General Electric Company

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Global Healthcomm, Inc.

James C Tung

Norman Werther

David L Richardson

David C Berg

James H Terhune

Gerald A Deaver

Jack P Clark

Balasubramanian S Kowdley

James Hibbert Oates

Thurman D Smith

Sampling device for marketing a drug by a pharmaceutical company includes multiple segments. One segment includes the drug to be sampled and another segment includes preprinted indicia on one side providing prescribing information for a prescriber of the drug and an adhesive layer on the other side for attachment to a patient's medical chart maintained by the prescriber of the drug. A method of sampling a drug employing the above described sampling device also forms a part of this invention.

Pharmaceutical marketing device and method of use

A pharmaceutical marketing device and system which enables a pharmaceutical company or the designated representative to communicate with all persons involved in the marketing and administration of the pharmaceutical products, including the physician, the patient and the pharmacist. The marketing device comprises a unitary member with separable sections which include a free sample to the patient, a peel-off label containing information about the drug to be affixed to the patient's chart, and forms filled out by the physician and the pharmacist with of a mailer, which is returned to the pharmaceutical company or its representatives. Additionally, the patient upon visiting the pharmacist is given a free amount of the drug by the pharmacist, for which the pharmacist is reimbursed by the pharmaceutical company.

Pharmaceutical marketing device and system

A product marketing booklet that enables a company or a designated representative to communicate with other persons involved in the distribution and/or use of products, including the physician, the patient and the pharmacist. The marketing booklet includes a first multi-panel unit having panels movable relative to each other between an opened condition in which the panels are spaced transversely from each other and a folded, collapsed condition in which the panels overlie each other. A second multi-panel unit includes panels movable relative to each other between an opened condition in which the panels are spaced transversely from each other and a folded, collapsed position in which the panels overlie each other. Attachment means are provided for removably securing the first and second units to each other with the second unit overlying at least a portion of the first unit in a position for permitting the panels of both the first and second units to be maintained either in the opened condition or in the folded, collapsed condition to form a multi-panel booklet. One of the multi-panel units includes information and/or product samples intended to be given to a recipient (e.g., a patient), and the other multi-panel unit is intended to be retained by the physician and includes information-containing substrates that can be secured to a patient's chart.

Product marketing booklet

A marketing device and system which enables a company or a designated representative to communicate with other persons involved in the marketing and administration of medical products, including the physician, the patient and the pharmacist. The marketing device comprises multiple, separable segments. These segments can include a product information segment to be affixed to a patient's chart; a disease state management segment to be affixed to a patient's chart; a mailer segment to be returned to the manufacturer of a product or to the manufacturer's representative including patient-related information and, if desired, instructions to the pharmacist to dispense, without charge to the recipient, a specified quantity of a medical product; a pharmacist receipt segment to be signed by the recipient of the free product; a bank check segment made payable to an endorsing pharmacist; a pair of prescription segments; a product sample segment and a patient-education segment for providing information to the patient regarding the disease being treated and/or the prescribed product.

A method and an apparatus for in situ ultrasonic inspection of the core spray T-box to thermal sleeve attachment weld and the core spray T-box to cover plate attachment weld in BWRs. The apparatus incorporates a stationary clamping mechanism and sliding and rotational mechanisms which are operated remotely to scan the transducer over the T-box welds and heat-affected zones thereof. The T-box weld inspection tool comprises the following assemblies: clamping jaws for clamping the tool onto the T-box arms in response to activation of a pair of pneumatic cylinders; a side slide stage having a transducer carriage which is slidable in parallel with the centerline axis of the thermal sleeve in response to activation of a first drive motor; a radial face stage having a transducer carriage which is slidable in a direction perpendicular to the centerline axis of the thermal sleeve in response to activation of a second drive motor; and a rotation stage which rotatably supports both the side slide stage and the radial face stage for rotation about the centerline axis of the thermal sleeve in response to activation of third and fourth drive motors, respectively. The transducers carried on the radial face stage are used to interrogate the T-box to cover plate attachment weld; the transducers carried on the side slide stage are used to interrogate both the T-box to cover plate and the T-box to thermal sleeve attachment welds.

Method and apparatus for remote ultrasonic inspection of core spray

An improved method for repair of incore-instrumentation-housing and related defects in a nuclear reactor system involves three stages, each with ultrasonically assisted inspections. In the first stage, a defective incore housing is removed and the exposed area and aperture at the former location of the incore housing is ultrasonically inspected using an ultrasonic probe with a tiltable disk-shaped head that self-conforms to the local contour of the reactor vessel bottom. In the second stage, a weld buildup is formed. The reactor is then sealed and the weld buildup is machined to define an aperture therethrough. The weld buildup is then ultrasonically inspected with a second probe with a centering member that is stationary as the probe body is moved vertically relative to it. In the third stage, a J-prep is formed. A new incore housing is inserted through the weld buildup aperture. The new incore housing is welded at the J-prep. The J-weld is ultrasonically inspected using a third ultrasonic probe. The new incore housing is then connected to the incore guide tube with shrink couplings, and reactor activity can be restored.

Ultrasonic probes for inspection of reactor pressure vessel bottom head

An ultrasonic method of inspecting repaired stub tubes in a boiling water reactor. The top and bottom ends of each stub tube are respectively welded to the corresponding control rod drive housing and to the bottom head of the reactor pressure vessel. Under certain conditions, a crack can form in the heat-affected zone of the stub tube adjacent to the upper weld, necessitating repair by installing a mechanical seal. A probe inserted in the control rod drive housing has transducers which transmit pulsed ultrasonic energy toward a machined surface-air gap interface disposed to reflect the pulse trains generally axially through the stub tube. The radial and azimuthal dimensions of a radial crack in the stub tube are determined in dependence on which pulsed trains are reflected back to the probe by the crack via the interface.

Method of inspecting repaired stub tubes in boiling water nuclear

Repair of incore housings using ultrasonic examinations

An improved apparatus and method for ultrasonic inspection of materials through barriers such as gaps in manufactured parts is disclosed. The improvement herein is directed to enabling such ultrasonic testing to bridge ambient gaps such as intentionally formed gaps in composite structures having a first structure for originally receiving and transmitting sound separated by the gap from another structure to be inspected. Preferably, the gap is flooded with a gas having a predictable and optimum speed of sound relative to the material of the first and second structures. Sound is propagated to the first structure in a wave packet that is transmitted through the couplant fluid. The sound is generated in a wave packet having a spatial width at least twice the dimension of the gap to be bridged. The wave packet has a contained frequency having a wavelength (relative to the speed of sound of the gas flooding the gap) to create a constructively interfering standing wave node within the gap. The sound propagated to the gas-filled gap has a wavelength which is a half-integer with respect to the gap dimension. Sound passes through the first structure, creates a standing wave node in the gas-filled gap, passes into and acoustically interrogates the second structure for flaws and reflects. Reflected ultrasoound from the interrogated second structure again bridges the gap as a constructively interfering standing wave, passing through the primary structure and then through the couplant fluid to a transducer for receipt and analysis of the received ultrasound.

Method of ultrasonic inspection of materials through opaque barriers

Method and apparatus for carrying out the in situ inspection of the shaft of a pump. A spacer coupling or link is manually removed from a limited access area intermediate the pump drive and top of the pump shaft. Inspection then is carried out through a previously formed inspection bore extending concentrically along the interior of the shaft. A probe supported by an extension assembly is lowered into the inspection bore until characterizable portions of the shaft such as a labyrinth seal region are identified. A discrete small region of interest which will initially evidence any fault condition then is surveyed with a raster scan movement of the inspection probe. Lower components of the region of interest are also identified by a next adjacent characterizable region such as a fillet welding for a journal assembly. Because of the limited longitudinal extent of the region of interest, the raster type movement of the probe becomes available. A calibration mock-up of the shaft is employed to provide ultrasonic signal readout information to apprise the operator of the presence of characterizable regions and the effectiveness of inspection transducer operation.

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James C Tung