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公开(公告)号:US20200225335A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-16
申请号:US16641234
申请日:2018-08-21
Inventor: Adrien BESSON , Dimitris PERDIOS , Marcel ARDITI , Jean-Philippe THIRAN
Abstract: The present invention concerns a pulse wave image reconstruction method to be used for example in ultrasound imaging. The proposed method is based on an image measurement model and its adjoint operator. The proposed method introduces matrix-free formulations of the measurement model and its adjoint operator. The proposed method has the advantage that the reconstructed image has a very high quality and that it can be reconstructed quickly.
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公开(公告)号:US20200214891A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-09
申请号:US16826858
申请日:2020-03-23
Inventor: Stephane BIGLER , Nikolaos STERGIOPULOS
Abstract: An ocular drainage system is provided for treating diseases that produce elevated intraocular pressures, such as glaucoma, wherein the system includes an implantable device and an external control unit, the implantable device includes a non-invasively adjustable valve featuring at least one deformable tube and a disk rotatably mounted within a housing, such that rotation of the disk using the external control unit causes the disk to apply a selected amount of compression to the deformable tube, thereby adjusting the fluidic resistance of the deformable tube and regulating the intraocular pressure.
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公开(公告)号:US10702830B2
公开(公告)日:2020-07-07
申请号:US16083731
申请日:2017-03-15
Inventor: Chin Lee Ong , John R. Thome
IPC: B01D61/36 , C02F1/44 , B01D63/08 , C02F103/08
Abstract: A thermal water purification system and a related method including distilling units consecutively flowed through by raw feed liquid, each having a boiling liquid section and a vapor section, and including a heat exchanger cavity adapted to transfer thermal energy to the raw feed liquid before entering the boiling liquid section of a first distilling unit. Heat exchanger tubes in fluidic communication with the heat exchanger cavity extend through the boiling liquid section of the first distilling unit to transfer thermal energy from a medium in the tubes to cause the raw feed liquid to boil. Preheating tubes extend through the vapor section of each distilling unit to heat the raw feed liquid before entering the boiling sections using thermal energy from vapor condensing against external surfaces of the preheating tubes, which produces the distillate liquid that flows through a discharge port and a conduit supplying a storage tank.
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公开(公告)号:US10695555B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-30
申请号:US15542042
申请日:2016-01-08
Inventor: Ivan Rusev Minev , Arthur Hirsch , Pavel Musienko , Grégoire Courtine , Stephanie P. Lacour
IPC: A61N1/05 , A61B5/04 , A61N1/375 , A61B5/0478 , H01L23/498 , H05K3/28 , H05K1/02 , H01L23/13
Abstract: A method produces a device adapted to be implanted into the human body for purposes such as neural stimulation, sensing or the like. The method includes: providing a stretchable layer or membrane of an insulating material; forming on the layer or membrane at least one stretchable conductive path; depositing at least one small bolus of a soft and conductive paste or material onto pre-defined areas or portions of the at least one conductive path, and inserting a first end portion of a conductive element 71 into the at least one bolus of soft conductive paste or material. A second end portion of the conductive element opposite to the first end portion is not inserted into the at least one bolus.
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公开(公告)号:US20200152435A1
公开(公告)日:2020-05-14
申请号:US16743197
申请日:2020-01-15
Inventor: Alexander MAKAROV , Oleg BOYARKINE , Vladimir KOPYSOV
IPC: H01J49/00
Abstract: A method of analyzing molecules, comprising: generating ions from a sample of molecules; cooling the generated ions below ambient temperature; fragmenting at least some of the cooled ions by irradiating the ions with light at a plurality of different wavelengths (λ) within one or more predetermined spectral intervals; recording a fragment mass spectrum of the fragmented ions comprising a detected signal (I) versus m/z over a predetermined range of m/z values for each of the plurality of different wavelengths (λ), thereby recording a two-dimensional dependency of the detected signal (I) on m/z and irradiation wavelength (λ); and determining from the recorded two-dimensional dependency an identity of at least one of the generated ions and/or relative abundances of different generated ions and thereby determining an identity of at least of one of the molecules and/or relative abundances of different molecules in the sample.
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公开(公告)号:US20200094466A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-26
申请号:US16465554
申请日:2017-11-29
Inventor: Nicolas VACHICOURAS , Christina Myra TRINGIDES , Stephanie P. LACOUR
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to how to engineer reversible elasticity in thin films and/or layers and/or substrates, using a repeated Y-shaped motif, which is cut out through the film and/or layer and/or substrate. As an example, using a 75 μm thick polyimide (PI) foil, macroscopic dog-bone shaped structures with a range of geometrical parameters of the Y shape have been prepared according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The tensile strain response of the film at its point of fracture was then recorded. The structures were also confirmed using finite element modeling. Upon stretching, the PI ligaments locally deflect out of plane, allowing the foil to macroscopically stretch.
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公开(公告)号:US20200093679A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-26
申请号:US16618669
申请日:2018-06-01
Inventor: Harshal Arun SONAR , Matthew Aaron ROBERTSON , Sagar Dattatray JOSHI , Tigmanshu BHATNAGAR , Jamie PAIK
Abstract: A fully wearable system used for communication and information transfer between two users or between a user and a machine to render an effective and intuitive physical interface for combined input and output functions, the fully wearable system including a bidirectional wearable skin including distributed actuator and sensing elements, the actuator and sensing elements including a multimodal actuation layer and a sensing layer, the bidirectional wearable skin being flexible and stretchable, and a portable control device for controlling the distributed actuator and sensing elements, and reading signals from the sensing layer, the portable control device is configured to perform pixilated actuation for both micro- and macrostimulation of a body of a wearer by an actuation frequency and stimulation amplitude.
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公开(公告)号:US10595975B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-24
申请号:US15310110
申请日:2015-05-22
Inventor: Marco Borotto , Marco Letizia
Abstract: The invention relates to devices, systems and methods exploiting capacitive means for monitoring and analysing teeth-related parameters in a subject, such as the dental occlusion profile and/or the load/force applied upon clenching. The device comprises a body such as a bite fork or bite splint, capacitive sensor(s) incorporated within a soft substrate reversibly deformable once bitten by a subject and a micro-controller unit. The teeth contact points and forces applied upon occlusion are measured via the sensors, delivered to and re-elaborated by the micro-controller unit and possibly sent and visualized in a graphical/numerical fashion on e.g. a display screen.
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公开(公告)号:US20200075789A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-05
申请号:US16468159
申请日:2017-11-13
Inventor: Philipp LÖPER , Andrea INGENITO , Christophe BALLIF , Gizem NOGAY
IPC: H01L31/0747 , H01L31/0216 , H01L31/0224 , H01L31/20
Abstract: The present invention relates to a solar cell comprising a heterojunction photoelectric device comprising, a front electrode layer, a back electrode layer comprising a metallic contact layer, a light-absorbing silicon layer arranged between said front electrode and said back electrode layers and a doped silicon-based layer arranged between said light-absorbing silicon layer and said back electrode layer, characterized in that said heterojunction photoelectric device further comprises a wide band gap material layer having an electronic band gap greater than 1.4 eV, said wide band gap material layer being applied on a surface of the light-absorbing silicon layer between said light-absorbing silicon layer and said doped silicon-based layer. The present heterojunction layer or stack of layers is compatible with thermal annealing and firing processes at T above 600° C.
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公开(公告)号:US10569248B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-25
申请号:US14773431
申请日:2014-03-06
Inventor: Endre Horváth , László Forró , Arnaud Magrez
IPC: B01J13/00 , H01M4/485 , B01J21/06 , B01J35/00 , B01J35/10 , C01G23/04 , C09C1/36 , C09K5/14 , H01B1/08 , H01G9/20 , H01G11/46 , H01L35/22 , H01M10/0525 , H01M4/02
Abstract: The invention relates to titanium oxide aerogels, in particular to titanium oxide binary or ternary (e.g. titanium oxide-carbon) aerogel monoliths possessing ordered meso- and macroporosity. The porous scaffold can be made with or without addition of binders and/or surfactants. The aerogel obtained by this method has a specific surface area greater than 60 m2/g and porosity larger than 60%. The surface area ranges from 60 to 300 m2/g. The porosity can reach as high as 99.6%. The size of the titanium oxide crystals are between 5 nm and 100 nm. The aerogel contains 100% titanium oxide. The composite (binary or ternary) aerogel can be prepared by adding at least 10% carbon in the form of (carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, carbon microfibers, exfoliated graphene, cellulose fibers, polymer fibers, metallic and metal oxide nano and microfibers etc.). The aerogel can be prepared with a predeterminable shape. It can be shaped in a mold having a shape of a cylinder, cube, sheet or sphere. The aerogel can be also transformed into a supported or self-standing film with a thickness. The material can be used as a self-cleaning filter e.g. in a solar-thermal water and air purification system, in mesoscopic solar cells e.g. dye sensitized solar cells, multifunctional filler in polymer composites, in ceramics, in metals, thermoelectric material to convert (waste) heat into electricity, heat insulation material and electrode material in lithium ion batteries and supercapacitors.
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