Abstract: A moveable service cart for transporting cleaning tools and equipment is disclosed. Also disclosed is a service desk that can be employed with the moveable service cart or independently thereof.

Abstract: A cleaning and sanitizing kit for use in a defined region of a hospital and a method employing the same.

Abstract: A mop strand bundle a plurality having elongated first elongated cleaning tendrils having a first surface roughness and oriented in parallel relationship to one another and connected to one another in at least one location. The mop strand bundle also includes at least one elongated second cleaning tendril and a head band. The second elongated cleaning tendril is oriented in parallel relationship to at least one opposed elongated edge and is in moveable relationship with at least one first cleaning tendril. The elongated second cleaning tendril has a second surface roughness greater than the first surface roughness. The headband is positioned in overlying fixed relationship to the plurality of elongated first cleaning strands and connected to the at least one elongated second cleaning tendril at a location between the first and second ends of the plurality of elongated first cleaning tendrils.

Abstract: A method of hand hygiene compliance enforcement and hand hygiene system comprising at least one dispenser unit that has an interior chamber containing a volume of hand soap or sanitizer and a dispenser nozzle configured to dispense a measured volume of hand soap or sanitizing material upon a triggering event. The dispenser also has a control unit mounted therein, the control unit is in electronic communication with the dispenser nozzle and has at least one identity sensor, at least one alarm indicator and at least one transmitter. The hand hygiene system also has at least one proximity sensor in electronic communication with the control unit. The proximity sensor is located a spaced distance from the at least one dispenser.

Abstract: A moveable service cart for transporting cleaning tools and equipment is disclosed. Also disclosed is a service desk that can be employed with the moveable service cart or independently thereof.

Abstract: A moveable service cart for transporting cleaning tools and equipment is disclosed. Also disclosed is a service desk that can be employed with the moveable service cart or independently thereof.

Abstract: A kit for cleaning a room or region that includes a mop device having a mop device fastening member and at least one flexible elongated cleaning pad and a method for performing cleaning operations using the same. The flexible elongated cleaning pad has a first cleaning pad face and a second cleaning pad face opposed to the first cleaning pad face. The first cleaning pad face has microfiber content and the second cleaning pad face is configured to releasably contact either the mop device hook and loop fastening member or the high duster device hook and loop fastener member.

Abstract: A method of hand hygiene compliance enforcement and hand hygiene system comprising at least one dispenser unit that has an interior chamber containing a volume of hand soap or sanitizer and a dispenser nozzle configured to dispense a measured volume of hand soap or sanitizing material upon a triggering event. The dispenser also has a control unit mounted therein, the control unit is in electronic communication with the dispenser nozzle and has at least one identity sensor, at least one alarm indicator and at least one transmitter. The hand hygiene system also has at least one proximity sensor in electronic communication with the control unit.

Abstract: A cleaning and sanitizing kit for use in a defined region of a hospital and a method employing the same.

Abstract: A method of hand hygiene compliance enforcement and hand hygiene system comprising at least one dispenser unit that has an interior chamber containing a volume of hand soap or sanitizer and a dispenser nozzle configured to dispense a measured volume of hand soap or sanitizing material upon a triggering event. The dispenser also has a control unit mounted therein, the control unit is in electronic communication with the dispenser nozzle and has at least one identity sensor, at least one alarm indicator and at least one transmitter. The hand hygiene system also has at least one proximity sensor in electronic communication with the control unit. The proximity sensor is located a spaced distance from the at least one dispenser.

Abstract: A method of hand hygiene compliance enforcement and hand hygiene system comprising at least one dispenser unit that has an interior chamber containing a volume of hand soap or sanitizer and a dispenser nozzle configured to dispense a measured volume of hand soap or sanitizing material upon a triggering event. The dispenser also has a control unit mounted therein, the control unit is in electronic communication with the dispenser nozzle and has at least one identity sensor, at least one alarm indicator and at least one transmitter. The hand hygiene system also has at least one proximity sensor in electronic communication with the control unit. The proximity sensor is located a spaced distance from the at least one dispenser.

Abstract: Disclosed is a disc drive voice coil magnet and spacer arrangement. Voice coil magnets and/or pole pieces are spaced from one another by spacers. On of the spacers is located beyond the coil end of the actuator. This allows the actuator to be lowered into the drive deck in an off-disc position without colliding with the spacer, thereby facilitating in-deck merging of the actuator.

Abstract: A latch mechanism is used with a disc drive. The latch mechanism includes an arm portion with an extending end portion. The extending end portion is configured to allow rotation of an actuator on the disc drive into an operable position during merging of the actuator onto a disc stack in the disc drive.

Abstract: A bistable latch assembly is disclosed which includes a latch lever supported on a pivot pin adjacent the rotating discs and the actuator arm, and rotatable between two stable positions defined at the opposite end of the lever from the pivot pin by a pair of stop pins. The latch lever includes a magnet movable between these two stop pins, the attraction of the magnet to the pins defining the two stable positions for the lever. An edge of the lever facing the disc includes a notch which captures a pin extending from the actuator arm. When the latch lever engages the actuator arm pin in the notch, then the magnet of the latch lever is held by magnetic attraction against one of the stop pins. When the actuator arm is to be put to use in the disc drive, the voice coil motor is actuated, and has sufficient power to cause the stop pin on the actuator arm to disengage from the notch.