Abstract:
A cartridge for a medication dispensing device which includes multiple septums. The cartridge includes a body and an axially shiftable piston in fluid-tight engagement with an interior surface of the body. The first septum covers a dispensing port that opens to an interior hollow of the body at a proximal location. The second septum covers a filling port that opens to the interior hollow. The first septum is arranged to be engaged by a dispensing conduit moving generally perpendicular to the axial direction for fluidly communicating with the interior hollow during a dispensing operation of the device. The second septum is arranged to be engaged by a filling conduit for fluidly communicating with the interior hollow during filling of the cartridge.
Abstract:
A medication injecting apparatus having a motor-driven drive member that when advanced inserts into a fluid container for forcing fluid therefrom. The drive member includes an internal hollow in which fits at least a portion of the motorized driver assembly when the drive member is retracted to allow a compact apparatus to be provided.
Abstract:
A fountain-style carbonated soft drink dispenser includes a housing adapted to attach to a beverage container, an actuator for selectively opening a fluid conduit, and one or more long tubes that vary a pressure drop across the dispensing assembly and convey fluid. The resistance through the tube(s) is decreased as the pressure within the container decreases so as to maintain a substantially constant flow rate throughout dispensing.
Abstract:
An apparatus for delivering a pharmaceutical liquid to a patient includes an outer casing; a needle cassette housed in the casing and containing a plurality of mutually parallel drug injection needles; a drug cartridge housed in the casing, containing a liquid and including a sealable aperture for accessing the liquid; a direct drive assembly housed in the casing and engageable with the drug cartridge to expel the liquid through the aperture; a lifter assembly housed in the casing and engageable with the needle cassette to drive one of the plurality of needles partially out of the casing and into a patient while simultaneously accessing the liquid in the drug cartridge through the sealable aperture and thereafter to withdraw the needle from the patient after a measured dose of the liquid has been adminstered; motor means in the casing for driving the direct drive assembly and the lifter mechanism; computer means for activating the direct drive assembly and the lifter mechanism; and, a control panel for enabling a user to activate the apparatus.
Abstract:
A medication dispensing apparatus having an actuator that is laterally squeezable to dispense medication. The apparatus includes a supply of medication that is dispensed when a piston is advanced by a drive member. A dose to be dispensed is selectively set by operation of a dosing member, which operation causes the actuator to shift in a direction transverse to the direction the piston is advanced to dispense medication. The actuator shifts in this traverse direction from a ready position a distance that is a function of the selectively set dose. When the actuator is squeezed back to its ready position, the drive member is shifted to advance the piston to dispense the medication.
Abstract:
A portable media reproduction system into which a portable media player can be inserted. The portable media reproduction system includes a docking component wherein the size of the docking component can be adjusted to fit a given portable media player. The portable media reproduction system also includes a video output connector, a subwoofer, and a passive radiator.