Abstract: A pen needle shield system according to the invention comprises at least an injection end shield positioned on the injection side of the hub, shielding the injection end of the needle after an injection, or in the event of an accidental triggering. The injection end shield is compressed toward the hub against the pressure of a biasing spring. The injection end shield engages a sleeve, which is arranged coaxially on the hub such that after the injection is administered the biasing spring pushes the injection end shield to cover the injection end of the needle, carrying the sleeve with it. The sleeve engages the hub, locking out the injection end shield in a position in which the injection end of the needle is covered by the injection end shield. The system also may incorporate a non-injection end shield that engages with the hub when a pen injector is unscrewed from the hub to lock out the non-injection end shield in the position protecting the non-injection end of the needle.

Abstract: A safety shield system for a pen needle according to the invention has a first passive safety shield for the injection end of a needle, covering the needle before and after use, and a second passive safety shield for the non-injection end of the needle, covering the non-injection end of the needle before and after use, and locking in the covering position when the pen injector is removed.

Abstract: A safety shield system having a needle assembly with a safety shield movable from a first position enclosing an end of a needle cannula, to a second position exposing the end of the needle cannula for injection, to a third position lockingly enclosing the end of a needle cannula. The safety shield system permits retraction of the safety shield during use, but extends the shield enclosing the needle cannula in a locked position following use. The safety shield system also has a cap for receiving the needle assembly and lockingly enclosing another end of the needle cannula. Thus, both ends of a double-ended needle cannula are lockingly enclosed following use of the needle assembly of the inventive safety shield system.

Abstract: A non-detonating heat transfer initiator. A representative heat transfer initiator is in the form of a heat transfer control medium, having a heat input portion and a heat output portion, and a non-detonating autoignition material, having an autoignition temperature, in thermal contact with the heat output portion. When heat is applied to the heat input portion, a transfer of heat through the heat transfer control medium to the heat output portion results, heating the heat output portion, such that, upon application of a sufficient amount of heat to the heat input portion, the heat output portion is heated to the autoignition temperature of the non-detonating autoignition material, igniting the non-detonating autoignition material ignites, thus producing a non-detonating thermal output.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the formula 1: wherein: Z is O or S; V is a divalent radical which together with C* and N forms a ring having six ring atoms, where each of said ring atoms other than C* and N independently is unsubstituted or substituted by a suitable substituent, and at least one of said other ring atoms is a heteroatom selected from O, N and S, and the remainder are carbon atoms; and Ar is an aryl or heteroaryl group; and pharmaceutically acceptable prodrugs, salts and solvates thereof. The invention further relates to pharmaceutically acceptable prodrugs, salts and solvates of these compounds. The invention also relates to methods of inhibiting the activity of metalloproteinases by administering a compound of the formula I or a prodrug, salt of solvate thereof. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of these compounds, prodrugs, salts, and solvates.

Abstract: Selectively cross-linked starches are disclosed that are useful as fluid loss control additives in subterranean treatment fluids comprising starches that cross-linked to a Brabender peak viscosity of about 800 to about 1250 Brabender units after about 40 to about 70 minutes at about 92° C. and provide good fluid loss control over a temperature range of from about 20° C. to about 160° C. (68° F. to 320° F.).

Abstract: An apparatus capable of normally printing when the transmission of print data is interrupted by a user is provided. When the transmission of print data is interrupted by the user, a computer transmits an interruption command to a printer, and the printer totally clear the received data if it has determined that the interruption command is included in the received data. Otherwise, the size information of the print data is transmitted in advance, and determination of whether or not the print data can totally be received is performed by comparing the size of the received print data and the size information when the transmission of the print data ends. In the above manner, no data remains inevitably in a buffer in the printer when the process of one job ends, which enables the next printing.