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Patent EP-1287479-B1 (EP)
Inventor: NEUBAUER LUTZ
IPC: G07F7/10
Filed: 2001-04-14
Granted: 2004-06-16
Abstract: Card reader having a control interface 18 for controlling 12 the card reader from the exterior, and a device for reading data cards, particularly chip cards, and also having a security module 20, where a request arriving via the control interface 18 is forwarded to the security module 20, and the latter's output is reformatted, if appropriate, and is forwarded to the data card, where it is checked.
Patent EP-1294989-B1 (EP)
Inventor: ALLEN JOHN PHILLIP
IPC: E01B29/04
Filed: 2001-06-14
Granted: 2009-12-09
Abstract: The invention provides roller rail clamp apparatus for use in lifting a rail for operations such as replacement of ballast or resurfacing of a railway. The apparatus comprises parallel pairs of spaced-apart lift roller assemblies mounted to a support for positioning a pair of clamping to a rail of the track, each the lift roller assembly comprising at least one pair of rollers, wherein each the roller of a roller pair rotates on an axis in an essentially vertical plane adjacent a rail and the rollers are on opposite sides of a rail when a lift roller assembly is clamped thereto with the head of the rail releasably retained upwardly of flanges at the lower ends of the rollers; means for adjustably connecting the apparatus to a carrier thereof; a lift mechanism for adjusting the vertical position of the support relative to the carrier of the apparatus; and a tilt mechanism for applying torque about a horizontal axis to linkage between members of a pair of lift roller assemblies.
Patent EP-1307326-B1 (EP)
Inventor: WELLHOEFER ALFRED
IPC: B28B1/52
Filed: 2001-07-14
Granted: 2006-03-29
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of hollow pre-stressed concrete slabs (1), whereby several strands (2) are tensioned in parallel, either individually or groupwise, between two fixtures arranged separate from each other and are enveloped in concrete in an extrusion process, whereby cavities (3) remain, running between the strands enveloped in concrete and parallel to said strands. According to the invention, conventional hollow pre-stressed concrete slabs and the method for production thereof may be improved such that the economic advantages of using said slabs in construction is improved and the load capacity of said slabs is increased, above all in the transverse direction, making it possible to produce wider slabs, whereby a fibre concrete is used as the concrete material.
Patent EP-1333343-B1 (EP)
Inventor: MOROKAWA SHIGERU
IPC: G04C3/00
Filed: 2001-09-28
Granted: 2011-08-10
Abstract: A timer of an electric timepiece, comprising a branch mechanism, a merge mechanism, a motor allowed to rotate in forward and reverse directions, and a plurality of ring rows driven by the motor and branched by the branch mechanism and merged by the merge mechanism, wherein one ring row is driven by the forward rotation of the motor for mechanical display and the other ring row is driven by the reverse rotation for another mechanical display.
Patent EP-1330314-B1 (EP)
Inventor: JOURDIN GILLES
IPC: B05B11/00
Filed: 2001-10-11
Granted: 2005-01-05
Abstract: Distributeur de produit fluide comprenant : un récipient (1) définissant un réservoir destiné à contenir du produit fluide, ledit récipient étant formé avec un col (10) définissant une ouverture (15) faisant communiquer l'intérieur du réservoir avec l'extérieur, ledit col comprenant une paroi périphérique extérieure (13), un organe de distribution (2), tel qu'une pompe ou une valve, monté dans le col (10) du récipient (1) pour extraire du produit fluide du réservoir, des moyens de fixation (3, 4, 5, 6) pour fixer l'organe de distribution sur le col du récipient, lesdits moyens de fixation comprenant des moyens de réception (33) pour l'organe de distribution et des moyens d'accrochage (36, 6, 48) sur le col du récipient, lesdits moyens de fixation comprenant un fût sensiblement cylindrique (30, 50) qui s'étend autour du col, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de fixation comprennent une bague (4) disposée autour du col du récipient, ainsi qu'un élément annulaire (36, 6, 48) en contact de la paroi externe (13) du col, la bague (4) étant en prise à l'intérieur du fût (30, 50) de manière à solliciter l'élément annulaire contre la paroi externe du col.
Patent EP-1327331-B1 (EP)
Inventor: NIKLASSON SVEN
IPC: H04Q7/24
Filed: 2001-09-25
Granted: 2005-03-23
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system ( 700 ) for exchanging information between a plurality of communication networks. The system is especially characterised by at least one data transmission unit ( 310, 320, 330 ) for receiving information from at least one source communication network and converting the information into an intra-system data format; at least one first switching unit ( 410 ) for transmitting the information received by a data transmission unit ( 310, 320, 330 ) to a pre-determined service processing unit ( 510 ); in addition to at least one second switching unit ( 420 ) for transmitting the information received by one of the service processing units ( 510 ) to a pre-determined data transmission unit ( 310, 320, 330 ) for converting the information into a format of the target communication network and sending the information to the target communication network.
Patent EP-1339838-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KIM ENOCH
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2001-11-07
Granted: 2008-10-22
Abstract: The present invention discloses a device for monitoring haptotaxis including a housing defining a chamber. The chamber comprises: a first well region including at least one first well, the first well configured to receive a test agent therein and further including biomolecules immobilized therein; a second well region including at least one second well, the second well region configured to receive a sample comprising cells therein and further being horizontally offset with respect to the first well region in a test orientation of the device; and a channel region including at a least one channel connecting the first well region and the second well region with one another, the channel region further including biomolecules immobilized therein.
Patent EP-1225549-B1 (EP)
Inventor: SARRADIN JEAN-LOUIS
IPC: G06Q20/00
Filed: 2002-01-04
Granted: 2005-10-19
Abstract: The electronic payment terminal (300) may use a telephone number for setting of a commercial transaction using a determination telephone number device (3), a telephone number identification device (303), a telephone number specifying device (304) that is used to perform a commercial transaction.  The transaction is performed via a telephone line that connects the terminal with a server (9) in a bank (9). An Independent claim is included for: (a) a method of an electronic payment
Patent EP-1260582-B1 (EP)
Inventor: ROESTIN JOHANNA
IPC: A61K47/48
Filed: 1996-09-27
Granted: 2004-11-24
Abstract: The invention relates to a process for improving the in vivo function of a factor IX by shielding exposed targets of factor IX, comprising(a) immobilizing factor IX by interaction with a group-specific adsorbent carrying anionic-exchange ligands;(b) activating a biocompatible polymer;(c) conjugating the activated biocompatible polymer to external sites of the immobilized factor IX; and(d) eluting the conjugate from the adsorbent.It relates also to conjugates of Factor IX obtained according to the above process.
Patent EP-1283552-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BRECHBUEHL STEFAN
IPC: H01L41/22
Filed: 2002-07-31
Granted: 2009-01-07
Abstract: A piezoelectric crystal has a transverse effect and the crystal is designed as one flat plate (22) and at least one base (21) normal to this plate. The base on at least one side (21) juts out over the thickness of the plate. At least two surfaces of the plate (15,16) have an electrically-conducting layer (17,18). Independent claims are included for the following: (1) An arrangement of two identical crystals, (2) A piezoelectric sensor for receiving signal reception, (3) A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric crystal with transverse effect.
Patent EP-1323357-B1 (EP)
Inventor: MAIWALD BERTHOLD
IPC: A24C5/47
Filed: 2002-11-13
Granted: 2006-06-21
Abstract: The machine incorporates conveyors (1-3,6-9.11.19,21-24,26-28) which have at least one and main drive. A covering strip (12) is pulled off by a drawing appliance (15) and cut by a cutter (16) into preset lengths. The draw-off appliance and cutter have at least one drive (52).
Patent EP-1327715-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LEHMUS ISMO
IPC: D21F1/48
Filed: 2002-10-22
Granted: 2006-07-26
Abstract: Paper or cardboard web forming apparatus has a double wire section having a first wire loop having a dewatering box, and two successive dewatering zones. To achieve more effective water drainage in a second dewatering zone, the bottom of the dewatering box forms a fraction line consisting of straight portions and edges between them, over which the web between the two wires moves.  Paper or cardboard web forming apparatus comprises a double wire section consisting of a first wire loop formed by a first wire, a second wire loop formed by a second wire, and at least one headbox, from which the fibrous web suspension can be fed into the space between the wire loops. The first wire loop is provided with a dewatering box placed above the wire and arranged to drain water from the fibrous suspension between the wire loops via the bottom of the dewatering box and through the first wire. The apparatus has two successive dewatering zones, where the direction of web movement in the area of the first dewatering zone is away from the dewatering box and the runs of each wire loop are straight, while in the area of the second dewatering zone the direction of the web movement is towards the dewatering box and water drainage from the fibrous suspension is arranged to take place in the direction towards the dewatering box. To achieve more effective water drainage in the second zone, the bottom (11) of the dewatering box forms a fraction line consisting of straight portions and edges between them, over which the web between the two wires moves.
Patent EP-1363405-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BRUNEL LOIC
IPC: H04B1/69
Filed: 2002-05-17
Granted: 2009-12-16
Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for detecting a plurality of symbols (dk(i)) transmitted by or for a plurality K of users, each symbol belonging to a modulation constellation, said method comprising a filtering step filtering a received signal for supplying a vector (z) each component of which being related to a user, said method further comprising a searching step for searching the closest neighbour of said vector among candidates belonging to a lattice of points generated by said modulation constellations, the search being limited to a volume centered around said vector and being carried out by sequentially selecting a coordinate (bk) of a candidate for each dimension of said vector. The components of said vector are reordered according to an ordering rule prior to said search. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-1395006-B1 (EP)
Inventor: RICHARD BRUNO
IPC: H04L12/18
Filed: 2002-08-29
Granted: 2007-02-21
Abstract: A process for distributing through a network an electronic message associated with a list of recipients, said process comprising the iterated application of the steps of: a) extracting from said list a first sublist and a second sublist of recipients; b) identifying a recipient within said first sublist which can be addressed via said network, and c) transmitting said electronic message and said first sublist to said identified recipient for onward distribution; and d) applying said steps (a) to (d) to said second sublist of recipients. The process can also comprise receiving the message and a list of recipients for onward distribution. The above described process can thus be carried out in a plurality of nodes of the network upon receipt at each node of the message and an associated first sublist generated in another of the nodes until the message has been transmitted to all recipients on the list. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-1265012-B1 (EP)
Inventor: COLIN CHRISTIAN MAURICE JEAN L
IPC: F16K24/04
Filed: 2002-06-04
Granted: 2005-08-17
Abstract: The air bleed valve (5) for a water main has a closure (6) mounted in a float chamber (7) with an air vent passage (8). The closure is controlled by a float (15) dependent on the level of water and the different air discharge rates. The closure has a concave area (13) in its closure face to selectively close off the vent passage seating.
Patent EP-1314386-B1 (EP)
Inventor: MURAT MARIE PIERRE
IPC: A47J36/20
Filed: 2002-11-27
Granted: 2008-07-23
Abstract: The method involves perforating a rigid stainless steel sheet on all its surface and cutting the sheet to obtain a blank at a final shape of a circular basket. The blank is stamped in its central part, where the stamping is made in a manner that the junction between base (2) and lateral walls (3) of the basket presents a regular curve. Edges of the blank are stamped to obtain a basket (1), where the edges are stamped till upper peripheral edge (6) of the base is curved towards exterior.
Patent EP-1366244-B1 (EP)
Inventor: WILSON BRIAN
IPC: E03D9/02
Filed: 2002-02-11
Granted: 2006-10-18
Abstract: A liquid dispensing unit for a toilet bowl comprises a first container containing a first, liquid formulation, a second container containing a second formulation, which may be a solid tablet. The liquid from container flows onto a delivery surface from where it is washed into the toilet bowl by the flush water. Some flush water also washes over the second formulation to take components into solution and deliver them into the toilet bowl through aperture. The constituents of the two formulations are thus kept separate until they enter the toilet bowl. The second formulation may also be a liquid.
Patent EP-1354127-B1 (EP)
Inventor: INNES FRANK
IPC: E21B47/18
Filed: 2002-01-22
Granted: 2005-12-14
Abstract: A pressure pulse generator for use in transmitting pressure signals to surface in a fluid-based drilling system having a housing having an inlet to admit drilling fluid to the interior of housing, and an outlet to discharge fluid from the interior of the housing; a control element slidably mounted in the housing between an open and a closed position, the control element generating a pressure pulse in the supply of pressure fluid when the control element takes-up the closed position; a control passage extending through the control elements and closable by a pilot valve element exposed to the pressure of the fluid in the passage; and an actuator coupled with the valve element to generate a pressure signal, to move the valve element to a position closing said passage and thereby to cause movement of the control element towards the closed position; the coupling between the actuator and the valve element includes a yieldable biassing element which provides control of the amplitude of the pressure signals produces by the generator.
Patent EP-1395366-B1 (EP)
Inventor: DESILETS KENNETH
IPC: B01L99/00
Filed: 2002-06-11
Granted: 2006-05-03
Abstract: A multiwell test apparatus formed of a multiwell filter plate having a plurality of wells and a first feeding plate and a second receiver plate is provided. The wells of the multiwell filter plate each have an open bottom surface to which a membrane is attached, at least one first access hole providing access to the feeding/receiver plate below, a pair of alignment pins designed to fit alignment holes in the feeding/receiver plates in a particular arrangement. The first feeding plate is a single well plate or a multiwell plate used solely for feeding. The second receiver plate is a multiwell plate having the same number of wells as the filter plate and aligned so as to receive the wells of the filter plate therein used as the assaying plate. The use of alignment holes in the feeding/receiver plates and alignment posts in the filter plate ensure precise alignment of the plates when together.
Patent EP-1414771-B1 (EP)
Inventor: DE GRAAF WINNIFRED
IPC: C07C2/00
Filed: 2002-06-24
Granted: 2005-03-02
Abstract: L'invention se rapporte à un procédé de production d'hydrocarbures liquides à partir d'une charge d'hydrocarbures consistant : (i) à reformer catalytiquement au moins une partie de la charge d'hydrocarbures à une température et à une pression élevées  avec de la vapeur dans au moins une zone de reformation ; (ii) à chauffer la/les zone(s) de reformation avec un dioxyde de carbone contenant un gaz de chauffage lequel comprend un produit obtenu par oxydation partielle d'un produit de reformation obtenu au cours de l'étape (i) et un produit léger dépourvu en dioxyde carbone obtenu au cours de l'étape (vi) avec un gaz contenant de l'oxygène dans une zone d'oxydation ; (iii) à séparer le dioxyde carbone du gaz de chauffage refroidi obtenu au cours de l'étape (ii) ; (iv) à convertir par catalyse au moins une partie du courant de gaz dépourvu en dioxyde de carbone obtenu au cours de l'étape (iii) à une température et une pression élevées en hydrocarbures normalement liquides ; (iv) à séparer le débit diluat obtenu au cours de l'étape (iv) pour le transformer en produit léger comprenant principalement un gaz de synthèse non converti, des matières inertes, des hydrocarbures légers et un produit lourd contenant principalement des hydrocarbures normalement liquides et solides ; (vi) à séparer le dioxyde de carbone du produit léger obtenu au cours de l'étape (v), et (vii) à combiner au moins une partie de la charge de dioxyde de carbone obtenue au cours de l'étape (iii) et/ou de l'étape (vi) avec une charge d'hydrocarbures pour l'étape (i).
Patent EP-1419023-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LOHSE DIETMAR
IPC: B22D11/08
Filed: 2002-07-10
Granted: 2006-08-30
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for transporting a dummy bar (1) into a continuous casting mould (3) for liquid metal. A conjoined casting strand is transported out of the casting mould by means of a back-up roll stand (4). According to the invention, the cumbersome system which uses dummy bars with a dummy bar head (6) is replaced by a more simple system, whereby a dummy bar head (6) is moved into the continuous casting mould (3) in overlapping intervals by means of at least one self-driven mechanism which is supported respectively by components of the back-up roll stand or accessory devices. Said dummy bar head (6) is continuously transported by opposing movements out of the oscillating continuous casting mould (3) between pairs of non-driven back-up rolls by means of the self-driven mechanism.
Patent EP-1421417-B1 (EP)
Inventor: TUCK CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B23K26/40
Filed: 2002-08-23
Granted: 2006-03-22
Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical device, by forming a cavity (5) of a desired shape in an optical substrate (3) comprising the steps of irradiating, with radiation from a laser source (1), a mask (2) whose surface is patterned in accordance with the desired shape of the cavity (5); and projecting the radiation transmitted through the mask (2) onto the substrate (3) such that substrate material is ablated from an area thereof exposed to the radiation, thereby forming the required cavity (5) in such a way that at least one sidewall of the cavity has a desired inclination relative to a chosen axis.
Patent EP-1470000-B1 (EP)
Inventor: ARELLANO GONZALEZ JUAN FRANCIS
IPC: B41N1/00
Filed: 2002-08-20
Granted: 2006-05-31
Abstract: The plate includes an electrochemically anodisable metallic support of a thickness of 0.1-0.6 mm, carrying on one of its side a ceramic film of multilayer structure. The plate has greater hydrophillicity, resistance to chemical oxidation and to mechanical abrasion, and a lower surface tension that those of the prior art. The method comprises a first step in a bath containing sodium, potassium, ammonium or calcium borates, chlorides, carbonates and/or nitrates or forming mixed salts with elements of groups IIIB, IVB and VB, in a proportion of 5-40% by weight in relation to the total of the solution, at 20-60° C., 5-20 kC/m<2 >and 50-250 V; and a second step in a bath containing sodium, potassium or lithium phosphates, silicates and/or carbonates, in a proportion of 1-35% by weight in relation to the total of the solution, at 20-70° C., 5-25 kC/m<2 >and 150-400 V.
Patent EP-1458934-B1 (EP)
Inventor: PLASONIG GERHARD
IPC: E01C11/18
Filed: 2002-12-23
Granted: 2012-02-01
Abstract: An environmentally sound method for applying or fixing elements ( 2 ) to constructed objects used for road traffic. The element ( 2 ), which is at least partially made of a material that can be liquefied by mechanical energy, is positioned on the surface, is pressed against the surface, and is simultaneously subjected to a local mechanical stimulation to liquefy the liquefiable material, and the element ( 2 ) binds with the surface upon re-solidifying. A mobile device ( 1 ) for applying elements ( 2 ) of this type, includes device that can travel via rolls or rollers ( 4, 5 ) and that is provided with at least one oscillating unit ( 10 ) including a sonotrode ( 6 ), a converter ( 7 ) and of an amplifier ( 8 ), and with a generator ( 9 ). The element ( 2 ) may be a marking or signaling element to be applied to roads or tunnel walls.
Patent EP-1472342-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BRON SIERD
IPC: C12N15/31
Filed: 2002-12-12
Granted: 2008-07-09
Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for the efficient and enhanced secretion of a protein of interest from a host cell. In specific, proteins are secreted through the Sec-dependent pathway, involving the spoIIIJ and/or yqjG gene product(s). In some embodiments, expression of the spoIIIJ and/or yqjG gene product(s) is modulated by a promoter operably linked to the gene.
Patent EP-1459555-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KALKER ANTONIUS A C M
IPC: G06T1/00
Filed: 2002-12-12
Granted: 2006-04-12
Abstract: The invention addresses the problem of scale degradations that may occur in watermarking schemes based on quantization index modulation (QIM). In accordance with the invention, the quantization step size (D) being employed by the embedder (11) and detector (21) is derived (12, 22) from a measurable characteristic parameter which has the property that, when the applied signal is scaled by a factor (a), it is scaled by substantially the same factor. In a preferred embodiment, said parameter is the square root of the energy of the signal (), and the quantization step is a predetermined fraction (a) thereof.
Patent EP-1454069-B1 (EP)
Inventor: JONES STEVEN VICTOR
IPC: F16B19/00
Filed: 2002-12-07
Granted: 2006-07-05
Abstract: An open-end blind rivet ( 210 ) comprises a headed mandrel ( 218 ) with a substantially tubular rivet mounted thereon with a flowable sealant ( 250 ) disposed between the mandrel and the rivet whereby setting of the blind rivet compresses the sealant between the head ( 216 ) of the mandrel and an inner surface of the rivet to form a seal therebetween.
Patent EP-1458553-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LINDER MICHAEL
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 2002-12-16
Granted: 2009-09-09
Abstract: L'invention concerne une bande élastique (10) dotée d'un substrat pouvant être assemblé (12), ainsi que d'un fil élastique multibrins (14) fixé à un substrat pouvant être assemblé au niveau d'un certain nombre d'emplacements de fixation (16). Afin que le fil soit fixé au substrat sans utiliser un adhésif, le fil est soumis à des forces de manière à créer un délaminage partiel du fil au niveau des emplacements de fixation et une partie du substrat pouvant être assemblée est forcée à passer entre les brins ainsi délaminés du fil élastique multibrins. La bande élastique selon l'invention convient tout particulièrement aux articles absorbants jetables.