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Patent EP-0499296-A2 (EP)
Title: Interlocking sections for portable floors and the like
Inventor: WILSON KERMIT H
IPC: E04F15/024
Filed: 1989-06-28
Abstract: A planar section (10) adapted for edge-to-edge connection with other similar sections, comprising: 
   a panel (12) having edges (11) around said panel adapted for edge-to-edge connection with complementary edges of similar sections, each edge (11) having recesses (35, 37) formed therein and complementary first and second locking members (50, 70) secured in said recesses (35, 37) in said edges (11), wherein said first and second locking members (50, 70) are configured so that said locking members engage and automatically lock upon fitting said sections (10) together, whereby a plurality of said sections can be secured in edge-to-edge relationsships with said complementary edges (11) and said first and second locking members (50, 70) in engagement with one another, respectively.
Patent EP-0528357-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ESTES BAY EDWARD
IPC: H01H47/32
Filed: 1992-08-13
Abstract: A controller for a relay (R) controls the pull-in time of the armature of the relay by controlling the power applied to the relay coil (1). To determine the actual pull-in time, the time of closure of the contacts is sensed (37,39) and the time at which power is applied to the coil (6) is subtracted from it (38). The actual pull-in time (at 40) is then compared (42) with a stored value (at 44) of ideal pull-in time to produce an error signal (46). The error signal corrects (14,13) the level of power applied to the relay coil upon the next actuation of the relay, to make the actual pull-in time approximately equal to the ideal pull-in time. In some embodiments, to control the level of power on the coil, a Grey-code counter samples a duty-cycle register (14) in a microcomputer (4) and produces a train of pulses (at 8) that is filtered to provide a DC control signal. The DC control signal controls the duty cycle of a pulse-width-modulated oscillator that rapidly switches (modulates) the power to the relay coil.
Patent EP-0539922-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KANOTA KEIJI
IPC: H04N5/782
Filed: 1992-10-27
Abstract: In a digital video tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus including a pair of rotary magnetic heads (13A, 13B) having a predetermined head width and gaps with mutually different azimuth angles which helically scan a magnetic tape (40) as the tape (40) is advanced in order to reproduce digital video signals that have been previously azimuth-recorded in oblique tracks on the tape (40), there is a tape (40) transport means (14) that can transport the tape (40) either at a standard speed or at a non-standard speed. If the tracks recorded on the video tape (40) have a track width equal to the head width, then the tape (40) is transported for reproduction at the standard speed, whereas, if the track width is different from the head width, the tape (40) is transported at the non-standard speed. For example, if the track width is twice the head width, then the tape (40) is transported at twice the standard speed. On the other hand, in another embodiment, when the track width is half of the head width, the tape (40) is transported at a non-standard speed that is one-half the standard speed.
Patent EP-0497442-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RITZ TERRY G
IPC: G06F13/38
Filed: 1992-01-02
Abstract: A peripheral controller interfaces a central processing unit with a plurality of peripheral external devices. The peripheral controller includes first and second serial port interfaces, a parallel port interface, a floppy disk controller interface, a hard disk drive interface, a microcontroller and a programmable input/output port interface. The interfaces and the microcontroller are all integrated together within a common integrated circuit.
Patent EP-0503847-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ISOHATA JUNJI
IPC: G02F1/13
Filed: 1992-03-05
Abstract: Disclosed are an exposure apparatus and process, having a holding unit for holding first and second objects such as a mask and a substrate, a first illumination system for illuminating the first object with an exposure light, a projection optical system for forming an image of a portion such as a pattern portion of the first object illuminated with the exposure light onto the second object and a second illumination system for illuminating a portion such as peripheral portion of the second object hels by the holding unit outside of a portion of the second object illuminated with the exposure light from the first illumination system. The exposure apparatus or process may further include a moving unit or step for moving the first and second objects as a unit relative to the projection optical system and a control unit or step for causing the moving unit to move the first and second objects as a unit relative to the projection optical system while causing the first illumination system and the second illumination system to illuminate the first object and the second object, respectively, so that the image of the pattern on the first object is tranferred onto the second object through the projection optical system.
Patent EP-0533329-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FULLER TERRY A
IPC: A42B3/04
Filed: 1992-07-31
Abstract: An interactive protective system to protect an individual from exposure to a dangerous condition associated with the operation of equipment such as but not limited to machinery and the like. The system comprises a protective garment adapted to be worn by the individual. The protective garment includes a sensor for sensing when the protective garment is being worn and a signalling device responsive to the sensor for generating a signal indicating when the protective garment is being worn. A detector and control device responsive to the signal from the signalling device triggers an alarm sensible to the individual when it is activated by the motion sensor and does not sense the signal from the signalling device. A detector and control device responsive to the signal from the signalling device is operatively associated with the equipment to render the equipment inoperative in the absence of the signal and render the equipment operative only when the detector and control device detects the presence of the signal. In addition, one or more sensors may be located on or surrounding a dangerous condition to anticipate when an individual is approaching a hazard zone associated with the dangerous condition and then arm an alarm and activates an interactive protective system which protects an individual from exposure to the dangerous condition. The detector and control device trigger an alarm sensible to the individual.
Patent EP-0542630-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SEMAN MICHEL
IPC: A61K31/70
Filed: 1992-11-13
Abstract: New use of amphothericin B, or of a derivative thereof, as protease inhibitor. Application to the production of medicinal products which inhibit the multiplication of pathogenic agents, HIV in particular.
Patent EP-0555816-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TOGAI KAZUHIDE
IPC: F02D41/36
Filed: 1993-02-09
Abstract: An idle control system comprises an engine speed determining unit, a unit for determining the number of operating cylinders, a valve stopping unit for stopping the operation of inlet and exhaust valve of some of cylinders, an idle control parameter calculating unit, and an engine speed control unit. The idle control parameter calculating unit calculates at least a target idle speed and a target idle position as idle control parameters according to the data on the number of operating cylinders. The engine speed control unit controls an idle speed control valve so as to remove a deviation of an actual engine speed from the target engine speed, or based on a target deviation compensating gain or a corrected target position obtained by a calculated position correcting means. Thus, the engine can operate stably according to the idle control method of the present invention even when it is switched to a partial operation from a full operation or vice versa and is subject to a sudden torque change during idling.
Patent EP-0560358-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YOSHIDA ICHIRO
IPC: H01S5/223
Filed: 1993-03-11
Abstract: This semiconductor laser includes resistors (220) as heating means through insulation films (219) for generating pre-heat of substantially the same calorie as oscillation heat generated when the laser resonators are driven. When the light emitting regions as the light source are driven, first the heating means is actuated to give pre-heat to the laser resonators. After the laser resonators are driven, the heating means is stopped to decrease a calories of the pre-heat. It is preferable that the pre-heat has substantially the same calories as the above-described generated heat, but may be below the generated heat. Specifically, when all of the two laser resonators are driven, the heating means may generate a calories for one laser beam so as to suppress the heat crosstalks due to the mutual influence of the heat generation of the laser beams. In this case, the heating means stops heating only while both laser resonators are being driven, and continues heating in other cases. Thus, whether or not one and/or the other of the light emitting regions is driven, the laser chip has a substantially constant temperature, and temperature changes before and after an actuation is suppressed. As a result, laser beams of uniform output levels can be supplied to the printing unit of a laser printer.
Patent EP-0562542-A2 (EP)
Inventor: VON DER HEIDE HANS
IPC: A01F25/20
Filed: 1993-03-23
Abstract: The invention relates to cutting pliers for silage (10), preferably for mounting on a vehicle, with a frame (11) which is at the rear in the working position and in the lower region of which are mounted a plurality of tines (12) extending approximately horizontally and on the upper region of which is arranged an upper part (13) pivotable about a horizontal axis A, the upper part having two side walls (14, 14') and a front wall (15) connected to the side walls, the lower edges of the side walls and of the front wall having cutting knives (16, 17, 17', 18, 18'), the upper part being movable by a device between an open position and a closed position, in the closed position the cutting knives being located near the tines and the rear wall. The new cutting pliers for silage are characterised in that, in the upper part (13), at least one additional cutting knife (19) is arranged between the side walls (14, 14') approximately parallel to and at a distance from the cutting knife (16) of the front wall (15).   <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0564898-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCHAEFER BURKHARD DIPL-ING
IPC: B60R21/217
Filed: 1993-03-24
Abstract: The invention relates to a steering column for a motor vehicle which is equipped with an inflatable airbag in the steering wheel (6), in which steering column components (3, 4), connected to one another by means of a cardan joint (5), of a steering shaft are rotatably mounted in a housing formed from a movable upper housing component (1) and a lower housing component (2) which is fixed to the body of the vehicle and both components of the housing are connected by means of a joint (7) to a joint axle (9) running approximately horizontally in the plane of the intersection of the axles of the cardan joint and can be locked to one another by means of the frictional engagement of a clamping device (13). In this steering column, the joint (7) of both housing components (1, 2) is arranged at a distance above the central longitudinal axis (8) of the steering column and both housing components (1, 2) can only be locked to one another in a position in which the axes of the steering column components (3, 4) which are connected to one another by means of the cardan joint (5) enclose with one another an angle which is open towards the joint (7), the frictional engagement being capable of being overcome by repulsion forces of the airbag ignition when the airbag is inflated. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0566942-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HILPERT THOMAS DIPL-ING
IPC: G06F11/00
Filed: 1993-04-10
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing interference signals which are caused by the power consumption, dependent on the executed command code, of processors, in particular digital signal processors, which perform cyclically repeated program routines which are initiated by interruption signals and which, during their running time, result in a first mean power consumption, the running time of the program routines being shorter than the time between two consecutive interruption signals. The cyclic modifications of the power consumption caused by this operating mode of the digital signal processor are prevented by performing a delay routine between consecutive program routines which results in a mean processor power consumption corresponding to the program routines. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0578260-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAKETSUGU MASANORI C O NEC COR
IPC: H04W88/18
Filed: 1993-07-09
Abstract: In a TDMA cellular mobile communication system, incoming signals from the public switched network are converted by speech coder/data compressor units of a MTSO (mobile telephone switching office) to low-bit-rate signals and combined into a first TDM signal for transmission to a base station. The components of the first TDM signal are respectively routed according to a channel assignment signal and fed into desired modulators which are periodically activated according to the channel assignment signal to transmit signals on assigned channels to mobile units. Signals from the mobile units are received by demodulators at the base station and combined into a second TDM signal which is transmitted to the MTSO. The components of the second TDM signal are routed according to the channel assignment signal to appropriate speech decoder/data expander units for conversion to the original high-bit-rate signals for transmission to the network.
Patent EP-0589430-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HISHIDA YASUHITO MENICON CO LT
IPC: C08F216/06
Filed: 1993-09-22
Abstract: 1. A water-absorptive contact lens obtained by saponification of a copolymer composed essentially of:
     (A) from 1 to 30% by weight of a (meth)acrylate polymer having at least one polymerizable group per molecule on an average obtained by copolymerizing (a) an alkyl (meth)acrylate and (b) a monomer having at least two polymerizable groups per molecule, as the main components;   (B) from 1 to 10% by weight of a vinyl monomer selected from the group consisting of maleic acid esters and N-vinyl lactams;   (C) from 50 to 98% by weight of a fatty acid vinyl ester; and   (D) from 0.02 to 10% by weight of a cross linking monomer.
Patent EP-0604927-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BENJAUTHRIT BOONSIENG C O EAST
IPC: H03M7/14
Filed: 1993-12-24
Abstract: A method of producing a simple coding scheme for DC free channel codes of the form M/N where        M=N-1           and M and N are positive integers.
Patent EP-0569120-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MOORE STEPHEN JOHN
IPC: G06F9/46
Filed: 1993-03-08
Abstract: A data processing system is described, having a buffering mechanism for buffering data between two processes. The buffering mechanism includes a container table consisting of a number of data storage containers, an allocation list indicating which containers are free, and a communication list indicating which containers currently hold data waiting to be read by the recipient. The originator writes data into the first container indicated as free by the allocation list, removing that container from the allocation list and adding that container as the last container on the communication list. The recipient reads data from the first container indicated as in use by the communication list, removing that container from the communication list, and adding that container as the last free container on the allocation list.
Patent EP-0575164-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SAKURAGI SHOJI C O BROTHER KOG
IPC: G06F40/189
Filed: 1993-06-16
Abstract: A wordprocessing device (1) comprises a keyboard (6) for inputting characters, a character size key (4B) for selecting the size of the characters and a justification key (4c) for justifying the characters input via the keyboard. When a character string that comprises characters of different character sizes is to be justified, the determination of the justify space to be inserted between adjacent characters is determined in accordance with the size of the respective adjacent characters.
Patent EP-0605944-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HASTINGS CALVIN R
IPC: G01N11/04
Filed: 1993-10-05
Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus (10) for determining the flow rate of a fluid (11) in a pipe (12). The apparatus (10) includes a device (20, 22) for providing acoustic energy on a diagonal path (24) through the fluid (11). The diagonal providing device (20, 22) is in contact with the pipe (12). The apparatus (10) also includes a device (14, 16) for providing acoustic energy on a diametrical path (18) through the fluid (11). The diametrical providing device (14, 16) is in contact with the pipe (12). The apparatus (10) is also comprised of a device (26) for determining the flow of fluid (11) in the pipe (12) based on the acoustic energy of the diagonal providing device (20, 22) and the acoustic energy of the diametrical providing device (14, 16). In one embodiment, the diagonal providing device (20, 22) is fixedly disposed on the pipe (12). In another embodiment, the diametrical providing device (14, 16) provides acoustic energy emitted in both directions on the diametrical path (18). The diametrical providing device (14, 16) preferably includes a first transducer (14) and a second transducer (16) located at diametrically opposed positions about the pipe (12). The first transducer (14) and second transducer (16) are preferably adapted to alternatively function as transmitter and receiver so as to cause ultrasonic signals to travel through the fluid (11) along the diametric path (18). The diagonal providing device (20, 22) preferably includes a third transducer and a fourth transducer (22) located at diagonally opposed upstream and downstream positions relative to one another. The third transducer (20) and the fourth transducer (22) are preferably adapted to alternatively function as a transmitter and receiver so as to cause ultrasonic signals to travel through the fluid alternatively in upstream and downstream directions along the diagonal path (24) between the third transducer (20) and the fourth transducer (22). The diametric path (18) is adjacent to the diagonal path (24) so that the transducers (14, 16, 20, 22) are sampling the same portion of fluid (11).
Patent EP-0604160-A2 (EP)
Inventor: DURST WILLIAM B
IPC: B41J2/325
Filed: 1993-12-20
Abstract: A thermal printing postage meter has a base 13 supporting a registration wall 17, and a print deck 15. The registration wall supports a detachably mounted thermal ribbon cassette 400 and a thermal print head 20. The thermal print head is mounted to the registration wall to extend over the deck to define a print station. A platen drive assembly 26 is mounted to the base for biasing an envelope against the thermal print head and causing the envelope to traverse the thermal print head during a print cycle of the thermal meter under the influence of a drive motor responsive to a micro controller. The micro controller 30 has a plurality of switches mounted to the registration wall of the postage meter. The cassette 400 is comprised of a housing formed by a front and rear wall maintained in spaced apart relationship by a plurality of side walls. The rear wall of the housing includes a slot having an outwardly extending pin 456 slidably mounted in the slot. The switches 33, 35 are mounted within an opening in the registration wall such that mounting of the cassette housing to the registration wall cause the pin to contact one of the switches depending on the position location of the pin in the slot. The micro controller 30 is programmed to operate the print cycle speed at one of the speeds in response to which one of the switches is actuated by the pin 456.
Patent EP-0617246-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BOEHLE WERNER
IPC: F24H9/20
Filed: 1994-03-19
Abstract: The invention relates to a control and regulating apparatus in particular for boilers, consisting of a pivotably mounted housing (1) with adjusting and display elements arranged in its visible-side front face (4). In order to be able to install such an apparatus directly on a boiler without lateral pivoting base, for the purpose of direct cable introduction, but nevertheless at the same time to ensure an adjustment of the front face which is favourable in terms of viewing, according to the invention the housing (1) of such an apparatus is formed from a housing lower part (2) and from a second housing part (3) which is in the form of a sector of a circle cross-section, comprises the front face (4) and can be pivoted into and out of said housing lower part, limited by stops, in the manner of a barrel of a telescope. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0645805-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BESSHO YOSHIHIRO
IPC: H01L21/56
Filed: 1994-09-27
Abstract: A method for mounting a semiconductor device on a circuit board which includes the steps of: joining a terminal electrode of the semiconductor device to a connecting electrode of the circuit board by means of a thermoplastic conductive adhesive; allowing a thermosetting resin to fill a gap between the semiconductor device and the circuit board; and curing the thermosetting resin at a temperature equal to or higher than the plasticizing temperature of the thermoplastic conductive adhesive is disclosed.
Patent EP-0659951-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RENGSTL HORST
IPC: E04B2/00
Filed: 1994-12-02
Abstract: In a wall made of hollow blocks with vertical cavities bounded by webs, long channels extending over a plurality of block courses are produced when thin-bed mortar is used. This reduces the heat insulation and sound insulation. If sheets are introduced between the block courses, the thin-bed mortar takes hold even in the region of the cavities, and the cavities of each block course are closed off.
Patent EP-0637068-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BROTHERTON STANLEY DAVID
IPC: H01L21/266
Filed: 1994-07-26
Abstract: 5 n7 In the manufacture of a liquid-crystal display or other large area electronic device, thin-film transistors are formed on a substrate (10) from a thin film (1) of disordered semiconductor material which accommodates the transistor channel regions and has a high density of trapping states. A masking pattern (13) masks areas of the semiconductor film (1) where the thin-film transistors are to be formed. The unmasked areas of the film (1) are etched away to leave the semiconductor film bodies for the transistors. The resulting transistors are found to have an undesirable leakage current through the channel region, even after adopting several prior art measures to reduce the high leakage. By implanting a dopant stripe (5) along their edges, the present invention reduces leakage currents along the edges of the channel region in the etched disordered semiconductor material (1). The implantation of ions (15) is effected through bevelled edge portions (13) of the masking pattern (13) so as to form the dopant stripe (5) across the thickness of the semiconductor film material (10). The thickness of the masking pattern (13) is sufficient to mask against implantation of the ions (15) except below the bevelled edge portions (14). The technology is compatible with the use of a substrate (10) not able to withstand temperatures of more than about 700°C.
Patent EP-0625793-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ABEYWICKRAMA MILROY GAMANI
IPC: C09K11/71
Filed: 1994-05-05
Abstract: A fluorescent lamp produces light having colour coordinates within an ellipse (A) about 22 standard deviation of colour matching around the colour coordinates (B) x = 0.344 y = 0.302. The luminescent layer of the lamp comprises a mixture of: magnesium fluorogermanate activated by manganese as red emitter; calcium halophosphate as white emitter; and a blue emitter preferably strontium pyrophosphate activated by divalent tin. The layer may alternatively be a mixture of red emitting magnesium fluorogermanate and blue emitting barium titanium pyrophosphate. Other blue emitters are disclosed.