Abstract: Systems and methods for informed mobility platform for an item processing supervisor within a distribution facility are disclosed. In one embodiment, a supervisor mobile terminal for electronically managing item processing activities associated with a distribution facility is provided. The terminal may include a transceiver circuit configured to wirelessly communicate with a server computer a plurality of sets of data relating to the item processing activities. The terminal may further include a user interface configured to display the plurality of sets of data and a controller in data communication with the transceiver circuit and the user interface. The controller may be configured to control the user interface to modify the at least one set of data and control the transceiver circuit to wirelessly communicate the modified data with the server computer such that the at least one set of data stored in the server computer is updated with the modified data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing an object by additive manufacturing including a chamber for receiving a bath of material solidified by exposure to electromagnetic radiation, a support for positioning the object, and a solidifying device for solidifying a layer of the material. A registering device registers a characteristic of a calibration area related to the surface level of the bath of material and a control unit utilizes the characteristic to control the position of the emitted electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing an object by additive manufacturing including a process chamber for receiving a bath of material configured to be solidified, wherein a surface level of the bath of material defines an object working area. A support positions an object to be produced in relation to the surface level. A plurality of solidifying devices are configured to solidify a selective part of the bath of material and operate in substantially the entire object working area. A controller individually controls each of the plurality of solidifying devices such that each device can operate on in a different part of the object working area. A method for producing an object using the apparatus.

Abstract: A knock-down seal assembly for an overhead-sectional door having horizontal joints between adjacent panels and a leading lateral edge that seals the lateral leading edge of the door as the door closes against the floor or traffic area. The seal assembly includes a pair of retainer rails which do not exceed about 6 feet in overall length. Each of the retainer rails has seal channels formed so as to extend from a bottom surface thereof for receiving a flexible weather seal strip. Each of the rails also has an extension channel formed so as to extend from the bottom surface thereof for receiving an elongate retainer clip. The retainer clip can be used to join the pair of retainer rails to form a single rail.

Abstract: A knock-down seal assembly for an overhead-sectional door having horizontal joints between adjacent panels and a leading lateral edge that seals the lateral leading edge of the door as the door panel closes against the floor or traffic area. The seal assembly includes a pair of retainer rails which do not exceed about 5 to 6 feet in overall length. The retainer rails have one or more seal channels formed in a bottom surface of the rail for receiving a flexible weather seal strip. The rails also have a separate extension channel formed in the bottom surface thereof for receiving an elongate retainer clip. The retainer clip can be used to join the pair of rails to form a single rail of a longer overall length.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing an object by additive manufacturing including a chamber for receiving a bath of material solidified by exposure to electromagnetic radiation, a support for positioning the object, and a solidifying device for solidifying a layer of the material. A registering device registers a characteristic of a calibration area related to the surface level of the bath of material and a control unit utilizes the characteristic to control the position of the emitted electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: A method of treating a surface for an electronic or optoelectronic component to be bonded with adhesive, and a substrate comprising a ceramic surface for an electronic or optoelectronic component. A coating is applied to the surface that causes a reduction in the surface energy of the surface.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive read/write head having a first layer of alumina and a second layer of silicon dioxide overlaying a P3 layer of the head. In a preferred embodiment, the silicon dioxide layer is recessed away from an Air Bearing Surface (ABS) to reduce protrusion of a P2 layer and the P3 layer in the head, and to reduce degradation in the magnetic properties of the pole tips of the P2 and P3 layer ends.

Abstract: The present invention presents a method for fabricating coil elements for magnetic write heads. A coil pattern is formed on a substrate using photolithographic techniques. The substrate is etched using reactive ion etching, creating a coil-shaped trench in the substrate. Thin film seed layers are deposited using ion beam deposition. The substrate is electroplated with metal filling the trenches with metal. The substrate is chemical mechanical polished to remove excess metal and planarize the air bearing surface of the write head.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for manufacturing a coil structure for a magnetic head. Initially, an insulating layer is deposited with a photoresist layer deposited on the insulating layer. Moreover, a silicon dielectric layer is deposited on the photoresist layer as a hard mask. The silicon dielectric layer is then masked. A plurality of channels is subsequently formed in the silicon dielectric layer using reactive ion etching (i.e. CF4/CHF3). The silicon dielectric layer is then used as a hard mask to transfer the channel pattern in the photoresist layer using reactive ion etching with, for example, H2/N2/CH3F/C2H4 reducing chemistry. To obtain an optimal channel profile with the desired high aspect ratio, channel formation includes a first segment defining a first angle and a second segment defining a second angle. Thereafter, a conductive seed layer is deposited in the channels and the channels are filled with a conductive material to define a coil structure.

Abstract: An article is formed as a substrate having a projection extending outwardly therefrom. The article may be a magnetic recording head and the projection a write pole. The projection has a width in a thinnest dimension measured parallel to a substrate surface of no more than about 0.3 micrometers and a height measured perpendicular to the substrate of not less than about 5 times the width. The article is fabricated by forming an overlying structure on the substrate with an edge thereon, depositing a replication layer lying on the edge, depositing a filler onto the edge and the substrate, so that the filler, the replication layer, and the overlying structure in combination comprise a continuous layer on the substrate, selectively removing at least a portion of the replication layer from a free surface of the continuous layer inwardly toward the substrate, to form a defined cavity, and depositing a projection material into the defined cavity to form the projection.

Abstract: A magnetic head having a spin valve sensor that is fabricated utilizing an Al2O3, NiMn0, Si seed layer upon which a PtMn spin valve sensor layer structure is subsequently fabricated. In the preferred embodiment, the Si layer has a thickness of approximately 20 ? and the PtMn layer has a thickness of approximately 120 ?. An alternative fabrication process of the Si layer includes the overdeposition of the layer to a first thickness of from 15 ? to 45 ? followed by the etching back of the seed layer of approximately 5 ? to approximately 15 ? to its desired final thickness of approximately 20 ?. The Si layer results in an improved crystal structure to the subsequently fabricated PtMn and other spin valve sensor layers, such that the fabricated spin valve is thinner and exhibits increased ?R/R and reduced coercivity.

Abstract: The magnetic head of the present invention includes a magnetoresistive read head element in which a magnetic bias layer is deposited across the surface of the wafer above the free magnetic layer. Central portions of the biasing layer that correspond to the read head track width are oxidized to essentially remove the magnetic moment of the bias layer material in those central locations. An oxygen diffusion barrier layer is then deposited upon the oxidized central portions of the biasing layer to prevent diffusion or migration of oxygen from the oxidized central regions of the biasing layer. An insulation layer, a second magnetic shield layer and further structures of the magnetic head are subsequently fabricated.

Abstract: A superconducting lead comprises a supporting board (1) with at least one superconducting tape (3) adhered to it and extending from one terminal area of the lead to another. Respective metal end-fittings soldered to the superconducting tape (3) at each of its ends, and in each of the terminal areas at least one metal insert is bonded to the board (1) and also soldered to the corresponding one of the said end-fittings, so relieving the tapes (3) of mechanical stress. The board (1), or each of them, is preferably flat and may support two or more superconducting tapes (3) coplanar with one another on one or on each of its major faces. The metal inserts are preferably of copper and may be made by removing most of the copper cladding from a commercially available circuit board (1).