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Patent AU-770477-B2 (AU)
Title: Apparatus and method incorporating an ultrasound transducer onto a delivery member
Inventor: MAGUIRE MARK A
IPC: A61N7/02
Filed: 2000-05-08
Granted: 2004-02-19
Abstract: A medical device assembly and method provides an ultrasound transducer mounted onto a delivery member, such the elongate body of a catheter shaft, without a support structure bridging between a separation area between the transducer and the shaft. Mounting flanges are extend from either end of the transducer and are mounted at first and second locations along the catheter shaft such that the transducer is suspended over the catheter shaft between those mounting locations. The flanges may be connected by an intermediate member, with the transducer supported on either an outer surface or an inner surface of the intermediate member. The intermediate member may also provide a housing with an enclosed space that houses the transducer, wherein the flanges extend from the housing for mounting to the catheter shaft. In an overall tissue coupling system, a cylindrical ultrasound transducer are mounted onto a catheter shaft by use of such mounting flanges extending from the transducer's ends and such that the ultrasound transducer is enclosed within a balloon also provided on the catheter. The balloon is ideally adapted to engage a circumferential region of tissue where a pulmonary vein extends from an atrium such that the cylindrical ultrasound transducer is able to couple through the balloon inflation fluid and to the circumferential region of tissue surrounding the balloon for ablation. The transducer is substantially "airbacked" when mounted onto a delivery member according to the present assembly and method.
Patent AU-524940-B2 (AU)
Title: 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-9,10-anthracene-diol
Inventor: DELAVARENNE SERGE
IPC: C07C39/12
Filed: 1979-06-28
Granted: 1982-10-14
Abstract: A process for the preparation of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-9,10-anthracene-diol, in which catalytic hydrogenation of 1,4,4a,9a-tetrahydro-anthraquinone is carried out in the liquid phase to give 1,2,3,4,4a,9a-hexahydro-9,10-anthracene-dione followed by isomerization of the latter in the presence of an acid to give 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-9,10-anthracene-diol.
Patent AU-619955-B2 (AU)
Title: Process for removing acid impurities from chlorofluorocarbons using carbon molecular sieves
Inventor: CHANG CHIN-HSIUNG
IPC: B01D53/02
Filed: 1990-01-03
Granted: 1992-02-06
Abstract: Chlorofluorocarbons are purified by removing hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids with a carbon molecular sieve having an average pore size of about 3.5 Angstroms with no more than about 5% of the pores having a size less than 3.2 Angstroms and no more than about 5% of the pores having a size greater than 4.2 Angstroms.
Patent AU-712429-B2 (AU)
Title: Device for the study of organotypic cultures and its uses in electrophysiology and biochemistry
Inventor: STOPPINI LUC
IPC: G01N27/00
Filed: 1996-04-10
Granted: 1999-11-04
Abstract: In a device for studying and recording electrophysiological phenomena in culture of excitable tissues comprising a lower half card with a perfusion membrane in a perfusion chamber sealed by a permeable and transparent membrane and an upper half card with a flexible printed circuit bearing a network of electrode and fitted with a cap for insuring the closure of the device, the improvement comprising the upper half card being comprised of an upper half and a lower half card which when assembled together for recording yield a functional set up.
Patent AU-770313-B2 (AU)
Title: Nitric esters and nitrate salts of specific drugs
Inventor: SOLDATO PIERO DEL
IPC: A61K31/473
Filed: 1999-07-20
Granted: 2004-02-19
Abstract: Nitric acid salts with medicines active in the respiratory system pathology treatment.
Patent AU-614479-B2 (AU)
Title: Constant angle conveyor belt cleaner
Inventor: SWINDERMAN ROBERT T
IPC: B65G45/16
Filed: 1990-04-19
Granted: 1991-08-29
Abstract: A conveyor belt cleaner (10) for removing residue from the surface of a conveyor belt (14) is disclosed. The conveyor belt cleaner (10) is radially adjustable through connection with a rotatable support member (12, 18) positioned generally transverse to the direction of conveyor belt travel. The conveyor belt cleaner (10) includes a scraping blade (10) having a curvilinear scraping surface (20). One edge (26) of the curvilinear scraping surface (20) is in contact with the conveyor belt (14). The curvilinear scraping surface (20) is configured in a way such that the cleaning angle (B) formed between a first line (48), tangent to the curvilinear scraping surface (14) and extending through a point where the scraping surface edge (26) is in contact with the conveyor belt (14), and a second line (46), either tangent or parallel to the surface of the conveyor belt (14) and extending through the same point where the scraping surface edge (26) contacts the conveyor belt (14), will remain constant as the conveyor belt cleaner (10) is radially adjusted to compensate for wear to the scraping blade (10).
Patent AU-707970-B2 (AU)
Title: Combination backpack and chair
Inventor: TENNANT BRIAN M
IPC: A45C9/00
Filed: 1996-03-15
Granted: 1999-07-22
Abstract: A combination backpack and chair. It has a backpack with a chair back portion located on its rear face. Chair back wings extend from side regions of the chair back portion. A seat portion extends from a lower rear region of the chair back portion. Seat wings extend from side regions of the seat portion. The seat wings and chair back wings are foldable inwardly into contact with the seat and chair back portions when the device is not being used as a chair, and these wings are foldable outwardly when the device is used as a chair. Generally rigid stays are placed in the back wings and the seat wings to provide for greater stiffening. To better maintain the shape of the device, the chair back, seat, and wings are preferably padded with foam rubber type material. Straps are provided for connecting the chair back portion and the seat back portion to allow the chair back portion and the seat portion to be maintained at a desired degree of recline relative to each other. The chair back portion and seat portion can be made to be detachably attachable to the backpack portion. The backpack portion can include a lower waterproof and insulated compartment for carrying items that are best consumed when cold, such as soft drinks.
Patent AU-633104-B2 (AU)
Title: Improved micro-pump
IPC: F04B43/00
Filed: 1990-06-12
Granted: 1993-01-21
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/CH90/00145 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 13, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 13, 1991 PCT Filed Jun. 12, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO90/15929 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 27, 1990.Pumping takes place within the micro-pump as a result of the deformation of a plate (12) using a piezo-electric pad (13). The deformation produces a variation in volume within a pumping chamber (15) defined inside a plate (11) which is made of a material which can be machined using photolithographic processes. The pump outlet (3) is blocked off, selectively, by a membraned check-valve (18) which is in direct communication with another check-valve (16) via the pumping chamber. The check-valve (16) selectively enables the pumping chamber to communicate with the pump inlet (2). The outlet valve membrane (18) has a layer of oxide (17) providing a pretension on closing. The check-valve thus has a regulatory effect on the pump operation, making the flow almost independent of the outlet (3) pressure. Application: injection of exact doses of medication.
Patent AU-569658-B2 (AU)
Title: A drill adaptor
Inventor: VANCURA VLADIMIR
IPC: E21B/
Filed: 1986-04-24
Granted: 1988-02-11
Abstract: A soil and rock drill adapter intended for coupling a rotatable drill rod to a drill bit, optionally with intermediate percussion drilling means or compressed-air drilling means, is arranged to permit the drill bit to be positioned eccentrically in relation to the longitudinal axis of the drill rod. To this end the adapter comprises two mutually connecting parts arranged one above the other and abutting each other in a plane extending at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the drill rod, and means being provided which enable two adapter parts to be adjusted relative one another between an eccentric position and a centric position relative to said axis.
Patent AU-779032-B2 (AU)
Title: Syringe pumps
Inventor: TRIBE ROBERT JAMES
IPC: A61M5/168
Filed: 2001-08-14
Granted: 2005-01-06
Abstract: A syringe pump has a motor (9) rotating a leadscrew (8), which drives a plunger head retainer (10) to push a plunger (35) along the barrel (30) of a syringe (3) so as to dispense medication to a patient. A force sensor (20) in the head retainer (10) measures the force on the plunger (35) to detect when there is an occlusion restricting flow of medication. When an excess force is detected an alarm is generated and the motor (9) is reversed to reduce the force to about 10% of that at which the occlusion is detected. The occlusion can be removed with a reduced risk of a bolus of medication being dispensed after which the user restarts the pump so that the plunger (35) is driven normally. <IMAGE>
Patent AU-603057-B2 (AU)
Title: Apertured macroscopically expanded three-dimensional polymeric web exhibiting breatheability and resistance to fluid transmission
Inventor: THOMPSON HUGH ANSLEY
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1986-05-30
Granted: 1990-11-08
Abstract: @ The present invention pertains, in a particularly preferred embodiment, to an apertured, macroscopically expanded, resilient three-dimensional polymeric web which is believed to have particular utility as a breatheable barrier for a disposable bandage such as a diaper. The web preferably comprises a deeply drawn three-dimensional structure containing a multiplicity of debossments of macroscopic (i.e., visibly perceivable by the normal human eye at a perpendicular distance of about one foot) cross-section, each of said debossments originating as an aperture in a first surface of the web and having a continuously interconnected side wall extending in the direction of a second, remotely located parallel surface of the web. The side wall of each debossment terminates to form an end wall in the second surface of the web. The end wall includes a multiplicity of apertures, each of said apertures being sized and shaped to independently support an aqueous fluid meniscus. The smaller apertures in each end wall are so spaced relative to all adjacent apertures in the end wall that the aqueous fluid menisci supported in the apertures do not contact one another or the side wall. In a disposable absorbent bandage context, the second surface of the web containing the end walls with small apertures therein is placed in contact with the absorbent core portion of the bandage and the surface of the web in which the debossments originate is oriented so as to contact the wearer's outer garments in use.
Patent AU-585352-B2 (AU)
Title: Encapsulated liquid crystal having a smectic phase
Inventor: PEARLMAN KENNETH N
IPC: G02F1/137
Filed: 1986-06-03
Granted: 1989-06-15
Abstract: A liquid crystal material having a smectic phase is encapsulated; in discrete volumes, with the encapsulating medium inducing a generally distorted alignment of said liquid crystal material. In response to such alignment the material either scatters or absorbs light and the amount of scattering or absorbing is reduced on application of an input. The encapsulated liquid crystal material is used to make a liquid crystal device.
Patent AU-734252-B2 (AU)
Title: Novel mouse CXC chemokine receptor
Inventor: KISHIMOTO TADAMITSU
IPC: C07K14/715
Filed: 1997-02-07
Granted: 2001-06-07
Abstract: The present invention pertains to a DNA encoding a polypeptide comprising an entire sequence of the amino acid sequence as shown by SEQ ID NO: 17 of Sequence Listing or a partial sequence thereof, or a polypeptide comprising the polypeptide described above, wherein any of the polypeptides has an activity of a receptor capable of binding to a murine PBSF/SDF-1; a polypeptide encoded by the DNA described above, wherein the polypeptide has an activity of a receptor capable of binding to a murine PBSF/SDF-1; cells expressing the polypeptide described above and a human CD4 protein; and a method of screening an AIDS onset inhibitor or an HIV-1 infection inhibitor, characterized by the use of the cells described above. According to the present invention, there can be provided a novel murine CXC chemokine receptor gene, a method of screening an HIV-1 infection inhibitor, and the like, each of which is useful in studies of a therapeutic agent for AIDS and the functional mechanism of HIV-1 infection.
Patent AU-740827-B2 (AU)
Title: Web request broker controlling multiple processes
Inventor: ADUNUTHULA SESHU
IPC: G06F13/00
Filed: 1998-01-29
Granted: 2001-11-15
Abstract: A web server configured to respond to client requests over a network such as the World Wide Web includes a web listener having a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) daemon, a plurality of extension programs configured to perform respective operations, and a web request broker configured to identify one of the programs for responding to a client request, and determine the availability of an instance of the identified program. The web request broker maintains control of multiple instances of each server extension program to provide enhanced server operation without overwhelming server resources. The web request broker maintains a minimum number of instances of the identified program in memory, each executed in its own address space. The web request broker determines whether an available instance of the identified program is available from an existing number of instances, and selectively initiates a new instance of the program if no other instance is available. If no instance is available and the existing number of instances exceeds the maximum prescribed number, then the web request broker returns the reply to the web listener to send a reply over the network that the request was not processed.
Patent AU-626449-B2 (AU)
Title: Method and apparatus for quantitatively dividing bread dough
Inventor: HAYASHI TORAHIKO
IPC: A21C5/00
Filed: 1990-08-27
Granted: 1992-07-30
Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for quantitatively dividing bread dough (1). The apparatus includes a hopper (2) having vertical side walls (3). The internal space surrounded by the walls has the same horizontal cross-sectional area at any position along the vertical walls. The apparatus also includes a pair of vertical conveyors (4) extending along the said side walls. A dough outlet (6) is formed in the bottom wall of the hopper. A dividing device (7) is located in close proximity to the dough outlet. The vertical conveyors are driven at a speed of Xm/min, in line with the speed of the dough flowing downward on its same level. The dough is continuously and quantitatively divided by the dividing device into small pieces (1 min ). Each of the dough pieces is then conveyed toward a shaping station. Thus the dough can be quantitatively divided so that a high quality dough is obtained without the gel structure of the gluten being destroyed.
Patent AU-637822-B2 (AU)
Title: Bile acid derivatives, processes for their preparation, and use as pharmaceuticals
IPC: A61P3/06
Filed: 1990-09-13
Granted: 1993-06-10
Abstract: Bile acid derivatives of the formula I  W-X-G in which G is a bile acid residue, W is an active substance portion of a medicament and X is a linker between bile acid residue and active substance portion, are outstandingly suitable for introducing active substances into the enterohepatic circulation. The compounds I are absorbed and enter the bloodstream. This makes it possible by utilising the natural reabsorption of the bile acids to improve the absorption of drugs which are absorbed with difficulty, if at all. W can be, for example, a peptide, an antibiotic, an antiviral substance, an anticancer agent, a liver protective, an antihyperlipidaemic, a diuretic, an agent to lower blood pressure, a renin inhibitor, a substance to treat cirrhosis of the liver or a substance for treating diabetes. G is a bile acid residue in the form of the free, natural or chemically modified acids, the esters and amides, the salt forms and forms derivatised on alcohol groups. X is a large number of intermediate members or else a bond.
Patent AU-579945-B2 (AU)
Title: Electroviscous fluids
Inventor: GOOSSENS JOHN
IPC: C10M169/04
Filed: 1986-10-13
Granted: 1988-12-15
Abstract: Electroviscous fluids are disclosed which are composed of aluminum silicates particles in an electrically non-conductive liquid and a suitable dispersing agent. The atomic ratio of Al/Si on the surface of the aluminum silicate lies within the range of 0.15 to 0.80.
Patent AU-592378-B2 (AU)
Title: Electrolytic apparatus and a method of operating it
Inventor: ECONOMOPOULOS MARIOS
IPC: C25D7/06
Filed: 1986-10-14
Granted: 1990-01-11
Abstract: An anode arranged very close to a cathode in an electrolytic circuit is constituted by a plate formed with first and second sets of orifices, both distributed over the surface of the plate. The first set is connected to electrolyte supply means and the second set to electrolyte discharge means with the aim of producing high turbulence in the narrow space between the anode and cathode.
Patent AU-631688-B2 (AU)
Title: A level shifter for a power supply regulator in a television apparatus
IPC: G05F3/22
Filed: 1990-10-12
Granted: 1992-12-03
Abstract: A level shifter (600) receives a variable input voltage (VNINI), such as a beam current representative voltage of a cathode ray tube in a television receiver, and produces an output voltage (VNIN) that changes when the input voltage changes, such that the output voltage (VNIN) is level shifted relative to the input voltage (VNINI). The output voltage (VNIN) is coupled to an input terminal (+) of an error amplifier (610) of a power supply voltage regulator. The level shifter (600) includes a current mirror arrangement responsive to the input voltage. A band gap type voltage source (699) determines the amount of level shifting that is produced by the level shifter (600).   <IMAGE>
Patent AU-729412-B2 (AU)
Title: Nutritional supplement for facilitating skeletal muscle adaptation to strenuous exercise and counteracting defatigation in asthenic individuals
Inventor: CAVAZZA CLAUDIO
IPC: A23L33/15
Filed: 1998-03-27
Granted: 2001-02-01
Abstract: A nutritional supplement for facilitating the adaptation of skeletal muscle in individuals udergoing programs of strenuous exercise and counteracting defatigation and weariness in asthenic individuals is disclosed, which comprises a combination of L-camitine, acetyl L-camitine and propionyl L-carnitine as basic active ingredients. Optional ingredients comprise isovaleryl L-carnitine, branched-chained aminoacids and creatine and/or phosphocreatine.
Patent AU-583980-B2 (AU)
Title: Process for the dehalogenation of chloroacetic and bromoacetic acids
Inventor: DAPPERHELD STEFFEN
IPC: C25B3/25
Filed: 1987-03-06
Granted: 1989-05-11
Abstract: Chloroacetic and bromoacetic acids are dehalogenated by electrolysis of aqueous solutions of these acids using carbon cathodes and anodes likewise of carbon or of other conventional electrode materials in undivided or in divided electrolysis cells; the aqueous electrolysis solutions in the undivided cells and in the cathode area of the divided cells contain, in dissolved form, one or more salts of metals having a hydrogen excess-voltage of at least 0.4 V (at a current density of 4,000 A/m2). Metals having a hydrogen excess-voltage of at least 0.4 V (at a current density of 4,000 A/m2) are, for example, Cu, Ag, Au, Zn, Cd, Hg, Sn, Pb, Ti, Zr, Bi, V, Ta, Cr and Ni. The process allows high current densities (up to about 8,000 A/m2) to be used without or virtually without corrosion of the electrodes and without deposit formation on the electrodes.
Patent AU-721837-B2 (AU)
Title: A cable duct
Inventor: KELLY MICHAEL
IPC: H02G3/06
Filed: 1996-11-04
Granted: 2000-07-13
Abstract: A cable duct of plastics material has a base with upstanding sidewalls at opposite sides of the base forming an open ended channel for reception of cables. Means is provided at each end of the duct for releasably interlocking the duct with another duct end to end to form an extended channel for cables and the like. Formations are provided at each end of the duct so that when the ducts are interlocked said formations prevent relative vertical movement of adjacent ducts thus preventing a trip hazard. Expansion means is also provided to accommodate longitudinal expansion and contraction of the ducts. <IMAGE>
Patent AU-743510-B2 (AU)
Title: Therapies for acute renal failure
Inventor: SAMPATH KUBER T
IPC: A61P13/12
Filed: 1998-05-05
Granted: 2002-01-24
Abstract: The present invention provides methods for the treatment, and pharmaceuticals for use in the treatment, of mammalian subjects in, or at risk of, acute renal failure, or subject to, or at risk of, inflammation, neutrophil-mediated cell damage, and apoptosis resulting from tissue damage or injury. The methods involve the administration of certain proteins of the osteogenic protein/bone morphogenetic protein (OP/BMP) family within the TGF-β superfamily of proteins.
Patent AU-635823-B2 (AU)
Title: Ruminant feed additive for rumen bypass
IPC: A23K1/18
Filed: 1991-03-02
Granted: 1993-04-01
Abstract: A feed additive for ruminant prepared by dispersing an active substance such as amino acids or vitamins in a protective substance mainly comprising metallic salts of fatty acid mixtures and granulating the dispersion and employed to allow the active substance to bypass the rumen to be digested and absorbed in the abomasum and the subsequent stomachs. It now becomes possible to well balance the active substance between the capability of bypassing the rumen and the digestibility and absorbability in the abomasum and the subsequent stomachs.
Patent AU-653150-B2 (AU)
Title: Programmable valve pump
Inventor: OLIVE PETER
IPC: A61M5/142
Filed: 1991-03-27
Granted: 1994-09-22
Abstract: An implantable valve accumulator pump for the delivery of medication is disclosed. The implantable pump comprises a drug reservoir maintained at constant pressure vapor. The medication metering assembly comprises a fixed volume accumulator positioned between a pair of valves. The valves alternately open and close to admit medication from the reservoir into the accumulator and to dispense a precise volume spike to an outlet catheter. In order to minimize dead volume and insure complete discharge, the accumulator employs a titanium diaphragm seated in one position by a recessed stop and in the discharge position by a spacer plate having a concentric groove pattern. The grooves are in fluid communication with the inlet and outlet. Also, a wide groove extending between inlet and outlet provides fluid communication between the grooves. The unit is externally programmed.
Patent AU-685167-B2 (AU)
Title: Androstenones
Inventor: BATCHELOR KENNETH WILLIAM
IPC: A61K31/58
Filed: 1994-09-16
Granted: 1998-01-15
Abstract: A compound of formula (I) <CHEM>     wherein carbons 1 and 2 are joined by either a single or a double bond;   R<1> is hydrogen or methyl;   R<2> is hydrogen or methyl;   R<3> is (A) <CHEM>   wherein R<4> and R<5> are independently hydrogen, straight or branched alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, straight or branched alkoxy of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, trifluoromethyl, cyano, halogen, phenyl (optionally substituted with one or more halogens), or when R<4> and R<5> are on adjacent carbons, taken together form a fused 5, 6 or 7 member ring optionally containing one or more oxygen or sulfur atoms;   W and Z are methylene groups which taken together with the carbon to which they are attached form a saturated, 3 to 12 member ring system optionally:     1) substituted independently with one or more lower alkyl groups,   2) containing an oxygen or sulfur atom, 3) two said methylene groups of said 3 to 12 member ring are joined with a (C1-6) alkylene group to form a bicyclic ring system; and     X is hydrogen or halogen; or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate thereof.