoskeleton. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20110105966 | Exoskeleton and Method for Controlling a Swing Leg of the Exoskeleton - A lower extremity exoskeleton, configurable to be coupled to a person, includes two leg supports configurable to be coupled to the person's lower limbs, an exoskeleton trunk configurable to be coupled to the person's upper body, which is rotatably connectable to the thigh links of the leg supports allowing for the flexion and extension between the leg supports and the exoskeleton trunk, two hip actuators configured to create torques between the exoskeleton trunk and the leg supports, and at least one power unit capable of providing power to the hip actuators wherein the power unit is configured to cause the hip actuator of the leg support in the swing phase to create a torque profile such that force from the exoskeleton leg support onto the person's lower limb during at least a portion of the swing phase is in the direction of the person's lower limb swing velocity. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110266323 | Wearable Material Handling System - An exoskeleton configured to be coupled to a person includes an exoskeleton trunk and leg supports adapted to contact the ground. Hip torque generators extend between the exoskeleton trunk and respective leg supports. A load holding mechanism is rotatably coupled to the exoskeleton trunk, preferably via over-shoulder members configured to support a load in front of the person. In use, hip torque generators create torque between the exoskeleton trunk and respective leg supports in the stance phase, wherein at least one torque generator is configured to create a first torque between the exoskeleton trunk and one of the first and second leg supports in the stance phase opposing a second torque generated on the exoskeleton by a weight of the load. Load bearing sensors may be utilized to determine the torque generated by the load and communicate with a controller to control power to the torque generators. | 11-03-2011 |
Ryan Amundson, San Mateo, CA US
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| 20120113141 | TECHNIQUES TO VISUALIZE PRODUCTS USING AUGMENTED REALITY - Techniques to visual products using augmented reality are described. An apparatus may comprise an augmentation system having a pattern detector component operative to receive an image with a first virtual object representing a first real object, and determine a location parameter and a scale parameter for a second virtual object based on the first virtual object, an augmentation component operative to retrieve the second virtual object representing a second real object from a data store, and augment the first virtual object with the second virtual object based on the location parameter and the scale parameter to form an augmented object, and a rendering component operative to render the augmented object in the image with a scaled version of the second virtual object as indicated by the scale parameter at a location on the first virtual object as indicated by the location parameter. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 05-10-2012 |
Sally A. Amundson, New York, NY US
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| 20100144558 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BIODOSIMETRY WITH BIOCHIP USING GENE EXPRESSION SIGNATURES - Exposure to ionizing radiation can produce a well-defined dose dependent signature in terms of changes in gene expression. In approaches and devices described herein, such a signature can be used to generate and use a self-contained radiation biodosimeter device, based on, for example, a blood finger stick. Various aspects of the invention are directed to biodosimetry with a fully integrated biochip using gene expression signatures. | 06-10-2010 |
Scott Amundson, Boulder, CO US
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| 20090171166 | OXIMETER WITH LOCATION AWARENESS - According to embodiments, systems and methods are provided for determining the location of a medical device. A system may include a plurality of wireless communication devices configured to receive signals from a medical device and a location server configured to receive information from the plurality of wireless communication devices and determine the location of the device within a specified range. A method of operation may include receiving a plurality of signals corresponding to a medical device from a plurality of wireless communication devices and determining the location of the medical device from the plurality of signals. A sensor and monitor configured to transmit location information to one or more wireless communication devices are also provided. | 07-02-2009 |
Stephen C. Amundson, Huntington Beach, CA US
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| 20110266153 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION PROCESS FOR COMPOSITE STRUCTURES - A method of improving the material properties of a composite by electrodepositing particular polymers, organic compounds or inorganic compounds onto electrically conductive fibrous substrates, whether individual fibers or as a fabric, to form composites of improved structural properties and having particular physical properties such as being ice phobic, fire resistant, or electrically conductive. | 11-03-2011 |
William E. Amundson, Pewankee, WI US
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| 20090045649 | OVER ROAD TRAILER DOOR HINGE GAP SEALS - Door gap seals and seal assemblies for over road trailers and other over road cargo carriers are disclosed herein. An over road trailer configured in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes a door rotatably mounted to a container body proximate an opening. The door moves between a closed position in which the door at least partially covers the opening, and an open position in which the door is spaced apart from the opening to form a gap therebetween. The over road trailer further includes a seal attached to at least one of the door and the container body. The seal is at least partially compressed and/or deflected between the door and the container body to seal the gap when the door is in the open position. | 02-19-2009 |