Patents Issued in June 21, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180168891
    Abstract: An absorbent article having longitudinal cuffs of improved structure is disclosed. The improved cuffs may be elasticized by a plurality of elastic strands that are substantially greater in number, closer in spacing, lower in pre-strain, and lower in decitex, or any combination of these, as compared with those in conventional articles. This combination of features results in ruffles or gathers of cuff material joined to the elastic strands that are substantially greater in machine-direction frequency and substantially lesser in z-direction amplitude, than those in conventional articles. As a result, the cuff structure lies more closely and evenly against the wearer's skin, has an improved, more cloth-like appearance, provides improved gasketing, and provides improved wearer comfort, as compared with cuff structures in conventional articles. A method for manufacturing articles with such cuff structures, utilizing a warp beam as a supply mechanism, is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Brandon Ellis Wise, Gary Dean LaVON
  • Publication number: 20180168892
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles comprising belts comprising one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or low decitex (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand Test in the Method below) under the elastics, while providing adequate Section-Modulus of (between about 2 gf/mm and 15 gf/mm), resulting in a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette that is within from about ?0.3 to about 0.3 of the Target Body Length-to-Waist Silhouette to make the article conform better to the body of the wearer at a lower Pressure-Under-Strand, even with a loaded core (holding at least 50 mls of liquid), to provide for the advantages described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Gary Dean LaVON, Bret Darren SEITZ, Uwe SCHNEIDER, Sarah Marie WADE, Joseph Allen ECKSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20180168893
    Abstract: A nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric can include a first surface and a second surface and a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface. Each of the three-dimensional features can define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and second regions can have a difference in values for an intensive property, wherein the intensive property is one or more of thickness, basis weight, or volumetric density, and wherein the first surface has a TS7 value of less than about 15 dB V2 rms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Publication number: 20180168894
    Abstract: Absorbent articles with substantially cellulose-free cores with zeolites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Johannson Jimmy TEE, JR., Kristin Hofmann MILLER, William Winfield CHEESEMAN, Peter DZIEZOK, Holger BERUDA, Marc JENNEWEIN, Ryan Michael WEST, Kevin Max LABITZKE, Vincent Scott STAPP, Emily Suzanne ALLEN
  • Publication number: 20180168895
    Abstract: External-injury waterproof protector, of long service life as a product. The structure of the limb-insertion opening enables completely shielding out water to protect an injured area. The protector has a flexible pouch body composed of a waterproofing material, with a mouth at either one or both ends, and an extensible/contractible annular constriction component hermetically and adhesively attached to the one or both pouch-body end(s). The annular constriction component is furnished with a tube portion formed to enable covering a portion of the four human limbs in a watertight state, and a brim portion formed projecting radially outward from a mouth edge of the tube portion. The tube portion favorably is formed at a narrower diameter than that of the other end of the pouch body. The brim portion arcuately slopes gently in a flaring form, lending the mouth of the annular constriction component an arcuate sloping surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Takahiro Fujii
  • Publication number: 20180168896
    Abstract: A transport for material, item or a subject, is described, the transport including a support for the material, item or subject; one or more detachable ground engaging wheels, detachable from the support at a detachable mount; one or more lifts to facilitate lifting the support from ground level to a selected height, the lift being operatively connected to the support and the one or more detachable ground engaging wheels, when the wheels are attached to the support. A collapsible wheel is also described, having a plurality of arcuate segments, each one pivotally connected to adjacent ones at their ends; an adjustable-length flexible spoke connected to opposed or remote ends so that variation of the length of the spoke deploys or stows the collapsible wheel; a spoke length adjuster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: ResQdevices Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Roger Price
  • Publication number: 20180168897
    Abstract: A hospital bed, trolley or lifter includes a steering wheel mounted on a wheel support arm extending from which is a ratchet mechanism which can co-operate with a tooth of an adjustment mechanism. When the tooth is engaged in the ratchet teeth of the ratchet mechanism the wheel can be raised and held in the raised position until the tooth is disengaged. The wheel adjustment mechanism also includes an eccentric wheel for raising the tooth in a periodic manner to cause periodic raising of the wheel. A damper is attached to the support arm for dampening the drop of the wheel when the tooth is disengaged. A mechanism provides a steering wheel which can be held at intermediate positions between its uppermost and lowermost positions and which can be held in an engaged position in a plurality of different positions relative to casters of the bed or trolley. The system can also make use of a small capacity drive motor whilst still retaining speed of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Jörgen Jönsson
  • Publication number: 20180168898
    Abstract: A kit of parts which when assembled will provide a wheeled chair and include a central frame member to which all other elements are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: JAY FOONBERG, ALLEN HERBERT ROSOFF
  • Publication number: 20180168899
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for supporting patients may include a support top and a positioning arm for assisting positioning of a patient's body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: David C. Newkirk, Jack B. Sing, Kirsten M. Emmons
  • Publication number: 20180168900
    Abstract: A system for use with a hospital bed having circuitry and a standard AC power outlet spaced from the hospital bed is provided. The system includes a cable assembly couplable to the circuitry of the hospital bed. The cable assembly has power conductors and at least one data conductor. The cable assembly also has a plug including a first power coupler coupled to the power conductors and a first data coupler coupled to the at least one data conductor. The system also includes a second data coupler mountable adjacent the standard AC power outlet. The second data coupler is configured to couple to the first data coupler when the first power coupler is coupled to the standard AC power outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Craig McNeely, Richard H. Heimbrock, Carl W. Riley, Keith A. Huster, Irvin J. Vanderpohl, III, Paul J. McDaniel, Williams F. Collins, JR., Oscar A. Manguiat, Terry L. Tincher
  • Publication number: 20180168901
    Abstract: A system configured to support growth and development of a premature fetus is disclosed. Specifically, a method and apparatus configured to provide extracorporeal support for premature fetuses is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Alan FLAKE, Marcus DAVEY
  • Publication number: 20180168902
    Abstract: The invention relates to an incubator with a thermoregulating arrangement for newborns suffering lrom pathologies, comprising a closed compartment consisting of a horizontal partition that separates an upper part from a lower part, wherein the upper part has receiving and housing elements for the newborn, while the lower part has respective means and elements for thermoregulation, measurement, etc., which allow the production of air flows that maintain environmental conditions according to the newborn's needs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Gerardo PEMAN, Eduardo Alfonso GAY, Carlos Alberto BONETTO
  • Publication number: 20180168903
    Abstract: An infant care station that includes multiple operational modules that communicate with each other to carry out the infant care station functions. The multiple modules form part of a micro-environmental platform that allows for communication and power connections between all of the operational components required within the infant care station. The multiple modules communicate with each other utilizing a universal interface bus that includes power connections, communication connections and control connections between the multiple modules. Sensor data obtained by various sensors is stored using a standard data format. A data repository is included in one of the modules and is used to store sensor data obtained from the infant patient, operational protocols and other information needed to operate the infant care station. The data repository provides a central location for both data producers and data subscribers that are part of the micro-environment platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Underwood, James Patrick Cipriano, Steven Mitchell Falk, Harry Edward Belsinger, JR.
  • Publication number: 20180168904
    Abstract: Apparatus and process for delivering medications includes systems and methods for attaching a secure transport module that contains one or more doses of one or more medications to a docking location on a mobile system at a first location, moving the mobile system to a second location, and removing a dose of at least one of the one or more medications from the secure transport module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: TOUCHPOINT MEDICAL INC.
    Inventors: James Leo Kilgallon, Jeffrey C. Olson
  • Publication number: 20180168905
    Abstract: Systems and related methods for enhancing learning of a motor task are described. The system controls delivery of an example or prompt to the subject via one or more of an audio, video, or other output device. A learning enhancing transcutaneous neural stimulus is delivered in association with the example or prompt. Electrical control circuitry controls timing of delivery of neural stimuli and prompts or examples. The system may be implemented in connection with a personal computing device, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Eleanor V. Goodall, Roderick A. Hyde, Eric C. Leuthardt, Stephen L. Malaska, Elizabeth A. Sweeney
  • Publication number: 20180168906
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for treating inflammatory symptoms associated with plantar fasciitis in a foot. The method involves stretching gastrocnemius and soleus muscles associated with the foot by placing the sole of the foot on an inclined ramp surface and cooling at least one portion of the sole of the foot. The method may further involve providing localized pressure to at least one portion of the plantar fascia, and to a portion of the foot below the toes, to cause dorsiflexion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: ThermaWedge Enterprises Inc.
    Inventor: Susan V. Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20180168907
    Abstract: A wearable hand rehabilitation system includes: a base, multiple actuating units configured to the base, hand assistive unit and multiple sheaths connected with the actuating units and the hand assistive unit. The base is composed of a cover and a base plate to create a space. A hole closed to the middle of the cover to make every sheath to cross the cover. As a result, the sheath could connect with actuating units. When a user put on the wearable hand rehabilitation system, the user could move or rotate the user's arm to make user's five fingers to grab something. The usage of the wearable hand rehabilitation system could evaluate the hand rehabilitation condition of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Jian-Jia HUANG, Shu-Wei PU
  • Publication number: 20180168908
    Abstract: A seating-type rehabilitation robot for walking, comprising: a weight supporting part comprising an elevating and lowering part which is connected to a vertical supporting part and moves up and down, and a seating part which is connected to the elevating and lowering part, and supporting a trainee who sits on the seating part; and a walk actuating part which is connected to the weight supporting part and is installed on the ground, with weight supporting links which are connected to footrests to train the walking of the trainee and which are separately mounted side by side on both side thereof, the walk actuating part comprising first actuating part for forward and backward movement according to the walk tracking of each footrests, second actuating part for upward and downward movements of the footrest caused by rotation of the weight supporting links, and third actuating part for rotation of the footrests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: CUREXO, INC.
    Inventors: Jeongwoo HAN, Younghwan KIM, Dongmyung MIN, Jeonghyun LEE
  • Publication number: 20180168909
    Abstract: A mobility assistance apparatus includes first and second frames positioned on left and right sides of a user; a hinge arm mechanism coupled to the first and second frames; and a securing unit or a walking seat coupled to the frames to transfer at least a portion of the user's body weight from the legs and to transfer weight through the user's hip or pelvis to the first and second frame enabling the user to stand, walk or work for an extended period without requiring the user's arms to hold the frame. A motorized drive helps the user move with ease. The drive can be computer controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Robert J. Karlovich
  • Publication number: 20180168910
    Abstract: An external structural brace apparatus for supporting a user in a semi standing position on a surface includes first and second support extension beams that to attach to the surface, also included is a channel having a base with first and second legs, wherein the first and second legs extend in the same direction from opposing sides of the base, the first leg is affixed to the first support structure and the second leg is affixed to the second support structure, the channel can be lockably positioned along the first and second beams. In addition, a saddle seat with a midpoint extension portion, the saddle is attached between the first and second legs and positioned such that the midpoint extension extends opposite of the base, wherein operationally the user partially rests their buttocks on the saddle and leans their back against the base to assume a semi supported standing posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: John Threlfall
  • Publication number: 20180168911
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a system for guiding a blind and method thereof. In the system, a portable device is electrically coupled to a walking aid device, the walking aid device generates an obstacle signal when detecting an obstacle, an obstacle determination module may determines an obstacle width and a distance from the obstacle in accordance with the obstacle signal, and a route planning module may generate a dodging route according to the obstacle width, the obstacle distance and a user step size loaded previously. As a result, the system and the method are able to let user know about information of the front obstacle, and may achieve the effect of dodging the front obstacle safely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Chaucer Chiu
  • Publication number: 20180168912
    Abstract: The method for treatment using essential oil and stones uses a patient's known positive energetic-feedback response and the patient's known negative energetic-feedback response to identify therapeutic oils and stones that are attuned to the patient's aura energy field. The known positive energetic-feedback response and the known negative energetic-feedback response are specific responses that are elicited from therapeutic stones that are placed within the patient's aura energy field. In the first step in treating fractures in the patient's aura energy field, a practitioner selects a primary stone, a primary therapeutic oil, a collection of secondary stones, a collection of barrier stones, and a healing stone. The practitioner then arranges the selected stones around the patient's body and advantageously positions the stones around the work area. The practitioner then performs aura fracture identification, cleansing, and sealing processes. These processes cleanse and repair the patient's aura energy field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Kelly Sue-Meisch Larson
  • Publication number: 20180168913
    Abstract: Personal massage apparatuses and methods of use are described herein. An example personal massage apparatus may include two or more motors configured to generate stochastic resonance vibration, which can be delivered to a human body through a first end of the personal massage apparatus. In such an example, a first motor may be vibrationally connected to a second motor provide to constructive or destructive interference of the second motor's vibrational output, producing stochastic resonance vibration. Example personal massage apparatuses may be used to treat one or more of skin, muscle, bone, and/or tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Filip Sedic
  • Publication number: 20180168914
    Abstract: A massage system includes a medium and a massage machine. The medium includes data or an identification code. The massage machine includes a massage unit, a control unit, an input unit that captures data or an identification code of a medium, and an identification unit that identifies the data or the identification code. The control unit specifies a control content, based on an identification result obtained by the identification unit, and controls the massage unit according to the control content. The data may include a bar code or two-dimensional codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Nichimu Inada
  • Publication number: 20180168915
    Abstract: The apparatus for cupping includes a cupping bell, a suction chamber, and a piston member with a handle and piston skirt. The suction chamber connects to the cupping bell, and actuation of the piston member through the suction chamber creates a vacuum in the cupping bell. Skin and soft tissue adjacent to the opened end of the cupping bell is suctioned into the cupping bell for cupping therapy of the treatment area. The suction chamber has a locking device cooperative with a locking notch on the piston so that dimensions of the piston member correspond to set levels of suction in the cupping bell with continuous pressure when increasing suction during a treatment. The cupping bell has a flared portion for engaging the treatment area with less trauma and pain for the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Patrick GWEN
  • Publication number: 20180168916
    Abstract: A method of treating a tissue site is provided. The method includes applying a reduced pressure to a tissue site with a reduced pressure source. A source pressure is monitored at the reduced pressure source, and a differential pressure is determined between the source pressure and the desired tissue site pressure. If a blockage is present between the reduced pressure source and the tissue site, the differential pressure is limited to a first maximum differential pressure. If no blockage is present between the reduced pressure source and the tissue site, the differential pressure is limited to a second maximum differential pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Randall P. Kelch, Xiaolu Zheng, Reuben Walter Edgar, JR., Jonathan Paul Jaeb, Thomas Paul Lawhorn, Shannon C. Ingram
  • Publication number: 20180168917
    Abstract: A device can comprise: a trigger chamber, having a trigger elastic wall and a trigger base wall, the trigger chamber configured for relative motion between the trigger elastic wall and the trigger base wall; a connecting line fluidly coupled to the trigger chamber, the connecting line having a substantially inelastic wall; a stimulation chamber fluidly coupled to the connecting line, the stimulation chamber having a stimulation elastic wall and a stimulation base wall, the stimulation chamber configured for relative motion between the stimulation elastic wall and the stimulation base wall, the stimulation elastic wall having an exterior surface; a plurality of projections coupled to the exterior surface; and a stabilizing frame, the stabilizing frame having a substantially rigid wall, the stabilizing frame having a plurality of apertures, the stabilizing frame extending over the stimulation chamber, the projections configured to extend through the apertures when the stimulation chamber is expanded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Khalafalla Bushara
  • Publication number: 20180168918
    Abstract: A multifunctional massage device is disclosed. Aspects of embodiments of the device contemplate a number of different therapeutic components featuring massaging elements. The different therapeutic components may be used to independently or simultaneously deliver therapeutic massages to different parts of a user's body. After use, sections of the different components may be stowed away within a hollow tubular cane or cylinder by use of a connecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Daniel Liburd
  • Publication number: 20180168919
    Abstract: An excitation device, preferably including: stimulation units; a sensor; a processor configured to control the stimulation units; a power module configured to power excitation device components; and a housing configured to house the other excitation device components and to couple the excitation device to a user. A control device, preferably including one or more outputs and a housing. A method for sexual stimulation, preferably including: sampling measurements, determining actuation parameters, and actuating stimulation units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Calvin Fung, Tad Masek, Michael Topolovac, Christine Concho, Tian Yi Chang
  • Publication number: 20180168920
    Abstract: An intercourse assistance device for reducing the length of a penis that enters a vagina. The intercourse assistance device has a support body with a front side and a rear side. The support body is made of resistantly-rigid material. The device includes a region of deformably-soft material monolithically positioned centrally within the support body. The deformably-soft material is adapted to deform when in contact with the penis. The device also includes a reflexively-closable opening cut out from the region of reflexively-deformable material. The opening is adapted to removably receive the penis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Julie Fryman, Michelle Larue
  • Publication number: 20180168921
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, a method and apparatus for micro vibration, generally comprising a handheld device with a terminus having a micro vibration bar, is provided for use in combination with methods of use designed to disrupt the brain's perception of painful stimuli originating from a pain source nearby or imminently adjacent to the apparatus, thereby alleviating in part or in total the subject's perceived pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Simon Ourian
  • Publication number: 20180168922
    Abstract: A CPR chest compression machine includes a retention structure that is configured to retain a body of the patient, and a compression mechanism. The compression mechanism is coupled to the retention structure and configured to perform successive compressions to the patient's chest. Various types of chest compressions may be performed on a patient during a single resuscitation event. Some embodiments also include a driver configured to drive the compression mechanism. The compression mechanism may thus perform chest compressions that differ from each other in a number of aspects, for example the depth of the compressions or the height of the active decompressions between the compressions. Some embodiments also include an adjustment mechanism. The adjustment mechanism may shift the compression mechanism with respect to the patient so that the chest compressions are performed at different locations of the patient's chest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Fred W. Chapman, Gregory T. Kavounas
  • Publication number: 20180168923
    Abstract: A system for assisting with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) treatment being administered to a patient. In one aspect, the system includes electrodes to provide an ECG signal of the patient, one or more sensors configured to measure an intrinsic myocardial wall movement of the patient, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to perform operations including: during the CPR treatment being administered to the patient, receiving an input from the sensor(s), processing the input from the sensor(s) and the ECG signal, determining, based on processing, whether the intrinsic myocardial wall movement is indicative of a perfusion movement of the patient's heart, and providing an indication to a user of the system based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Weilun Quan
  • Publication number: 20180168924
    Abstract: The disclosed mechanical cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) apparatuses, systems, and devices have a plunger and a plunger displace sensor that can sense plunger displacement information during reciprocating cycles of the plunger. The disclosure CPR apparatuses, systems, and devices also have a microprocessor unit that can receive sensed plunger displacement information from the sensor and generate plunger driving instructions based on the plunger displacement information. The plunger driving instructions have one or both of a plunger driving force and a plunger amplitude for the reciprocating cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Anders Nilsson, Peter Sebelius
  • Publication number: 20180168925
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical use of water exerting a hydrostatic pressure higher than 1.1 bar, completely surrounding and affecting a patient's organism under total submergence, for use in prophylaxis, physiotherapy, rehabilitation and therapy of disorders, defects and injuries of skeletal system, arthroskeletal system, musculoskeletal system and other body systems such as circulatory system, nervous system, immune system, as well as pain conditions, such as migraine, myalgia and neuralgia, skin diseases, fertility disorders, potency dysfunctions, as well as overweight, obesity and defects of posture. According to the invention the hydrostatic pressure of water is preferably higher than 1.2 bar, and the patient is human being. The invention is of a particular importance in rehabilitation and therapy that follows after aesthetic medicine treatment, after surgeries, after physical injuries of motor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Krzysztof D. WOZNIAK
  • Publication number: 20180168926
    Abstract: A system for transporting a sauna device is used for storing and transporting an infrared sauna lamp. The system includes an infrared sauna lamp and a sealable carrying bag. The infrared sauna lamp emits heat and light used for therapeutic healing. The sealable carrying bag is used to store, protect, and transport the infrared sauna lamp. The sealable carrying bag includes a flexible receptacle, a lid, a first handle and a second handle. The infrared sauna lamp is placed within the flexible receptacle during transport. The lid is connected to the flexible receptacle and is used to close the sealable carrying bag. The first handle and the second handle connect to the flexible receptacle and are used to carry the sealable carrying bag. A first pouch, a second pouch, and a third pouch are placed within the flexible receptacle to carry various items associated with the infrared sauna lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Eileen Durfee
  • Publication number: 20180168927
    Abstract: The technical result of the invention is structurally creation of a biotechnical system of common blister pack elements consistently providing the drug substance with excellent ways of delivering a solid therapeutic dose orally or a liquid subtherapeutic dose sublingually. The combination of individual separate delivery routes for solid therapeutic dose orally or a subtherapeutic liquid dose sublingually is a qualitatively new structural pharmacotherapy unit enabling the postadaptation hormesis effect. The advantage of the new drug form is elimination of the pre-systemic metabolism effect in liver with a subtherapeutic dose along with systemic bioavailability enhancement, prevention of drug destruction by chlorobutanol acid in the stomach and by alkaline contents in the intestines, and body resistance improvement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Anatoly Viktorovich ZAZULIA, Vladimir Anatolevich ZAZULIA
  • Publication number: 20180168928
    Abstract: A glass tube semi-finished product or a hollow glass product manufactured from the glass tube semi-finished product is provided with a first marking with information regarding origin and manufacture of the glass tube semi-finished product and a second marking, the information of which second marking is linked to the information of the first marking, so as to enable a determination regarding authenticity of the glass tube semi-finished product, origin of the glass tube semi-finished product, and/or origin of an apparatus with which the first and/or second marking was generated on the glass tube semi-finished product. The first marking is a marking that is produced at temperatures above the transformation temperature of the glass in a counterfeit-proof manner. The combination of two markings provides a high level of protection against counterfeiting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: André Witzmann, Ulla Trinks, Reinhard Männl
  • Publication number: 20180168929
    Abstract: A needleless access vial includes a vial body for storing a liquid medication. A needleless access port is disposed within an opening along the top of the vial body. A valve having a deformable body is positioned within the access port housing, and is in communication with the access port inlet section and the access port outlet section. The valve is biased toward a closed configuration, and transitions to an open configuration upon engagement of the outlet section by a needleless syringe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Jason Stone, Julian Quinones
  • Publication number: 20180168930
    Abstract: A container system having at least two containers, wherein the container system comprises a light member which is configured to provide information through the emission of light, wherein the container system is configured to provide or trigger the light member to provide the information through the emission of light when a step related to preparing a mixture of contents of the containers is performed. In particular, triggering occurs when the containers are separated from one another and/or when a fluidic connection is created between the containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GmbH
    Inventor: Cristiano Tunesi
  • Publication number: 20180168931
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adhesive label intended to be secured to a blood bag made of PVC, Kraton, polypropylene or the like, wherein the adhesive label comprises a flexible support and a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive deposited on one of the surfaces of the support; wherein the label is noteworthy in that the support has a mineral filler rate of silica and/or calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and/or the like, of less than 50%, and wherein at 115° C., the support has an elongation greater than or equal to 2% when a test piece 1.5 cm wide of the support is suspended under tension by a weight of 375 g for 75 minutes, and wherein the blood bag at 115° C. has an elongation of at least 100% when a 1.5 cm wide test piece of a blood bag is suspended under tension by a weight of 375 g for 75 minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Adhex Technologies
    Inventors: Maud Williams, Andrée-Noëlle Dufour, Julie Matray, Christine Perrin
  • Publication number: 20180168932
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of manufacture of dosage forms for oral administration of meloxicam, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Bernard Charles Sherman
  • Publication number: 20180168933
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral dosage forms of diclofenac, and processes for their manufacture, that provide a rapidly absorbed dose of diclofenac without requiring milling of diclofenac to submicron sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Bernard Charles Sherman
  • Publication number: 20180168934
    Abstract: The purpose of present invention to provide a method for the production of an easy-to-take solid preparation, which is mainly characterized in that a coating processing for the easy-to-take property is simply performed by using a gelling agent in a dry process, without going through a wet condition, the easy-to-take solid preparation and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Momoko HAMASAKI, Anan SAKAGUCHI, Tomohito OKABAYSHI, Naohiro HASHIKAWA, Takahiro HIRAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180168935
    Abstract: A medication dispensing system is provided and includes a medicine transfer device (MTD) and a controller. The MTD transfers medicine between first and second containers. The first container initially stores medicine. The controller: determines a first predetermined amount of medicine to be dispensed from the medicine dispensing system; causes the MTD to discharge a second predetermined amount of the medicine from the first container onto the MTD, and transfer a third predetermined amount of the medicine from the MTD to the second container; subsequent to the transfer of the third predetermined amount, determine whether the second container has greater than or equal to the first predetermined amount; and if the second container has less than the first predetermined amount, cause the MTD to transfer a portion of the medicine on the MTD into the second container or discharge a portion of the medicine in the first container onto the MTD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Changhai CHEN, Daniel CHEN, Michael CHEN
  • Publication number: 20180168936
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for containing bacteria in an infant bottle that prevents unswallowed formula from returning to the unused formula in the bottle. The apparatus includes a plurality of one-way valves positioned across a containment chamber and all located between the bottle opening and the nipple. The plurality of one-way valves allows uncontaminated formula to flow out of the bottle portion during suction on the nipple. However, once suction is removed and if formula that has come into contact with the infant makes its way back into the nipple, the plurality of one-way valves close blocking the return path to the bottle portion. Should any contaminated formula makes its way through one of the one-way valves, the contaminated fluid is then trapped within the containment chamber and the remaining one-way valve is closed when suction is removed. Gaskets in and beneath the containment chamber form further sealing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Stanislawczyk, Corinne Anne Sebesta Sisti
  • Publication number: 20180168937
    Abstract: Aerogel, calcined articles, and crystalline articles comprising ZrO2. Exemplary uses of the crystalline metal oxide articles include dental articles (e.g., restoratives, replacements, inlays, onlays, veneers, full and partial crowns, bridges, implants, implant abutments, copings, anterior fillings, posterior fillings, and cavity liner, and bridge frameworks) and orthodontic appliances (e.g., brackets, buccal tubes, cleats, and buttons).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Brant U. Kolb, Bryan C. Feisel, Martin Goetzinger, Philip S. Hall, Holger Hauptmann, Mark J. Hendrickson, Kathleen M. Humpal, John W. Longabach, James P. Mathers, Roberta R. Naujok, Paul D. Pennington, Gallus Schechner
  • Publication number: 20180168938
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for use as component of a multicomponent resin-modified glass ionomer cement, to a multicomponent resin-modified glass ionomer cement and also to a process for the preparation of the corresponding compositions and of cured dental materials. The invention furthermore relates to the corresponding use of one or more compounds (S) selected from the group consisting of sulfinic acids, salts of sulfinic acids and salts of organoboron compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: VOCO GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Schmücker, Manfred Thomas Plaumann
  • Publication number: 20180168939
    Abstract: Cosmetic and dermatologic surfactant preparations, comprising (a) an effective amount of one or more gel-forming acrylate thickeners (b) 4-Hydroxybenzophenone, (c) Water, (d) further additives, if desired, for example, surfactants, electrolytes, preservatives and/or others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Julia Pruns, Katrin Vetter, Thomas Raschke, Magdalena Von-Wedel-Parlow, Horst Argembeaux, Susanne Weber
  • Publication number: 20180168940
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing hydrogel particles including the steps of: solidifying an aqueous solution in which a gel agent forming a non-crosslinked hydrogel is dissolved and which has a gel point of 30° C. or more by putting the aqueous solution into a liquid phase having a temperature of equal to or lower than the gel point; and crushing a solidified product obtained by solidifying the aqueous solution in which the gel agent is dissolved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu HIRAMATSU, Katsutake UEHIRO, Masanori ORITA, Kimikazu FUKUDA