82 results about "VALVE PORT" patented technology

A heart valve prosthesis that can be quickly and easily implanted during a surgical procedure is provided. The prosthetic valve has a base stent that is deployed at a treatment site, and a valve component configured to quickly connect to the base stent. The base stent may take the form of a self- or balloon-expandable stent that expands outward against the native valve with or without leaflet excision. The valve component has a non-expandable prosthetic valve and a self- or balloon-expandable coupling stent for attachment to the base stent, thereby fixing the position of the valve component relative to the base stent. The prosthetic valve may be a commercially available to valve with a sewing ring and the coupling stent attaches to the sewing ring. The system is particularly suited for rapid deployment of heart valves in a conventional open-heart surgical environment. A catheter-based system and method for deployment is provided.

The system comprises a main network (2) situated downstream from a check valve (1) that supplies the sensors, for example, in the form of sprinklers. This main network (2) is subdivided into secondary networks (21, 2″, 2′″), each secondary network being isolated from the main network (2) by a valve (6, 6′, 6″) that enables water to be prevented from entering the portions of the network in which it is not needed. The valve is capable not only of compensating for losses in pressure in the network but also for opening itself completely when a fire is detected.

An implantable, miniature pump assembly having a flexible elastic bladder actuating assembly. The bladder, in the non-flexed state, has an elongated, substantially rectangular profile, with a predetermined internal volume or capacity. Influent and effluent conduits extend in opposite directions from respective end portions of the bladder. Each of the conduits include one way valves disposed therein to limit fluid flow to a single direction into and through the bladder. Contraction and expansion of the bladder by means of energy harvested from the dynamic environment in which it is implanted in response to ambient random dynamic motion creates alternating pressure and vacuum within the bladder, alternately drawing fluid into the bladder through the influent conduit, and forcing fluid from the bladder via the effluent conduit. The bladder pump assembly harvests its operational energy from the random dynamic motion of the surrounding organs and tissues and therefore does not require an internal or external power source.

The present invention provides a novel construction for a catheter that includes backflow prevention in the form of a check valve, which keeps the flow of drained fluid material from reentering the patient. The catheter construction of the present invention provides a standard single or multiple lumen tube assembly that extends rearwardly from the insertion end of the catheter to the contact end wherein on the discharge lumen a one way check valve is provided. It is an important feature of the present invention that the check valve is provided as close to the terminal end of the contact end as possible without interfering with the necessary accessory attachment that is typically made thereto. Further, an interlock mechanism may be provided at the terminal end of the catheter for connecting accessories in a positive locking manner. The combination of the valve and the interlock mechanism provides a notable safety and performance improvement that has been previously unknown in the prior art.

An engine air brake device for a 4-stroke reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine is provided and has at least one intake valve and two exhaust valves per cylinder. The exhaust train incorporates a throttling device actuatable for engine deceleration so that an exhaust back pressure builds up in the accumulated exhaust gas upstream of the throttling device and becomes effective in conjunction with an engine-internal braking device associated to only one of the two exhaust valves for each cylinder, the other exhaust valve being controlled conventionally. The engine-internal braking device comprises a control piston installed in the valve bridge and pressed in the direction of the exhaust valve from a control pressure chamber supplied with pressurized oil and possibly also by means of an additional control compression spring.

A self-cleaning, low-maintenance, water-saving automated animal watering device (10) is provided which includes a watering tank (12) moveable between a lower, water-full condition and an upper, water-low condition. Preferably, one end of the tank (12) is pivotally supported by a pivot shaft (64), while the other end of the tank is biased upwardly via a lower lift spring (72). The device (10) also has a water fill assembly (16) operably coupled with tank (12) to selectively fill the tank (12) when needed, and a drain valve assembly (18) also coupled with tank (12) in order to completely drain the tank (12) on a periodic basis. A control assembly (20) is coupled with at least the tank (12) and drain valve assembly (18), and is operable to actuate the drain valve assembly (18) after a predetermined number of movements of the tank (12) between the elevated and lowered positions thereof.

A fluid filter includes a housing having a tapping plate with a first aperture. A center tube is arranged in the housing proximate to the tapping plate. The center tube includes a second aperture. An elastomeric valve assembly is arranged between the center tube and the tapping plate. The valve assembly comprises a separate two-piece relief valve and anti-drain back valve. The anti-drain back valve is arranged adjacent to the first aperture for selectively blocking the first aperture to prevent fluid from exiting in the side of the filter during engine shut down. The relief valve is arranged adjacent to the second aperture for selectively blocking the second aperture to permit fluid to flow past the relief valve during high differential pressure conditions such as cold starts and plugged filter conditions.

A vehicle includes a front-wheel drive (FWD) transmission having a case, a selectable one-way clutch (SOWC) indexed to the case, pressurized fluid, and a valve body assembly (VBA). The VBA has a piston in communication with the fluid, a return spring, and an actuator plate in continuous contact with or connected to each of the piston and a shift lever of the SOWC. Fluid moving the piston and plate in one direction locks the SOWC to enable a reverse mode, and the spring moves the piston and the plate in another direction to unlock the SOWC in a forward mode. A method prevents spin losses in the FWD transmission by positioning a two-mode SOWC within a case, positioning a VBA adjacently and externally to the case, and admitting pressurized fluid into the VBA to engage the SOWC only during a reverse operating mode.

A heart valve prosthesis includes a valve member having an inflow end, an outflow end, and a generally cylindrical sidewall portion extending between the inflow end and the outflow end. The valve member includes at least one leaflet moveable relative to the sidewall portion to provide for substantially unidirectional flow of fluid through the valve member. A support of a substantially flexible material positioned is around the sidewall portion. A strip of pliant material is provided around valve member intermediate the inflow end and the outflow end of the valve member in a generally overlying relationship with the support. A covering is provided over a radially outer exposed surface of at least the strip.

A fuel cell vehicle is provided with a fuel cell which generates electric power by a reaction of a reaction gas and discharges water, a tank which accumulates water discharged from the fuel cell, a heater which vaporizes water accumulated in the tank, a discharge valve which switches between accumulating and discharging of the water with respect to the tank, an external air temperature sensor which detects an external air temperature, a vehicle speed sensor which detects a vehicle speed, a selector with which the driver selects an operation of the discharge valve between accumulating and discharging of the water with respect to the tank, and an ECU which controls these components and includes a control section and a control data storage section.

Methods, control systems, and information handling systems for controlling at least two actuators are provided. An internal control system sends an input received from the main control system to a first actuator and diverts a portion of the input to a second actuator when an input constraint of the first actuator is reached. The actuators may be throttle valves for heating a hydraulic line. The internal control system includes a cutoff rerouter for implementing the sending and the diverting of the input and an adaptive cutoff controller, e.g., an integral controller, for determining the input constraint of the first actuator. The information handling systems include a determination logic for determining if an input received from the main control system is greater than an input constraint of the first actuator and a diverting logic for diverting a portion of the input to a second actuator when the input is greater.

A lubricating system for a heavy-duty material processing shears provides lubricant to one of more wear surfaces on one or more wear portions in the shears. The system includes a hydraulic lubricant pump that is actuated by the main hydraulic control system by means of which the jaws of the shears are opened and closed, and may include a sequential valve to distribute lubricant to various wear portions in sequential fashion. The lubricating system may lubricate one or more wear surfaces of the lateral blade stabilizers, primary and secondary blade(s) on the upper and/or lower jaws, pivotal connections between jaws and/or between the upper jaw and the hydraulic cylinder, a forward wear plate, or any other wear portion of the shears. The lubricating system may be retrofitted onto a conventional non-lubricated shears by replacing a conventional upper jaw with an upper jaw with lubricant conduits and a lubricating system.

The invention discloses a bladder intermittent drainage system which comprises a urine pipe, a controllable conducting switch, a drainage bag liquid inlet pipe and a drainage bag provided with a liquid discharging valve. The controllable conducting switch is arranged between the urine pipe and the drainage bag liquid inlet pipe and used for controlling communication and blocking of an inner cavity of the urine pipe and an inner cavity of the drainage bag liquid inlet pipe. The controllable conducting switch comprises a power supply, a controller, a coil, a conducting slide block and a magnetic piece. The controller controls a power-up state of the coil so as to enable magnetic force produced by the coil and magnetic force of the magnetic piece to interact, and therefore the conducting switch can be turned on or turned off. The bladder intermittent drainage system has the advantages that urine can be automatically drained in time, the phenomenon of infection of the urinary system caused by regurgitation of the urine when the urine is not drained in time is avoided, and workloads of nursing staff are relieved, operation is convenient to perform, and the structure is simple. In addition, the requirement for material performance and physical restorability of the urine pipe or the drainage bag liquid inlet pipe is lowered.

An engine variable valve actuation mechanism that substantially equally adjusts the valve lift amount in each cylinder. The mechanism includes variable valve lift mechanisms respectively arranged in association with the engine cylinders. A control shaft extends through the variable valve lift mechanisms. An actuator moves the control shaft in the axial direction and drives the variable valve lift mechanisms. Collars are arranged alternately with the variable valve lift mechanisms. Each collar includes a cylindrical sleeve and flanges formed integrally with the sleeve. The flanges directly or indirectly contact the end faces of adjacent variable valve lift mechanisms. This determines the positions of the variable valve lift mechanisms with respect to one another in the axial direction.

The invention discloses a method for dynamically determining breathing oxygen consumption and a hypoxia device for the method for dynamically determining the breathing oxygen consumption. The method includes the following steps that after distilled water is added from an air vent and reaches a weather bar, a tee valve is closed, a mouse is contained in a hypoxia bottle where soda lime is placed in advance, and then a bottle plug is fastened; when the hypoxia bottle generates 0.5cmH2O negative pressure, water flows in an oxygen consumption determining channel enable the pressure to be -0.5cmH2O constantly, and the amount of consumed oxygen is read out; a high-sensitivity tension transducer is used for automatically monitoring the breathing rate, the breathing range and breathing pressure of the laboratory mouse with oxygen deficiency; when a repeated experiment is performed, air in the oxygen consumption determining channel is exhausted and then the operations are repeated; the hypoxia device established according to the determining method comprises a device body, the hypoxia bottle and a biological signal collecting and processing system. The method for dynamically determining the breathing oxygen consumption and the hypoxia device for the method for dynamically determining the breathing oxygen consumption have the advantages that the pressure is constant, due to the fact that the breathing rate, the breathing range, the amount of the consumed oxygen and the pressure value of the hypoxia environment of the mouse with hypoxia are monitored dynamically, errors caused by manual monitoring are avoided, and the method and the hypoxia device are suitable for determination of the consumed oxygen amount and a hypoxia experiment.

The invention discloses a coal seam anti-reflection method for circular damage by using cold shock of liquid nitrogen and phase change gas. First, a layer penetrating drill hole is drilled in a roadway to a coal seam through a rock layer; in the layer penetrating drill hole, the coal seam is cut to form multiple cracks perpendicular to the layer penetrating drill hole; a liquid nitrogen injectingpipe and an exhaust pipe extend into the layer penetrating drill hole; and the exhaust pipe is connected with two gas pipelines separately provided with a safety valve and a spherical valve. The spherical valve performs the on-off control over the emission of nitrogen when the liquid nitrogen is injected in the layer penetrating drill hole; after the spherical valve is closed, a threshold of the safety valve is set, so that the safety valve controls the pressure in the layer penetrating drill hole; and after the air pressure in the layer penetrating drill hole exceeds the threshold each time,the safety valve is opened to discharge internal nitrogen for pressure relief, and the safety valve is automatically closed after the pressure relief. The method can guarantee that the liquid nitrogenis quickly and continuously injected in the layer penetrating drill hole, and meanwhile, cracks of coal masses are caused by using cold shock of the liquid nitrogen, the expansion pressure of the phase change gas and the frost heaving pressure of water in the cracks to effectively guarantee the anti-reflection effect.

A food and beverage industry membrane valve structure with a membrane which separates a control compartment from a product compartment in a food or beverage handling or processing machine. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.

The invention discloses an iliofemoral deep venous moniliform eccentric sacculus thrombolytic thrombolysis thrombectomy catheter and a using method of the iliofemoral deep venous thrombosis moniliform eccentric sacculus thrombolysis thrombectomy catheter. The tail end of the catheter is composed of two openings, wherein one is a sacculus catheter opening, and the other one is called a Y valve connector, is a common entrance of a guide wire for guiding and a thrombolysis catheter, and is used by being connected with a Y valve. A catheter end is a two-cavity catheter composed of two catheters in a fusing mode, wherein the two catheters are mutually independent in function, one cavity serves as a sacculus catheter passage, and the other cavity serves as a guide wire and thrombolysis catheter passage. A catheter working part is composed of moniliform eccentric sacculus and a corresponding crack thrombectomy catheter on the other side. Catheter cavities are made of a +PTEE hydrophilic coating. Each part of the sacculus and each part of thrombolysis (with the length of 10-20cm) can work respectively or simultaneously. Sacculus (with the diameter of 5-20mm) squeezes thrombectomy. Thrombectomy medicine thrombolysis can be simultaneously filled in the crack catheter on the other side. The crack catheter on the other side can rotate so as to improve thrombolysis thrombectomy effect.

A water disinfection delivery treatment system first filters the supply by a particle and then a carbon filter. The partially treated flow is split in two and a first part passes through a first cutoff valve and is fed into a disinfection (iodine) chamber, filter or feeder via a flow restricter. The chamber output passes through a second solenoid driven cutoff valve. The second part is fed to a third cutoff valve and this valve's output is summed with the second valve's output and then fed into a holding tank. The tank retain's a volume such that the water remains therein for at least a period sufficient to permit a minimum 3 log reduction of pathogenic microbes. A final carbon filter is downstream of the tank as is a meter and dispenser. A method is also provided for delivering potable drinking water.

A passenger restraint system for a vehicle having a plurality of seats, each seat having a seatbelt, a retractor from which the seatbelt is extendable, and a receiver used to latch the seatbelt. Each retractor includes a first pneumatic locking element and a second pneumatic locking element for limiting movement of the seatbelt and each receiver includes a receiver pneumatic locking element for locking the seatbelt within the receiver. A controller controls the operation of a plurality of first valves for supplying air to the first pneumatic locking element of a corresponding one of the plurality of retractors, a second valve for supplying air to each of the second pneumatic locking element of the plurality of retractors, and a plurality of third valves for supplying air to the receiver pneumatic locking element of a corresponding one of the plurality of receivers. Control decisions may be made based upon feedback received from sensors within the receiver that sense a state of the seatbelt with respect to the receiver.

A female coupler comprises a valve support accommodated in a hole portion of the injection port and comprising a projecting portion having a axial hole, a cylindrical coupler main body placed around the projecting portion and comprising a locking projecting portion on an inner peripheral surface, a part of the main body being embedded in the injection port so as to have its position fixed, a base valve accommodated in the main body and having an fitting insertion portion inserted into the axial hole and a valve seat portion placed on the projecting portion, the fitting insertion portion and the valve seat portion being connected together, a bar-like portion projected from the valve seat portion and having valve grooves formed on a peripheral surface, and an deformable packing member placed on the valve seat portion and accommodating the bar-like portion, the packing member being fixedly retained in the main body.

The invention discloses a pilot-operated type overflow valve with a pressure resisting function. The pilot-operated type overflow valve comprises an oil inlet, an oil outlet, a main valve seat, a main valve element, a damping hole, a valve body, a main valve spring, a valve deck, a remote control port, a pilot-operated valve seat, a pressure adjusting spring, an adjusting screw and a pressure adjusting hand wheel. The valve body is provided with the oil inlet. The oil outlet is formed in the lower end of the valve body. The main valve seat is arranged at the upper end of the oil outlet. The main valve element is arranged at the upper left end of the main valve seat. The main valve spring is arranged at the upper end of the main valve seat. The damping hole is formed in the upper right end of the main valve seat. The valve deck is arranged at the upper end of the valve body. The remote control port is formed in the upper end of the valve deck. The pressure adjusting hand wheel is arranged at the upper left end of the valve body. The adjusting screw is fixed to the right end of the pressure adjusting hand wheel. The pressure adjusting spring is arranged at the right end of the adjusting screw. The pilot-operated valve seat is arranged at the right end of the pressure adjusting spring. The pilot-operated type overflow valve has the beneficial effects that the damping effect is good, noise is low, the pressure adjusting range is wide, and actions are sensitive.

A valve gear for an engine, includes: a camshaft phase varying device by which a rotational phase of a camshaft for opening/closing valves of the engine can be changed relatively to that of a crankshaft; and a holder that is provided so that the holder can be removably attached to the camshaft in a state where the holder has held constituent components of the camshaft phase varying device.

The present invention discloses a pneumatic nail gun, which comprises a nail tool body, a cylinder seat arranged above the nail tool body, a housing cap arranged at top end of the cylinder seat; a seal gasket is arranged inside top of the housing cap; a head valve is arranged inside the housing cap, and a spring is disposed inside the head valve; a collar is actively arranged inside the cylinder seat, a cylinder being disposed inside the cavity of the tool body; the collar can move reciprocally along a space formed between the cylinder seat and the inner step surface of the cylinder; a control valve assembly is arranged along a radical direction of the cylinder seat; a piston driver assembly is actively arranged inside a chamber being formed by an inner hole of the collar and an inner hole of the cylinder. The pneumatic nail gun can reduce the pressure oscillation when firing, increase the effectiveness of the firing for every time.