| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 181 | System and method for rapidly customizing design, manufacture and/or selection of biomedical devices | US10882449 | 2004-07-01 | US20040243481A1 | 2004-12-02 | Thomas J. Bradbury; Christopher M. Gaylo; James A. Fairweather; Kathleen D. Chesmel; Peter A. Materna; Adolphe Youssef |
| The rapid design and manufacture of biomedical devices such as implants, oral dosage pills and implantable pharmaceuticals employs electronic data and modeling transmissions via a computer network. Patient information and patient-specific radiological data is captured and transmitted via a computer network to a design and/or manufacturing site. A multi-dimensional digital model is created based on the radiological data and patient information. Communications interchanges between a clinical/diagnostic site and a design/manufacturing site permit modification of the digital model until approved. The approved digital model is converted into machine instructions to construct the biomedical device. Alternatively, the digital model is employed in a best fit selection of a biomedical device from a pre-existing set of biomedical devices or machine-instructions. Transmittal of data over computer networks is further directed to the use of a Website to perform various client-interaction and follow-up tasks. | ||||||
| 182 | System and method for rapidly customizing design, manufacture and/or selection of biomedical devices | US09972832 | 2001-10-05 | US06772026B2 | 2004-08-03 | Thomas J. Bradbury; Christopher M. Gaylo; James A. Fairweather; Kathleen D. Chesmel; Peter A. Materna; Adolphe Youssef |
| The rapid design and manufacture of biomedical devices such as implants, oral dosage pills and implantable pharmaceuticals employs electronic data and modeling transmissions via a computer network. Patient information and patient-specific radiological data is captured and transmitted via a computer network to a design and/or manufacturing site. A multi-dimensional digital model is created based on the radiological data and patient information. Communications interchanges between a clinical/diagnostic site and a design/manufacturing site permit modification of the digital model until approved. The approved digital model is converted into machine instructions to construct the biomedical device. Alternatively, the digital model is employed in a best fit selection of a biomedical device from a pre-existing set of biomedical devices or machine-instructions. Transmittal of data over computer networks is further directed to the use of a Website to perform various client-interaction and follow-up tasks. | ||||||
| 183 | Article conveyance having mechanical drive | US09928835 | 2001-08-13 | US06382399B2 | 2002-05-07 | Donald J. Simkowski |
| Apparatus and method for conveying articles, particularly articles such as containers, or bottles, having a neck portion with a neck ring thereon, along an article conveying path with the articles being urged along the article conveying path by article engaging members extending from a plurality of sections of an elongated movable member that extends from a guide along a guide path adjacent and horizontally offset from the article conveying path. The elongated movable member is preferably a chain having a plurality of links and article engagement preferably includes a flange that extends horizontally from each chain link into the article conveying path with adjacent flanges spaced from one another in the article conveying path whereby the chain links and flanges extending therefrom enable limited angular deviation of the chain during normal operation with the flanges engaging the lower edge of the neck ring of articles in the article conveying path so that the articles are urged along the article conveying path upon movement of the chain unit along the guide path. | ||||||
| 184 | System and method for rapidly customizing a design and remotely manufacturing biomedical devices using a computer system | US09828504 | 2001-04-05 | US20020007294A1 | 2002-01-17 | Thomas J. Bradbury; Christopher M. Gaylo; James A. Fairweather; Kathleen D. Chesmel; Peter A. Materna |
| A method of rapid design and manufacture of biomedical devices using electronic data and modeling transmissions, wherein such transmissions are transferred via a computer network. The method includes capturing patient-specific diagnostic imaged data, converting the data to a digital computer file, transmitting the converted data via the computer network to a remote manufacturing site, converting the computer file into a multi-dimensional model and then into machine instructions, and constructing the biomedical implant. The present invention is further directed to the preparation of rapid-prototyped pharmaceutical forms, including oral dosage pills and implantable pharmaceuticals, with transmittal of such data over computer networks being used to significantly increase the cost effectiveness and responsiveness, and is further directed to the use of a website to perform various client-interaction and follow-up tasks. | ||||||
| 185 | Breakaway mounting device for use with printed circuit board flow solder machines | US09370257 | 1999-08-09 | US06170733B2 | 2001-01-09 | James Arthur Fritz, Sr. |
| A mounting device for use with a printed circuit board solder machine having a pair of conveyors, where the printed circuit board is disposed between the conveyors for transport through the solder machine includes a body having a top and bottom portion. The top portion of the body includes structure for connecting the body to one of the pair of conveyors. The body is breakable when a predetermined pressure is exerted on the body to prevent damaged devices from interfering with the operation of the solder machine. Structure is further provided on the body for grasping a printed circuit board. | ||||||
| 186 | Conveyor belt and transporting device provided therewith | US921152 | 1997-08-29 | US6006898A | 1999-12-28 | Albert Jan Odink |
| A conveyor belt is formed from a plurality of conveyor links having crest and valley link bodies and apertures. The links are interwoven together and operatively coupled together by hinge pins extending in a transverse direction to the longitudinal direction of travel. Each link as on at least one end, an integral drive arm in the same plane as the link body and adapted to engage a drive element. The drive arm has an angled surface and a straight surface. The angled surface biases the drive element inward and into abutment with the straight surface of a neighboring link to provide a stable operating engagement between the drive element and conveyor link. | ||||||
| 187 | Device for the suspended transport of containers possessing protruding collars | US48503 | 1998-02-24 | US5937998A | 1999-08-17 | Marco Priero |
| The device belongs to the category of transporting devices and refers to a transporter for containers possessing protruding collars and moved by means of suspension from the neck in which pulling elements are connected with driving elements in such a way that the active marginal extremity of the said pulling elements on which the protruding collars of the container rests in order to be pulled along, whose motion describes a path which is substantially identical even in curved sections, to that described by the driving elements, having substantially the same curvature and moving through a movement plain different from that of the driving elements. | ||||||
| 188 | Sectional roller unit for conveying lines | US763787 | 1996-12-11 | US5911306A | 1999-06-15 | Fabrizio Ferrari |
| A roller unit suitable for application to the side walls of chain link conveyors, including along their curved portions, and containing modules, each of which includes a flat plate, from the opposing sides of which there extends a first pair of brackets between which there are supported the fixing pins of the constituent idle rollers of the roller unit, and a second pair of brackets for receiving the conveyor side wall and the elements for fixing the module thereto, the second pair of brackets being provided with recesses which extend to also involve the plate. | ||||||
| 189 | Method and device for the orderly supply of randomly received products | US852560 | 1997-05-07 | US5906265A | 1999-05-25 | Mario Spatafora |
| A method and device for supplying an orderly succession of randomly received products to a user machine, whereby a first and second conveyor, traveling at respective speeds, define a path having two portions of variable lengths complementary to each other, and which are connected at a movable transfer station by a pocket type transfer device for transferring the products from the first conveyor into respective pockets equally spaced with a given spacing along the second conveyor; the random distribution of the products on the first conveyor being adapted to the equal spacing of the pockets on the second conveyor by adjusting the speed at which the products arrive at the transfer station, and/or the position of the transfer station. | ||||||
| 190 | Conveyor assembly of the conveying of open containers | US786641 | 1997-01-21 | US5785169A | 1998-07-28 | Walter C. Egger |
| The invention provides a conveyor assembly for the conveying of containers which are open at one end thereof, particularly for the conveying of bottles made of plastic material. The conveyor assembly comprises a main conveyor which is adapted to continuously convey a row of containers located within the conveyor assembly in a certain distance from each. The conveyor assembly comprises a first handing over set-up assembly located at the input side of the conveyor and a second handing over et-up assembly located at the output side of the conveyor. | ||||||
| 191 | Computer controlled weighing and labelling apparatus | US373043 | 1995-01-17 | US5684275A | 1997-11-04 | Sidney S. Tolson |
| The present invention provides a conveyorized system for weighing and labeling products in packages and having multiple conveyor sections each of which is driven by an individual variable speed motor. A computer is supplied and connected to each of the variable speed motors. The computer contains data relating speed of operating each motor for a particular package style in the computer memory. An operator inputs a package code to the computer, which locates the package information stored in memory and signals the variable speed motors as to the desired speed for each conveyor. Similar information is maintained in the computer memory for each package as to dimensions, such that the computer signal output includes commands to several servo motors which are connected to adjust spacing between vertical control belts to accommodate the package and the positioning of a label applicator to suit. A further control involves a pair of sensors placed near the exit of the system to detect a blockage of package flow and, through computer programmed analysis, command an input conveyor to adjust operating speed accordingly. | ||||||
| 192 | Method and device for feeding packets of cigarettes pneumatically | US507191 | 1995-07-26 | US5647697A | 1997-07-15 | Antonio Gigante; Antonio Portaro |
| Packets of cigarettes are conveyed singly and in succession to a first inlet of a propulsion chamber also having an outlet, connected to a duct, and at least one other inlet through which compressed air is directed into the enclosure; as one packet is carried forward by the force of inertia to the point of occupying the outlet, another packet takes its place at the inlet, the effect of which being to enclose the chamber completely and occasion a rise in pressure sufficient to generate a force by which the packet occupying the outlet is "fired" along the duct. | ||||||
| 193 | Spacing conveyor mechanism | US545898 | 1995-10-20 | US5638665A | 1997-06-17 | Rolf Muller |
| There is provided an article conveyor mechanism comprising a drive chain 13 on which is pivotally mounted a number of carriages 16 each having a conveyor 17 secured thereto. Each conveyor 17 has a plurality of pockets 18. Each conveyor 16 has two pins 19, 20 for engaging in respective grooves 21, 22 which are identical to each other in shape, but which are offset. When the chain 13 is driven, the conveyors remain parallel to each other throughout their endless paths. | ||||||
| 194 | Air conveyor having an elongated channel and a plurality of air ducts | US623890 | 1996-03-22 | US5628588A | 1997-05-13 | Joseph F. Ouellette |
| An air conveyor conveys bottle containers, the conveyor being constructed as a channel having a general, inverted-U-shaped configuration. The channel has a plurality of air ducts extending through the walls of the channel which communicate with a source of pressurized air to eject streams of air against the bottle containers being conveyed. The streams of air ejected from the ducts impinge upon the bottle containers to push the containers along the conveyor in the direction of travel. Each air duct has a first port opening, which emerges from the sidewall thereof below the pair of flanges, and a second port opening, which emerges from the sidewall thereof above the pair of flanges. The first port opening is a jet port configured to eject a stream of air against the bottle containers, and the second port opening is a vacuum port configured for drawing air from the channel. | ||||||
| 195 | Brushing or cleaning apparatus | US408815 | 1995-03-22 | US5581841A | 1996-12-10 | David K. Hulse; William C. Barnett |
| Apparatus for removing particulate material from the surface of an article of flat or hollow ware comprises spaced endless belt members adapted to engage the opposite edges of the article, mechanism for driving the belt members at the same peripheral speed alternately in the same direction and in opposite directions whereby to deliver the article to a brushing position and rotate the article in the brushing position, and mechanism for brushing the opposite surfaces of the article during rotation of the article in the brushing position. | ||||||
| 196 | Sorting device with a field of transport units | US203155 | 1994-02-28 | US5577596A | 1996-11-26 | Roelof M. Van Essen |
| A sorting device is provided with a transport device (5) for displacing objects such as, for example, postal items (99) from an input station (1) to an output position (3a, 3b) selected from among a plurality of output positions (3). The transport device (5) includes a field (101) of individual transport units (23, 105) arranged in a hexagonal grid shape and each provided with a transport mechanism (27) arranged on a rotatable support (25). The output positions (3) are positioned alongside the field (101), while the field (101) is accessible through at least two separate input positions (9, 11, 109, 119). Alternative routes can be selected by an electronic control unit (15) and microprocessors (127) in the field (101) between an input position (9, 11, 109, 119) and a selected output position (3) by joining together the individual transport units (23, 105) where the use of at least two separate input positions (9, 11, 109, 119) and of the grid-shaped field (101) renders it possible to move several postal items simultaneously and in parallel through the field (101), so that the sorting device has a great handling capacity and the sorting device is suitable for sorting of postal items which are provided with address codes corresponding to destinations of the items. During sorting of comparatively light postal items such as letters, a great capacity is provided, while a satisfactory capacity is provided during sorting of comparatively heavy postal items which are moved at comparatively low speeds through the sorting device, for example, postal parcels. | ||||||
| 197 | Conveyor belt apparatus for bottles | US365558 | 1994-12-28 | US5553698A | 1996-09-10 | John R. Patois; Jack D. Warren |
| A conveyor apparatus is provided which includes a pair of conveyor belts constructed from a resilient material and arranged to securely grip and release the neck ring of bottles to be conveyed. Each one of the conveyor belts is formed with a groove having coacting opposed sides. The opposed sides part to open the groove to facilitate and expedite receiving the bottle neck ring in the grooves of the conveyor belts. The opposed sides of the groove then coact to close the groove and securely grip the neck ring therebetween to transport the bottle. At the discharge area of the conveyor line, the opposed sides once again flex away from the groove to facilitate and expedite the discharge of the bottle from the groove of the conveyor belts. | ||||||
| 198 | Conveying and aligning apparatus suitable for lens-fitted photographic film packages | US155551 | 1993-11-22 | US5427224A | 1995-06-27 | Kazuyoshi Suehara; Toshihiro Matsushita; Masahi Saitoh; Toshiyuki Ogura |
| An apparatus for conveying and aligning various types of film packages recovered for recycling. A conveyer of the apparatus is constructed by a pair of parallel belts combined to form a V-shaped bearing gutter and driven in the same conveying direction. The film packages are conveyed on the conveyer and are slid downward through an inclined cylindrical tube which rotates about the longitudinal axis and has spiral ridges on the inner periphery. Thereby, the longitudinal direction of the film packages are aligned with the conveying direction. Then a posture discriminator discriminates between the upright posture and the upside-down posture of the film packages on a first conveying path, based on the position of the viewfinder. The film packages having the upright posture are caused to fall headlong from the first conveying path onto a second conveying path, so as to have the upside-down posture on the second conveying path. The film packages conveyed on the first and second conveying paths are again joined together in a line. | ||||||
| 199 | Dispenser especially adapted for dispensing medication units | US60829 | 1993-05-10 | US5344043A | 1994-09-06 | Thomas S. Moulding; Donald G. Ellis |
| A dispenser for medication units such as pills, tablets, caplets, and capsules which allows dispensing of a single medication unit upon the simple push of a button or verbal request includes a control system which allows convenient changes, optionally responsive to instructions from a physician or other medical personnel via a modem over telephone lines, in the frequency and dosage of one medication in a regimen, without altering the schedule for other medications. The dispenser includes at least one elongated plastic band possessing at least one facing surface covered by a compressible material, such as elastomer foam, cloth, or brush bristles, having medication units sandwiched between the layers of the band or bands wound in abutting overlying relation on a storage reel. In order to dispense the medication units, rotating mechanisms unwind the band or bands from the storage reel onto separate take-up reel or reels, causing the dispensed medication units to fall and interrupt a light beam detector. Rotating mechanisms for the take-up reel or reels may comprise manual hand cranks, clock springs, or electric motors. A control system includes a CPU, memory, a timer, a modem, and an activation signal input device for regulating the amount, time, and frequency of administration, and for allowing changes in the medication regimen. A plurality of storage reels with associated take-up reels combined in a single dispenser allows dispensing of various different medications at different dosages and intervals depending upon the requirements of a particular medication regimen. | ||||||
| 200 | Apparatus and method for allocating tolerances | US814751 | 1991-12-30 | US5323333A | 1994-06-21 | Richard W. Johnson |
| A method and apparatus are provided for allocating tolerances. A total tolerance is specified (218) to be allocated among a plurality of variable tolerances each having an associated assembly feature. For each associated assembly feature, an associated first tolerance point is defined (202) at which a further decrease in a stringency of the variable tolerance fails to significantly decrease a cost of achieving the variable tolerance. For each associated assembly feature, an associated second tolerance point is defined (202) at which a further increase in the stringency begins to substantially increase the cost of achieving the variable tolerance. For each associated assembly feature, an associated third tolerance point is defined (202) at which a further increase in the stringency is not substantially achievable. The total tolerance is allocated (226, 232, 254, 266, 236, 242, 258, 270, 246) among the variable tolerances, such that the variable tolerances substantially satisfy a first predetermined relationship relative to the total tolerance, and such that each variable tolerance substantially satisfies a second predetermined relationship relative to its associated tolerance points. | ||||||
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