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20120184938 | VIAL ASSEMBLAGE WITH VIAL AND PRE-ATTACHED FLUID TRANSFER DEVICE - Vial assemblages having a vial and a pre-attached fluid transfer device for use with a needleless syringe for enabling flow communication between the syringe and the vial. The fluid transfer device includes an elongated tubular flow member having a connector for sealing flow communication with the needleless syringe and a spike having a spike end for puncturing the vial for enabling flow communication between the needleless syringe and vial interior. The spike end is in intimate sealing contact with the vial's stopper. The fluid transfer device also includes a manually removable closure for initially sealing the connector and, on removal, exposing the connector. | 07-19-2012 |
20120220978 | FLUID TRANSFER DEVICES WITH SEALING ARRANGEMENT - The present invention is directed toward fluid transfer devices including a vial adapter having a top wall and a cannula with a cannula tip, and an elastic O-ring like sealing element sealingly encircling the cannula and initially disposed towards the cannula tip and spaced apart from the top wall, the sealing element being brought into initial contact with the vial stopper subsequent to the cannula tip contacting the vial stopper at a puncture site and thereafter being slidingly urged towards the top wall and continuously sealing the puncture site during snap fit mounting the vial adapter on the vial. | 08-30-2012 |
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20130046269 | LIQUID DRUG TRANSFER DEVICE WITH VENTED VIAL ADAPTER - Liquid drug transfer devices including a vented vial adapter having a top wall, a downward depending skirt, and a dual lumen puncturing spike. The top wall includes vent apertures in flow communication with an underlying air filter and protective hoods for covering the vent apertures from splashes. The hood-like hoods are preferably quarter sphere shaped with hood apertures facing radial outwards. | 02-21-2013 |
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20100225746 | REFERENCE IMAGE TECHNIQUES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SENSING - A method including providing a device that projects a pattern of coherent radiation. The method further includes capturing a reference image of the pattern using an image sensor by projecting the pattern of the coherent radiation onto a reference surface and engendering a relative motion between the reference surface and the image sensor while capturing the reference image. The method also includes storing the reference image in a memory associated with the device. | 09-09-2010 |
20110096182 | Error Compensation in Three-Dimensional Mapping - A method for forming a three-dimensional (3D) map of an object, including illuminating the object from a light source so as to project a pattern onto the object, capturing an image of the pattern using an array of detector elements, and processing the captured image so as to measure respective offsets of elements of the pattern in the captured image relative to a reference pattern, the offsets including at least a first offset of a first element of the pattern and a second offset of a second element of the pattern, measured respectively in first and second, mutually-perpendicular directions in a plane of the array. The method further includes computing a correction factor in response to the first offset, applying the correction factor to the second offset so as to find a corrected offset, and computing depth coordinates of the object in response to the corrected offset. | 04-28-2011 |
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20130229657 | DENSITOMETER FOR MEASURING AN OPTICAL CHARACTERISTIC OF A FLUID - A device and method for measuring an optical characteristic of a fluid. The device, typically a densitometer includes a set of optical elements that include a light source, a collimating lens, a focusing lens, and a receiver, wherein a gap exists between the collimating lens and the focusing lens so as to allow the fluid to pass in between the lenses, and wherein at least one of the optical elements is tilted with respect to an optical axis. | 09-05-2013 |
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