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Patent CA-2663661-C (CA)
Title: Processing of dehydrated and salty hydrocarbon feeds
Inventor: MCFARLANE RICHARD A
IPC: C10G21/00
Filed: 2009-04-22
Granted: 2014-03-18
Abstract: The invention provides for processing a dehydrated and salty hydrocarbon feed having a solid salt dispersed in a hydrocarbon material by contacting the feed with an active agent under a first operating condition under which the active agent has an initial active agent solubility in the hydrocarbon material, and modulating operating conditions to provide a second operating condition under which the active agent has a secondary active agent solubility in the hydrocarbon material that is less than the initial active agent solubility so as to form a separable active agent phase, wherein the salt solubility in the active agent is substantially greater than the salt solubility in the hydrocarbon material under both the first and second operating conditions such that the salt dissolves in the active agent, allowing the separable active agent phase to separate from the hydrocarbon material depleted in the salt.
Patent CA-2664610-C (CA)
Inventor: MITCHELL KEITH
IPC: F24S23/30
Filed: 2007-09-28
Granted: 2015-04-28
Abstract: There is provided solar energy harvesting apparatus (20) including a clear polycarbonate body (21) including a transparent front face (23) and supporting a thermal absorber (27) adapted to absorb incident solar radiation. The thermal absorber (27) transfers heat via a fluid connector (28) to a circulated-fluid system and in addition controls the temperature of a photovoltaic element (24) mounted on the absorber (27) and connected to an electrical harness by electrical connectors (25, 26). The polycarbonate body (21) has complementary edge mating profiles (32, 33) engaging with a standard-tiled roof structure to replace some of the standard tiles thereof, and is secured conventionally to roof battens by a batten screw (29).
Patent CA-2666045-C (CA)
Inventor: CAMERON JOHN ALASDAIR MACDONALD
IPC: E21B43/10
Filed: 2002-09-23
Granted: 2013-12-03
Abstract: The present invention provides an encapsulation for housing instrumentation lines, control lines, or instruments downhole. In one use, the encapsulation (10) resides between an expandable downhole tool (20), such as an expandable sand screen, and the wall (48) of the wellbore. The encapsulation is specially profiled to allow the downhole tool to be expanded into the wall of the wellbore without leaving a channel outside of the tool through which formation fluids might vertically migrate. The encapsulation is useful in both cased hole and open hole completions.
Patent CA-2674266-C (CA)
Title: Laundry device
Inventor: JEONG SEONG HAE
IPC: D06F39/08
Filed: 2007-12-31
Granted: 2012-07-10
Abstract: A laundry treating machine including a laundry treating device (100) and a pedestal laundry treating device (200) is disclosed. The laundry treating machine is configured to achieve simultaneous or selective supply of water and simultaneous or selective draining of wash water for the laundry treating device (100) and pedestal laundry treating device (200). The pedestal laundry treating device (200) supports the laundry treating device (100) beneath and outside the laundry treating device. The pedestal laundry treating device (200) has a volume and a height smaller than those of the laundry treating device (100), and has a laundry treating function. The laundry treating machine (100) further includes a water supplier (350) for simultaneously or selectively supplying water to the laundry treating device (100) and pedestal laundry treating device (200), and a water drainer (460) for joining wash water discharged from the laundry treating device (100) and wash water discharged from the pedestal laundry treating device (200) into a draining pipe (430), and draining the joined wash water.
Patent CA-2676560-C (CA)
Title: Configuration et procede de commande d'arrivee de gaz de couverture pour appareil de soudage electrique
Inventor: HALVORSEN ARILD
IPC: B23K9/16
Filed: 2008-01-23
Granted: 2015-11-03
Abstract: L'invention concerne un appareil et un procédé pour utilisation dans la commande de l'écoulement de gaz de couverture dans un équipement de soudage électrique, caractérisé en ce que le soudage est réalisé à l'aide d'une électrode de soudage en connexion électrique avec une machine de soudage. L'appareil comprend un dispositif de mesure électrique présentant un capteur de courant 3 conçu pour déterminer la puissance d'un courant de soudage électrique transporté dans un circuit comprenant l'électrode de soudage et présentant une sortie de capteur de courant conçue pour fournir un signal I indiquant la puissance de courant, et un capteur de tension 11 conçu pour déterminer la puissance d'une tension électrique appliquée à l'électrode de soudage et présentant une sortie de capteur de tension conçue pour fournir un signal U indiquant la puissance de tension, et un dispositif de commande 6. Le dispositif de commande 6 possède des entrées connectées à la sortie de capteur de courant et à la sortie de capteur de tension, respectivement, et une sortie de signal de commande permettant de fournir un signal de commande à un contrôleur d'écoulement de gaz de couverture 7, et un contrôleur conçu pour fournir le signal de commande comme a) un signal de commande d'une première puissance prédéterminée lorsque le signal U est supérieur au premier seuil U et le signal I est inférieur à un premier seuil I, et b) un signal de commande d'une puissance variant en proportion avec le signal I lorsque le signal I est supérieur au premier seuil I.
Patent CA-2685715-C (CA)
Inventor: CANSOT ELODIE
IPC: G01J3/45
Filed: 2009-11-18
Granted: 2017-01-03
Abstract: A first aspect of the invention concerns a calibration process for a detection matrix used to acquire an interferogram image, including steps in which: - a first interferogram and at least two offset interferograms are developed, the first interferogram developed by creating a finite number of path differences, and each of the offset interferograms developed by offsetting each of the path differences from the first interferogram, such that for each path difference at least three samples are available, placed on a portion of sinusoid; - for each of the sinusoid portions, a function coinciding with the sinusoid portion is determined by interpolation; - a calibration coefficient is determined for each path difference based on the function coinciding with the sinusoid portion corresponding to this path difference. The invention also extends to a calibrated instrument in accordance with the first aspect of the process.
Patent CA-2685886-C (CA)
Title: Procede et dispositif de mesure de la valeur moyenne de la viscoelasticite d'une region d'interet
Inventor: BERCOFF JEREMY
IPC: A61B8/08
Filed: 2007-05-16
Granted: 2016-02-23
Abstract: L'invention porte sur un procédé pour mesurer la valeur de viscoélasticité moyenne d'un matériau mou. Le procédé utilise une seule sonde portant au moins un transducteur consistant à : a) dans une zone de contrainte, induire au moins une salve de vibrations mécaniques pour générer des ondes de cisaillement internes dans le tissu, lesquelles se propage de ladite zone de contrainte à l'intérieur du tissu ; b) mesurer avec ledit transducteur les déplacements de tissu transitoires dans au moins une première zone de mesure du tissu, laquelle est située à distance de ladite zone de contrainte ; c) estimer une viscoélasticité moyenne de la région du tissu située entre la zone de contrainte et la première zone de mesure à partir desdits déplacements de tissu transitoires mesurés dans la première zone de mesure.
Patent CA-2688641-C (CA)
Title: Lutte contre les ectoparasites
Inventor: CRAWFORD MICHAEL J
IPC: A61K31/505
Filed: 2008-06-09
Granted: 2013-05-21
Abstract: L'invention concerne un procédé de lutte contre les ectoparasites qui infestent les animaux de compagnie et le bétail en appliquant à l'animal une quantité efficace de 4-tert-butylphénéthyl quinazolin-4-yl éther ou de 4-chloro-5-éthyl-2-méthyl-N-[(4-tert-butylphényl)méthyl]pyrazole-3-carboxamide ou de 5-chloro-N-[2-[4-(2-éthoxyéthyl)-2,3-diméthylphénoxy]éthyl]-6-éthyl-4-pyrimidinamine ou de 4-chloro-3-éthyl-1-méthyl-N-[4-(p-tolyloxy)benzyl]pyrazole-5-carboxamide.
Patent CA-2693744-C (CA)
Inventor: ROSSETTO FRANCESCA
IPC: A61B18/18
Filed: 2010-02-19
Granted: 2017-10-24
Abstract: A device for directing energy to a target volume of tissue includes an inner conductor having a length and an outer conductor coaxially surrounding the inner conductor along the length. The outer conductor has a proximal portion and a distal portion. The distal portion of the outer conductor is provided with a number of apertures N defined therein for radiating energy, where N is an integer greater than 1, each aperture having a size and extending at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the outer conductor. At least one of the size and the angle of each aperture is varied in relation to the other apertures N-1 such that the energy radiated along the distal portion is substantially uniform.
Patent CA-2695468-C (CA)
Title: Outils de criblage de patient pour des systemes de stimulus cardiaque implantables
Inventor: SANGHERA RICK
IPC: A61B5/0402
Filed: 2008-08-22
Granted: 2016-05-17
Abstract: L'invention concerne des outils et dispositifs pour déterminer si un patient est bien adapté à recevoir un dispositif de stimulation cardiaque implantable en analysant des signaux cardiaques capturés en utilisant des électrodes externes ou cutanées. Certains outils illustratifs comprennent des formes pour une comparaison visuelle avec des bandes ECG imprimées. Des dispositifs automatiques qui effectuent au moins certaines fonctions analytiques électroniquement pour un utilisateur sont également révélés. Dans un exemple, une bande ECG imprimée est visuellement comparée à une forme afin de garantir qu'un patient est bien adapté à recevoir un dispositif de stimulation cardiaque ayant un emplacement d'implant particulier et/ou une mise en uvre de procédé d'analyse de signal cardiaque.
Patent CA-2699171-C (CA)
Title: Light sensing pull station
Inventor: SANTOS FRED
IPC: G08B5/36
Filed: 2008-08-28
Granted: 2014-10-07
Abstract: An alarm pull station includes a housing, an alarm indicator carried within the housing, an alarm activation mechanism carried within the housing, such that the alarm activation mechanism is adjacent to the alarm indicator, and configured to generate an alarm signal, and a sensor carried within the housing such that the sensor is configured to generate a signal in response to a sensed condition and the alarm indicator is activated in response to the signal generated by the sensor.
Patent CA-2699528-C (CA)
Title: Os artificiel
Inventor: KIMURA NAOKO
IPC: A61L27/00
Filed: 2008-09-02
Granted: 2013-11-12
Abstract: L'invention concerne la direction de vides dans un os artificiel. L'invention porte sur un os artificiel (10) comportant des vides (2) alignés sensiblement dans une seule direction à l'intérieur d'un matériau d'os artificiel (le corps principal de l'os artificiel) (1), qui comporte un marqueur constitué, par exemple, un signal linéaire (3a) indiquant la direction d'alignement des vides (2) alignés dans une direction uni-axiale sur la surface de celui-ci. En tant que substitut du signal linéaire (3a), on peut utiliser une convexité ou une concavité en tant que marqueur. Du fait de cette structure, la direction des vides, qui sont alignés sensiblement dans une seule direction, de l'os artificiel peut être facilement confirmée.
Patent CA-2701867-C (CA)
Inventor: HETHERINGTON PHILLIP A
IPC: H04M1/19
Filed: 2010-04-21
Granted: 2015-08-04
Abstract: A speech enhancement system controls the gain of an excitation signal to prevent uncontrolled gain adjustments. The system includes a first device that converts sound waves into operational signals. An ambient noise estimator is linked to the first device and an echo canceller. The ambient noise estimator estimates how loud a background noise would be near the first device before or after an echo cancellation. The system then compares the ambient noise estimate to a current ambient noise estimate near the first device to control a gain of an excitation signal.
Patent CA-2704641-C (CA)
Inventor: BERTONE CLAUDIO
IPC: F25C5/02
Filed: 2008-11-05
Granted: 2019-02-19
Abstract: An apparatus for producing beverages. The apparatus comprises a dispensing system, a mixing unit, and a control unit comprising a user interface, which interact to prepare a particular beverage when requested by a user.  When the control unit receives user input requesting the particular beverage via the user interface, it causes the dispensing system to dispense various ingredients (e.g., fragmented ice, water, flavoring ingredients, milk product) that are mixed by the mixing unit in order to prepare the particular beverage, which is served in a cup. In various embodiments, the apparatus may produce frozen beverages that include fragmented ice (e.g., shaved or crushed ice) as one of their ingredients, such as slush beverages and smoothie beverages, and/or hot beverages that include heated water as one of their ingredients, such as coffee and flavored coffee beverages (e.g., French Vanilla, Mocha, etc.).
Patent CA-2714552-C (CA)
Title: Desactivation d'une composition explosive au moyen de vegetaux
Inventor: SMYLIE THOMAS
IPC: F42D5/04
Filed: 2009-02-02
Granted: 2016-06-21
Abstract: L'invention porte sur un procédé servant à désactiver une composition explosive contenue dans une cartouche explosive, ledit procédé consistant à exposer ladite composition explosive à un agent désactivant destiné à rendre la composition explosive insensible à toute détonation, ledit agent désactivant étant une plante.
Patent CA-2720324-C (CA)
Inventor: HELLER MICHAEL
IPC: G01N33/49
Filed: 2009-04-03
Granted: 2016-08-23
Abstract: Devices and techniques are described that involve a combination of multidimensional electrokinetic, dielectrophoretic, electrophoretic and fluidic forces and effects for separating cells, nanovesicles, nanoparticulates and biomarkers (DNA, RNA, antibodies, proteins) in high conductance (ionic) strength biological samples and buffers. In disclosed embodiments, a combination of continuous and/or pulsed dielectrophoretic (DEP) forces, continuous and/or pulsed field DC electrophoretic forces, microelectrophoresis and controlled fluidics are utilized with arrays of electrodes. In particular, the use of chambered DEP devices and of a properly scaled relatively larger electrode array devices that combines fluid, electrophoretic and DEP forces enables both larger and/or clinically relevant volumes of blood, serum, plasma or other samples to be more directly, rapidly and efficiently analyzed. The invention enables the creation of "seamless" sample-to-answer diagnostic systems and devices. The devices and techniques described can also carry out the assisted self-assembly of molecules, polymers, nanocomponents and mesoscale entities into three dimensional higher order structures.
Patent CA-2722279-C (CA)
Inventor: MONMONT FRANCK BRUNO JEAN
IPC: E21B43/24
Filed: 2009-02-12
Granted: 2013-03-26
Abstract: An apparatus (and corresponding method) for characterizing the fluid properties of a two phase fluid, e.g. steam and water, includes a restriction element (51), e.g. orifice plate or nozzle, along the flow path of the two phase fluid. At least one temperature sensor (55A, 55B) measures temperature of the two phase fluid flowing through the restriction element. A pressure sensor (57B) measures the pressure downstream of the restriction element. Time-of-f light measurements of pulses passing through the two phase fluid are made (59A, 59B). The speed of sound within the two phase fluid is calculated from the time-of-f light measurements. At least one fluid property (e.g., a vapor phase fraction) of the two phase fluid is calculated from the mea-sured pressure, the measured temperature, and the calculated speed of sound.
Patent CA-2724197-C (CA)
Inventor: SMALL MARK
IPC: A61M5/32
Filed: 2009-03-20
Granted: 2015-11-24
Abstract: A device having a housing; a cannula projecting fon/vardly from the housing; a connector useful for attaching the device to a fluid source or receptacle; a fluid flow path establishing fluid communication between the cannula and the connector; a retraction mechanism biasing the cannula away from its projecting position;  and an actuator supported by the housing and configured to modify the fluid flow path so as to terminate fluid flow through the device, seal off the fluid flow path, and release the retraction mechanism to retract the cannula into the housing. The subject device is particularly preferred for use in the medical field, for example, as part of an infusion set or as a collection device for blood, or other fluids or flowable matter.
Patent CA-2725697-C (CA)
Inventor: PETZOLD LARS
IPC: G09B29/10
Filed: 2009-06-29
Granted: 2017-03-07
Abstract: A efficient method of encoding a continuous path within a road network is described. Ideally the path to be encod-ed is capable of being completely represented within a digital map and expressible as a path list of lines and/or segments existing in said digital map and consecutively ordered. The method comprises the steps of. (i) storing a start position in a route search list, said start position being one of. (a) the line or segment first appearing in said path list or, where the start node of said first line or segment is artificial, the first line or segment appearing in said digital map having a real start node and which leads directly to said first line or segment optionally through other artificial nodes, or (b) a most recently identified deviation line or segment also ap-pearing in said path list; (ii) determining a path from the start node of the start position and including said start position to an end node of the last line or segment in the path list within said digital map, said path being determined according to an algorithm, (iii) comparing the shortest path so determined to the path list for identity, and in the absence of identity, identifying at least one devia-tion line or segment being part of the path list and having a start node representative of an intersection in said digital map but not being the line or segment first appearing in said path list, and if such deviation line or segment does not terminate at the end node of the last line or segment appearing in the path list, repeating step (i) using said deviation line or segment, and (iv) Storing the last line or segment in the path list in said route search list if not already stored. Most preferably, the algorithm used is a shortest path algorithm.
Patent CA-2732239-C (CA)
Title: Controller for ac electric vehicle
Inventor: MATSUMOTO TAKEO
IPC: B60L9/08
Filed: 2008-07-31
Granted: 2014-09-30
Abstract: In a controller for an AC electric vehicle that includes a converter control unit controlling an operation of a PWM converter that converts an AC voltage inputted from an AC overhead line through a transformer into an DC  voltage, arithmetic processing performed in the converter control unit is divided into at least first to sixth arithmetic processing blocks, the first to sixth arithmetic processing blocks are configured by an FPGA, and the first to third arithmetic processing blocks, and the fourth and fifth arithmetic processing blocks are configured to enable simultaneous parallel processing, respectively.
Patent CA-2734698-C (CA)
Title: Physiological sensor delivery device and method
Inventor: MANSTROM DALE R
IPC: A61M5/00
Filed: 2009-09-11
Granted: 2012-05-01
Abstract: An intravascular sensor delivery device for measuring a physiological parameter of a patient, such as blood pressure, within a vascular structure or passage. In some embodiments, the device can be used to measure the pressure gradient across a stenotic lesion or heart valve. For example, such a device may be used to measure fractional flow reserve (FFR) across a stenotic lesion in order to assess the severity of the lesion. The sensor delivery device has a distal sleeve configured to pass or slide over a standard medical guidewire. Some distance back from the sensor and distal sleeve, the device separates from the guidewire to permit independent control of the sensor delivery device and the guidewire.  The sensor delivery device can be sized to pass over different sizes of guidewires to enable usage in coronary and peripheral arteries, for example.
Patent CA-2735912-C (CA)
Inventor: VESCERA FRANCESCO
IPC: C22C1/05
Filed: 2009-08-26
Granted: 2016-03-29
Abstract: The present invention discloses a hieararchical composite material comprising a ferrous alloy reinforced with titanium carbides according to a defined geometry, in which said reinforced portion comprises an alternating macro-microstructure of millimetric areas concentrated with micrometric globular particles of titanium carbide separated by millimetric areas essentially free of micrometric globular particles of titanium carbide, said areas concentrated with micrometric globular particles of titanium carbide forming a microstructure in which the micrometric interstices between said globular particles are also filled by said ferrous alloy.
Patent CA-2739808-C (CA)
Title: Toroidal boundary layer gas turbine
Inventor: BERGEN ERNST
IPC: F01D1/36
Filed: 2009-10-29
Granted: 2020-01-07
Abstract: A toroidal boundary layer gas turbine device includes a combustion toroid receiving therein centrifugal force induced by providing air and fuel tangentially into the combustion toroid to continuously combust fluids located therein in a vortex substantially along the inner circumference of the combustion toroid. An outlet for exhaust of the combustion toroid is located at the center of the combustion toroid and the vortex of the fluids which are combusted continuously substantially along the inner circumference of the combustion toroid. This permits air and fuel to be mixed at a plurality of locations about the chamber for increasing power output by permitting more fuel to be consumed in an efficient manner as compared to prior art turbines and generators using boundary layer effects to generate power which suffer from limited power output and efficiency.
Patent CA-2740356-C (CA)
Inventor: MARTIN DARYL
IPC: H04W4/12
Filed: 2011-05-13
Granted: 2016-05-10
Abstract: There is disclosed a system and method for visually representing the probability of spam messages on a mobile communication device. In an embodiment, the method comprises: obtaining a probability that a message is spam; and for each of one or more messages in a message list, visually representing the probability that a message is spam such that any differences in the probabilities as between messages are discernable from the visual representation. In another embodiment, the method further comprises: determining the percentage of the message downloaded to the mobile communication device; and displaying for each of one or more messages appearing in the message list an object or icon visually representing at least one of the probability that the message is spam, or the percentage of the message downloaded to the mobile communication device.
Patent CA-2740591-C (CA)
Title: Cartouches de pile a combustible productrices d'hydrogene
Inventor: ROSENZWEIG ALAIN
IPC: B01J7/00
Filed: 2009-11-03
Granted: 2018-09-04
Abstract: La présente invention concerne un appareil producteur de gaz (10). De l'hydrogène, qui est produit dans l'appareil producteur de gaz, est transporté vers une pile à combustible. La production d'hydrogène est régulée automatiquement par l'exposition sélective d'un catalyseur (48) à un mélange combustible en fonction de la pression à l'intérieur de la chambre de réaction (28) de l'appareil producteur de gaz. Des mécanismes d'étanchéité de catalyseur (40, 42) sont fournis au moins partiellement dans la chambre de réaction pour réguler la pression d'hydrogène et pour réduire à un minimum les fluctuations de pression de l'hydrogène reçu par la pile à combustible.