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Patent EP-0563923-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ZIMMERMANN ERWIN
IPC: G01M17/00
Filed: 1993-03-31
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for placing the components and for checking the functional reliability of brake systems on motor vehicles on a moving assembly band. A pneumatically actuated reciprocating piston (1, 2) is used to repeatedly actuate the brake pedal in the vehicle, and in the process to measure pressure, force and path length, which allow desired checking. The data determined by the device are transmitted in this case without wires to receiving units which are installed outside the vehicle located on the moving band and connected downstream of which there are data processing systems for receiving and processing the data transmitted.
Patent EP-0571803-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BROMBACHER BODO DIPL-ING
IPC: E05C9/00
Filed: 1993-05-11
Abstract: For a reliably functioning positive connection which can be made in a simple way between the face plate portion (12) capable of being cut to length and the connecting plate (14) bridging the face plate joint (15) and belonging to a coupling device for abutting face plate portions (12, 13) of a face plate/espagnolette arrangement (1) for window or door wings, which can be inserted in a stepped longitudinal groove (2) of a wing frame (3), the face plate portions (12, 13), one of which can be cut to length, being fitted into the outer wider groove step (7), with a connecting plate (14) which bridges the face plate joint (15) on the outside and which is connected movably to the face plate portion (13) not capable of being cut to length and which can be connected positively by means of a toothed coupling (19, 20, 21) to the face plate portion (12) capable of being cut to length, provision is made for there to be arranged, on the face (18) of the connecting plate (14) facing the face plate portion (12) capable of being cut to length, at least one projecting tooth/set-back tooth space (19, 20) which extends transversely relative to the longitudinal extension of the face plate and which makes a positive connection with a tooth space/tooth (21) on the counterface of the face plate portion (12) capable of being cut to length. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0591859-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TOVEY H JONATHAN
IPC: A61B17/28
Filed: 1993-10-01
Abstract: A tool mechanism (210) for an endoscopic surgical instrument includes a pair of members (212,214) in opposing relation reciprocatingly movable toward and away from each other, said members each comprising: 
   a camming portion having a pivot hole (264) and a cam slot (266); 
and 
   a tissue gripping member extending from said camming portion, said tissue gripping member including a plurality of rib members (222) extending from said camming portion to a distal end of said gripping member; 
   wherein said tissue gripping member includes means for enhancing gripping of tissue. 
     The enhancing means may comprise at least one indentation (236) or aperture (238) in said gripping member at said rib members for permitting tissue to expand thereinto during gripping, and/or said rib members may extend to said distal end of said tissue gripping members intermittently to define at least two arrays of rib members, said enhancing means comprising spaces in said gripping member between said arrays of rib members.
Patent EP-0603705-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SAKAI KUNIHIRO C O CANON KABUS
IPC: G11B27/10
Filed: 1993-12-13
Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus for temporarily storing image information, and outputting the information after signal processing is disclosed. The apparatus includes a dividing unit for dividing the input image information, a memory which stores the divided information, and a control unit for controlling a scanning unit of the memory so as to edit and output the image information. The memory includes a plurality of probe electrodes, a recording medium arranged to oppose the probe electrodes, the scanning unit for moving the probe electrodes relative to the recording medium so that the probe electrodes scan the surface of the recording medium, and a voltage application unit for applying a voltage between the recording medium and each probe electrode so as to record the divided information in each scanning region on the recording medium of the probes, and to reproduce the divided image information recorded in each scanning region.
Patent EP-0567191-A2 (EP)
Inventor: VAN DER LELY CORNELIS
IPC: A01K1/00
Filed: 1993-04-20
Abstract: The invention relates to a construction for automatically milking animals, cows in particular. The construction is mobile and usable in two or a plurality of separate areas in the dairy farm; these separate areas can be constituted by a pasture (2) which is divided into smaller sections (4 - 7) and/or by a cow shed having optionally a plurality of separate areas.
Patent EP-0576243-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RADFORD DAVID JOHN
IPC: G01N27/22
Filed: 1993-06-22
Abstract: A device is provided for measuring dielectric constant and conductance of a material such as massecuite, the device including a pair of electrodes which are switchably connected to a tank circuit which includes a variable frequency oscillator operating at radio frequencies, and two reference frequencies are measured with the electrodes disconnected from the oscillator and two measurement frequencies with the electrodes coupled to the oscillator tank circuit, the differences between the reference and measurement frequencies being used to compute the inductance and dielectric constant or composition of the material. The frequency is modified by not more than about 10MHz and may be achieved either by switchably introducing additional inductance or capacitance into the tank circuit to modify its frequency or by having the electrodes switchable between a pair or oscillators operating at known radio frequencies.
Patent EP-0634841-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OTANI SUSUMU C O NEC CORPORATI
IPC: H04B1/707
Filed: 1994-07-13
Abstract: For spectrum spreading with a small spreading factor N which may be four, an input bit sequence of an input bit rate fs is eventually converted into a serial data sequence of serial data of which each serial datum consists of N repetitions of N consecutive bits of the input bit sequence. By a shift register (19) operable at fs and a memory (23) operable at fs/4, the input bit sequence is first converted into N parallel bit sequences, which are converted into the serial data sequence by a selector (27) operable at Nfs.
Patent EP-0614079-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TULLY JACK C
IPC: G01N21/85
Filed: 1994-02-23
Abstract: A method for directly measuring the concentration of biocides in aqueous systems comprising directly determining an absorbance or emission spectrum of the aqueous system in a wavelength range of from 200 to 2500 nm and applying chemometrics algorithms to the spectrum to determine the concentration of the biocides.
Patent EP-0614703-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ROBARDS CHESTER F JR
IPC: B65D83/76
Filed: 1994-02-03
Abstract: A dispenser is provided for dispensing the extrudable contents of a collapsible container (10) having a nozzle (22) through which the container can be discharged by collapsing the container (10). The dispenser is of a piston/cylinder device, with the piston (70) having a container-engaging face provided with a contoured structure of a predetermined configuration corresponding generally to a collapsing profile of the collapsible container (10). An elongated flexible valve device (128) is slidably mounted relative to the housing and includes a coupling end coupled directly to a trigger member (78) of the dispenser and a valve end (140) for opening and closing an opening in the housing which defines the cylinder of the device. The flexible valve device (128) is a band member of plastic material and is operatively associated with a mechanism for holding the valve open when a cover of the housing is removed and for automatically closing the valve when the cover is replaced. A pistol grip handle (98) and the trigger (78) of the dispenser are ergodynamically configured for ease of operation. A set of interchangeable stop cams (156) are provided for positioning between the trigger (78) and the pistol grip handle (98) for selectively determining a metered amount of material to be dispensed by the dispenser for each actuation of the trigger (78).
Patent EP-0619601-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KWASNICK ROBERT FORREST
IPC: H01L29/78
Filed: 1994-03-29
Abstract: In the fabrication of thin-film field-effect transistors, a dielectric island is first formed over a gate and between locations where source and drain contacts are to be deposited. A dielectric cap with an overhanging brim is formed on the island. A layer of SD metal which will form the source-drain contacts is next deposited. Because of the overhang, the SD metal does not coat the entire cap, but leaves part of the cap remaining exposed and attackable by an etchant. Application of an etchant etches away the island and the cap, thereby lifting off the SD metal coated on the cap, leaving the fully-formed source and drain contacts in place, separated by the extent of the island.
Patent EP-0643533-A2 (EP)
Inventor: INAMORI SHINRI
IPC: H04N5/21
Filed: 1994-06-07
Abstract: A motion detecting circuit and a noise reducing circuit of high reliability and independent of the magnitude of motion, presence/absence of noise, and magnitude of the noise. The motion detecting circuit includes a subtractor 14 which receives as inputs, an input video signal VS i  from an input terminal 10 and a delayed video signal VS d  delayed by one picture unit (one frame in the case of the NTSC format) from a frame memory 12. The difference between the two signals VS i  and VS d  is taken and a difference signal e is output for each pixel of a video display. A motion determination circuit 16 is provided, having: a difference polarity determination unit which determines the polarity of difference e as input from a difference generating unit 15 for each pixel and its adjacent pixels; a difference value determination unit which determines the magnitude of difference e as input from difference generating unit 15 for each pixel and its adjacent pixels; and a motion determination unit which determines whether the pixel is contained in the motion picture region based on the results of the determination of the difference polarity determination unit and the difference value determination unit; and a 1-bit motion determination signal MC representing the results of the determination of the motion determination unit is output.
Patent EP-0654690-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SUZUKI RYOUICHI C O CANON K K
IPC: G02B7/32
Filed: 1994-10-24
Abstract: The present invention relates to an active-type automatic focusing apparatus, and more particularly to an automatic focusing apparatus of a type having an arrangement that a light receiving portion (34,35) is disposed on each side of a light emitting unit (33) to obtain the distance from a subject in accordance with the output from each light receiving portion. An automatic focusing apparatus of the foregoing type according to the present invention is enabled to have a small size by shortening the distance (L2) from either of the light receiving portions disposed on the two sides of the light emitting unit to the light emitting unit than the distance (L2) from the other light receiving portion.
Patent EP-0658870-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KATAKURA KAZUNORI
IPC: G09G3/36
Filed: 1994-12-13
Abstract: A display apparatus is constituted by a display device comprising a pair of oppositely disposed substrates having thereon scanning electrodes and data electrodes, respectively, and an optical modulation substance disposed between the substrates so as to form a number of pixels each at an intersection of the scanning electrodes and the data electrodes; and drive means capable of setting one frame period to be divided into different periods of sub-frames. The drive means further includes means for setting a whole picture scanning period for scanning all the scanning electrodes and a partial rewrite period for scanning only scanning electrodes for effecting a required display change so as to allow a partial rewrite in a shorter cycle than a frame cycle.
Patent EP-0664306-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HEYMAN DUANE A
IPC: C08F283/00
Filed: 1995-01-16
Abstract: There is a provided a stable low viscosity graft polymer dispersion comprising from 25 to 60 weight percent based on the total weight of the polymer dispersion of at least three ethylenically unsaturated monomers polymerized in the presence of a reaction moderator and a free radical initiator in a polyol mixture initially containing less than 0.1 moles of induced unsaturation per mole of said polyol mixture. One of the monomers in the mixture of ethylenically unsaturated monomers is a hydroxylfunctional or aminofunctional C 2  - C 6  alkyl methacrylate.
Patent EP-0718378-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCHMIDT CHRISTOPH DR
IPC: C09D7/62
Filed: 1995-12-11
Abstract: Non-lustrous iron oxide-based pigments comprise yellow hydrous iron (III) oxide and/or iron (III) oxide in the form of dry-ground inorganic platelet carriers with a particle size <60 mu . microns. Also claimed are: (i) the prepn. of the pigments; (ii) formulations contg. the pigments; and (iii) laser-etchable plastics contg. the pigments.
Patent EP-0681376-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SESHADRI NAMBIRAJAN
IPC: H04L1/00
Filed: 1995-04-19
Abstract: We have invented methods of and devices for introducing unequal error protection into spread spectrum communication systems. One embodiment of the invention addresses certain inefficiencies of the standard known as IS-95 used, for example, in some mobile direct sequence code division multiple access ("DS-CDMA") phone systems. The invention allows for increased system capacity and/or improved quality. More specifically, spread spectrum multiple access ("SSMA") coding may be combined with the concept of unequal error protection ("UEP"), resulting in an UEP SSMA coding process. The present invention's coding process (i.e.,UEP SSMA) utilizes bandwidth in a closer to optimal manner than known methods and may be implemented by applying a first and a second error protection process to one more and to one less significant portion of a signal wherein the first error protection process provides a greater amount of error protection than the second. 
     The disclosure also describes a method and aparatus for generating a modulated signal having a first and second segment, the first segment being more significant than the second segment and comprising a first time portion of the signal and a second segment comprising a second time portion of the signal wherein the duration of the first time portion is increased relative to the duration of the second time portion (VT UEP). 
     The present invention's coding process may be also implemented using combinations of variable time ("VT") UEP, variable code ("VC") UEP, or variable power ("VP") UEP methods.
Patent EP-0705884-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KENNAN LINDA DENISE
IPC: C08J7/04
Filed: 1995-09-07
Abstract: There is disclosed a method for treating and protecting a substrate, said method comprising coating the surface of said substrate with a composition comprising a blend of (A) a polydimethylsiloxane polymer having a viscosity at 25°C. of 5 to 100,000 mm²/s (cS); and (B) a polyisobutylene oligomer having a number average molecular weight of 200 to 550. The treatment imparts an aesthetically pleasing appearance to the surfaces of plastic, rubber or leather substrates whereby surface gloss is enhanced, but not excessively, as is the case for a prior art all-silicone treating agent.
Patent EP-0763110-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ZAVADA JAN
IPC: C07K16/30
Filed: 1995-06-15
Abstract: Among other aspects of the MN genomic sequence, disclosed is an isolated nucleic acid characterized in that it has MN promoter regulatory activity, contains at least 16 nucleotides and has a nucleotide sequence selected from:(a) the MN promoter nucleotide sequence as shown in accompanying Figure 6, and nucleotide sequences complementary to the said MN promoter nucleotide sequence; and (b) nucleotide sequences that are at least 80% homologous to the nucleotide sequences of (a) and to the complements of the said nucleotide sequences. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0723317-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BOWEN DAVID C
IPC: H01R12/70
Filed: 1996-01-05
Abstract: A connector (10) for an edge card (100) includes a card slot (14) having a plurality of contact terminals (23) disposed in a predetermined spacing. The connector also includes two latch/eject members (200,202) pivotally mounted to the connector at the ends (20,22) thereof in alignment with the connector card slot. The latch/eject members include an alignment surface (201,203) positioned opposite the end edges of an edge card during insertion and the alignment surfaces may be positioned on the latch/eject members above an ejection surface (212) such that the contact area between the connector housing terminals and the circuit card lies between the ejection and alignment surfaces. The alignment surface is a surface of potential revolution.
Patent EP-0744887-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SICKLES WILLARD J
IPC: H05K13/00
Filed: 1996-02-23
Abstract: An adjustable mounting system includes a tab having a plurality of holes formed thereon at first regular intervals horizontally across the tab, a member having a plurality of openings formed thereon at second regular intervals different from the first regular intervals. A fastener detachably connects the member and the tab by passing through one of the plurality of holes and one of the plurality of openings aligned with one of the plurality of holes. Panels have recessed portions formed on their surfaces between raised portions having a bisected-diamond shape. Planar articles, such as printed circuit boards and the like can be inserted in the recessed portions and held either horizontally or at an angle. The panels are removably mounted to a frame using the adjustable mounting system.
Patent EP-0735595-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SAKAMOTO KURT K
IPC: H01L21/02
Filed: 1996-03-04
Abstract: A capacitor (58) for an integrated circuit having a conductive trench (50), disposed below a bottom electrode layer (52), that electrically connects the bottom electrode layer to a semiconductor substrate (14, 16). The conductive trench eliminates the need for a top-side contact to the bottom electrode layer. The semiconductor substrate is, for example, connected to ground.
Patent EP-0741414-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MCDONALD PERRY A
IPC: H01L27/04
Filed: 1996-04-25
Abstract: A monolithic microwave integrated circuit (100) is formed by positioning a distributed, transmission-line network (110) over a microwave-device structure (130). The ground plane (114) of the transmission-line network (110) adjoins an interconnect system (132) of the microwave-device structure (130). Signal lines (112) of the transmission-line network (110) are adapted to communicate with the microwave-device structure (130) through orifices (150, 160) of the ground plane (114).
Patent EP-0747854-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NICKS TIMOTHY J
IPC: B65G43/08
Filed: 1996-06-05
Abstract: Apparatus (10) for detecting containers (12) of predetermined diameter that includes a pair of optical proximity sensors (28,30) positioned adjacent to a container conveyor (14) such that light energy from the sensors is incident sequently on the containers as the containers pass on the conveyor adjacent to the sensors. The sensors (28,30) are adjustable positionable with respect to each other such that the sensors are spaced from each other in the direction of container motion (60) on the conveyor. An electronic circuit (52,54,56) is coupled to the sensors (28,30) for detecting passage of containers (12) on the conveyor (14) while ignoring dithering of the containers. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the sensors (28,30) are mounted on a common support (20) having a scale (44,46) for measuring separation between the sensors. Printed indicia in units of container diameter, preferably in both English and metric unit, is affixed to the support (20) adjacent to the scale. One (28) of the sensors is mounted on the support adjacent to a "zero" reference point on the scale indicia, and the other (30) sensor is adjustably positionable on the support adjacent to the scale. The support (20) in the preferred embodiment of the invention takes the form of a housing enclosing the sensors and having an elongated window (34) parallel to the conveyor (14) through which containers on the conveyor are exposed to the sensors.
Patent EP-0757488-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OHIRA HIDEO
IPC: H04N21/236
Filed: 1996-06-25
Abstract: A multimedia information processing apparatus comprises information source processing portions (101), element packet processing portions, (102), packet processing portions (103), transmission path processing portions (104), an information source processing portion bus (110), an element packets processing bus (111), and a packet multiplexing bus (112). A multimedia information processing apparatus is hierarchically classified into a plurality of layers, and interface signals are defined between each processing portion and each processing is connected via buses. Contents such as broadcasting, communication and storage are secured by an editing unit comprised of a computer and by expansion of units via bus. Bus connection enables editing processing portions (152, 153) such as a complex processing portion (150, 151) including a plurality of processing portions and a computer to expand functions of a multimedia information processing apparatus.
Patent EP-0763933-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KOIVUNEN TERO
IPC: H04N5/14
Filed: 1996-08-24
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting motion in a digital video signal using the pixels of at least two successive fields, whereby the pixels of at least one field are saved, and differences of the pixels in the fields are produced in a predetermined manner. Each difference is compared to a predetermined threshold value, whereby the motion decision for each pixel is made on the basis of at least one comparison result in a predetermined way, and each motion decision is saved. The invention also relates to an apparatus (1) for detecting motion in a digital video signal, comprising means (f1, f2, f3) for saving the pixels of at least one field, and means (v1, v2, v3, v4) for producing the differences of the pixels in the fields. The apparatus (1) also includes means (v1, v2, v3, v4) for comparing each difference to a predetermined threshold value, a means (2) for producing a motion decision on the basis of at least one comparison result, and a means (3) for saving the motion decision.
Patent EP-0773035-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KRAEMER MATTHIAS DR
IPC: A61M1/36
Filed: 1996-10-31
Abstract: The blood is fed back via a venous branch (22) of the extra-corporeal circuit (9), which is in fluid connection with the venous part (23) of the fistula (6). A blood pump (26) is connected in the extra-corporeal circuit. An arterial measurement device (24) is provided for measuring a physical or chemical characteristic dimension of the blood in the arterial branch (20) of the extra-corporeal circuit. The physical or chemical characteristic dimension in the blood flowing in the venous branch of the extra-corporeal circuit has a different value to the blood flowing in the fistula. A control unit (29) varies the delivery rate of the blood pump. A computer (35) calculates the fistula flow, the average value of the physical or chemical characteristic dimension in venous blood and/or the heart minute vol.