Abstract: An inflatable thermal blanket for thermal blanket and bathing a patient in a thermally-controlled inflating medium includes an inflatable thermal blanket with selectively activated ties to secure the thermal blanket to itself or hospital equipment. The inflatable thermal blanket has an outer edge and one or more substantially flat flexible flaps along the outer edge. Selected portions of the flaps include boundaries, such as perforations, defining corresponding ties. Selected ones of the ties are activated by detaching them along their respective boundaries. Then, the ties are attached to hospital equipment, or opposing ties may be attached to each other.

Abstract: An inflatable convective thermal pad is adapted for use under a patient. The pad has a surface on a layer that receives the patient and that provides for the passage of air through the layer and the surface toward the patient. One or more drain openings or channels are provided in the layer for draining fluid from the layer.

Abstract: A method provides an on-chip repair technique to fix defective row or I/O memory lines in an ASIC memory array with redundancy row or I/O memory lines. The method employs progressive urgency and dynamic repair schemes to optimize the allotted time for repairing defective row and I/O memory lines. Progressive urgency scheme increases the need to repair relative to the available redundancy row or I/O memory lines over the entire repairing time. Dynamic repair executes a mandatory-row or a mandatory-I/O repair as defective row or I/O memory lines are detected. In addition, a recurrence error reroutes the address location of a redundancy memory line to another address location of another redundancy memory line in the event that such redundancy memory line itself is defective, and thus requires further repair.

Abstract: An inflatable thermal blanket for thermal blanket and bathing a patient in a thermally-controlled inflating medium includes an inflatable thermal blanket with selectively activated ties to secure the thermal blanket to itself or hospital equipment. The inflatable thermal blanket has an outer edge and one or more substantially flat flexible flaps along the outer edge. Selected portions of the flaps include boundaries, such as perforations, defining corresponding ties. Selected ones of the ties are activated by detaching them along their respective boundaries. Then, the ties are attached to hospital equipment, or opposing ties may be attached to each other.

Abstract: A built-in self-repair system includes an on-chip clock generator for triggering the repairing process to repair defective memory lines or blocks in a memory array of an ASIC chip. The on-chip clock generator enables the self-repair process to start at the power up of a computer system without a need for an external test-triggering signal. The system includes a built-in self-test circuit that tests for a defective row memory line or a defective I/O memory block. The system further includes a fault-latching-and repair-execution circuit that repairs a row memory line or an I/O memory block. Repairing an IO memory block effectively repairs faults that occur between any two adjacent column shorts within an IO memory block. The preferred repairing scheme adopts a 15N diagnosis to achieve high fault correction so that a large percentage of defective memory cells can be replaced by redundant row memory lines or redundant I/O memory blocks.

Abstract: A method may be used for reconciling entries in two or more schedules using a schedule history. If the schedules are in different format, all of the schedules are converted to a single format. Then entries from the schedules are considered, for example, in chronological order. When an entry does not occur in all the schedules, the schedule history is checked for the entry. If the entry is not in the schedule history, the entry is added to any schedule which does not contain the entry. If the entry is not in the schedule history, the entry is deleted from any schedule which contains the entry. The schedule history may be updated concurrent with changes made to the other schedules. Alternately, after the reconciliation is complete the schedule history may be changed to match the reconciled schedules.

Abstract: An inflatable chamber which is formable into a generally U-shaped structure includes an air inlet for receiving a thermally-controlled inflating medium and a plurality of holes in a side portion. When the medium is received in the chamber, it is expelled through the holes and bathes a patient to effect hypothermia treatment. In addition, the apparatus may include selectively positionable non-inflatable coverings for selectively warming pediatric patient body portions while leaving other portions exposed to untreated ambient air.

Abstract: Automatic machinery, particularly suited for the loading of pre-cut, individual microfilm strips into the storage channels of microfilm jackets, includes a feed roll shaft intermediate of insertion chute means and a loading pedestal carrying the jacket. Respective feed rolls overlie corresponding delivery ends of chutes and the jacket edges leading to channel openings. A film strip is first inserted into a chute and is in registry with the jacket edge. Then, the pedestal is raised upward to press the film between the lower surface of the corresponding feed roll and the jacket edge, whereupon the feed roll is activated to drive the strip into the channel.

Abstract: A medical and/or informational identification credit card has multiple laminar parts partially heat-sealed in a localized area to permit high speed embossment in automatic equipment, whereupon a customized informational part, such as a microfilm chip or photograph, matched to the embossed identification on the partially laminated card may be inserted and locked in place by a full lamination of the card.

Abstract: This invention is directed to film record cards and is more particularly directed to a film record card of the type wherein microfilm strips or the like are mounted in film pockets formed by two films overlying apertures of the film record card. These film strips are reproducible without being removed from the record card. At least part of one aperture is covered by a semi-opaque, ink-receptive coating serving as a reproducible index area.

Abstract: A film record card having an elongated, rectangular film pocket sized to receive a plurality of aligned microfilm strips is characterized by at least one discrete mass of non-setting adhesive attached to one or both of a pair of longitudinally extending sidewalls of the pocket and projecting inwardly of the pocket for grippingly engaging the film strips, thereby to retain the individual film strips in certain preselected positions within the pocket for enabling accurate automatic scanning of the film record card.

Abstract: The method or system of indexing cards for visual or machine filing and retrieval includes an index card having a plurality of notch areas located along at least a portion of the card edge with each of the notch areas being assigned at least two values and being adapted to receive a plurality of superimposable, separately identifiable notches to separately designate each notch area value.