Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Laitram, LLC

Aktiebolaget Skf

Versuni Holding B.v.

Aditya Mehendale

Frederik Jan De Bruijn

Yong Jiang

Mohankumar Valiyambath Krishnan

Karl Catharina Van Bree

Dmitry Nikolayevich Znamenskiy

Victor Martinus Gerardus Van Acht

Arnoldus Johannes Martinus Jozeph Ras

Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre

Antonius Johannes Joseph Wismans

Sergio Consoli

Petra Bijl

Gerard Johannes Pieter Nijsse

Orhan Kahya

Yao Hean Chiah

Ewout Peter Van Der Laan

Funda Sahin-Nomaler

Vijay Parthasarathy

Willem Potze

Harold Agnes Wilhelmus Schmeitz

Gregory Cole

Petrus Carolus Maria Frissen

Stijn Willem Boere

Funda Sahin Nomaler

Hao Su

Pieter Aarnout Klop

Funda Sahin

Andries Van Wageningen

Antonius Adriaan Maria Staring

Bryant G Ragan

Wilhelmus Gerardus Maria Ettes

Andreas Clemens Van Der Ham

Guillaume Leopold Theodorus Frederik Hautvast

Georgo Zorz Angelis

Dirk Binnekamp

Jacek Lukasz Kustra

Jan Willem Bruggers

John F Landrum

Hermanus Mathias Joannes Rene Soemers

Boon Teck Tan

Peter Prinsen

Gerard McGoogan

Michel Van Es

Yen Leng Pang

Dirk Manke

Maurice Hubertus Elisabeth Van Der Beek

Christoph Kurze

Silvester Matheus Reijnders

Richard Johannus Maria Van De Ven

Wee Ann Chong

Daniele Solerio

Toon Kuijpers

Hee Poh Sin

Shuchi Priye Khurana

Xin Xian Kong

Kenny Khng

Richard Johannes Maria Van De Ven

Harold Agnes Willhelmus Schmeitz

Leonardus Jozef Lucas Maria Koch

Georgo Angelis

Kai Wong

Shuchi P Khurana

Dmitry Nilolayevich Znamenskiy

A medical device for the electromagnetic tracking of a medical instrument transported through the medical device. The medical device has a central axis and a channel that receives and transports a medical instrument through the medical device. The channel extends to a distal portion of the medical device and connects with an opening in the medical device that is not aligned with the central axis. The medical device includes a tracking component that is a plurality of coordinated electromagnetic sensors for generating a virtual axis of travel for the medical instrument, with the virtual axis passing through the opening of the device and being aligned with tool insertion axis.

Virtually-oriented electromagnetic tracking system for medical instrument navigation

A personal care device has a main functional unit and an ancillary functional unit which is displaced between a non-operational position and an operational position using a biasing arrangement. A magnet arrangement is used to exert a magnetic holding on the ancillary functional unit in the operational position. This provides a stable support of the ancillary functional unit in the operational position without requiring a strong biasing arrangement.

Personal care device having a main functional unit and an ancillary functional unit

The invention relates to a portable device () comprising a bottom surface (BS) intended to be in contact with a textile (TXT). The portable device comprises an image sensor () for taking an image of a textile, and an illumination system () for illuminating a portion of the textile when said image is being taken. The portable device also comprises a control unit () for executing an algorithm stored in the portable device, using the taken image as an input of said algorithm, to obtain a classification of the textile. The image sensor and the control unit are integrated within the portable device. The image sensor has an active surface sensitive to light, which is oriented compared to said bottom surface (BS), with an absolute value of the orientation angle being in the range 15-70 degrees; and/or the illumination system () has a light source oriented compared to the said bottom surface (BS), with an absolute value of the orientation angle being in the range 15-70 degrees.

Portable device with image sensor and illumination system for textile classification

A wireless power transfer system includes a power receiver () receiving a power transfer from a power transmitter () via a wireless inductive power transfer signal. The power transmitter () comprises a transmit power coil () generating the power transfer signal. A test signal coil () coupled to a test signal generator () generates a magnetic test signal. A plurality of spatially distributed detection coils () is coupled to measurement unit () generating a set of measurement values reflecting signals induced in the detection coils () by the magnetic test signal. A processor () determines a measurement spatial distribution of the measurement value where the spatial distribution reflects positions of the detection coils (). A foreign object detector () detects a presence of a foreign object in response to a comparison of the measurement spatial distribution to a reference spatial distribution. The foreign object detector () is arranged to determine the reference spatial distribution in response to data received from the power receiving device ().

Foreign object detection in a wireless power transfer system

A device () configured to detect the presence of metal artifacts in a patient's eye includes a head mount () configured to receive at least a portion of the patient's head. At least one inductor coil () is disposed on or in the head mount and positioned to inductively couple with at least one eye of the patient's head received into the head mount. An inductance meter () is operably connected to the at least one inductor coil to measure an inductance as a change of frequency of the at least one inductor coil. A processor () is programmed to: determine whether the inductance is greater than an inductance threshold value; and generate an indication of at least one metal artifact when the inductance is greater than the inductance threshold value. A display component () is configured to display the indication.

Detection of metal artifacts in patients eyes prior to MRI examinations

A conveyor system for conveying electrically conductive articles such as aluminum bottles or cans. The conveyor system comprises a plurality of coils below the top surface of an electromagnetic conveyor at a junction between an infeed conveyor and a discharge conveyor. The coils propagate electromagnetic flux waves that induce currents in the electrically conductive articles that force the articles to follow a conveying path from the infeed to the discharge conveyor. Dead spots on the electromagnetic conveyor can be eliminated by adjusting the coil drive waveforms. And a long electromagnetic conveyor driven by a train of narrow pulses is used to singulate electrically conductive articles.

Electromagnetic conveyor system

A portable textile treatment device includes a heatable soleplate for contacting and treating the textile, an image sensor and an illumination system. The image sensor has an active surface sensitive and takes an image of the textile, and the illumination system has a light source that illuminates a portion of the textile when the image is being taken. The portable device also includes a control unit configured to execute an algorithm stored in the portable device for obtaining a classification of the textile based on taken image, and based on the classification for controlling at least one operating parameter of the portable textile treatment device. The image sensor and/or light source are oriented with respect to the surface of the heatable soleplate, with an absolute value of an orientation angle being in the range from 15 to 70&#xb0; C.

Portable textile treatment device with image sensor and illumination system for textile classification

An oral cleaning device () for characterizing a position of a brush head of the device. The oral cleaning device includes: a body portion (); a brush head () extending from the body portion, where at least a portion of the brush head is configured to move relative to the body portion; a controller (); and an optical sensor () positioned relative to the brush head member and body portion and being in communication with the controller, where the optical sensor is configured to obtain optical sensor data resulting from a deflection or rotation of the brush head member relative to the body portion; the controller being configured to receive the optical sensor data and determine the deflection or rotation of the brush head member relative to the body portion.

Methods and systems for optical sensing of forces in a toothbrush

The invention relates to a method of operating a textile treatment device comprising a heatable soleplate intended to be in contact with a textile for treating the textile. The method comprises a first step () of setting a first temperature target for the heatable soleplate, and a step () of detecting movement of said textile treatment device. If the step () of 5 detecting movement did not detect any movement of said textile treatment device during more than a given first time duration, a step () of actively decreasing the temperature of the heatable soleplate () up to reaching a first given temperature having a value below said first temperature target.

Method for actively decreasing the temperature of a heatable soleplate in a textile treatment device

A system and medical device for the electromagnetic tracking of a medical instrument transported through the medical device. The medical device has a central axis and a channel that receives and transports a medical instrument through the medical device. The channel extends to a distal portion of the medical device and connects with an opening in the medical device that is not aligned with the central axis. The medical device includes a tracking component that is a plurality of coordinated electromagnetic sensors for generating a virtual axis of travel for the medical instrument, with the virtual axis passing through the opening of the device and being aligned with tool insertion axis.

Virtually-oriented electromagnetic tracking coil for catheter based navigation

A drivetrain assembly () for a personal care device (), the drivetrain assembly including a primary resonator (); a secondary resonator () configured to reduce vibrations transmitted from the motor to a body () of the personal care device; a fixed point () positioned between the primary resonator and the secondary resonator; a first spring member () connected at a first end to the primary resonator and at a second end to the fixed point; a second spring member () connected at a first end to the secondary resonator and at a second end to the fixed point; a coupling spring () connected at a first end to the primary resonator and at a second end to the secondary resonator; and an actuator () configured to exert force on at least one of the primary resonator and the secondary resonator.

Drivetrain assembly for a personal care device

A power generator assembly including a rotating part and a non-rotating part is provided. It is proposed that the rotating part includes first and second, circumferentially adjacent generator units. Each generator unit includes at least one coil, at least one permanent magnet and two pole shoes having pole surfaces facing radially outward. The non-rotating part includes an arc-shaped saddle adaptor of ferromagnetic material arranged with a radial distance to the pole surfaces. The saddle adaptor is configured to close a magnetic circuit passing via the pole shoes through the coil in a rotational position where the saddle adaptor overlaps with the pole shoes of a generator unit. According to the invention, a pole shoe of the first generator unit and an adjacent pole shoe of the second generator unit have the same magnetic polarity.

Power generator assembly for rotating applications

A hygienic magnetic tray and conveyor. The low-profile tray includes a forcer sandwiched between an article-supporting top and an opposite bottom. The top is made of hygienic material, and the bottom can be made of a low-friction material. The tray is propelled along a guide surface on an enclosure housing stator coils supported in a conveyor frame. The stator forms a linear motor with the forcer in the tray. Various disposal systems provide escape routes for removing fluids and debris from the guide surface of the stator enclosure.

Hygienic magnetic tray and conveyor

An X-ray imager has a navigation-aid subsystem including one or more transmitters (TX), one or more receivers (RX) and one or more reflectors (RFL). A radio signal is transmitted by transmitter (TX), is then reflected off reflector RFL and is then received at receiver (RX). The received signal is then resolved into positional correction information that can be used to guide a motion of the imager's tube (S) and or detector (D) to position and/or align the tube (S) and/or detector (D) relative to each other in a desired spatial configuration to ensure optimal imaging results. The imager may be a mobile imaging system with the detector (D) portable.

Tube alignment functionality for mobile radiography systems

A conveyor system for conveying electrically conductive articles such as aluminum cans. The conveyor system comprises a plurality of coils below the top surface of an electromagnetic conveyor at a junction between an infeed conveyor and a discharge conveyor. The coils propagate electromagnetic flux waves that induce currents in the electrically conductive articles that force the articles to follow a conveying path from the infeed to the discharge conveyor. Dead spots on the electromagnetic conveyor can be eliminated by adjusting the coil drive waveforms.

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