Background: With the increasing number of patients with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, medical stents are needed to reshape the blood vessels and trachea to restore their function. Due to its high degree of standardization, the existing medical stent manufacturing technology is mature and suitable for most groups. However, conventional medical stents are not suitable for every patient due to the patients’ individual differences and other reasons. Hence, patients need custom medical stents. Therefore, 3D printing technology with high customization function as an emerging stent manufacturing method has attracted much attention in recent years. Objective: By solving the problem of poor matching rates between traditional medical stents and human body channels, 3D printing technology will continue to develop in the medical stent manufacturing field. Methods: This study traces the representative patents related to the vascular stent and tracheal stent manufacturing based on 3D printing technology. Results: Through the analysis of numerous patents about 3D printed vascular stents and tracheal stents, the reasons for the mismatched medical stent specifications and low efficiency are summarized. The challenges in the development of 3D printing medical stents are discussed. Conclusion: Research on the 3D printing of medical stents is conducive to improving patients’ suitability and medical stent implantation and reducing the time cost. More patents will be invented in the future.
Background:: As a clean energy source, magnetic energy is a significant power source of mechanical equipment, which affects the direction of control mode and mechanical structure of mechanical equipment. Magnetic machinery is widely used in industrial power systems and automatic control systems as the power source of mechanical equipment transmission parts or actuators. Magnetic machinery is essential to make mechanical equipment easy to control, energy saving and environmental protection, simple structure, and so on. In order to innovate the control mode of mechanical equipment and optimize the types of traditional mechanical systems, magnetic machinery developed magnetic coupling, magnetic gear, magnetic spring, and other magnetic machinery. The characteristics of magnetic machines with different functions are analyzed based on the types of magnetic machines. Therefore, this aspect's development and application are getting more attention in recent years. Objective:: To innovate the control mode of mechanical equipment and optimize the types of traditional mechanical structures, magnetic types of machinery, such as magnetic coupling, magnetic gear, and magnetic spring, are making continuous progress. New magnetic machines are also being developed. Methods:: This paper summarizes the typical patents on three kinds of magnetic machinery: magnetic coupling, magnetic gear and magnetic spring. In addition, the advantages of existing magnetic machinery are summarized, the current situation of magnetic machinery is analyzed, and the development of magnetic machinery is summarized. Results:: Through the analysis of enormous patents of magnetic coupling, magnetic gear, and magnetic spring, it is concluded that although there are many kinds of magnetic machinery, there are no systematic and mature design theories and methods. The development trend of magnetic machinery is also discussed. Conclusion:: The research on magnetic machinery helps innovate mechanical equipment's control mode and optimize the types of traditional mechanical structures. As a result, more patents will be invented in the future.
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