baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent EP-0927948-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BLANFORD DENIS MICHAEL
IPC: G06K7/10
Filed: 1998-12-24
Abstract: A system for synchronization of the angular position
of a rotatable optical assembly (32) in a bar code
scanner. The optical assembly is rotatable by a motor
(30) which produces a fixed number of pulses per
rotation, the pulses occurring at equal intervals such
that each pulse indicates a degree of angular rotation of
the motor. The pulses are continuously monitored and
counted. Timing is simultaneously monitored. A
synchronization label (410) is placed in the scanner such
that light directed through the rotating optical assembly
will strike the synchronization label and be reflected
back to the rotating optical assembly when the rotating
optical assembly is at a particular angular position,
thus establishing an initial angular position of the
rotating optical assembly. Once the initial angular
position is established, timing is continuously monitored
and pulses are continuously monitored and counted. When
an event of interest, such as bar code scan occurs, the
pulse count is evaluated and processed to determine an
angular position of the rotating optical assembly with 
respect to the initial position as established at
synchronization.
Patent EP-0882579-A2 (EP)
Inventor: VAEHAE-NISSI MIKA
IPC: D21H19/00
Filed: 1998-05-26
Abstract: A gastight packaging material comprising a high-density (i.e. greaseproof) paper
(1) and an upper layer arranged thereon. 
     In the invention the upper layer is a latex-type polymer coating (2) which together
with the high-density paper (1) forms a substantially gastight packaging
material.
Patent EP-0909419-A2 (EP)
Inventor: THOMASON GRAHAM GORDON
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1998-02-23
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for presenting to a user a multimedia title that is based on an information structure comprising a finite number of nodes, said method comprising the steps of: presenting an entry point to said information structure, logging user visits as pertaining to specific said nodes, and indicating to a user a visit history of one or more particular nodes. In particular, the indications preferably present nodes with a relatively spare visit history.
Patent EP-0920765-A2 (EP)
Title: Amelioration concernant la synchronisation
Inventor: OLSSON LENNART
IPC: H04L27/26
Filed: 1998-02-27
Abstract: Avec les systèmes à multiplexage en fréquence orthogonal (OFDM) les données sur le domaine de fréquence correspondent à la transformée de Fourier des trames de dimension temporelle OFDM. Les trames de dimension temporelle reçues doivent être échantillonnées au niveau du récepteur, en synchronisme avec l'émetteur, de sorte que chaque trame reçue contienne des données provenant d'une seule trame transmise. Il est crucial que ce synchronisme soit maintenu de sorte que l'orthogonalité des trames soit conservée. Un système à porteuses multiples, du type OFDM, qui utilise un préfixe cyclique, permet le maintien de l'orthogonalité lorsque survient un petit écart par rapport à la synchronisation de trame exacte. Etant donné que l'intervalle de signalisation comprend une trame entière et le préfixe cyclique, qui est une répétition d'une partie de la trame, une trame échantillonnée dans l'intervalle de signalisation contient les données issues d'une seule trame. De plus, l'intervalle de signalisation est supérieur à la période de trame, ce qui donne une certaine marge pour l'alignement de la trame. L'invention concerne un mécanisme permettant d'assurer ainsi la synchronisation de trame, dans le domaine de fréquence. La première étape de synchronisation d'un récepteur avec un émetteur, lors de l'acquisition du signal, consiste à déterminer l'intervalle dans lequel l'orthogonalité existe. Une fois cette opération effectuée, une fonction argument est calculée et peut être utilisée pour améliorer la synchronisation. Le mécanisme de l'invention convient particulièrement aux modems de ligne d'abonné numérique asynchrone (ADSL) et de ligne d'abonné numérique à débit binaire très élevé (VDSL), qui peuvent être utilisés pour permettre un accès à large bande par des réseaux en cuivre. Il s'applique également avantageusement à la transmission à large bande dans les systèmes mobiles et semi-mobiles pour la transmission par canaux radioélectriques.
Patent EP-0968283-A2 (EP)
Inventor: COLLINS JOHN
IPC: C40B40/02
Filed: 1998-02-02
Abstract: The invention concerns gene banks and combinatorial derivatives thereof, prepared using phagemid- or phage-display in combination with type IIS restriction enzymes and cosmid packaging; their use for the isolation of ligands, including enzyme inhibitors, agonists and antagonists for receptors, competitive binding peptides to a defined target, diagnostic ligands for diseases and autoimmune syndromes, including surveillance tools for immune status, post-translationally modified peptides, and such ligands generated by this technology.
Patent EP-1024761-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SWANSON DAVID K
IPC: A61B18/12
Filed: 1998-10-09
Abstract: Sonde (250) de coagulation pour tissus mous, qui comprend une tige relativement courte (254) définissant une extrémité distale et une extrémité proximale, une poignée (266) associée à l'extrémité proximale de la tige (254), et au moins deux électrodes (294) espacées de coagulation des tissus mous associées à la tige (254) et situées à distance de la poignée (266), la taille et l'écartement respectifs des deux électrodes (294) au moins de coagulation des tissus mous étant tels qu'une transmission simultanée d'énergie desdites électrodes à une électrode indifférente (519) produit une zone de tissus coagulés qui s'étend entre les deux électrodes (294) au moins de coagulation des tissus mous.
Patent EP-0921559-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NAOYUKI TAMURA
IPC: H01L21/68
Filed: 1994-09-02
Abstract: A substrate holding system for holding a substrate on a specimen table and
supplying a gas between the specimen table and said substrate, comprises a
periphery holding portion having a surface disposed on said specimen table in a
position corresponding to the periphery of said substrate. An internal holding
portion is disposed on the specimen table to support the substrate at a
corresponding position between the periphery of said substrate and the center of
the substrate. The internal holding portion is separated from the periphery holding
portion by a recessed portion in the specimen table and includes a through hole
and a pin for pushing the substrate off of the specimen table. Electrostatic
attraction means for fixing the substrate on the holder so that the back surface of
the substrate contacts the periphery holding portion and the internal holding
portion are provided.
Patent EP-0950413-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PALAZZINI ERNESTO
IPC: A61P27/00
Filed: 1999-03-10
Abstract: The use of sulodexide, a glycosaminoglycan of natural origin extracted from
mammalian intestinal mucosa, and of medicines containing it in the treatment of
patients suffering from retinopathy of diabetic origin is the object of the present
invention. 
     The effectiveness of sulodexide has been proved by the significant lowering of the
plasmatic exudation and of the hard exudates, by the improvement of the retinic lesions
and by the restoration of the functional integrity of the membrane of the
microcapillaries with subsequent decrease of the capillary permeability in diabetic
patients treated with pharmaceutical compositions containing therapeutically effective
amounts of drug.
Patent EP-0945861-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MATSUSHIMA TAKAAKI
IPC: G11B17/22
Filed: 1999-03-26
Abstract: A library capable of receiving storage media
or the like with a high storage efficiency, being
simple in construction to permit reduction of the
cost of manufacture and permitting access time
reduction is disclosed. The library comprises
storage units 4 and 5 each capable of storing a
plurality of cartridges 50 accommodating storage
media one above another, a drive unit 2 for reading
and writing data out of and in the storage media,
and a cartridge transfer mechanism 3 for
transferring the cartridges 50 between the drive
unit 2 and the storage units 4 and 5. The storage
units 4 and 5 can each store a plurality of cartridges
50 and accommodate a cartridge 50 having been rotated
horizontally by approximately 90 degrees with
respect to a cartridge inserting direction of the
library.
Patent EP-0943469-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PECK ANDREAS
IPC: B60G17/019
Filed: 1999-03-16
Abstract: The vehicle level indicator has two level sensors one of which has a conducting plate acting with the second sensor. The level generator has a housing and contacts for receiving the electrical signals.
Patent EP-0953825-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OHTA KAZUTAKA
IPC: G01C21/00
Filed: 1999-04-27
Abstract: A processor 1 calculates an estimated travel time
required to travel from a current point to a destination or
a passing point on a route on the basis of a travel time
represented by traffic-jam information for a traffic-jam
place which is represented by the traffic-jam information
received by a traffic information receiver 6, and on the
basis of a traffic-jam time calculated on the basis of map
data for the other places; accordingly, the travel time
required can be calculated in consideration of traffic-jam
conditions.
Patent EP-0953933-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SENI GIOVANNI
IPC: G06K9/00
Filed: 1999-04-28
Abstract: In a method of recognition of handwritten input, a preprocessing
module (200) of a recognizer (203) having a recognition module (202),
segments handwritten input into strokes, to provide stroke vectors. A
search module (204) generates hypothetical character strings for scoring
by the recognition module (202). A character hypothesis is generated
which is a data set of a character, a start vector and an end vector. The
recognizer (203) provides a non-cumulative score for the character
hypothesis, where the score represents a likelihood of the character being
present in the handwritten input at a position starting at the start vector
and ending at the end vector. The recognizer (203) delivers to the search
module a result that is either the score for the selected first character
hypothesis or a result that allows the search module to temporarily ignore
the hypothesis or to kill it altogether. The search module maintains or
disregards the first hypothetical character string dependent on the result.
The process is repeated for other character hypotheses and other
hypothetical character strings.
Patent EP-1002970-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RAGHAVAN SEKHAR
IPC: F16H3/66
Filed: 1999-08-18
Abstract: A powertrain has a planetary gear arrangement with a simple planetary gear set (18) and a compound planetary gear set (20) which are interconnected by a continuous drive connection and are controlled to provide five forward drive ratios, a reverse drive ratio and a neutral condition. A plurality of torque transmitting devices including four clutches (22, 24, 26, 28) and two brakes (30, 32) are engaged in combination of three for each drive ratio. Two of the torque transmitting devices (24, 28; 128, 132; 222, 232) are engaged during the lowest forward drive ratio, the reverse drive ratio and the neutral condition.
Patent EP-0983802-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ZAMPINI STEFANO DIPL-ING
IPC: B07B7/083
Filed: 1999-08-21
Abstract: The blades (3) are tapered, with their outer edges defining a cylinder and their inner edges defining a cone. The broad edges of the blades are fastened to a solid disc (2) mounted on a hub (1) attached to a drive shaft. The narrow edges of the blades are attached to a ring (4) whose width is equal to the width of the narrow ends of the blades.
Patent EP-1001363-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TANIBATA TORU
IPC: G06K15/12
Filed: 1999-11-10
Abstract: An image recording apparatus comprises a PLZT head. The
PLZT head performs an interval exposure based on an interval
exposure data between exposures of photosensitive material.
Further, exposure data of a predetermined number of lines
already used in an N-th and preceding exposures may be
maintained in a RAM as a basis of correction to an exposure data
for an N+1-th print. The PLZT head performs an exposure for
an exposure time given by the corrected exposure data.
Patent EP-1001556-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SAITO ATSUSHI
IPC: H04B7/005
Filed: 1999-11-11
Abstract: In a base station (10) for use in a CDMA open loop control
reverse channel interference correcting system for carrying out
correction of a reverse channel interference, a base receiver (142)
receives a reverse transmission signal as a reverse received signal
and measures received powers of the reverse received signal to
produce measured received power values. An average power
calculating section (15) calculates an average of the measured
received power values to produce a calculated average value. On
the basis of the calculated average value and a reference value, a
correction value calculating section (17) calculates a correction value
for making a mobile station increase a current transmission power so
as to become larger than a previous transmission power. A
transmitting section (18, 12, 13, 141) transmits information indicative
of the correction value to the mobile station.
Patent EP-1014167-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PAGANO DANIEL M
IPC: G03B17/30
Filed: 1999-12-06
Abstract: A photographic device includes a film cassette that has a shell
having a film space and a module slot external to the film space. The filmstrip
coiled within said film space. A memory module is loosely retained in the module
slot. The photographic device has a terminal block that orients and holds the
memory module when the film cassette is loaded.
Patent EP-0938964-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KAMIYAMA TAKAO
IPC: B29K101/10
Filed: 1999-02-26
Abstract: A branch pipe lining method is provided which utilizes a branch pipe
liner bag (1) composed of a tubular resin-absorbent material (2) having a
flange (3) formed at one end thereof, wherein the outer surface of the
tubular resin-absorbent material is covered with a highly air-tight film (4),
and the tubular resin-absorbent material is impregnated with an unhardened
hardenable resin, and a cylindrical fluid pressure sealing member (5) is
attached to the inner surface of the flange (3). A cylindrical front end
nozzle (16) attached to an opening at one end of a pressure bag (13) is
inserted into the fluid pressure sealing member (5) of the branch pipe liner
bag (1), and the front end nozzle (16) and the fluid pressure sealing
member (5) are sealed by an elastic member (17) interposed therebetween.
Then, a pressurized fluid is supplied into the pressure bag (13), with the
flange (3) of the branch pipe liner bag (1) being in close contact with an
opening of a branch pipe (11), to evert and insert the branch pipe liner bag
(1) into the branch pipe (11) from a main pipe (10) toward the ground. The
hardenable resin impregnated in the branch pipe liner bag (1) is hardened
with the inserted branch pipe liner bag being pressed onto an inner wall of
the branch pipe (11), followed by pulling the front end nozzle (16) out from
the fluid pressure sealing member (5) to tear the pressure bag (13) off the
branch pipe liner bag (1).
Patent EP-0978433-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RHINEHART MATTEW GENE
IPC: B60R16/03
Filed: 1999-08-03
Abstract: A driver information system for a motor vehicle includes a network
which executes one of a number of application programs depending on which
function of the system the driver has selected at any given point in time. In
response to the driver's selection, the appropriate application program is
retrieved from storage for execution. Information regarding the specific
hardware interface software objects that are required during that execution are
read from the retrieved application program and loaded for execution. Thus
only the software that is necessary to implement the selected function is
loaded for execution which reduces the complexity of the hardware of the
driver information system. A method for verifying the compatibility of each
software program and object also is described.
Patent EP-0987409-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CWIK SCOTT C
IPC: B21D15/10
Filed: 1999-09-02
Abstract: Vibration decoupler apparatuses, for decoupling vibrations, for
example, between first and second the components of an internal
combustion engine exhaust system. The flexible connector apparatus is
provided for connecting first and second components in the exhaust system,
and includes a resilient flexible sealing member (bellows) for accommodating
relative movement between the first and second components. The flexible
connector apparatus includes an annular vibration damping member
connecting a down pipe to a mounting member for permitting restricted
axial, lateral and angular movement of the downpipe, relative to the
mounting member, which may be affixed to an exhaust manifold, for
example. The apparatus also includes a sealing construction which enables
weldless, gasketless connection of the bellows. 
     An alternative construction positions the vibration damping member
between the decoupler apparatus and the downstream component. The
damping member and the resilient flexible sealing member may additionally
be axially separated.
Patent EP-0999415-A2 (EP)
Inventor: INGRAM REX ANTHONY
IPC: F24D3/14
Filed: 1999-11-04
Abstract: A panel (10) for use in the installation of an underfloor heating
system is formed of a foamed plastic material and has a number of
channels (11) formed in its upper surface. Each channel (11)
includes first sections (11a) in which a heating pipe (12) is a close
fit and sections (11b) which are of substantially greater width than
the sections (11a) and receive a thermally conductive material, e.g.
the screed (15), so that the thermally conductive material acts as a
heat diffuser for the heating pipe (12).
Patent EP-1020531-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YOUNG DAVID HAMILTON
IPC: C12N1/14
Filed: 1999-12-30
Abstract: This invention provides a method for screening compounds for
fungitoxicity based on measurement of the ability to inhibit the germination-associated
adhesion of fungal spores to a substrate. The method is useful for
detecting compounds which inhibit the germination of fungal spores.
Patent EP-0951046-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SUENDERMANN SIEGFRIED ING
IPC: H01H83/22
Filed: 1999-04-13
Abstract: The switch comprises a differential current converter (7) which is connected over an evaluation- and trigger circuit (6) with an operating current release (3). The operating current release operates main contacts (10) in monitored conductors (L1, L2, L3, N) over a switching lock (5). A line supply of the evaluation- and trigger circuit and/or the operating current release is connected, electrically separable over auxiliary contact devices (8) with at least two of the monitored conductors. The switch comprises a differential current converter (7) which is connected over an evaluation- and trigger circuit (6) with an operating current release (3). The operating current release operates main contacts (10) in monitored conductors (L1, L2, L3, N) over a switching lock (5). A line supply of the evaluation- and trigger circuit and/or the operating current release is connected, electrically separable over auxiliary contact devices (8) with at least two of the monitored conductors, whereby the line supply of the evaluation- and trigger circuit and the operating current release can be interrupted independently of the connections of the main contacts to the line supply or the load, while an operation is still guaranteed at an interruption of one or two conductors.
Patent EP-1102988-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCHMOLZ MANFRED
IPC: G01N33/49
Filed: 1999-08-04
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the determination of the immune defence activity of blood by the stimulation of white cells in the whole blood, incubation of the whole blood, separation of the supernatant from the sediment and determination of the activity from the separated supernatant. he invention also relates to a test kit for performing the method and to the use of a suitable blood sampling system, particularly a syringe cylinder for this purpose.
Patent EP-1105002-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SAWATZKI GUENTHER
IPC: A23L29/30
Filed: 1999-08-11
Abstract: A carbohydrate mixture for dietetic foods and pharmaceuticals is provided. The carbohydrate mixture comprises two different, substantially soluble carbohydrate components A and B, which remain undigested in the gastrointestinal tract and enter the large intestine without being resorbed. Carbohydrate component A may comprise at least one monosaccharide or of at least one oligosaccharide (disaccharide to hexasaccharide) or a mixture of two or more of these saccharides. Carbohydrate component B may comprise a polysaccharide (from heptasaccharide onwards) or a mixture of two or more polysaccharides. Carbohydrate component A=5 to 95 wt-% and carbohydrate component B=5 to 95 wt-% of the sum of the carbohydrate components A+B (=100 wt-%), and at least 80 wt-% of the carbohydrates/saccharides of both carbohydrate components have a prebiotic effect. The carbohydrate mixtures have not only a nutritive effect but they also stimulate health-promoting microorganisms present in the natural flora of the large intestine.
Patent EP-1104439-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BRAUM GUENTHER
IPC: C07K14/655
Filed: 1999-08-20
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for synthesising biostatin (TT-232) by means of solid phase synthesis on a polymer support, by gradually building up the peptide using amino acids derivatized with protective groups. According to said method, the protective groups are split off and the peptide is detached from the solid phase. The disulphide bond is closed through the oxidation of the completely or partially synthesised peptide in the presence of a suitable solvent for as long as the peptide remains bound to the solid phase.
Patent EP-1109914-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NABEL GARY J
IPC: A61K48/00
Filed: 1999-08-21
Abstract: The present method provides a method for inhibiting restenosis associated with mechanical injury of a blood vessel. Human heme oxygenase (I) (HO1) is directly administered at the site of injury. The present inventors have discovered that carbon monoxide generated by HO1 is involved in the molecular pathogenesis of vascular proliferative disorders. By using adenoviral-mediated expression of inducible heme oxygenase 1 in primary vascular smooth muscle cells (vsmc) in vivo, the present inventors demonstrate that in vivo expression of HO1 can be used to treat restenosis.
Patent EP-1153029-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ANELLI PIER LUCIO
IPC: C07C237/12
Filed: 1999-11-25
Abstract: Substituted polycarboxylic ligand molecules and corresponding metal complexes of said ligands, preferably paramagnetic metal complexes for generating responses in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The paramagnetic complexes of the polycarboxylic ligands possess advantageous tensioactive properties and are useful as MRI contrast media in formulations for investigating the blood pool.
Patent EP-1124796-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FARNHAM WILLIAM BROWN
IPC: H01G9/155
Filed: 1999-10-26
Abstract: A process for synthesizing an olefinic composition represented by the formula: CF2=CF(CF2CF2)nSO2F where n = 1 to 5 comprising  (a) contacting CF2ClCFCl(CF2CF2)nI, wherein n = 1 to 5, with Na2S2O4 and NaHCO3 in a mixture of water and an aprotic polar solvent at a temperature in the range of room temperature to 110 DEG C, to form CF2ClCFCl(CF2CF2)nSO2Na; (b) contacting the said CF2ClCFCl(CF2CF2)nSO2Na with Cl2 in water or a mixture of water and an aprotic polar solvent at a temperature in the range of 0-200 DEG C to form CF2ClCFCl(CF2CF2)nSO2Cl; (c) contacting the said CF2ClCFCl(CF2CF2)nSO2Cl with a univalent metal fluoride in an anhydrous aprotic polar solvent to form CF2ClCFCl(CF2CF2)nSO2F; (d) contacting said CF2ClCFCl(CF2CF2)nSO2F with Zn in an alcohol or mixture of acetic acid and alcohol to form CF2=CF(CF2CF2)nSO2F; and, (e) separating the product.