Electricity: measuring and testing – Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components – Instruments and devices for fault testing
Reexamination Certificate
2009-06-25
2011-11-08
Phan, Huy Q (Department: 2858)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components
Instruments and devices for fault testing
C324S556000, C211S001000, C211S007000, C211S010000, C700S231000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08054086
ABSTRACT:
A method for dispensing and detecting solid pharmaceutical articles includes: forcing an article through a dispensing channel and past a sensor configured and positioned to detect the article passing through the dispensing channel, wherein the article includes one of the solid pharmaceutical articles; generating a detection signal using the sensor responsive to the article passing through the dispensing channel, wherein the detection signal indicates a time that the article takes to traverse the sensor; and determining whether the article is a complete article or an article fragment responsive to a comparison of the time indicated by the detection signal and an article fragment travel time representing an expected travel time for a complete article to traverse the sensor that is determined independent of physical attributes of the solid pharmaceutical articles.
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Examiner's Report dated Jul. 12, 2011 for counterpart application CA2,670,896.
Le Son
Myers Bigel & Sibley & Sajovec
Parata Systems, LLC
Phan Huy Q
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