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20090118708 | Apparatus and method for sterile docking of male medical line connectors - A docking station for male medical line connectors, including a base housing securable to a stationary surface and having a plurality of docking bays, each of which is dimensioned and contoured for respectively receiving and temporarily retaining ampules containing sterilization fluid. Each of the ampules has a chamber therein containing the sterilization fluid and an access mouth exteriorly exposed when the ampule is secured in one of the bays, and each mouth has a female medical line connection dimensioned and contoured for temporarily receiving and securing a male medical line connector thereto with the tubular tip of the male connector immersed in sterilization fluid during the period of time that the infusion tubing is disconnected from the patient. | 05-07-2009 |
20090137969 | Apparatus and method for sterilizing a tubular medical line port - A device for sterilizing a tubular medical line IV port. The device includes a cap having an open tubular cavity on a distal end which is dimensioned to receive the medical line port therein. A handle is provided on the proximal end of the device for grasping and manipulating the cap. An outer disinfectant-impregnated member is coaxially secured in the distal cavity and dimensioned for engaging and scrubbing exterior surfaces or threads of the tubular port when inserted into the cavity. An inner disinfectant-impregnated member may also be coaxially secured in the cavity to simultaneously scrub internal surfaces of the port. | 05-28-2009 |
20100050351 | Apparatus and method for sterilizing a tubular medical line port - An apparatus for sterilizing a tubular medical line port, having a cap with an open distal end and a cavity therein which is dimensioned to receive an outer scrubbing member and the medical line port. Outer disinfected-impregnated scrubbing member is coaxially received in the cavity and has a socket therein dimensioned for engaging exterior side surfaces of the tubular medical line port when inserted into the socket for thereby scrubbing exterior surfaces of the port with the scrubbing member by rotating the cap. The outer scrubbing member is axially displacable downwardly in the cavity by insertion of the medical line port therein from an upper position prior to use to a lower position where it is retained to thereby indicate that the apparatus has been used and should not therefore be reused. A reuse prevention insert is also provided in the cavity of the cap and is displacable with the outer scrubbing member from the upper position prior to use to the lower position during and after use. This insert is provided with inwardly protruding teeth that are biased for inward compression and thereby prevent re-access of a medical line port into the socket of the scrubbing member after removal of the medical line port. | 03-04-2010 |
20100057054 | Apparatus and method for sterile docking of male medical line connectors - A docking station for maintaining sterilization of temporarily disconnected male medical line connectors. The docking station has a plurality of docking bays, each of which retain an ampule therein containing sterilization fluid and have an access mouth exteriorly exposed when the ampule is secured in its respective bay. The mouth of the ampule is provided with a female medical line connection for temporarily receiving and securing a male line connector temporarily disconnected from the patient. The tubular tip and the concentric connection collar of the male connector is thereby immersed in the sterilization fluid for sterilization while docked. Each of the ampules is secured against rotation in the clockwise direction in their respective docking station bays to facilitate threadable connection of a male medical line connector. However, the ampules are permitted to freely rotate in the counterclockwise direction in their respective bays to prevent disconnection of a male medical line therefrom while the connected ampule is retained in its respective bay. This prevents accidental reuse of an ampule. The ampules are provided with laterally extending wings which are received in recesses in the respective bays. The recesses have inclined ramp surfaces for engaging the bottom of the wings and thereby ejecting the ampules out of the bays when rotated in the counterclockwise direction. | 03-04-2010 |
20120042466 | Apparatus for sterilizing a tubular medical line port - A scrubbing cap for sterilizing a tubular medical line port wherein the cap is molded of a pliable plastic and is provided with an open annular cavity therein which is dimensioned and contoured to receive through its mouth a tubular medical line port with a friction fit for scrubbing surfaces of the port with sterilizing liquid contained in the cavity. Flexible scrubber protrusions coaxially extend into the cavity from the floor of the cavity for scrubbing interior portions of the medical line port. The floor is flexibly displaceable whereby the floor will displace or bulge outwardly when the scrubber protrusions engage a valve within the port for thereby scrubbing the exposed surfaces of the valve while preventing inadvertent opening of the valve. | 02-23-2012 |
20120321532 | APPARATUS FOR STERILE DOCKING OF MALE MEDICAL LINE CONNECTORS - A docking station for maintaining sterilization of temporarily disconnected male medical line connectors. The docking station has a plurality of docking bays, each of which retains an ampule therein containing sterilization fluid and has an access mouth exteriorly exposed when the ampule is secured in its respective bay. The mouth of the ampule is provided with a female medical line connection for temporarily receiving and securing one of the male line connector temporarily disconnected from a patient. A tubular tip and the concentric connection collar of the one of the male medical line connectors is thereby immersed in the sterilization fluid for sterilization while docked. | 12-20-2012 |
20130072900 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SAFELY INSERTING AN INTRODUCER NEEDLE INTO EPIDURAL SPACE - An epidural needle assembly is provided, permitting the accurate introduction of a large bore introducer sleeve needle into the epidural space in the spinal column of a patient using the loss of resistance technique. The large bore introducer needle has a beveled side opening at its tip and with a tissue piercing point at the distal extension of the needle. A syringe needle is received within the introducer needle with a distal head of the syringe needle filling the beveled side opening at the distal end of the introducer needle when the syringe hub is fully seated. The lumen of the syringe needle exits the syringe needle head at the side opening of the introducer needle immediately adjacent the tissue piercing point of the introducing needle. The needle assembly may be inserted and advanced, with precise tactile feedback, into a patient, thus accurately detecting the introduction of the introducer needle into epidural space. | 03-21-2013 |
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20110293093 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTITY-BASED KEY MANAGEMENT - Systems, methods and devices for distributing a group key between a transmitter and a group of receivers connected over a network. The described group key distribution can be implemented in any television network for encrypted transmission of television related content to large and dynamic groups of subscribers' receivers. Wherein each receiver contributes to the group key by securely transmitting its contribution to the transmitter. The transmitter also contributes to the group key and generates the group key based on all contributions. The transmitter further generates partial keys specific to each receiver such that each receiver can generate a copy of the group key from its contribution and the partial key it receives. The transmitter sends each receiver its corresponding partial key so that each receiver can calculate a copy of the group key. | 12-01-2011 |
20130067523 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BANDWIDTH - A bandwidth management system, receiver, and method of managing bandwidth in a content delivery system are described. In one embodiment, the method includes: identifying two or more content items which are associated with at least some common content and which are temporally related; determining a relative priority of the least some of the identified content items; and allowing a receiver requesting the content associated with a lower priority content item to access a multicast associated with a higher priority content item. | 03-14-2013 |
20130223671 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY WATERMARKING MEDIA - A dynamic watermark generation method and system in which the dynamic watermark may have a default length or a shorter length, and wherein the dynamic watermark is generated to have the determined length. The dynamic watermark is a locally-unique code that is used as an index to a database entry that identifies the subscriber that requested the media asset. In some instances, the entry may include a timestamp, a subscriber device identifier such as a MAC address or IP address, a subscriber identifier or ID number, and a media asset identifier such as a static ID. The static ID may include a code that indicates whether the dynamic watermark is of a default length or shorter. The length of the dynamic watermark may be partly based upon projected audience size for the requested media asset. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BANDWIDTH - A bandwidth management system, receiver, and method of managing bandwidth in a content delivery system are described. In one embodiment, the method includes: identifying two or more content items which are associated with at least some common content and which are temporally related; determining a relative priority of the least some of the identified content items; and allowing a receiver requesting the content associated with a lower priority content item to access a multicast associated with a higher priority content item. | 08-29-2013 |
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20090047389 | BEVERAGE-INGREDIENT CAPSULE AND CAPSULE-BASED BEVERAGE PRODUCTION METHOD - A sealed capsule for containing an ingredient is provided with at least one essentially rigid inner jet direction-diverting member being arranged close to the inner side of a face of the capsule. The inner jet direction-diverting member is designed to divert the direction of at least a portion of a water jet injected through an opening produced in the face. The invention further proposes the dynamical profiling of inner channels in at least one face of the capsule by pressing the face of the capsule against a profiling member of the beverage production device. | 02-19-2009 |
20100147156 | CAPSULE WITH FLOW REGULATING TECHNOLOGY - A capsule comprising beverage ingredients therein, and including a closed enclosure hermetically sealed to gas; and a perforated flow-regulating disc member which is arranged in the closed enclosure, perpendicularly to the liquid flow path inside the capsule, and which is configured for separating the ingredients at least partially into at least two ingredient spaces and which enables liquid to spread more evenly and transversely across one ingredient space and to the periphery of the enclosure to facilitate extraction of the beverage ingredients in the ingredient spaces. The capsule also may include an insert located within the enclosure and having tubular portions which are respectively open away from the center of the enclosure, wherein the insert is centrally arranged inside the capsule, and the ingredients are entirely provided radially outside the tubular portions of the insert. | 06-17-2010 |
20110003038 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A LIQUID EXTRACT FROM A CELL USING CENTRIFUGAL FORCES - A method for preparing a liquid comestible from a cell by passing liquid through the substance using centrifugal forces, wherein gas contained in the cell is controllably purged from the cell as liquid fills the cell. In one embodiment, the method includes prewetting the substance in the cell by filling liquid in the cell and rotating the cell at a first rotational speed; and then extracting the liquid comestible from the cell in an extraction phase which comprises continuing to fill liquid into the cell and rotating the cell at a second rotational speed that is higher than the first rotational speed. The invention also discloses a cell for use in these methods which cell includes a filter for preventing solids from being carried by gas during the gas purge. | 01-06-2011 |
20110200725 | SEALING ADAPTER FOR A BEVERAGE EXTRACTION SYSTEM SUITABLE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE FROM CARTRIDGES - Cartridge sealing adapter ( | 08-18-2011 |
20130269535 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A LIQUID EXTRACT FROM A CELL USING CENTRIFUGAL FORCES - An apparatus for preparing a liquid comestible from a cell by passing liquid through the substance using centrifugal forces, wherein gas contained in the cell is controllably purged from the cell as liquid fills the cell. The apparatus includes a liquid injection member comprising a needle for injecting liquid into the cell, a motor and shaft for centrifugally and rotationally driving the cell at at least one centrifugal speed, a peripheral discharge valve for enabling liquid extract to leave the cell after the centrifugal speed is achieved, and a gas purging conduit configured and positioned to remove gas from the cell as liquid fills the cell. | 10-17-2013 |
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20120160388 | PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH COMPOSITE INNERLINER - A pneumatic radial ply runflat tire is described. The tire has a carcass structure having at least one radial carcass ply, two bead regions, two sidewalls, each sidewall having an upper sidewall portion that connects to the shoulders and being reinforced by an insert, a belt structure between the tread and the carcass, and an air impermeable inner liner formed of a butyl rubber located radially inward of the carcass structure wherein the air impermeable inner liner extends from a first shoulder region to a second shoulder underneath the crown portion of the tire, and does not extend from the shoulder to the bead portion of the tire. | 06-28-2012 |
20130061992 | HIGH MILEAGE TRUCK TIRE TREAD - A vehicle wheel tire having a symmetrical five rib tread construction with adjacent tread ribs comprising the tread separated by circumferential grooves. The intermediate tread grooves have an axial width wider than an axial width of the shoulder grooves and a center rib has an axial width wider than the axial widths of the intermediate ribs and the shoulder ribs. The axial width of the center rib, intermediate ribs, and shoulder ribs are within a prescribed preferred range of a total tread axial width and the axial width of each intermediate groove is within a prescribed preferred range of total tread axial width. | 03-14-2013 |
20130061993 | COMMERCIAL TRUCK STEER TIRE TREAD - A vehicle tire tread includes a circumferential spaced apart array of discrete tie-bar block elements within a circumferential tread groove, each tie-bar block element having a circumferentially oriented bisecting cut dividing the tie bar into opposed tie-bar components. The opposed tie-bar components operatively flex and converge axially when present within a rolling tire footprint to close the radially outward cut segment and resume a nominal separation dimension when outside a rolling tire footprint. The bisecting cut within each tie-bar block element further forms at a radially inward end a large diameter fluid conducting channel extending through the tie-bar block element to allow the passage of fluid along the circumferential groove, unobstructed by the array of tie-bar block elements. | 03-14-2013 |
20130340907 | TIRE WITH A SEGMENTED OVERLAY LAYER - A pneumatic tire includes a pair of axially spaced apart annular bead cores, a carcass ply extending around both bead cores, a tread for engaging a contact surface and a belt structure. The tread has at least one circumferential groove extending radially inward from a radially outer surface of the tread. The belt structure includes at least one belt layer and an overlay comprising at least one overlay layer. The overlay layer is disposed under the circumferential groove and has an axial width between 70% and 200% of an axial width of the circumferential groove. The overlay layer is a reinforced ply layer or a layer comprising a fabric. | 12-26-2013 |