Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Automed Technologies, Inc.

William D Yost

R Michael McGrady

David T Frederick

R Barrie Slaymaker, Jr

Michael D Coradi

Randall A Holmes

Eser Sukan

Greg Kroah-Hartman

W Michael Wright

Richard T Vangenewitt

Andrew J Frank, Jr

The system for monitoring and dispensing medical items which are dispensed for administration to patients includes a data terminal () which is connected through a network () to at least one remote computer () having a processor and a data store. The system also includes a reading device () which is connected to the network. A user of the data terminal or the reading device is enabled to select a patient for whom medical items will be used, and responsive to a request to dispense items the requested items are dispensed from dispensing devices () connected to the data terminal. A report generating device () generates reports () which include machine readable indicia corresponding to patients and/or medical items. Users may select patients and dispense medications by reading the indicia from the reports using the reading device. Certain storage locations are also labeled with machine readable indicia which may be read to indicate the taking of items therefrom as well as to indicate inventory status information. One such dispensing device in the system is a refrigerator () which is retrofit with a refrigerator lock module () which selectively enable access to medical items stored in an interior area thereof.

System for tracking and dispensing medical items from environmentally controlled storage area

An eddy current probe, especially useful for inspecting roll plugs in steam generator tubes, has a detector assembly which is automatically extended and retracted in a radial recess in an elongated body to prevent damage to the detector assembly during insertion and retraction of the probe, yet permits the detector assembly to bear against the interior wall of the roll plug, including the roll zone. In one embodiment, a mechanical actuator in the form of a pair of finger members spring biased radially outward operate through camming surfaces to rotate a pivot member which retracts the detector assembly; however, when the probe enters the bore of a roll plug the fingers are compressed to permit extension of the detector assembly. In another embodiment, a linear actuator such as a solenoid rotates the pivot member to extend and retract the detector assembly. A lost motion connection between the pivot member and the spring biased eddy current detector assembly permits the detector assembly to track the interior surface of the roll plug including the roll zone.

Probe with radially extendable and retractable detector assembly for

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West Mifflin, PA, United States of America

William D Yost