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Patent AU-2950892-A (AU)
Title: Hand washing unit
IPC: E03C1/05
Filed: 1992-11-23
Abstract: A hand washing and rinsing unit which operates automatically without the need for the user to touch any part of the unit. When the user's hands are inserted into a wash basin (12), a proximity switch (30) actuates the system to switch on a supply of water through a supply line (18). After a predetermined time interval such as 5 to 8 seconds, a metered quantity of liquid soap from a supply (28) is dispensed onto the user's hands, and the supply of water continues to enable the soap to be washed off. The system incorporates an electronic monitoring system to record each use, this being triggered only when soap has been dispensed, so that it is not possible to have a wash recorded merely by wetting the hands for a few seconds.
Patent AU-2954384-A (AU)
Title: Process and apparatus for producing glass
Inventor: HARCUBA SIEGFRIED
IPC: C03B5/235
Filed: 1984-06-20
Abstract: 1. A method of producing glass for the manufacture of glass products by introducing preheated raw material components (22) and cullet (16) or frit into a glass furnace (1), melting the starting material by introducing thermal energy and adding refining agents and by subsequent carrying out of coarse and fine fusion, characterized in that the raw material components (22) are applied to the surface of a glass melt flow (4), formed of the cullet or frit and guided along an optionally slightly inclined path (23), in a ratio of one part glass melt flow (4) and one to nine parts of raw material components (22) and are melted thereon or therein by introducing the thermal energy, the glass melt formed thereby being drawn off and in that after introduction of the refining agents in the last section (23C) of the path (23) refining of the glass melt (5) occurs.
Patent AU-2973895-A (AU)
Title: Process and device for coating metallic substrates with a plastic-based coating agent
Inventor: KOPPE KURT
IPC: B05D3/08
Filed: 1995-07-04
Abstract: A process and device are disclosed for coating elongated or slightly curved metallic substrates with a preferably powdery, plastic-based coating agent. An effective, energy saving coating process that avoids the danger of dust explosion has the following steps: (a) the substrate to be coated is fixed; (b) the substrate to be coated and/or the coating device are moved in a working direction; (c) the substrate to be coated is heated in a localised area by means of a gas flame up to a temperature from 80  DEG C to 900 DEG C; (d) at a defined distance behind the gas flame, the working area located between the gas flame and the following area, in which the coating agent is applied, is sealed by a partition and by a blocking layer made of a non-flammable, gaseous medium and formed between the partition and the surface of the substrate to be coated in order to prevent powder-loaded air from igniting; (e) the coating agent is applied on the hot metallic surface of the substrate to be coated in a manner known per se; and (f) when the coating process is finished, the coated substrate is released. This process is the first that allows metallic substrates to be coated by localised heating of the substrate by means of a gas flame.
Patent AU-3167689-A (AU)
Title: Article having a pliable portion which is to be elastically secured about the periphery of a member
Inventor: MUCKENFUHS DELMAR RAY
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1989-03-23
Abstract: The pliable portion of the article (80) has a first end portion (1) and a second end portion located at opposite ends of the encircling portion of the article. The first end portion (1) includes an elasticized fastening system (120) having at least one segment (15) which is capable of being elastically shirred along at least a portion of its length. The shirrable portion of the segment (15) comprises an elastomeric member which, prior to the securement of the first and second end portions of the article to one another, is maintained in a prestretched and tensioned condition in the desired direction of shirring. The opposed ends of the shirrable segment in the article (80) are interconnected to one another through the prestretched and tensioned elastomeric member. The prestretched and tensioned elastomeric member is maintained in tension by securing it in fixed relation to at least one rigidifying member (28) to form a composite structure which is strong enough to resist collapse in a direction parallel to the tensile forces acting upon the prestretched and tensioned elastomeric member. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the rigidifying member (28) has a fixed portion (30) permanently secured to the first end portion (1) of the article (80) and a releasable portion (32) which can be separated from the first end portion of the article. The releasable portion (32) of the rigidifying member (28) preferably includes means for securing it to the second end portion (2) of the article (80), and the act of affixing the releasable portion (32) of the rigidifying member (28) to the second end portion (2) of the article (80) automatically releases the tension in the prestretched elastomeric member. Elasticized fastening systems of the present invention can be produced at high speed from continuous webs and cut into discrete segments which are transferred onto a continuously moving web at predetermined points along its length, all while the elastomeric member is maintained in its prestretched and tensioned condition by the rigidifying member.
Patent AU-3198500-A (AU)
Title: System for subsea diverless metrology and hard-pipe connection of pipelines
Inventor: WARD NIC
IPC: F16L1/26
Filed: 2000-02-02
Abstract: Device for subsea metrology of distance and relative orientation of a first termination (10) with a local reference system (xr, yr, zr) and which by means of a jumper spool piece (5) is going to be connected to a separate second termination (20) having a local reference system (xB, yB, zB), characterized by a base metrology unit (2) arranged for being carried by an ROV (4), and arranged for aligned arrangement with the second or the first termination's (20, 10) reference system, and comprising the following features: a wire (3) with an extractable first end (31) being arranged for being attached to a receptacle device (7, 7') arranged on the termination (10, 20) for receiving the wire's (3) first end (31) or a metrology unit and with a wire tensioner device (32) arranged for tensioning the wire (3) between the base metrology unit (2) and the receptacle device (7, 7'); a wire length sensor (34) arranged for measuring the length (DrB) of the extended taut wire (3); a relative azimuth sensing device (92) arranged to measure [and store] the relative azimuth (thetaB, thetar) value of the taut wire (3) with respect to the base metrology unit's (2) mainly horizontal axes (xB, yB); and a submerged-depth sensor (52) arranged for measuring the submerged depth (dB) of the base metrology unit (2).
Patent AU-3231984-A (AU)
Title: Process for preparing n-substituted nitro-methylene tetra hydro thiazole, thiazine and thiazepines
Inventor: HARRIS MARTIN
IPC: C07D279/06
Filed: 1984-08-23
Abstract: A process for preparing an N-substituted nitromethylene heterocyclic compound of the following general formula:- <CHEM> wherein n is 2, 3 or 4 and R is an optionally-substituted acyl group derived from an organic acid, characterised in that an N-substituted-S-substituted aminothiol of the following general formula:  R - NH - (CH2)n - S - @@@ CH - NO2 (II) wherein R and n have the meanings hereinbefore specified and Hal is a halogen atom, is reacted with a base, preferably an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal hydride or alkoxide or an alkali metal amide, in the presence of an inert solvent.
Patent AU-3340784-A (AU)
Title: Heart valve bioprosthesis
Inventor: REICHART BRUNO
IPC: A61F2/24
Filed: 1984-09-21
Abstract: The heart valve prosthesis has a supporting frame (22) of circular cross-section, which is covered with a Dacron fabric (23). On one face the fabric (23) is shaped to form a seam ring (14). The fixed aortic valve (15, 16, 17) of a kangaroo is introduced into the inside of the supporting frame (22) and is stitched to the Dacron fabric (23). <IMAGE>
Patent AU-3488197-A (AU)
Title: Hard graphite-like material bonded by diamond-like framework
Inventor: DORFMAN BENJAMIN F
IPC: B32B9/00
Filed: 1997-06-12
Abstract: The present invention provides a novel class of hard nano-structured materials comprising sp2 bonded graphite-like layers bonded together by sp3 three-dimensional diamond-like frameworks, wherein the whole carbon structure is stabilized with at least two alloying elements: the first alloying element selected from the group consisting of O, H, N, and a combination thereof; and the second alloying element selected from the group consisting of Si, B, Zr, Ti, V, Cr, Be, Hf, Al, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Mn, Re, Fe, Co, Ni, Mn, Re, Fe, Co, Ni and a combination thereof. Also disclosed, are methods of manufacture of the novel class of materials.
Patent AU-3537397-A (AU)
Title: Process for protecting products against forgery by means of machine-readable distinctive safety features
Inventor: PAUGSTADT RALF
IPC: G07D7/00
Filed: 1997-06-25
Abstract: A process is provided for securing products against forgery with machine-readable security features, which guarantees inexpensive security features with a high degree of security against forgery. The product to be secured includes at least one superconductive material possessing defined and reproducible, specific properties in at least one area.
Patent AU-3575799-A (AU)
Title: Corrosion-resistant low-nickel austenitic stainless steel
Inventor: HAUDRECHY PASCALE
IPC: C22C38/58
Filed: 1999-06-18
Abstract: The steel contains (in wt.%): 0.01-0.08 carbon, 0.1-1 silicon, 5-11 manganese, 15-17.5 chromium, 1-4 nickel, 1-4 copper, 1 x 10<-4>-20 x 10<-4> sulfur, 1 x 10<-4>-50 x 10<-4> calcium, 0-0.003 aluminum, 0.005-0.1 phosphorus, 5 x 10<-4> boron, 0.01 oxygen, and iron and unavoidable impurities the remainder. Preferably, the steel contains (in wt.%): 0.01-0.05 carbon, 0.1-1 silicon, 5-11 manganese, 15-17.5 chromium, 1-2 nickel, 2-4 copper, 1 x 10<-4>-10 x 10<-4> sulfur, 1 x 10<-4>-10 x 10<-4> calcium, 0-0.001 aluminum, 0.005-0.1 phosphorus, less than 0.01 oxygen, and iron and unavoidable impurities the remainder. The steel may also include 0.01-2% Mo.
Patent AU-3604299-A (AU)
Title: Pressure sensor with actuator between diaphragm and transducer
Inventor: BURNS STEPHEN J
IPC: G01L9/00
Filed: 1999-04-01
Abstract: Disclosed is a pressure sensor, for example for a domestic central heating boiler, comprising a rolling diaphragm (15) that adjusts its position in dependence upon the fluid pressure admitted through a pressure port (5). The diaphragm acts against an actuator (7) which adjusts the position of a wiper (20) of a thick film potentiometer, to provide an output voltage in dependence on the admitted fluid pressure. The potentiometer may be calibrated at the factory by rotating an adjustment cap (11) of the actuator (7), which has claw-like projections in engagement with outward projections of part-helical form on a body part (8) of the actuator. There is a one-to-one axial position relationship between the actuator (7) and the wiper (20).
Patent AU-3605989-A (AU)
Title: Explosive-powder-driven setting device
Inventor: EHMIG GERHARD
IPC: B25C1/18
Filed: 1989-06-05
Abstract: The powder-actuated fastening tool possesses a piston guide (5) and a driving piston (8) displaceable therein. By means of braking balls (17) displaceably mounted in recesses (16) in the piston guide (5), the driving piston (8) is braked in the driving-in direction in that a spring (18) forces the braking balls (17) against the shaft (11) of the driving piston (8). On displacement of the driving piston (8) in the opposite direction to the driving-in direction, the braking balls (17) move in the recesses (16) out of the tension range of the spring (18), as a result of which the driving piston (8) is not subjected to any braking action. 
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Patent AU-3611593-A (AU)
Title: Shunt circuit for electrostatic discharge protection
Inventor: PUAR DEEPRAJ S
IPC: H01L21/822
Filed: 1993-02-04
Abstract: A circuit is added to a complementary metal-oxide silicon (CMOS) integrated circuit (IC) to provide an intentional, non-reverse-biased VDD-to-VSS shunt path for transient currents such as electrostatic discharges (ESD). This circuit protects the IC from ESD damage by turning on before any other path, thus directing the ESD transient current away from easily damaged structures. Specifically, the ESD transient current is steered from the VDD rail to the VSS rail through the on conduction of a P-channel transistor whose source and drain are connected to VDD and VSS respectively. The voltage on the gate of this transistor follows the VDD supply rail because it is driven by a delay network formed by a second transistor and a capacitor. This VDD-tracking delay network turns the VDD-to-VSS transistor on during a transient and off during normal operation of the IC.
Patent AU-3638901-A (AU)
Title: Recovery of metals from ore
Inventor: DUYVESTEYN WILLEM P C
IPC: C22B23/00
Filed: 2000-10-31
Abstract: A bio-leaching method is provided for recovering metal from a metal containing ore. The ore is subjected to contact with a microorganism selective to the oxidation of sulfur. A sulfur containing compound is mixed with the microorganism before, during or after contact with the ore to systemically form sulfuric acid to leach the metal from the ore. The ore is in the form of a slurry, a heap, a charge in a vat and is bioleached for a time sufficient to dissolve the metal in the ore and form a metal-rich leachate and an ore residue. The metal can then be extracted from the metal-rich leachate. The metal containing ore may contain base metals, precious metals, or platinum group metals. Upon formation of the metal-rich leachate, the ore residue may be further processed to recover any precious metals or platinum group metals that may be present.
Patent AU-3686295-A (AU)
Title: A method for minimizing the uterotrophic effect of tamoxifen and tamoxifen analogs
Inventor: BRYANT HENRY UHLMAN
IPC: A61P13/02
Filed: 1995-09-18
Abstract: The present invention provides a method of minimizing the uterotrophic effect of non-steroidal antiestrogen compounds of formula II <CHEM>  wherein either R<4> is H or a lower alkyl radical and R<5> is a lower alkyl radical, or R<4> and R<5> are joined together with the adjacent nitrogen atom to form a heterocyclic radical;     R<6> is H or a lower alkyl radical; R<7> is H, halo, OH, a lower alkyl radical, or is a buta-1,3-dienyl radical which together with the adjacent benzene ring forms a naphthyl radical;     R<8> is H or OH; and     n is 2; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein said formula II compound is administered to a woman for the treatment or prevention of breast carcinoma, comprising concurrently or sequentially administering to said woman a compound of formula I <CHEM>  wherein R<1> is -H, -OH, -O(C1-C4 alkyl), -OCOC6H5, -OCO(C1-C6 alkyl), or -OSO2(C4-C6 alkyl); R<2> is -H, -OH, -O(C1-C4 alkyl), -OCOC6H5, -OCO(C1-C6 alkyl), or -OSO2(C4-C6 alkyl);     n is 2 or 3; and R<3> is 1-piperidinyl, 1-pyrrolidinyl, methyl-1-pyrrolidinyl, dimethyl-1-pyrrolidinyl, 4-morpholino, dimethylamino, diethylamino, or 1-hexamethyleneimino;  or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula I and a compound of formula II together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, excipient, or diluent.
Patent AU-3765089-A (AU)
Title: Continuously variable transmission
Inventor: TERRY MAURICE C SR
IPC: F16H29/04
Filed: 1989-05-16
Abstract: A continuously variable transmission includes a power input driving a sun gear which in turn drives a plurality of planetary gears. Within each planetary gear is mounted an over-rolling clutch. The planet gear is free to rotate about its raceway in one direction and is locked from rotation in the opposite direction. The shaft mountings for each planetary gear are suitably journalled in a carrier ring rotatably mounted within the housing. An internal gear, integrally mounted within the output housing, meshes with the planetary gears and is driven by them. An eccentric system, comprised of two nested eccentrics within the housing and anchored to an axle, controls the degree of oscillation imparted to the planetary gear raceway shafts. The eccentric system is continuously positionable so as to increase the rotation of the input sun gear from a one-to-one ratio up to the maximum designed output. As the eccentricity is increased, the planetary gear system superimposes a pulse drive on the sun gear that exponentially multiplies the drive rotation rate. Thus, the output housing is driven at a greater rate of rotation than the planetary carrier. When the eccentrics are at the zero eccentricity position, the transmission operates as a direct drive with no internal gear motion.
Patent AU-3816589-A (AU)
Title: Blood recovery system and method
IPC: A61M1/02
Filed: 1989-07-17
Abstract: An intraoperative blood recovery system and method for salvaging operative blood while simultaneously delivering previously collected blood to a reinfusion system. A blood collection and transfer reservoir (10), having multiple compartments (20) (22) (24) which can be separated by vacuum or pressure barriers, is designed to maintain a continuous suction for blood inflow while blood previously collected can be simultaneously transported through the reservoir to achieve an uninterrupted flow of blood into and delivery of blood out of the reservoir.
Patent AU-3889600-A (AU)
Title: A novel chimeric protein for prevention and treatment of hiv infection
Inventor: BERGER EDWARD A
IPC: C07K14/00
Filed: 2000-03-16
Abstract: This invention relates to bispecific fusion proteins effective in viral neutralization. More specifically, such proteins have two different binding domains, an inducing-binding domain and an induced-binding domain, functionally linked by a peptide linker. Such proteins, nucleic acid molecules encoding them, and their production and use in preventing or treating viral infections are provided. One prototypical bispecific fusion protein is sCD4-SCFv(17b), in which a soluble CD4 fragment (containing domains D1 and D2) is fused to a single chain Fv portion of antibody 17b via a linker.
Patent AU-3966700-A (AU)
Title: Coating material which can be thermally cured and hardened by actinic radiation and use thereof
Inventor: ALLARD EURING MAXIME
IPC: C09D4/06
Filed: 2000-04-14
Abstract: A coating material curable thermally and with actinic radiation, comprising at least one constituent (a1) containing at least two functional groups (a11) which serve for crosslinking with actinic radiation, and if desired at least one functional group (a12) which is able to undergo thermal crosslinking reactions with a complementary functional group (a22) in the constituent (a2), and at least one constituent (a2) containing at least two functional groups (a21) which serve for crosslinking with actinic radiation, and at least one functional group (a22) which is able to undergo thermal crosslinking reactions with a complementary functional group (a12) in the constituent (a1), and also, if desired, comprising at least one photoinitiator (a3), at least one thermal crosslinking initiator (a4), at least one reactive diluent curable thermally and/or with actinic radiation (a5), at least one coatings additive (a6), and/or at least one thermally curable constituent (a7), with the proviso that the coating material contains at least one thermally curable constituent (a7) if the constituent (a1) has no functional group (a12). The coating material is used to seal SMCs (sheet molded compounds) and BMCs (bulk molded compounds).
Patent AU-3972889-A (AU)
Title: Mechanical transducer
Inventor: BRADBURY FAREL
IPC: C08L23/16
Filed: 1989-07-17
Abstract: A mechanical transducer comprises a converter which comprises a plurality of elongate flexible elements (1) joined together at their opposite ends and spaced at intervals around a longitudinal axis of the transducer. The opposite ends (2,2) of the converter are displaceable towards and away from each other along the axis, which displacement is accompanied by a bowing or straightening of the elongate elements (1). Thus, an axial force applied to the converter will be converted to a radial force exerted by the elongate elements (1), or a radial force applied to the elongate elements (1) will be converted to an axial force.
Patent AU-3989301-A (AU)
Title: Tablet shapes to enhance gastric retention of swellable controlled-release oral dosage forms
Inventor: BERNER BRET
IPC: A61K47/32
Filed: 2001-02-26
Abstract: The retention of oral drug dosage forms in the stomach is improved by using swellable dosage forms that are shaped in a manner that will prevent them from inadvertently passing through the pylorus as a result of being in a particular orientation. The planar projection of the shape is one that has two orthogonal axes of different lengths, the longer being short enough to permit easy swallowing prior to swelling while the shorter is long enough within one-half hour of swelling to prevent passage through the pylorus.
Patent AU-4033893-A (AU)
Title: Copolymers and non-porous, semi-permeable membrane thereof and its use for permeating molecules of predetermined molecular weight range
Inventor: WARD ROBERT S
IPC: C08G18/44
Filed: 1993-04-23
Abstract: A biocompatible, hydrophilic, segmented block polyurethane copolymer which comprises 5 to 45 wt % of a hard segment and 95 to 55 wt % of a soft segment selected from a hydrophilic, hydrophobic and amphipathic oligomer is disclosed. The copolymer is capable of forming a non-porous, semi-permeable film of a tensile strength greater than 300 and up to 10,000 psi, and has an ultimate elongation greater than 300% and up to 1,500% and a water absorption such that the sum of the volume fraction of absorbed water and the hydrophilic volume fraction of the soft segment exceeds about 100% and is up to about 2,000% of the dry polymer volume. The film is permeable to cell nutrients and waste molecules of up to about 6,000 to 600,000 molecular weight and is substantially impermeable to cells and particulate matter. A non-porous, semi-permeable, biocompatible film is formed from the block copolymer of the invention in the form of a flexible sheet or a hollow fiber. Also disclosed is a method of permeating molecules of a predetermined molecular weight range while preventing the passage of larger molecular weight molecules, cells, and condensed phases of matter between two fluids comprising interposing between the two fluids the non-porous film of the invention.
Patent AU-4070093-A (AU)
Title: Towable board
Inventor: SALVADORES FERNANDO GARRIDO
IPC: B63B35/73
Filed: 1993-05-25
Abstract: The rudder is comprisied of a planar body (1) wherein a large front notch (3) and a rear notch (6) form two lobes or side wings which are perfectly symmetric with respect to the front-to-rear axis (11). On said axis and at the vicinity of the front notch (3) is provided the unique point of towing (4), variable through a movable part (10), to which is fixed the corresponding towing line. On each side wing, there are arranged, symmetrically and forward of the towing point, two windows (7) that the user can grip with his or her hands and, behind said windows, in the lower part of the device and also in a symmetrical arrangement there are provided two rudder-like fins (8). Said apparatus can be gripped manually with the arms extended forwards and allows a swimmer-diver to move on the water or in the water. <IMAGE>