An actively heated or cooled portable container has a body with a chamber that receives and holds a liquid, and one or more heating or cooling elements in thermal communication with at least a portion of the chamber. An outer surface of the body has one or more electrical contacts. A module is removably coupled to a portion of the body. The module has one or more electrical contacts on an outer surface of the module that contact the one or more electrical contacts on the outer surface of the body, control circuitry, and one or more power storage elements that provide power to the control circuitry and/or the one or more heating or cooling elements. The control circuitry wirelessly communicates with a mobile electronic device to wirelessly transmit information to the mobile electronic device associated with the operation of the module and/or wirelessly receive instructions from a user via the mobile electronic device.

A system for purifying incoming fluid is modular and includes a heat exchanger module, an evaporator-condenser module and a compressor. The system components are arranged in a stacked configuration to facilitate gravitational flow of the purified fluid such that the purified fluid drains passively for collection. A system for preparation of ready-to-use treatment fluid includes the modular fluid purification system, a preparation station and a coupling device. The components are configured to be retained in a portable carrier that is manually operable for improved access to and mobility of the components. A coupling device can connect the flow channels of several components and can be used in preparing ready-to-use dialysate. A system prepares a receptacle and a ready-to-use treatment fluid in the receptacle.

A feeding bottle configured to receive milk for small children, the feeding bottle including a water bottle; a suction nipple; a heater; a milk powder depot that is separate from the water bottle; and a temperature sensor coupled to the heater.

Kindly amend the Abstract, wherein underlining indicates additions and strikethrough indicates deletion, as follows:

An infant feeding bottle is provided that is convenient and easy to use. The bottle can include a formula reservoir, comprising sealed and sterilised formula for consumption by an infant; a teat, through which the formula from the formula reservoir may be consumed; and an exothermic self-heating element, configured to heat the formula in the formula reservoir upon activation thereof. The exothermic self-heating element includes one or more mixing elements, configured to assist in mixing elements of an exothermic reaction of the exothermic self-heating element.

A supple carrier for carrying a container of medically useful solution or suspension. The supple carrier includes a first monitoring window providing a first visualization perspective of the container contained by the envelope and one or more adjustable pressurizers. The supple carrier can delay the temperature change of the medically useful solution or suspension carried by the carrier.

The presently disclosed subject matter is directed generally to multilayer films suitable for use in forming pouches, such as (but not limited to) bioprocessing pouches. When used in the formation of solution pouches, the disclosed films help prevent or reduce the number of seal failures, such as during transportation or use. The disclosed films comprise first and second vibration dampening layers and first and second barrier layers.

One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a bag for storing platelets or contaminated blood previously withdrawn from a subject. The bag can comprise a flexible, closed container and at least one removable heat transfer member adhered to an outer surface portion of the container. The container can include an inlet therein that forms part of the container. The inlet can be adapted for fluid-tight connection to a tube member through which the platelets or contaminated blood are caused to flow.

An apparatus, comprising an environmental control element configured to control at least one environmental condition of a substance contained within a chamber, the environmental control element includes a thermal insulator configured to provide a thermal shield to the substance and a phase change material (PCM) configured to thermally regulate at least one environmental condition. The environmental control element is configured to control the environmental condition without use of an external power source, thereby allowing the apparatus to be thermally self-recharging.

A device for dry thawing biological substances and methods for using the same are provided. The dry thawing device can be configured to receive a biological substance within a woven pocket. The woven pocket can include temperature sensors configured to measure a temperature of the interior volume and heating elements configured to heat an interior of the woven pocket 106 based upon the measured temperature to avoid overheating or underheating the biological substance during thawing. The woven pocket can also include mechanical vibrators configured to agitate the biological substance during thawing to achieve an approximately homogeneous temperature profile within the woven pocket.

An air-cooling micro drop pill capsule production line comprises a drop pill system, an air-cooling circulation system and a control system. The drop pill system comprises a molten material tank and a dripper. A vibration apparatus is arranged between the molten material tank and the dripper, and drives the dripper to vibrate up and down. A vibration shear force cuts liquor flowing out from the dripper into drops, and drop pills are formed after the drops fall into the air-cooling circulation system and are cooled. An online monitoring apparatus is arranged on the dripper, and comprises a pulse signal emission mechanism with an emission frequency which is the same as a vibration frequency of the vibration apparatus. The control system controls and regulates a dropping parameter according to a monitoring result of the online monitoring apparatus. The present invention combines vibration dropping, online monitoring and controlling, air cooling, and fluidized drying and coating together, which satisfies the requirement of high-speed dropping, micro pill preparation and improving a drug-loading capacity. Thus, the drug-loading capacity of drop pills can be multiply improved, the usage of auxiliary materials and the dosage can be greatly reduced, organic solvent residual can be completely avoided, and requirements of different processes including slow-release coating, film coating and sugar coating can be satisfied.