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Patent EP-1332679-B1 (EP)
Inventor: GONZE MICHEL HENRI ANDRE
IPC: A23G4/00
Filed: 1996-07-17
Granted: 2009-12-09
Abstract: Use of erythritol in a chewing gum composition to prevent the composition becoming brittle after storage for a few months, the chewing gum composition comprising, between 20 and 60% gum base, between 5 and 60% polyol, between 0 and 20% mannitol, between 0 and 10% maltitol syrup, between 0 and 8% glycerol and erythritol, wherein between 5 and 30% of the polyol is erythritol. Preferably the polyol is sorbitol.
Patent EP-1433517-B1 (EP)
Inventor: MURLEY KRAIG CHARLES
IPC: A62B7/14
Filed: 2003-12-12
Granted: 2011-01-26
Abstract: A method of controlling a gas adsorption apparatus 10 of the kind including a sieve bed 11; 12 containing molecular sieve bed material, the bed 11; 12 being cyclically operable in a charge mode to adsorb non-product gas from an air supply S thereby to increase the concentration of a product gas in a product gas supply which passes to a product gas line 15; 16 and in a vent mode to desorb the adsorbed non-product gas which passes to a non-product gas line 17, and there being a passage 18 to permit a restricted amount only of the product gas supply to pass from the product gas supply line 15; 16 to the bed when operating in vent mode, and characterised in that the method includes operating a variable flow device 22 to permit an increased amount of the product gas supply to pass to the bed 11; 12 when operating in vent mode, under predetermined conditions. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-1531884-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KIM JAE H
IPC: A61M25/10
Filed: 2003-01-17
Granted: 2011-12-28
Abstract: A bowel management system (10) includes a waste collection catheter (12) for use in a patient having first and second catheter sections (20,18). The first catheter section (20) is disposed in the patient's rectum in a normal use position and is stiff enough to automatically maintain an open position for free flow of bowel waste when in the normal use position, yet is soft and pliable enough to permit folding longitudinally for ease of insertion into the rectum of the patient. The second catheter section (18) is disposed in the anal canal of the patient in the normal use position and is sufficiently soft to permit retention within the anal canal of the patient for extended periods of time. A selectively collapsible, substantially spherical retention balloon (24) is attached coaxially and exterior of the first catheter section (18) for retaining the first catheter section (18) in the patient's rectum.
Patent EP-1481299-B1 (EP)
Inventor: CAMPBELL ROBERT
IPC: G05B23/02
Filed: 2003-03-03
Granted: 2009-11-18
Abstract: A method for assessing the integrity of a structure, comprising the steps of: i) collecting data relating to the initial dimensions of the structure, ii) creating a computer model of the structure, iii) collecting data relating to the estimated load on the structure, iv) analysing the structure, using the computer model of the structure and the load data, in order to define areas which are subject to relatively high stress, v) measuring, after a time interval, the dimensions of the structure in high stress areas, vi) updating the computer model of the structure, using the results of step v), re-analysing the structure, using the updated computer model and the load data, in order to calculate a value for the integrity of the structure.
Patent EP-1483949-B1 (EP)
Inventor: CREASY LARRY
IPC: H05K9/00
Filed: 2003-03-07
Granted: 2011-05-04
Abstract: Flame retardant EMI shielding materials with improved retention of shielding properties are disclosed. The shielding materials are provided with a dispersed flame retardant on the surfaces of the internal interstices. Methods of making the flame retardant shielding materials are also disclosed.
Patent EP-1507908-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BERRIGAN MICHAEL R
IPC: D04H3/03
Filed: 2003-05-13
Granted: 2008-12-31
Abstract: A new fiber-forming method, and related apparatus, and webs prepared by the new method and apparatus are taught. In the new method a) a stream of filaments is extruded from a die of known width and thickness; b) the stream of extruded filaments is directed through a processing chamber that is defined by two narrowly separated walls that are parallel to one another, parallel to said width of the die, and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the stream of extruded filaments; c) the stream of filaments passed through the processing chamber is intercepted on a collector where the filaments are collected as a nonwoven fibrous web; and d) a spacing between the walls of the processing chamber is selected that causes the stream of extruded filaments to spread before it reaches the collector and be collected as a web significantly wider in width than the die. Generally the increase in width is sufficient to be economically significant, e.g., to reduce costs of web manufacture. Such economic benefit can occur in widths that are 50, 100 or 200 or more millimeters greater in width than the width of the die. Preferably, the collected web has a width at least 50 percent greater than said width of the die. The processing chamber is preferably open to the ambient environment at its longitudinal sides to allow pressure within the processing chamber to push the stream of filaments outwardly toward the longitudinal sides of the chamber.
Patent EP-1523817-B1 (EP)
Inventor: ZITZMANN JOOST M
IPC: H04B10/69
Filed: 2003-07-01
Granted: 2007-02-14
Abstract: An optical receiver circuit comprising an optical converter circuit ( 38 ), comprising a photodiode and converting optical power into electrical power, a sensor circuit for deriving a control voltage VCONTR as a characteristic value of the electrical power output by the optical converter circuit ( 38 ); and an attenuator circuit ( 44 ) having a variable attenuation, the attenuation being controlled by the characteristic value of the electrical power output by the sensor circuit so as to obtain a constant output signal level of the optical receiver circuit. An output circuit is also provided and comprises a matching network ( 46 ), an amplifier stage ( 48 ) and an output transformer ( 50 ).
Patent EP-1487444-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BIEDERMANN ELFI
IPC: A61K31/4406
Filed: 2003-03-24
Granted: 2009-12-30
Abstract: The invention relates to the use of derivatives of Formula I in the manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of a mammal, in which inappropriate, excessive or undesirable angiogenesis has occurred, and to the prevention thereof. <CHEM>
Patent EP-1504610-B1 (EP)
Inventor: CURET DOMINIQUE
IPC: H04N7/52
Filed: 2003-04-30
Granted: 2007-04-04
Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for the dynamic multiplexing of digital streams which are transmitted in the form of stream units in one channel, each of said stream units bearing a stream identifier which can be used to associate same with the corresponding digital stream. The allocation of an identifier to a digital stream is defined by an allocation table and can vary over time, in such a way as to enable dynamic multiplexing. The aforementioned allocation table bears a version number and, in order to indicate that a change in the version of the allocation table applies to a given digital stream, a burst is transmitted with at least one version change stream unit comprising the current identifier of said digital stream, an indicator which can be used to determine if the stream unit is a version change stream unit and the version number becoming applicable to said digital stream.
Patent EP-1546302-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BERKA RANDY
IPC: C12N9/76
Filed: 2003-08-29
Granted: 2009-08-12
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for producing a mammalian trypsin in a Fusarium venenatum host strain, the method comprising (a) cultivating the Fusarium venenatum host strain in a culture medium under conditions suitable for expression of the mammalian trypsin and secretion thereof into the medium, wherein the Fusarium venenatum host strain comprises a nucleic acid construct comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding the mature coding sequence of a mammalian trypsin operably linked to nucleotides 58 to 129 of SEQ ID NO: 1 encoding the signal peptide and propeptide of Fusarium oxysporum trypsinogen; and (b) recovering the mammalian trypsin from the medium. The present invention also relates to constructs comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding the mature coding sequence of a mammalian trypsin operably linked to nucleotides 58 to 129 of SEQ ID NO: 1 encoding the signal peptide and propeptide of Fusarium oxysporum trypsinogen, and to vectors and Fusarium venenatum host strains comprising such constructs.
Patent EP-1554131-B1 (EP)
Inventor: PALGEN MARIE-CLAUDE
IPC: B60C9/20
Filed: 2003-10-09
Granted: 2011-12-14
Abstract: The tire, having radial carcass and crown reinforcement, the latter comprising at least two continuous layers (15, 16) made from elements that overlap at an angle of 10 - 35 deg to one another. The crown reinforcement is completed by at least three half-layers (17, 18, 19) on each side of the circumferential median plane, with their elements lying at angles of 10 - 40 deg to the circumferential direction. The tire, having radial carcass and crown reinforcement, the latter comprising at least two continuous layers (15, 16) made from elements that overlap at an angle of 10 - 35 deg to one another. The crown reinforcement is completed by at least three half-layers (17, 18, 19) on each side of the circumferential median plane, with their elements lying at angles of 10 - 40 deg to the circumferential direction. The half-layer that extends furthest outwards is in contact with at least two other half layers, and the three half-layers cover the outer axial edges of at least two continuous crown reinforcing layers (15, 16). The continuous layers are the closest radially to the carcass reinforcement, with the narrowest of the continuous layers being the closest to the outer radial layer of the carcass reinforcement. Both the continuous crown reinforcement and half-layers are made from non-stretch metal cables, and the crown reinforcement is completed by at least two protective layers (22, 23) of elastic metal elements.
Patent EP-1561071-B1 (EP)
Inventor: JONSSON THORGEIR
IPC: F21V29/00
Filed: 2003-10-28
Granted: 2006-05-03
Abstract: The present invention relates to Light Emitting Diode (LED) based lamps utilising thermoelectric modules improving the efficiency of the lamps. The present invention provides in a first aspect a light illuminating device that comprises at least one light emitting diode (LED), at least one thermoelectric module (TEM) having a first surface which is thermally connected to the LED, a heat sink thermally connected to a second surface of the at least one TEM, a thermally insulating cover creating a chamber substantially insulating the LED from ambient air. The LED may be of any conventional type, the invention however is particularly useful for devices using hi-flux LEDs, including traffic lights, illuminated roadway and/or emergency signs, airport runway lights and such.
Patent EP-1575785-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KELLER MARIO
IPC: B42D15/00
Filed: 2003-11-25
Granted: 2010-09-01
Abstract: The invention relates to a security element (12, 18) with a carrier film (20) and a cover layer (22; 42; 50) applied to the carrier film (20). The cover layer has gaps (24; 30, 32, 34; 44) in the form of characters or patterns forming visually and/or machine readable first information. Additionally, a printed image (26; 36, 38, 40; 46, 48; 52) forming visually and/or machine readable second information is disposed in the gaps (24; 30, 32, 34; 44) in register, the first and second information being different.
Patent EP-1545998-B1 (EP)
Inventor: GASSNER OKTEN
IPC: B65D41/04
Filed: 2003-09-24
Granted: 2008-06-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a screw cap for containers with a threaded neck, in particular PET bottles designed to hold beverages containing CO<SUB>2</SUB>. Said cap comprises a top plate ( 1 ), an approximately cylindrical cap jacket ( 2 ), provided with an interior thread ( 3 ), an approximately cylindrical inner sealing collar ( 4 ), emanating from the top plate ( 1 ) and having an annular continuous region that projects radially outwards and an essentially cylindrical outer sealing collar ( 5 ), which concentrically surrounds the inner sealing collar ( 4 ). The maximum outer radius of the inner sealing collar and the minimum inner radius of the outer sealing collar differ only slightly, preferably by less than 2 mm and in particular by less than 1 mm and the inner and outer sealing collars ( 4, 5 ) are designed to receive the upper region of a bottle neck ( 11 ) in the annular gap formed between said collars. The aim of the invention is to provide a screw cap, which in general retains the excellent sealing properties of the known screw cap, even in extreme environmental conditions and is at the same time capable of limiting the pressures that occur in a container with a screw cap, without losing its sealing function. To achieve this, the cap is provided with devices ( 6, 7 ), which limit the axial depth of penetration of the edge of a bottle neck ( 11 ) into the gap between the inner ( 4 ) and the outer sealing collar ( 5 ).
Patent EP-1569904-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LU XIAN-PING
IPC: A61K31/185
Filed: 2003-11-21
Granted: 2012-01-11
Abstract: Disclosed is the preparation and pharmaceutical use of substituted arylalcanoic acid derivatives of Formula I, wherein ring A, ring B, R<SUP>1</SUP>, R<SUP>2</SUP>, R<SUP>3</SUP>, R<SUP>4</SUP>, R<SUP>5</SUP>, X, Alk<SUP>1</SUP>, Alk<SUP>2</SUP>, Ar<SUP>1</SUP>, and Ar<SUP>2 </SUP>are as defined in the specification. These compounds, as selective agonists activating peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR), in particularly the RXR/PPARalpha, RXR/PPARgamma, and RXR/PPARdelta heterodimers, are useful in the treatment and/or prevention of type 2 diabetes and associated metabolic syndrome such as hypertension, obesity, insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, and other cardiovascular disorders with improved side effects profile commonly associated with conventional PPARgamma agonists.
Patent EP-1579085-B1 (EP)
Inventor: WINDOW JOHN
IPC: E04B1/348
Filed: 2003-12-03
Granted: 2007-06-13
Abstract: The invention provides a mechanism for securing together room sized modular building units in the construction of a building. The mechanism comprises mutually aligned detent means on the facing outside walls of each pair of adjacent modular building units, link means to be lowered between two adjacent but mutually spaced modular building units in the final building for engaging with the mutually aligned detent means to lock them together in the vertical direction, and resilient means permitting the link means to engage the detent means but preventing movement in the return direction. By lowering the link means into the gap between adjacent modules and linking together the modules at a number of spaced points around their entire peripheries, the modules can be connected together along all edges in the vertical and horizontal planes.
Patent EP-1572153-B1 (EP)
Inventor: CAPOCCHI ANDREA
IPC: A61K9/14
Filed: 2003-12-17
Granted: 2012-02-08
Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of sterile aqueous suspensions based on active ingredients in the form of micronised crystalline particles designed for administration by inhalation. In particular, a process for the preparation of sterile aqueous suspensions based on pharmaceutical active ingredients in the form of crystalline hydrates is disclosed.
Patent EP-1567807-B1 (EP)
Inventor: PESSAYRE STEPHANIE
IPC: D06F75/38
Filed: 2003-11-20
Granted: 2007-10-31
Abstract: A heating device has metal walls which are at least partly covered with a self-cleaning coating having an outer layer in contact with ambient air, made of at least one oxidizing catalyst chosen from among the platinum oxides, and at least one inner layer (3) between the metallic support and the outer layer made of an oxidation catalyst chosen from the oxides of Group 1b transition elements. The catalyst in the outer layer is an oxide of palladium or platinum or a mixture of these. The catalyst in the inner layer is an oxide of copper, silver or a mixture of these. In particular, the outer layer is a palladium oxide and the inner layer a silver oxide, or the outer layer is a mixture of palladium oxide and silver oxide. The thickness of the outer layer, measured using the RBS method, is 10-500 nm, preferably 20-120 nm. The thickness of the inner layer, measured using the RBS method, is 20-50 nm. An additional intermediate layer (5) can be placed between the metallic support and the inner layer, forming a catalytically inert support made of aluminum, enamel, polytetrafluoroethylene or a mixture of these. The intermediate layer is made of enamel. The device is in the shape of a cooking device with walls which are prone to be in contact with organic dirt and the coating covers these walls. An Independent claim is included for coating the metallic support of a heating device with a self-cleaning coating as described above, by (i) heating the surface of the metallic support to 400degreesC, (ii) placing it in contact under infrared at 400-600degreesC for several seconds, (iii) spraying a solution of a catalytic precursor to form the inner layer, (iv) reheating the surface in an oven to ca. 400degreesC, (v) placing it again under infrared at 400-600degreesC for several seconds, spraying a solution of a catalytic precursor to form the outer layer, and (vii) reheat the metallic support with infrared for several minutes.
Patent EP-1543195-B1 (EP)
Inventor: SAKARI VESA
IPC: D21F7/00
Filed: 2003-08-27
Granted: 2007-07-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the temperature of a web, which is formed from cellulosic pulp and is to be passed to a dryer, by way of applying temperature-controlled liquid to the web. According to the invention, the thus formed web is passed into a closed space defined by two wires and side deckles, wherein temperature-controlled liquid is applied at controlled pressure and flow rate through the wire to the web.
Patent EP-1545815-B1 (EP)
Inventor: YUAN DING
IPC: B22F9/26
Filed: 2003-08-20
Granted: 2006-03-01
Abstract: The present invention relates to coated powder, comprising a Ti-bearing core and a Ni-bearing coating, which can be used for the production of porous Ni-Ti articles by the self-propagating high temperature synthesis (SHS) method. The obtained articles are ideally suited for use in biomedical applications. According to the invention, a coated powder is used comprising a metallic Ti-bearing core and a metallic Ni-bearing coating, characterised by a Ni:Ti atomic ratio of more than 0.5, preferably between 0.9 and 1.1, and more preferably between 0.96 and 1.04. By using coated powders, local fluctuations in composition are limited and well under control. Milling of powders and the ensuing contamination risks are avoided. The sintered objects obtained using coated powders have a more homogeneous porosity than that using mixed Ni and Ti powders.
Patent EP-1532307-B1 (EP)
Inventor: WUESTER HEINRICH
IPC: D06F57/04
Filed: 2003-08-13
Granted: 2008-09-03
Abstract: An umbrella-type clothes drier can be covered with a protective cover when it is not in use. An unfolding and folding spreading frame that supports a clothesline is preferably disposed in an adjustable manner on the central upright tube of the apparatus. The protective cover can be pulled over the folded spreading frame and the clothesline from the upright tube and can be retracted into the upright tube at the inner end section thereof, which remains inside the upright pipe. The outer end section of the protective cover supports a cap which overlaps the upper end of the upright tube when the protective cover is retracted into the upright tube.
Patent EP-1572779-B1 (EP)
Inventor: CHAPMAN BRIAN DOUGLAS
IPC: C08G77/50
Filed: 2003-12-17
Granted: 2008-05-21
Abstract: A method comprising heating in the presence of a catalyst, a mixture comprising (i) a reaction product obtained by mixing in the presence of a platinum group metal-containing catalyst at least one organohydrogensilicon compound containing at least one silicon-bonded hydrogen atom per molecule and at least one compound having at least one aliphatic unsaturation; (ii) at least one endblocker, and optionally (iii) at least one organosiloxane chosen from a hydrolyzate or a cyclosiloxane, so to cause polymerization of components (i), (ii), and optionally (iii) to form branched polymers.
Patent EP-1570311-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HECTOR JASON R
IPC: G02F1/1345
Filed: 2003-11-19
Granted: 2007-04-18
Abstract: In an active matrix display device, particularly an AMLCD, having an array of display pixels ( 8 ) and comprising pixel electrodes ( 16 ), associated switches ( 22 ), and address lines ( 18, 20 ) carried on a first substrate ( 10 ), a common electrode ( 26 ) carried on a second substrate ( 12 ), a drive circuit ( 40, 80 ) carried on the first substrate ( 10 ) including at least one conductor line ( 96 ) providing a drive voltage for the common electrode ( 26 ) and to which the common electrode ( 26 ) is connected ( 92 ), the common electrode ( 26 ) on the second substrate is utilised to provide also electrical connection between the one conductor line ( 96 ) and at least one other circuit element ( 37 ) carried on the first substrate ( 10 ). The use of the common electrode in this way assists in avoiding problems due to resistances of connections formed on the first substrate. The connection to a storage capacitor line ( 37, 36 ) may benefit especially. The common electrode ( 26 ) may be connected to the circuit elements on the first substrate via contact material ( 92, 100 ) extending across the gap between the two substrates.
Patent EP-1457478-B1 (EP)
Inventor: ABEL STEFAN
IPC: C07C17/35
Filed: 1999-11-09
Granted: 2017-07-19
Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a 2-(4-alkylphenyl)ethyl bromide, and the use thereof in the manufacture of 2-amino-2-Ä2-(4-alkylphenyl)ethylÜpropane-1,3-diols.
Patent EP-1493913-B1 (EP)
Inventor: IIDA YOSHIKATSU
IPC: F02M13/08
Filed: 2001-10-12
Granted: 2005-12-28
Abstract: A fuel gas mixer and a method for controlling a fuel gas mixer comprising a throttle valve (4) provided for opening and closing an air intake passage (2) of an engine, and a fuel gas supply passage (6) connected to said air intake passage at a position upstream of said throttle valve (4). A fuel gas control valve (5) for opening and closing said air intake passage (6) is provided in said air intake passage at a position upstream of the position at which said fuel gas supply passage (6) is connected to said air intake passage. A fuel gas control valve controlling means (13,14) is provided for varying the degree of opening of said fuel gas control valve (5) according to the operating state of said engine. Said fuel gas control valve controlling means (13,14) comprises an electronic control unit (13) and a step motor (14) for opening and closing said fuel gas control valve (5).
Patent EP-1518694-B1 (EP)
Inventor: OTSUKI KOICHI
IPC: B41J2/21
Filed: 2002-05-22
Granted: 2007-07-25
Abstract: Efficient printing of data including two types of areas in the sub-scanning direction, a color area and a monochromatic area, are present. During color mode printing, in the event that all main scan lines of the color unit lines come to be positioned within the monochromatic area when it is assumed that the color mode sub-scan and a unit scan operation are performed next, a specific positioned feed is executed so that the uppermost main scan line of an achromatic unit band comes to an upper edge of the monochromatic area, the achromatic unit band consisting of plural main scan lines without any gap therebetween for which the achromatic nozzle group services with a single unit scan operation. Subsequently a transition is made to monochromatic mode printing. <IMAGE>