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Taipei Medical University

National Cheng-Kung University

National Applied Research Laboratories

Shih-Ching Chen

Chih-Wei Peng

Jia-Jin J Chen

Tsung-Hsun Hsieh

Wen-Fu Lai

Yu-Hui Tsai

Li-Hsuan Chiu

Chien-Hung Lai

Chin-Chean Wong

Chun-Wei Wu

Yu Ting Li

Chun-Ie Wu

Jiunn-Horng Kang

Che-Wei Lin

Hsiang Ching Lee

Nguyen Van Truong

Samuel Wang

A head cap with channel identification includes a head cap, channel identification module, a controlling module, and electrical stimulation modules. The head cap includes the channels therein, and the head cap includes brain regions corresponding to the brain areas of the human being. The electrical stimulation modules disposed in the channels, and the channel identification modules disposed around the peripheral of the channels. The controlling module is electrically coupled to the channel identification modules. When the electrical stimulation modules disposed in some of the channels, the channel identification modules around the peripheral of the channels and the electrical stimulation module are constituted a circuit conduction status or a short circuit status, then the channel identification module transmits a signal to the controlling module to determine the desired sites of the electrical stimulation module where is corresponding to one of the brain areas of the human being according to the signal.

Head cap with channel identification

The invention provides transcranial electrostimulation by combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and theta burst stimulation (TBS) to achieve an unexpected therapeutic effect in various brain or neural diseases. Accordingly, the invention provides a mode of direct current with biphasic square wave pulses in the treatment of brain or neural diseases. Also provided are methods of employing the transcranial electrostimulation of the invention and applications of the transcranial electrostimulation of the invention.

Transcranial burst electrostimulation apparatus and its applications

The present invention provides a method for restoring native chondrocyte phenotype and functions of, and/or increasing type II collagen as well as aggrecan mRNA expression levels and GAG accumulation level in dedifferentiated chondrocytes which have been subcultured and expanded in vitro, which comprising culturing the said dedifferentiated chondrocytes in vitro with a medium comprising type II collagen, or its biologically active peptide fragment(s) or analogs with or without growth factor(s), wherein the type II collagen or its biologically active peptide fragment(s) or analogs are effective to restore chondrocyte phenotype and functions of, and/or to increase type II collagen and aggrecan expression levels and GAG accumulation level in the said dedifferentiated chondrocytes.

Method to restore cartilaginous phenotype of chondrocytes after cultured and expanded in vitro

A top setting-up mechanism for folding tent includes an upper hub pivotally connected to inner ends of upper ribs of the tent, a lower hub pivotally connected to inner ends of stretchers of the tent, and a pull cord. A guiding tube having internal guiding ribs is fitted in the upper hub. An upper part of the lower hub is formed into a hollow retainer having external guiding grooves. When the pull cord is pulled, the retainer on the lower hub is brought into the guiding tube to enable quick and accurate coupling of the lower hub to the upper hub, and the guiding grooves on the retainer of the lower hub interfere with the guiding ribs on the guiding tube fitted in the upper hub to prevent the upper and the lower hub from turning relative to one another, and thereby ensures a stable erection of the tent.

Top setting-up mechanism for folding tent

A knuckle assembly includes two mirror-symmetric knuckle ends that are separately connected to two adjacent ends of two long members so that the two long members may be angularly connected together in a bent or an extended position as desired. The two knuckle ends are provided with two fastening pins, one of which may be easily pushed to lock the two knuckle ends in the angularly extended position and the other of which may be easily pushed to unlock the two knuckle ends from the angularly extended position so that the two knuckle ends may be bent relative to each other to occupy only a reduced space.

Knuckle assembly

A skeleton for umbrella tent mainly includes a top hub to which multiple brace poles are radially and pivotally connected to stretch by a predetermined angle; a bottom hub to which multiple stretch arms are radially and pivotally connected to stretch by a predetermined angle, and outer ends of these stretch arms are separately pivotally connected to a predetermined point on the brace poles; a flexible telescopic portion located between the top and the bottom hubs and consisting of multiple sections in the form of hollow truncated cones; and a pull rope extending through the telescopic portion with an upper end fixed to the top hub and a lower end hanging from the bottom hub to connect to a ring handle. By pulling the pull rope downward, the telescopic portion is folded to easily cause the stretch arms and the brace poles to move into a stretched position to set up the tent.

Skeleton for umbrella tent

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Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Ching Chen