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Patent CA-2353671-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SHREINER THOMAS A
IPC: E04F11/18
Filed: 1999-11-30
Abstract: A wall protector includes a retainer (20; 60, 64; 120) that is adapted to be attached to a building wall and a cover (30; 70; 130; 230) of an impact resistant thermoplastic polymeric material in the form of a thin web of suitable cross-section attached to the retainer portion of the retainer. The cover includes at least one substantially straight portion of substantially uniform cross section along its length and having a face portion (32; 74; 130a; 230a) overlying the retainer and a transition portion (36; 78; 130b; 230b) that is integral with the straight portion and has an end wall that curves smoothly away from the face portion of the straight portion from a rounded juncture with the face portion and overlies and conceals the end of the retainer. The integral transition portion may be configured as an end cap or a wall return piece that forms a transition between the straight portion and a wall surface or as a comer piece that joins sections of wall protectors mounted on walls that intersect at a corner.
Patent CA-2355464-A1 (CA)
Title: Device and method for monitoring asthma
Inventor: GASTON BENJAMIN M
IPC: A61B5/087
Filed: 1999-12-17
Abstract: A device (10) and method for non-invasively monitoring asthma and other respiratory diseases. The method includes collecting condensate from a subject's breath, testing the condensate to determine its acidity level or ammonium concentration, and evaluating these properties to determine the presence, absence or status of a respiratory disease in the subject. The method may also include, prior to the testing step, standardizing the volatile substances that may be present within the condensate in a degassing or gas standardizing step. The device (10) includes a mouthpiece apparatus (20) configured to receive breath from a subject, a condensation apparatus (60) to condense the subject's breath and produce a condensate, and a collection apparatus (100) having a collection chamber (102) containing means for testing the condensate to determine its chemical properties. The device (10) also include a system for removing or standardizing the volatile substances that may be present with the condensate.
Patent CA-2356060-A1 (CA)
Inventor: GALISH ANDREW JOSEPH
IPC: G01N23/04
Filed: 2001-08-30
Abstract: A radiographic inspection system (10) and method for aircraft fuselages (12) includes a radiation source (16) located on one side of a fuselage (12) and a radiation detector (18) located on another side of the fuselage (12) and positioned to receive radiation from the radiation source (16). Precise manipulators (22,24) are provided for simultaneously moving the radiation source (16) and the radiation detector (18). The source (16) and detector (18) are moved under control of a controller (20) so that the projection of radiation from the radiation source (16) onto the radiation detector (18) from a selected plane of the fuselage (12) stays constant and the projection of radiation from the radiation source (16) onto the radiation detector (18) from other planes of the fuselage (12) varies. The controller (20) processes radiation detected by the radiation source (16) so as to produce a laminographic image having a field of view in a selected plane of the fuselage (12). The laminographic image is displayed on a display (21).
Patent CA-2356324-A1 (CA)
Title: System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device
Inventor: LAZARIDIS MIHAL
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1998-08-18
Abstract: A system and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device upon sensing a triggering event is disclosed. A redirector program operating at the host system enables a user to continuously redirect certain user-selected data items from the host system to the user's mobile data communication device upon detecting that one or more user-defined triggering events has occurred. The redirector program operates in connection with event generating applications and repackaging systems at the host system to configure and detect a particular user-defined event, and then to repackage the user-selected data items in an electronic wrapper prior to pushing the data items to the mobile device.
Patent CA-2357825-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KIDD BRUCE ROBERT
IPC: A01D57/20
Filed: 2001-09-27
Abstract: A draper header for a combine harvester includes two side drapers each running from an outer end guide roller at a first end of the header to an inner end guide roller adjacent the discharge location of the header and a central feed draper located at the discharge location and including a front guide roller just behind the cutter bar and running to a rear guide roller in front of the feeder house of the combine harvester. Each inner end guide roller is associated with a respective discharge roller immediately adjacent and parallel to it with a stripper blade in contact with the peripheral surface of the discharge roller so as to strip the crop from the peripheral surface along the full length of the roller. Each stripper blade is inclined downwardly and inwardly to a bottom edge closely adjacent the upper run of the feed draper. The stripper roller or in another arrangement the draper itself has rows of projections across the surface which pass through corresponding shaped recesses in the edge of the stripper blade so that the crop material is discharged onto the blade while the projections are shaped to prevent the crop from being driven into the recesses. An auger is located between the discharge rollers with a front edge of the flight forward of the rear end of the discharge rollers to feed the material inwardly and underneath the auger to the inlet of the feeder house.
Patent CA-2360556-A1 (CA)
Title: Error concealment apparatus for a compressed video signal processing system
Inventor: NG SHEAU-BAO
IPC: G06T9/00
Filed: 1992-03-12
Abstract: In a video decompression system (Fig. 4) for decompressing compressed image data wherein odd and even fields of video signal are independently compressed in sequences of intraframe and interframe compression modes and interleaved for transmission, the odd and even fields are independently decompressed. During intervals when valid decompressed (45,46) odd/even field data is not available, even/odd field data is substituted (47-51) for the unavailable odd/even field data. Independently decompressing the even and odd fields of data and substituting the opposite field of data for unavailable data may be used to advantage to reduce image display latency during system start-up and channel changes.
Patent CA-2360605-A1 (CA)
Title: Paint can holder
Inventor: ARMSTRONG WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: A45F5/02
Filed: 2001-10-30
Abstract: The paint can holder provides an attachment plate with hook, and an attachment device for attaching the paint can holder to a painter's body or fastening the paint can holder to a painter's clothing, for example a pair of openings through which a strap or belt is disposed. The hook may be provided with a movable section that closes the hook to retain the handle of the paint can. The attachment plate is preferably contoured to the shape of the painter's body and may be provided with ridges that reinforce the plate and help to stabilize the paint can.
Patent CA-2360700-A1 (CA)
Title: Method for receiving and shipping items
Inventor: SOLAN BRENDAN
IPC: G06Q10/08
Filed: 2001-10-31
Abstract: A method 10 for receiving and shipping vehicles or other manufactured items in which the items are assigned several identification numbers and in which the transport conveyances and/or railcars are similarly and respectively assigned several identification numbers.      These identification numbers cooperatively allow the vehicles to be quickly located within a storage yard or facility and to be efficiently and accurately assigned to a transport vehicle or railcar, effective to allow the vehicles to be transported to a desired destination.
Patent CA-2363718-A1 (CA)
Title: Brush applicator with added helix
Inventor: THAYER JONATHAN
IPC: A46B9/00
Filed: 2000-12-21
Abstract: A mascara applicator is disclosed that comprises a conventional twisted wire core brush with a plurality of radially extending bristles regularly disposed in a first orientation. A cylindrically configured helix is twisted onto the brush around the wire core such that that brush bristles extend radially between successive loops of the helix. The helix moves at least some of the bristles to a second orientation such that one or more characteristics of the brush may be altered. Characteristics of the original brush that may be altered include mascara retention, mascara application and combing characteristics, as well as the appearance of the brush. The dimensions of the helix, the pitch of the helix and the thickness of the helix body are each pre-selected to yield the desired characteristics in the finished brush.
Patent CA-2368306-A1 (CA)
Inventor: RAGLAND FRANK ROWLAND JR
IPC: H01J31/20
Filed: 2000-03-27
Abstract: A color picture tube (10) has a tension mask (24) attached to a support fram e (50), wherein the mask is made from a material having a significantly lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the coefficient of thermal expansion o f the material of the frame. The frame tensions the mask to have a fundamental  resonant frequency of 90 Hz ~ 20 Hz.
Patent CA-2368815-A1 (CA)
Title: Novel synthesis and crystallization of piperazine ring-containing compounds
Inventor: FINKELSTEIN NINA
IPC: C07D401/04
Filed: 2000-04-18
Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for the preparation of piperazine ring-containing compounds, particularly mirtazapine. According to the present invention, the mirtazapine intermediate 1-(3-carboxypyridyl-2)-4-methyl-2-phenyl-piperazine is made by hydrolyzing 1-(3-cyanopyridyl-2)-4-methyl-2-phenyl-piperazine with a base where the base is present in a ratio of up to about 12 moles of the base per one mole of 1-(3-cyanopyridyl-2)-4-methyl-2-phenyl-piperazine. The mirtazapine intermediate 1-(3-carboxypyridly-2)-4-methyl-2-phenyl-piperazine may be made by hydrolyzing 1-(3-cyanopyridyl-2)-4-methyl-2-phenyl-piperazine with potassium hydroxide at a temperature of at least about 130 ~C. The method of the present invention also includes reacting 2-amino-3-hydroxymethyl pyridine with N-methyl-1-phenyl-2, 2'-iminodiethyl chloride to form 1-(3-hydroxymethylpyridyl-2)-4-methyl-2-phenyl piperazine, and adding sulfuric acid to the 1-(3-hydroxymethylpyridyl-2)-phenyl-4-methylpiperazine to form mirtazapine. The present invention also relates to new processes for recrystallization of mirtazapine form crude mirtazapine.
Patent CA-2369581-A1 (CA)
Inventor: GRUBER KAREN ANN
IPC: C04B7/12
Filed: 2000-02-22
Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a cement-based compositi on containing at least one cementitious material and at least one highly reacti ve pozzolan, wherein the highly reactive pozzolan comprises spray-dried metakaolin. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a cement - based composition containing at least one cementitious material and at least  one highly reactive pozzolan, wherein the highly reactive pozzolan is characterized as comprised of agglomerated beads of microparticles, the agglomerated beads having a median diameter of at least about 10 microns and  the microparticles having a median diameter of about 5 microns or less.</SDO AB>
Patent CA-2369920-A1 (CA)
Inventor: CURTIS TERENCE GRAHAM
IPC: B65D47/42
Filed: 2000-04-14
Abstract: A hand held dosing and dispensing device for the pretreatment of fabrics is provided. The dosing and dispensing device has a hollow container for storing a liquid. The hollow container has at least one container wall and an inlet.  The inlet includes an opening and an inlet wall which extends into the hollow container from the container wall of the hollow container. The inlet wall substantially encircles the opening of the inlet to prevent liquid discharge through the inlet during pretreatment of a fabric. A discharge is attached to the hollow container for dispensing the liquid therethrough for the pretreatment of fabrics. In addition, the opening can include a plurality of flexible and resilient tabs extending radially toward the center of the opening. The tabs are adapted to engage at least a portion of a bottle to secure the dosing and dispensing device to the bottle.
Patent CA-2371951-A1 (CA)
Title: Procede et systeme de creation et d'utilisation d'un album de photos
Inventor: LAPSTUN PAUL
IPC: G06F3/12
Filed: 2000-05-24
Abstract: Le procédé consiste à procurer à l'utilisateur un formulaire d'album photo imprimé sur une surface, formulaire qui comprend de l'information relative à l'activité se rattachant à l'album en question ainsi que des données codées indiquant l'identité du formulaire d'album photo. En outre, le formulaire comporte un certain nombre de points. Le procédé consiste ensuite à recevoir, dans un système informatique, les données saisies par un capteur que fait fonctionner l'utilisateur, données qui indiquent l'identité du formulaire d'album photo et une position du capteur par rapport au formulaire d'album photo; ensuite, le procédé prévoit le repérage, dans le système informatique et à partir des données d'indication, d'au moins un paramètre relatif à l'activité de l'album photo. Le procédé permet à l'utilisateur de composer et d'imprimer des pages de photos pouvant être incluses dans un album photo.
Patent CA-2373927-A1 (CA)
Title: Improved process for the preparation of 3,4-dihydroxybutanoic acid and salts and lactones derived therefrom
Inventor: HOLLINGSWORTH RAWLE I
IPC: C07C59/10
Filed: 2001-03-05
Abstract: An improved process for the preparation of 3,4-diyhdroxybutanoic acid (1) and salts thereof from a D- or L-hexose source is described. The process uses an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal hydroxide and peroxide oxidizing agent to convert the D- or L-hexose source to (1) by maintaining a low concentration of base and oxidizing agent in the reaction mixture at any one time and by maintaining a temperature between about 25 °C and 80 °C.  Upon acidification of the reaction mixture the 3-hydroxylactone is produced. The compound (1) is useful as a chemical intermediate to naturally occurring fatty acids and is used to prepare 3,4-dihydroxybutanoic acid-gamma-lactone (2) and furanone (3), particularly steroisomers of these compounds.
Patent CA-2374524-A1 (CA)
Inventor: ZHOU SHENGDE
IPC: C12N1/21
Filed: 2000-05-26
Abstract: The invention provides recombinant host cells containing at least one heterologous polynucleotide encoding a polysaccharase under the transcriptional control of a surrogate promoter capable of increasing the expression of the polysaccharase. In addition, the invention further provides such hosts with genes encoding secretory protein/s to facilitate the secretion of the expressed polysaccharase. Preferred hosts of the invention are ethanologenic and capable of carrying out simultaneous saccharification fermentation resulting in the production of ethanol from complex cellulose substrates.
Patent CA-2374573-A1 (CA)
Title: Device for producing extrusion blow-molded containers with at least two chambers
Inventor: HANSEN BERND
IPC: B29C48/11
Filed: 2000-06-07
Abstract: A process for producing containers involves a tube and a separating partition extending within the tube, both formed from plasticized synthetic material. The tube and partition are extruded into an opened blow mold which is then closed. The tube is expanded by producing a pressure gradient that acts upon the tube and by applying it to expand the tube to form the container. The front end of the tube during the extrusion step and the front end of every separating partition are welded together by closing the opened blow mold, thereby closing the base of the container that is linked with every separating partition. The tube is expanded by adding blowing air from the end of the closed blow mold that is opposite to the container base to expand both sides of the separating wall, to form separate chambers.
Patent CA-2376412-A1 (CA)
Inventor: MIGUS ARNOLD
IPC: H01S3/00
Filed: 2000-06-14
Abstract: The invention concerns an optical method for programmable shaping of a time profile for quasi-monochromatic optical pulses comprising the following steps: distributing each of the spectral components of a pulse with wide time spectrum and obtaining an extended pulse with frequency drift while preserving the spectral width; shaping the pulse spectrally and consequently temporally; converting the wide spectrum into a narrow spectrum while preserving the temporal shaping.
Patent CA-2376895-A1 (CA)
Inventor: TAKEUCHI ESTHER S
IPC: H01M10/05
Filed: 2002-03-14
Abstract: The invention is directed to an electrochemical cell having at least one of its electrodes produced by coating a slurry mixture of an active material, possibly a conductive additive, and a binder dispersed in a solvent and contacted to a perforated current collector foil. It is particularly important that the active slurry does not move through the perforations of the current collector. For this reason, a barrier is placed against the opposite side of the current collector to block the perforations as the current collector is being coated with the slurry. After volatilizing the solvent, a second, different active material is coated to the opposite side of the current collector, either as a slurry, a pressed powder, a pellet or a free standing sheet. An example of this is a cathode having a configuration of: SVO/current collector CF x. The opposed active materials on the current collector can also be of the same chemistry.
Patent CA-2380848-A1 (CA)
Inventor: GINSBERG PHILIP M
IPC: G06F17/00
Filed: 2000-08-02
Abstract: Systems and methods for linking orders in electronic trading systems are provided. These systems and methods enable a trader to select two or more items that are to be linked and specify linking parameters for those items.  Any desired set of items may be linked, and the linking parameters may include price adjustments, order sequencing instructions, automatic/manual execution controls, execution delays commands, an dupdate frequency limits. Upon detecting a bid or offer for a linked item, the systems and methods may then determine a size and a price for each linked item based upon the size and the price of the bid or offer for the first linked item. In this way, the sizes and the prices for the other linked items may be propagated from the size and the price for the first item. Once the size and the price for each item is determined, the systems and methods may submit orders for the items in accordance with the linking parameters. In the case where orders for linked items may only be submitted in designated lot sizes, the systems and methods may round the sizes of the orders to the designated lot sizes, and then submit remainder orders to make up for the rounding.
Patent CA-2381084-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SHIMOMURA YASUHIRO
IPC: E05F15/16
Filed: 2000-08-01
Abstract: A power window switch circuit, even if soaked, prevents windows from opening or closing unintentionally.      A DOWN switch (128) and an UP switch (129) each include a first fixed contact (DN1, UP1) connected with a power supply, a second fixed contact (DN2, UP2) grounded, and movable contacts (131, 132, 133, 134) for selectively connects either the first or second fixed contact with the first terminal of corresponding relay coils (21, 23). A transistor (TR4) responsive to a soak signal is connected between the ground and the second fixed contacts (DN2, UP2) of the UP and DOWN switches. The second terminals of the first and second relay coils are grounded through their respective transistors. When a soak is detected, a soak detector (15) supplies a soak signal to the transistors.
Patent CA-2381190-A1 (CA)
Title: Apparatus and method for handling and cutting a flexible material wrapped around a load
Inventor: SAMSON SYLVAIN
IPC: B65B11/02
Filed: 2002-04-10
Abstract: Apparatus and method for handling and cutting a flexible material that is wrapped around a load by means of a delivering device. The apparatus includes a clamp and cutter assembly having a trigger activated mechanism, and a trigger and roping assembly. The apparatus also includes a moving device for moving the trigger and roping assembly between active and retracted positions. In use, as the trigger and roping assembly is moved into its active position, the trigger engages with the trigger activated mechanism to move the clamp and cutter assembly to its open position, while the roper turns a portion of flexible material into a rope. As the trigger and roping assembly is retracted from its active position, the trigger disengages with the trigger activated mechanism to move the clamp and the cutter assembly in its closed position, thereby cutting the rope and holding a free end thereof.
Patent CA-2381482-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SHIMIZU TATSUO
IPC: H01G11/42
Filed: 2002-04-11
Abstract: An electrode is provided with an excellent quality for an electrical component. An electrode whole material slitter comprising a cutting section to cut an electrode whole material for an electrical component, a forming section to conduct smoothing of the convex portion on the sectioned electrode, electrode cleaning sections to remove fragments adhered on the sectioned electrode and a cutting method of electrode whole material.
Patent CA-2383418-A1 (CA)
Title: Systeme de maintien de colonne de montee
Inventor: WANVIK LEIV
IPC: E21B19/00
Filed: 2000-08-31
Abstract: La présente invention concerne une sous-structure (10) destinée à une plate-forme flottante de production de pétrole ou de gaz. Dans cette sous-structure, une installation sert à maintenir une pluralité de colonnes de montée (16) s'étendant du fond marin à la sous-structure, l'installation comprenant: un tendeur hydraulique/compensateur de pilonnement conventionnel (17) par colonne de montée, dans lequel se trouve un ressort souple formé par une combinaison piston-cylindre agissant contre un accumulateur, les compensateurs de pilonnement des colonnes de montées étant placés de manière à compenser les oscillations verticales de période relativement courte (par exemple de 1 seconde à environ 5 minutes) entre les colonnes de montée et le pont d'arbre de Noël (18) réglable verticalement; et un système de réglage de position verticale (21, 22) capable de réaliser par intermittence l'ajustage de la position verticale du pont d'arbre de Noël (18) par rapport à la sous-structure flottante (10) afin de compenser les changements à plus long terme qui pourraient sinon mettre les colonnes de montée sous tension de manière individuelle ou faire différer la position de course de sa valeur / plage de valeurs cible, le système de réglage de position verticale de pont d'arbre de Noël se trouvant en général dans l'une des positions particulières de la gamme de mouvements afin de compenser les changements à plus long terme.
Patent CA-2383871-A1 (CA)
Inventor: COHEN-AKENINE ANNICK
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2000-06-23
Abstract: La présente invention concerne des polypeptides BAP28, des séquences d'ADNc BAP28 codant pour les polypeptides BAP28, la séquence d'ADN génomique du gène BAP28, ainsi que les régions régulatrices situées aux extrémités 5' et 3' de la région codante de BAP28. L'invention concerne également des anticorps spécifiquement dirigés contre ces polypeptides, utilisés comme réactifs diagnostiques. L'invention concerne en outre des marqueurs bialléliques du gène BAP28, utilisés dans l'analyse génétique. L'invention concerne enfin l'association entre les marqueurs bialléliques liés au BAP28 et le cancer de la prostate. L'invention concerne, par conséquent, des méthodes de diagnostic et de traitement du cancer de la prostate.