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Patent CA-2294282-A1 (CA)
Title: Feminine hygiene system and kit using an absorbent interlabial device
Inventor: FITZPATRICK MATTHEW PRESTON
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1998-06-15
Abstract: An absorbent interlabial device worn by female wearers for catamenial purposes, incontinence protection, or both, is disclosed. The absorbent interlabial device of the present invention includes a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned between the two. The length of the device is between about 60 mm about 130 mm. The width is between about 25 mm and about 50 mm. The device has an axis of preferred bending along its longitudinal centerline. When folded along the axis and inserted into the wearer's interlabial space, the topsheet maintains contact with the walls of the wearer's labia. A method of using a system of feminine hygiene products is also disclosed. the system includes the use of an absorbent interlabial device in combination with a sanitary napkin. The absorbent interlabial device of the present invention may also be used in combination with an absorbent tampon. The absorbent interlabial device may be packaged in a common package with a sanitary napkin or a tampon as a feminine hygiene kit.
Patent CA-2294919-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and apparatus for the manufacture of a linear wrap, thermally insulated tube
Inventor: HIRSCH DONALD W
IPC: B29C53/48
Filed: 1998-07-02
Abstract: The invention pertains to the apparatus and process for shaping and forming of thermal insulation materials (M) around tubes and pipes (T) in a continuous production process wherein the tube or pipe (T) and a long singular strip of insulating material (M) passes linearly with the tube or pipe (T) through a shaping die (12). The shaping die (12) forms the insulating material (M) around the circumference of the tube or pipe (T) without substantial compression and is captured by overlapping coils of helical wound tape (W), wire or like material.
Patent CA-2295061-A1 (CA)
Title: Storage-stable ophthalmic compositions comprising diclofenac and ofloxacin
Inventor: KESSLER CHRISTOPH
IPC: A61K31/535
Filed: 1998-07-09
Abstract: The invention relates to stable ophthalmic preparations including the penetrant antiphlogistic diclofenac or salts thereof and the penetrant antibiotic ofloxacin present in the form of the racemate, an enantiomer, particularly levofloxacin, or the corresponding hydrochloride thereof. The preparations may be used for treating eye infections and/or inflammations and for preventing infections before and after eye surgery.
Patent CA-2295858-A1 (CA)
Inventor: ROSE JOHN K
IPC: C12N15/86
Filed: 1998-07-10
Abstract: Des Rhabdovirus recombinés capables de réplication, ne présentant pas de gène de glycoprotéine fonctionnel et exprimant au moins un polypeptide étranger, tel qu'un récepteur cellulaire d'un autre virus dans leurs enveloppes virales, sont utiles dans le traitement de virus pathogènes. Dans un mode de réalisation, un virus de la stomatite vésiculeuse (VSD) recombiné dépourvu de son gène de glycoprotéine (G) et exprimant à la place le récepteur du VIH ainsi qu'un corécepteur, est employé dans un procédé de traitement de personnes infectées par le VIH. Le virus recombiné est inapte à l'entrée dans des cellules normales, mais il est capable de réguler l'infection à VIH dans une lignée de lymphocytes T en se répliquant dans les cellules infectées par le VIH et en les tuant.
Patent CA-2301605-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and apparatus for generating navigation data
Inventor: HUDDLE JAMES R
IPC: G01S17/875
Filed: 1999-07-21
Abstract: The invention is a method and apparatus for generating navigation data. The method comprises the steps of (a) determining the position vector for one or more observation points in an earth-fixed reference frame and (b) determining either (1) the position vector for a target point in the earth-fixed reference frame from direction in either a model-based or gravity-based reference frame from the one or more observation points to the target point or (2) the directions in either a model-based or a gravity-based reference frame from the one or more observation points to the target point from the position vector for the target point in the earth-fixed reference frames, the model-based reference frame having a vertical axis with a specified orientation with respect to a normal ellipsoidal model of the earth and having horizontal axes with specified orientations with respect to the earth-fixed reference, the gravity-based reference frame having a vertical axis with a specified orientation with respect to the gravity vector and having horizontal axes with specified orientations with respect to the earth-fixed reference frame. The apparatus (1) for practicing the method for generating navigation data comprises an inertial navigation system (5), a GPS antenna and receiver (3), a direction finder (9) and an orientation controller (7).
Patent CA-2303632-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KUBLICK EGON VALTER
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 2000-03-31
Abstract: A self serve apparatus for processing the return of library materials which includes a body with a passage for receiving library materials extending through the body. The passage has an inlet end and an outlet end. Library materials are conveyed along the passage from the inlet end to the outlet end. A user identification input device is provided on the body, whereby a user is identified. A library material identification reader is provided for receiving article information from library material as it passes along the passage from the inlet to the outlet.
Patent CA-2304694-A1 (CA)
Title: Screw for fixing wooden laths on a roof substructure or a wall foundation
Inventor: THURNHERR ERNST
IPC: F16B5/02
Filed: 1998-09-21
Abstract: The invention concerns a screw (1) for fixing wooden roof boards (10) on a roof substructure having inter alia a wooden beam (9). In each case is arranged a threaded section (2, 3) adjacent to the screw head (5) and to a penetrating or perforating tip (6). Said two threaded sections (2, 3) have the same external diameter and have between them an unthreaded shank section (4).
Patent CA-2306264-A1 (CA)
Title: Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device
Inventor: WHITNEY DAVE
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 1998-10-23
Abstract: The present invention includes a mobile device (3) which provides the user with the ability to schedule a meeting request from the mobile device (3) itself. The mobile device (3) creates an object representative of the meeting request and assigns the object a global identification number which uniquely identifies the object to other devices (4, 10, 13) which encounter the object. In addition, the mobile device (3) in accordance with one aspect of the present invention provides a property in the object which is indicative of whether the meeting request has already been transmitted. In this way, other devices (4, 10, 13) which encounter the meeting request are capable of identifying it as a unique meeting request, and of determining whether the meeting request has already been transmitted, in order to alleviate the problem of duplicate meeting request transmissions.
Patent CA-2307954-A1 (CA)
Title: Enzyme-medicated modification of fibrin for tissue engineering
Inventor: SCHENSE JASON C
IPC: A61F2/00
Filed: 1998-04-02
Abstract: The invention provides fibrin-based, biocompatible materials useful in promoting cell growth, wound healing, and tissue regeneration. These materials are provided as part of several cell and tissue scaffolding structures that provide particular application for use in wound-healing and tissue regenerating. Methods for preparing these compositions and using them are also disclosed as part of the invention. A variety of peptides may be used in conjunction with the practice of the invention, in particular, the peptide IKVAV, and variants thereof. Generally, the compositions may be described as comprising a protein network (e.g., fibrin) and a peptide having an amino acid sequence that comprises a transglutaminase substrate domain (e.g., a factor XIIIa substrate domain) and a bioactive factor (e.g., a peptide or protein, such as a polypeptide growth factor), the peptide being covalently bound to the protein network. Other applications of the technology include their use on implantable devices (e.g., vascular graphs), tissue and cell scaffolding.  Other applications include use in surgical adhesive or sealant, as well as in peripheral nerve regeneration and angiogenesis.
Patent CA-2310560-A1 (CA)
Title: A transparent sealing-layer and packaging material made therefrom
Inventor: NEUBAUER DIETER
IPC: C08L51/06
Filed: 2000-06-01
Abstract: A multi-layered sealing film that contains a transparent outer layer is disclosed. The outer layer includes any of E/VA, PE-LD, PE-HD and PE-LLD which is grafted with 0.005 to 10% of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, anhydride, acid ester, amide or imide. The sealing film, which may contain an additional layer of thermoplastic resins, is particularly suitable for the preparation of heat seals, especially to the surface of paper.
Patent CA-2311678-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KOJIMA TETSUO
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 1998-11-26
Abstract: A DNA encoding human mpI lacking the secretory ability, prepared by deleting the secretory signal of homeostatically active mpl and the major part of the extracellular region thereof. This DNA is ligated with a test cDNA, a cDNA encoding a known secretory protein and another cDNA encoding the same protein from which the secretory signal region is removed, each of the resulting chimeric genes is expressed in cells to examine cell proliferation capability. Cell proliferation is detected in the cells containing the cDNA encoding the known secretory protein as a test cDNA, whereas no cell proliferation is detected for the cDNA encoding the same protein from which the secretory signal region is removed. Thus, cDNAs encoding secretory proteins including type I membrane proteins and type II membrane proteins can be detected and isolated by constructing a cDNA library and screening it by the above method.
Patent CA-2313243-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KWON YONG TAE
IPC: A61K48/00
Filed: 1998-12-02
Abstract: L'invention porte sur une séquence d'acide nucléique codant pour un composant reconnaissant la voie de la règle de l'extrémité N. Ladite séquence se caractérise par sa capacité à s'hybrider spécifiquement à la séquence de l'acide nucléique SEQ ID NO 1 dans des conditions rigoureuses d'hybridation définies dans la description. L'invention porte également: sur une séquence d'acide nucléique codant pour un composant reconnaissant la voie de la règle de l'extrémité N de d'acide nucléique SEQ ID NO 2 dans des conditions rigoureuses d'hybridation; sur des vecteurs d'expression d'ADN contenant les séquences d'acide nucléiques décrites ci-dessus; sur des cellules transformées à l'aide desdits vecteurs d'expression; et sur des applications des compositions décrites ci-dessus.
Patent CA-2313868-A1 (CA)
Title: Crosslinkable aqueous fluoropolymer based dispersions
Inventor: HEDHLI LOTFI
IPC: C09D151/00
Filed: 2000-07-13
Abstract: Acrylic Modified Fluoropolymers based on vinylidene fluoride polymers are disclosed wherein the acrylic phase is capable of entering into crosslinking reactions. The final cured products provide superior solvent extractability resistance to the fluoropolymer phase.
Patent CA-2317339-A1 (CA)
Inventor: HAYTER JAMES H
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2000-09-07
Abstract: systems and methods are presented that automatically continuously search closed-captioned television programming in real time for information requested by a user. Users enter information (e.g., a keyword) to be searched for preferably at a Web site.      Closed-captioned television programming is then searched in real time for the requested information.      Upon finding the requested information, the user is notified in real time by email, voice-mail, or other suitable means. The notification includes the name, broadcast time, and channel of the program in which the information was found. upon notification, users can access a video segment of, or additional textual information from, that program.
Patent CA-2317984-A1 (CA)
Title: Cabinet support platform
Inventor: GOTO TEIYU
IPC: H05K5/02
Filed: 2000-09-11
Abstract: A cabinet support platform which supports a cabinet of an electronic device and the like has a base plate which receives a base surface of the cabinet. Two side support members which support side faces of the cabinet and stoppers are provided on the inside of the side support members. The stoppers are attached to the side support members to tightly grip and hold the side surfaces of the cabinet by tight contact with the cabinet surfaces.
Patent CA-2319238-A1 (CA)
Title: Magnetic coding of articles
Inventor: DAMES ANDREW NICHOLAS
IPC: G01V3/165
Filed: 1996-04-03
Abstract: A method of identifying individual articles within a predetermined set of articles be means of data characteristics of the articles, e.g. article price and/or the nature of the goods constituting the articles, which method is characterised by applying to each article a magnetic tag or maker carrying a predetermined arrangement of magnetic elements unique to that article or to that article and others sharing the same characteristic, e.g. article price and/or the nature of the goods constituting the article, the magnetic tag or marker being susceptible to interrogation by the steps of: (1) applying a magnetic field to an interrogation zone where the magnetic element(s) is or are located, or is or are expected to be located, such that there exists within the interrogation zone a magnetic field comprising a first region at which the component of the magnetic field resolved in a first direction is zero, and being characterised in that within regions contiguous with the first region the component of the magnetic field resolved in the first direction is sufficient to saturate the, or a part of the element(s); (2) causing relative movement between the magnetic field and the magnetic elements(s); and (3) detecting the magnetic response of the magnetic elements(s) during the relative movement to generate a response indicative of the magnetic properties of the tag or marker and hence indicative of the price and/or the nature of the article carrying the magnetic tag or marker.
Patent CA-2319765-A1 (CA)
Title: New contraceptive kit
Inventor: KLOOSTERBOER HELENIUS JAN
IPC: C07J1/00
Filed: 1999-03-03
Abstract: The invention pertains to a contraceptive kit comprising means for the daily administration of a contraceptive agent, characterised in that the single contraceptive agent is a steroid compound having an activity profile inherently combining progestagenic and estrogenic activity. Within a general class of known steroidal compounds, steroids have been found which possess an outstanding combined profile of biological properties for use in contraception, especially via monotherapy. These steroids are selected from the group consisting of steroids satisfying structural formula (I) and prodrugs thereof, wherein the dotted lines each independently indicate an optional bond.
Patent CA-2322193-A1 (CA)
Title: Pulmonary dosing system and method
Inventor: BROOKER MICHAEL J
IPC: A61M15/00
Filed: 1999-03-05
Abstract: A pulmonary dosing system and method for supplying to a patient a predetermined amount of respirable therapeutically active material. The system comprises a patient interface to introduce the material into the patient's lungs. The patient interface is connected to a flexible inhalation tube (4) and a flexible exhalation tube (5). The exhalation tube (5) is connected to a filter (25) having an outlet connected to atmosphere. The inhalation tube (4) is connected to an apparatus for providing pulsed amounts of the material entrained in filtered atmospheric air. A Control unit (8) operates the pulmonary dosing system in accordance with operator inputs regarding the number of patient exhales between pulses, and pulse length. The exhaust filter (25) and the apparatus for providing pulsed amounts of the therapeutically active material may be enclosed in a containment case (7) and the patient's interface may comprise a mouth tube-mask (1, 2) combination when the therapeutically active material comprises at least one toxic drug.
Patent CA-2323367-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KALLAS MICHEL
IPC: H04Q3/00
Filed: 2000-10-16
Abstract: A communication system (10) includes packet-based networks (21, 12) that are coupled to terminals capable of participating in telephony sessions. To implement telephony services in such sessions, a telephony scripting language (TSL) is defined. Script modules may be created using TSL. Each script module may include a state machine having a plurality of states. TSL defines triggers (300) that cause the state machine in an executed script module to transition between the states. In addition, TSL also defines actions (302) that are specified in the several states or in transitions between states. The actions represent telephony services that may be performed by nodes coupled to the networks (21, 12). Each action may be converted to one or more calls to functions or routines provided by application programming interfaces (APIs) residing in the network nodes.
Patent CA-2324662-A1 (CA)
Title: Selectivity of nucleic acid diagnostic and microarray technologies by control of nucleic acid density
Inventor: PIUNNO PAUL A E
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2000-11-21
Abstract: A method for tuning the selectivity of nucleic acid hybridization assays using nucleic acid biosensors and microarrays through the control of oligonucleotide immobilization density is described. The density of oligonucleotide immobilization determines the charge density at the surface by means of ionizable phosphate groups, and may result in an interfacial dielectric constant, pH and ionic strength that are unlike those of bulk solution. The density of immobilization affects the extent of interactions between neighbouring oligomers, as well as interactions between the immobilized oligomers and the substrate surface.  Consequently, the thermodynamic properties of interfacial nucleic acid hybridization are substantially different from those observed in experiments done in bulk solution. The thermodynamic selectivity of a hybridization assay with respect to single base-pair mismatches (SBPMs) can be selected and enhanced using immobilized nucleic acids at particular densities.
Patent CA-2327438-A1 (CA)
Title: Rooftop or slanted surface snow removal device
Inventor: MCNEILLY ROBERT LAWRENCE
IPC: E04D13/10
Filed: 2000-12-12
Abstract: A snow removal apparatus that can be used to remove snow from a pitched roof while the operator is on the roof. There can also be a helper on the ground. The apparatus includes two vertical snow--cutting cords, a horizontal cutting blade, and a sheet of plastic attached to the trailing edge of the cutting board. When in use, the operator pulls the horizontal cutting blade through the snow cutting loose a square section which then slides down the plastic to the ground as the apparatus moves up the roof line. When there is insufficient slope to the roof, the helper on the ground will pull on the downslope cords, causing the horizontal cutting blade to turn up to a vertical position, and pull the snow over the edge of the roof.
Patent CA-2332496-A1 (CA)
Title: Photopolymerizable dental compositions
Inventor: JACOBS DWIGHT W
IPC: A61K6/891
Filed: 1998-10-02
Abstract: Photopolymerizable compositions that include free radically active and cationically active functional groups, and methods for polymerizing such compositions, in which the onset of cationic polymerization is controllably delayed to extend the time between formation of a moldable gel and formation of a hardened solid.
Patent CA-2332523-A1 (CA)
Inventor: FUNABASHI MASAKI
IPC: H01S5/12
Filed: 2001-01-26
Abstract: A distributed feedback semiconductor laser device including an active layer, a diffraction grating disposed in a vicinity of the active layer and having a substantially uniform space period and a distributed feedback function, and a functional layer disposed in a vicinity of the diffraction grating and the active layer and having a function of controlling a refractive index of the active layer, whereby the functional layer controls a lasing wavelength of the active layer. The functional layer of controlling the refractive index of the distributed feedback semiconductor laser device can generate a plurality of the lasing wavelengths different among one another and easily controllable.
Patent CA-2333575-A1 (CA)
Title: Can bottom having improved strength and apparatus for making same
Inventor: JONES FLOYD A
IPC: B21D22/30
Filed: 1999-06-02
Abstract: A can bottom (16) having an approximately frustoconical portion (8) extending downardly and inwardly from the can side wall (4), an annular nose portion (16) extending downwardly from the approximately frustoconical portion, and a central portion (24) extending upwardly and inwardly from the nose. The nose (16) is formed by inner and outer circunferentially extending frustoconical walls (12, 13) that are joined by a downwardly convex arcuate portion (18). The inner surface (24) of the arcuate portion of the nose has a radius (113) of curvature adjacent the nose inner wall (12) of at least 0.060 inch (1.52 mm). The central portion of the can bottom has a substantially flat disc-shaped central section (26), having a diameter (D3) of at least about 0.14 inch (3.6 mm), and an approximately dome-shaped and downwardly concave (25) having a radius (R6) of curvature no greater than 1.475 inches (37.47). In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the inner surface of the arcuate portion of the nose (16) is formed by a sector of a circle and has a radius of curvature which is no greater than about 0.070 inch (1.8 mm). An apparatus for making the can bottom comprises a nose punch (52) whose distal end (60) has a radius of curvature (R13) that is equal to the radius of curvature of the can bottom nose (16) and a die (50) whose radius of curvature (R16) equals that of the dome.
Patent CA-2334674-A1 (CA)
Inventor: RAPPENECKER HERMANN
IPC: H02P7/291
Filed: 1999-06-10
Abstract: Un dispositif comportant un moteur électrique (10) possède un microcontrôleur (12) pour influer sur au moins une fonction du moteur. Ce dispositif comprend également une mémoire rémanente (14) destinée à mémoriser au moins une variable sous forme de valeur de consigne pour cette fonction du moteur, et il comprend une interface (13a) destinée à une ligne de données (13) permettant la transmission de la ou des variables, notamment d'une valeur limite de courant (Iref), depuis ou vers la mémoire (14) avec la coopération du microcontrôleur (12) et éventuellement par l'intermédiaire d'un bus de données interne (15). L'utilisation pour des batteries de ventilateurs est décrite, de même que la limitation de courant commandée par programme lors de l'accélération d'un moteur électrique (10).
Patent CA-2336389-A1 (CA)
Inventor: LOWRY JAMES W
IPC: B65D75/58
Filed: 1999-01-07
Abstract: A dual function overcap (10) for a cylindrical container (12), having a bead (18) about the top edge and generally used for snack foods, includes a substantially planar covering portion (20) and a downwardly extending lip (32). The dual function overcap fits over the container with a bead by engaging the downwardly extending lip or can fit a shortened form of the same container without a bead, or the same, or similar, container without a bead. In one form of the invention, the overcap must be flipped over to attach the overcap to the edge of the shortened container. In the preferred form of the invention, a raised channel (136) within the covering portion, received and retains the edge of the shortened container.