Abstract: An assembly for product support and deployment for a vending machine includes a product chute, a pusher, a pusher drive assembly, and a controller. The product chute is configured to receive a plurality of products stacked on one another. The product chute includes an exit opening through which a respective product of the plurality of products is dispensed. The pusher drive assembly is operatively connected with the pusher and is configured so as to move the pusher in at least two mutually perpendicular axes. The controller is in communication with the pusher drive assembly. The controller is configured to control operation of the pusher drive assembly such that the pusher pushes the respective product being dispensed towards the exit opening and supports or lifts the remaining products in the chute against the force of gravity prior to the respective product fully exiting the product chute through the exit opening.

Abstract: A vending machine includes a refrigerated enclosure including a housing for storage of an associated pre-packaged food product. The housing has a sidewall with a sidewall opening. A door is mounted to the sidewall for closing and opening the sidewall opening. A drive mechanism is operably connected to the door and adapted to mechanically move the door between a closed position and an opened position. The drive mechanism includes at least one sensing device adapted to determine whether the door is in one of the closed position and the opened position. A door rail is mounted to the sidewall and has a guide track. The door is movably received in the guide track.

Abstract: A vending machine includes a refrigerated enclosure including a housing for storage of an associated pre-packaged food product. The housing has a sidewall with a sidewall opening A door is mounted to the sidewall for closing and opening the sidewall opening. A drive mechanism is operably connected to the door and adapted to mechanically mow the door between a closed position and an opened position. The drive mechanism includes at least one sensing device adapted to determine whether the door is in one of the closed position and the opened position. A door rail is mounted to the sidewall and has a guide track. The door is movably received in the guide track.

Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, and located therebetween a light-emitting layer containing a host material and a tris-CˆN-cyclometallated complex of Ir or Rh wherein at least one of the ligands comprises a substituted quinazoline moiety. The device provides useful emission and stability attributes.

Abstract: An OLED device comprises an anode, a cathode and therebetween a light emitting layer containing a compound represented by Formula I below: wherein: each A is independently selected from N and P; each E is independently selected from N, P, and As; each Z is a radical independently selected from each R is an independently selected substituent; and each R? is independently selected from H and a substituent; provided that two substituent groups can join to form a ring.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device contains a cathode, an anode, and having located there-between a light-emitting layer, comprising: a) a host material including an organometallic compound represented by Formula (1): wherein: R1 through R6 each independently represent hydrogen or a substituent group, and L represents a substituent; and b) at least one phosphorescent light-emitting compound, with a triplet energy less than or equal to the triplet energy of the host material. The device provides an improved combination of low voltage and luminance efficiency.

Abstract: A process for forming a facial tris-cyclometallated iridium or rhodium complex isomer comprises heating an original solid composition containing meridional isomer of the metal complex at a temperature and for a time sufficient to form a product containing the facial isomer in an increased ratio to meridional isomer compared to the original composition.

Abstract: An OLED device comprises, in sequence, an anode, a light-emitting layer that comprises a phosphorescent light-emitting organometallic compound, a hole-blocking layer, and a cathode, and between the hole-blocking layer and the cathode, a further layer containing: a) a first compound that has the lowest LUMO value of the compounds in the layer, the amount being greater than or equal to 10% by volume and less than 100% by volume of the layer; b) at least one second compound that is a low voltage electron transport material, exhibiting a higher LUMO value than the first compound, the total amount of said compound(s) being less than or equal to 90% by volume and more than 0% by volume of the layer. Such a device provides improved drive voltage.

Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, and located therebetween a light emitting layer containing a compound represented by formula (I): Am-M-Bn??(I) wherein m+n=2 or 3 and neither m nor n is 0; M is Ir, Pt, Os, Ru, Rh, or Pd; Am includes at least one ligand A having a triplet energy of at least 2.9 eV as measured in a homoleptic complex of M and A; and B is represented by the formula (II): wherein Q represents an atomic group forming a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; and R5, R6, R7, R8 and R5? independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.

Abstract: A process for forming a tris-cyclometallated complex comprises the step of reacting; a) an M(I) complex, wherein M represents Rh or Ir, and said complex comprises at least two ligands and contains at least two alkenyl groups pi-bonded to M, with b) a heterocyclic compound capable of forming a organometallic cyclometallated complex.

Abstract: A process for forming a tris-cyclometallated complex comprises the step of reacting; a) an M(I) complex, wherein M represents Rh or Ir, and said complex comprises at least two ligands and contains at least two alkenyl groups pi-bonded to M, with b) a heterocyclic compound capable of forming a organometallic cyclometallated complex.

Abstract: An OLED device comprising a cathode, an anode, and having located therebetween a light emitting layer containing an emitting compound having formula (I): (piq)b M ppy ??(I) wherein piq is a phenylisoquinoline group and ppy is a phenylpyridine group bearing at least one further substituent on the pyridine ring, wherein M is Ir, Rh, Pt, or Pd and b is 2 in the case of Ir and Rh and 1 in the case of Pt and Pd.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprises a cathode and an anode; and, located therebetween, a light-emitting layer (LEL) comprising at least one hole transporting co-host and at least one electron transporting co-host, together with at least one phosphorescent emitter, and wherein the triplet energy of each of the co-host materials is greater than the triplet energy of the phosphorescent emitter, and further containing an exciton blocking layer comprising a hole transporting material with triplet energy greater or equal to 2.5 eV adjacent the emitting layer on the anode side. The invention provides devices that emit light with high luminous efficiency at low voltage.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprises a light-emitting layer containing an organometallic compound comprising a metal and a ligand that coordinates to the metal through at least four bonds as represented by Formula (1) wherein at least one is a carbon-metal bond: MX)n??(1) wherein M represents a metal, X represents an independently selected atom, n?4, at least one X is carbon, and all X are linked to form a multidentate ligand.

Abstract: An organic light emitting device contains a cathode, an anode, and has located there-between a light emitting layer, comprising co-hosts including a hole transporting compound and a particular aluminum chelate, together with at least one light emitting Iridium compound, wherein the Iridium compound is a tris CˆN-cyclometallated complex with a triplet energy less than or equal to the triplet energy of each of the co-hosts.

Abstract: An OLED device contains a layer comprising a hole transporting compound, a certain type of oxinoid compound, and a light emitting phosphorescent compound.

Abstract: A process for forming an organometallic cyclometallated Group viiib metal complex comprises reacting a Group viiib metal compound with a heterocyclic compound capable of forming an organometallic cyclometallated complex in the presence of a solvent comprising an aromatic oxygen containing compound.

Abstract: A process for forming a tris-cyclometallated iridium or rhodium complex comprises reacting in the presence of a solvent: a) a bis-cyclometallated complex comprising an Ir(III) or Rh(III) metal, two bidentate ligands, two monodentate ligands and a counterion, and b) a heterocyclic compound capable of forming an organometallic cyclometallated complex.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent device comprising a light-emitting layer containing a light emitting material that contains an organometallic complex comprising a metal selected from the group consisting of Pt, Pd and Ir, and a tridentate (N{circumflex over (?)}C{circumflex over (?)}N) ligand, wherein the tridentate (N{circumflex over (?)}C{circumflex over (?)}N) ligand represents a ligand that coordinates to the metal through a nitrogen donor bond, a carbon-metal bond, and a nitrogen donor bond, in that order, wherein at least one of the nitrogen donors is part of an aromatic ring or an imine group. The invention also includes a display or room lighting device employing the device of the invention and a process of emitting light from the device of the invention. The device of the invention provides good luminance efficiency.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent device comprising a light-emitting layer containing a light emitting phosphorescent material that contains an organometallic complex comprising iridium and an indole compound with an unsubstituted phenyl ring or comprising Ir, Rh, Os, Ru, Pt, and Pd and an isoindole compound. The invention further comprises compositions of certain such complexes as well as a display or area lighting devices and a process for emitting light. The organometallic materials function as useful phosphorescent light emitting materials in electroluminescent devices.