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A hysteroscopy device with an image capturing structure located at a distal end of an elongated member and communicating video signals with a monitor. The elongated member and the image capturing structure being dimensioned for insertion into the patient's uterus through cervix.

A device for straightening sutures or pre-packaged suture-needle combinations. The device has a body formed of substantially resilient material flexible enough to be penetrated by a pointed end of a needle along with a suture inserted into it or to obtain a substantial gap when a slit is cut or molded into it. The device may be held securely in a position for subsequent grasping by a user for drawing a suture through it or attached to an OEM suture packaging. A means of engagement such as adhesive provides means for temporary or permanent attachment to the suture packaging.

A method and apparatus for treating packaging and an installation for filling and closing packaging, including an apparatus for treating packaging. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.

A peelable pouch for containing a single dosage product having a top layer joined to a bottom layer by a containment seal and a distributing seal formed with a stress riser separating a primary compartment from a secondary compartment. The primary compartment houses the product, sealed from the exterior environment. The secondary compartment includes a fold-over line. When the pouch is folded about the fold-over line the tear promoting surface condition permits a user to easily tear off a portion of the pouch and expose a portion of the secondary compartment. The product is accessed by peeling apart the secondary compartment, the distributing seal, and then peeling open the primary compartment. Preferred embodiments incorporate variation in the primary and secondary containment seal thicknesses.

A clear protective disc shield that attaches to vial that protect medical personnel hand from being injured and contamination of the needle. The protective disc shield has a circular orifice that effectuates attachment of the disc shield to a vial for the dispensing of medicine or other material. The disc shield is designed so that any contact between the needle and the upper surface of the shield will guide the needle to the circular orifice and further prevents the needle from slipping of the disc shield. The disc shield further has a smooth underside and edges to prevent scratching and other injuries to the user.

The present invention relates to a syringe, particularly to a small volume syringe such as a syringe suitable for ophthalmic injections.

Methods and systems of packaging and dispensing face masks. The method includes providing a package unit including a plurality of stacked face masks contained in a containment body having a top wall forming a passage. The package unit is inserted into compartment of a dispenser housing that otherwise includes a front panel forming a slot corresponding with the compartment. The passage of the containment body is accessible via the slot in the front panel. A top-most face mask is dispensed from the package unit through the slot and the passage. Two or more different face mask package units can be stored in corresponding compartments, with the method further including visually discerning one stored package unit from another. Other embodiments include a flexible or “soft” face mask packaging.

A device for producing medicinal foam comprises a gas vessel for holding a sterile gas and an active agent vessel for holding an active agent. A connecting element connects both vessels. Further, a feeder for feeding the gas and the active agent back and forth between the two vessels is provided for producing the medicinal foam. The connecting element comprises a closure element for a sterile closure of one of the two vessels.

The present invention provides an adhesive preparation package containing an adhesive preparation and a packaging film(s) enclosing said preparation, the packaging films being heat-sealed around the adhesive preparation, wherein the heat-sealed portion of the packaging film comprises an embossed heat-sealed portion and a flat heat-sealed portion, and the embossed heat-sealed portion and the flat heat-sealed portion each form a pattern surrounding the periphery of the adhesive preparation. The adhesive preparation package of the present invention is free of occurrence of pinholes in a heat-sealed portion and can maintain superior air-tightness and sterility.

A sterile drape for an o-shaped CT scanner and method of draping an O-shaped CT scanner therewith is provided. The sterile drape has a sterile, flexible tubular wall extending between opposite first and second ends. The first end is open and the second end is substantially closed. The wall has a first seam adjacent the second end. The first seam extends along a circumference of the wall to facilitate forming an opening in the wall adjacent the second end to allow the CT scanner to be fully closed through the opening.

A surgical device provides a retractor tool or rake with integral lighting. The device includes a retractor body having a rake finger at one end and a handle at its other end. A light source is embedded in the rake finger. A power unit supplies a current to the light source, and a cable interconnects the retractor body and the power unit. Sterile packaging is adapted to contain the surgical device, wherein the sterile packaging has a deactivation feature for preventing the supplying of current from the power unit to the light source while the device is stored within the sterile packaging, and wherein removal of the device from the sterile packaging results in automatically supplying the current to the light source.

A surgical device provides a retractor tool or rake with integral lighting. The device includes a retractor body having a rake finger at one end and a handle at its other end. A light source is embedded in the rake finger. A power unit supplies a current to the light source, and a cable interconnects the retractor body and the power unit. Sterile packaging is adapted to contain the surgical device, wherein the sterile packaging has a deactivation feature for preventing the supplying of current from the power unit to the light source while the device is stored within the sterile packaging, and wherein removal of the device from the sterile packaging results in automatically supplying the current to the light source.

A bone grinder utilizing a removable cutter head unit for maintaining the processing of bone and for substantially precluding the main body of the bone grinder from being exposed to bone tissue.

Embodiments of the invention provide shaped masses comprising one or more drugs such as proteins or polypeptides and methods for forming such shaped masses. One embodiment provides a shaped mass comprising a drug such as a protein or polypeptide having a biological activity in the body of a mammal. The shaped mass is formed by compression of a precursor material comprising the drug wherein an amount of biologically active drug in the mass is a preserved above a minimum level. Drugs which may be incorporated into the shaped mass may include one or more glucose regulating proteins such as insulin, incretins; and immunoglobulins such as TNF-inhibiting antibodies or interleukin neutralizing antibodies. Embodiments of the shaped mass may be incorporated into a tissue penetrating member which is inserted into the intestinal wall allowing for the oral delivery of proteins and peptides which would otherwise be degraded in the intestinal tract.

A liquid dispenser device including a valve with a valve member-forming portion for blocking and passing liquid out from the device, and a fastener edge for permanently fastening the valve relative to a container, the fastener edge including a tubular fastener wall sandwiched between an inner tubular wall and an outer tubular wall.

The present invention relates to a syringe, particularly to a small volume syringe such as a syringe suitable for ophthalmic injections.

An appliance (1) for tensioning ligaments, especially articular ligaments, of a human or animal body, having at least one handle (2), the or each handle (2) being in operative engagement with, in each case, a tensioning element (3) associated therewith, and with the or each handle (2) in each case a force indicator (4), which indicates a force exerted on a or each tensioning element (3) associated with the or each handle (2) on tensioning of one or more ligaments, and a displacement indicator (5), which indicates the excursion of the tensioning element (3) in question from a reference position, and with the or each force indicator (4) and / or with the or each displacement indicator (5) there is / are associated at least one marker (7A-7H), which is arranged to be detected without contact by a measurement value ascertainment system (20) associated with the appliance (1), and also a device (20), comprising the appliance (1), for ascertaining force-displacement characteristic curves of ligaments, and also a method of ascertaining them.

It is intended to provide a process for producing a packaged drink whereby filling can be performed at room temperature without resorting to using a chemical or sterile water, the favorable taste and flavor of the content can be maintained while relieving the thermal degradation thereof, it becomes unnecessary to employ a heat-resistant container or to thermally sterilize or cool after sealing, and thus both of the equipment cost and the running cost can be largely reduced. After thermally sterilizing the content to give a definite sterilization value, it is quickly cooled to room temperature and then stored in a storage tank that has been preliminarily sterilized under such conditions as being equal to or exceeding the thermal sterilization conditions for the contents. While maintaining the storage tank under positive pressure with the use of a sterile gas, the content is fed into a filling machine that has been preliminarily sterilized under such conditions as being equal to or exceeding the thermal sterilization conditions for the contents. Thus, the liquid-feeding system ranging from the storage tank to the filling machine is made a closed liquid-feeding pathway free from the invasion of air from the outside. The drink is filled into a container having been sterilized with hot water in an environment-controlled space isolated from the outside wherein the surroundings have been thermally sterilized and washed with hot water at 65 DEG C to 100 DEG C.

This invention finds application in the field of the devices and methods for physical or chemical mixing of products and particularly relates to a cartridge for storage and sterile delivery of a two-phase compound. The cartridge comprises a first tubular member (2) which defines a first chamber (3) for storage of a solid phase, having a bottom wall (6) with an opening (7) for the passage of the compound, a second tubular member (9) which defines a second hermetically sealed chamber (12) for storage of a liquid phase, and a piston which sealably slides within the first tubular member (2), means (8) for occluding said opening (7) which comprise at least one rupturable membrane (15) associated to the bottom wall (6).

This invention provides a process for producing a beverage filled into a container and an apparatus for carrying out this process. The production process comprises a container sterilization step of sterilizing at least the inner surface of a container, an internal solution sterilization step of sterilizing a beverage, a filling step of filling the sterilized beverage into the sterilized container at a temperature of 1 to 40 C, a hermetical sealing step of hermetically sealing the beverage filled container with a sterilized cap, and an in-container positive pressure holding step which is carried out before hermetical sealing for holding the inner pressure of the container after hermetical sealing at a positive pressure, all the container sterilization step, the filling step, the in-container positive pressure holding step, and the hermetical sealing step being carried out within a sterile space.

A retortable container (C) or a retortable closure (10) for use with the container (C). A receptacle (R) is included that may incorporate fasteners (F) attaching the closure (10). The closure (10) includes a retainer (20) received with a sealing barrier (100) formed from a polymeric material. The sealing barrier (100) includes a heat transfer material such as powdered metal in a volume that is between about 25% and about 65% of the closure (10) and an an oxygen barrier material such as a nanocompound or other barrier material having a relative volume of approximately between 10% and 60%. Variations of the closure (10) may incorporate seal layer of a thermoplastic elastomeric vulcanizate such as a santoprene and the heat transfer material may be an economically attractive powdered and / or oxide material such as zinc, aluminum, copper, nanotube, or similarly available material, which preferably is diffused throughout the closure (10).

User-friendly attachment mechanisms for pen needles provide improved handling and ease of use, including locking installation and removal features and sensory feedback when a needle-bearing hub is seated on a pen. Embodiments include a needle-bearing hub includes a circumferentially oriented flexible tab that engages a radially inward rib on an outer cover to assist in attaching a pen device to the pen needle.

A ultra-violet sponge holder that emits sufficient radiation to eradicate germs, bacteria, viruses and other pathogens and microorganisms on a kitchen sponge with a ultra-violet light located on a holder top which is powered by a rechargeable battery with a on / off / auto switch with a safety mechanism whereby only turning the ultra-violet light on when the holder top is closed, also the holder top contains a holder top window whereby allowing the ultra-violet sponge holder to be mobile and a holder bottom contains a sponge holder and a drainage retention area where liquid from sponge is collected.

The invention relates to a high-temperature steam biological wastewater inactivation system, and belongs to the field of high-temperature steam inactivation devices. The high-temperature steam biological wastewater inactivation system comprises a wastewater containing device, a storage tank and inactivation tanks which are connected in series through pipelines, wherein the inactivation tanks are provided with a steam discharge pipe and an inactivation drainage pipe. The high-temperature steam biological wastewater inactivation system is characterized in that: an outlet at the bottom of the storage tank is respectively communicated with the two inactivation tanks by connecting pipes; the inactivation tanks are provided with clamping sleeves; the input end of each clamping sleeve is connected with a saturated steam generator by a steam inlet pipe, and the output end of each clamping sleeve is provided with a clamping sleeve steam discharge pipe; a water inlet pipe, a connecting pipe anda steam discharge pipe of the storage tank and the steam inlet pipe, the clamping sleeve steam discharge pipe and an extinguishment drainage pipe of the inactivation tanks are provided with an air-operated valve respectively, and all air-operated valves are connected with a control device; and the control device is used for controlling the two inactivation tanks to run in a batch mode by controlling switches of the air-operated valves. The high-temperature steam biological wastewater inactivation system can realize the batch-type treatment of wastewater, is flexible in control and high in safety factors.

The invention discloses an anti-oxidation medical hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesive and a preparation method thereof. The anti-oxidation medical hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesive comprises the following components: tackifying resin, a thermoplastic elastomer, a softening agent, an antioxidant group and a tackifier group, wherein the tackifying resin is hydrogenated petroleum resin, the thermoplastic elastomer is SBS / SIS, the antioxidant group comprises a phenolic anti-aging agent, a peroxide decomposing agent and an ultraviolet absorbent, and the tackifier group comprises at least one selected from rosin modified resin, terpene resin, a maleic anhydride grafted compatilizer, microcrystalline wax, dicyclohexyl phthalate and polyisobutene. According to the invention, harm is not causedto skins during peeling while the adhesive force of the product is further improved, and all the components are nontoxic and harmless, have no irritation to the skins, and have low allergenicity. Inaddition, the oxidation resistance of the product is greatly improved, the application range of the product is expanded, and the bonding reliability is further ensured.

The invention relates to a breeding and cultivating method for a plant, in particular relates to a breeding and cultivating method for loose purple cauliflowers, and belongs to the technical field of plant cultivation. The breeding and cultivating method comprises the steps of hybridizing a loose purple cauliflower breeding material with a semi-compact purple cauliflower breeding material to obtain seeds F1, and selfing single strains with high comprehensive agronomic characters after the seeds F1 are sowed to obtain seeds F2; performing microspore culture on single loose purple cauliflowers through flower buds suitable for the microspore culture from the mononuclear edging stage to the double-core early stage to grow a large number of normal regenerated plants, selfing excellent DH plants of the loose purple cauliflowers to obtain a loose purple cauliflower excellent DH strain 03-12 serving as a recurrent parent which is hybridized with a cauliflower cytoplasmic male sterility source material CMS05-6, performing five generations of backcross transformation and selection to form a cytoplasmic male sterile line CMS08-2, and hybridizing the DH strain serving as a parent with the excellent cytoplasmic male sterile line CMS08-2.

The invention relates to a rape chemical hybridization agent composition and uses thereof, wherein the composition (SX-1) contains active constituent of 2-[3-(4- methoxy-6- methyl-1,3,5- triazine-2-group)-3- methyl carbamido sulfonyl] methyl benzoate, aerosol, emulsifying agent, thickening agent, crumbling agent and soluble starch. The invention also relates to the method of use and application in rape chemical hybridization of the composition.

A liquid dispenser device including a valve with a valve member-forming portion for blocking and passing liquid out from the device, and a fastener edge for permanently fastening the valve relative to a container, the fastener edge including a tubular fastener wall sandwiched between an inner tubular wall and an outer tubular wall.

An acrylic or other polymer composition, optionally containing aluminum trihydrate, and having undoped or doped titanium dioxide dispersed throughout is disclosed. Said composition provides a “renewable” surface and further provides a highly-sterile surface upon photoactivation of the surface by at least either low-level ultraviolet irradiation or ambient / natural light (as when using doped titanium dioxide).