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公开(公告)号：US20190127937A1
公开(公告)日：2019-05-02
申请号：US16220428
申请日：2018-12-14
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor： Kemal S. Arsava , Ali S. Rangwala , Glenn Mahnken
IPC: E02B15/04 , B01D17/02 , F23D3/40 , F23G7/14 , F23G7/05 , F23G7/04 , F23G7/00 , B09C1/06 , C02F1/02 , F23G5/00
Abstract: The present disclosure provides devices and methods for cleaning up or burning spills of burnable materials in situ. In some embodiments, a system for burning a burnable material comprises a base having a first side configured for placement on a surface with a burnable material and a second side; and a plurality heat conducting members extending from the second side of the base.
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公开(公告)号：US20180330522A1
公开(公告)日：2018-11-15
申请号：US16040046
申请日：2018-07-19
Applicant: WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Inventor： Peder C. Pedersen , Diane M. Strong , Emmanuel Agu , Bengisu Tulu , Lei Wang , Qian He
CPC classification number: G06T7/90 , A61B5/445 , G06T7/0012 , G06T7/11 , G06T7/194 , G06T2207/10024 , G06T2207/20076 , G06T2207/20081 , G06T2207/30088
Abstract: The wound assessing method and system of the present teachings provide a convenient, quantitative mechanism for diabetic foot ulcer assessment.
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公开(公告)号：US20180297856A1
公开(公告)日：2018-10-18
申请号：US15916668
申请日：2018-03-09
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor： Myungwon Jung , Brajendra Mishra
Abstract: A vanadium recovery approach utilizes oil fly ash (OFA), in contrast to coal fly ash, for separation and recovery of vanadium. OFA is first carbon burned to reduce the volume for recycling, and also to provide a fuel for other industrial processes. Following an almost 90% weight reduction from carbon burning, the remaining material includes about 18% vanadium. A salt roasting performed at the same temperature (about 650° C.) as the carbon burning allows use of the same oven or furnace, reducing heat requirements for the overall process. Salt roasting generates a water-soluble material from which a water leaching process yields a vanadium leach solution containing recovered vanadium, avoiding a need for caustic or volatile leaching agents. Ammonium metavanadate is precipitated from the vanadium leach solution through addition of ammonium sulfate, and a calcination process used to generate vanadium oxide (V2O5).
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公开(公告)号：US20180289510A1
公开(公告)日：2018-10-11
申请号：US15948270
申请日：2018-04-09
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor： Mitchell K. Muller , Marko B. Popovic
Abstract: A shoulder prosthesis restores the complex dynamics of the arm for whole-arm amputees. While most prosthesis for arm amputees focus on restoring the user's capabilities for dexterous manipulation, the disclosed prosthesis remains affixed to the shoulder and exerts a moment on the user's trunk similar to that of the arm during walking for dynamic motion assistance. The prosthesis includes a rotating, gimbaled mass oriented based on gait and stride for emulating forces that would have been provided by the amputee arm. The size, ease of use, and relatively low cost manufacture of the proposed device makes it an attractive complement or alternative to standard prosthesis, particularly for amputees who pursue rigorous or prolonged physical activity.
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公开(公告)号：US20180271641A1
公开(公告)日：2018-09-27
申请号：US15897428
申请日：2018-02-15
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor： Sakthikumar Ambady , Alexandra Czamara , Anne McLoughlin , Kyra McNamara , Lindsay Schneider , Emily Viloudaki , Kristin Gallagher , Gabriela Meza , Nicholas Brocato , Robert J. Meislin
CPC classification number: A61F2/0811 , A61F2002/0829 , A61F2002/0835 , A61F2002/087 , A61F2210/0004 , B33Y80/00
Abstract: A biocompatible, biodegradable surgical fastening device employs opposed engagement surfaces having receptacles and protrusions, in which the receptacles are responsive to the protrusions on the opposed engagement surface. The fastening device has a generally planar construction defining the engagement surface, such that each engagement surface has a proximate end for engaging the opposed engagement surface, and a distal end for attachment to an anatomical structure. The distal end of two devices each connect to anatomical structures to be joined, and the engagement surfaces joined to each other at the proximate end to complete the repair. The distal end of the engagement surface defines a flexible attachment portion having a lateral attachment width, the lateral width configured for securement to the anatomical structure across a nonlinear disposition of the lateral width. The flexible lateral width conforms around an irregular shape of an anatomical structure such as a tendon, ligament or bone.
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公开(公告)号：US20180263586A1
公开(公告)日：2018-09-20
申请号：US15924946
申请日：2018-03-19
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor： Travis F. Henchie , Karen L. Troy
CPC classification number: A61B6/5217 , A61B6/032 , A61B6/505 , G06T7/0014 , G06T19/00 , G06T19/20 , G06T2207/10081 , G06T2207/30008 , G06T2210/41 , G06T2219/2004 , G06T2219/2016
Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for determining a deformity in a bone surface comprises performing a scan of a healthy bone and a diseased bone; creating 3-dimensional (3D) representations of a current surface of the diseased bone; constructing an estimated healthy surface in 3D for the diseased bone based on the surface of the healthy bone; and identifying a deformity in the diseased bone by comparing the estimated healthy surface to the current surface of the diseased bone. In some embodiments, the scan is performed using high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT).
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公开(公告)号：US20180244585A1
公开(公告)日：2018-08-30
申请号：US15903565
申请日：2018-02-23
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor： Nima Rahbar , Suzanne Frances Scarlata , Jessica Anne Rosewitz
CPC classification number: C04B41/5012 , C04B41/009 , C04B41/4535 , C04B41/501 , C04B41/65 , C04B2103/0001 , C04B2111/72 , C12N9/88 , C12P3/00 , C12Y402/01001 , C04B28/02 , C04B41/455 , C04B2103/001
Abstract: An aqueous solution of carbonic anhydrase and calcium chloride is contacted with a cementitious surface defining at least one opening or fissure in the presence of ambient carbon dioxide to thereby cause the calcium chloride and carbon dioxide to react, whereby calcium carbonate precipitate from the solution and seals the opening or fissure.
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公开(公告)号：US20180149356A1
公开(公告)日：2018-05-31
申请号：US15825514
申请日：2017-11-29
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor： Shivaprasad Arava , Kemal S. Arsava , Ali S. Rangwala , Hayri Sezer , Apoorv Walawalkar , Vasudevan Raghavan
CPC classification number: F23G7/05 , F23G5/008 , F23G7/14 , F23G2205/12 , F23G2206/10 , F23G2206/203 , F23G2207/101 , F23N2041/18
Abstract: A toxic waste incinerator is capable of enhanced combustion of hazardous waste (oil contaminated sand, human waste, garbage, etc.) utilizing immersed non-combustible and thermally conductive objects for increasing heat feedback from the flames to the unburned fuel, while air inlets are used to optimize the air entrainment rate to enhance the burning efficiency. The burning rate of a fluidic mass such as a sand-oil mixture is enhanced using immersed conductive objects (copper rods) which enable rapid heat-up of the flame exposed to the upper surface of the rod and transmits heat back into the sand. Consequent conduction of heat to the porous media through the lower portion of the immersed rod significantly increases vaporization and therefore the burning rate. Incineration may be performed on a transient, exigent basis as with hazardous waste and oil spills, or as part of a permanent fixture for receiving an ongoing waste stream.
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公开(公告)号：US09905052B2
公开(公告)日：2018-02-27
申请号：US14988286
申请日：2016-01-05
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor： Robert W. Lindeman
IPC: G06T19/00 , A63F13/25 , A63F13/213 , A63F13/2145 , G06F3/147 , G06F1/16 , G06F3/01 , G02B27/01
CPC classification number: G06T19/006 , A63F13/213 , A63F13/2145 , A63F13/25 , A63F2300/6653 , A63F2300/8082 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/0176 , G02B2027/0138 , G02B2027/014 , G02B2027/0178 , G06F1/163 , G06F3/011 , G06F3/147
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling immersiveness of head-worn displays. A virtual-reality headset includes at least one panel on the virtual reality headset that is capable of being adjusted to increase or decrease opacity of the panel. A control device in communication with the at least one panel is capable of adjusting the opacity of the at least one panel in response to a command to increase or decrease the opacity of the panel so that a system user's immersiveness in the virtual world displayed by the virtual-reality headset is capable of being automatically controlled while the system user wears the virtual-reality headset.
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公开(公告)号：US20180032816A1
公开(公告)日：2018-02-01
申请号：US15662965
申请日：2017-07-28
Applicant: WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Inventor： Andrew C. Trapp , Soussan Djamasbi , Wen Liu
CPC classification number: G06K9/00617 , G06F3/013 , G06K9/00 , G06K9/00604 , G06K9/0061 , G06K9/6218 , G06K9/6222 , G06T7/74
Abstract: A fixation identification system includes an eye-tracking device and a fixation identification device disposed in electrical communication with the eye-tracking device. The fixation identification device includes a controller having a memory and a processor, the controller being configured to identify each gaze position data element received from the eye-tracking device as one of fixation gaze position data and saccade gaze position data, each gaze position data element corresponding to a visual location associated with a field of view at a corresponding time; identify at least one fixation region associated with the fixation gaze position data; adjust a number of fixation gaze position data elements associated with the at least one fixation region; and generate a density optimized fixation region based upon the adjusted number of fixation gaze position data elements.
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