Abstract: A medication dispensing system comprising an on-site medication dispensing unit and a central monitoring facility. The on-site medication dispensing unit holds bulk amounts of medication in a plurality of separate receptacles from which it selects a desired medication dosage according to an entered and stored prescription regimen and then notifies the patient by an audible or other sensory signal. If the patient presses a button within a prescribed time, the unit dispenses the dosage. If the patient does not press the button within the prescribed time, or if the unit detects a failure to dispense the selected canister, the unit makes the receptacle inaccessible and contacts a predetermined list of caregivers and the central monitoring facility.

Abstract: A medication dispensing system comprising an on-site medication dispensing unit and a central monitoring facility. The on-site medication dispensing unit holds bulk amounts of medication in a plurality of separate receptacles from which it selects a desired medication dosage according to an entered and stored prescription regimen and then notifies the patient by an audible or other sensory signal. If the patient presses a button within a prescribed time, the unit dispenses the dosage. If the patient does not press the button within the prescribed time, or if the unit detects a failure to dispense the selected canister, the unit makes the receptacle inaccessible and contacts a predetermined list of caregivers and the central monitoring facility.

Abstract: A medication dispensing system comprising an on-site medication dispensing unit and a central monitoring facility. The on-site medication dispensing unit holds medication in a plurality of canisters which it selects from according to an entered and stored prescription regimen and then notifies the patient by an audible or other sensory signal. If the patient presses a button within a prescribed time, the unit dispenses the selected canisters. If the patient does not press the button within the prescribed time, or if the unit detects a failure to dispense the selected canister, the unit makes the canister inaccessible and contacts a predetermined list of caregivers and then a central monitoring facility.

Abstract: A latching pin is held in a mating hole by a retaining wire prior to firing f a guided projectile to lock together a canard frame and an intermediate body which is part of a canard deflecting mechanism. Upon launch, the retaining wire is sheared by an inertia-driven shear mass but the latch pin is maintained in the latching condition by centrifugal force imparted to the canard frame and intermediate body during launch. Following launch, the canard frame and intermediate body are despun by aerodynamic drag on canards. Once despinning has proceeded sufficiently to reduce the centrifugal force to a value low enough to be overcome by a resilient member, the latch pin is withdrawn from the mating hole and relative rotation of the intermediate body and the canard frame are permitted to thus begin deflecting a pair of deflectable canards for producing aerodynamic lift to steer the projectile.

Abstract: A guided artillery shell is provided with a set of tail fins which are std within the shell assembly prior to the firing of the shell and during barrel traversal, and are automatically deployed upon muzzle exit by a mechanism responsive to the change in pressure upon muzzle exit and centrifugal force.

Abstract: An inertial measurement device comprising a rotatable member having a fluid-filled chamber closed by a resilient member responsive to the forces acting on the fluid and a modulator coupled to the resilient member to alter the radiation from a light source to a detector depending upon the response of the resilient member.