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Patent CA-2222195-A1 (CA)
Title: Deployable and collapsible inflatable dome
Inventor: DELAMARE GUY
IPC: E04H15/20
Filed: 1996-05-22
Abstract: An inflatable dome (1) that can be deployed and collapsed by respectively inflating and deflating it has a plurality of adjacent, longitudinal inflatable beams (A, B, C,...), means for supplying a pressurised fluid to the inflatable beams (A, B, C...) and means for causing the beams to slide at least along a path (2, 2a) of deployment or collapsible movement formed by a rigid beam that extends in a fluid-tight manner through the inflatable beams (A, B, C...). The rigid beam is a pipe (3) through which the pressurised fluid flows for inflating or deflating the beams (A, B, C...). The pipe (3) communicates at least at one of its ends with the pressurised fluid supply means (4) and with the inside of at least one inflatable beam (A, B, C...) through at least one hole (5, 5a, 5b...) arranged in the wall of the pipe (3) and provided with stopping means.
Patent CA-2223046-A1 (CA)
Title: Methods for increasing hematopoietic cells
Inventor: FIBBE WILLEM E
IPC: A61K35/28
Filed: 1996-05-29
Abstract: Methods for increasing hematopoietic cells, including platelets and erythrocytes, in patients receiving bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplants are disclosed. The methods comprise administering to a donor an amount of thrombopoietin sufficient to stimulate proliferation of cells of the myeloid lineage, collecting cells from the donor, and administering the collected cells to a recipient patient. The recipient patient may be treated with additional thrombopoietin. The methods are useful within allogeneic and autologous transplantation procedures.
Patent CA-2223364-A1 (CA)
Inventor: REIMERS JAN NAESS
IPC: H01M4/1391
Filed: 1997-12-03
Abstract: An improved design and manufacturing method is disclosed for calendered, double side segment coated webs. By staggering the leading edges and/or the trailing edges of the segment coatings on one side of the web from those on the other side, web damage, including the incidence of breakage, can be reduced. Further, vibration and wear on the calendering apparatus can be reduced. The invention is particularly useful for heavily calendered webs such as the electrodes in non-aqueous rechargeable lithium ion batteries.
Patent CA-2223397-A1 (CA)
Title: Novel nor-pregnanes for inducing hypothalamic effects
Inventor: JENNINGS-WHITE CLIVE L
IPC: C07J53/00
Filed: 1996-06-07
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of altering hypothalamic function in an individual. The method comprises nasally administering a human vomeropherin, e.g. a 19-nor-pregnane steroid, or a pharmaceutical composition containing a vomeropherin, such that the vomeropherin binds to a specific neuroepithelial receptor. The steroid or steroids is/are preferably administered in the form of a pharmaceutical composition containing one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers. Other embodiments of the invention include pharmaceutical compositions containing the steroids.
Patent CA-2226779-A1 (CA)
Title: Wound dressing and manufacturing method therefor
Inventor: ARESKOUG STEFAN
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1997-05-02
Abstract: The present invention relates to a wound dressing. In accordance with the invention, the dressing (1) comprises a layer of absorbent foam material (2) which includes a pattern of holes (4). The holes open out on that side of the foam material which lies proximal to the wearer's skin when the dressing (1) is worn, and the layer of foam material is coated with a layer (3) of skin-adhering hydrophobic gel, wherein those end parts of the walls of the holes in the foam material that lie proximal to the wearer's skin when the dressing is worn are gel coated. The invention also relates to a method of producing such a dressing.
Patent CA-2226934-A1 (CA)
Title: Ipratropium bromide enantiomer with a prolonged duration of action
Inventor: REICHL RICHARD
IPC: A61K31/46
Filed: 1996-07-31
Abstract: On account of the surprisingly powerful and long-lasting effect thereof, the salts of the L-(-)-enantiomer of (endo, syn)-(-)-3-(3-hydroxy-1-oxo-2-phenylpropoxy)-8-methyl-8-(methylethyl)-8-azoniabicyclo[3,2,1]octane are suitable as active substances for drugs administered by inhalation for respiratory tract therapy.
Patent CA-2231488-A1 (CA)
Inventor: HAMPL VLADIMIR JR
IPC: A24D1/02
Filed: 1998-03-09
Abstract: A method for controlling the permeability of a wrappings paper for smoking articles is disclosed.      Specifically, the permeability of the paper is varied by incorporating into the paper a filler material having a particular particle size. In one embodiment, for instance, a filler raving a size larger than conventional sized fillers is incorporated into a wrapping paper for significantly increasing the permeability of the wrapping paper. For instance, wrapping papers can be constructed in accordance with the present invention having a permeability of greater than 80 CORESTA units without having to perforate the papers.
Patent CA-2232354-A1 (CA)
Title: Polyisocyanate prepolymer composition and soft elastomers prepared therefrom
Inventor: BRANT GARY
IPC: C08F290/06
Filed: 1998-04-24
Abstract: A polyisocyanate prepolymer composition which comprises the reaction product of a) diphenylmethane diisocyanate composition and b) an active hydrogen containing compound having a number average molecular weight of at least about 2000 wherein the reaction is carried out in the presence of a diluent capable of maintaining the average viscosity of the resulting prepolymer below about 500 cps at 25° C. The prepolymer may be reacted with a resin composition to prepare soft elastomers.
Patent CA-2238314-A1 (CA)
Title: Method for drying lacquers and other coatings on metal or non-metal individual components or assemblies using microwaves
Inventor: BUETERGERDS DIETER
IPC: F26B3/347
Filed: 1998-05-22
Abstract: In a method for drying coating films on coated components, microwaves are generated by at least one magnetron (3A) in at least one microwave generator module (3) and introduced into a drying chamber (2A) through one or more waveguides (4). Air or another gas is blown from a blower (5) into the drying chamber (2A). An additive agent comprising a dipolar or polarizable molecular composition is mixed into the gas to form a gas mixture within the drying chamber (2A). The coated components (9) are placed into the drying chamber (2A) in a batch or continuous flow-through process. The microwave energy vibrationally excites and heats the additive agent in the gas mixture, which in turn heats the coating film (9') on the components (9). Alternatively, the additive agent may be mixed or applied directly in the coating film substance, so as to achieve direct heating of the coating film, or so as to evaporate from the coating film into the gas to form the gas mixture. The gas is preferably air, and the additive agent is preferably water vapor in a prescribed and controlled relative proportional content within the range from 20% to 90%, which is maintained within the drying chamber.      The component may be a metal component or a non-metal component, and the coating may be a water-thinnable or solvent-containing one-, two-, or more component lacquer based on an epoxy, or a polyurethane, or an alkyde resin, or an acrylic resin. Uniform drying of the coating film is achieved even on components having a complex geometry.
Patent CA-2238418-A1 (CA)
Title: Apparatus for the photodynamic treatment of living beings or organs thereof
Inventor: NAGYPAL TIBOR
IPC: A61B17/00
Filed: 1996-04-18
Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for the photodynamic treatment of living beings or organs thereof. The apparatus comprises a light source, a switching device and a current source, the light source (12) being controllable with respect to its intensity and/or spectral bands by a computer (14) in order to obtain a predetermined spectral pattern (photon energy pattern), preferably a pattern sequence.
Patent CA-2238990-A1 (CA)
Title: An apparatus and method for emulsifying a pressurized multi-component liquid
Inventor: COHEN BERNARD
IPC: B29C48/14
Filed: 1996-12-04
Abstract: An apparatus and a method for emulsifying a pressurized multi-component liquid by applying ultrasonic energy to a portion of the pressurized multi-component liquid as it is received in a chamber and passed through an orifice. The apparatus (100) includes a die housing (102) which defines a chamber (104) adapted to receive a pressurized multi-component liquid and a means for applying ultrasonic energy (116) to a portion of the pressurized liquid. The die housing (102) further includes an inlet (110) adapted to supply the chamber with the pressurized multi-component liquid, and an exit orifice (112) defined by.the walls of a die tip (136). The exit orifice (112) is adapted to emulsify a pressurized multi-component liquid when the means for applying ultrasonic energy is excited with ultrasonic energy while the exit orifice (112) receives pressurized multi-component liquid from the chamber and passes the liquid out of the die housing (102). When the means for applying ultrasonic energy (116) is excited, it applies ultrasonic energy to the pressurized liquid without applying ultrasonic energy to the die tip (136). The method involves supplying a pressurized multi-component liquid to the foregoing apparatus (100), applying ultrasonic energy to the pressurized liquid but not the die tip (136) while the exit orifice (112) receives pressurized liquid from the chamber (104), and passing the pressurized liquid out of the exit orifice (112) in the die tip (136) so that the multi-component liquid is emulsified.
Patent CA-2239699-A1 (CA)
Title: Dermatological healing kit, components therefor, and process for making
Inventor: ZAVERI CHENDA
IPC: A61P17/02
Filed: 1998-06-05
Abstract: The invention is a dermatological healing kit having a pigment stabilizer component, and an antiinflammatory emollient component, and these components each by themselves, wherein the pigment stabilizer contains a mixture of glycerine, butylene glycol, bearberry extract, and mitracarpe extract; magnesium ascorbyl phosphate; and tricholoma matsutake singer; and the antiinflammatory emollient component contains xanthoxylum bungeanum planch; decarboxy camosine chlorhydrate; polygonum multiforum thumb; rubus thunbergii hance.cum spp.; and an aqueous mixture of siegerbecka orientals extract.
Patent CA-2240475-A1 (CA)
Title: Method for testing a cell suspension
Inventor: SHINE THOMAS ADAM
IPC: G01N13/04
Filed: 1996-12-27
Abstract: A method for testing a cell suspension comprises the steps of: (1) diluting a portion of the cell suspension such that the liquid of the diluted suspension has the same osmolality as the extra cellular liquid of the cell suspension (plasma), and (2) subjecting the cells in the diluted suspension formed in step (1) to a cell size measurement while suspended in said diluted suspension. The method involves the testing of cells at their in vivo osmolality, thereby minimizing the possibility of swelling over time and mimicking the cells in vivo condition in respect of its osmotic environment.
Patent CA-2240747-A1 (CA)
Inventor: PINARD JEFFERY S
IPC: G06Q40/00
Filed: 1998-06-16
Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for managing accounting information of entities having different fiscal calendars.  A memory stores accounting data for at least two entities, each of the entities maintaining the accounting data according to a different fiscal calendar.  A user interface enables a user to request consolidated accounting information for the entities.  Accounting data and/or calendar information of the entities is mapped to a base calendar maintained in the computer system.  A processor is provided for accessing the accounting data according to the base calendar instead of the entity calendars to recover, for a specified time period, accounting information responsive to a user request entered via the user interface. The processor consolidates the accounting information for the different entities according to said base calendar.
Patent CA-2241020-A1 (CA)
Title: Apparatus with reduced a/d dynamic range requirement in a compensating feedback system
Inventor: TWITCHELL ED
IPC: H03G3/20
Filed: 1998-06-19
Abstract: An apparatus for compensating signal distortion via use of a feedback path, withreduced analog to digital conversion capacity requirements. In one embodiment, the apparatus is part of a transmission system which has an analog amplifier that distorts an information signal. Prior to the amplification, the information signal is provided in a digital format, processed digitally, and converted to analog for input to the amplifier. A sample signal is coupled off of output of the amplifier and supplied along the feedback path. An analog-to-digital converter is located along the feedback path. A pre-distortion corrector is at the end of the feedback path. The pre-distortion corrector operates upon the source information using feedback data indicative of the amplifier distortion. The information signal is pre-distorted to compensate for the distortion of the amplifier. A summation device is located along the feedback path, upstream of the analog-to-digital converter
Patent CA-2242326-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SEETHAMRAJU KASYAP V
IPC: B29B9/14
Filed: 1997-01-02
Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising an engineering resin and wood fiber composite that can be used in the form of a linear extrudate or thermoplastic pellet to manufacture structural members. The resin/wood fiber composite structural members can be manufactured in an extrusion process or an injection molding process. The linear extrudate or pellet can have a cross section of any arbitrary shape, or can be a regular geometric shape. The pellet can have a volume of at least about 12 mm3. Preferably the pellet is a right cylindrical pellet having a minimum radius of about 1.5 mm and a minimum length of 1 mm weighing at least 14 mg. The invention also relates to the environmentally sensitive recycle of waste streams. The resin/wood fiber composite can contain an intentional recycle of a waste stream comprising polymer flakes or particles or wood fiber. The waste stream can comprise, in addition to resin, other thermoplastics, fibers, adhesive, paint, preservative, or other chemical stream common in the wood-window or door manufacturing process, or mixtures thereof.
Patent CA-2242550-A1 (CA)
Title: Procedure for reducing interference in the transmission of an electrical communication signal
Inventor: TROMPF MICHAEL
IPC: G10L21/0208
Filed: 1998-08-21
Abstract: Through crosstalk on lines, interference from current transmission lines or lineechoes, the useable signal is superimposed by different interference signals. The task is to find a procedure for reducing interference which, compared to the current state of the art, can be achieved with a smaller amount of computing input and is suited to both the reduction of quasi steady-state and non-steady interference. In this, the interference of a received signal is classified with regards to characteristics in the time range as a click, crackle, rumble or noise interference signal. The time range in which the interference occurs is marked. Depending on the interference type, interference blanking and/or an interpolation of the useable signal and/or a subtraction of the interference signal from the useable signal and/or a regeneration of the useable signal is carried out.
Patent CA-2245635-A1 (CA)
Inventor: WOOD WILLIAM
IPC: A61K35/34
Filed: 1997-02-11
Abstract: Isolated CT-1, isolated DNA encoding CT-1, and recombinant or synthetic methods of preparing CT-1 are disclosed. CT-1 is shown to bind to and activate the receptor, LIFR.beta.. These CT-1 molecules are shown to influence hypertrophic activity, neurological activity, and other activities associated with receptor LIFR.beta.. Accordingly, these compounds or their antagonists may be used for treatment of heart failure, arrhythmic disorders, inotropic disorders, neurological disorders, and other disorders associated with the LIFR.beta..
Patent CA-2245831-A1 (CA)
Inventor: ARIZPE RONALD E
IPC: G02B6/46
Filed: 1998-08-27
Abstract: A fiber optic cabinet is provided with a pivotable splice tray holder to provide easier access to the splice trays. The cabinet has a housing defining an interior with an open front that is closed by a door to define a depth of the interior between the door and the back of the housing. The holder holds a plurality of splice trays and has a depth less than the depth of the interior to provide a space for location of coils of slack optical fiber between the holder and the back of the housing.
Patent CA-2248154-A1 (CA)
Title: Use of polymers as biocide
Inventor: GEBHARDT NORBERT
IPC: A01N61/00
Filed: 1997-03-04
Abstract: The invention concerns the use as biocides of polymers which contain the following incorporated by polymerization: (a) between 0.1 and 100 mol % vinyl amine units or ethylene imine units; (b) between 0 and 99.9 mol % units of at least one monomer selected from the group comprising open-chain N-vinyl carboxylic acid amides, vinyl formiate, vinyl acetate, vinyl propionate, vinyl alcohol, C1 to C6 alkyl vinyl ether, monoethylenically unsaturated C3 to C8 carboxylic acids, their esters, nitriles, amides and anhydrides, N-vinyl urea, N-vinyl imidazoles and N-vinyl imidazolines; and (c) between 0 and 5 mol % units of monomers having at least two ethylenically unsaturated double bonds. The total of (a), (b) and (c) in mol % is always 100.
Patent CA-2251330-A1 (CA)
Title: Dispositifs de fixation et techniques de positionnement de plusieurs objets sur un substrat
Inventor: KNOEDLER CHRISTINA MARIA
IPC: B23B/
Filed: 1997-04-09
Abstract: L'invention porte sur des dispositifs de fixation et ainsi que sur des techniques de positionnement de plusieurs objets, éventuellement aux fins d'un transport sur un substrat de réception. Au lieu d'utiliser des attaches classiques faisant appel à une force mécanique, on utilise, dans le cadre de cette invention, une force non mécanique, en l'occurrence une pression négative, dans un dispositif de fixation par le vide, ou l'électricité statique, dans un dispositif de fixation électrostatique, ces dernières constituant les forces appliquées à un objet maintenu par le dispositif de fixation. Le dispositif est, en outre, pourvu d'une couche (430) servant à maintenir en place les objets qui seront, éventuellement, transférés ultérieurement sur un substrat de réception. La configuration de cette couche (430) correspond, dans une large mesure, à celle du substrat de réception. Certains aspects de l'invention concernent un dispositif de fixation permettant de positionner des objets d'une grandeur ou d'un diamètre moyens, inférieurs ou égaux à un millimètre, et d'une épaisseur, inférieure, de préférence, à 3 millimètres environ, des billes utilisées dans l'industrie chimique par exemple. Un autre aspect porte sur des techniques utilisant des dispositifs de fixation, y compris des procédés reposant sur l'attraction d'un objet (450) ou de plusieurs objets, des procédés de positionnement d'objets, des procédés de transport d'objets, de préférence quasiment simultanément, et des procédés chimiques de production faisant appel à ces dispositifs de fixation.
Patent CA-2252421-A1 (CA)
Title: Human epithelial cell matrix and uses therefor
Inventor: JONES JONATHAN C R
IPC: A61L27/34
Filed: 1997-03-27
Abstract: A method of growing epithelial cells by contacting the cells with the extracellular matrix deposited or secreted by human MCF-10A mammary epithelial cells. The MCF-10A matrix stimulates cell attachment and hemidesmosome formation in epithelial cells contacted therewith. The invention also encompasses the isolated or purified MCF-10A matrix, compositions comprising the matrix, and shaped articles coated with the matrix.
Patent CA-2253098-A1 (CA)
Inventor: MATHESON ROBERT R
IPC: C08G77/50
Filed: 1998-11-09
Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for making a reactive silane oligomer having low polydispersity, viscosity and volatility. The process utilizes reacting unsymmetrical difunctional silane monomers with water, diol monomers, or a combination thereof to make the reactive silane oligomer. The unsymmetricaldifunctional silane monomers are with silane reactive groups having significantly different reactivities. Use of such reactive silane oligomers results in multi-component coating compositions having high miscibility, low VOC, low viscosity and high percentage of solids.
Patent CA-2254969-A1 (CA)
Title: Liquid atomization process
Inventor: BARRERO RIPOLL ANTONIO
IPC: F02M43/04
Filed: 1997-02-18
Abstract: The object of the present invention is a liquid atomization procedure that uses appropriate geometric parameters and physical properties to ensure that the liquid to be atomized is discharged as a continuous, steady capillary microjet through a suitable orifice. The procedure relies on the microwithdrawal effect undergone by a liquid-gas interface when the gas is withdrawn from a point (orifice) near the liquid surface. The invented procedure is applicable to any mechanism involving homogeneous atomization of liquids (particularly electronic fuel injection).
Patent CA-2256760-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and apparatus for document processing
Inventor: MENNIE DOUGLAS U
IPC: G07D7/00
Filed: 1997-05-28
Abstract: A currency evaluation device (10) for receiving a stack of currency bills and rapidly evaluating all the bills in the stack. The device comprises an input receptacle (12) and a plurality of output receptacles (217a, 217b) for receiving the bills after they have been evaluated.  A transport mechanism transports the bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle to the output receptacles along a transport path. A  discriminating unit (247) including a detector positioned along the transport path between the input receptacle and the output receptacles evaluates the bills. The discriminating unit determines the denomination of the bills and detects the occurrence of a plurality of error conditions. The evaluation device also comprises an interface (15) that permits a user of the evaluation device to specify how the plurality of error conditions are to be handled.
Patent CA-2261229-A1 (CA)
Title: Metal ligand containing bleaching compositions
Inventor: COLLINS TERRENCE J
IPC: D06L3/02
Filed: 1997-07-22
Abstract: The invention provides a novel composition for bleaching cellulose based materials, such as wood pulp and paper which includes using an effective amount of a source of an oxidant and an oxidatively stable bleach activator having structure (I) wherein Y1, Y3 and Y4 each represents a bridging group having zero, one, two or three carbon containing nodes for substitution, and Y2 is a bridging group having at least one carbon containing node for substitution. Each node contains a C(R), C(R1)(R2), or a C(R)2 unit. Each R may be H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, cylcoalkenyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkynyl, alkylaryl, halogen, alkoxy, or phenoxy, CH2CF3, CF3 and combinations thereof, or form a substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring, or together with a paired R substituent bound to the same carbon atom form a cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl ring;     M is a transition metal; Q is any counterion; and L is any labile ligand.