Ronald G Smernoff

20080302829, Dec 11, 2008

Jun 6, 2007

11/759176

Ronald B. Smernoff - Burlingame CA, US

Fulwider Patton LLP - Los Angeles CA

B67D 5/58
B67D 5/40

22218909, 2223831, 222382

The dispensing bottle includes a dispensing head with an air inlet allowing ambient air to enter an opening of a reservoir portion of the bottle, and a filter member that fits over and seals the opening of the reservoir portion of the bottle for filtering the ambient air entering the bottle to prevent contaminants from entering the reservoir portion of the bottle along with ambient air.

53778766, Jan 3, 1995

Apr 14, 1993

8/048018

Ronald Smernoff - South San Francisco CA

B65D 3556

222105

An improved bladder within in a box container having a locking flap in the outer container configured to more reliably interlock the spout and the outer container during dispensing of the contents. The outer container is configured to be conveniently broken down flat for recycling or disposal.

46042636, Aug 5, 1986

Jun 17, 1976

5/697268

Ronald B. Smernoff - Belmont CA

Analytical Products, Inc. - Belmont CA

G01N 3350
G01N 100
B01L 1100

422 50

Cell useful for equilibrating a hydrophilic liquid such as an aqueous solution held therewithin with a gas composition. The cell comprises a tube having an open end and a closed end, the closed end comprising a porous member having a hydrophobic surface, the member being impervious to flow of a hydrophilic liquid therethrough when the tube is filled therewith and positioned vertically with a closed end thereof downwardly and being permeable to pressurized flow of the gas composition upwardly therethrough. The invention is also concerned with such a cell in an apparatus for equilibrating a hydrophilic liquid such as an aqueous solution with a gas composition, which apparatus comprises a gas vessel having therewithin a gas of a selectable composition at a pressure above ambient atmospheric pressure, flow control means for receiving flow from said vessel and controlling a flow rate therefrom and conduit means leading from the flow control means to a solution cell having therewithin a hydrophilic liquid.

42538459, Mar 3, 1981

Jan 30, 1979

6/007768

Ronald B. Smernoff - Belmont CA

Analytical Products, Inc. - Belmont CA

G01N 3396
G01N 3350

23230B

Standards solutions and test samples are necessary for blood gas analyzers. Production of such standards and test samples has only been possible with relatively expensive apparatus. Such standards and test samples are provided herein by apparatus 10 which equilibrates a liquid 12 with a gas 14. The apparatus 10 includes a barrel 16 open at a first end 18 and at a second end 20. A piston 22 fits matingly reciprocally within the barrel 16. A flow control 26 allows the gas 14 to flow into the second end 20 of the barrel 16 and prevents the liquid 12 from flowing out of the second end 20 of the barrel 16. The gas 14 is allowed to flow out of the barrel 16 above a liquid level 44 therein. A method utilizing the apparatus 10 to prepare standard and test sample solutions is also set out.

D2852179, Aug 19, 1986

Aug 1, 1983

6/519376

Ronald B. Smernoff - Belmont CA

Analytical Products, Inc. - Belmont CA

D19 90

46006974, Jul 15, 1986

Jun 17, 1976

5/697269

Ronald B. Smernoff - Belmont CA

Analytical Products, Inc. - Belmont CA

G01N 3350
G01N 100
B01L 1100

436174

The invention is concerned with apparatus for equilibrating an aqueous solution with gas. The apparatus includes a gas vessel having therewithin a gas of a selectable composition at a pressure above ambient atmospheric pressure. Flow control means receive flow from the vessel and control a flow rate therefrom. A solution tube is provided having an aqueous solution therewithin. Conduit means lead from the flow control means to the tube below a liquid level of the aqueous solution. Means are also provided for causing the gas to be delivered within the aqueous solution below the liquid level as a plurality of bubbles. The process of the present invention is directed at simultaneously equilibrating a plurality of aqueous solutions each with one of a plurality of gas compositions. The process comprises positioning a plurality of solutions tubes, each having an open end and a closed end, in mating fit within a respective one of a plurality of cavities formed within a heat conductive block with the open ends of the tubes upwardly and a respective one of a plurality of aqueous solutions in each of the tubes. The temperature of each of the solutions is adjusted to be substantially equal by controlling the temperature of the block to a desired value.

D2842050, Jun 10, 1986

Aug 1, 1983

6/519374

Ronald B. Smernoff - Belmont CA

Analytical Products, Inc. - Belmont CA

D19 90

40897486, May 16, 1978

Aug 27, 1976

5/718101

Ronald B. Smernoff - Belmont CA

Analytical Products, Inc. - Belmont CA

C12B 100

195104

The invention is concerned with a micro-organism growth cell comprising a sterilized container having therewithin an agar-based nutrient gel. The gel has intimately intermixed therethroughout a specific amount of a dialkylpolysiloxane which causes a top surface of the gel to be smooth insuring a uniform growth rate for a micro-organism placed upon said top surface. The invention is also concerned with a process for growing a micro-organism upon the surface of an agar-based nutrient shell at a reproducibly constant growth rate. The process comprises intermixing with agar, essential nutrients and water, sufficient of said agar being used to insure formation of a gel, prior to the gelling thereof, a specific amount of a dialkylpolysiloxane. The resulting intermixture is gelled in a sterile micro-organism growth container to form a micro-organism growth cell as described above and the top surface of the gel is innoculated with a micro-organism. The cell is incubated under preselected incubation conditions whereby the micro-organism grows at a reproducably constant growth rate upon the smooth surface of the gel.