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Hi!!! Well, this is my first post here on craftster, I made this fat feller in January right after i learnt how to crochet, the pattern is from the lionbrand yarn page. They have a ton of free patterns. I used thicker thread and a bigger hook than it called for so he came out a little large... though i actually kind of prefer it that way, better for hugging! The pattern actually says to embroider on the eyes and mouth but i just used buttons for the mouth and prefered to keep him silent. lol. i personally think he looks a bit like the cookie monster tell me what you think!
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Demo/ Fighting practice Thurs June 27. Cub Scout camp!
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Dear Ayreton,
The local Cub Scout council is having a summer camp with a King Arthur-theme. The camp is daytime only, except for a sleep out on Thursday night, June 27.
The SCA is invited to present a fighting demo/ fighting practice for the Thursday evening activity. Since this is for grade-school boys, armor and fighting is the big draw, but heraldry and crafts are also welcome.
Date: Thursday, June 27.
Time: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: North Park Village (a park in Chicago), 5803 N. Pulaski St, Chicago.
Directions ( approx): I-94, go east on Peterson, turn south on Pulaski and enter the park about 1/2 mile.
Can anyone help me with this demo? I'd like to help out the Cub Scouts, but I can't do it alone!
They anticipate 200 Cub Scouts!
Thanks so much for your assistance!
- Unto All I Give Greetings.Since we didn't actually get a room at U of C for practice this Sunday, we will be back at St. Stephen Lutheran Church (14700 S Kildare ave) in Midlothian. please do not wear black soled shoes as they are not allowed in the gym. Practice starts at 2:00.Come on out to practice and start working on your resolution to lose weight/work out/practice more often.in service-Susanna
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On balancing between optimal and proportional categorical predictions
Wenxue Huang - Department of Mathematics, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China (email)
Abstract: A bias-variance dilemma in categorical data mining and analysis is the fact that a prediction method can aim at either maximizing the overall point-hit accuracy without constraint or with the constraint of minimizing the distribution bias. However, one can hardly achieve both at the same time. A scheme to balance these two prediction objectives is proposed in this article. An experiment with a real data set is conducted to demonstrate some of the scheme's characteristics. Some basic properties of the scheme are also discussed.
Keywords: Bias-variance dilemma, categorical data, optimal prediction, proportional prediction, point estimation, conditional distribution.
Received: May 2015; Revised: August 2015; Available Online: September 2015.


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|Sep 17, 1996
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|Sep 24, 1993
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|Sep 24, 1993
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|Samuel L. Thomasson
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|Thomasson; Samuel L.
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The invention relates to electronic stethoscopes and, in particular, to a hand-held electronic stethoscope having an active filter in which the center frequency and bandwidth are continuously adjustable over the entire range of somatic sounds.
Originally developed in 1816 by the French physician Rene Laennec to permit auscultation without actually touching an ear to the patient, a traditional or acoustic stethoscope gathers sound in a chest piece and conveys the sound to a physician's ears through a tube attached to the chest piece. On one side of the chest piece is a bell-shaped metal cup rimmed with rubber for transmitting sounds of lower pitch and on the other side of the chest piece is a wider, flatter cup covered with a thin, taut, plastic diaphragm for transmitting sounds of higher pitch. A tube connects the chest piece to a Y fitting for splitting the sound between two tubes having earpieces at the free ends thereof.
An acoustic stethoscope limits the mobility of a physician. The tube from the chest piece to the ear piece must be relatively short to minimize attenuation of the sound. Lack of mobility can be a critical problem, e.g. for an anesthesiologist who must either be tethered to a patient or leave the patient unmonitored while attending to other duties within an operating room. Clinical physicians often find it necessary to be away from a patient and yet still wish to monitor the patient.
An acoustic stethoscope can not adjust the loudness of the sounds and can not separate sounds of interest from other sounds, although some manufacturers adjust the thickness of the diaphragm and the shape of the bell to emphasize sounds in a particular frequency range. It was not realized at the time that Dr. Laennec had an acute sense of hearing and was able to distinguish sounds readily. Other physicians, without his aural acuity, have a more difficult time using a stethoscope to its full potential.
Electronic stethoscopes can overcome these difficulties and provide other advantages, such as powering a loudspeaker for several people to hear the sound simultaneously. An electronic stethoscope includes a microphone for converting sound waves into an electrical signal, an amplifier, and a filter to remove extraneous noises, particularly higher frequencies, from the electrical signal. The amplified, filtered signal is then coupled to small speakers in a headphone worn by the physician or is amplified further and coupled to a loudspeaker.
The filter in an electronic stethoscope has been the subject of many and varied proposals in the prior art. Some patents disclose modifying the frequency response of the filter by switching capacitors into or out of the filter, e.g. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,534,058 (Hower); 4,528,690 (Sedgwick); and 4,254,302 (Walsh). Other patents, such as U.S. Pat. No. 4,226,248 (Manoli), disclose selecting one or more bandpass filters by means of a switch.
In all such filters, the frequency response of the filter is changed in discrete steps rather than continuously. Electronic stethoscopes tend to be application specific because the filters can not be adjusted continuously over the entire band of somatic sounds, approximately 1-3,000 hz. This range, more than ten octaves, is difficult to cover in a continuously adjustable active filter without instability, i.e. without oscillation.
While providing some enhancement of a sound of interest, the patented systems are not as flexible or as easy to use as many physicians desire. The patents listed above describe apparatus which cannot be held in one hand or fit into a pocket and the controls for which are not easily manipulated by one hand. In addition, simple filtration is often unsuited to selecting the sound of interest to a physician. For example, tailoring the frequency response of a stethoscope to heart sounds, or a particular heart sound, often means that the stethoscope is unsuited to monitoring other sounds, e.g. respiration.
Many sounds of interest are near the threshold of human hearing, i.e. below thirty hz. Bandpass filters or high pass filters may attenuate low frequency sounds below the threshold of hearing. Often, a physician wants a sound emphasized without eliminating all other sounds since the other sounds provide a frame of reference. Occasionally, a physician wants to hear sounds unfiltered, i.e. a faithful reproduction of all sounds detected by the microphone. The prior art does not address these considerations.
In view of the foregoing, it is therefore an object of the invention to provide an electronic stethoscope which improves a physician's ability to detect, isolate, amplify, and listen to the sounds produced within a patient.
Another object of the invention is to provide a portable, hand-held electronic stethoscope that can be operated by the hand supporting it.
A further object of the invention is to provide an electronic stethoscope which can transmit somatic sounds to a physician's headset or to a remote speaker.
Another object of the invention is to provide an electronic stethoscope having an improved filter in which the bandwidth and center frequency of the filter can be adjusted independently throughout the entire range of somatic sounds.
A further object of the invention is to provide an adjustable, stable, wide band, state variable filter.
Another object of the invention is to provide an adjustable, stable, wide band, Butterworth filter.
A further object of the invention is to provide an electronic stethoscope which can reproduce somatic sounds with high fidelity, by-passing the active filter.
Another object of the invention is to provide an electronic stethoscope in which the output signal is corrected for the frequency response of the human ear.
The foregoing objects are achieved in the invention in which an electronic stethoscope includes a microphone mounted in a resilient collar in a hand-held case. The microphone is coupled to an active filter having independently and continuously adjustable bandwidth and center frequency. A switch bypasses the active filter when the user wishes to hear all of the sounds detected by the microphone. The controls for bandwidth and center frequency are conveniently located on one side of the case and can be manipulated by the hand holding the stethoscope. The volume or gain of the stethoscope is adjusted by a third control located on one side of the stethoscope. The controls can be linear or rotary or combinations thereof. The output signal from the active filter passes through a filter having a frequency response inverse to that of the human ear, is amplified, and is coupled to headphones which plug into a socket in the rear of the case. In one embodiment of the invention, the active filter is a state variable filter. In another embodiment of the invention, the active filter is a Butterworth filter. In both embodiments, the active filter has a maximum bandwidth of at least ten octaves and is stable at all settings of the controls.
A more complete understanding of the invention can be obtained by considering the following detailed description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of an electronic stethoscope constructed in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 2 is a rear perspective view of the stethoscope shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a front perspective view of an electronic stethoscope constructed in accordance with an alternative embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an electronic stethoscope constructed in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 5 is a circuit diagram of an electronic stethoscope constructed in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 6 is a waveform illustrating the frequency response of the filter shown in FIG. 5 at a particular setting of the controls;
FIG. 7 is a waveform illustrating the frequency response of the filter shown in FIG. 5 at another setting of the controls;
FIG. 8 is a waveform illustrating the frequency response of the filter shown in FIG. 5 at a third setting of the controls;
FIG. 9 is a waveform illustrating the frequency response of an unstable active filter;
FIG. 10 is a circuit diagram of a state variable filter constructed in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 11 is a waveform illustrating the frequency response of the circuit shown in FIG. 10 at a particular setting of the controls;
FIG. 12 is a waveform illustrating the frequency response of the circuit shown in FIG. 10 at another setting of the controls;
FIG. 13 is a waveform illustrating the frequency response of the circuit shown in FIG. 10 at a third setting of the controls;
FIG. 14 is a waveform illustrating the frequency response of the circuit shown in FIG. 10 at a fourth setting of the controls; and
FIG. 15 is a circuit diagram of an alternative embodiment of an inverse filter for use in the circuit shown in FIG. 5.
FIGS. 1 and 2 are perspective views of a first embodiment of an electronic stethoscope constructed in accordance with the invention. In FIGS. 1 and 2, stethoscope 10 includes case 11 for containing the electronics and controls. Case 10 can have any suitable shape conveniently fitting within the hand. As illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, case 11 has broad, rectangular front and back sides 11a and 11b, interconnected by first and second narrow sides, of which side 11c is visible in FIGS. 1 and 2. Top 11d and bottom 11e complete the enclosure.
Microphone 12 is connected to top 11e by resilient collar 13. Collar 13 prevents vibration caused by handling case 11 from being coupled to microphone 12. Since microphone 12 is slightly recessed in collar 13, the collar serves a second purpose in acting as an acoustic seal around the microphone when touched against a patient. Light emitting diodes (LEDs) 15 and 16 are located in front side 11a and indicate the operation of the stethoscope. LED 15 is luminous when power is on and LED 16 is luminous when the stethoscope is being operated in a scan mode, described herein. The LEDs preferably emit different colors, such as red or green.
Side 11c includes rotary controls 21, 22, and 23. Control 21 adjusts volume and turns the stethoscope on or off. Control 22 adjusts center frequency and includes a switch for bypassing the active filter. Control 23 varies the bandwidth. These three functions are described in more detail in conjunction with FIGS. 5 and 10. On back side 11b (FIG. 2), belt clip 25 provides a means for attaching electronic stethoscope 10 to a belt or other support. Also located on the rear of stethoscope 10 is socket 27 for connecting headphones 8 to the stethoscope by way of plug 29.
Front side 11a includes optional speaker 31 for projecting the somatic sounds detected by microphone 12. Speaker 31 is bypassed when plug 29 is inserted into socket 27. Headphones 28 provide a means for listening to somatic sounds privately while speaker 31 provides a means for several people to listen to somatic sounds simultaneously. Other means can be used for making the sounds audible to one or more people, including the patient. For example, an infra-red transmitter (not shown) on case 11 can be used to couple the stethoscope to a remote receiver and amplifier for reproducing the sounds over a loudspeaker or headphones. Battery cover 19 provides access to one or more batteries stored within case 11.
FIG. 3 illustrates an electronic stethoscope constructed in accordance with an alternative embodiment of the invention in which linear controls are used instead of two of the rotary controls. An advantage of linear controls is that the setting of a linear control is more easily discerned than the setting of a rotary control. The circuitry within stethoscope 30 is identical to the circuitry within stethoscope 10. In stethoscope 30, potentiometer 34 extends through a first slot in case 32 and controls center frequency. Potentiometer 35 extends through a second slot, parallel to the first slot, in case 32 and controls bandwidth. Rotary volume control 21 is located on side 38 of stethoscope 30, thereby distinguishing the volume control from the controls for the filter. Elements in FIG. 3 common to FIG. 1 have the same reference number as in FIG. 1.
As known in the art, potentiometers include resistive material connected between two terminals and a wiper in sliding electrical contact with the resistive material and connected to a third terminal. A potentiometer can have a linear, audio, or exponential "taper." A linear taper means that resistance changes in proportion to the movement of the wiper. Potentiometers used in implementing the invention preferably have an audio taper, although any taper can be used. As used herein, "linear" refers to the motion of the wiper, not the taper.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the major components of an electronic stethoscope constructed in accordance with the invention. Preamplifier 41 amplifies the signal from microphone 12 and couples the amplified signal either to adjustable active filter 42 or to amplifier 45 under the control of a switch within the preamplifier. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the switch is mechanically connected to control 22 (FIG. 1), like the on-off switch on the volume control of a small radio. When control 22 is in the "off" position, filter 42 is bypassed. Filter 42 has a variable center frequency and an independently adjustable bandwidth operating continuously over the entire range of somatic sounds, e.g. 1-3000 hz.
Amplifier 45 provides isolation between filter 42 and filter 47 and has a small gain. Inverse filter 47 has a transfer characteristic that is the inverse of the frequency response of the human ear, i.e. sounds below 50 hz. are amplified more than sounds having a frequency higher than 50 hz. The output signal from inverse filter 47 is amplified by amplifier 48 and coupled to speaker 49. Speaker 49 can be a speaker within the case of the stethoscope or the speakers in a headphone.
FIG. 5 is a schematic of an electronic stethoscope constructed in accordance with the invention. In FIG. 5, the signal from microphone 12 is amplified in preamplifier 41 by transistors Q1 and Q2. Output 51 of preamplifier 41 is coupled to amplifier 53 and output 52 of preamplifier 41 is coupled to amplifier 54. Switch 56 determines which of transistors Q1 and Q2 is biased off. Specifically, when switch 56 is open, the base-emitter junction of transistor Q2 is reverse biased, turning it off. The signal from microphone 12 is amplified by transistor Q1 and is coupled through resistor 70 to the input of amplifier 53.
The bias on the base of transistor Q1 is determined by a voltage divider including resistors 57 and 58. When switch 56 is closed, resistor 60 is connected in parallel with resistor 58, reducing the voltage on the base and reverse biasing the base-emitter junction of transistor Q1. At the same time, one end of resistor 59 is grounded and the base-emitter junction of transistor Q2 is forward biased. The signal from microphone 12 is amplified by transistor Q2 and is coupled by amplifier 54 to active filter 42.
The collector current through transistor Q2 passes through LED 16, causing the LED to emit light. This visual signal reminds the user that the active filter is in use. The brightness of LED 16 is affected by the amplitude of the signal from microphone 12, e.g. one can determine pulse rate from the LED.
Active filter 42 is a type of Butterworth filter and is similar to the filter disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,226,248 (Manoli). The Manoli patent discloses a filter having a center frequency variable between 150 and 1000 hz, i.e. the upper frequency limit of the filter is 2000 hz. While disclosed in the Manoli patent as suitable for electrocardiograph (ECG) purposes, this frequency limit is inadequate for somatic sounds. Filter 42 in FIG. 5 has a center frequency that can be varied between 1 and 1500 hz, and a bandwidth that can be varied from 1-3000 hz. The filter disclosed in the Manoli patent does not include resistor 66, which keeps the gain of filter 42 below unity (zero db).
The operation of filter 42 is illustrated in FIGS. 6-8. Potentiometer 63 controls the bandwidth of filter 42 and potentiometer 65 controls the center frequency. Resistors 62 and 64 provide a minimum resistance when potentiometers 63 and 64 are set to minimum resistance (zero ohms).
FIG. 6 illustrates the frequency response of filter 42 when potentiometer 63 is at its minimum resistance and potentiometer 65 is at its maximum resistance. As can be seen from FIG. 6, the frequency response filter 42 is essentially flat through 3 kilohertz, dropping to -3 db at approximately 13,000 hz as indicated by reference number 91.
FIG. 7 illustrates the frequency response of filter 42 when potentiometer 63 is at its maximum resistance and potentiometer 65 is at its maximum resistance. In this case, the filter has a center frequency of approximately 15 hz and a bandwidth of approximately 15 hz. As used herein bandwidth refers the difference in frequency between -3 db points on the response curve. That is, in FIG. 7, the response curve crosses -3 db at approximately 10 hz, as indicated by reference number 92, and crosses -3 db again at approximately 25 hz, as indicated by reference number 93, for a bandwidth of 15 hz.
FIG. 8 illustrates response of filter 42 when potentiometer 63 is at maximum resistance and potentiometer 65 is at minimum resistance. The center frequency is approximately 1500 hz and the bandwidth is approximately 100 hz. The peak of the frequency response curve is one or two db below zero db and the filter is stable.
FIG. 9 illustrates the response curve of a filter constructed in accordance with FIG. 4 of the Manoli Patent using the same components and settings as filter 42. At center frequency 95, the gain of the filter is greater than unity (zero db). Because the filter has a gain greater than one, the filter is unstable and oscillates. In addition, the filter in the Manoli patent is not described as adjustable. One component is illustrated as adjustable but this has been found to vary center frequency and amplitude, which is undesirable. Thus, the filter described by Manoli is unsuited to an electronic stethoscope including a single, wide band filter having continuously variable bandwidth and center frequency.
In FIG. 5, output terminal 71 of filter 42 is coupled to the inverting (-) input of amplifier 73 by resistor 72. Amplifiers 73, 54 and 74 form a cascaded amplifier section having wide bandwidth and DC coupling. The amplifiers saturate when an excessively loud sound is received at microphone 12 and the large DC voltage from the saturating amplifiers is blocked by coupling capacitor 78. The saturating amplifiers act like a squelch circuit to prevent an excessively loud sound from being produced by headphones 88.
Because of the DC coupling, cascaded amplifiers 73, 54 and 74 are not referenced to ground but instead have their non-inverting (+) inputs coupled to a source of reference voltage, amplifier 75. Amplifier 75 has its non-inverting input connected to the junction of resistors 76 and 77. Resistors 76 and 77 are a voltage divider connected between the supply voltage (Vcc) and electrical ground. The output of amplifier 75 is a stable reference voltage Vref between ground and the supply voltage and enables amplifiers 73, 54, and 74 to handle alternating current, i.e. a signal alternating about reference voltage Vref as an AC ground.
The output from amplifier 74 is coupled to inverse filter 47, shown in FIG. 5 as a low pass, single stage, RC filter. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, inverse filter 47 includes resistor 81 and capacitor 82 and has a time constant of 0.01 seconds.
The output from inverse filter 47 is coupled through isolation amplifier 83 to potentiometer 84 and power amplifier 85. The output of power amplifier 85 is coupled to headphones 88. Potentiometer 84 is not a volume control but is an internal adjustment for controlling the maximum gain of the stethoscope. The volume control for the stethoscope is potentiometer 79 connected in the feedback path of amplifier 54. The resistors and capacitors connected between the inverting input of amplifier 85 and the supply voltage are a low pass filter for preventing feedback through the power supply to other amplifiers.
FIG. 10 illustrates an alternative embodiment of active filter 42. Filter 100 is a state variable filter including three cascaded, resistively coupled amplifiers 101, 102, and 103. Input terminal 105 is coupled to the inverting input of amplifier 101 by potentiometer 106. The output of amplifier 101 is coupled to the inverting input of amplifier 102 by potentiometer 108. The output of amplifier 102 is coupled to the inverting input of amplifier 103 by potentiometer 110 and to the inverting input of amplifier 112 by potentiometer 125.
Potentiometers 108 and 110 are ganged (mechanically connected) to control the center frequency of filter 100. Potentiometers 106 and 125 are ganged and control the bandwidth of filter 100. The output of amplifier 103 is coupled to the inverting input of amplifier 101 by resistor 116. The output of amplifier 112 is coupled to the inverting input of amplifier 101 by resistor 118. Resistors 121, 122, 123, and 124 provide a minimum resistance when the potentiometer in series therewith is set to zero resistance.
State variable filters are known in the art, for example U.S. Pat. No. 4,628,939 (Little et al.) discloses a state variable filter in FIG. 5 thereof. The state variable filter disclosed in Little et al. has a step-wise variable center frequency which is changed by switching resistors of different values in parallel with the interstage resistors between the cascaded amplifiers. The filter described by Little et al. has an overall bandwidth of 10-1000 hz which can be narrowed to either 10-100 hz or 100-1000 hz by selection of the appropriate resistances.
The invention achieves a continuous, independent adjustment of center frequency and bandwidth over a considerably wider range than the circuit disclosed in the Little et al. patent by implementing the adjustable filter in a manner contrary to accepted design principles for state variable filters. For example, it is accepted that feedback resistors 116, 118, and 126, should be in the ratio of 1:1:1. On the contrary, in filter 100, feedback resistors 116, 118, and 126 are in a ratio of 100:10:1. Similarly, the resistance of resistor 128 is equal to the resistance of resistor 118 (ratio of 1:1) rather than a predetermined fraction of resistor 125. It has been found that these two relationships permit one to attain wide bandwidth and stability. Also, by keeping resistors 118 and 128 equal, one can apply a higher amplitude input signal to filter 100 without saturating the amplifiers than one can apply to state variable filters of the prior art.
Output 131 is the bandpass output terminal for filter 100. State variable filters have the advantage of also being usable both as low pass filters and high pass filters. The output of amplifier 101 is the high pass output terminal and the output of amplifier 103 is the low pass output terminal. Thus, while a state variable filter does not have as flat a frequency response as a Butterworth filter and has more components, the state variable filter has the advantage of providing three outputs: low pass, bandpass, and high pass. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, only the bandpass output is used.
The non-inverting inputs to amplifiers 101, 102, and 103 can be coupled to an AC ground, as in filter 42, or coupled to ground through a resistor, as shown in dotted line in FIG. 10. Either connection can be used with active filters 42 and 100.
FIGS. 11, 12, 13, and 14 illustrate the frequency response characteristic of filter 100 at different settings of the center frequency and bandwidth potentiometers. FIG. 11 illustrates the frequency response of the filter with potentiometers 106, 108, 110, and 114 all set to their minimum resistance. At this setting, the bandwidth, measured at the -3 db points, is approximately 150-15,000 hz, with a center frequency of 1500 hz.
FIG. 12 illustrates the frequency response with potentiometers 108 and 110 set to their minimum resistances and potentiometers 106 and 114 set to their maximum resistances. At these settings, filter 100 has a center frequency of approximately 1500 hz and a bandwidth of approximately 100 hz at -3 db.
FIG. 13 illustrates the frequency response of filter 100 with potentiometers 108 and 110 set to their maximum resistance and potentiometers 106 and 114 set to their minimum resistance. In this case, filter 100 has a bandwidth of approximately 150 hz and a center frequency of approximately 15 hz.
FIG. 14 illustrates the frequency response of filter 100 with potentiometers 106, 108, 110, and 114 set to their maximum resistance. In the case, filter 100 has a center frequency of approximately 15 hz and a bandwidth of about 2 hz at -3 db.
In all of the foregoing examples, filter 100 is stable for any setting of bandwidth and center frequency, a result achieved by designing the filter in a manner contrary to the prior art.
FIG. 15 illustrates an alternative embodiment of inverse filter 47. Filter 140 is a two stage RC filter including resistors 141, 142, and 143 series connected between input terminal 144 and output terminal 145. Connected between the junctions of the resistors and ground
Having thus described the invention, it will be apparent to those of skill in the art that various modifications can be made within the scope of the invention. For example, instead of a collar, the microphone can be mounted in a resilient sheet fitting the top of the stethoscope and having a hole fitting the outside diameter of the microphone. The embodiment shown in FIG. 5 uses a single battery and an AC ground. One could substitute a pair of batteries connected in series with the junction thereof as AC ground. It is preferred to use the state variable filter simply as a bandpass filter. One could use all three outputs by adding a single pole, three position switch to select one output for connection to amplifier 45. For a handheld stethoscope, a simpler construction (without the three position switch) is preferred. Microphone 12 need not be permanently attached to case 11 but can frictionally engage collar 13. In this way, microphone 12 is removable and can be connected to case 11 by a retractable cord. Socket 27, and LEDs 15 and 16, can be located at any convenient place on case 11. Other transducers can be substituted for microphone 12 as a source of signal, e.g. ECG or EEG (electroencephalograph) probes. The invention can be used for other than medical applications, e.g. any application dealing with low frequency signals such as seismic waves or animal sounds. are capacitors are 146 and 147. The frequency response of filter 140 has a steeper roll-off at high frequencies than a single stage filter and is preferred when working in noisy environments.
The following tables list the components used in one embodiment of the invention. These components are for example only. Other components can be used depending upon the particular application and frequency.
TABLE I______________________________________FIG. 5______________________________________16 LED57 1.2 MΩ58 100 kΩ59 150 kΩ60 68 kΩ62, 64 100 Ω63, 65, 79 100 kΩ66 10 Ω70, 72, 81, 84 10 kΩ73, 54, 74, 75, 83 LM32485 LM38676, 77 1 kΩ78, 82 1 μfR.sub.1, R.sub.2 2000 ΩR.sub.3, R.sub.6 1000 ΩR.sub.4 8200 ΩR.sub.5, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, R.sub.9, R.sub.10, R.sub.11 10 kΩR.sub.12 100 kΩR.sub.13, R.sub.14 200 ΩR.sub.15 10 ΩR.sub.16 200 ΩC.sub.1, C.sub.3, C.sub.4, C.sub.5 1 μfC.sub.2, C.sub.12 100 μfC.sub.6, C.sub.7, C.sub.8, C.sub.11 0.1 μfC.sub.9, C.sub.10 220 μfC.sub.13, C.sub.14 0.05 μfA.sub.1, A.sub.2 LM324Q.sub.1 2N2222Q.sub.2 2N2907______________________________________
TABLE II______________________________________FIG. 10______________________________________101, 102, 103, 112 LM324106, 108, 110, 125 100 kΩ121, 122, 123, 124 2 kΩ126 1 kΩ118, 128 10 kΩ116 100 kΩC15, C16 .01 μf______________________________________
TABLE III______________________________________FIG. 15______________________________________ 141 10 kΩ 142, 143 100 kΩ 146 0.1 μf 147 .01 μf______________________________________
For physicians who still know how to use it, a stethoscope remains a versatile, effective, and low cost tool for initial diagnosis of a patient and for monitoring a patient's condition during treatment, possibly avoiding the need for expensive diagnostic equipment. An electronic stethoscope constructed in accordance with the invention augments the aural acuity of a physician by giving him full control over processing somatic sounds to facilitate diagnosis.
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|Dec 16, 1986
|Hughes Aircraft Company
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|Nov 7, 1989
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|Apr 30, 1991
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|Dec 14, 1999
|Stethtech Corporation
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|Jul 8, 1998
|May 2, 2000
|Schwartz; John Q.
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|Cicero H. Malilay
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|Mar 18, 2003
|Mark Moore
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|Spx Corporation
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|Zargis Medical Corp.
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|Chelen William E
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|Bang & Olufsen Technology A/S
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|Oct 3, 2006
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|Nov 30, 2010
|Joseph Berk
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|Sep 27, 2012
|Jan 5, 2016
|Industrial Technology Research Institute
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|Aug 8, 2002
|Feb 12, 2004
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|Mar 1, 2002
|Sep 2, 2004
|Baekgaard Knud Erik
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|Nov 17, 2003
|May 19, 2005
|Abbruscato Charles R.
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|Feb 7, 2005
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|European Classification
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|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 4
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|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 8
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|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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I agree with the other reviewer that Georgia should be fired. We came in with 4 rooms of furniture and part #'s we wanted to order and asked to work with a manager, she refused to come out and sent a new sales person to place the order, 2 hours later although it was the same cost as the other store it was missing a $900.00 dresser. What a bait and switch!!! Georgia explained they do not carry the package number we gave her and had to add the peices seperately but did not want to hear that we had showed the sales person the exact number of pieces in the package because of this and one piece was still missing.
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Groups of like minded people, getting together in country areas to create and make, sharing resources and skills. It's happening all over Australia, in old butter factories, churches, backyard studios and farm sheds. Here's a peek inside just one with the lovely Robyn Gibson.
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PC Tanya Rickard, investigating the theft, said: "The victim, a 41-year-old man from Gateshead, had taken his wallet out of his pocket to show the train guard his ticket. When he placed it back in his pocket it fell out and down between the seats.
"A woman sat behind the man then quickly moved seats. The wallet was later discovered discarded on the train floor; but £100 was missing from the wallet.
PC Rickard added: "We're asking members of the public to help us identify the woman pictured, who left the train at Northallerton, as we believe she may be able to assist us with our enquiries."
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Op Magnum will see BTP officers work with train operating companies and local police forces to disrupt and deter pickpockets who prey on unsuspecting commuters and tourists at busy stations, thieves who brazenly snatch expensive smartphones from distracted passengers' hands and those who steal luggage and valuables on trains.


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Ok so yesterday I had a huge, GIANT (I know those two words mean the same thing) brown tree frog inside my car. Of course I refused to even attempt to get it out and the only thing I could think to do was get help from my wonderful neighboor who lives upstairs.
What....a....lifesaver! Ahh! It took her about 10 minutes with a stick but she got the little sucker out of my car and in the bushes where he belonged! He looked a little sick to me so I can't imagine how long he had been in there. I don't even want to think about it. Can you imagine what I would have done if I was driving down the road and that thing landed on my steering wheel! Oh boy....
Because of this incident I started to think about all of the wild animal encounters I've had since I've moved here. Putting it simple...more than I've ever had in my life. It blows my mind. Must be FL because I never experienced stuff like this back home. Here is a list of what I can remember...
Killer ants in the pantry
Giant roach in the bathroom (multiple occassions)
A pack of racoons in my tree (outside my front door)
An armadillo walking past my front porch
Pregnant spider in my living room
Flying roach in the living room
Little worms randomly throughout the apartment
Lizards on the ceiling (multiple occassions)
Tree frog in the car
Black snake by front porch
Black snake in bushes by front porch
Black snake on steps to pond (by my front door and I almost stepped on him)
Baby snakes by stairs (Latte almost stepped on)
Giant frog by the sidewalk
Pooping bird in the tree (almost got hit by this several times)
Pack of wild ducks in the pond (love my yard because I always feed them)
I saved a wild turtle from being ran over (outside my apartment)
And let's not forget the giant beatle that got stuck inside Latte's nose one night! I had to get help from my neighboor for that one....sheesh!
And this is all that I can remember...talk about adventure!
Does anyone else experience stuff like this?
If so, I want to know that I'm not alone. Please share your stories! I would love to hear them! :)
Hope all is well. Feels good to be back in the saddle again! I'm looking forward to checking out everyone's blog that I've missed :)
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Is it possible to have this many wild animal encounters in 8 months?!
Posted by Heather Marie at 7:12 PM
4 comments:
- Fresh Mommy said...
Woah!!! Girl, I'm not sure where you live, but we don't have that many experiences. Well, at least I don't think so. We have had to get our house treated for bees this year and we've caught a couple of raccoons when we're trying to get some other critter digging up our yard. Haha, I guess we have had a few encounters.
- September 8, 2009 at 12:45 PM
- Savvy Little Women - Kate said...
Wow! That is crazy! I don't handle unwanted animals very well :)!
- September 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM
- Cindy said...
I have been out of the blogger world too. It's been hard with life. Hope you get back into the swing of the blogger world :-)
- September 18, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- wife.mom.nurse said...
Came by and read last week, but just realized that I didn't comment.
Stay away from all of those yucky creatures!!!
- September 21, 2009 at 1:42 AM
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