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Patent CA-2514478-A1 (CA)
Title: Apparatus and method for filling trays
Inventor: KENNEDY T SCOTT
IPC: B65B1/04
Filed: 2004-01-23
Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to an apparatus for filling trays with polymerized growth medium. The apparatus comprises feed rollers (P and J), a slurry dispenser nozzle (S), a filler roller (F), and at least one rotary brush (N). Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of filling a tray with polymerized growth medium using an apparatus of the present invention.
Patent CA-2515693-A1 (CA)
Inventor: OTTELIN JUHA
IPC: D21B1/38
Filed: 2004-01-19
Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement for and a method of treating pulp, and a method of modernizing a pulp tower. The arrangement and method relate to treating pulp in connection with high-consistency pulp towers, and especially to means (36, 42) for diluting pulp arranged substantially at the level of the smallest cross-sectional area between the parting member (31) and the wall (12) of the pulp tower (10).
Patent CA-2515827-A1 (CA)
Title: Articular disc prosthesis for anterior-oblique insertion
Inventor: ZHANG JEFFERY
IPC: A61F2/46
Filed: 2004-02-12
Abstract: A prosthetic device (600) for anterior-oblique insertion into an intervertebral space is provided. The prosthetic device includes a first component (602) having a first flange (640) for engaging a first vertebra from an anterior-oblique approach, the first flange being angled relative to the longitudinal and transverse axes of the first component, and a second component (604) having a second flange (670) for engaging a second vertebra from an anterior-oblique approach, the second flange being angled relative to the longitudinal (R) and transverse axes (T) of the second component, and wherein the first and second components cooperate to permit articulating motion between the first and second components.
Patent CA-2519113-A1 (CA)
Inventor: VAN VUGT MARTINE
IPC: C12N15/13
Filed: 2004-04-01
Abstract: An antibody binding to IGF-IR and inhibiting the binding of IGF-I and IGF-II  to IG-RI which is characterized in that said antibody is of human IgG1 isotype, and shows a ratio of inhibition of the binding of IGF-I to IGF-IR to the inhibition of binding of IGF-II to IGF-IR of 1:3 to 3:1, and induces celle death of 20% or more cells of a preparation of IGF-IR expressing cells after 24 hours at a concentration of said antibody of 100 nM by ADCC; has improved properties in antitumor therapy.
Patent CA-2519776-A1 (CA)
Inventor: ORBAY JORGE L
IPC: A61B17/86
Filed: 2004-03-22
Abstract: A volar plate includes a head portion with two sets of pegs. The first set of the pegs is substantially linearly and the axes of the pegs are preferably oblique relative to each other, and are preferably angled relative to each other in two dimensions. The second set of pegs is provided relatively distal of the first set through a buttress of the head portion of the plate. The second set of pegs is preferably angled relative to the plate such that the pegs are oriented substantially perpendicular to the body of the plate and extend between the pegs of the first set. The first set of pegs provides support for subchondral bone fragments, while the second set of pegs provides support behind the articular bone surface.
Patent CA-2520098-A1 (CA)
Title: Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding side information for multimedia transmission
Inventor: GARUDADRI HARINATH
IPC: H04N19/895
Filed: 2004-03-23
Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a method and apparatus is provided in which input data (e.g., input video data) is encoded in accordance with a first coding standard (e.g., MPEG-4) to generate encoded data. The input data is also encoded based on a reconstruction of the input data to generate encoded side information associated with the input data. The encoded data are transmitted to a destination (e.g., a decoding subsystem) over a first channel and the encoded side information are transmitted to the destination over a second channel. The encoded data and the encoded side information are decoded and combined at the destination to generate output data.
Patent CA-2521339-A1 (CA)
Inventor: JANSSEN ERIC P
IPC: F16K17/164
Filed: 2005-09-27
Abstract: Une soupape de régulation de fluide comprend un corps de soupape pourvu d'un orifice d'admission et de décharge de fluide. Un passage d'écoulement s'étendant dans l'axe du corps de soupape communique avec les orifices d'admission et de décharge. Un élément de soupape dans le passage d'écoulement peut être déplacé par une force d'actionneur dans une première direction pour diriger un fluide sous pression de l'orifice d'entrée vers l'orifice de décharge. L'élément de soupape comporte des têtes de soupape primaires et secondaires de différents diamètres et un élément de siège de soupape. L'élément de siège de soupape s'emboîte dans le premier et le second diamètres d'étanchéité du passage d'écoulement, le second diamètre d'étanchéité étant inférieur au premier. La pression du fluide agissant sur les différents diamètres de la première tête de soupape et de l'élément de siège de soupape en contact avec le second diamètre d'étanchéité crée une force de rappel nette dirigeant l'élément de soupape dans une seconde direction opposée à la première direction lors du retrait de la force d'actionneur.
Patent CA-2521522-A1 (CA)
Title: Premixed self-hardening bone graft pastes
Inventor: TAKAGI SHOZO
IPC: C09K3/00
Filed: 2004-03-11
Abstract: A bone or dental implant material in the form of a paste includes a mixture of calcium phosphate and/or calcium-containing powders, liquid glycerol, organic acid and gelling agent. The paste is stable, resistant to washout and will harden upon exposure to water. Physical characteristics of the paste, including consistency, porosity, and hardening time, are controlled by the choice and ratio of constituents.
Patent CA-2524050-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SHETH NIRAV V
IPC: A61N1/362
Filed: 2004-04-19
Abstract: An implantable system and method are provided for detecting myocardial electrical recovery time and for controlling the delivery of cardiac stimulation pulses relative to the detected recovery time. One or more fiducial points on a T-wave signal sensed from one or more intracardiac EGM or subcutaneous ECG signals are detected for estimating myocardial recovery time.  Extra systolic stimulation pulses are delivered at an extra systolic interval based on a detected recovery time to effectively produce post-extra systolic potentiation while preventing delivery of extra systolic stimuli during the vulnerable period.
Patent CA-2524445-A1 (CA)
Title: Planning method and apparatus for peritoneal dialysis and hemodyalisis hybrid remedy
Inventor: HAMADA HIROYUKI
IPC: G16H20/40
Filed: 2004-05-14
Abstract: A method of planning simultaneous use of peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis, characterized in that use is made of a dialytic effect exhibiting index common to peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis. In particular, the method is characterized in that the quotient of the ratio of M/C(0), in which M  represents the amount of solute removed within a given period of time and C(0) the concentration of solute in blood before dialysis, divided by VB  representing the volume of patient~s body fluid, namely, M/C(0)/VB is used as the above index. Although in the prior art in the performing of therapy simultaneously using PD (peritoneal dialysis) and HD (hemodialysis), common parameter being an index for prescription study is not known and thus relevant planning has been extremely difficult, in this method the dialytic effect of PD and HD can be expressed as an integrated sum as apparent from the above with the result that simple and clear planning for simultaneous use of PD and HD can be carried out.
Patent CA-2526406-A1 (CA)
Title: Desilicification chimio-mecanique de matieres vegetales non ligneuses
Inventor: VICHNEVSKY SOFIA
IPC: D21C5/00
Filed: 2004-09-07
Abstract: Procédé de désilification chimio-mécanique de matières végétales non ligneuses. Les cellules épidermiques riches en silice sont libérées mécaniquement par une opération de pré-trituration et e raffinage à faible consistance, puis extraites de la pulpe dans le filtrat d'un opération d'épaississement. La silice amorphe est libérée chimiquement au moyen d'une source de dilution alcaline solution alcaline dans la dépulpeuse, puis retirée de la pulpe dans le filtrat d'une opération d'épaississement et de déshydratation. La silice est ensuite extraite du filtrat par ajustement du pH, suivie d'une opération de séparation. Le matériau fibreux désilicifié peut alors être trituré et décoloré chimiquement ou mécaniquement par des procédés connus. La silice extraite de la matière végétale non ligneuse peut servir de charge d'alimentation pour d'autres applications.
Patent CA-2528111-A1 (CA)
Title: Valuable document comprising a security element and method for producing said valuable document
Inventor: POETSCHKE KONSTANTIN
IPC: B42D15/00
Filed: 2004-03-31
Abstract: The invention relates to a valuable document (1) comprising at least one security element (6) that is provided with a marking layer (8) in a marking region (4), said layer containing an electroluminescent pigment (10) and being applied to a carrier body. The electroluminescence of the pigment (10) of one such valuable document must be able to be excited even with comparably low, externally applied field intensities. To this end, a plurality of electrically insulated field displacement elements (14) having a minimum dielectric constant of 100 is distributed over the surface of the marking region (4), said field displacement elements being at a distance of approximately between 5 ~m and 500 µm from each other and compressing the applied field in the gaps thereinbetween.
Patent CA-2529074-A1 (CA)
Title: Acidic oil-in-water emulsified composition
Inventor: NAKAJIMA YOSHINOBU
IPC: A23L27/60
Filed: 2004-06-14
Abstract: An acidic oil-in-water type emulsion composition having a high diglyceride content. It is an acidic oil-in-water type emulsion composition which contains fats comprising at least 30 wt.% diglycerides and a yolk treated with an enzyme selected among esterases, lipases, and phospholipases, characterized by containing an antioxidant in an amount which is 1,000 to 10,000 ppm of the oil phase comprising the fats and is 0.4 to 4.5 in terms of weight ratio to the net amount of the yolk in the enzyme-treated yolk.
Patent CA-2529965-A1 (CA)
Title: Modified viral particles with immunogenic properties and reduced lipid content useful for treating and preventing infectious diseases
Inventor: CHAM BILL E
IPC: A61K39/21
Filed: 2004-06-21
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for reducing the occurrence and severity of infectious diseases, especially infectious diseases in which lipid-containing infectious viral organisms are found in biological fluids, such as blood. The present invention employs solvents useful for extracting lipids from the lipid-containing infectious viral organism thereby creating modified viral particles with reduced infectivity and enhanced antigenicity. The present invention provides for the use of these modified viral particles in the preparation of medicaments for prevention and/or treatment of one or more viral diseases in a patient. The present invention provides vaccine compositions, comprising these modified viral particles with reduced infectivity and enhanced antigenicity, optionally combined with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or an immunostimulant. The vaccine composition is administered to a patient to provide protection against the lipid-containing infectious viral organism. The vaccine composition of the present invention include combination vaccines of modified viral particles obtained from one or more strains of a virus and/or one or more types of virus.
Patent CA-2530544-A1 (CA)
Inventor: WIEBE-NEUFELDT DAVID
IPC: F24H9/18
Filed: 2005-12-16
Abstract: An efficient, high-capacity, relatively compact, vented gas-fired air heater.
Patent CA-2530694-A1 (CA)
Inventor: LACHANCE JOANNE
IPC: A47D1/10
Filed: 2005-12-19
Abstract: The present invention provides an exercise machine back seat for children with a support framework adapted to be secured to the base of an exercise machine at its rear, the framework includes a frontal member including means to secure the support framework to an exercise machine, means to attach a child seat, a laterally extending rear support frame, a child seat secured to said support framework, wherein the support framework is adapted to provide an access space between the back seat and an exercise machine.
Patent CA-2532729-A1 (CA)
Title: System and method for dynamic contact angle measurement
Inventor: MEADOWS DAVID L
IPC: G01N13/02
Filed: 2004-07-14
Abstract: A system and method for dynamic contact angle measurement on a curved material are disclosed. One embodiment of the method comprises: initializing a video-based contact angle measuring apparatus; preparing the curved material for contact angle measurement; performing a sessile drop procedure to deposit a drop of liquid on the curved material; capturing an image of the drop on the curved material at a preset time; determining a drop-curved material interface on the image; determining a drop profile on the image; and calculating a set of dynamic contact angles based on the drop-curved material interface and the drop profile. The contact angle measuring apparatus can further comprise a processor for executing software instructions, a software module comprising processor-executable software instructions for performing at least some of the steps of the method and a memory, operably coupled to the processor, for storing the processor-executable software instructions. Further, the steps of determining the drop-curved material interface, determining the drop profile, capturing an image, initializing the contact angle-measuring apparatus and calculating the set of dynamic contact angles can each be at least partially performed via software running on the processor. The contact angle measuring apparatus can also include a camera and a digital frame-grabber for capturing an image. As a further aspect of the present invention, the curved material can be a hydrogel contact lens either mounted on an external sample stage or in a patient's eye for in vivo contact angle measurements.
Patent CA-2536098-A1 (CA)
Title: Polyphenylene sulfide composition and application
Inventor: SOULES DAVID A
IPC: B32B7/06
Filed: 2004-08-18
Abstract: A composition and application are presented for a polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) based blend. The PPS-based blend may comprise about 40 to 95% by weight of a PPS resin and about 5 to 60% by weight of an olefinic copolymer andan elastomer. The PPS-based blend has improved impact resistance, elongation at break and flexibility compared to PPS and may be used in the construction of articles where these properties are desired in addition to properties typically associated with PPS. The PPS-based blend may be incorporated as a terminal layer in a multi-layer material which may be used in the formation of articles of manufacture, including the individual pieces of a multi-piece article. When assembled such that the PPS-based layers are joined, the resulting PPS-based article may possess vapor and liquid impermeability throughout, including at the junctions of the respective constituent pieces.
Patent CA-2537631-A1 (CA)
Inventor: LUO ZHONG HAI
IPC: H04L29/02
Filed: 2006-02-23
Abstract: Il s'agit d'une méthode et d'un appareil de codage de données 3 à 4 (base 64, codage Unix à Unix, etc.). Des multiplets à coder avec des valeurs négatives sont rendus positifs tout en préservant l'information à coder. Les valeurs positives peuvent être manipulées par addition (p. ex. à une mémoire commune) et par décalage binaire pour obtenir efficacement des données codées, comme par indexation d'un alphabet de codage.
Patent CA-2541546-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KLEIN MARK
IPC: A43C13/00
Filed: 2004-10-07
Abstract: A modular shoe is provided by a two part shoe design. A first part is an internal support structure that includes a midsole portion and a heel counter.  A second part is a removable cover that is configured to accept a specific size internal support structure to provide internal support to the soft material and outsole which comprise the cover. Various cover designs are configured to accept a single size internal support structure thereby providing for interchangeable cover and a plurality of shoe designs all sharing a single internal support structure. The removable cover takes substantially less packing space that supported shoe, thereby requiring reduced storage for a traveler packing several shoe designs all sharing a single internal support.
Patent CA-2543148-A1 (CA)
Inventor: YURA HIROFUMI
IPC: A61K49/00
Filed: 2004-10-21
Abstract: A mucous membrane bulging humor composition for use in a condoscopic surgery, characterized in that it comprises a chitosan derivative containing a saccharide chain. The use of the composition as a mucous membrane bulging humor in a condoscopic surgery allows the bulge of a mucous membrane to be ensured for a long period and the formation of a hole to be prevented, which results in the improvement of the reliability of the condoscopic surgery. The composition also exhibits an effect of preventing/inhibiting the hemorrhage from a surged portion. The introduction of a photo-reactive group to the above chitosan derivative containing a saccharide chain allows the easy formation of a hydrogel through a photo-crosslinking, which leads to the further improvement of the abilities of retaining the bulge and preventing the hemorrhage.
Patent CA-2545179-A1 (CA)
Inventor: DAY RICHARD MICHAEL
IPC: G01N33/66
Filed: 2006-04-28
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a portion of an electrochemical-based test strip comprising includes forming a metal electrode(s) with an upper surface on a surface of an electrically-insulating substrate. The method also includes treating the upper surface of the metal electrode(s) with a hydrophilicity-enhancing composition to form a treated upper surface on the metal electrode with hydrophilicity-enhancing chemical moieties thereon and depositing an enzymatic reagent layer on the treated upper surface of the metal electrode(s).
Patent CA-2545387-A1 (CA)
Inventor: JOHANNSEN THOR J
IPC: B03B5/48
Filed: 2004-11-09
Abstract: A material classifier for classifying a liquid-solid mixture containing solid material to be separated is provided. The material classifier includes a tank defining a reservoir for receiving the liquid-solid mixture, and a scoop wheel including a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart scoops for scooping material from the tank and subsequently discharging the scooped material from the tank during rotation of the scoop wheel. A classification system and method of classifying material is also provided.
Patent CA-2548420-A1 (CA)
Title: Floor covering and locking systems and an equipment for production of floorboards
Inventor: PERVAN DARKO
IPC: E04F15/02
Filed: 2005-01-13
Abstract: Floorboards with a mechanical locking system that allows movement between the floorboards when they are joined to form a floating floor.
Patent CA-2548545-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SCRIBNER ROBERT M
IPC: A61F2/02
Filed: 2004-12-10
Abstract: Prostheses, systems, and methods are provided for replacement of natural facet joints between adjacent vertebrae using polyaxial attachment mechanisms for securing the prostheses to the vertebrae. A cephalad prosthesis attached to a superior adjacent vertebra replaces the inferior half of a natural facet joint. A caudal prosthesis attached to an inferior adjacent vertebra replaces the superior half of a natural facet joint. Both the cephalad and caudal prostheses are configured with artificial facet joint structures that include articulating surfaces that cooperate and form an artificial articular configuration. The polyaxial attachment mechanism permits adjustment of the position of the artificial facet joint structure along more than one axis at or after the time the cephalad or caudal prosthesis is attached to a vertebra.
Patent CA-2548862-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SAYAHI SAMI
IPC: C03B27/04
Filed: 2006-05-30
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for bending and tempering glass panels. A glass panel heated to a tempering temperature is passed from a furnace's conveyor (4) into a bending and tempering section (5) for an arched roller mould (1, 2), the glass bending upon its arrival thereon. The bent glass is subjected to a tempering blast. The first roller mould (1, 2) and a tempered glass article thereon are shifted out of the bending and tempering section (5) in a direction substantially matching its own axis of curvature or the direction of rollers. The second, vacant roller mould (1, 2) is shifted into the bending and tempering section (5) for receiving the next glass article to be bent, the bending-tempering of which is performed at the same time as the bent and tempered glass article is being removed from the first roller mould. The gained benefits include an increased capacity, a shortened cycle time and an economically attractive, durable construction.
Patent CA-2553317-A1 (CA)
Inventor: TAKIDA YOSHIAKI
IPC: B60S3/04
Filed: 2004-01-16
Abstract: A robot arm type automatic car washing device adapted to automatically wash an automobile vehicle by vehicle washing rotary brushes mounted at the front ends of robot arms is so designed that a vehicle left-side washing rotary brush (111) mounted on a vehicle left-side washing robot arm (110) and a vehicle right-side washing rotary brush (121) mounted on a vehicle right-side washing robot arm (120) wash mainly the vehicle left-side and right-side, respectively, to thereby perform vehicle washing process while automatically controlling the vehicle washing rotary brushes respectively mounted on the front ends of the robot arms by a vehicle automatic washing device main controller (102) on the basis of input data in the form of vehicle actual measurement size data measured by analyzing vehicle image data by the vehicle automatic washing device main controller (102), the vehicle image data being prepared by photographing using a vehicle front surface photographing camera (150), a vehicle left side surface photographing camera (153), a vehicle right-side surface photographing camera (159), a vehicle rear surface photographing camera (155), and a vehicle top surface photographing camera (157), which are vehicle actual size measuring devices.
Patent CA-2555068-A1 (CA)
Title: Needle tip protector
Inventor: KULLI JOHN C
IPC: A61M25/06
Filed: 2005-02-03
Abstract: A needle tip protector (10, 10') including a pair of apertured members (28, 30 or 28', 30') with spring arms (22, 24) urging the apertured members (28, 30 or 28', 30') out of alignment to create a barrier to a needle tip (16). A needle gripping U-shaped clip (81) may also provide a needle tip protector (80).
Patent CA-2557526-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KELLOGG STEPHEN C
IPC: G01V1/28
Filed: 2005-02-28
Abstract: Shallow drilling hazards (44), such as karsts, caves, voids and unconsolidated discontinuities, that can pose significant risks to exploration and development well drilling operations are detected employing seismic refraction data on which a series of attribute analyses are performed, the resulting data being further processed to provide a three-dimensional visualization. Refracted wave raypaths (40, 46, 48) are highly distorted by encountering a karst feature with the occurrence of backscattering absorption.  The resultant energy recorded at the surface receivers (52) is significantly reduced as compared to refracted waves recorded by other receivers (50) where no karsting is present. Multiple refractors are subjected to a relatively simple and rapid processing using commercially available software to track these differences and to map them in the near surface to improve the siting of wells and to alert drilling engineers and crews to the possibility of encountering the hazard.