baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent EP-1047217-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MARKARIAN GARIK
IPC: H04L1/00
Filed: 2000-04-19
Abstract: The invention relates to receiving and decoding digitally modulated signals that
may be coded in either of two different transmission formats. One of the formats
may employ convolutional encoding and the other format may employ turbo
codes. The invention is particularly applicable to receiving digital television
signals. 
     After demodulation of the modulated signals, first and second decoding paths
(32,33:34,35) are employed to digitally decode the demodulated signals. The
decoding paths decode according to the two different transmission formats
respectively. The success rates of decoding through the first and second
decoding paths are determined and the decoding path which provides the higher
success rate is selected. 
     The decoder paths can automatically switch to decode signals that may be
transmitted in either of two different formats. No additional information such as
preamble sequences or a helper signal need be transmitted and consequently no
additional bandwidth is required.
Patent EP-1061614-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MURAKAMI TAKAO
IPC: H01R13/453
Filed: 2000-05-02
Abstract: A half-fitting prevention connector (200)
includes a lock arm (53) which is formed on an
outer surface of a housing (44) of a male connector
(41), and substantially extends in a fitting
direction of the male connector into a mating
connector. The lock arm (53) locks the two
connectors to each other in a fitted condition when
a retaining projection (54), formed on the lock
arm, is engaged in a retaining hole (58) formed in
the female connector (42). A shutter (55) is
formed at a distal end of the lock arm (53), and
closes a terminal-fitting port (45a) in the male
connector (41) when the retaining projection (54)
is urged by a housing inner surface (64), and opens
the terminal-fitting port (45a) when the retaining
projection (54) is engaged in the retaining hole
(58). A male terminal (62) is received in the
female connector (42), and has a spring portion
(62b) which can be compressively deformed along the
terminal fitting direction.
Patent EP-1054277-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SHAHID MUHAMMED AFZAL
IPC: G02B6/40
Filed: 2000-05-09
Abstract: The invention is as defined by the claims. Embodiments of the invention
include an optical fiber connector that supports a linear array or ribbon array of optical
fibers. The connector includes a pair of intermatable housing members that, when
mated, define a connector having a front end suitable for butt coupling to other
connectors or compatible connections, a back end for terminating an array of optical
fibers, and a plurality of waveguides or optical fiber support grooves extending from
the front end to the back end. According to embodiments of the invention, the back
end has at least one feature that increases the opening formed by the housing members
at the back end of the connector, thus making it easier to terminate an optical fiber or
array of optical fibers therein that optically couples to the waveguide or optical fibers
terminated in the front end. For example, one or both housing members include a
beveled or curvelinear portion, both of which increase the opening between the
housing members at the back end of the connector. Alternative embodiments include
methods for using such optical fiber connectors in an optical fiber communication
system, methods for making such optical fiber connectors and optical waveguide
systems employing such optical fiber connectors.
Patent EP-1058321-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KIKUCHI AKIHIRO
IPC: H01L39/24
Filed: 2000-06-05
Abstract: A process for producing an ultrafine multifilamentary
superconducting Nb 3 (Al,Ge) wire capable of generating a high
critical current density by adding Ge the ultrafine
multifilamentary Nb 3 Al wire comprising: preparing a composite
core material comprising an Al-(2 - 30)at.% Ge alloy (where
at. % represents % by atomic) 1 µm or less in thickness uniformly
incorporated into a Nb matrix at a volume ratio in a range of
1:2.5 to 1:3.5 and forming a composite therewith; fabricating
a composite wire having an ultrafine multifilamentary
structure by embedding several tens to several millions of the
resulting composite core materials in a cylindrical matrix
material containing Nb; forming a A15-phase filament having
a lower order in crystallinity inside the composite wire having
the ultrafine multifilamentary structure by a rapid heating
and quenching treatment comprising rapidly heating the
composite wire having the ultrafine multifilamentary
structure to a temperature of 1,700 °C or higher in 2 seconds,
followed by continuously introducing it into a molten metal
; coating the composite wire having the ultrafine
multifilamentary structure in the state above with copper (Cu)
which functions as a superconductivity stabilizing material;
and applying a post heat treatment in the temperature range
of from 650 to 900 °C to the resulting product to recover the
degree of crystallinity of the Nb 3  (Al,Ge) in the A15 compound. 
     Also claimed is a similar process for producing an ultrafine
multifilamentary superconductive Nb 3 (Al,Si) wire capable of
generating a high critical current density.
Patent EP-1069646-A2 (EP)
Inventor: DAVIES RICHARD SIMON GREVILLE
IPC: H01Q5/40
Filed: 2000-07-06
Abstract: An antenna for radiating at a plurality of frequencies
including a ground plane (1) serving as a reflector against
which a patch (2) is electrically driven. A further patch
(3) is stacked above the first patch (2) and is intended to
resonate at a frequency in the upper frequency band and
utilises the first patch (2) as its ground plane. The lower
patch (2) is driven from voltage sources (4a, 4b, 5a and 5b)
established on the ground plane (1) and connected to the
patch (2) by means of probe wires (10a-d) and series
capacitors (8a-d) formed within the patch. Similarly, the
upper patch (3) is driven by voltage sources (6a, 6b, 7a,
7b) established in the lower frequency patch and connected
by respective wire probes (11a-d) and series capacitors (9a-d)
within the upper frequency patch. Respective lines
joining the pairs of points are orthogonal.
Patent EP-1094406-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KUHN ROLAND
IPC: G10L15/193
Filed: 2000-08-15
Abstract: The system retrieves information from the internet using multiple
search engines that are simultaneously launched by the search engine
commander. The commander is responsive to a speech-enabled
system including a speech recognizer and natural language parser.
The user speaks to the system in natural language requests, and the
parser extracts the semantic content from the user's speech, based on
a set of goal oriented grammars. The preferred system includes a fixed
grammar and an updatable or downloaded grammar, allowing the
system to be used without extensive training and yet capable of being
customized for a particular user's purposes. Results obtained from the
search engines are filtered based on information extracted from an
electronic program guide and from prestored user profile data. The
results may be displayed on screen or through synthesized speech.
Patent EP-1089197-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LEE THOMAS S
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2000-09-11
Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for executing a
command in a computer to retrieve data from a data store connected to the
computer. A request to identify a workbasket in which an item resides is
received. Initially, it is determined whether the item resides in a
workbasket. When it is determined that the item resides in a workbasket, a
workbasket identification is returned.
Patent EP-1097860-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GOMI HIROSHI
IPC: B25J5/00
Filed: 2000-09-27
Abstract: In a walking robot, particularly a biped walking
robot (1), having a body (3) and two articulated legs
(2) each connected to the body and each having a foot
(22) at its free end such that the robot is controlled
to walk by landing a heel (68) of the foot first on a
floor. The heel of the foot has projections and packing
or filler (76a, 80, 86, 88, 90) charged in gaps between
the projections. The projections are constituted to
have a relatively higher rigidity against forces acting
in the vertical direction and a relatively lower
rigidity, which is lower than the first rigidity,
against forces acting in other directions, when the heel
(68) is landed, thereby enabling to achieve an optimum
balance between absorption/mitigation of shock at
footfall and attitude stabilization after footfall.
Patent EP-1089354-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAKEUCHI YUKIHISA
IPC: H01L41/09
Filed: 2000-09-29
Abstract: In a piezoelectric/electrostrictive device a driving
portion with a piezoelectric/electrostrictive element (2)
moves a movable portion (4), and a fixing portion (5) holds
the driving portion and the movable portion. A hole (8) is
formed by inner walls of the driving portion, the movable
portion, and the fixing portion. The fixing portion
comprises a pair of mutually opposing thin plate portions
(6,7) and the element (2) has an operating portion of
electrodes (2b,2c) and a piezoelectric/electrostrictive
layer (2a) formed on part of the outer surface of one thin
plate portion. One end of the operating portion is on the
fixing portion or the movable portion, and the other end is
on the thin plate portion. At least the piezoelectric/
electrostrictive layer (2a) extends over the movable
portion and the fixing portion. The device has high
rigidity in the width direction of the thin plate portions,
namely in the Y-axis direction, and enables rigid joining
when functional parts such as sensors, magnetic heads, or
the like are fixed to the device, and when the device  per
se  is fixed to another structure.
Patent EP-1110493-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FUKUOKA HIDETOSHI
IPC: A47L9/08
Filed: 2000-12-14
Abstract: Pressurized filtered exhaust air from a motorized fan in a vacuum cleaner body (2)
passes on an exhaust path to a floor suction tool. The exhaust air is directed by the
floor suction tool (54) generally parallel to the surface to be cleaned to agitate dust
and thus to improve cleaning performance. An electric motor (101) in the floor
suction tool drives a rotation brush (60). The exhaust air is also directed toward the
rotation brush in the floor suction tool in a direction to add rotation force to the
rotation brush. Feeder lines (107) to the electric motor pass through the exhaust path
so that the feeder lines are exposed only to filtered air. Passing the feeder lines
through the exhaust path avoids the necessity to make special provision for the feeder
lines. The exhaust path passes along a hose, and may optionally pass along one or
more extension pipes on its way to the floor suction tool.
Patent EP-1037010-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KORPI JARMO
IPC: H04N5/347
Filed: 2000-03-09
Abstract: This invention relates generally to the processing of
measured data. Especially the invention applies to the
binning procedure of data which is measured with a CCD
(Charge-Coupled Device) sensor unit. The invention is
preferably used in photometrics for measuring radiation
from samples on a well plate. It is the objective of the
present invention to create a solution, in which a good
signal-to-noise value is achieved, and the measuring results
of the neighbouring sample wells can still be well
separated. This objective is achieved in photometrics
application by selecting the binning factor on the basis of
position and size of sample wells on a well plate (530,
550). With the present invention it is possible to achieve a
maximal signal-to-noise ratio, because all pixels within the
image area of one sample are accumulated. However, since
the pixels between the sample images are not accumulated
with the pixels within the sample images (526, 546), the
problem of interference between samples can be avoided.
Patent EP-1048342-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GMEINER PAUL
IPC: B29B7/84
Filed: 2000-04-07
Abstract: In a vessel (1) inlet (7), the recirculating flow mixer (70) has an agitator system (721, 722, 723) immersed below levels (1 75) of the liquid mass, in a pre-mixing vessel (71). The mixer includes an inlet (73) and an outlet (74) for the resin. Preferred Features: The inlet opening is in the reduced pressure region of one of the agitators. The premixing vessel is tubular and has a filling connection above the liquid levels, for components forming it. Mixer agitators are offset along the mixer shaf Between first and second, there are baffles. The outlet opening (74) is adjustable or controlled. Both mixer and vessel (1) are evacuated. The liquid mass is held in the upper vessel (4). The lower vessel accepting the liquid mass, has a de-gasification system. The main vessel is cylindrical. Along it, a shaft carries agitators. Below, there is a buffer storage chamber (19). The intervening vessel section (6) is constructed as a thin layer, de-gasifier mixer. Two recirculating flow mixers may be employed the inlet, which is formed by openings (80) in the vessel walls, spaced equally around a circle centered on the main shaft (12).
Patent EP-1156727-A2 (EP)
Title: Oral hygiene device, especially a toothbrush
Inventor: ULRICH PETER
IPC: A46B7/04
Filed: 2000-02-18
Abstract: The invention relates to an oral hygiene device, especially a toothbrush. The device consists of a handle (1) and a cleaning head (10) which is provided at the end of said handle and which supports an essentially flexible material (2) used for oral and dental hygiene. This material (2) is especially detachably fixed to the cleaning head.
Patent EP-1164852-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LUEBKE CLEMENT J
IPC: A47J39/00
Filed: 2000-03-30
Abstract: An oven for maintaining cooked foods at temperatures suitable for serving the foods or even for cooking foods has a cabinet containing multiple heat sinks of channel-shaped configuration. The ends of the heat sinks open out of the cabinet, so that any heat sink may receive a tray of food from either the front or back of the cabinet. <?delete-start id="DEL-S-00001" date="20080506" ?>The interior surface of the heat sinks generally conform to the cross-sectional shapes of the trays, so that the heat sinks lie along the bottoms and sides of the trays. The heat sinks have a heating elements extended along their sides and bottoms for elevating the temperature of the heat sinks and directing heat into the trays within the heat sinks. In addition, each heat sink also contains a cover which may close the top of the tray in the heat sink and thereby retard the escape of moisture from the tray or may vent the interior of the tray.<?delete-end id="DEL-S-00001" ?> <?insert-start id="INS-S-00001" date="20080506" ?>In other embodiments, the oven includes a cabinet having a plurality of compartments therein, and a plurality of trays in the compartments, each compartment being sized for receiving only one tray per compartment. The compartments are isolated from one another in the cabinet whereby flavor from food in one tray in one compartment is prevented from transferring to food in trays in adjacent compartments.<?insert-end id="INS-S-00001" ?>
Patent EP-1171090-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BISSETT DONALD LYNN
IPC: A61K8/29
Filed: 2000-04-19
Abstract: L'invention concerne des techniques permettant de donner un aspect régulier au tissu kératineux d'un mammifère. Ces techniques consistent à appliquer localement, sur le tissu kératineux d'un mammifère ayant besoin d'un tel traitement, une quantité efficace et sans risque d'une composition comprenant a) une quantité efficace et sans risque de farnésol, et b) un excipient dermatologiquement acceptable pour le farnésol. Selon des modes de réalisation supplémentaires, la composition précitée permet d'épaissir la peau, de prévenir et/ou retarder son atrophie, de prévenir et/ou retarder l'apparition de vaisseaux en araignée et/ou de tâche rouges, de prévenir et/ou retarder l'apparition de cernes sous les yeux, le jaunissement de la peau et son affaissement, le ramollissement et/ou le lissage des lèvres, des cheveux et de ongles, et de prévenir et/ou de soulager les démangeaisons.
Patent EP-1189963-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PARFONDRY ALAIN
IPC: C08G18/48
Filed: 2000-05-05
Abstract: Cette invention concerne une composition au polyol, qui comprend en masse 60 à 97 % b1) d'un polyoxyéthylène-polyoxypropylène polyol, ayant une fonctionnalité de 2 à 6 avec 10 à 25 % d'EO d'extrémité de chaîne; 3 à 40 % en masse b2) d'un polyoxyéthylène-polyoxypropylène polyol, ayant une fonctionnalité de 2 à 6, avec 20 à 50 % d'EO total et 10 à 20 % d'EO d'extrémité de chaîne; 0 à 25 % en masse b3) d'un polyol, ayant une fonctionnalité de 2 à 6, avec au moins 50 % d'EO aléatoire. Cette invention concerne aussi un processus de confection d'une mousse de polyuréthanne souple que l'on obtient en faisant réagir a) une composition polyisocyanate; b) une composition au polyol de l'invention; c) de l'eau; et d) des additifs et des agents auxiliaires connus per se. Cette invention concerne enfin un système de réaction qui comprend A) un polyisocyanate et B) un composant réagissant aux isocyanates comprenant le polyol de l'invention.
Patent EP-1177043-A2 (EP)
Title: Dispositif permettant de traiter rapidement un echantillon d'adn par manipulation de liquide, thermocyclage et purification
Inventor: CAHILL PATRICK
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2000-04-29
Abstract: L'invention concerne un dispositif automatique, permettant de traiter rapidement des échantillons de la taille du sous-microlitre, par réactions chimiques ou enzymatiques qui impliquent une manipulation de liquide, une ou plusieurs étapes d'incubation à température régulée (notamment le thermocyclage), et une étape de purification basée sur la discrimination de taille moléculaire. On compte, notamment, parmi les applications exemplaires, la réaction en chaîne de la polymérase (PCR), des applications de séquençage d'ADN, la ligation d'oligonucléotides, la ligation répétitive d'oligonucléotides (LCR), l'extension unique de nucléotides, le traitement par un exonucléase, et des dosages d'hybridation d'oligonucléotides.
Patent EP-1192515-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CARDEN WILLIAM T JR
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2000-05-22
Abstract: L'invention concerne un système de publication qui comprend une base de données permettant d'enregistrer plusieurs documents, une pluralité d'ordinateurs susceptibles d'être reliés individuellement à la base de données; un réseau d'interconnexion des ordinateurs pour la transmission de données concernant les différents documents entre la pluralité d'ordinateurs et la base de données, un mécanisme permettant de soumettre un nouveau document à la base de données, un mécanisme d'examen de nouveau document, un mécanisme de mise en relation du nouveau document avec la pluralité de documents, et un mécanisme de publication d'un recueil d'extraits donnés de la pluralité de documents. La pluralité d'ordinateurs comprend un serveur et une pluralité de clients, et le serveur est un serveur Web pour la pluralité de clients, chacun d'entre eux disposant d'un navigateur.
Patent EP-1238101-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LOWE ALEXANDRA LOUISE
IPC: C12Q1/6876
Filed: 2000-07-24
Abstract: The invention aims to provide additional information of the identity or source of DNA sample, particularly an ethnic characteristic, such as the ethnic grouping, of the person who is the source of the DNA sample. The invention provides a method of obtaining information about the nature of a physical characteristic of the source of a sample from a number of possibilities for that physical characteristic, the method comprising analysing at least part of the DNA in the sample, the analysis determining the presence and/or identity of one or more variations at one or more locations of the DNA; providing a database containing information on the presence and/or identity of the one or more variations at the one or more locations of the DNA for a plurality of reference samples, the nature of the physical characteristic being known for the reference samples; for one or more of the possible natures of the physical characteristic, taking at least some of the reference samples having a common nature for the physical characteristic together to give a grouping and considering the frequency of occurrence of the combination of the presence and/or identity of the one or more variations at the one or more locations of the DNA for the sample in that grouping having a common nature of the physical characteristic; the frequency of occurrence being used to predict information relating to the nature of the physical characteristic of the source of the sample.
Patent EP-1208254-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CORDES INGO
IPC: D01F6/92
Filed: 2000-07-25
Abstract: Polyester staple fibres consisting of a polyester, from 0.1 to 2.0% by weight of an incompatible, thermoplastic, amorphous, polymeric additive having a glass transition temperature of from 90 to 170° C. and a ratio of its melt viscosity to that of the polyester component of from 1:1 to 10:1, and from 0 to 5.0% by weight of conventional additives, where the polymeric additive is present in the staple fibres in the form of fibrils having a mean diameter of <=80 nm.Process for the production of these staple fibres by mixing with shearing of the polyester and of the polymeric additive and, optionally, of the conventional additives, spinning at a spinning take-off speed of <2500 m/min to give spun filaments, which are combined to form tows and stretched in a separate fibre stretching stage, crimped, dried and chopped to give staple fibres.
Patent EP-1119419-A2 (EP)
Title: Lackiervorrichtung für pulverlack
Inventor: MEYER ERICH
IPC: B05B7/14
Filed: 2000-08-04
Abstract: Bei herkömmlichen Pulverlackiervorrichtungen ist die Regelung der Abgabemenge aufgrund der langen Wege zwischen Lackspeicher und Abgabeeinrichtung relativ träge. Ausserdem muss der Betrieb zum Nachfüllen des Lackspeichers unterbrochen werden. Erfindungsgemäss wird daher vorgeschlagen, in der Nähe der Abgabeeinrichtung (12) einen Pufferspeicher (20) anzuordnen. Dieser ist kleiner als der Lackspeicher (18) und wird aus diesem über eine Lackspeicher-Fördereinrichtung (22) mit Pulverlack versorgt. Vom Pufferspeicher (20) wird der Pulverlack über eine Pufferspeicher-Fördereinrichtung zur Abgabeeinrichtung (12) gefördert. Die installierte maximale Förderleistung der Lackspeicher-Fördereinrichtung (22) ist grösser als die der Abgabeeinrichtung (12), so dass gewährleistet ist, dass der Pufferspeicher (20) immer gefüllt ist.
Patent EP-1244355-A2 (EP)
Title: Une composition de lotion antivirale et un produit de tissue traite avec celle-ci
Inventor: SHANKLIN GARY L
IPC: A01N37/36
Filed: 2000-12-29
Abstract: L'invention concerne une composition de lotion antivirale calmante ainsi qu'une lingette comportant une surface imprégnée de cette lotion. Elle concerne en outre des procédés de fabrication et d'utilisation de cette lingette. Ladite composition de lotion contient un acide organique antiviral et un système d'administration topique. Ce système d'administration topique comprend un ou plusieurs polyesters permettant l'incorporation d'acides organiques dans la formulation de cette lotion. Il régule leur administration et les retient dans la couche cornée. Cette composition de lotion peut éventuellement contenir un tensioactif, un agent anti-irritation et d'autres additifs.
Patent EP-1179213-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WALS JEROEN
IPC: G11B7/135
Filed: 2000-12-19
Abstract: An optical wavefront modifier (27) is adapted for modifying a wavefront of an optical beam passing through the modifier. The modifier comprises a first and a second transparent electrode layer (42, 43) and a flat medium (46) for modifying the wavefront in dependence on electrical excitation of the medium and arranged between the electrode layers. The electrode layers are adapted to impress a first wavefront modification of a first order of a radius in the cross-section of the beam in the plane of the medium and to impress simultaneously a second wavefront modification of a second order of the radius different from the first order.