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Patent CA-2387469-A1 (CA)
Inventor: MACRAE DOUGLAS B
IPC: H04N5/445
Filed: 1999-06-28
Abstract: A television program schedule guide system in which data is transmitted via pager frequencies (18) to settop boxes (30). A television program schedule guide in which the scores of ongoing sporting events are displayed (fig. 19).
Patent CA-2388646-A1 (CA)
Title: Methods and compositions utilizing quinazolinones
Inventor: FINER JEFFREY T
IPC: A61K31/5377
Filed: 2000-10-26
Abstract: Quinazolinones of formulae (1a), (1b), (1c) and (1d) are disclosed. They are useful for treating cellular proliferative diseases and disorders associated with KSP kinesin activity.
Patent CA-2390246-A1 (CA)
Title: Casting device, process for producing a casting device and use of a casting device
Inventor: HERMANN WOLFGANG
IPC: B22C1/08
Filed: 2002-06-11
Abstract: The invention relates to a casting device (1). This device has a wall (6) which is formed in the manner of a sandwich structure from a front layer (7), a yielding intermediate layer (5) and a supporting outer layer (9). In this way, the contraction-related internal stresses which occur during cooling are kept at a low level by the resilient properties of the intermediate layer (5), and the formation of cracks in the component to be cast is avoided. The invention also relates to a process for producing a casting device (1) and to a use of a casting device (1).
Patent CA-2391216-A1 (CA)
Title: Identification and use of molecules implicated in pain
Inventor: DIXON ALISTAIR KERR
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2002-07-25
Abstract: The invention relates to the use of: (a) an isolated gene sequence that is up regulated in the spinal cord in response to streptozocin-induced diabetes; (b) an isolated gene sequence comprising a nucleic acid sequence of Tables I to X. (c) an isolated gene sequence having at least 80% sequence identity with a nucleic acid sequence of Tables I to X; (d) an isolated nucleic acid sequence that is hybridizable to any of the gene sequences according to (a), (b) or (c) under stringent hybridisation conditions; (e) a recombinant vector comprising a gene sequence or nucleic acid sequence according to any one of (a) to (d); (f) a host cell containing the vector according to (e); (g) a non-human animal having in its genome an introduced gene sequence or nucleic acid sequence or a removed or down-regulated gene sequence or nucleic acid sequence according to any one of (a) to (d); (h) an isolated polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical to an amino acid sequence encoded by a nucleotide sequence according to any one of (a) to (d), or a polypeptide variant thereof with sequential amino acid deletions from the C terminus and/or the N-terminus; or (i) an isolated polypeptide encoded by a nucleotide sequence according to any one of (a) to (d); or (k) an isolated antibody that binds specifically to a polypeptide according to (h) or (i); in the screening of compounds for the treatment of pain, or for the diagnosis of pain. The invention also relates to the use of naturally occurring compounds such as peptide ligands of the expression products of the above gene sequences and their associated signal transduction pathways for use in the treatment of pain.
Patent CA-2391221-A1 (CA)
Title: Cyclone dust collecting apparatus for use in vacuum cleaner
Inventor: LEE YONG-HEE
IPC: B04C5/185
Filed: 2002-06-25
Abstract: A cyclone dust collecting apparatus for use in a vacuum cleaner is mounted in a dust collecting chamber intercommunicating with a motor driving chamber of a cleaner body for separating contaminants from an air that is drawn in through a suction brush by a centrifugal force. The apparatus includes a centrifuging receptacle integrely formed with a grill body. The bottom of the centrifuging receptacle is inclined downwardly in a radial direction. Foreign substances are separated from the air and discharged without using a dust bag.
Patent CA-2391402-A1 (CA)
Inventor: THIEL STEFFEN
IPC: A61K48/00
Filed: 2000-11-30
Abstract: The invention relates to the discovery and characterization of mannan binding lectin-associated serine protease-3 (MASP-3), a new serine protease that acts in the MBLectin complement fixation pathway.
Patent CA-2391506-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and device for exhausting the charging gases which result on charging a vertical flue oven
Inventor: SCHUCKER FRANZ-JOSEF
IPC: C10B31/04
Filed: 2000-11-16
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for exhausting the charging gases produced on charging a horizontal chamber oven. The charging gases are exhausted during the filling of a chamber, by means of a riser tube (1), connected to said chamber and fed to a gas collecting main, which is fed with crude gas, produced during the coking of charge coal.  The filling gases are, additionally, exhausted through the coal charging holes (2), in the oven roof, during the charging of coal and fed to the riser tube (1') of the neighbouring chamber, from whence said gases also reach the gas collector main. The invention further relates to a device for carrying out the method disclosed above.
Patent CA-2394964-A1 (CA)
Title: Enzymatic bleaching of natural non-cotton cellulosic fibers
Inventor: DAY ANTHONY G
IPC: D06L4/40
Filed: 2000-12-16
Abstract: A method is provided for bleaching a non-cotton cellulosic fiber, yarn or fabric by contacting said fiber, yarn or fabric with a hemicellulase enzyme for a time and under conditions suitable to produce a whitening of said fiber, yarn or fabric.
Patent CA-2395145-A1 (CA)
Title: Golf ball
Inventor: NESBITT R DENNIS
IPC: A63B37/04
Filed: 2000-11-28
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a solid, non-wound golf ball (8) comprising two or more components, and a cover component. The core component s (10) comprise an inner, high density spherical center component (20) comprising a blend of powdered metal and a first matrix material selected fr om the group consisting of thermoset material, a thermoplastic material, or combinations thereof; and an outer core layer (22) disposed about the spherical center component (20), formed from a second matrix material select ed from the group consisting of a thermoset material, a thermoplastic material,  or combinations thereof. The golf ball (8) may further comprise a second or additional outer core layer(s) that surround the first outer core layer. Preferably, the inner high density center component (20) is produced without  the use of a crosslinking agent or coagent, which is the reaction product of  an unsaturated carboxylic acid or acids and an oxide or carbonate of a metal  such as zinc. The cover may be single (11) or multi-layered (12).
Patent CA-2397161-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KOTORA GORDON
IPC: C09D11/10
Filed: 2001-01-05
Abstract: An energy curable printing ink composition containing a branched polyester comprising monofunctional and difunctional components having an excess functionality of about 0.1 to 0.20. Also described is a method of reducing misting and/or dot gain in an energy curable printing ink composition by adding such branched polyesters to the composition.
Patent CA-2399201-A1 (CA)
Inventor: HODGKINSON ELIZABETH JANE
IPC: G01N21/35
Filed: 2001-01-30
Abstract: A method for determining the safety of a gas mixture containing first and second flammable components together with non-flammable components, comprises using an optical detector to make at least two measurements influenced by the concentration in the gas mixture of the first and second flammable components.  The percentage lower explosion limit of the gas mixture is calculated by a method based on the combination of the measurements. The method leads to acceptably accurate results, despite the presence of other flammable component(s) in the gas mixture.
Patent CA-2399248-A1 (CA)
Title: A process for preparing trimethylhydroquinone diacetate and trimethylhydroquinone
Inventor: HUTHMACHER KLAUS
IPC: C07C39/08
Filed: 2001-03-24
Abstract: A process for preparing trimethylydroquinone diacetate and subsequent hydrolysis to give trimethylhydroquinone by reacting 2,2,6- trimethylcyclohexane-1,4-dione under oxidative conditions in the presence of  a sulfonating agent and a strong acid in the presence of an acylating agent.</ SDOAB>
Patent CA-2401491-A1 (CA)
Title: Ccr4-binding antibody and diagnostic and therapeutic uses thereof
Inventor: HOSAKA EMI
IPC: C12N15/13
Filed: 2001-03-02
Abstract: A recombinant antibody or the antibody fragment thereof which specifically reacts with an extracellular domain of human CCR4; a DNA which encodes the recombinant antibody or the antibody fragment thereof; a method for producing the recombinant antibody or the antibody fragment thereof; a method for immunologically detecting CCR4, a method for immunologically detecting a cell which expressed CCR4 on the cell surface, a method for depleting a cell which expresses CCR4 on the cell surface, and a method for inhibiting production of Th2 cytokine, which comprise using the recombinant antibody according or antibody fragment thereof; a therapeutic or diagnostic agent for Th2-mediated immune diseases; and a therapeutic or diagnostic agent for a blood cancer.
Patent CA-2402308-A1 (CA)
Inventor: WRIGHT WAYNE CLIFTON AUGUSTUS
IPC: F16L9/19
Filed: 2001-03-08
Abstract: A pipework containment system comprising: (i) an outer containment pipe (14)  extending between a chamber and a sump; (ii) a fluid-tight seal between the outer containment pipe and the chamber; (iii) a fluid-tight seal between the  outer containment pipe and the sump; (iv) a plurality of flexible supply pip es extending between said chamber and said sump; characterised in that the plurality of supply (12A-12D) pipes are contained within one and the same outer containment pipe, the arrangement of supply pipes within the outer pip e and the flexibility of the supply pipes being such that each individual supp ly pipe may be withdrawn from the system and/or replaced after construction of the pipework containment system is complete.
Patent CA-2410505-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SABATINO ANTHONY
IPC: F41G3/04
Filed: 2001-06-04
Abstract: An embedded digitization system (100) which enables a military platform to receive, transmit and process a variety of types of information for a variety of purposes. The system includes a mission processing capability (110, 420), a digital message communications capability (150, 440), a time and position location and navigation capability (120, 140, 430), a weapons delivery system aim and shoot capability (130, 230, 450), a sensor input processing capability (130, 210, 420), a user interface capability (460), and an input/output processing capability (130). The system (100) exchanges information through digital message communications with other systems in a theater of operation.  Information exchanged and processed by the system includes command and control information, situational information, intelligence information, mission information and host platform information. The system processes information received from digital messages, received from functions and sensors (120, 140) embedded in the present system, received from other equipment and sensors (210) on the host platform, and entered through user data entry devices (250) by users of the system. The system determined the geospatial attitude, position, and motion of the host platform, determines the attitude of moveable weapons delivery systems on the host platform, and determines the geospatial position and motion of a target with additional information from target tracking equipment. The system automatically aims and shoots weapons delivery systems (230), and provides visual aids (240) which allow users of the system to manually aim and shoot weapons delivery systems associated with the host platform. The system is implemented in as few as one piece of electronics equipment.
Patent CA-2411034-A1 (CA)
Inventor: BARBER TIMOTHY P
IPC: G06F15/16
Filed: 2001-06-05
Abstract: An online machine data collection and archiving process (15) generates a machine data profile (18) of a customer computer (5) accessing a transaction form of a merchant web site (3) and links the machine data profile (18) and a transaction record (6) with customer identifying information using a unique transaction identification string. The process preferably captures parameters typically communicated as part of web accesses, such as an IP address, an HTTP  header, and cookie information. The process additionally causes the customer computer (5) to process self-identification routines by processing coding within the merchant transaction form, the self-identification routines yielding further profile parameters. The process further includes a routine for bypassing an intervening proxy to the merchant web site (3) to reveal the true IP address of the customer computer (5).
Patent CA-2411497-A1 (CA)
Inventor: VON STACKELBERG ROLAND JR
IPC: B01D45/08
Filed: 2002-11-07
Abstract: A universal drum lid for vacuum systems comprises an inlet port configured to intercept downwardly flowing influent at a baffle and engage a direction plate which redirects the flow laterally against an adjacent side wall of the receptacle. An outlet port is shielded by the direction plate. Maximum liquid removal and minimal liquid carryover is achieved through the use of the drum lid. Preferably, a disengagement chamber precedes the baffle for disengaging suspended particles, including liquid, and permitting debris to pass the baffle without blockage. A single float ball-valve is sensitive to flow and will seal the outlet on high liquid entrainment and on high liquid levels.
Patent CA-2412727-A1 (CA)
Title: Port air conveying system for rotary kiln
Inventor: DOCK NEIL R
IPC: F27D1/04
Filed: 2001-06-04
Abstract: A rotary kiln (18) includes a novel air conveying system for delivering a supply of port air beneath the material bed of feed stock passing through the interior of the kiln. The air conveying system includes an air inlet port (50) disposed in the shell of the kiln, a main air conveying channel (85) which communicates with the air inlet port, and a plurality of air vent channels (75) communicating with the main air conveying channel and the interior chamber of the kiln. The main air conveying channel (85) is formed integrally in the refractory bricks which line the inner surface of the kiln shell and extends longitudinally and parallel to the rotary axis of the kiln. The air vent channels (75) extend through the refractory bricks substantially radially with respect to the rotary axis of the kiln.
Patent CA-2414601-A1 (CA)
Inventor: VALLANCE WILLIAM ERNEST TAYLOR
IPC: F16B12/20
Filed: 2002-12-16
Abstract: A device for fastening panels to tubular frames comprises a dowel element (10) and a sleeve element (11). An expander region (15) of the dowel element, comprising a plain cylindrical section (16) and a conically tapering section (17), is designed to react with a complementarily-tapering inner bore section (19) of the sleeve element when the dowel element is moved axially relative to the sleeve element to cause outward movement of an expandable section (20) of the sleeve element. The sleeve element has a flange (21) which acts as a depth stop and an undercut portion (22) so that a shoulder (23) of the expandable section lodges behind the hole in the tubular member when the fastener is set.
Patent CA-2414688-A1 (CA)
Title: Retractable appliance control and method for using same
Inventor: SINGH NEERAJ
IPC: F24C7/08
Filed: 2002-12-18
Abstract: A control panel is retractably received within a recess in an appliance housing. The panel may be moved from an extended position wherein the control panel is exposed outside the cabinet to a retracted position wherein the control panel is enclosed within the recess. A spring urges the control panel to its extended position, and a latch is provided for releasably holding the control panel in its retracted position.
Patent CA-2415825-A1 (CA)
Inventor: TSE CHUNG SHUN
IPC: A61H35/00
Filed: 2003-01-08
Abstract: A foot spa and a method for controlling the foot spa is provaded. The foot spa has a housing defining a reservoir for locating feet, a remote control unit for controlling a function of the foot spa by transmitting a control signal to the foot spa via wireless communication, and a receiver located in or on the housing for receiving the control signal.
Patent CA-2415884-A1 (CA)
Title: Pre-moistened towelette packaging
Inventor: ALLEN JAN
IPC: B65D75/58
Filed: 2001-07-26
Abstract: A packaged towelette (10) is provided including a flexible sheet material (12) sealed around a pre-moistened towelette (18), the flexible sheet material (12) including a fin (14) constructed to allow a user to grasp the fin (14) and open the package (10) without touching the towelette.
Patent CA-2417112-A1 (CA)
Title: Process for producing coatings using surface-active photoinitiators
Inventor: BAUDIN GISELE
IPC: C09D7/47
Filed: 2001-08-07
Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) in which r is a number 1 or 2; s is a number from 1 to 1000; R is radical of formula (II); or R is, for example, unsubstituted or substituted naphthyl, anthracyl, phenanthryl or a heterocyclic radical; R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently of one another are, for example hydrogen;  unsubstituted or substituted phenyl or C1-C12alkyl; A, if s is 1, is a surface-active radical of formula (III); or A, if s is 1, is a surface-active radical A0; or A, if s is a number greater than 1, is a radical of the formula (III) in which n corresponds to the number s, or A, if s is 2, is a radical A1; A0 is, for example, in each case unsubstituted or substituted C6-C30alkyl, C6-C30alkenyl, C6-C30alkynyl or C6-C30aralkyl; A1 is, for example, in each case unsubstituted or substituted C6-C30alkylene, C6-C30alkenylene, C6-C30alkynylene or C6-C30aralkylene; n is, for example, a number from 1 to 1000;  m is a number from 0 to 100; p is a number 0-10000; x is a number from 1 to 10; Y, if r is 1, is a divalent group and Y, if r is 2, is a trivalent group, and Y, if A has the definition A0, is a single bond; G1, G2, R13, R14, R15, R16, R17, R18, R19, R20, R21 and R22 are, for exmple, C1-C18alkyl; are particularly suitable as photoinitiators which accumulate at the surface in a process for curing coatings.
Patent CA-2417518-A1 (CA)
Title: Preform preheater
Inventor: VAUGHN MICHAEL L
IPC: B29C35/16
Filed: 2003-01-28
Abstract: Pre-heating apparatus for pre-heating a selected portion of each of a series of preforms to achieve a persistent thermal gradient prior to re- heating and blow-molding the preform. The pre-heating apparatus is adjustably mounted to a gravitational slide that transports the series of preforms downward under the influence of gravity through the preheating apparatus toward a reheat blow molding machine. The pre-heating apparatus includes a housing coupled to the slide so that the selected portion of each of the series of preforms is shielded from the general environment, and heating elements fixed within the housing so that heat from the heating elements is directed toward the selected portion of each of the series of preforms as the preforms descend down the gravitational slide.
Patent CA-2418193-A1 (CA)
Title: Device for evaporation and condensation in confined environment
Inventor: GOPEL CHRISTA
IPC: G01N1/40
Filed: 2001-07-16
Abstract: The device for evaporation and condensation in a closed environment includes an evaporation receptacle, a heating unit for the evaporation receptacle and a condensation receptacle connected in a substantially sealed manner to the evaporation receptacle. The evaporation and condensation receptacles are connected to each other, at their openings, extending on either side of a common separation plane in such a way that the arrangement of the receptacles forms substantially an inverted "V" with a sharp point and in that substantially the entire surface area of the wall forming the evaporation receptacle is brought, by the heating unit, to the same temperature T1 higher than the highest temperature T2 of the wall forming the condensation receptacle.
Patent CA-2419075-A1 (CA)
Inventor: RUDNISKI DAVID
IPC: H02J5/00
Filed: 2001-06-02
Abstract: The invention relates to an energy supply unit (1) for transmitting auxiliar y energy to an electrical device, especially a control circuit (2) in a medium  or high voltage installation. Said energy supply unit (1) comprises a primar y coil (5) which is at least indirectly connected to an energy source (7); a secondary coil (9) which is at least indirectly connected to the control circuit (2); and an insulating section formed between the primary coil (5) a nd the secondary coil (9). The auxiliary energy is transmitted via said insulating section by means of a magnetic alternating field. The aim of the invention is to produce an energy supply unit (1) having a simple and cost- effective structure and producing low leakage inductance and high coupling inductance. In order to achieve this, the energy supply unit (1) comprises a  first carrier plate (4); a primary coil (5) embodied as a flat coil situated  on the first carrier plate (4); a second carrier plate (8); and a secondary coil embodied as a flat coil situated on the second carrier plate (8). The insulating section is embodied as an interferric space (11) formed between t he primary coil (5) and the secondary coil (9).
Patent CA-2422548-A1 (CA)
Title: Process and device for connecting i-beams
Inventor: WAHLSTEEN WILLIAM J
IPC: E04B1/24
Filed: 2003-03-18
Abstract: A connecting plate for connecting I-beams together. The connecting plate contains at least two plates that each have a series of holes drilled in them. These series of holes are drilled offset from each other in each plate. The connecting plate can be in the form of a flat face, an L- shaped plate or a partially H-shaped plate. The offset holes on these plates allow the plates to be connected to a first I-beam first, and then connected to a second I-beam. This design allows a user to forgo coupling the first I-beam, the coupling plate and the second I-beam together all at the same time which improves the safety and efficiency of coupling I- beams together.
Patent CA-2422652-A1 (CA)
Title: Perfectionnements apportes a l'accumulateur ni-zn
Inventor: BRONOEL GUY
IPC: H01M50/429
Filed: 2000-09-27
Abstract: L'invention concerne une batterie alcaline Ni-Zn comprenant à la fois l'anolyte (E) en partie ou totalement sous la forme d'une phase visqueuse telle qu'un gel, le catholyte (D) éventuellement sous forme d'une phase visqueuse, un séparateur microporeux (A) entre l'anolyte et le catholyte, de s compositions et des volumes différents pour l'anolyte et le catholyte et un assemblage bipolaire des éléments. Le séparateur microporeux est enserré ent re des séparateurs (F) macroporeux imprégnés respectivement de l'anolyte et du catholyte. Le volume total de l'anolyte et du catholyte est contenu dans la porosité des séparateurs macroporeux et dans la porosité des électrodes. Le séparateur microporeux est par exemple à base de cellulose ou de polypropylène. La batterie Ni-Zn selon l'invention présente un bon comportement en cyclage et une résistance interne faible.
Patent CA-2425165-A1 (CA)
Title: A process for the preparation of bis-benzazolyl compounds
Inventor: HAUSER JULIA
IPC: C07D263/64
Filed: 2001-10-09
Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a compound o f formula (I) wherein Y represents -O-, -S- or -N(R2)-, R2 being hydrogen, C1- C10alkyl or aralkyl; Z represents a 2,5-furanyl, 2,5-thiophenyl, 4,4'- stilbenyl or a 1,2-ethylenyl residue and R1 represents hydrogen, halogen, C1 - C10alkoxyl, cyano, COOM or SO3M, M being hydrogen or an alkaline or alkaline  earth metal, characterized by reacting a compound of formula (II) with a dicarboxylic acid of formula (III): HOOC-Z-COOH, or an ester thererof, Y, Z and R1 being as previously defined, in N-methylpyrrolidone or N,N- dimethylacetamide, in the presence of an acidic catalyst and, optionally, in  the presence of a secondary solvent capable of removing water from the reaction mixture, which are useful as optical whitening agents for natural a nd synthetic materials.