Abstract: The medication dispensing assembly includes a housing having an interior. A medication bottle is disposed in the interior with its cap assembly facing vertically downwardly. The cap assembly includes outer, middle, and inner pieces. The outer and inner pieces are fixed with one another, and the middle piece is fixed with the bottle. A drive unit is disposed in the interior of the housing and is configured to rotate the bottle and the middle piece of the cap assembly about a vertical axis. The three pieces of the cap assembly have respective medication openings, and rotating the bottle causes individual pills to travel first from the bottle into the inner piece, then into the middle piece, then around the vertical axis, and then outside of the cap assembly through the medication opening of the outer piece.

Abstract: A method of providing a copper metallization on a dielectric or semiconductive body, and a dielectric or semiconductive body having a metallization consisting essentially of copper. According to the method, a mixture of copper oxide powder and 0 to 15 weight percent reduction-resistant glass frit is dispersed in an organic vehicle and a solvent to produce a paste. The paste is applied to the body to provide a coating thereon. The coating is dried to remove the solvent, and then the coated body is fired in an oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature below the melting temperature of the glass frit to remove the organic vehicle. Finally, the coated body is fired a second time in an atmosphere which is reducing to the copper oxide but substantially nonreducing to the glass frit. The second firing is at a temperature from 700.degree. to 1050.degree. C. for from 120 to 15 minutes to convert the copper oxide to copper metal.

Abstract: A low fire ceramic dielectric composition, a multilayer capacitor made from such a ceramic dielectric composition provided with silver/palladium electrodes having at least 65 atomic percent silver, and a method of manufacturing such a multilayer capacitor. The ceramic is barium titanate-based and includes Bi.sub.2 O.sub.3, Nb.sub.2 O.sub.5, and TiO.sub.2 to improve sinterability. MnCO.sub.3 is added to increase the insulation resistance. The multilayer capacitor includes high silver-content electrodes to reduce the quantity of expensive noble metals. The multilayer part may be fired at a temperature of 1150.degree. C. or less to yield a capacitor meeting EIA specification X7R. The low firing temperature also inhibits a chemical reaction between bismuth and palladium.

Abstract: A low-fired ceramic dielectric composition, a multilayer capacitor made from such a ceramic dielectric composition provided with silver/palladium electrodes having at least 65 atomic percent silver, and a method of manufacturing such a multilayer capacitor. The ceramic is barium titanate-based and includes Bi.sub.2 O.sub.3, Nb.sub.2 O.sub.5, and TiO.sub.2 to improve sinterability. MnCO.sub.3 is added to increase the insulation resistance. The multilayer capacitor includes high silver-content electrodes to reduce the quantity of expensive noble metals. The multilayer part may be fired at a temperature of 1150.degree. C. or less to yield a capacitor meeting EIA specification X7R. The low firing temperature also inhibits a chemical reaction between bismuth and palladium.