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Patent CA-2322287-A1 (CA)
Inventor: BOURGOYNE ADAM T JR
IPC: E21B34/04
Filed: 1999-02-24
Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a subsea borehole fluid pressure is proposed for use with a conductor casing (110) positioned below the mudline (57) and within a normal pore pressure environment. The apparatus includes a pump (53) for moving a fluid through a tubular into a borehole. The fluid, before being pumped, exerts a pressure less than the pore pressure of an abnormal pore pressure environment (10). The fluid in the borehole is then pressurized by the pump (53) to at least a borehole pressure equal to or greater than the pore pressure of an abnormal pore pressure environment (10). A pressure housing assembly (15) allows for the drilling of a borehole below the conductor casing (110) into an abnormal pore pressure environment (53) while maintaining the pressurized fluid between a borehole pressure equal to or greater than the pore pressure of the abnormal pore pressure environment (10), and below the fracture pressure of the abnormal pore pressure environment (10).
Patent CA-2324986-A1 (CA)
Title: Wax cosmetic stick
Inventor: CASTRO MAURICIO
IPC: A61Q17/04
Filed: 2000-11-02
Abstract: The present invention relates to a cosmetic stick composition comprising (a) a skin care agent and (b) a solid wax, wherein the composition comprises less than 1%, by weight, of oil, and methods of using such composition.
Patent CA-2325929-A1 (CA)
Inventor: LANG FRED D
IPC: F23N5/00
Filed: 1999-03-22
Abstract: The operation of a fossil-fueled thermal system (20) is quantified by obtaining a reference fuel chemistry before on-line operation (120), and thereafter operating on-line. In on-line operation (250), a set of measurable operating parameters is measured, including at least effluent concentrations of oxygen and carbon dioxide, and optionally the concentration of effluent water and the concentration of effluent sulfur dioxide. An indicated Air/Fuel ratio is obtained, as are the ambient concentration of oxygen, and air pre-heater (36) leakage (40), and dilution factors. The fuel ash (Eq.(54)) and fuel water (Eq.(47)) are calculated, and the complete As-Fired fuel chemistry is calculated. From the complete As-Fired fuel chemistry (Eq.(29)), the pertinent systems parameters such as reference fuel heating value (Eq.(65)), boiler efficiency (Eq.(18)), system efficiency (Eq.(3)), fuel flow rate (Eq.(21)), total effluent flow rate (Eq.(71)), individual effluent flow rates (Eq.(69)), and individual emission rates (Eq.(70B)) are determined in a fully consistent manner.
Patent CA-2326520-A1 (CA)
Inventor: BECK ROLF
IPC: B29C70/34
Filed: 2000-11-23
Abstract: A profile member of hybrid composite materials including alternating layers of metal and fiber-reinforced composite is fabricated by three successive steps. In a first step, wet composite prepreg layers impregnated with a binder are alternately stacked with metal layers, so that the uncured binder wets the surfaces of the metal layers. Next, the initial uncured layer structure is plastically deformed using successive pressure or bending deformation steps until a prescribed cross-sectional contour of the layer structure is achieved. Finally, the formed layer structure is supported and fixed in an autoclave, in which the binder is cured under an applied mechanical pressure and elevated temperature, to form the finished profile member.
Patent CA-2328383-A1 (CA)
Inventor: FUJIWARA TATSUNORI
IPC: G11B17/04
Filed: 1999-02-12
Abstract: A disc unit provided with a first disc selection projection (102) and a second disc selection projection (103) having respectively taper surfaces (102a, 103a) provided at a preset interval on a disc guide surface (101a) facing a carrying roller, in order to set, according to the outer diameter of a disc, an angle made by a carrying direction of the disc carried to a smaller-diameter disc positioning recess (121) or a larger-diameter disc positioning recess (122); and with steps (121a, 122a) for positioning a smaller-diameter disc or a larger-diameter disc provided with an outer-diameter-dependent carrying direction angle to the smaller-diameter disc positioning recess (121) or the larger-diameter disc positioning recess (122).
Patent CA-2328661-A1 (CA)
Title: Mobile power center with self-retracting cord
Inventor: BALES SCOTT
IPC: B60R11/00
Filed: 2000-12-15
Abstract: A mobile power center with self-retracting cord includes an enclosure having a mounting surface which is attachable to the bumper of a vehicle and a front surface having a recessed area for attachment of a license plate. Within the enclosure, a reel carries an extension cord on a spring-powered spindle that allows manual extension and automatic retraction of the cord. Where the length of the cord exceeds the length which may be carried by the reel, first and second cord restraints, carried on opposed sides of the enclosure, support additional cord wrapped around the enclosure. The first and second three-prong sockets of a dual socket receptacle are wired in parallel to the inner end of the extension cord. In a first mode of operation, a block heater, mounted on the vehicle, may be plugged into a first socket, while a trouble light or tool may be plugged into the second socket. AC power from a remote source is supplied by the extension cord. In a second mode of operation, a 12 VDC to 120 VAC converter, mounted in the engine compartment and powered by the vehicle, may be plugged into a recessed male receptacle. A tool or light may then be plugged into either socket of a standard female receptacle. Where an electrical load is remotely located, the outer end of the extension cord may be extended, with a female to female adapter attached, thereby providing power to the remote load.
Patent CA-2330011-A1 (CA)
Inventor: VAN DEN BURG ANTHONIUS CORNELI
IPC: A23L13/60
Filed: 1999-04-26
Abstract: An elongate, tubular or cylindrical foodstuff is provided, such as a sausage, that comprises an edible proteinaceous composition that is encapsulated in an edible hardened collagen-free skin comprising a protein (e.g. casein) and a hydrocolloid (e.g. alginate). Also disclosed is a process for making such a foodstuff, by coating the proteinaceous composition with a skin-forming material, and then hardening this material by chemical or physical means.  Chemical treatment includes exposure to a cross-linking or gel-forming agent, which can result in hardening by cross-linking or the formation of a gel by the protein and/or the hydrocolloid. The proteinaceous composition and skin-forming material are continuously co-extruded and passed into a bath containing a cross-linking or gel-forming agent.
Patent CA-2330839-A1 (CA)
Inventor: HASEGAWA HISAKAZU
IPC: C12N15/60
Filed: 1998-04-17
Abstract: DNA sequences capable of encoding an enzyme protein functioning as a rice dihydrodipicolinate synthase (DHDPS). An example of the above DNA sequences is one having the base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1 in the Sequence Listing. Moreover, a DNA having the base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:5 in the Sequence Listing and one having the base sequence represented by SEQ ID  NO:7 each capable of encoding the protein with a DHDPS activity are obtained.  By culturing vegetable cells having, transferred thereinto, a vector which carries a DNA fragment having such a DNA integrated into the downstream of a promoter, a transformed plant with a high lysine content can be regenerated.
Patent CA-2331273-A1 (CA)
Title: Lubrication system
Inventor: SHORE T MICHAEL
IPC: B21B45/02
Filed: 2001-01-17
Abstract: A system is disclosed for applying a liquid lubricant to first and second components enclosed in a housing, with the lubricant applied to the second components being exposed to contamination by a liquid coolant applied to the exterior of the housing, and with the lubricant applied to the first components being substantially isolated from the liquid coolant. The system includes a partition internally subdividing the housing into a first chamber containing the first components and a second chamber containing the second components. Lubricant is delivered from a storage tank to the housing for application to the first and second components. A first conduit network communicates with the first chamber for returning the lubricant applied to the first components to the storage tank, and a second conduit network communicates with the second chamber for returning lubricant applied to the second components to the storage tank. A liquid coolant removal unit in the second conduit network removes liquid coolant from the lubricant being returned to the storage tank.
Patent CA-2331430-A1 (CA)
Title: Demodulation structure and method
Inventor: KRUPEZEVIC DRAGAN
IPC: H03D3/00
Filed: 2001-01-18
Abstract: The present invention relates to a demodulation structure and method for downconverting and demodulating a digitally modulated signal S0, with a local oscillator means for providing a local oscillator signal S1o, a mixer means for mixing said local oscillator signal S1o and said digitally modulated signal S0 in order to obtain a mixed signal, a lowpass filter means for lowpass filtering the mixed signal from the mixer means and an analog-to-digital converting means for converting the filtered signal from the lowpass filter means into a downconverted and demodulated digital signal S1, whereby the local oscillator signal is set in respect to the modulated digital signal so that the downconverted and demodulated digital signal output from the analog-to-digital converting means comprises two serially arranged information parts. The present invention provides a demodulation structure and method with a very simple structure and essentially improved amplitude and phase imbalances.
Patent CA-2332247-A1 (CA)
Title: Remote computing
Inventor: COLLIS JARON CLEMENTS
IPC: G06F9/46
Filed: 1999-04-29
Abstract: A method of remote computing comprising supplying a plurality of parallel processing task programs from a first computer to at least one second computer; supplying a co-ordinating program from said first computer to said second computer; and co-ordinating operation of the task programs through the co-ordinating program.
Patent CA-2334570-A1 (CA)
Title: Pitch control system
Inventor: TABOR BEN PAUL
IPC: E02F3/84
Filed: 2001-02-08
Abstract: A pitch control system for a bulldozer having a bulldozer blade that is mounted to a blade linkage. The bulldozer blade is coupled to the blade linkage by a bearing that permits the right and left angling movement of the bulldozer blade and the forward and rearward pitch of the bulldozer blade relative to the blade linkage. An angling control valve hydraulically positions two hydraulic angling cylinders for angling the blade right and left relative to the blade linkage. A hydraulic dump valve is hydraulically positioned between the angling hydraulic control valve ;end the hydraulic angling cylinder, the hydraulic dump valve having a dump position and a checked position. A linear actuator in the form of a hydraulic pitch cylinder is operatively positioned between the blade linkage and the blade for selectively adjusting the pitch of the blade relative to the blade linkage. A  pitch control valve is used to selectively position the pitch cylinder. The dump valve is shifted to its dump position whenever the pitch cylinder is extended or retracted thereby freeing the angling cylinders.
Patent CA-2334851-A1 (CA)
Title: Method for producing metal shapes with a polygonal cross-section by means of continuous casting on a double-flanged wheel and continuous rolling
Inventor: THOMAS GERARD
IPC: B21C37/04
Filed: 1999-06-09
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing metal shapes with a partially or totally polygonal cross-section by means of continuous casting in a double-flanged wheel and continuous rolling using a series of at least 3 pairs of rollers with a peripheral flange, whereby said rollers are alternately horizontally and vertically disposed in a symmetrical position with respect to said shape. The inventive method is characterised in that the flanges of the first pairs of rollers are identical to those used to produce shapes with a circular cross-section; the last pair of rollers has flanges defining a section that corresponds substantially to that of the desired shape; the section formed by the grooves of the last pair of rollers has curve radiuses of between 1 and 5 mm at the highest points of the polygon; the sides of the polygon that are not parallel to the air gap pertaining to the last pair of rollers have a clearance angle of ½-3° in comparison with the corresponding of the section of the final shape. The invention can be used to produce copper or aluminum alloy shapes for drawing or and/or subsequent redrawing.
Patent CA-2335174-A1 (CA)
Inventor: D ACCHIOLI VINCENZO
IPC: A61F5/443
Filed: 1999-06-28
Abstract: The present invention relates to a urine management device (10). It comprises a bag (11) having an aperture (13), and an anatomically-shaped flange (12), which surrounds the aperture (13). The flange (12) provides for adhesive attachment to the uro-genital of the wearer. In particular, the bag (l1) comprises a wall material having an inner surface (18) and an outer surface (18), with the outer surface (18) being provided with a hydrophobic fibrous layer, preferably a nonwoven layer. In another aspect of the present invention, the urine management device (10) is used in combination with a disposable diaper.
Patent CA-2336328-A1 (CA)
Inventor: GILBERT MARTYN
IPC: H04L9/32
Filed: 1999-07-02
Abstract: An electronic system architecture comprises a plurality of client devices connected in a hierarchical structure in which the client devices form nodes  in the structure interconnected by communications links. One client device a t the top of the hierarchical structure provides a gateway to a server and eac h other client device is connected to a single client device through a single communications link in an upstream direction and each client device is connected to a number, which may be zero, of client devices through the same  number of communications links in a downstream direction. The downstream client devices have lower bandwidth requirements than any client devices upstream of them and the sum of the bandwidths of the communications links from each client device in a downstream direction is less than the bandwidth  of the communications links in the upstream direction. Client devices able t o make a hardware access request to a client device further in the downstream direction support exception handling of the request.
Patent CA-2339432-A1 (CA)
Title: Apparatus for releasably connecting a basketball net to a basketball rim
Inventor: CHECKO BILLY-JOE
IPC: A63B63/08
Filed: 2001-03-05
Abstract: Apparatus for connecting a basketball net to a basketball rim includes a collar adapted to hold the net in an open position permitting passage of a basketball, and a plurality of suspension arms having hook-shaped upper ends sized to releasably clip on the rim. As well the apparatus may include a suspension arm that has a horizontally extending plate-shaped upper end that is sized to extend outward over the rim and over a reinforcing plate that is typical of many basketball rim structures. The collar and the suspension arms have a thin sheet construction formed from elastic material having plastic memory. Preferably, the suspension arms are sufficiently resilient to flex from their normal shape to a deformed shape permitting the arm to be forcibly pulled downwardly from the rim, and to return to their normal shape upon release of the deforming force. To faciltate manufacture by injection molding, the collar may be constructed in connectable segments. The installation on and the removal of a collar from a basketabll rim in accordance with the present invention may be accomplished from the level of a basketball floor with the assistance of a positioning device which includes an elongated positioning pole and a positioning head located at the upper end of the pole.
Patent CA-2343025-A1 (CA)
Title: Process for the preparation of calcium hydroxyalkane sulphonates
Inventor: VAN ZON ARIE
IPC: C07C309/08
Filed: 1999-09-09
Abstract: The present invention is a process for the preparation of calcium hydroxy alkane sulphonates from a mixture comprising at least 20 % by weight paraffi ns and at least 10 % by weight olefins, comprising reacting the mixture with a sulphonating agent in a reactor, and neutralising and hydrolysing the reacti on product in the presence of a calcium-containing base.
Patent CA-2343234-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and device for producing tablets
Inventor: TRAPP BURKHARD
IPC: A61J3/10
Filed: 1999-09-09
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for producing tablets by means of hot melt extrusion. The inventive device comprises an extruder (10) and forming rollers (21, 23) for the production of a continuous strip of tablets  (14). Means for separating and deburring the cold extruded strip of tablets (14) are also provided. Said means consist of break-off rollers for separati ng the tablets and deburring means (50), such as a rotating dragee tub, arrange d downstream from said break-off rollers and physically separated therefrom.</ SDOAB>
Patent CA-2345738-A1 (CA)
Title: Apparatus for loading a bag enclosed stent on a catheter
Inventor: LAYNE RICHARD
IPC: A61F2/82
Filed: 1999-09-30
Abstract: An apparatus for loading a stem onto or into a catheter. A flexible sterile sleeve is provided to encase the stent as it is pulled through a loading device. The loading device is a simple design utilizing a tapered passageway. The passageway has first diameter at a proximal end which tapers to a second diameter, forming a funnel. The passageway continues at the second diameter forming a tube. The sleeved stent is pulled through the loading device from the proximal end to the distal end, smoothly compressing the stent. Depending on the type of stent and catheter being used, the stent is either crimped onto the catheter as it is pulled through the funnel, or is loaded into a catheter positioned at the distal end of the loading device. The sleeve acts to minimize the frictional forces to which the stent is subjected and to eliminate the longitudinal force that the stent would be subjected to if pushed or pulled directly. The sleeve may be close-ended to provide an additional sterility barrier about the stent.
Patent CA-2346071-A1 (CA)
Title: A method and device for entrapping gas within a liquid drug container
Inventor: BRODEUR CRAIG
IPC: A61M5/24
Filed: 1999-10-06
Abstract: A stopper (1) for use in preventing any volume of gas (26) from escaping fro m a drug container (12) when used in connection therewith. The stopper (1) has  a perimeter for slidable engagement with the interior of the drug container (12); an outer surface (2); and an inner surface (3) facing the bottom (20) of the drug container (12), the inner surface (3) shaped so as to trap any volu me of gas (26) located within the drug container (12) when the stopper (1) is slidably engaged therein. The invention is further directed to a drug container (12) having a hollow body (14) for holding a liquid. The body (14)  has an open end (18) and a closed end (20). The container (12) also has a stopper (1) slidably received in the hollow body (14), and a feature (30) fo r entrapping any volume of gas (26) within the container (12).
Patent CA-2348660-A1 (CA)
Inventor: RAEBER ALEX
IPC: C12N5/06
Filed: 1998-12-16
Abstract: B-cells have been identified as being the crucial carriers of infectivity in the spread of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy within an infected organism. In a second step, B-cells may infect further components of the immune system, e.g. T-cells. Accordingly, the present invention provides B-cell and T-cell specific ligands for the use in diagnostics and therapeutics for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and provides methods for the manufacture of non-infective blood products and tissue derived products. Thus, the present invention provides medicaments comprising B-cell and/or T-cell depletants, for the treatment of pathologies where the depletion of B-cells and/or T-cells, and more particularly of tse-infected B-cells and/or T-cells is therapeutically effective.
Patent CA-2349564-A1 (CA)
Inventor: VAN TICHELEN LUC
IPC: G10L13/04
Filed: 1999-09-30
Abstract: A text-to-speech system includes a text parser for receiving a sequence of characters representing an input text and establishing markers that divide the sequence of characters into a sequence of audible sections, a text-to-speech reader coupled to the text parser and having a directable pointer for identifying an audible section that the text-to-speech reader shall convert into artificial speech, and a voice controlled user interface in communication with the text-to-speech reader for allowing a user to direct the pointer to a desired marker.
Patent CA-2349626-A1 (CA)
Title: Nutritional supplements
Inventor: HUANG JIANWEI
IPC: A23K1/175
Filed: 1999-11-08
Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing edible plant tissue biomasses suitable for use as nutritional supplements. The seedlings are exposed to at least one metal and normal seedling growth is interrupted prior to the eleventh day following germination to thereby produce a metal-enriched plant seedling tissue biomass. The metal-containing edible plant tissue biomasses are also provided.
Patent CA-2358374-A1 (CA)
Title: Furnace video camera apparatus
Inventor: EVERSOLE DONALD L
IPC: F23M11/04
Filed: 2001-10-05
Abstract: A high temperature camera apparatus having an elongated steel camera housing tube and an elongated steel camera housing tube and an elongated camera support member, supporting a video camera at the furnace interior end of the camera housing tube. A ceramic heat shield tube telescopically surrounds at least a portion of the camera, and preferably the portion of the camera housing tube which contains the camera. The exterior surface of the camera housing tube is plated and polished to provide a highly reflective surface, and the ceramic heat shield tube is telescopically surrounded by an outer steel tube. The ceramic heat shield is spaced in position around the camera housing tube by a plurality of spacers projecting outwardly from the outer surface of the camera housing tube. A steel end plate is fixed at the furnace interior end of the camera housing tube, and is provided with an image hole aligned with the image axis of the camera, and a plurality of spaced ventilation holes surrounding the image hole. A ceramic end plate is mounted in an inturned end of the ceramic heat shield tube, and seated against a plurality of spacers distributed on the steel end plate by a plurality of springs.  Alternatively, the ceramic heat shield is mounted to the end plate with a tubular shroud within it. A liquid coolant jacket may also be formed on radially opposite sides of the camera housing tube.
Patent CA-2359901-A1 (CA)
Inventor: VANN CHARLES S
IPC: B01L99/00
Filed: 2000-02-15
Abstract: A bead dispensing system is provided for delivering small amounts of substances onto substrates. The system can include, for example, a movable support structure having an array of spaced-apart projections depending from  its lower side. An attraction source, such as a vacuum, magnetic, and/or electrostatic force, is operable at each projection end region to attract an d retain one bead. The projection array can be aligned with an array of bead- receiving regions of a substrate, e.g., an array of spaced-apart wells of a micro-plate or card. In one embodiment, a plurality of reagent-carrying bead s are picked up, retained at respective projection end regions, and moved to a  location over a multi-well plate. The beads are then released in a fashion permitting each bead to land in a respective well. The system of the inventi on is particularly useful for fabricating arrays of reagents.