摘要:
In the pharmaceutical industry, dissolution testing is a critical step in quality control and a standard method for assessing batch-to-batch consistency of solid oral drug delivery systems, such as tablets. One of the most widely used dissolution test devices is the UPS Apparatus 2 (paddle). At present, dissolution testing remains susceptible to significant error and test failures. Previous studies indicate that poor reproducibility of dissolution testing data and inconsistency of dissolution results can arise from the complex hydrodynamics present in the unbaffled, hemispherical-bottom, agitated vessel that constitute the UPS Apparatus 2. In the present invention, a novel dissolution testing apparatus was constructed in which the impeller was placed off-center with respect to the center point of the vessel bottom. It has been shown that the dissolution profiles in the present invention were not significantly affected by tablet location as confirmed by the value of the factors f1 and f2, which were well within the accepted ranges and did not change appreciably with the tablet location. By contrast, the corresponding dissolution tests for current systems failed these similarity tests. In addition, the flow fields near the vessel bottom were obtained via CFD simulation and were found to be significantly more uniform in e present invention than in the current standard apparatus. The present invention has the potential of becoming a valid alternative to the standard USP dissolution testing apparatuses used for dissolution testing.
摘要:
The present sprocket wheel invention enhances the efficiency of the sprockets made of two materials, e.g., a lighter material at central portion of the sprocket and a hard material at peripheral portion of the sprocket comprising teeth, by drilling half holes on the outer edge of the central portion and half holes on the inner edge of the peripheral portion of the sprocket. In the preferred embodiment, half of the thickness of the sprocket is the entire hole on the peripheral portion of the sprocket with harder materials, and the other half of the thickness of the sprocket is designed to have said half holes for rivets to attach the central portion and the peripheral portion of the sprocket.
摘要:
A process for simultaneously forming a polysilicon gate structure, for a transfer gate transistor, and a polysilicon top plate, for a capacitor structure, on an underlying planar surface, has been developed. The process features the formation of a polysilicon bottom plate, for the capacitor structure, embedded in a first opening in composite insulator layer, and the formation of an active device region, for a transfer gate transistor structure, via the selective growth of an epitaxial silicon layer, in a second opening of the composite insulator layer, resulting in a planar top surface topography. The presence of this topography reduces the risk of residual polysilicon, present after patterning of the polysilicon gate structure, and of the capacitor, polysilicon top plate.