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Robert J Sullivan

Jon Alfred Casey

Candace A Sullivan

Michael A Cohn

Michael E Cropp

John Ulrich Knickerbocker

Andrew H Vogel

David Clifford Long

Krishna Gandhi Sachdev

Robert Anthony Rita

Dinesh Gupta

Glenn A Pomerantz

Ryan Wayne Wuthrich

Donald W Diangelo

Christopher N Collins

Daniel S Mackin

James C Utter

John F Harmuth

Bruce E Tripp

David E Speed

Lester W Herron

James N Humenik

Thomas Edward Lombardi

David B Goland

John Joseph Garant

Joseph P DeGeorge

James Robert Wylder

Alan Piciacchio

Abubaker S Shagan

Teresa L Pinto

Robert C Greenlese

Kurt Elmer Bastian

Italo A DiNunzio

Leslie J Wiands

Adrienne M Tirch

James J Burte

John Paul Gauci

An Internet-based system and method facilitates interactive placing and acceptance of patient referrals within a health care community. A referring health care provider accesses the proposed specialty clinic or other provider through the system, identifies the patient and pertinent medical conditions, and responds to interactive queries put by the system to qualify the patient and his or her medical condition for the referral. The system automatically accepts or rejects the referral, proposes prior tests or treatments for the patient before another referral attempt is made, or accepts the referral subject to tests being completed. Accepted referrals are then scheduled by staff depending on their urgency as indicated in the interactive querying system. Rules governing the interactive querying are set by physicians and managers of the community and can be changed as conditions warrant. Security of patient information in the system in accordance with federal HIPPA requirements is readily provided via passwords and user log-ins.

Rules-based health care referral method and system

An interface layer for separating first and second microelectronic ceramic substrates during firing includes a thermally degradable binder, preferably a polymer, that degrades at temperatures above room temperature and below a firing temperature for the microelectronic ceramic substrates, and a separating material, such as boron nitride or graphite. The method of making the interface layer includes mixing the binder, one or more solvents for the binder, a plasticizer and the separating material for a sufficient period of time to form a homogeneous mass, then casting the material in a thin sheet to form the interface layer.

Method of making an interface layer for stacked lamination sizing and sintering

A cleaning method and related apparatus for cleaning semiconductor screening masks using an aqueous alkali detergent solution applied under high pressure simultaneously from both sides of the mask, followed by a drying step that uses air knives to blow off the mask surface any residual cleaner solution.

System for cleaning residual paste from a mask

Greensheets having enhanced flexibility and strength are prepared from a greensheet casting composition comprising alumina or other ceramic having a mean particle size of less than about 1 micron and being substantially unimodal, a binder resin, a solvent system and a plasticizer. The greensheets may be formed having a thickness of about 50 microns using conventional greensheet fabricating devices. The greensheets are particularly suitable as dielectric layers for internal layer capacitors in a multilayer ceramic substrate. A preferred co-sintering heating profile to avoid blistering of the MLC package is also provided to form the capacitor containing MLC.

Process for fabricating a multilayer ceramic substrate from thin

Optimized in-line mask cleaning system

Camber of ceramic substrates is prevented by placing a conformable load tile over substrates during sintering. The conformable load tile has an initial curvature that facilitates escape of substrate binder gases during a burn out cycle. Subsequently, the conformable load tile conforms to the substrates under the higher heat of sintering temperature to maintain flatness of the substrates. To prevent sticking of the conformable load tile to the substrates, the conformable load tile is provided with a nonstick surface.

Weighted sintering process and conformable load tile

A process for making multiple microelectronic ceramic substrates uses an interface layer between stacked layers of green sheets that are laminated with the interface layer, then fired to produce the ceramic substrates. The interface layer acts to protect the substrates, and to hold them together before firing, then thermally degrades at a desired point in the firing cycle to separate the individual substrates. The invention also includes the ceramic substrates produced by the method.

Method of using an interface layer for stacked lamination sizing and

Method of making an interface layer for stacked lamination sizing and

Process for producing multilayer ceramic substrates using greensheet technology and thin dielectric ceramic greensheets for miniaturization purposes. The process avoids the screening of the thin greensheets by forming self-supporting fusible particulate metal electrode layers, interposing them with the thin greensheets and sintering the assembly to form the multilayer substrates such as integrated capacitors.

Multilayer ceramic substrates having internal capacitor, and process for

Process for producing circuitized greensheets including multi-layer ceramic sub-laminates and composites comprising thin ceramic greensheets carrying and thin, fine line patterned conductive metal layers. The invention comprises releasably-supporting the thin greensheets on a temporary carrier support having an ablatable release layer, preferably over a patterned conductive layer, and filling the vias with conductive metal paste, whereby the thin greensheets are supported against warpage and distortion. The supported greensheets are formed as single layers, pairs and stacks thereof, as desired, and thereafter separated from the temporary support for use.

Process for producing circuitized layers and multilayer ceramic

A combination retractable syringe and injector enclosure are disclosed. A hypodermic syringe is placed into the injector enclosure and attached to a spring-loaded plunger. The plunger terminates in a tubular case that houses a coil spring and extends out from one end of the injector enclosure. An empty syringe may be filled by loading the injector with the empty syringe, engaging the plunger with the empty syringe, positioning a canula or needle of the syringe for collecting a fluid, and then withdrawing the case and plunger from the end of the injector enclosure. This causes the syringe to pull fluid from the canula and into the body of the syringe. In an alternate use, a fluid in a full syringe is dispensed by loading the injector enclosure with the full syringe, engaging the plunger with the full syringe, positioning the canula for injection, and then pushing the case into the injector enclosure. Upon the complete dispensing of the fluid within the syringe, two disengaging means within the injector enclosure come into contact with two corresponding locking means within the enclosure, thereby freeing the spring within the case to retract the syringe completely into the injector enclosure. As such, the canula is automatically withdrawn from the injection site and retained safely within the injector enclosure. The entire device is then safely discarded.

Retractable syringe applicator

A self retracting hypodermic syringe resembles and is used like a standard syringe except that it is automatically disabled at the instant that the injection is completed. During the injection, the plunger is pressed into the syringe body. When the plunger reaches the front of the syringe an actuating element attaches to the needle assembly and unlocks it from the syringe body. At the same time a spring is unlatched driving the injection needle into the body of the syringe. In order to actuate the spring the plunger must be driven beyond a detent provided for tactile identification of the limit of travel for the purpose of filling the syringe. After use, the needle cannot be retrieved and the syringe is not reusable. The fast withdrawal of the needle from the patient results in much less pain.

Self retracting hypodermic syringe

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Pleasant Valley, NY, United States of America

Robert J Sullivan