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Patent EP-0384496-A2 (EP)
Inventor: IMHOF AUGUSTIN
IPC: G07C1/24
Filed: 1988-01-21
Abstract: A method for determining the time lapse between the start and finish of athletes, vehicles or such like objects not triggering any light barrier at the finish line provides for the use of a recording camera with a replay device for still images and preferably with a monitor, a timer which in each case inserts the running time into these individual images in steps corresponding to the individual images during the camera operation and displays the respective time of the individual photo from still image to still image. The recording camera provides still images at a fixed time interval in this case and is preferably set up in line with the finish line. The procedure is that between the change between two camera images at the time when the object passes through the finish, the distance travelled in front of and/or after the finish line by this object, the finish time of which is to be determined, and the time known from one image change to the next image change and the corresponding distance is subdivided in the ratio of the section of the first still image located in front of the finish line and/or of the second still image located after the finish line and the proportion of time corresponding to the distance in front of the finish being added to the time then inserted and/or the proportion of time after the finish line being subtracted from the time allocated to the second still image. The speed of the object obtained from the difference of the times between two still images and the distance corresponding to this difference can be displayed as a scale or marking lines at the finish and this scale or the like can be adapted to the respective speed of the object. It is particularly expedient if the scale is determined or calculated electronically and is at least inserted into the finish images. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0412328-A2 (EP)
Inventor: APPELBAUM LAWRENCE HENRY
IPC: G06F1/12
Filed: 1990-07-18
Abstract: A quad oscillator fault-tolerant clock system for a computer complex comprises two clock sources at each of two computer locations, which are coupled by two duplex links. Each clock source supplies its own clock signal to the other clock source at the same location as well as to the clock sources at the other location over one of the duplex links coupling the two locations. Each clock source continually measures the phase difference between its clock signal and each of the other three clock signals. Periodically, the propagation delay for each link is calculated by taking the average of the phase differences measured by the clock sources driving the two ends of that link. These calculated propagation delays are supplied to each individual clock source, which corrects the phase differences measured by it for the propagation delays. Each clock source uses the median of the corrected phase differences to obtain a correction signal to control its own oscillator frequency so as to obtain phase lock with the other clock signals.
Patent EP-0412440-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SATO HOSAKU C O OKI ELECTRIC I
IPC: C04B35/468
Filed: 1990-08-02
Abstract: A dielectric ceramic for microwave applications is comprised of: 
X BaO.Y TiO₂.Z {(Sm₂O₃) 1-W1-W2 (La₂O₃) W1 (Nd₂O₃) W2 } 
where X, Y, Z lie in the ranges: 11.0 ≦ X ≦ 22.0; 60.0 ≦ Y ≦ 75.0; and 6.0 ≦ Z ≦ 28.0 (X + Y + Z = 100) expressed in mole %, and 0 < W₁ ≦ 0.35; 0 < W₂ < 1; and 0 < (1 - W₁ - W₂) < 1; where W₁, W₂ and (1-W₁-W₂) are mole ratios. MnO₂ or Al₂O₃ may also be added. 
     Alternatively, a dielectric ceramic may comprise: 
X BaO.Y TiO₂.Z {(Sm₂O₃) 1-W1-W2 (La₂O₃) W1 (Nd₂O₃) W2 }.V Bi₂O₃ where X, Y, Z and V lie in the ranges: 11.5 ≦ X ≦ 21.0; 60.0 ≦ Y ≦ 76.0; 6.5 ≦ Z ≦ 26.0; and 0.1 ≦ V ≦ 5.0 (X + Y + Z + V = 100), expressed in mole %, and 0 < W₁ < 1; 0 < W₂ < 1; 0 < (1 - W₁ - W₂) < 1, where W₁, W₂ and (1-W₁-W₂) are mole ratios. MnO₂, CeO₂, PbO, or Al₂O₃ may also be added. 
     The dielectric ceramic of the invention has a high dielectric constant ε  r  and a high unloaded Q (Q u ), and moreover, the temperature coefficient τ  f  of the resonant frequency can be varied over a wide range by varying the composition.
Patent EP-0415355-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KORTENBREDE LUDGER
IPC: E05B67/00
Filed: 1990-08-28
Abstract: The invention relates to a locking means for a lock, especially a ring lock, which comprises a plug part (14) and a plug-part receptacle (16) having a catch device (22, 24, 30) actuable by a locking mechanism (32). The invention is characterised in that a catch body (22) is received in a guide passage (26) directed transversely relative to the direction of introduction of the plug part (14) and belonging to a catch-body guide element (24) and is located opposite a control surface (30) on its side remote from the introduced plug part (14), in a blocking position of the catch-body guide element (24) the control surface (30) urging the catch body (22) into engagement behind the catch shoulder (20) so as to block the pull-out movement of the plug part (14), furthermore the catch-body guide element (24) being displaceable by the entering plug part (14) by means of the catch body (22) into a first shifted-aside position, in which the catch body (22) is released by the control surface (30) for a shifting-aside movement, and the catch-body guide element (24) being rotatable as a result of the rotation of the locking mechanism (32) into a second shifted-aside position, in which the catch body (22) is released by the control surfaces (30) for a shifting-aside movement allowing the plug part (14) to be pulled out. 
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Patent EP-0421353-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MINOWA MASAHIRO
IPC: B41J2/365
Filed: 1990-10-02
Abstract: Described is a drive control device for a thermal printer supplying drive pulse signals to heating elements (1a) pro­vided in the print head (1) of the thermal printer, the en­ergy of the drive pulse signals being controlled in re­sponse to the temperature of the print head (1). A tempera­ture detection means detects the temperature of the print head and outputs an analog signal (Vt) which is converted into a digital standard value by an A/D converter (15a). Based on prestored relationships current flow intervals are determined from the respective standard value. Current flow pulse signals corresponding to the current flow intervals are generated and combined with drive data indicating the active or inactive state for the heating elements to obtain the drive pulse signals. In case of a so-called historical control the current flow intervals are combined with the drive data of a present print cycle and previous print cy­cles so as to drive the heating elements based on the drive history.
Patent EP-0375669-A2 (EP)
Inventor: STAPE WILLIAM JOSEPH
IPC: G02B6/38
Filed: 1985-05-29
Abstract: A simplex fiber optic cable carrier comprises a body (650) having a flat base and forwardly projecting cantilever latching arms (653) attached to the body (650) and each having a forwardly tapered lug (654) at its distal end. On each side of the body (650) is a spring clip (651,652) for clipping to a simplex fiber optic terminal (661,662) terminating a fiber end.
Patent EP-0386857-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TABOR STANLEY
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 1987-12-24
Abstract: T7-type DNA polymerases and methods for using them including a method for determining the nucleotide base sequence of a DNA molecule, comprising annealing said DNA molecule with a primer molecule able to hybridize to said DNA molecule; incubating separate portions of the annealed mixture in at least four vessels with four different deoxynucleoside triphosphates, a processive DNA polymerase, wherein said polymerase remains bound to said DNA molecule for at least 500 bases before dissociating in an environmental condition normally used in the extension reaction of a DNA sequencing reaction, said polymerase having less than 500 units of exonuclease activity per mg of said polymerase, and one of four DNA synthesis terminating agents which terminate DNA synthesis at a specific nucleotide base. The agent terminates at a different specific nucleotide base in each of the four vessels. The DNA products of the incubating reaction are separated according to their side so that at least part of the nucleotide base sequence of the DNA molecule can be determined.
Patent EP-0389077-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MARGARIS PANAJOTIS
IPC: G06F7/02
Filed: 1990-03-19
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for investigating a digital data stream in which the data stream is subdivided into subunits (Io...In) and a subunit (Ii) is in each case examined within one method cycle (Ti), the subunit (Ii) being subjected to a comparison with a reference value (Si) in a first part-step (MS0). To provide a great degree of freedom with respect to the investigation criteria and the logical combination of the investigation results of the respective subunits, the invention provides that in a further part-step (MS1), an output information (MEi) is formed by user commands (X0, X1, X2) by interrogating the comparison result with respect to a selectable questioning or, on the one hand, the output information (MEi-1) of the preceding method cycle (Ti-1) is taken over and, on the other hand, is obtained as output information (MEi+1 ...) for subsequent method cycles (Ti+1 ...) (preliminary hold decision). A preliminary hold decision can also be made in an additional part-step (MS2) as a function of other method variables. In a supplementary part-step (MS3), the output information (MEi) can be weighted further by further user commands (X4, X5, X6) as a function of the output information (MEi), in such a manner that the preliminary hold decision is cancelled, remains in existence or the output information (MEi) is obtained for all subsequent method cycles (Ti+1 ...Tn) (final hold decision). <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0380269-A2 (EP)
Inventor: STOCKER JULIAN HARRY JAMES
IPC: B65D65/42
Filed: 1990-01-22
Abstract: A method of treating a food container having a plastics body portion and a lid sealed thereto for the purpose of ensuring that micro-organisms cannot penetrate into the interior of the container through any faults or imperfections in the seal between the lid and the body portion, which method comprises forming a polymeric coating layer over the external surface of the container in such a manner as to encompass completely the join between the lid and the body of the container, the resultant polymeric coating layer being a retortable polymer. 
     The method of the invention provides a substantial reduction in the number of failures of the seal between the lid and body portion of plastics containers for foodstuffs.
Patent EP-0391531-A2 (EP)
Inventor: UESUGI MITSUAKI
IPC: G06T15/00
Filed: 1990-03-05
Abstract: A three-dimensional curved surface shape measuring apparatus of the slit light linear scanning type. In accordance with a composite image u(x′, y′) produced by image composing means when a slit light is scanned over a surface of an object to be measured, a measured value or computed value u o (x′, y′) of a composite image with respect to a reference plane, a light projecting angle ϑ to the reference plane and a reference plane-television camera distance  a , a necessary computational processing is performed to determine a three-dimensional curved surface shape f(x, y) of the surface of the object which is free of any distortions due to a perspective effect of the television camera.
Patent EP-0398482-A2 (EP)
Inventor: UGGETTI SERGIO
IPC: B41J33/52
Filed: 1990-03-29
Abstract: A cassette (7) for a printing ribbon (8) comprises a casing (11) accommodating a supply spool (23) which has a tube (26) on which the printing ribbon 8 is wound. An anti-unrolling element (9) of plastics material comprises two portions (31) and (32) of elongate shape, which are connected by means of an integral elastic hinge (33). The first portion (31) performs a guiding and positioning function and is accommodated by means of a slot (34) within the casing (11). The second portion (32) has a blocking function with regard to the tube (26), and is movable on the outside of the casing (11), by means of the elastic hinge (33) from an inoperative position in which it is aligned with the first portion (31), to an operative position in which it is rotated through 180 o  and is substantially in superposed relationship with the first portion (31). The second portion (32) is provided with a hook element (48) which, in its operative position, engages the tube (26) through an opening (53) in the casing (11) for positively blocking the supply spool both during storage and during transportation of the cassette (7), to inhibit unrolling in a simple and reliable manner.
Patent EP-0404304-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GUTRIDGE JOHN
IPC: G02B21/18
Filed: 1990-04-20
Abstract: In an optical microscope, particularly an optical microscope having optics which include divergent beams of light being transmitted to the eyepieces, a facility for display or teaching is provided by replacing a conventional eyepiece with an eyepiece (21) which includes a light tube (22 a ) and respective inlet and outlet lenses (26) and (27), said light tube (22 a ) accommodating a beam splitter such as a semi-silvered mirror (29) to deflect a portion (30) of light passing through tube (22 a ) laterally towards a camera (32).
Patent EP-0405835-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KAWATE KEITH W
IPC: G01F23/00
Filed: 1990-06-20
Abstract: A two wire circuit for indicating liquid level in an automobile utilizing an incandescent lamp (3) to provide the alarm signal with the power required to energize the circuit being derived via the lamp whereby the lamp and the circuit are serially connected between the battery terminals. The alarm circuits are provided with an oscillator which performs the dual functions of providing the detection signal through the probe and the drive signal for the output transistor controlling the lamp. In a first embodiment, signal pulses from an oscillator provide signals to an output circuit as well as to the detection probe (5) in the form of pulses, the pulses to the probe controlling a latch responsive to the output of a Schmitt trigger. The Schmitt trigger output is determined by the status of the probe in response to the signal thereto from the oscillator. The delay and output circuits are simultaneously controlled by the same oscillator pulses and the output of the latch to control operation of a lamp. Sufficient current always travels through the lamp to provide power to the remainder of the circuit. In a second embodiment, the output circuit is an SCR which stays on once latched until power thereacross is removed. In addition, positive and negative feedback are provided from the output to the input of the operational amplifier, the positive feedback path being shunted to reference potential when the probe resistance is low to provide no output from the op amp and therefore maintain the SCR off. When the probe resistance increases, the positive feedback becomes dominant and causes an oscillation to appear from the op amp which turns on the SCR and therefore the lamp also turns on. A further embodiment includes circuitry to provide lamp turn-on and/or turn-off time delay.
Patent EP-0414434-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NAGAI TAKESHI C O INTELLECTUAL
IPC: H01L27/02
Filed: 1990-08-14
Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit for generating a reference voltage, including a semiconductor substrate, a first voltage terminal connected to a first voltage source, a resistor(5) connected to the first voltage terminal, a second voltage terminal connected to a second voltage source, an intrinsic MOS transistor(6) formed in the semiconductor substrate and having a source, a drain, a gate and a channel having no ion-implantation for threshold control, a first wiring connected to the resistor(5) and the source, a second wiring connected to the second voltage terminal and the drain, a third wiring connected to the drain and the gate, and an output terminal(7) connected to the first wiring for connecting the resistor to the source. In addition, in one embodiment, there is further provided a power source voltage generating circuit(36) formed in the semiconductor substrate, wherein a reference voltage input terminal of the semiconductor integrated circuit for generating the reference voltage is connected to the reference voltage output terminal(7), and a predetermined operation is performed in accordance with the potential of the reference voltage input terminal.
Patent EP-0422919-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WEINHOLD LUTZ R
IPC: C09J7/29
Filed: 1990-10-10
Abstract: An antistatic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, particularly for use in masking printed circuit boards during wave soldering, comprises
     1. a polymeric film support (4) e.g. of polyimide film;   2. an intermediate electrically conductive layer (5, 12) e.g. of polymeric binder (7) containing relatively small electrically conductive filler particles (6), or a metal foil (12); and   3. a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive (8, 15), the adhesive either containing relatively large electrically-conductive particles (9) which provide conductive pathways from one main face (3) of the adhesive layer to the other (11), or being penetrated by protrusions (14) from the intermediate layer (12) which provide such pathways,    the polymeric film support, intermediate layer and adhesive layer all being resistant to temperatures up to 250 o C for up to 5 seconds.
Patent EP-0434215-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OHZU HAYAO C O CANON KABUSHIKI
IPC: H04N5/374
Filed: 1990-11-16
Abstract: Disclosed is a photoelectric conversion device which is adapted to accumulate optically generated carriers in the control electrode region of a transistor and to read a signal on the basis of the carriers thus accumulated. This photoelectric conversion device is so designed that the substantial size of the control electrode region is augmented at the time of carrier accumulation. In this device, a region of the same conductivity type as the control electrode region is formed at the time of accumulation and is electrically connected to the control electrode region. During accumulation, carriers, generated by light, are accumulated in the above-mentioned region which is of the same conductivity type as the control electrode region. At the time of signal reading after accumulation, the above-mentioned region which is of the same conductivity type as the control electrode region is made to disappear and the carriers that have been accumulated therein are transferred to the control electrode region. Also, disclosed is an apparatus which is equipped with a photoelectric conversion device as described above.
Patent EP-0410893-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ITO MICHIO
IPC: G01N33/543
Filed: 1990-07-26
Abstract: This method can determinate and detect an antibody in a biological fluid sample against a specific antigen and its immunoglobrin class. This method comprises the step of: 
-----providing a first reagent of insoluble substrate particles carrying the antigen on the surface thereof and a second reagent of insoluble substrate particles carrying on the surface thereof a substance paticulary reactive to a specific immunogloblin class, the latter reagent containing a magnetic material; 
-----reacting the sample with both of the reagents in a reaction system; 
-----agglomerating the antigen-carrying particles together with the magnetic material-containing particles through the antibody; 
-----separating both of the unreacted magnetic material-­containg particles and the resultant agglomerate by applying a magnetic field to the reaction system; and 
-----visually or spectrophotometrically estimating an amount of the antigen-carrying particles which remains unreacted in the reaction system.
Patent EP-0444392-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LOIDELSBACHER TAMARA DR
IPC: C05F3/00
Filed: 1990-12-17
Abstract: A process for manufacturing fertilisers or soil adjuvants from mineral and organic components by mixing at least one mineral component, such as, for example, calcite, zeolite, algal lime etc. with at least one organic component, such as, for example, animal or vegetable remains, compost, grape marc etc. and subsequent pelleting of the mixture, the mineral component(s) being brought to a particle size between 0 and 1 mm, preferably between 0 and 0.06 mm, preferably by grinding in a tribomechanical activation plant.
Patent EP-0447747-A2 (EP)
Inventor: POPIELSKI STANLEY E
IPC: G01N21/63
Filed: 1991-01-14
Abstract: A sample of liquid or organometallic compound is analyzed for detection and measurement of metal impurities by inductively coupled argon plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICAP-OES). The liquid sample is continuously injected into and evaporated in a heated stream of argon as the stream flows continuously to the plasma. In the plasma, metal impurities in the sample emit characteristic radiation which is measured by the spectrometer.
Patent EP-0441332-A2 (EP)
Inventor: DINI ROBERTO
IPC: H04N5/60
Filed: 1991-02-06
Abstract: The present invention refers to a television signal receiver, comprising means for receiving a television channel (1-2), obtaining the relative video signal (3), destined to be viewed by the respective image reproducing apparatus (C), and obtain the relative sound signal (7), destined to be reproduced by means of the respective sound apparatus (14); the main characterising principle of the invention consists in the fact that the receiver comprises additional means (4-6) for obtaining contemporaneously also the sound signal (11) relative to a different second television channel.
Patent EP-0445757-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MATSUI KIYOSHI C O TDK CORPORA
IPC: H05B41/392
Filed: 1991-03-05
Abstract: A high-intensity electric discharge lamp is turned on in an ideal starting characteristics regardless of the internal condition thereof during the night or in a tunnel, in which no ambient light falls on the high-intensity electric discharge lamp. Upon the reception of the ambient light, the high-intensity electric discharge lamp is turned off automatically. In a modification, the high-intensity electric discharge lamp unit is provided with first and second photoelectric conversion elements, the luminous flux of the light emitted by the high-intensity electric discharge lamp is controlled on the basis of the output signal of the first photoelectric conversion element corresponding to the luminous flux of the light emitted by the high-intensity electric discharge lamp, and the high-intensity electric discharge lamp is turned off when the second photoelectric conversion element receives the ambient light.
Patent EP-0449004-A2 (EP)
Title: Method and installation for manufacturing hot-rolled steel strip, in particular for special steels from a continuously cast material
Inventor: MARTEN HANS FRIEDRICH
IPC: B21B1/34
Filed: 1991-03-07
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an installation for manufacturing hot-rolled steel strip, in particular for special steels, from a continuously cast material in strip form. The method should be as flexible as possible and allow both special steels and unalloyed carbon steels to be rolled economically, and the installation should take up less space, be economical to erect and operate and advantageously be usable for small to medium-size production quantities. The installation proposed is a CSP installation, a reversing Steckel mill being used for roughing the feed stock and a three- or multi-stand tandem finishing train being used for finishing, roughing being carried out with a number of Steckel mill passes determined by the type of rolling stock, and the finishing operation, which is decisive for the surface finish, being carried out with three or four passes in the finishing train. The rolling mill (6) in the installation is designed as a unit with a reversing Steckel stand (7) and a three- or multi-stand tandem finishing train (8) arranged downstream of the latter. <IMAGE>