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20130267904 | Syringe with Visually Coded Needle Hub - A medication delivery device included molded cylindrical barrel having visual marks on the surface of the barrel in the axial direction, a plunger seals the distal opening of the cylindrical barrel, a molded needle hub disposed in the proximal opening of the cylindrical barrel for sealing the needle hub to the barrel. A needle is disposed in the needle hub for communicating liquids by operation of the plunger in the axial direction. The circumferential surface on the flange of the needle hub comprises a colored mark that corresponds to a characteristic of the medication delivery device or its contents. | 10-10-2013 |
20150073384 | Injection Mechanism Utilizing a Vial - An injection device is provided for delivering a liquid medicament. The injection device includes a housing with a first chamber for storing a supply of the medicament. The first and second chambers are coupled within the housing. The second chamber is in fluid communication with the first chamber. The injection device also includes an outlet port for dispensing the medicament outside the housing. The outlet port is coupled to the housing and in fluid communication with one of said first and second chambers. | 03-12-2015 |
20150088067 | ADJUSTABLE PENETRATION DEPTH SYRINGE - A syringe is provided with an assembly received on the distal end for adjusting the penetration depth. In embodiments, the assembly includes a collar attached to the syringe hub which moves with respect to the needle between axial positions depending on the desired needle penetration depth. The adjustable penetration depth syringe is useful in the context of self-administered drugs such as insulin, where a longer length needle is needed to fill a syringe from a vial, but a shorter penetration depth is preferred for administering a subcutaneous injection. | 03-26-2015 |
20150094666 | DUAL SHIELDED SYRINGE - A dual shield mechanism is provided for passive protection of a syringe cannula. The automatic shield system may be used with a re-fillable syringe, and may be adapted for filling the syringe from a vial using a novel vial adapter without triggering the passive shielding mechanism. | 04-02-2015 |
20150157807 | ACTIVE SAFETY PEN NEEDLE ASSEMBLY - The subject invention provides a safety pen needle assembly which includes: a hub; a needle carrier; a needle fixed to the needle carrier; a shield; and, a first engageable locking arrangement for fixing the shield to the needle carrier. Upon a predetermined extent of distal movement of the shield relative to the hub, the first locking arrangement is engaged such that the shield becomes fixed to the needle carrier. Upon further distal movement of the shield relative to the hub beyond the predetermined extent of distal movement, the shield and the needle carrier move in concert together relative to the hub causing a proximal end of the needle to move distally relative to the hub to a retracted state. Advantageously, the subject invention provides a reliable, low-cost safety pen needle assembly which does not require a spring or other biasing element. | 06-11-2015 |
20150328370 | Device and Method for Inhibiting Movement of a Medical Device in a Patient - A medical device such as a cannula, catheter, needle or biosensing probe includes an elongated body for penetrating, inserting and/or positioning in or through the skin of a patient. The elongated body has an outer surface that when positioned in the patient with a coefficient of friction sufficient to inhibit movement between the elongated body on the skin at the insertion site to inhibit irritation at the infusion site. A lubricious coating is provided on the elongated body to assist in penetration and/or insertion of the elongated body into the patient. The lubricious coating can be removed by a shearing action by the insertion of the elongated body into the patient and/or by absorption of the lubricious coating to expose the outer surface of the elongated member. | 11-19-2015 |
20150328412 | Pen Needle Assembly - A pen needle is provided with a plastic non-patient end. Since the non-patient end needle does not contact the patient, the needle can be formed with a larger diameter, permitting more secure attachment to a medication pen and greater medication flow from the cartridge through the cannula. In addition, a two-part hub construction comprising a needle bearing sub assembly and an adapter for attachment to the pen body may be used to lower materials volume and costs, and reduce sharps disposal. In embodiments, a hub according to the invention may be provided with a shield that provides an audible and/or tactile indication when full penetration depth of the needle is achieved. Windows on the shield may reveal a color band on the hub at the full-penetration depth position to provide the user with a visual indication that the pen needle has been used. | 11-19-2015 |
20160089056 | CANNULA INSERTION DETECTION - Sensors are disclosed that detect whether a cannula is properly inserted to its full depth in a subject's skin. The sensors may be used with a blood glucose monitor, or with a continuous insulin infusion pump, infusion set, or other system involving intermittent or continuous testing and/or drug delivery. | 03-31-2016 |
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20090267242 | Respiratory humidification system - A respiratory humidification system having a capillary passage in communication with a ventilator, the ventilator adapted to deliver an air stream, a heater operable to at least partially vaporize water in the capillary passage, a pumping unit adapted to supply water to the capillary passage, wherein the water upon heating is at least partially vaporized to form an aerosol stream. The aerosol stream is combined with the air stream to form a humidified air stream. | 10-29-2009 |
20120006324 | RESPIRATORY HUMIDIFICATION SYSTEM - A respiratory humidification system having a capillary passage in communication with a ventilator, the ventilator adapted to deliver an air stream, a heater operable to at least partially vaporize water in the capillary passage, a pumping unit adapted to supply water to the capillary passage, wherein the water upon heating is at least partially vaporized to form an aerosol stream. The aerosol stream is combined with the air stream to form a humidified air stream. | 01-12-2012 |
20130068225 | RESPIRATORY HUMIDIFICATION SYSTEM - A respiratory humidification system having a capillary passage in communication with a ventilator, the ventilator adapted to deliver an air stream, a heater operable to at least partially vaporize water in the capillary passage, a pumping unit adapted to supply water to the capillary passage, wherein the water upon heating is at least partially vaporized to form an aerosol stream. The aerosol stream is combined with the air stream to form a humidified air stream. | 03-21-2013 |
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20120311839 | Medical needle removal and storage device - An apparatus for removing a needle from a needle holder, including a grasping unit for selectively grasping the needle; a receiving unit for receiving the needle holder, displaceably disposed relative to the grasping unit; a biasing member biasing the receiving unit in a first direction; and separating means for separating the entire needle from the needle holder. Preferably, the needle is heated to melt, soften, or otherwise weaken a material and/or adhesive connecting the needle with the needle holder. Preferably the heating is electrical heating, including completing an electrical circuit through the needle and passing current through the needle, and/or passing current through a heating element. | 12-13-2012 |
20140338171 | Medical Needle Removal and Storage Device - An apparatus for removing a needle from a needle holder, including a grasping unit for selectively grasping the needle; a receiving unit for receiving the needle holder, displaceably disposed relative to the grasping unit; a biasing member biasing the receiving unit in a first direction; and separating means for separating the entire needle from the needle holder. Preferably, the needle is heated to melt, soften, or otherwise weaken a material and/or adhesive connecting the needle with the needle holder. Preferably the heating is electrical heating, including completing an electrical circuit through the needle and passing current through the needle, and/or passing current through a heating element. | 11-20-2014 |
20140338186 | Medical Needle Removal and Storage Device - An apparatus for removing a needle from a needle holder, including a grasping unit for selectively grasping the needle; a receiving unit for receiving the needle holder, displaceably disposed relative to the grasping unit; a biasing member biasing the receiving unit in a first direction; and separating means for separating the entire needle from the needle holder. Preferably, the needle is heated to melt, soften, or otherwise weaken a material and/or adhesive connecting the needle with the needle holder. Preferably the heating is electrical heating, including completing an electrical circuit through the needle and passing current through the needle, and/or passing current through a heating element. | 11-20-2014 |
20140338187 | Medical Needle Removal and Storage Device - An apparatus for removing a needle from a needle holder, including a grasping unit for selectively grasping the needle; a receiving unit for receiving the needle holder, displaceably disposed relative to the grasping unit; a biasing member biasing the receiving unit in a first direction; and separating means for separating the entire needle from the needle holder. Preferably, the needle is heated to melt, soften, or otherwise weaken a material and/or adhesive connecting the needle with the needle holder. Preferably the heating is electrical heating, including completing an electrical circuit through the needle and passing current through the needle, and/or passing current through a heating element. | 11-20-2014 |
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20120277685 | SAFETY PEN NEEDLE ASSEMBLY - In one aspect, a safety pen needle assembly is provided which includes a hub, a needle fixed to a transverse wall of the hub, and a shield formed to at least partially telescope over the hub. An outer ablumenal surface of the hub and an inner lumenal surface of the shield are formed with cooperating thread elements to permit relative rotation between the hub and the shield. In an initial state, the cooperating thread elements are in threaded engagement with the shield being positioned relative to the hub with a distal end of the shield sidewall being located distally of a distal end of the needle. Also, in the initial state, the shield and the hub are configured with a rotation-resistance arrangement which inhibits relative rotation between the hub and the shield. The rotation-resistance arrangement is surmountable to allow relative rotation between the hub and the shield with an at least threshold amount of torque being applied, the threshold amount of torque being greater than required to mount the pen needle assembly onto an injector body. Advantageously, with the subject invention, a safety pen needle assembly can be provided having a shield threaded onto a hub with the assembly being mountable with the needle being in a shielded state. This minimizes the possibility of needle stick during mounting of the safety pen needle assembly. | 11-01-2012 |
20130281937 | SAFETY PEN NEEDLE ASSEMBLY - In one aspect, a safety pen needle assembly is provided which includes a hub having an open proximal end, a needle fixed to the hub having a distal end, and a shield moveably mounted to the hub so as to be movable relative to the hub to selectively cover the distal end of the needle. An interface is defined between the shield and the hub which is sufficiently sealed so as to define a sterility barrier which prevents ingress of contaminants through the interface. At least one sterility barrier is mounted directly to, and across, an open proximal end of the hub and an open distal end of the shield. | 10-24-2013 |
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20100106937 | INDEXING A TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFER (TLB) - A processor is to comprise a central processing unit (CPU), an address generation unit (AGU), an index generation unit and a translation look-aside buffer (TLB). The CPU of the processor is to generate signal to retrieve instructions from a memory. The AGU is to generate a final linear address and an initial linear address after receiving at least three input source values. An index generation unit coupled to the AGU is to generate a set-index value using the bits of at least the three input source values or the bits of the initial linear address even before the bits of the initial linear address are adjusted for carry. A TLB is to generate a physical address using the final linear address and an entry indexed by the set-index value. | 04-29-2010 |
20100228922 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PERFORM BACKGROUND EVICTIONS OF CACHE MEMORY LINES - A method and system to provide a method and system to perform background evictions of cache memory lines. In one embodiment of the invention, when a processor of a system determines that the occupancy rate of its bus interface is between a low and a high threshold, the processor performs evictions of cache memory lines that are dirty. In another embodiment of the invention, the processor performs evictions of the dirty cache memory lines when a timer between each periodic clock interrupt of an operating system has expired. By performing background evictions of dirty cache memory lines, the number of dirty cache memory lines required to be evicted before the processor changes its state from a high power state to a low power state is reduced. | 09-09-2010 |
20110078486 | DYNAMIC SELECTION OF EXECUTION STAGE - Methods and apparatus relating to dynamic selection of execution stage are described. In some embodiments, logic may determine whether to execute an instruction at one of a plurality of stages in a processor. In some embodiments, the plurality of stages are to at least correspond to an address generation stage or an execution stage of the instruction. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 03-31-2011 |
20110239218 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF LAZY OUT-OF-ORDER SCHEDULING - A method and system to schedule out of order operations without the requirement to execute compare, ready and pick logic in a single cycle. A lazy out-of-order scheduler splits each scheduling loop into two consecutive cycles. The scheduling loop includes a compare stage, a ready stage and a pick stage. The compare stage and the ready stage are executed in a first of the two consecutive cycles and the pick stage is executed in a second of the two consecutive cycles. By splitting each scheduling loop into two consecutive cycles, selecting the oldest operation by default and checking the readiness of the oldest operation, it relieves the system of timing requirements and avoids the need for power hungry logic. Every execution of an operation does not appear as one extra cycle longer and the lazy out-of-order scheduler retains most of the performance of a full out-of-order scheduler. | 09-29-2011 |
20140201471 | Arbitrating Memory Accesses Via A Shared Memory Fabric - In an embodiment, a shared memory fabric is configured to receive memory requests from multiple agents, where at least some of the requests have an associated deadline value to indicate a maximum latency prior to completion of the memory request. Responsive to the requests, the fabric is to arbitrate between the requests based at least in part on the deadline values. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-17-2014 |
20140281197 | PROVIDING SNOOP FILTERING ASSOCIATED WITH A DATA BUFFER - In one embodiment, a conflict detection logic is configured to receive a plurality of memory requests from an arbiter of a coherent fabric of a system on a chip (SoC). The conflict detection logic includes snoop filter logic to downgrade a first snooped memory request for a first address to an unsnooped memory request when an indicator associated with the first address indicates that the coherent fabric has control of the first address. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-18-2014 |
20160092112 | INSTRUCTION AND LOGIC FOR HARDWARE COMPRESSION WITH TILED DATA STRUCTURES OF DISSIMILAR DIMENSIONS - An apparatus includes a controller and a compression unit. The controller includes logic to receive an input line of data from a data producer and divide the input line of data into a plurality of segment. Each segment corresponds to a compression context and to a multi-line data tile. The controller also includes logic to write a first segment of the input line to a first multi-line data tile, and to write a second segment of the input line to a second multi-line data tile upon reaching a boundary of the first multi-line data tile. The compression unit includes logic to apply a first compression context to the first multi-line data tile and a second compression context to the second multi-line data tile. | 03-31-2016 |
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20110027967 | METHOD FOR INSERTION BONDING AND DEVICE THUS OBTAINED - A method for insertion bonding and a device thus obtained are disclosed. In one aspect, the device includes a first substrate having a front main surface and at least one protrusion at the front main surface. The device includes a second substrate having a front main surface and at least one hole extending from the front main surface into the second substrate. The protrusion of the first substrate is inserted into the hole of the second substrate. The hole is formed in a shape wherein the width is reduced in the depth direction and wherein the width of at least a part of the hole is smaller than the width of the protrusion at the location of the metal portion thereof. The protrusion is deformed during insertion thereof in the hole to provide a bond between the part of the hole and the metal portion. | 02-03-2011 |
20110037179 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE - A semiconductor package is disclosed. In one aspect, the package includes a base frame and a wiring substrate mounted on the base frame. The base frame has two pieces made of a material with respectively a first and a second coefficient of thermal expansion and connected to each other via resilient connecting structures. The wiring substrate has electric wiring tracks providing the electric connection between first and second bond pads, provided for being electrically connected to bond pads on respectively a die and a printed wiring board. The electrical wiring tracks have flexible parts provided to expand and contract along with the resilient connecting structures. | 02-17-2011 |
20120280381 | Window Interposed Die Packaging - A semiconductor device is described advantageously making use of the interposer principle. The semiconductor device comprises at least one semiconductor die, a window substrate being an inorganic substrate comprising at least one window-shaped cavity for mounting the at least one semiconductor die, the window substrate having interconnect structures. Furthermore, the at least one semiconductor die is positioned inside the at least one cavity and is connected to the interconnect structures, providing connections to another level of assembly or packaging of the semiconductor device. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing such a semiconductor device. | 11-08-2012 |
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20160117769 | STAKEHOLDER NOTIFICATION - As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, for enabling stakeholder notification includes receiving a message that indicates a stakeholder for a message and responding to an identified stakeholder without requiring user intervention. The stakeholder, specified by a stakeholder indicator, may be an address, a label, or the like that is included in a message header or embedded in the message. A messaging client may auto-populate the stakeholder indicator with a specified user, such as, a supervisor of the user preparing the message. Activation of the stakeholder field may be a configurable setting configured through email client options, or alternatively may be manually selected by the message author at the time of message creation. A user interface may be available allowing an identified stakeholder to request removal as a stakeholder. A computer system, and computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119270 | STAKEHOLDER NOTIFICATION - As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, for enabling stakeholder notification includes receiving a message that indicates a stakeholder for a message and responding to an identified stakeholder without requiring user intervention. The stakeholder, specified by a stakeholder indicator, may be an address, a label, or the like that is included in a message header or embedded in the message. A messaging client may auto-populate the stakeholder indicator with a specified user, such as, a supervisor of the user preparing the message. Activation of the stakeholder field may be a configurable setting configured through email client options, or alternatively may be manually selected by the message author at the time of message creation. A user interface may be available allowing an identified stakeholder to request removal as a stakeholder. A computer system, and computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein. | 04-28-2016 |