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Patent CA-2090309-C (CA)
Title: Transducer health and offset calibration processing system
Inventor: DRAKE JOHN W
IPC: G01M99/00
Filed: 1993-02-24
Granted: 1999-05-25
Abstract: A transducer health and offset calibration processing arrangement for a multiple axle railway vehicle including a brake cylinder transducer correction function circuit coupled to a stuck/dragging brake signal terminal, a brake command signal terminal, and a power/brake trainline signal terminal.  A zero speed latch circuit and a transducer circuit interface health check circuit connected to a zero speed signal terminal. A first three-input AND gate connected to the zero speed signal terminal, a snowbrake trainline signal terminal, and a Servotrol output signal terminal.  A second three-input AND gate coupled to the output of the first three-input AND gate and a highest axle speed signal terminal. A minimum axle rate discriminator circuit connected to each of plurality of axle rate signal terminals of the multiple axles of the railway vehicle.  A brake cylinder pressure circuit check and a brake cylinder pressure signal generator coupled to a truck brake cylinder pressure signal terminal.  The brake cylinder pressure signal generator, a transducer circuit interface health check circuit, and the transducer cylinder transducer correction function circuit coupled to a timer input signal terminal.  A transducer offset initialization function circuit connected to a cold start input terminal.  The minimum axle rate determination circuit having an output connected to the second three-input AND gate which has an output connected to a check and recalibrate enable function circuit.  The zero speed latch circuit having an output connected to the check and recalibrate enable function circuit which has an output coupled to the zero speed latch circuit, a transducer offset calculation function circuit, the transducer offset initialization function circuit, and a transducer fault code generator.  The transducer fault code generator has an output connected to the transducer circuit interface health check circuit which has an output connected to the brake cylinder pressure circuit check, the brake cylinder pressure signal generator, the transducer fault code generator, and a transducer circuit fault determination matrix.  The transducer circuit fault determination matrix having a first output connected to an event interface file, a second output connected to a seven segment display, a third input connected to a RAM fault log, the transducer offset initialization function circuit having an output connected to a previous offset storage and to the brake cylinder transducer correction function circuit which has an output  connected to a corrected brake cylinder pressure device.
Patent CA-2090971-C (CA)
Title: Liquid developer systems for imaging on transparent and opaque substrates
Inventor: LANDA BENZION
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 1990-09-19
Granted: 2002-08-13
Abstract: A method for providing an image on either opaque or transparent substrates (42) to have substantially equal apparent color saturation when viewed and including the steps of: develop-ing a latent electrostatic image on an image bearing surface (16) using a colored liquid developer in a developer system operating at given voltages; and subsequently transferring the image to the substrate (42) wherein said liquid developer, developer system and voltages are the same for printing on both opaque and trans-parent substrates. The method utilizes a control apparatus, opera-tive when the substrate (42) sought to be printed is transparent, for causing each toner image to be developed on an image bearing surface (16) and transferred to an intermediate transfer member (40) a plurality of times, before the image is transferred therefrom to the transparency, and when the substrate (42) sought to be printed is opaque, for causing each toner image to be developed on the image bearing surface (16) and transferred to the interme-diate transfer member (40) only once, before the image is trans-ferred therefrom to the opaque substrate.
Patent CA-2094148-C (CA)
Title: Fibrous superabsorbent core having integrally attached hydrophobic facing layer
Inventor: AHR NICHOLAS ALBERT
IPC: A61F13/539
Filed: 1991-10-28
Granted: 1999-03-16
Abstract: Absorbent structures are disclosed comprising a fibrous, superabsorbent core and an integrally attached facing layer. The structures can be made by forming nonwoven webs of mixtures of thermoplastic fibers and superabsorbent fibers, and a web consisting essentially of thermoplastic hydrophobic fibers. The layers are bonded together using thermal bonding. The structures are suitable for use in disposable absorbent products, in particular, pantiliners.
Patent CA-2099052-C (CA)
Title: Double-hung tilting sash type window system
Inventor: SCHMIDT MELVIN J
IPC: E05C21/00
Filed: 1993-06-23
Granted: 2003-07-29
Abstract: A window having a frame with at least two oppositely disposed side members, a top member, and a bottom member. Operably connected to each frame side member is a jamb liner having a front face and at least one jamb channel. Mounted within the frame is at least one sash having two oppositely disposed sides. The sash tilts away from the frame for easy cleaning. Within each jamb channel is a locking slide block for slidably and rotatably mounting the sash to the frame. A plough extends from the face of each jamb liner in the direction of the opposite frame side member. Each side of the sash has a sash groove for slidably mounting the sash in the frame by receiving adjacent ploughs. The plough and sash grooves have interlocking edges which engage to resist unintentional tilting of the sash. The jamb liner is mounted for lateral displacement from a first position wherein the plough is engaged with a sash groove to a second position wherein the plough is at least partially retracted from the groove so that the window can be tilted. There is a counterbalance operatively connected to the frame which has a counterbalance tab with an elongated portion having a flange proximate one end for connecting the counterbalance to the locking slide block.
Patent CA-2104102-C (CA)
Inventor: KENNEY ALAN GEORGE
IPC: B65D85/812
Filed: 1992-02-14
Granted: 2001-04-03
Abstract: A two-ply tagged infusion package comprises a tag formed of a length of stri ng (3) and a tab (5). The tag is located as one of a continuous string on a first web (1) in a convoluted form, the first we b then being joined to a second web by heat sealing rollers (8) to form a travelling two-ply web having infusion containing pockets (11), each having a tag located thereon within the periphery of the final package. A loop of string (4) of each tag is anchored  in the heat seal formed around the pockets (11). The individual packages are then cut from the travelling two-ply web by, for example, co-rotating cutting rollers defining the shape of the package. The act of cutting the packages from the web also serves to cut the  continuous string of tags into individual tags (3).
Patent CA-2110161-C (CA)
Inventor: JALONEN HARRY
IPC: A61K9/70
Filed: 1992-05-27
Granted: 2004-08-03
Abstract: This invention relates to the use of certain salts of medetomidine and its optically active enantiomers, particularly its d-en-antiomer to regulate the rate of the transdermal administration of the drugs.  Lipophilic salts combined with hydrophilic vehicles or hydrophilic salts combined with lipophilic vehicles exhibit good permeation.
Patent CA-2110622-C (CA)
Inventor: CHIANG ROBERT H L
IPC: F28F13/18
Filed: 1993-12-03
Granted: 1996-12-31
Abstract: A heat exchanger tube having an internal surface that enhances the heat transfer performance of the tube. The internal surface has ribs that run substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tube. The ribs have a pattern of parallel notches intersecting and impressed into them at an angle oblique to the longitudinal axis. The pattern of ribs and notches increase the total internal surface area of the tube and also promote conditions for the flow of refrigerant within the tube that increase heat transfer performance.
Patent CA-2114672-C (CA)
Inventor: JONES AARON U
IPC: B27B7/04
Filed: 1994-02-01
Granted: 1999-03-16
Abstract: A sawing apparatus comprises a base structure including bed rolls defining a horizontal bed plane for supporting a workpiece, a saw arbor carrying at least one saw for rotation about the central axis of the saw arbor, and a carriage supporting the saw arbor so that its central axis extends horizontally above the bed plane.  A drive mechanism selectively raises and lowers the carriage relative to the base structure.
Patent CA-2124785-C (CA)
Title: Method and apparatus for conversion of transferred digital data
Inventor: PITT JANICE S
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1994-05-31
Granted: 2000-10-24
Abstract: A data conversion apparatus and method for translating information stored in a first relational database to that stored in a second relational database, and for translating information in a relational database used by a first selected version of a computer program into information stored in a second relational database for use by a second selected version of a computer program. The apparatus and method thus allow the sharing of data by computer systems running different versions of a given software package. The data conversion apparatus includes a first file storage element for storing a first relational database having a plurality of digital records representing information used by a first selected version of a computer program, and a second file storage element capable of storing a second relational database representing at least a portion of the information from the first database for use by a second selected version of the computer program. The apparatus further includes a file management element that converts information from the first database for storage in the second. That conversion is performed as a function of the identities of the first and second selected versions of the computer program. The file management element includes table entry elements that identify, in table-like form, the procedures for translating individual records or fields of information stored in the first relational database into a form compatible with the second computer program version. Each file management table entry stores the names of software subroutines, each of which executes steps necessary for converting data between the respective formats.
Patent CA-2125087-C (CA)
Inventor: CHESTER JOHN A
IPC: G03C5/26
Filed: 1994-06-03
Granted: 2004-08-03
Abstract: The present invention relates to photographic processing, and specifically discloses the use of ethyl bis (polyethoxy ethanol) alkyl ammonium ethyl sulfate as the effective ingredient in an antistatic additive for photographic processing. The effective ingredient is combined with isopropanol and water in the ratio of 8 oz./2 oz./118 oz. (per gallon) to provide the desired antistatic coating to the photographic negatives.
Patent CA-2127181-C (CA)
Inventor: TEZUKA JUNICHI
IPC: E04B1/26
Filed: 1994-06-30
Granted: 1998-06-16
Abstract: A beam support system fastens an end portion of a wood. beam to a generally upright surface of a beam-anchoring member.  A mutually-cooperative interface structure is provided on a beam-fastening member and on the end portion of the beam, respectively.  The interface structure forces the end portion compressively against the upright surface in a direction generally perpendicular thereto automatically in response to engagement of the end portion with the fastening member in a direction generally parallel to the upright surface.  The fastening member is mounted to a wood beam-anchoring member preferably by a resiliently-deformable spring member which resiliently compresses the beam-anchoring member in a direction generally perpendicular to the upright surface thereof.
Patent CA-2129766-C (CA)
Inventor: ISHIKAWA KIICHIRO
IPC: A44B19/42
Filed: 1994-08-09
Granted: 1998-08-04
Abstract: An improved apparatus for finishing slide fasteners by cutting off an elongate slide fastener chain across longitudinally spaced element-free spaces is provided wherein a slider arresting mechanism is disposed between a cutting mechanism and a feed mechanism and movable into and out of a path of travel of the slide fastener chain for temporarily arresting a slide fastener against downstream movement while the slide fastener chain is being fed by the feed mechanism, and a detecting mechanism is operatively connected with the slider arresting mechanism for detecting the engagement between an end stop and the slider which occurs when the slide fastener chain is fed by the feed mechanism while the slider is being arrested by the slider arresting mechanism.  The detecting mechanism is operative, upon detection of the engagement between the end stop and the slider, to stop the operation of the feed mechanism to terminate the feed of the slide fastener chain and activate the cutting mechanism to perform its cutting operation.
Patent CA-2130768-C (CA)
Title: Counterweight attachment technique
Inventor: RHODA DONALD A
IPC: B23K11/00
Filed: 1994-08-24
Granted: 2005-03-22
Abstract: An apparatus for balancing an aluminum drive shaft uses a transition material to attach steel counterweights to the aluminum drive shaft. The transition material is disposed between an outer surface of the aluminum drive shaft and an inner surface of the steel counterweights. A resistance welding process is then applied to the aluminum drive shaft, the steel counterweights, and the transition material to resistance weld the inner surface of the steel counterweights to the outer surface of the aluminum drive shaft. The transition material has a first surface adjacent to the aluminum drive shaft and a second surface adjacent to the steel counterweights, with the first surface being aluminum and the second surface being steel.      In a method of balancing an aluminum drive shaft, a resistance welding process is applied to the aluminum drive shaft, the steel counterweights, and the transition material to resistance weld the inner surface of the steel counterweights to the outer surface of the aluminum drive shaft.
Patent CA-2133916-C (CA)
Inventor: SMRT THOMAS J
IPC: B05B15/00
Filed: 1994-10-20
Granted: 1998-08-11
Abstract: An actuator and corresponding base assembly, as well as a system for applying a mark onto a surface which incorporates such components. The actuator has upper and lower ends and a passage therethrough  which terminates  in an orifice  through  which material travels upon discharge from the container, the orifice located at the lower end of the actuator, comprising an actuator body having an axis which passes through the upper and lower ends thereof, and at least one pair of wings which extend from the actuator body, each wing having a lower edge, the lower edge curving continuously outwardly and upwardly from the body. The base assembly comprises, in combination,  base surface at least partially disposed in a base plane and having an opening,  the contents of the aerosol container being dischargeable through the orifice and the opening when the aerosol container actuator is seated within the base assembly, at least one wall extending upward from the base surface and defining two actuator-orienting guides, the guides being defined by substantially arcuate-shaped profiles substantially disposed in respective guide planes, the guide planes being disposed at an angle to one another of legs than 180° and at an angle of less than 90° to the base plane, the guides being capable of contacting the actuator as it is received in the base assembly, the guides being disposed relative to one another such that the rotate the actuator to guide the actuator into the seated position.  The system comprises an aerosol container having an actuator which effects the discharge of marking material from the container, advantageously the aforesaid actuator of the present invention, and a movable marking device comprising the base of the present invention.  Another system is also provided by the present  invention which allows for an operator to vary the width of a mark from its initial dimension.
Patent CA-2139571-C (CA)
Inventor: FISH ELEANOR N
IPC: C07K14/565
Filed: 1993-07-06
Granted: 2006-11-14
Abstract: A polypeptide for use as an interferon receptor-binding peptide, said polypeptide selected from the group of peptides having an amino acid sequence substantially of the formulae; CYS-LEU-LYS-ASP-ARG-HIS-ASP; ASP-GLU-SER-LEU-LEU-GLU-LYS-PHE-TYR-THR-GLU-LEU-TYR-GLN-LEU-ASN-ASP; ASN-GLU-THR-ILE-VAL-GLU-ASN-LEU-LEU-ALA-ASN-VAL-TYR-HIS-GLN-ILE-ASN-HIS; TYR-LEU-THR-GLU-LYS-LYS-TYR-SER-PRO-CYS-ALA;  TYR-PHE-GLN-ARG-ILE-THR-LEU-TYR-LEU-THR-GLU-LYS-LYS-TYR-SER-PRO-CYS-ALA; TYR-PHE-GLN-ARG-ILE-THR-LEU-TYR; and GLU-LEU-TYR-GLN-GLN-LEU-ASN-ASP. The polypeptides are useful for delivering a pharmaceutically active drug to a cell.
Patent CA-2144603-C (CA)
Inventor: BEESKAU COLIN
IPC: A47F5/08
Filed: 1995-03-14
Granted: 1998-11-24
Abstract: A display wall system is disclosed. The system is suitable for use in displaying items and can be quickly reconfigured. The system includes modules which can be affixed to a wall to form wall panels, and accessories such as shelves, hooks, dividers, and hangers which may be mounted to the wall panels. The wall panels have a generally flat front face and a grid of intersecting grooves in the front face. The grooves have generally parallel walls extending generally perpendicular to the front face of the panel. Accessories for mounting to the panel have a mounting end bearing one or more planar members which can be pushed into the grooves where they are held by friction. The planar members are somewhat thicker than the grooves are wide so that the planar members fit in the grooves with a tight interference fit. The components of the system are light in weight, durable, simple to install and can be installed with minimal waste. The resulting wall panel display system is attractive to the eye and does not have any visible seams.
Patent CA-2148618-C (CA)
Inventor: DAVIS LAWRENCE P
IPC: F16F9/10
Filed: 1993-12-08
Granted: 2004-02-10
Abstract: A damping apparatus (20) including a piston (22) having an axis therethrough. The piston includes a coaxial body (34) portion and a first and second end (36, 38) extending oppositely therefrom a long the axis.      A rigid housing (26) is coaxial with and surrounds the body (34) of the piston for forming a rigid fluid volume between die piston and the rigid housing. The rigid fluid volume includes a first fluid chamber (82) at a first end of the piston and a second fluid chamber (84) at the second end of the piston. The first and second fluid chambers are connected by a damping path (72). The damping apparatus further includes a flexible housing coupled to the first and second ends of the piston and surrounding the rigid housing to form a fluid return (78) of lower resistance to flow than the damping path between the rigid housing and the flexible housing and to allow movement of the rigid housing with respect to the piston. The rigid housing forms a first and second restrictive path (74, 76) about the first and second ends of the piston, respectively of higher resistance to flow than the damping path to allow fluid to flow between the fluid return and the rigid fluid volume.
Patent CA-2149022-C (CA)
Title: Apparatus and method for eliminating hazardous materials from cargo tank wet lines
Inventor: ANDENMATTEN ROY W
IPC: B67D7/02
Filed: 1993-11-09
Granted: 1999-08-31
Abstract: The invention disclosed relates to an apparatus and method for purging hazardous or volatile materials from external loading lines fixed to the bottom of cargo tank compartments (2). According to the invention, pressurized gas is directed into each external loading line to force the material to the lowest point in the loading line, through a purging tube, and back into the cargo tank compartment (2). In one embodiment, the purging apparatus is wholly contained on the cargo tank (1). In another embodiment, the apparatus is partly contained on the cargo loading facility and partly contained on the cargo tank (1).
Patent CA-2158109-C (CA)
Inventor: FORD DOUGLAS W
IPC: F02B61/04
Filed: 1995-09-12
Granted: 1999-02-02
Abstract: An automatic steering system (10) has a control subsystem (14) that employs a yaw rate control loop (90) and a steering control loop (92) to drive a hydraulic subsystem (12) in which the deflection rate of a steering actuator (16) is controlled without need for either a steering actuator angle sensor or an electronic steering bias integrator.  Rather, the control subsystem employs a proportional rate servosystem to control the steering actuator deflection rate and a double-acting hydraulic cylinder (34) to provide the steering bias integral action.  The control subsystem employs an electric compass (96) to generate heading data that are stored in a heading command register (102).  An heading error is formed by calculating a difference between a desired heading and the current heading.  A rate taker (94) generates  a yaw rate feedback signal by differentiating changes in the current heading.  The heading error and yaw rate feedback signal are processed to generate a steering rate command to which the steering control loop responds by pumping hydraulic fluid at a rate proportional to the steering rate command into the hydraulic cylinder to deflect the steering actuator of an outboard motor (18).
Patent CA-2166388-C (CA)
Inventor: KAMISHITA TAKUZO
IPC: A61K47/44
Filed: 1995-04-19
Granted: 2008-06-17
Abstract: An antifungal composition for external use being retentive in the stratum corneum containing as an active ingredient an antifungal agent having a high affinity for keratin, wherein the penetration into the stratum corneum of said antifungal agent is enhanced and the retentivity thereof is improved, which comprises incorporating one or more oily liquid substances selected from the group consisting of methyl salicylate, glycol salicylate, crotamiton, and peppermint oil or menthol.
Patent CA-2173316-C (CA)
Inventor: SLEPIAN MARVIN
IPC: A61L27/58
Filed: 1994-10-06
Granted: 2007-07-10
Abstract: A method for providing a synthetic barrier made of biocompatible polymeric materials in vivo which involves application of a material to a tissue or cellular surface such as the interior surface of a blood vessel, tissue lumen or other hollow space, is disclosed herein. The material may also be applied to tissue contacting surfaces of implantable medical devices. The polymeric materials are characterized by a fluent state which allows application to and, preferably adhesion to, tissue lumen surfaces, which can be increased or altered to a second less fluent state in situ; controlled permeability and degradability; and, in the preferred embodiments, incorporation of bioactive materials for release in vivo, either to the tissue lumen surface or to the interior of the lumen, which alter cell-to-cell interactions.  It has also been discovered that tenascin is a mediator of smooth muscle cell migration through interaction with specific integrin components of the cells.