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Patent EP-0193495-B1 (EP)
IPC: A01G31/02
Filed: 1986-02-26
Granted: 1992-01-29
Abstract: Conventional tanks operate on the vacuum principle in order to regulate automatically a desired water level in the plant container. It is conventional for a separately designed tank to be made for each plant container, which is expensive. In addition, the tanks allow the possibility of mistakes to be made when replenishing, or leaks occur at their filling openings, which can result in the planted hydroponic culture dying. Furthermore, the tanks have no water level indicator. The invention solves these problems with a water tank which comprises at least two dimensionally stable part-tanks or tank parts (34) which are interconnected in such a way that they can be moved relatively towards each other. As a result, the overall shape of the water tank can be changed and made to fit a wide variety of plant containers (40). For replenishing, one tank part (34) or part-tank can be lifted out and filled up by means of a filling opening (38) provided near to the bottom of the tank. The water tank according to the invention is equipped with a water level indicator, which is fully integrated into the interior of the tank in an air-tight manner. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0214215-B1 (EP)
IPC: H04J3/14
Filed: 1986-02-17
Granted: 1990-06-13
Abstract: An arrangement for selectively accessing and testing a digital telecommunications circuit (1) without detriment to the integrity of a signal carried thereby. The arrangement comprises an access unit (10) inserted in the circuit (1) to be tested, and test equipment (11) connected to the access unit (10) and through which the circuit to be tested can be selectively routed. The test equipment (11) includes a shift register (24) in its test circuit path. In order to match the delay introduced by the shift register (24) in the test circuit path, a similar clocked delay (21) is included in the access unit in the route followed by the telecommunications circuit (1) when undiverted. This delay matching avoids signal loss repetition when switching the circuit to be tested between its undiverted and diverted paths. Where the test equipment (1) is used to insert the test data into the diverted circuit, provision is made to avoid the introduction of bipolar-coding violations into bipolar signals carried by the circuit.
Patent EP-0241513-B1 (EP)
Title: Multiple sheet indicator apparatus and method
IPC: B65H7/12
Filed: 1986-09-17
Granted: 1990-07-18
Abstract: Thickness indicator apparatus mounted adjacent to a bill path inside an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) includes a wishbone (45) having a pair of identical fingers (46) which contact bills moving in the bill path, and a metallic target (52). The wishbone is floatably mounted to the frame of the ATM such that target (52) is displaced an amount which is proportional to the thickness of the bills in contact with fingers (46). A sensor (66) senses the position of the target (52) and generates an electrical signal indicative of bill thickness.
Patent EP-0244459-B1 (EP)
IPC: C07F9/38
Filed: 1986-10-17
Granted: 1990-02-07
Abstract: An improvement in the process for the manufacture of aliphatic phosphonic acid, the improvement comprising maintaining the reaction zone volume at about 80 to 95 percent capacity of reactants and/or products by continuously adding diester of aliphatic phosphonic acid reactant up to about 60 percent of the total reaction time, said reactant being added in an amount sufficient such that said reactants and/or products will always be present in said reactor so as to occupy at least 80 percent of the reaction zone volume during said reactant addition.
Patent EP-0232759-B1 (EP)
IPC: F28F25/04
Filed: 1987-01-21
Granted: 1990-11-28
Abstract: The tubular arm distributor is provided with at least one tubular arm having metering orifices through which a dispersed phase can be metered and a horizontal box-like element which extends over the metering orifices to define a chamber for receiving the dispersed phase. The box-like element has exit orifices in the form of slots along the side walls to distribute the dispersed phase into the continuous phase.
Patent EP-0245595-B1 (EP)
Title: Apparatus and method for estimating, from sparse data, the probability that a particular one of a set of events is the next event in a string of events
IPC: G10L15/18
Filed: 1987-02-27
Granted: 1991-08-14
Abstract: Apparatus and method for evaluating the likelihood of an event (such as a word) following a string of known events, based on event sequence counts derived from sparse sample data. Event sequences -- or m-grams -- include a key and a subsequent event. For each m-gram which was counted in the sample data, there is stored a discounted probability @ generated by applying a modified Turing's estimate, for example, to a count-based probability. For a key occurring in the sample data there is stored a normalization constant  alpha  which (a) adjusts the discounted probabilities for multiple counting, if any, and (b) includes a freed probability mass allocated to m-grams which do not occur in the sample data. To determine the likelihood of a selected event following a string of known events, a "backing off" scheme is employed in which successively shorter included keys (of known events) followed by the selected event (representing m-grams) are searched (302, 308) until an m-gram is found having a discounted probability stored therefor. The normalization constants (306, 312) of the longer searched keys -- for which the corresponding m-grams have no stored discounted probability -- are combined together with the found discounted probability to produce (304, 310, 314) the likelihood of the selected event being next.
Patent EP-0244688-B1 (EP)
IPC: C09D201/00
Filed: 1987-04-18
Granted: 1991-10-23
Abstract: An adhesive or coating formulation useful in biomedical application and particularly well suited for use in aqueous environments is provided comprising:  1. An adhesive or coating formulation comprising: (1) a bioadhesive polyphenolic protein component having from about 5 to about 99 weight percent of a proteinaceous substance comprising from 1 to about 1,000 of the following repeating decapeptide unit: <CHEM> in which each X is hydrogen or hydroxy and each R is hydrogen or methyl; (2) from about 0.1 to about 10 weight percent of a cross-linking agent which promotes cross-linking of the decapeptide; (3) one or more additives which promote the desired properties of the formulation, said additives comprising at least one surfactant and being present in an amount of from 0% to about 90% by weight, and (4) a filler compatible with the intended use of the formulation, said filler being present in an amount of from 0% to about 50% by weight.
Patent EP-0273122-B1 (EP)
Title: Articulated steel cap for a mining support
Inventor: HEILIGER MARTHA-CATHARINA
IPC: E21D17/00
Filed: 1987-10-16
Granted: 1992-01-02
Abstract: A steel cap for steel sets in mining support structures is made of a hollow sectional profile having a certain length. A tip is arranged as an insert at one end of the sectional profile. A fork is arranged as an insert at the other end of the sectional profile. Each insert is formed as a plug-in connection. The plug-in connection is provided with a hold free of play in a correct position. For this purpose each insert has at its end facing the sectional profile, a plug with a cross-section corresponding to that of the sectional profile, and at least one surface inclined relative to the longitudinal axis of the steel cap. At least one movable wedge element is arranged for cooperation with each inclined surface. A wedge drive permits driving the wedge element or elements into or out of a locking position relative to the respective inclined surface.
Patent EP-0310707-B1 (EP)
Title: Document with magnetically detectable anti-forgery means, and strip with magnetically detectable identification code and identification code
IPC: B42D107/00
Filed: 1987-12-20
Granted: 1992-09-23
Abstract: The present invention relates to a document with magnetically detectable anti-forgery and/or anti-fraud means which has the peculiarity of comprising a plate-like element (2), embedding at least one strip (3) constituted by a layer of plastic or aluminum film. The strip (2) supports mutually spaced regions (5,10,20,23,30) obtained with a deposition of magnetic material. The regions (5,10,20,23,30) of magnetic material are readable with a magnetic reading head applicable externally to said plate-like element (2).
Patent EP-0293714-B1 (EP)
IPC: A61K31/44
Filed: 1988-05-24
Granted: 1991-06-05
Abstract: The combination products have a synergistic action and contain antidepressants and antagonists from the dihydropyridine class. The use of dihydropyridines in antidepressants is also described.
Patent EP-0310770-B1 (EP)
Title: Rotating security device
IPC: F16J15/38
Filed: 1988-07-26
Granted: 1991-03-13
Abstract: A torsion protection device for use between the opposing ring (1) and the housing of a sliding ring seal, comprising an elastic intermediate element which is supported such that it cannot twist on one hand on the opposing ring (1) and on the other hand on the housing (2). The flexibility of the spring (3) is dimensioned such that rotary oscillations of the opposing ring (1), occurring due to operation, are absorbed in a sprung manner. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0324926-B1 (EP)
IPC: B60R1/06
Filed: 1988-11-26
Granted: 1992-07-15
Abstract: A rear-view mirror for a vehicle is described, said mirror having a mirror base (1; 101) and a mirror housing (10; 102) which can be folded forwards and rearwards relative to the mirror base out of a position of use and is held on the mirror base by means of a rocker (20; 120), the rocker being mounted at one end (26; 135) on the mirror base and at the other end (28; 127) on the mirror housing. In order essentially to exclude the risk of injury by fingers being trapped between the folding-back mirror housing and the mirror base and to eliminate uncontrolled swinging of the folded down mirror housing, it is provided that at least one expansion spring (40; 110; 116), whose ends engage on one component (17) fixed to the mirror housing and on one component (39) fixed to the mirror base, acts on the mirror housing (10; 102) to move it into a folding end position defined by a stop (39, 144). 
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Patent EP-0321774-B1 (EP)
Inventor: SCHMIDT ALFRED
IPC: F01L13/06
Filed: 1988-12-06
Granted: 1994-03-02
Abstract: There is a slide valve for a fluid, in which a piston slide (3) in a housing chamber (2) of a valve housing (1) can move axially in a reciprocating manner, in which, in the valve housing (1), a housing channel (7) connected to a first connection (8) is provided with a through-flow opening facing the piston slide (3) and in which, in the piston slide (3) a slide channel (14), connected to a second connection (11), is provided with a through-flow opening facing the valve housing (1). In this arrangement, it is desired that the slide valve, in which flow stoppages resulting from fluid impurities do not occur, is designed such that the flow control can be carried out in a more finely sensing manner. This is achieved in that the outlet-side through-flow opening extends over a cut-out (16) originating from the associated channel (14), the cross-section of which cut-out (16) tapers in the axial direction towards the inlet-side through-flow opening when the piston slide (3) is in the blocked position. For flow control in the slide valve, not only is the overlapping region of the two through-flow openings moved but moving the piston slide also changes the cross-section available for the fluid to flow out of after passing through the overlapping region. 
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Patent EP-0288111-B1 (EP)
IPC: H02M7/48
Filed: 1988-04-11
Granted: 1992-07-01
Abstract: Symmetrical electrical snubber circuit for protecting at least two series-connected switch members (S1; S2) against excessive voltage and current increase during switching. The voltage increase over each of said switch members is limited by a series circuit of a capacitor and an element having diode action (D1, C1; D2, D2) connected in parallel with said switch members. The magnitude of the DC supply voltage is effectively limited by a further series circuit of a capactior and an element having diode action (D3, C3; D4, C4) connected with said switch members. A freewheeling diode (D5, D6) is connected in parallel with each of said switch members. By incorporating a coil (L1, L2) in the supply lines to the switch members, the current increase during switching-on of a switch member is limited. Like this, a symmetrical snubber circuit which is as low in stray inductance as possible is obtained. The energy stored in the coils (L1, L2) as well as the energy stored in the capacitors (C1; C2) being transferred to the further capacitors (C3; C4) due to resonant action. The energy in these further capacitors can then be discharged with the aid of energy transport means (ET). The snubber circuit according to the invention is in essence loss-free.
Patent EP-0314577-B1 (EP)
Title: Hot fluid pipeline relief valve
IPC: F16K17/38
Filed: 1988-10-27
Granted: 1993-08-11
Abstract: Hot fluid (that is, liquid or gas) pipeline relief valve arranged downstream of a heat generator or of any other device emitting heat whether by design or accidentally, for example an air compressor, and upstream of the hot fluid circuit portion to be protected, preferably on a branch connected to an outlet or return pipe, characterised in that the opening of the body (9) of the valve connected to the pipe (8) is at least partly obstructed by a breakable bulb (19) filled with a liquid that expands with an increase in the temperature of the fluid conveyed by the pipeline, said bulb (19) being arranged inside the body (9) of the valve (7) in order to be in contact with the conveyed fluid. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0323347-B1 (EP)
IPC: G06K7/06
Filed: 1988-12-27
Granted: 1992-06-10
Abstract: In order to avoid attempted fraud, the reader is provided with a detector for detecting a conductor wire disposed fraudulently in the insertion passage. The detector comprises a conducting plate (50) disposed across the passage. The plate (50) is fed with A.C. (62). When a fraudulent conductor wire (46) is connected to one of the contact blades (26) of the read head (28), the detector circuit is looped by capacitive coupling between the wire (46) and the plate (50).
Patent EP-0325900-B1 (EP)
Title: A coordinated section member assembly for making armoured window and door frames
IPC: E06B3/36
Filed: 1988-12-22
Granted: 1993-03-24
Abstract: This section member assembly comprises a fixed frame section member (1); a movable frame section member (2) for making window frames, inwardly openable; a movable frame section member for making window frames outwardly openable; a movable frame section member for making inwardly openable door frames; an auxiliary section member provided for making two wing window frames; a further central auxiliary section member for making two-wing door frames; an abutment section member for providing an abutment for outwardly openable frames; a further section member for providing a frame band and base for doors; a glass plate restraining section member (9); and a further section member adapted to be used as a upright or fixed cross-member. In particular, the subject section members for making fixed and movable frames are provided, at the armoured regions thereof, with a double seat adapted to house corresponding steel or aluminium foils (A).
Patent EP-0305484-B1 (EP)
IPC: G01L5/10
Filed: 1988-03-16
Granted: 1991-07-03
Abstract: Un dispositif permet de mesurer les forces de traction s'exerçant pendant la pose d'un câble à l'aide d'un dynamomètre de traction (5) agencé entre le câble posé (10) et un câble tracteur (11) en acier. Le dynamomètre de traction (5) comprend une bande de mesure de l'extension et un circuit de mesure qui amplifie les signaux reçus du capteur dynamométrique et les convertit en signaux de mesure à fréquence modulée proportionnels à la force de traction. Ceux-ci sont transmis jusqu'à un récepteur de valeurs de mesure (22) agencé dans la région d'une bobine d'enroulement (20), une première ligne de transmission jusqu'au récepteur de valeurs de mesure (22) incorporant le câble tracteur (11) et une autre ligne de transmission incorporant la terre (24). La sortie du circuit de mesure, qui est connectée à la ligne de transmission agencée à travers la terre (24), présente une fréquence porteuse des signaux de mesure comprise entre 3 et 100 kHz et transmet les signaux au récepteur de valeurs de mesure (22) à travers la terre au moyen d'un couplage capacitif (C1, C2, C3) galvaniquement isolé de la terre. Le couplage capacitif comprend en particulier le manchon (23) de tirage du câble et une électrode à plaque (26).
Patent EP-0380476-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HALL JOHN L
IPC: F16D25/08
Filed: 1988-03-11
Granted: 1992-09-09
Abstract: Une commande d'embrayage destinée à un ventilateur de refroidissement d'un moteur de véhicule comporte une partie poulie (32) mue par le moteur du véhicule, un plateau de ventilateur (22) sur lequel est monté rotatif le ventilateur, et une plaque de pression (28) qui est amenée de manière élastique en contact avec le plateau de ventilateur (22) par une série de ressorts hélicoïdaux (62) espacés circonférentiellement. Un stabilisateur de ressort (72) définit une cavité (78) s'étendant circonférentiellement, laquelle reçoit plusieurs boudins du ressort afin de stabiliser ce dernier et d'empêcher le déplacement des boudins circonférentiellement les uns par rapport aux autres lors de l'embrayage et du débrayage. Le stabilisateur (72) est en contact coulissant avec la plaque de pression (28) et est monté sur la poulie (32), supprimant ainsi tout jeu afin d'empêcher le cliquetis et également de transmettre le couple à la plaque de pression (28).
Patent EP-0377664-B1 (EP)
Inventor: GREENFELD ALBERT R
IPC: A61M25/00
Filed: 1988-09-13
Granted: 1994-07-20
Abstract: External grooving on a catheter traps microorganisms nurtured by mucus in a patient's body. The grooving also traps contaminating debris, originating outside the body, that migrates into the body along the catheter exterior. Energy, which may be a propagating vibration or electrical energy or a radioactive material, is carried to the groove (or grooves), from a source outside the body. This function is performed by a fiber embedded or held in the catheter, or by a liquid column (e.g., in an annular lumen) in the catheter, or in other ways. The energy disables microorganisms and disintegrates debris trapped at the groove. The groove depth, interface geometry, and in the case of vibrational energy the vibration frequency too, are selected to minimize projection of energy into the patient's tissues. Suction may be applied as through an auxiliary lumen (or, in some drain catheters, intermittently through the primary drain lumen itself), to remove resulting detritus at the grooving. Circumferential grooves may be used to impede migration longitudinally, longitudinal grooves to deter formation of continuous circumferential sheets of contaminants, or spiral grooves to lengthen the migration path along the catheter-or combinations of these forms.
Patent EP-0390796-B1 (EP)
Title: Separator with holder for a collecting container
IPC: A61C17/06
Filed: 1988-11-11
Granted: 1992-08-05
Abstract: A separator for separating in solid-liquid-exhaust air in dental suction installations has a holder (1) and a removable housing (11, 21). Circuit connections (3 to 10) for at least one inlet and at least one outlet for flowing media and possibly for a power supply are provided on the holder (1). The housing (11, 21) has corresponding inlets and outlets each of which is connected to a circuit connection (3 to 10) on the holder (1) when the housing (11, 21) is inserted. The housing (1) can preferably be slid in like a drawer, engagement being effected by means of inclined snug-fitting surfaces (16) or plug-in couplings extending in the direction of sliding.
Patent EP-0330049-B1 (EP)
IPC: A61K35/16
Filed: 1989-02-14
Granted: 1993-09-08
Abstract: Human blood coagulation factor XIII allows the prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage when administered to premature infants, preferably by intraveneous injections.
Patent EP-0331955-B1 (EP)
Title: Constituent parts of an apparatus for making a tyre reinforcement
IPC: B60C9/02
Filed: 1989-02-20
Granted: 1992-05-06
Abstract: The parts described relate to an apparatus for making a tyre reinforcement from a single cord. 
<??>Each lever (2) of the apparatus carries, at its end, a groove (3) describing a partial oval. The cord may be attached thereto. A hollow (98) serves as a former for installing a bead-core. 
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Patent EP-0345563-B1 (EP)
Inventor: SCHULDT HANS-PETER
IPC: G01N33/00
Filed: 1989-05-26
Granted: 1997-10-01
Abstract: In an apparatus for the automatic calibration of gas sensors which, in particular, are combined in a gas detection system having a multiplicity of measuring heads which are connected to central evaluation electronics and carrying gas sensors, it is proposed for the purpose of facilitating perfect calibration by one man that when a calibration device in the preferred form of a calibration cap is placed on the measuring head in conjunction with the simultaneous provision of a flow of a calibration gas to the gas-sensitive region of the particular sensor a calibration signal is fed to the measuring head electronics and is relayed by the latter to the central evaluation electronics, which thereupon confirm the entry into the calibration phase, automatically recognise the particular calibration gas, automatically monitor the calibration process, automatically accept the particular calibration value, and in so doing continuously inform the operator, who is feeding the test gas, about the course of the calibration process. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0351579-B1 (EP)
Title: Device for proportioning a lubricant
IPC: F16N27/00
Filed: 1989-06-23
Granted: 1992-04-22
Abstract: In a device for proportioning a lubricant independently of the supply pressure and the viscosity, having a two-way flow regulator and at least two throttles (101, 113) of different opening widths assigned thereto, whereof that (113) with the lesser opening width can be connected in series with the throttle (101) possessing the greater opening width, the latter is arranged in a housing which can be connected to the two-way flow regulator in such a manner that it connects the inlet aperture of the two-way flow regulator to a chamber which, in turn, is in connection with a supply connector. The second throttle (113), whose inlet aperture is in connection with this chamber (10) can be adjusted between an active and an inactive position by means of an adjusting drive. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0354432-B1 (EP)
Title: Coated carriers with ultrathin mono- or multilayered coating, process for the production thereof and polyurethanes as intermediates for the coated carriers
IPC: B05D1/20
Filed: 1989-07-29
Granted: 1993-05-19
Abstract: Coated supports with ultra-thin, single-layer or multi-layer coating of organic polymer material have been found, in which, as polymer, polyurethanes of the structure    <IMAGE>  (I)  are used in which A is the skeleton of an aliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic diol, B is the skeleton of an aliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic diisocyanate, n assumes values from 2 to 150 and at least one of the substituents R1 to R4 represents an essentially normal-chain aliphatic radical and the others in each case denote hydrogen, the aliphatic radical having at least 4 carbon atoms and the number of carbon atoms from the terminal methyl group of the aliphatic radical via the skeleton A or B up to the urethane linkage being 6 to 40, and it being further possible for R1 and R2 jointly to form an alkylene chain and for R3 and R4 jointly to form an alkylene chain. Coated supports of this type may be produced by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique. The polyurethanes mentioned are novel intermediates for these coated supports.