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University of Michigan

Robert C Welsh

Joseph J Stoffel

Jose A Alvarez

Kevin P Coulter

Timothy Chupp

Kevin Duban

Will Peckham

Karl Goetsch

Matthew S Rosen

Sam Hanson

Adam Hunger

Scott D Swanson

John Fick

Scott Schnering

Connor Olson

A moving decoy that better captures the natural movements of a goose or similar game bird in critical aspects, most notably, the characteristic, highly flexible goose neck and the wagging of the tail is provided. The invention provides an improved set of neck vertebrae for use in this application and may operate as integrated into the rest of the decoy or as a modular neck modular neck may be attached to a variety of different decoys. Actuation of the neck may be provided by self-contained electrical motor and power unit in the latter case. In an alternative embodiment remote access of the neck may be provided by cables run between the decoy and a remote location.

Goose decoy with head and tail movement

A system, and corresponding method, that interfaces with a gas polarization system to deliver a polarized noble gas to a subject for inhalation. Large volumes of polarized noble gas are obtained by repeated production/freezing cycles of a spin-exchange system. A storage cylinder is provided for storing a polarized noble gas. A gas delivery line is coupled to the storage cylinder and selectively delivers the polarized noble gas to the storage cylinder, and from the storage cylinder to the subject. A vacuum means is in communication with the gas delivery line for evacuating the storage cylinder in the gas delivery line prior to the noble gas being delivered thereto. A plurality of non-metallic gas delivery valves, located between the gas delivery line and the vacuum means, selectively control communication between the vacuum means and the polarized noble gas to minimize depolarization of the polarized noble gas during delivery of the noble gas to the subject on a breath-by-breath basis, or at a constant delivery rate. Control of remotely activated pneumatic valves allows complete automation of the polarization/accumulation/storage/delivery cycle for use in a low maintenance commercial device suitable for clinical and research applications. The polarization stage can be optimized for a particular noble gas species and particular application by the specific programming of the control electronics or computer.

Polarized gas delivery system/method

The invention relates to a portable bracket for holding a microscope, especially a heavy surgical eye-operating microscope. The bracket has an inverted L-shape with an upright column or stand and a horizontal arm member. A hollow tube is located at the outer end of the horizontal arm to receive a vertical support tube or neck of a microscope. The hollow tube is adaptable to receive various sizes of microscopes and render any heavy microscope more portable by eliminating the normally cumbersome attachment mechanisms. The neck of the miroscope is secured in the tube by a side lock knob which clamps the neck within the tube and/or a top lock knob which is attached to the neck of the microscope and abuts against a top face of the tube.

Conversion bracket for portable microscopes

The invention relates to illuminator support for supporting an illuminator such that a beam of light projected from the illuminator is generally coaxial with a line of vision to the subject to be viewed. In a preferred embodiment, the illuminator includes a plate having an aperture therethrough for reception of a lens for a microscope. The line of vision is defined by the axis of the lens. The plate supports a bracket which holds an illuminator on a side of the microscope, the illuminator projecting a beam of light on the subject beneath the lens. In the preferred embodiment, the bracket supports the illuminator so that the beam of light is projected along an axis at an angle of 5.degree.-8.degree. with respect to the axis of the line of vision.

Microscope illuminator support

An improved iris plane intra-ocular lens for implantations into an aphakic human eye wherein the back side of the haptic crotch regions of each of the horizontal haptics is substantially chamfered for substantially decreasing warping of the iris at the pupillary margin.

Intra-ocular lens

A spectacle lens having an anterior surface curvature, the anterior surface having a spherically shaped central vision surface area from 12 to 16 diopters and a peripheral, aspherical surface area surrounding the center vision spherical area, the aspherical surface area formed with a uniform diopter gradient varying from the central vision surface area edge to the outer circumference of the lens. The aspherical diopter rate of change, approximately one-third diopter per millimeter which is reduced from the spherical area toward the outer lens circumference, improves the peripheral vision of a person having aphakia when looking through the central vision portion, while eliminating the pin cushion effect found in conventional lenses which result from overpowering in the outer areas of the lens. The lens is useful for improving the vision of one having aphakia when looking through the central vision area and teaching the patient to rotate his head rather than his eyes to more clearly observe objects by re-establishing a new center vision point.

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Miami, FL, United States of America

Robert C Welsh