baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent EP-0730229-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HODGES PAUL
IPC: G11B20/18
Filed: 1996-01-17
Abstract: A data storage system (400) including a controller (402) and a string of multiple DASDs (404-407), where each DASD is responsive to commands from the controller to perform local operations such as XOR functions and transferring data to other DASDs. A bus (410), which may comprise a serial or a parallel bus, electrically interconnects the controller and the DASDs. Each DASD includes a storage apparatus (420), an interface (412), a buffer (422), and processor (418). The buffer selectively receives data from the interface and the storage apparatus. In addition to other operations, the processor is responsive to commands from the controller to the buffer interface to perform an XOR operation on selected items of data in the buffer. The processor may additionally direct the results of the XOR operation to another DASD or to the controller. The data storage system of the invention may advantageously be operated to perform a task requiring the performance of multiple XOR operations, wherein each DASD performs an XOR operation on data and transmits the result to another DASD in accordance with a "daisy chain" specified for that task. Hence, controller workload is reduced and computational efficiency is increased by distributing the XOR operations among the DASDs.
Patent EP-0727699-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ZENGERLE PAUL L C O EASTMAN KO
IPC: G03C1/795
Filed: 1996-02-16
Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising a polyester support bearing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion layer, the support having adjacent thereto a polymer-containing subbing layer, the subbing layer having adjacent thereto a layer comprising a hydrophilic binder containing dispersed droplets of a high boiling hydrophobic organic liquid, said liquid having a logarithm of its octanol/water partition coefficient (log P) value greater than 7.7. The invention also includes a process for preparing a photographic element of the invention and a process for forming an image in an element of the invention. The invention further includes a photographic element comprising a polyester support bearing a hydrophilic layer containing an antihalation agent, such as elemental silver, with or without an intervening subbing layer.
Patent EP-0731348-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ASGHAR SAF
IPC: G10L19/00
Filed: 1996-03-07
Abstract: A digital voice data storage and retrieval system using a low bit rate encoder which provides enhanced speech signal quality while also reducing memory size requirements. The system comprises a voice coder/decoder which preferably includes a digital signal processor (DSP) and also preferably includes a local memory. During encoding of the voice data, the voice coder/decoder receives voice input waveforms and generates a parametric representation of the voice data. A storage memory is coupled to the voice coder/decoder for storing the parametric data. During decoding of the voice data, the voice coder/decoder receives the parametric data from the storage memory and reproduces the voice waveforms. According to the invention, an interframe smoothing method is performed on the parametric data after encoding of all of the speech data has completed and the parametric data has been stored in the storage memory. The interframe smoothing is performed either in the background after the coding process has completed or in real time during the decoding process immediately prior to converting the parametric data back to signal waveforms. Since all of the voice input data has already been converted to parametric data and stored in memory, parametric data from a virtually unlimited number of prior and successive frames is available for use by the smoothing algorithm. Therefore, the present invention provides more accurate smoothing and provides enhanced speech signal quality over prior systems.
Patent EP-0733575-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KENNEDY JAMES WALTER
IPC: A47K17/02
Filed: 1996-03-20
Abstract: The invention provides a bag dispenser comprising a container (10) having a back plate (12) intended to be attached to a vertical surface, and a cover (16) which can be opened for loading the container with a plurality of bags (11) and which has an opening (40) through which the bags can be dispensed one after the other. A dividing member (30) is provided within the container around which dividing member the bags can be folded, and the cover is hinged to the bottom of the back plate during loading of the container, whereby the bags become folded around the dividing member by the cover as the cover is closed. The invention also provides a method of dispensing bags one after the other from the container, the bags (11) being loaded into the container (10) so that they hang substantially vertically of the back plate (12), and folded around the dividing member (30) by the step of closing the cover (16).
Patent EP-0735390-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FUNABASHI MASAAKI
IPC: G02B6/30
Filed: 1996-04-01
Abstract: A waveguide-type optical device is constituted by an optical waveguide circular rod (3) inside which an optical waveguide device (1) is fixed and supported, an optical fiber circular rod (4) inside which the end of an optical fiber (2) is fixed and supported and a circular sleeve (5) within both ends of which the optical waveguide circular rod (3) and optical fiber circular rod (4) are fitted. An optical waveguide (1) and an optical fiber (2) can be readily aligned by forming the circular rod (3) in a circle so that one optical waveguide in an optical waveguide device (1) is located in the center and the circular rod (4) in a circle so that one optical fiber (2) is located in the center. Another optical.waveguide and another optical fiber can be readily aligned by setting a position in the peripheral direction and fitting both the circular rods (3,4) and to the circular sleeve (5). An optical fiber (2) and an optical waveguide device (1) can be readily connected.
Patent EP-0758085-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BECK DAVID A
IPC: G01N22/00
Filed: 1996-05-30
Abstract: An instrument 10 and methods are disclosed for determining one or more physical properties (e.g. moisture) of a web or other material. A resonant cavity 50 in a receptacle 32 of the instrument resonates at a known band of frequencies, the instrument 10 generating in 14 a constant frequency signal within the known band, and at 16 it divides the signal into a measuring signal and a reference signal. In use, with the instrument proximate the web, the measuring signal is passed into the resonant cavity 50, a first fraction passing through the resonant cavity, incurring a phase shift, while a A second fraction is reflected from the cavity. The phase shift in the measuring signal is compared in phase difference detector 36 to the reference signal, and a first output signal is sent to a controller 58, while the magnitude of the reflected signal is determined by a power detector 26, and a second output signal is sent to the controller 58. Using the first and second output signals, the controller calculates a resultant property value (e.g. moisture content), using the combined values of phase shift and reflected power to cancel out the effect of distance of the e.g. moisture from the resonant cavity. The instrument 10 can also determine length, speed of travel, temperature, and vibration, of the web, and the controller 58 can combine such measurements mathematically, determining the location in the web of, for example, given readings of moisture and temperature, as well as the general condition of the web.
Patent EP-0762340-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PRICE-FRANCIS STEPHEN
IPC: G06K9/00
Filed: 1996-08-29
Abstract: A system for verifying that a card possessor is the authorized card owner compares scanned fingerprint data with fingerprint data encoded on an optical card. More than one of the person's fingerprints are encoded on the card, and the process of identification of the card possessor involves the random selection of separate fingerprints for scanning and comparison- against the encoded fingerprints. A card reader/writer reads fingerprint characteristic information from an optical card inserted therein and a processing unit, connected to a fingerprint scanner and card reader/writer extracts from the scanned fingerprint certain well known indicators, and matches the recorded fingerprint characteristic data with the scanned fingerprint characteristics to establish identity therebetween.
Patent EP-0787970-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WOLLMANN CHRISTIAN DR
IPC: G01B11/24
Filed: 1997-02-05
Abstract: The equipment includes a monochromatic laser scanner and a photoreceiver having at least two channels formed by splitting of the reflected beam preferably by a semi-transparent mirror (10). Both portions of the beam are focused by lenses (16,17) onto preferably p-i-n photodiodes (19,20). In one channel an intermediate image plane is formed by another lens (15), and an optical filter (18) modulates spatially the flux reaching the detector, whose signals are converted into a profile of the surface under inspection. Those in the other channel are processed to produce a grey-scale image.
Patent EP-0794230-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ANDO KATSUHIRO
IPC: C08K5/07
Filed: 1997-03-04
Abstract: A curable resin composition containing (a) an oxyalkylene polymer which comprises at least one silicon-containing group having at least one hydroxyl or hydrolyzable group bonded to a silicon atom, (b) an epoxy resin, (c) a ketimine compound and (d) a carbonyl compound, which has improved storage stability.
Patent EP-0807389-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RAINER WOLFGANG
IPC: A47B49/00
Filed: 1997-04-14
Abstract: The containers (2a,2b,2c) are swivel mounted above each other on the holder bar (3). The containers are each separately pivoted on a vertical pivot axis by means of a separate holder and swivel piece (4) between each container and the bar. The bar is held and fixed by a fixture (5). Each container consists of a one-piece, plate shaped blank made of flexible material with pre-set fold or bending edges. The blank has at least two side walls and back. Walls, covers or bases can be added.
Patent EP-0802280-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BAKER SAMUEL M
IPC: B32B7/08
Filed: 1997-04-16
Abstract: A substantially planar jointed multi-layer industrial fabric, assembled from at least one segment comprising at least one woven or nonwoven ply, in which the joints utilize jointing yarns or formed structures. The jointing yarns or formed structures are placed at selected locations, such as the lateral edges, of at least one planar surface of a ply of the at least one, or first, fabric segment, and interlock in mating engagement with corresponding jointing yarns or formed structures either in at least one surface of a ply of a second segment, or in another location on the first fabric segment, to provide an integral joint. The joints are comprised of shaped yarns and formed structures which in any combination form mating engagements substantially within the plane of the fabric, such as in hook-and-loop or slot-and-rib type joints, and the like. The fabric is assembled by engaging and interlocking the jointing yarns or formed structures, for example by overlapping the segments, in either a spiral winding process or piecewise fashion, so that the jointing yarns or structures provided in the segment ply are engaged and interlocked. Further secondary processing of the joint is not required. The at least one segment may be a single continuous strip, a plurality of strips, or panels, into which the jointing structures have been incorporated.
Patent EP-0808639-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GLEGYAK JOHN A
IPC: A61N1/39
Filed: 1997-05-20
Abstract: The present invention provides for a patient-worn energy delivery apparatus for imparting electrical therapy to the body of a patient responsive to an occurrence of a treatable condition. The apparatus includes a voltage converter for converting electrical energy from an initial voltage to a final voltage at a plurality of charging rates, and a defibrillator electrically coupled between the converter and the patient and having an energy reservoir for receiving the electrical energy. The defibrillator produces preshaped electrical pulses such as defibrillation pulses and cardioversion pulses. The apparatus additionally includes an energy delivery controller electrically coupled to the patient and the converter and the defibrillator. The controller causes the converter to provide the electrical energy to the defibrillator at a specific charging rate in response to an energy level in the reservoir. The apparatus may include a plurality of electrodes interposed between the defibrillator and the patient and each electrode preferably has an impedance reducing means contained therein. One embodiment of the apparatus may include a H-bridge to produce a positive-going pulse segment and the negative-going pulse segment within the biphasic exponential signals.
Patent EP-0811644-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WICKS DOUGLAS A
IPC: C08L75/00
Filed: 1997-06-03
Abstract: The present invention relates to heat-curable, cyclic isocyanate addition products
     i) which are the reaction products of a polyisocyanate having two or more isocyanate groups with a compound containing two or more isocyanate-reactive groups and   ii) in which at least 10% by weight of the reaction products are in the form of cyclic groups containing urea and/or urethane groups.   
     The present invention also relates to a process for the preparation of these cyclic isocyanate addition products and to the products obtained by curing these compositions at elevated temperatures, e.g., coatings, adhesives, molded articles, elastomers and foams.
Patent EP-0821060-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HOEFLER HEINZ PROF DR
IPC: C07K1/06
Filed: 1997-07-23
Abstract: The present invention describes monoclonal antibodies which are useful for the specific detection of diffuse gastric carcinoma. Further embodiments describe therapeutic and diagnostic means for the detection and for the therapy of diffuse gastric carcinomas.
Patent EP-0831252-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MEYERLE HANNELORE
IPC: B60T10/00
Filed: 1997-09-20
Abstract: The transmission has a hydrostatic (4c) or mechanical converter with a hydrodynamic, hydrostatic or electrical retarder. The retarder is automatically activated during braking, whereby the retarder is activated as well as the operational brake depending on the actuation signal. The retarder braking force takes up part of the full operating braking force and the distribution of forces between the operating brake and the retarder is pref. determined by a predefined program.
Patent EP-0876010-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI TAKASHI
IPC: H04B10/564
Filed: 1997-10-17
Abstract: An optical transmitting apparatus comprises: identification level
output means which outputs identification level information which is
required when the logical level of each transmission data is
determined by a received signal, which has been made an optical-to-electrical
conversion by an opposing optical receiving apparatus;
and a light emitter for identification level which performs an
electrical-to-optical conversion of the identification level information
from the identification level output means and irradiates toward a
light transmitting path for exclusive use with the identification level
information. On the other hand, An optical receiving apparatus,
comprising: a light sensing means for identification level which
performs an optical-to-electrical conversion of an optical signal
arrived via a light transmitting path for exclusive use with
identification level information for logical level identification of the
data, which data having been transmitted in the same way by the
optical transmitting apparatus; and identification level supplying
means which outputs an identification level determined by an electric
signal from the light sensing means for identification level.
Patent EP-0846815-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FRANK KARLHEINZ
IPC: E04B7/18
Filed: 1997-11-06
Abstract: The pivot comprises a spring device (16) which is provided as an aid to pivoting of a roof window having a frame (2) for mounting and a movable casement frame (3). One end of the device (21) cooperates with the main frame while the other end (32) can pivot on the casement frame, which is pivotably supported on auxiliary frame sections (10). Preferably, the spring device is a telescopic spring member (18) operating axially and its first end fits in a socket (26) within the main frame, the first end lifting out of the frame socket when the casement frame is swung around a large angle. The spring is preferably in the form of a pressurised gas spring.
Patent EP-0849750-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PIZZATO BERNARDO
IPC: H01H27/00
Filed: 1997-11-07
Abstract: A timed safety switch, particularly for accident-prevention
doors of machines and apparatus, includes an enclosure (2)
which can be anchored to the machine and internally
accommodates a series of fixed electrical contacts (3) and
of moving electrical contacts (3'), devices (4, 5) for
locking the door which includes a safety key (4) which can
be anchored to the door and can be inserted in a slot (7) of
the enclosure (2), delay devices (11) which can move between
an active position and an inactive position and are suitable
to anticipate or delay the operation of the locking devices
(4, 5) with respect to the actuation of the switch,
clearance-providing devices (8) which can move to allow the
insertion/extraction of the key (4) through the slot (7)
only when the delay devices (11) are in their inactive
position, so as to prevent accidental actuations of the
switch when the door is open. The delay devices, the locking
devices and the clearance-providing devices are of a
mechanical type in order to ensure maximum reliability and
safety.
Patent EP-0849510-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WAGNER NORBERT
IPC: F16H63/36
Filed: 1997-11-07
Abstract: The gear lock, for the gear switch shafts (1-3) of a vehicle cogwheel gearbox, is bonded to the gearbox housing. The lock swings round an axis (8), and has at least two locking bodies to grip round the centre shaft (2) of the three shafts (1-3).
Patent EP-0798724-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YOKOTA TEPPEI
IPC: G11B7/0037
Filed: 1993-05-21
Abstract: Record position information is recorded in a lead-in area disposed on an innermost peripheral side of a disc. When a record commanding means for commanding a start of recording operation is operated while a reproducing operation of a reproducing means is being stopped, a recording head is moved to a blank area on the disc which is detected on the basis of the record position information recorded in the lead-in area and input data is recorded in the blank area. When the record commanding means for commanding a start of recording operation is operated while the reproducing operation of the reproducing means is being paused, the recording head is moved to a position of a signal which has been outputted when the recording operation has been paused and the input data is recorded from this position.
Patent EP-0785551-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ICHIKAWA TAKAHIRO
IPC: G11B20/18
Filed: 1997-01-22
Abstract: Error correction decoding apparatus decodes error correction encoded data reproduced from a recording medium by decoding the encoded data to produce decoded data in frame units and by generating decoding information in frame units; the decoded data and decoding information are stored in correspondence by frame unit and the decoded data and decoding information are retrieved from storage while frame synchronizing with address data representing a physical location of the encoded data on the recording medium.
Patent EP-0807654-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ZAKIKHANI MOHSEN
IPC: C08G18/38
Filed: 1997-04-25
Abstract: A polymer composition including phosphorus substituents which comprises:
     (a) a phosphono - substituted carboxylic acid or an ester of such acid; and   (b) a mono- or polyfunctional entity polymerisable with (a).   
     Substances suitable for use as (a) are aliphatic or aromatic phosphono-substituted dicarboxylic acids or esters thereof. 
     Substances suitable for use as (b) are polyhydric alcohols, aliphatic mononuclear or polynuclear aromatic polycarboxylic acids or esters or anhydrides thereof. Also suitable for use as (b) are aliphatic or aromatic polyamines and aliphatic or aromatic polyisocyanates or poly-epoxides.
Patent EP-0810560-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TOGNAZZINI BRUCE
IPC: G07F7/10
Filed: 1997-05-20
Abstract: The signature comparison process associated with bank approval processes is automated using signature capture devices and a stored database of valid signatures. A signature is captured as part of a normal credit transaction, digitized and compared with entries in a database of known valid signatures. In an automated gas pump environment, the signature is captured, compared and approved before any gas is dispensed.
Patent EP-0808637-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SAMSON GENE
IPC: A61B17/00
Filed: 1997-05-22
Abstract: This is a distal-most section of a catheter suitable for treating a tissue target within the body, which target is accessible through the vascular system. Central to the invention is a multi-component or multi-layer catheter section used distally on an endovascular catheter. In particular, the inventive catheter section has at least one interior stiffener member and an exterior tubing member. Between the at least one interior stiffener member and the exterior tubing member is a metallic braid.
Patent EP-0822676-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OZAWA SHOICHI
IPC: G02F1/01
Filed: 1997-07-30
Abstract: The invention relates to an optical integrated circuit
for bidirectional communications which is able to achieve
a downsizing and high integration with the production cost
thereof decreased. An optical waveguide circuit 20 is
formed on a substrate 25 and a photo diode (PD) 8 is
connected to the outgoing end 29 side thereof. The optical
waveguide circuit 20 has a circuit of an optical
wavelength division multiplexer which causes communication
signal light (λ1) inputted from a bidirectional light
input/output port 33 to be transmitted through a
communication light selective transmission filter 24 and
to be outputted from a communication light output port 34
and causes non-communication light (λ2) to be reflected by
the communication light selective transmission filter 24
and to outgo through a non-communication light output port
35. A piezoelectric element 15 is provided on the upper
part at the outgoing side 29 of the communication light
output port 34. When the communication signal light
passing through the optical waveguide circuit 20 is
inputted into the PD 8, the PD 8 is actuated in the
reception mode to receive communication signal light and
is not driven in the transmission mode to reflect
communication signal light toward the optical waveguide 
circuit 20 side by a high reflection coating film 30. The
reflection light is given polarization plane modulation by
the piezoelectric element 15, and the polarization plane
modulated light is transmitted from the bidirectional
light input/output port 33.