baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent EP-0570163-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GROLLIMUND GARY
IPC: G01N21/89
Filed: 1993-05-07
Abstract: In the embodiment, the entire cylindrical surface of a cylindrical object such as a cigarette is optically inspected by first inspecting at least 180° of the circumference of a first side of the surface, and then inspecting at least 180° of the circumference of the other side. Each of the inspection stations illuminates more than 180° of the circumference and images the surface from two angularly spaced directions to ensure that at least 180° of the circumference is seen at each station. Any object having a defective image is automatically rejected from the apparatus, and the images and other statistical information regarding the performance of the system are displayed by the system. The images are formed in such a way as to greatly increase the speed at which the inspection system operates so that it an keep up with the very high rates at which objects such as cigarettes are made in modern machinery (e.g., approximately 10,000 cigarettes per minute). The images are analyzed using techniques which make possible the detection of very small defects and also compensate for possible nonuniform illumination of the objects in the circumferential direction. 
     In another embodiment, inspection of completed cigaretes is accomplished by the cigarettes travelling on a rolling drum (1) pas a single stationary rolling block (512) with perferably two cameras (5,14) connected to a vision system. The first camera views the cigarette before the rolling block, the cigarette is then rolled approximately 180° and then the second camera views the previousl hidden portion of the cigarette. Cigarettes are accepted or rejected based on a comparison of the viewed cigarettes to a predetermined set of characteristics.
Patent EP-0572216-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TANAKA HIROKAZU C O CANON KABU
IPC: G11B27/32
Filed: 1993-05-25
Abstract: A method for recording a plurality of kinds of data to a recording medium such as an optical card or disc having a recording surface on which a plurality of sectors are arranged in accordance with a predetermined order and for reproducing the recorded data is provided. A plurality of blocks each of which includes a plurality of sectors and which correspond to the kinds of data are prepared for the recording surface. One of the plurality of blocks is accessed on the basis of the kind of data. In the accessed block, data is recorded onto at least one sector in accordance with the predetermined order. In the accessed block, updating data is additionally recorded onto at least one sector subsequent to the data recorded sector. In the accessed block, the recorded data is reproduced from at least one of the finally recorded sectors. A plurality of tracks each comprising a plurality of sectors are arranged in parallel on the recording surface of the optical card.
Patent EP-0582437-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BOTTOMLEY IAN EDWARD
IPC: G01N19/04
Filed: 1993-07-28
Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for testing the strength of a bond (16) between a first component (12) and a second component (14) by taking a sample (10) and engaging each of the first and second components, with the second component being engaged by way of an opening (18) in the first. An increasing force is applied between the components (12, 14) for applying tension to the bond (16), with the force being exerted in a direction substantially perpendicular to a main plane of the bond (16). The force is recorded when the bond fails as a measure of the tensile strength of the bond.
Patent EP-0592124-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GARDNER MARK I
IPC: H01L21/28
Filed: 1993-09-22
Abstract: The quality of both a gate oxide and a tunnel oxide in a P-well of a CMOS EEPROM process is improved by growing and subsequently annealing in-situ a gate oxide. A photoresist layer is then applied and defined to expose regions of the gate oxide which are then etched to expose the surface of the semiconductor, and after which the photoresist layer is removed. Subsequently, the remaining gate oxide is partially etched to reduce the thickness of the gate oxide and to remove any native oxide which may have formed over the exposed semiconductor surface. Finally, a tunnel oxide is grown upon the exposed semiconductor surface. The quality of this tunnel oxide is dramatically improved due to the in-situ anneal of the gate oxide, even though the gate oxide (in the region of the tunnel oxide) is totally removed before tunnel oxide growth. Furthermore, the re-oxidized gate oxide which was not entirely removed before tunnel oxide growth also exhibits higher breakdown voltages.
Patent EP-0596711-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SHUKLA VISHWA N
IPC: G01L9/12
Filed: 1993-11-03
Abstract: A monolithic capacitive pressure transducer is shown composed of ceramic material having a closed cavity formed near a surface thereof and having capacitor plates formed on two opposed surfaces defining the cavity. Vias are formed extending from the capacitor plates to permit electrical connection therewith. The transducer is made by separately forming under pressure a diaphragm and a base having a recess in the top surface using ceramic powder coated with an organic binder. A metal layer is deposited on the two pieces and the pieces are then joined together to form a single unit. A spacer may be inserted in the recess to ensure that a predetermined gap is maintained between the two parts during the joining operation. The parts are then debinderized by heating in air to a first temperature level to allow the binder organics, as well as the spacer organics if a spacer is employed, to be vaporized and/or decomposed and removed through the open pores of the diaphragm and base. The unit is then brought up to a sintering temperature in a reducing atmosphere to change it into a monolithic body and to convert the metallized layer into a conductive layer bonded to the ceramic.
Patent EP-0604062-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BENDEL LEE P
IPC: C22C38/50
Filed: 1993-12-08
Abstract: A martensitic stainless steel alloy comprised of 11.5 to 12.5% chromium by weight, between 9.5 and 10.2% nickel by weight, molybdenum 0 to 4.7% and the combination of titanium and tantalum ranging from 0.89% to 5.6%, with the remainder comprising iron and trace elements, containing less than 0.1% carbon is claimed. The formula for martensite finish temperature, M f  (°F), enables one to predict the temperature at which a steel is entirely converted to martensite, and is described as M f  = 1027 - 78% Ni - 27% Ti - 34% Mo. A desirable needle alloy for this amount is nickel at 10%, molybdenum at about 2.7%, and titanium at about 2%.
Patent EP-0616269-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YASUDA KAZUO C O KONICA CORPOR
IPC: G03G15/09
Filed: 1994-03-15
Abstract: A developing unit includes: a two-component developer consisting of toner and magnetic carrier; a developing sleeve (21), located in a vicinity of a photoreceptor (1) in an image forming apparatus and slightly separated from the photoreceptor (1), for supplying the toner of the two-component developer to the surface of the photoreceptor (1); a developer layer thickness regulator (23) for regulating a layer thickness of the two-component developer provided on the developing sleeve (21); and a developing bias generator for applying a developing bias voltage, including an AC component, onto the developing sleeve (21). The rotatable developing sleeve (21) further including: plural magnetic poles (22a) each of which is fixed at a respective predetermined location inside the rotatable developing sleeve (21). In the developing unit, layer thickness H D  (mm) of the two-component developer and gap D SD  (mm), between the surface of the photoreceptor and the developing sleeve, both at the location where the developing sleeve is closest to the surface of the photoreceptor, satisfies the equation of            0.02 ≦ D       SD            - H       D        ≦ 0.3          ; and the toner of the two-component developer is conveyed to the surface of the photoreceptor between 5 and 40 mg/cm² at this location.
Patent EP-0618260-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HORI KAZUYA C O MITSUBISHI KAS
IPC: C08L19/00
Filed: 1994-03-24
Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a crystalline chlorinated polyethylene with a chlorination degree of from 20 to 45% and a heat of crystal fusion of from 5 to 35 cal/g as measured by a DSC method, obtained by chlorinating a polyethylene having a weight average molecular weight of from 100,000 to 750,000, from 1 to 100 parts by weight of a crystalline polyolefin and from 5 to 200 parts by weight of a plasticizer.
Patent EP-0621162-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MIYAZAKI NAGAO C O JAPAN ELECT
IPC: B60T8/172
Filed: 1994-04-21
Abstract: In an anti-lock brake system mounted on a vehicle wherein when the vehicle is braked in an emergency during running, an increase in the road surface friction force or road surface friction coefficient owing to an increase in the brake pressure is detected by a road surface friction force detecting device or road surface friction coefficient detecting device. The optimum control start point associated with an increase in the signal value of the road surface friction force F or road surface friction coefficient µ provided by the road surface friction force detecting device or road surface friction coefficient detecting device is decided by using a decrease in the wheel speed, i.e., by using the wheel speed w or dw/dt. Thereafter, from the point where the specified value of control based on F or µ, or dF/dt or dµ/dt, the brake pressure is moved from the pressure increasing mode to the pressure retaining or decreasing mode.
Patent EP-0628666-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PERIN DIOTISALVI
IPC: E03D5/10
Filed: 1994-04-28
Abstract: Device installable on hygienic-sanitary plants like the hygienic toilets, to permit different water volumes to be discharged depending on the type of human waste discharged on the toilet. Device including valve means (16, 17; 26, 27; 30; 39; 43; 552; 58, 59) arranged on conduits (18, 18; 24; 25; 37, 38) entering at different levels the reservoir (13) collecting the drainage water, which are operable selectively by manual push buttons or automatically. 
     Different versions of such valve means are provided, associated with the reservoir (13), with a box-like unit (42) interposed between such reservoir and the toilet, or directly with the same toilet, by providing in this case suitable sensor means (551, 554) arranged inside the same toilet and intercepting the discharged wastes, in order to select the drainage adjusted to the respective type of discharged waste.
Patent EP-0625730-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GUTH JOSEPH EDWARD C O EASTMAN
IPC: G03G15/04
Filed: 1994-05-06
Abstract: A composite toner image made up of first and second toners is formed on an image member (1). A first electrostatic image of a first polarity is formed on the image member (1). That electrostatic image is toned with a first toner of the first polarity. The image member (1) is imagewise exposed to create a second electrostatic image also of the first polarity. Exposure is overlapped into the portion of the image member (1) under the first toner image to prevent any charge on the photoconductor of the first polarity underneath the first toner image from repelling toner into the portions of the second electrostatic image that are discharged. Preferably, the second exposure is accomplished through the base (3) of the image member in order to thoroughly expose portions of the electrostatic image underneath the first toner image. A web image member (1) is conveniently exposed through its base (3) by a printhead (17) mounted in an assembly (50) including a positioning bar (70) for properly spacing the printhead (17) and a lens 54 from the image member 1.
Patent EP-0627801-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YAMANO YOSHIAKI C O SUMITOMO W
IPC: H02G1/12
Filed: 1994-05-25
Abstract: A cover at an end portion of a covered wire is incised by upper and lower cutting blades. The covered wire and the cutting blades are moved relatively in the longitudinal direction of the covered wire to thereby start the cover stripping operation at an end portion of the cover on the core. Thereafter, during this relative movement, the depth of incising the cover by the cutting blades is reduced step by step within a range where blade portions of the cutting blades can catch the cover. Even in the case where the cover of a covered wire is thin, it is made possible not only to strip the cover surely, but also to prevent a core from being injured.
Patent EP-0650096-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TERAMOTO YOSHIKICHI
IPC: G03G7/00
Filed: 1994-10-07
Abstract: The disclosure describes a transfer sheet comprising not less than 75% by mass of a polycarbonate-based resin, and 
   having characteristics that: 
   the ratio of infrared absorbance at the wave number of 155 mm⁻¹ to that at 160 mm⁻¹ of said sheet is 0.3 to 0.6; 
   the melt viscosity at the shear rate of 200/sec at 280°C of said sheet is not less than 2,000 Pa·s; and 
   the thickness of said sheet is 130 to 250 µm.
Patent EP-0660133-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LIU SIEN-CHANG C
IPC: G01S7/28
Filed: 1994-12-07
Abstract: A radar target discrimination method (50) prevents sidelobe monopulse tracking. The beamwidth difference between the main beam monopulse and sidelobe monopulse is utilized to distinguish the main beam monopulse tracks from sidelobe monopulse tracks. After the first monopulse beam (52), the monopulse beam is moved (58) to two additional beam pointing angles such that the target will stay on the same side of the true main beam monopulse slope but will fall on the opposite side of the sidelobe monopulse slope. The sign and magnitude of the difference/sum (Δ/Σ) measurements (56, 62, 64) can be used to distinguish (66) a valid main beam track from a false sidelobe track. If the signs of the difference/sum measurements for the three pointing angles are not the same, the potential target is rejected. If the magnitudes of the difference/sum measurements for the three pointing angles do not increase or decrease monotonically, depending on the relative power of the first beam difference/sum measurement, the potential target is rejected.
Patent EP-0666316-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KURANE RYUICHIRO
IPC: C12S1/02
Filed: 1995-02-02
Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining organic solvent-resistant microorganisms which comprise subjecting a microbial parent strain to mutagenesis and then to selective cultivation in the presence of an organic solvent, and organic solvent-resistant microorganisms obtainable by the method. 
     According to the present invention, a microorganism which is natively hydrophilic and has useful functions but does not show resistance to organic solvents and cannot express the useful functions in the organic solvents could be converted into a microorganism capable of growing in organic solvents and expressing useful functions that the hydrophilic parent strain bears natively. In addition, a bio-desulfurization bacterium capable of decomposing hardly removable organic sulfur compounds under microaerobic conditions in the presence of organic solvents could be obtained by the use of a bacterium belonging to the genus  Pseudomonas  as the parent strain.
Patent EP-0752313-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCARDOVI ALESSANDRO
IPC: B41J2/205
Filed: 1996-06-17
Abstract: An ink jet printhead comprising a plurality of ejection resistors and at least one additional resistor (11), integrated on the same semiconductor substrate; the additional resistor is constituted by a material with a positive coefficient of variation of resistance with temperature of between 0.3 and 1.0%/°C and is used both for heating of the substrate and for measuring its temperature(T s ). Various circuits based on using the additional resistor are defined for implementing a method for stabilizing temperature of the substrate; also defined are a method for obtaining a stabilization temperature that remains constant with variation of the characteristics of the head and a method for setting the energetic operating point (E l ) of the ejection resistors.
Patent EP-0764708-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OKADA SHINICHIRO
IPC: B32B27/18
Filed: 1996-09-17
Abstract: An antistatic polyester film having formed on at least one side of a polyester film a coating layer which comprises (a) 5 to 40 % by weight of a phosphoric acid ester salt-based antistatic agent, (b) 1 to 20 % by weight of a surfactant having an HLB value of 12 or less, (c) 40 to 90 % by weight of at least one binder selected from acrylic copolymers and polyester copolymers, and (d) 3 to 25 % by weight of fine particles having an average particle diameter of 10 to 500 nm and which has an extremely uniform surface. This film is excellent in anti-blocking properties at a high humidity and antistatic properties at a low humidity.
Patent EP-0773150-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MATSUMOTO KOHJI
IPC: B60T13/66
Filed: 1996-11-08
Abstract: The present invention provides a method of releasing a stuck air valve (V) and also a sticking release apparatus that detects sticking of the air valve from a discrepancy in the waveform of an excitation current of a DC solenoid (S), then uses that current to release the sticking of the air valve. If sticking of the air valve is detected from the excitation current of the DC solenoid, a sticking release current flows either a predetermined number of times or for a predetermined period of time from a sticking release current supply portion (12) of a current supply means (10), to release the sticking.
Patent EP-0787666-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FERRARI FABRIZIO
IPC: B65G13/12
Filed: 1996-11-26
Abstract: A roller unit suitable for application to the side walls of chain link conveyors, including along their curved portions, and consisting of modules each of which comprises a flat plate, from the opposing sides of which there branch a first pair of brackets between which there are supported the fixing pins of the constituent idle rollers of the roller unit, and a second pair of brackets to receive the conveyor side wall and the means for fixing the module thereto, said second pair of brackets being provided with recesses which extend to also involve the plate.
Patent EP-0735810-A2 (EP)
Inventor: STORA MICHAEL JOSEPH
IPC: H01R12/16
Filed: 1996-03-20
Abstract: A power supply module (100) for use with a card cage (10) for conditioning card cage input power and transmitting DC power to a backplane (20) of the card cage. The module (100) is adapted to be inserted into a card-receiving region (14) of the card cage from the front, and is removable therefrom. Connectors (70) on the leading edge (66) of the circuit card (102) of the module (100) self-engage with complementary connectors (30) of the backplane to establish power and signal connections therewith upon full insertion of the power supply module into a power module site (34) of the card-receiving region (14). The power supply module (100) includes remote operator shut-off capability, overvoltage protection, overcurrent protection, overtemperature protection, temperature and voltage monitoring, and circuitry for orderly powering-up and powering-down of the card cage and for initializing critical data storage in the event of power failure. Either the power supply module (100) or card cage (10) provides rectification of AC power input to DC power. The module (100) is adapted to be air cooled by the cooling system for the card-receiving region, defined by a pluggable cooling module (50) with air flow metered into the card-receiving region (14) by a baffle plate (90).
Patent EP-0739136-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BRADY JAMES THOMAS
IPC: H04N7/173
Filed: 1996-04-04
Abstract: A multi-node video server system in accordance with the invention comprises disk storage associated with a first node which stores at least a portion of a video presentation in the form of plural data blocks, each data block comprising a viewing time segment of the presentation. RAM buffer in a second node receives and stores data blocks of the video presentation from the disk storage in the first node, upon an initial request by a first viewing terminal to view a portion of the video presentation. A communication module in the second node outputs the data blocks, as an isochronous data stream, to requesting terminals. A host controller is coupled to the video server nodes and receives requests from viewing terminals for the video presentation. The host controller causes the communication module in the second node to connect to a viewing terminal which renders the initial request. Additional viewing terminals requesting the same video presentation are also connected to the same communication module if their requests are received within a time period from the initial request that does not exceed a sum of viewing time segments represented by data blocks stored in the RAM buffer. In this manner, both the first requestor and subsequent requesting viewing terminals are enabled to receive the audiovisual presentation directly from the same buffer without requiring additional disk accesses for the subsequent viewers. Avoidance of additional internal video server communications is thus achieved.
Patent EP-0757513-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MARKHAM RONALD C
IPC: H05B41/285
Filed: 1996-08-01
Abstract: A driver or ballast (10) for the ultraviolet bulb (22) of a water treatment system (30). The driver (10) includes a step-up transformer and a feedback oscillator (16) connected between the secondary (14b) and the primary (14a) of the transformer. The secondary (14b) of the transformer also is selectably connected through one of two different capacitor compensators (96,98) depending on water flow through the system. In a low intensity mode, the current and the power factor output of the driver are relatively low--preferably just enough to keep the bulb filaments (23a,23b) energised. In a high intensity mode, the current and the power factor are relatively high to power the bulb (22) at a relatively high efficiency. The driver (10) operates at a relatively low DC voltage. A voltage converter (41) selected as a function of the local line voltage converts the AC line voltage to the necessary DC voltage.
Patent EP-0765023-A2 (EP)
Inventor: STEELE STEVEN W
IPC: H02J9/06
Filed: 1996-08-19
Abstract: A back-up power supply includes a fixed charger fixably mounted in an enclosure of a computer system and having a charging circuit electrically coupled to the computer system. The charger is mounted in a case which houses the charging circuit and provides EMC shielding. A removable battery pack is docked with the charger through cooperative blind docking connectors to electrically couple a pair of batteries with the charging circuit. The batteries are enclosed within a case to substantially restrict external access to the batteries. Preferably, the batteries together form an "L" shape, and the charging circuit is disposed on a circuit board having low and high profile areas. The batteries in the battery pack are disposed adjacent the low profile areas of the circuit board, such that the overall space required for the power supply is reduced.
Patent EP-0770879-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WADA TAKASUMI
IPC: G01N27/60
Filed: 1996-09-27
Abstract: A measuring device for amount of charge of developer includes an upper electrode, a lower electrode provided under the upper electrode, which are provided in parallel so as to face each other, flying electric field voltage application unit for applying a flying electric field voltage to the upper electrode, for generating an electric field so as to fly developer from the lower electrode to the upper electrode, current detection unit for detecting a current flowing in the upper electrode, and arithmetic unit for computing a total amount of charge of the developer adhering to the upper electrode based on a change in amount of current detected by the current detection unit, wherein a current that generates as a toner T adheres to the upper electrode is detected by the current detection unit, and based on a change in amount of the current, a total amount of charge of the developer adhering to the upper electrode is computed by the arithmetic unit. As a result, the measuring device for amount of charge of developer can be obtained at low cost.