3m Innovative Properties Company

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Solventum Intellectual Properties Company

Greg E Schrank

Bruce R Broyles

Christopher J Claypool

Andreas Johannes Boehm

Steven J Maxa

Stefan Eckstein

Andrew C Strauss

Remus Feldman

Marc Peuker

Timothy L Hoopman

Jia Hu

William J Bryan

Jennifer L Trice

Charles N DeVore

Vinod P Menon

Nelson D Sewall

Daniel P Doran

Jeffrey E Clements

Winston T Tan

Trung Vu

Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a patient warming system having a heating device configured to transfer heat to a patient based on a body heat score that indicates whether the patient is likely to sweat. The heating device includes a heater circuit configured to produce heat, the heater circuit thermally coupled to the patient. The heating device also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the heater circuit. The controller has one or more processors configured to receive one or more physiological indicators of the patient, determine the body heat score from one or more physiological indicators, determine whether the body heat score meets a score threshold, direct the heater circuit to produce a first amount of heat based on whether the body heat score meets a score threshold.

Patient warming system with monitoring and feedback capability

A fall-protection apparatus comprising a rotationally-activated braking device that comprises at least one flexure-borne pawl.

Fall-protection apparatus with braking device comprising flexure-borne pawl

A fall-protection apparatus with a drum and a rotationally-activated braking device including at least one velocity-actuated pawl that is mounted on a pawl-support plate that is rotatable relative to the drum through a predetermined range between a first position and a second position. The pawl-support plate is rotatable relative to the drum from the first position to the second position upon the pawl-support plate experiencing a rotational acceleration that is above a predetermined threshold value of rotational acceleration. When the pawl-support plate is in the second position, the velocity-actuated pawl can be actuated by a rotational velocity that is lower than a rotational velocity required to actuate the pawl when the pawl-support plate is in the first position.

Fall-protection apparatus comprising braking device with velocity-actuated, acceleration-modulated pawl(s)

A fall-protection apparatus with a rotationally-activated braking device including at least one first pawl that is a velocity-actuated pawl and at least one second pawl that is an acceleration-actuated pawl, the at least one first pawl and the at least one second pawl being independently actuated and independently functioning.

Fall-protection apparatus comprising dual-actuatable braking device

A confined-space davit, including a vertical, elongate mast provided by at least one annular tube; and, a boom that is pivotally connected to an upper end portion of the mast and that extends forwardly from the mast. The tube comprises a forward wall and an opposing rearward wall and comprises left and right opposing lateral sidewalls that each connect the forward wall to the rearward wall.

Confined-space davit

A device for dispensing a dental material has a cartridge with a dispensing end. The dispensing end has a dispensing opening for the dental material. The dispensing end further has in essence an axially symmetric shape with a truncation. The truncation provides the dispensing end with a generally flat dispensing surface through which the dispensing opening extends. The device has further a cap received on the dispensing end. The cap and the dispensing end are rotatable relative to each other between an open position, in which an orifice in the cap uncovers the dispensing surface, and a closed position, in which a closed space is formed between the cap and the dispensing surface. The device allows for a relatively convenient dispensation of dental material, in particular for a dispensation of a dental composite filling material.

Device for dispensing a dental material

Composite syringe

Flowable syringe

In one embodiment, a cutting tool assembly used for creating grooves in a microreplication tool is described. The cutting tool assembly includes a mounting structure and multiple diamonds mounted in the mounting structure. For example, first and second tool shanks having first and second diamond tips can be positioned in the mounting structure such that a cutting location of a diamond cutting tip of the first tool shank is a defined distance from a cutting location of a diamond cutting tip of the second tool shank. The defined distance may correspond to an integer number of pitch spacings, and may be accurate to within a tolerance of less than approximately 10 microns.

Multi-diamond cutting tool assembly for creating microreplication tools

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Bloomington, MN, United States of America

Greg E Schrank