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Patent EP-0269802-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BARELA DANIEL ABRAN
IPC: B65H43/00
Filed: 1987-09-22
Abstract: Sheet feeder having adaptive mechanism for assuring dependable automatic operation when the stack of sheets to be fed consists of sheets having varying thicknesses and weights. In a sheet feeder having pickers (102) to move a document from the top of a stack of sheets supported by a moveable table (10) to a feedin position, the latter possibly including a vacuum belt (106) for moving the document, sensors (132, 134) supply signals to indicate a sheet has been picked. After moving the pickers and table to initial positions, the controller (150) moves the picker to a predetermined reference position. If a sheet is picked above or below the predetermined initial position, the position of the table is adjusted accordingly. In a second embodiment in a recirculating automatic sheet feeder, the table is initially positioned then after feeding the sheets from the stack once, it is initialized at a second predetermined position depending on the number of documents in the stack and on the position of the table prior to picking the documents a second time.
Patent EP-0274721-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BRINDOPKE GERHARD DR
IPC: C08F8/32
Filed: 1987-12-21
Abstract: Non-crosslinked reaction products of compounds (A) which contain structural units carrying 1,3-dioxolan-2-one groups in random distribution and compounds (B) which contain at least one primary aliphatic or cycloaliphatic amino group and additionally at least one further basic amino group. These reaction products are suitable, if appropriate together with conventional curing agents, especially as binders for coatings, above all electrodip coatings.
Patent EP-0287721-A2 (EP)
Inventor: THEW MARTIN THOMAS
IPC: B01D17/02
Filed: 1987-04-22
Abstract: A cyclone separator comprising an elongated separating chamber (2) having a longitudinal axis of symmetry (4) between opposite first and second ends (6 and 7), the separating chamber being of greater cross-sectional dimension at the first end than at the second end. The separating chamber has an overflow outlet (8) and at least one underflow outlet (9) and at least one feed inlet (10) proximate to the first end and disposed in a plane containing a secondary axis which extends from the longitudinal axis in a direction normal thereto. In one form of the invention, the profile of the separating chamber is at least in part of generally exponential form and in another form it is at least in part of cubic form.
Patent EP-0248627-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MEREDITH HADYN GWYN
IPC: A61B5/288
Filed: 1987-06-01
Abstract: An instrument for monitoring foetal heart rate having a head member (2) for application to the foetal scalp, the head member (2) having two jaws (24,25) which are hingedly connected to one another, the first jaw (24) having an arcuate electrically conductive needle (9) extending therefrom and movable therewith for penetration of the foetal scalp. A wire (6) extends from the needle (9) to a terminal for connection to monitoring equipment. A second wire (7) is insulated from                                  the first (6) and extends between an exposed electrode sheath (11), for contacting the mother in use, and a terminal for connection to monitoring equipment. The instrument also has actuating means, in the form of a telescopic arrangement of elongate members (1,15), for moving the jaws (24,25) apart. The jaws (24,25) are moved back to a preselected attitude by the bias provided by a resilient membrane (27).
Patent EP-0249482-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KIDO KOICHI
IPC: G11B15/087
Filed: 1987-06-11
Abstract: A magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprises a cassette discriminating circuit (23) for discriminating whether a loaded tape cassette accommodates a standard tape or a high performance tape in a recording mode, a mode discriminating circuit (47, 216, 230) for discriminating from a signal reproduced from the tape in a reproducing mode a mode with which the tape was recorded at the time of the recording, and a switching circuit (52, 24, 70, 71, 72, 44, 51) for automatically switching the operation mode to a predetermined mode responsive to the discrimination made by the cassette discriminating circuit in the recording mode and responsive to the discrimination made by the mode discriminating circuit in the reproducing mode. The high performance tape is playable either in a standard mode or a high quality mode.
Patent EP-0254589-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAKASAKI KANETAKE
IPC: H01L21/205
Filed: 1987-07-24
Abstract: A process for the preparation of a photodiode or other semiconductor device by the plasma chemical vapour deposition of amorphous silicon on a substrate, which comprises generating plasma in a deposition furnace by using a high frequency wave of less than 1 MHz to deposit an amorphous silicon film, and then exposing the amorphous silicon film to an oxygen plasma.
Patent EP-0271357-A2 (EP)
Title: Press-fit connector
Inventor: YOSHINO TOSHINORI
IPC: H01R13/41
Filed: 1987-12-11
Abstract: A press-fit connector includes contacts (34) which may be press-fitted in respective through holes of a printed circuit board for electronic equipment. Each of the contacts is received in an associated through bore (38) of a housing (32) which is made of an insulating material, so that it is press-­fitted in its associated through hole when the housing is pressed downward. Two axially offset projections (50, 52) extend out from the contact away from each other to abut against, respectively, the bottom (46) of the housing and a flat shoulder of a recess which is provided in a side wall of the through bore of the housing.
Patent EP-0237441-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BONTE ARILD
IPC: H01B9/04
Filed: 1987-03-13
Abstract: Coaxial fluid cooled high frequency high power cable having a flexible central metal fluid duct and at least two coaxial conductors designed to minimize the skin effect, and the resultant cable current. Two cables may be interconnected with the individual conductors arranged antisymmetrically.
Patent EP-0241401-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MARTIN NAVAS JUAN CARLOS
IPC: B41J11/58
Filed: 1987-03-17
Abstract: An automatic feeder of multi-layer documents for printing systems consists of synchronized elements sending the documents in an automatic and continuous way to the printer without movement of the lower sheets with respect to the top original sheet. From a storage bin (1) a drag and  ejection system acting by gravitation and comprising a motor (4) and rollers (7) conveys the upper document to a hopper (10). From this hopper the documents are centered and directed towards the platen (21) of the printer by a second drag system (12) and (13), after printing they are conveyed by a third similar system (24) to a storage area. 
     The feed, printing and ejection of the documents is controlled by sensors in apertures (14) and (15) at the hopper (10) and sensors below the drag system (24) to provide an automatic and continous operation.
Patent EP-0283750-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ASHCRAFT GLINDEN RAY
IPC: B65C9/00
Filed: 1988-02-24
Abstract: Apparatus for stripping thin flexible articles releasable adherent to a backing web employs a vacuum chuck which is brought into contact with an article on the web and travels in contact with the article as the web moves along a rectilinear path. At the end of the path, the web is curved round the sharp edge of a stripping plate in a direction away from the chuck, and this curve, together with the suction of the vacuum chuck, strips the article from the web, leaving it adherent to the chuck.
Patent EP-0282982-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SIBALIS DAN
IPC: A61N1/30
Filed: 1988-03-16
Abstract: An electro-osmotic transdermal drug delivery system for passing a drug to the systemic blood of a patient through the skin (16). The delivery system includes a semi-dry drug patch (24) containing a water solute with the drug and a selected level of current delivered to the semi-dry patch (24). Water from the semi-dry patch (24) is limited in movement from the patch to the skin (16) particularly in lateral movement relative to the skin so that the sweat and sebaceous ducts (30) and glands (32), which ordinarily are filled with liquid, namely the solute, and act as electrical shunts for osmotic delivery of the drug, are starved of liquid so that the electrical current is diverted to the stratum corneum (28) along with the electro-osmotic movement of the liquid carrying the drug (24). This result greatly increases the total drug delivery area of the skin. In addition, because the current need not be kept at a low level to avoid irritation or damage to the skin shunts, the current of the invention can be significantly elevated so as to overcome the higher resistivity of the stratum corneum (28) to the passage of liquid and current. A current conditioner such as an oscillator can be added to the system so as to break the liquid column within the skin shunts at periodic time intervals in accordance with the natural replenishment that will occur at relatively long time periods.
Patent EP-0283032-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HAYASHI HIROO KANZAKI PAPER MF
IPC: B41M5/337
Filed: 1988-03-18
Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support and a recording layer provided on the support, said recording layer containing a colorless or pale-­colored basic dye and a color developer capable of forming a color upon application of heat, wherein electroconductive titanium oxide is incorporated in at least one of layers constituting the recording material.
Patent EP-0292799-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RONNBACK STURE
IPC: H01H85/02
Filed: 1988-05-12
Abstract: A device (1) for continuously variable regulation of the power of a circuit. The device (1) is intended to be inserted in a conventional fuse socket in a distribution box.
Patent EP-0291894-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WELTER MANFRED
IPC: B60N2/00
Filed: 1988-05-14
Abstract: A long-distance vehicle, in particular long-distance bus, having a central aisle through the passenger compartment and having double seats with a seating bench and backrest which are provided on both sides of the centre aisle and can be moved from a seating position into a rest or lying position and vice versa, is constructed in such a way that the passenger compartment is divided up on both sides of the centre aisle by transverse walls into a plurality of compartments each having two double seats arranged opposite one another, that a rest frame for the back rests and a seating frame for the seating bench are provided for each double seat, the rest frame being connected in articulated fashion to the associated transverse wall by means of clips and the seating frame being connected to the clips by means of levers, and that a bed frame for an upper bed is swivellably mounted in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle on the transverse wall behind the rest frame. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0305699-A2 (EP)
Inventor: VOSS HERMANN
IPC: B29C49/68
Filed: 1988-07-14
Abstract: An apparatus is provided for the conveyance of preforms through a heating station to a stretching and blowing machine during the production of hollow articles from thermoplastic plastics materials, means of which preforms having different neck diameters can be heated satisfactorily and extremely uniformly without major modification of the apparatus. This is achieved by providing two endless toothed sections extending parallel to each other and have preform pick-up means mounted thereon. The preforms are collected and retained in position by the pick-up means as they pass through the heating station. The mutual spacing of the belts and, hence, of the pick-up means from one another and from the heating devices is adjustable. A further pair of endless drive belts are provided which rotate the preforms at desired circumferential speed about their own axes as they pass through the heating device so as to promote an even distribution of the heat in the preforms.
Patent EP-0305768-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RIECHERS DANIEL
IPC: G01M3/16
Filed: 1988-08-06
Abstract: An apparatus for determining the humidity near the floor of a motor vehicle has, between the motor vehicle floor and a watertight moulded carpet covering lining the latter, a large-area carrier body having a capillary structure and a pair of wire-type electrodes which, on the one hand, extend over the area of the carrier body and, on the other hand, form two terminal contacts for connection to a test instrument.   <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0318946-A2 (EP)
Title: Process for increasing the density of images obtained by thermal dye transfer
Inventor: LUM KIN KWONG
IPC: B41M5/50
Filed: 1988-11-30
Abstract: A process for increasing the density of a thermal dye transfer image comprising image­wise-heating a dye-donor element comprising a support having thereon a dye layer and transferring a dye image to a dye-receiving element comprising a transparent support having thereon a dye image-receiving layer to form an image having a certain density, characterized in that another portion of the dye-donor element or another dye-donor element is imagewise heated at least one more time to transfer a second dye image, which is of the same hue as the first dye image and is in register with the first dye image, to the dye-receiving element to increase the density of the transferred image.
Patent EP-0277026-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HUFFMAN RONALD EDWARD
IPC: A61C11/08
Filed: 1988-01-29
Abstract: An articulator for casts of a dental model correlates the casts with the condition to be redintegrated throughout a full range occlusal and masticatory registration. The articulator includes hinged mirror image flexible brackets (18, 20); each bracket has a base (22, 24) and arms of nonuniform cross section to encourage localized flexure of the brackets. Each base (22, 24) of the brackets supports a sphere (26, 28) to be positioned within a respective mounting (38, 40) attached to each cast. Each of the spheres (26, 28) may include at least a partially circumferential groove (64, 66) for distributing by capillary action or wicking an adhesive intermediate the sphere and the engaged cavity (42, 44) to secure the articulator to the casts after alignment of the paired casts. Simulating and tracing the paths of natural occlusal and masticatory registration is effected by pivotal movement about the hinge line between the brackets and flexing of the brackets (18, 20) forming the articulator.
Patent EP-0278717-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MATSUZAKI ATSUSHI C O PATENT D
IPC: H04N7/173
Filed: 1988-02-08
Abstract: A passenger vehicle polling system is capable of polling one or more terminal units (30), where each terminal unit is provided at a different one of a plurality of passenger seats in a passenger vehicle such as an aircraft, to obtain information indicative of the state of each terminal unit (30). The polling is accomplished by transmitting a polling command signal from a head end apparatus through a transmission line (21) to the terminal units (30). Preferably, a sensor (39) is mounted adjacent each passenger seat to sense the status of the passenger seat. The sensed information is transmitted as a polling answer signal through the transmission line (21) to the head end apparatus so that the status of each passenger seat and the condition of each passenger can be checked at the head end apparatus, such as on a monitor display (81). Further, the system may transmit audio and video programmes to the terminal units (30), and the polling answer signal may indicate which audio or video programme has been selected at each terminal unit (30).
Patent EP-0291225-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HAMALA SIRPA
IPC: B01D53/50
Filed: 1988-05-05
Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for causing gaseous trace element particles to pass from a flowing hot gas into a dust by means of water. According to the inven­tion, a mixture of the hot gas and water drops is caused to flow substantially up­wards at such a velocity that the water drops remain in the gas flow and for a period long enough for most of the mass of the water drops to evaporate in order to cool the gas and to increase its relative humidity. After the gases have reached their wet temperature they are brought into a turbulent state in order to cause the dust particles and the water drops which have decreased through evaporation to im­pinge against each other in order to pro­duce in the aqueous film which covers the dust particles an exothermal ion reaction between the gaseous water-soluble trace element particles and the dust particles. Thereafter the mixture is caused to flow further in order to evaporate the remaining water by means of the heat of reaction so that a dry end product is obtained.
Patent EP-0292243-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YOSHIKAWA MASAO
IPC: C08L79/08
Filed: 1988-05-17
Abstract: Heat resistant resin compositions consisting essentially of 5-95 wt.% of polyimide composed of recurring units represented by the formula (I):
      wherein X and Y are the same as defined in the claims, and 95-5 wt.% of known aromatic polyetherimide are disclosed. 
     The resin compositions of this invention have good thermal stability in the high temperature region, particularly in the temperature range of 300-400°C. The compositions can be injection molded due to the retention of frictional property in aromatic polyetherimide and also have thermal resistance, impact resistance and abrasion resistance. Therefore the compositions can be widely used as the material of parts in any industrial fields such as automotives, business machines, electric and electronic appliances, automatic energy saving devices, aeronautics and space instruments and general purpose industrial machines, which renders this invention very valuable.
Patent EP-0296724-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SARGEANT ROBERT B
IPC: G01N33/558
Filed: 1988-06-01
Abstract: A method and apparatus for conducting specific binding pair assays, such as immunoassays, is described. A porous membrane capable of non-bibulous lateral flow is used as assay substrate; a member of the binding pair is affixed in an indicator zone defined in the substrate. The sample is applied at a position distant from the indi­cator zone and permitted to flow laterally through the zone; any analyte in the sample is complexed by the af­fixed specific binding member, and detected. A novel method of detection employs entrapment of observable particle in the complex. Blood is a particularly pre­ferred sample as the red blood cells can be used as the observable particles for detection of the complex.
Patent EP-0296750-A2 (EP)
Inventor: UCHIDA MASAAKI
IPC: B29C45/00
Filed: 1988-06-15
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a thin-wall molded article having protrusions. 
     According to the method of the present invention, a molded article having protrusions such as boss and rib integral with a sheet can be easily produced.
Patent EP-0306231-A2 (EP)
Inventor: JOHNSON TODD W C O MINNESOTA M
IPC: B01D39/14
Filed: 1988-08-26
Abstract: Disposable filter element, adapted for use in a high-pressure filter housing, has a plurality of layers of flexible filtering material (11,12,14,16,18,20,22,24), some layers being formed with openings (13,17,21) through which a portion of the fluid can flow without being filtered, and at least one downstream layer (24) of the filtering material being free from such openings. When all of the layers of filtering material have the same pore size, the total area of the openings in each layer is larger than that of the openings of any downstream layer. Each opening-containing layer of the filtering material removes part of the contaminant in the fluid. Interposed between adjacent opening-containing filtering layers is a layer of flexible transport material (14,16,18,20,22), and there is a layer of flexible prefiltering material (11) positioned upstream of said filtering layers. The prefiltering material has a porosity to filter out from the fluid any particle that is substantially as large as the openings of the most upstream of the filtering layers to guard against an opening becoming blocked by such a particle.
Patent EP-0319191-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MURAKAMI TADASHI
IPC: A63B102/06
Filed: 1988-11-23
Abstract: A racket string for tennis, badminton, squash, etc. composed of at least one conjugate monofilament of polyamide and polyester, in which the polyester is obtained by copolymerizing polyol and polybasic acid whose part is a metal sulfonate group. The racket string has a strength and good balance between animal-gut-like hitting characteristic and durability, which are excellent.
Patent EP-0292417-A2 (EP)
Inventor: DREANO CLAUDE
IPC: B65D21/02
Filed: 1988-05-06
Abstract: The stackable set comprises four channels (1 to 4) arranged side-by-side and joined by end plates (5, 6). On each side, a front leg (8 or 10) and a rear leg (9 or 11) are welded to the outer wall of the outer channel (1 or 4). Seen from the side, the legs (8 to 11) are straight and slanted, whereas, seen from the front or from the rear, they have a straight vertical central portion (A), an upper portion slanting outwards (B).   On each side, the upper ends of the legs (8, 9 or 10, 11) are connected by bars (12 or 13) and the faces of the front leg and of the rear leg which face each other comprise stops (14, 15). The set according to the invention can be stacked and destacked by means of manipulators. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0311572-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ROHNER HANS
IPC: G09F5/04
Filed: 1988-10-05
Abstract: In the method for fabricating hanging collections consisting of textile samples overlapping one another like fish-scales, textile samples (M) are used, cut into strips, the length (L) whereof is such that a plurality of collections can be produced therefrom. These textile samples are arranged overlapping one another like fish-scales on pre-glued supporting tapes (B). In this manner, a plurality of cohesive collections are produced simultaneously in a single working step. In the example shown, four collections are produced by zigzag cuts along the lines (Y). The method is carried out with the aid of a machine which progressively moves the supporting tapes (B) away from the resting place of the sample strips, and provides for automatic application of glue. If appropriate, the machine also affixes a masking tape. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0344393-A2 (EP)
Title: Dosing device for the fine dispensing of bulk material
Inventor: BETH MATTHIAS
IPC: G01G13/24
Filed: 1989-01-11
Abstract: A dosing device for the fine dispensing of especially powdery or finely granular bulk material, with a container or housing (1) for the bulk material (3), with a driven turntable (4), onto which the bulk material from the container is deposited, and with a stripper (7) for removing the bulk material from the turntable, will be designed so that a high dosing accuracy and a good dosage constancy become possible. This is achieved in that the container (1) is made cylindrical and the turntable (4) essentially closes off the container (1) from below, in that an outwardly open discharge groove (6) for the bulk material (3) is arranged on the circumference or edge of the turntable, and in that the stripper (7) engages into this discharge groove (6). This arrangement affords a highly specific discharge rate which can be adjusted in a simple way for different conveying strengths by the rotational speed of the turntable. The dosing device can also be used, together with a weighing device, for gravimetric dispensing. …<IMAGE>…