Abstract: A stationary bike capable of leaning of tilting side to side during use is described. The stationary bike has a fixed frame portion and moving frame portion which is pivotally mounted on the fixed frame portion, at two spaced apart pivot locations, to allow the moving frame to pivot about a pivot axis defined by the two spaced apart pivot locations. The pivotal action of the bike may be resisted, such as by a damper. The tilt-enabled bike is equipped with a tilt disabling mechanism, e.g., a locking mechanism configured to selectively and operatively engage the moving and the fixed frame to disable the relative movement (i.e. the pivoting) of the moving frame.

Abstract: A replacement heart valve prosthesis is loaded onto a balloon mounted onto a balloon shaft of a catheter system. The balloon shaft is rotatably engaged with an actuator on the handle of the catheter system. Rotation of the actuator by a first amount in a first direction permits rotation of the heart valve prosthesis by a known amount during the procedure so that alignment of the commissures of the replacement valve with the commissures of the existing valve can be predictably achieved.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reading and decoding documents transported through the system in a single, non-reversing pass. An optical sensor array derives a pair of separate and distinct video signals from a scanning sequence where select portions of the document are scanned solely with infrared, and adjacent portions are scanned with visible light. The two, resultant video signals are delivered to separate image processing modules which concurrently process data independently. One module decodes bit images of machine readable characters derived from the infrared scanning sequence, the other module derives an image. Noise is reduced as smudges or extraneous marks are ignored. The first P bits of an initial scan are spatially filtered to yield M intermediate numbers of N bits, where P=M×(N−x2). Each N-bit resultant number corresponding to a predetermined pattern. Combinations of patterns are analyzed to recognize OCR, MICR, and E13B characters.

Abstract: A low odor, aqueous, quick acting cold temperature disinfectant solution primarily useful for medical instruments to disinfect within a half hour or less. The composition comprises a reacting or synergistic combination of hydrogen peroxide and from about 1% to 30% by weight of a carboxylic acid/carboxylate salt buffered solution.

Abstract: A low odor, aqueous, quick acting room temperature disinfectant solution primarily useful for medical instruments to disinfect within a half hour or less. The composition comprises a reacting or synergistic combination of hydrogen peroxide and from about 1% to 30% by weight of a water soluble organic acid or salt form thereof with the acid preferably being selected from the group consisting of malonic and succinic acids.