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Patent EP-0603964-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KAPP DANIEL LAWRENCE C O EASTM
IPC: G03C7/00
Filed: 1993-12-20
Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising a support bearing a light-sensitive photographic silver halide layer having associated therewith a masking coupler comprising:
     (1) a parent group containing a -1-phenyl-3-anilinopyrazolin-5-one having electron-withdrawing substituents on the phenyl and anilino rings of a type and number sufficient to provide a combined Hammett sigma(para) value for such substituents of at least 1.4;   (2) a coupling-off group at the 4 position of the pyrazolone of the parent group comprising an arylazo group containing on the aryl ring the following:
   (A) a substituent para to the azo functionality selected from hydroxyl, alkoxy, carbonamido, and sulfonamido, each unsubstituted or substituted with nonaromatic groups, and   (B) "n" additional substituents selected from alkyl, alkoxy, carbonamido, and sulfonamido, unsubstituted or substituted with nonaromatic groups, where "n" is 0 to 4;    wherein one of the substituents (A) or (B) contains an alkyl group of at least 8 carbon atoms, unsubstituted or substituted with nonaromatic substituents, and said substituent contains at least 70% of the saturated carbon atoms in all of the substituents (A) and (B) provided that where the substituent (A) forms a ring with a substituent (B) the entire ring will be counted as R⁴ for purposes of satisfying the 70% requirement.
Patent EP-0568181-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RICHTSMEIER BRENT W
IPC: B41J11/00
Filed: 1993-03-17
Abstract: A color ink-jet printer (50) having a heating blower system for evaporating ink carriers from the print medium after ink-jet printing. A preheat drive roller (62) engages the medium and draws it to a print zone (56). The drive roller is heated and preheats the medium before it reaches the print zone. At the print zone, a print heater (72) heats the underside of the medium via radiant and convective heat transfer through an opening pattern formed in a print zone heater screen (66). The amount of heat energy is variable, depending on the type of the print medium. A crossflow fan (90) at the exit side of the print zone (56) directs an airflow at the print zone in order to cause turbulence at the medium surface being printed and further accelerate evaporation of the ink carriers from the medium. An exhaust fan (82) and duct system (80) exhausts air and ink carrier vapor away from the print zone and out of the printer housing.
Patent EP-0564168-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAJIMA YUSUKE JAPAN SYNTHETIC
IPC: G02B5/22
Filed: 1993-03-25
Abstract: The present invention provides a pigment-dispersed color-filter composition containing a binder polymer such as an alkali-soluble block copolymer; a radiation-sensitive compound; and a pigment. The pigment-dispersed color-filter composition which further contains an organic medium, or an organic medium and a carboxylic acid is also provided.
Patent EP-0578398-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GENISE THOMAS ALAN
IPC: F16H59/14
Filed: 1993-06-18
Abstract: A control system/method for an at least partially automated mechanical transmission system (10) is provided for determining if selected upshifts into a target gear ratio are feasible (208) or not feasible (210) under current vehicle operating conditions and for prohibiting the initiation of not feasible selected upshifts.
Patent EP-0622354-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FOSTER JAMES A
IPC: C07C231/02
Filed: 1994-04-27
Abstract: A process for the production of N-acylaminophenols by the concurrent hydrogenation of a nitrophenol to an aminophenol and the acylation of the aminophenol with acyl anhydride takes place on a continuous basis in a stirred tank reactor in which liquid product is continuously withdrawn from the reactor. Of particular interest is the manufacture of acetaminophen, N-acetyl-p-aminophenol by continuous reaction of p-ntirophenol, hydrogen and acetic anhydride.
Patent EP-0642844-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FISCHER HARALD
IPC: B07B1/42
Filed: 1994-09-10
Abstract: To improve the sieving result, in a sieving machine with a three-dimensional sieving motion, with a sieve carrier (19) for the at least one sieve tray (22), the sieve carrier arranged moveably relative to the housing (10) and loaded by an electromagnet (26) as a drive being supported relative to the housing by means of springs (18), provision is made for designing the springs as leaf springs (18) which extend in a plane parallel to the baseplate of the sieve carrier (19) and of which the clamping points (17, 21) on the housing (10, 16) on the one hand and on the sieve carrier (19, 20) on the other hand are arranged tilted by an angular amount in relation to the horizontal baseplate plane, so that the spring surfaces (18a) of the leaf springs (18) have a run which is correspondingly tilted out of their running plane about their longitudinal axis. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0650843-A2 (EP)
Inventor: STODDER SAMUEL A
IPC: H04N1/12
Filed: 1994-10-21
Abstract: A multiple-function printing device provides for picking pages from a stack of sheets in a sheet feeder (26) for roller-driven movement along a first path through a printing station (24) to an output (44), and for picking pages from a stack of documents in a document feeder (28) for roller-driven movement along a second path through a scanning station (22) to the output (44), with at least a portion of the first and second paths being commonly shared, and with common mechanisms being used for various steps such as for picking, providing roller-driven movement through the processing stations, and for actuating a pressure plate (34) in the input feeders.
Patent EP-0654233-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PUIG-SUREDA FONT JOSE
IPC: A47B37/00
Filed: 1994-11-03
Abstract: It enjoys a high degree of rigidity and horizontality, while at the same time it can be adapted to the bendings of the bottom of the fish-bowls, so that the distribution of weights throughout the supports is homogeneous. 
     It incorporates two H-shaped pieces (1) facing each other and braced by means of two L-shaped elements (2) formed by two plates folded forming two dihedrons which serve as two upper edges. Two swinging profiles (3), forming the supporting base of the fish-bowl or the object to be supported, are fitted to such upper edges.
Patent EP-0611867-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KAWASE HAJIME C O SUMITOMO WIR
IPC: H01R13/74
Filed: 1994-02-17
Abstract: This invention is directed to a panel-fixed connector which can be readily secured to a panel P and can maintain a stable attached position on the panel P. In the connector, when a lock member 5 is inserted into a clearance 16, a base plate 21 and an attaching piece 22 are inserted into the clearance 16 and an engaging protrusion 19 is engaged with an engaging aperture 30. When the connector is pushed into an attaching hole W in the panel P, a pawl 32 on a locking arm 25 is engaged with the hole W. Then, a slant face 33 of the pawl 32 is not injured by an edge E. Even if the locking arm 25 is deflected, a contacting piece 26 abuts on the base plate 21 thereby restraining a deflection of the arm 25 and preventing the lock member 5 from loosening in the clearance 16.
Patent EP-0647840-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RYHANEN TAPANI
IPC: G01L1/14
Filed: 1994-09-28
Abstract: The invention is related to a feedback method and apparatus for a capacitive differential pressure transducer. According to the method, a pressure-transducing conducting diaphragm (1) forming a first, moving electrode of the transducer capacitances is kept in a force balance state by means of a pulse train signal applied to a fixed electrode (2, 3). According to the invention, the diaphragm (1) is kept stationary in a geometrically constant state and a desired electric potential is applied to said diaphragm (1), said pulse train signal is applied to at least two of said fixed electrodes (2, 3), or alternatively, sets of fixed subelectrodes so that the signals applied to said separate electrodes (2, 3) or sets of subelectrodes are at opposite polarities referenced to the electric potential of the pressure-transducing diaphragm (1) for at least a portion of the measurement duration, and the signals applied to said separate electrodes (2, 3) or sets of subelectrodes are of equal amplitude at least for each pair of electrodes (2, 3), and the same pulse train signal is simultaneously used for both establishing the force balance and performing the capacitance measurement. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, changes in the dielectric coefficient of the transducer fill medium are compensated for by altering the pulse amplitude, pulse width or pulse rate depending on the primary modulation method used in the feedback control.
Patent EP-0661142-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BAUER DAVID J
IPC: B60R21/2165
Filed: 1990-11-06
Abstract: A method of cutting a compressible plastic sheet layer along a line to a controlled, partial depth, including the steps of positioning said layer atop a support bed of material being more easily compressed than the material of said plastic sheet layer and drawing a cutting blade along the upper surface of said plastic sheet layer along said line at a predetermined depth in said layer, whereby any compression of said layer is relieved by deflection of said support bed material.
Patent EP-0680205-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BOLLE RUDOLF MAARTEN
IPC: G06T5/50
Filed: 1995-02-01
Abstract: Described herein is an image processing system and a method for segmenting an object from the background of a scene by controlling a light source to illuminate the object more in one scene image than in another scene image. The two scene images are captured by an image input device and are then compared. The part of the image that experienced an increase in intensity is segmented as corresponding to the object. The image input device and the light source can also be placed in an opaque enclosure with an opening through which the input device can view and the light can illuminate the object. By placing the enclosure the correct distance away from the object, the effects of ambient light on the image are removed. Object glare is removed by a polarizing filter system.
Patent EP-0695634-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MCCOY GARY W
IPC: B41F15/08
Filed: 1995-07-31
Abstract: Workpieces are manipulated between the receiving position and the discharge position by supporting gripper arms on a platform mounted on a pivot shaft. The pivot shaft pivots between a position where a workpiece is gripped by gripper arms to a pivotal discharge position where the workpiece is released by the gripper arms. The pivot shaft is moved horizontally by a threaded adjusting screw toward and away from a vacuum chuck in a silk-screen printing machine to compensate for changes to the length of the workpiece to be carried by the vacuum chuck. This allows conveyors to remain at fixed elevations and merely change the site at which the workpieces are picked up in the case of a loading mechanism from a feed conveyor and the site where workpieces are deposited on a conveyor for an unloading operation. The pivot shaft carries pivot arms that in turn pivotally support swing arms that can be selective locked to prevent pivotal movement between the pivot arms and unlocked so that as the pivot arms pivots the swing arms rotate relative to the pivot arms.
Patent EP-0699601-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ZHANG HAIPING DR ING
IPC: G01V8/12
Filed: 1995-08-21
Abstract: The lateral regions adjacent to the emptying device or devices are protected by barriers (6,7). At least during one time period, i.e. the monitoring phase, of the emptying process, the introduction region between the barriers is protected by a light barrier (18,8,9,14). If the light barrier is interrupted, the emptying process is prevented or interrupted. The light barrier is activated when the emptying device has reached a defined lifting height or when the waste container is locked onto the emptying device.
Patent EP-0664494-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LESS KRZYSZTOF JERZY
IPC: B65H9/14
Filed: 1995-01-20
Abstract: A solenoid-controlled sheet registration mechanism for a copier/printer includes registration fingers (13) for registering the lead edge of a sheet before it is fed to the transfer station (4) of the copier/printer, to receive a developed image from the photoreceptor (1). The mechanism also includes a pair of nip rolls (11, 12) for forwarding the sheet to the transfer station, after registration. Energization of the solenoid (16) moves the registration fingers into the registration position and disengages the nip rolls (11, 12). Conversely, release of the solenoid allows the registration fingers to return to a non-registration position and the nip rolls to return to paper-feeding engagement, both of those return movements taking place under a resilient bias. To soften the impact between the nip rolls as they re-engage, and so reduce any resulting noise, the release of the solenoid is controlled by applying a pulsed drive signal (35) to the solenoid during the release period after the energizing signal (28) has ceased.
Patent EP-0696531-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ROSE LARRY D
IPC: B60R21/217
Filed: 1995-08-01
Abstract: The present invention provides an improved inflatable cushion assembly and method for coupling an inflatable cushion (12) to a reaction housing (16) in an inflatable restraint system. The assembly utilizes various arrangements of a flanged strip inserted into a channel member (36) disposed about the gas inlet opening (30) of the cushion (12) to form a flanged cushion insert (7,8). The flanges of the cushion insert retain the strip (42) in the channel member (36), and are used in the assembly process to couple the flanged cushion insert, in a fastenerless manner, either to a cushion retainer member (14), which in turn is coupled with the reaction housing (16), or directly to the reaction housing (16).
Patent EP-0709634-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KIYOKAWA SHIN
IPC: F26B5/04
Filed: 1995-10-26
Abstract: A far infrared radiation heater (33) is disposed on the back of a ceiling (11a) of a drying chamber (11). The inside of the drying chamber is evenly heated by the heat emitted from the far infrared radiation heater. The drying chamber is provided with air charge means (16) and air exhaust means (17) each communicating with the inside thereof. Outside air is introduced into the drying chamber by means of the air charge means. The air exhaust means continuously maintains the inside of the drying chamber in a state of reduced pressure. 
     Objects to be dried which are placed in the drying chamber are dried by heating under reduced pressure while continuously introducing fresh air.
Patent EP-0693468-A2 (EP)
Inventor: VOGEL DENNIS E C O MINNESOTA M
IPC: C07C25/18
Filed: 1995-07-20
Abstract: The present invention provides a convenient, simple, safe and efficient one-pot method for the synthesis of a number of diarlyiodonium triflate salts which does not involve sulfuric acid and which eliminates the need for any counter-ion exchange processes. 
     The invention also provides a novel salt of the formula
Patent EP-0719528-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SUBRINI LOUIS DR
IPC: A61F2/26
Filed: 1995-12-28
Abstract: The implant consists of two side-pieces (1) of crescent-shaped cross-section, designed to cover the side faces of the cavernous body of a penis while leaving the upper and lower surfaces free. The distal end of each side-piece lies in an oblique plane, sloping downwards from the top. The implant is made from a biocompatible material with a Shore A hardness of 20-25, such as a synthetic material or a gel enclosed in a suitable envelope. It can have one or more zones made from a secondary material which can knit with adjacent tissues. The two side pieces can be joined at the top by a thin film layer, and they may have one or more reinforcing strips.
Patent EP-0747127-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LEUNG WOON-FONG
IPC: B04B1/20
Filed: 1996-05-30
Abstract: A decanter centrifuge comprises a bowl (12) and a worm or screw type conveyor (14). The bowl is rotatable about a longitudinal axis and has a cake discharge opening (18) at one end and a liquid phase discharge opening (20). The conveyor includes a conveyor hub (22) having at least a portion disposed inside the bowl for rotation about the longitudinal axis at an angular speed different from an angular rotational speed of the bowl. The conveyor further includes a helical screw or worm (24) attached to the conveyor hub and disposed inside the bowl for scrolling a cake layer along an inner surface of the bowl towards the cake discharge opening. An adjustable component (30) on the hub forms a gap (32) between the hub and the inner surface of the bowl so that the gap has a size adjustable independently of hub rotation speed. The adjustable gap enables an optimization of the moisture content of cake exiting the bowl at the cake discharge opening for a given solids throughput and cake rheology.
Patent EP-0757414-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HORAK DIETER
IPC: H05K7/10
Filed: 1996-06-29
Abstract: An adapter with a carrier supporting a contacting device for electrical connection of electronic components mounted on a circuit board with a test device. The carrier is provided with at least one through-aperture for its fixture on the electronic component or on the circuit board (7) for providing a releasable mechanical connection (5,5.1). The carrier has a base through which the contacting device is retained by spring-contacts and is joined to the carrier. The spring contact (2) or contact device is electrically connected to he plugs (6), the latter leading the additional devices such as a test device (not shown).
Patent EP-0770589-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WULFF CLAUS DR
IPC: C08G85/00
Filed: 1996-10-11
Abstract: The production of bis-phenols of formula (I) comprises reacting phenols of formula (II) with ketones of formula (III), in which R<1>, R<2> = hydrogen, halogen, 1-8C alkyl, 5-6C cycloalkyl, 6-10C aryl or 7-12C aralkyl; m = 4-7; R<3>, R<4> = hydrogen or 1-6C alkyl (same or different for each X, but both = alkyl on at least one X); X = carbon. The reaction is carried out in the presence of (A) a mineral acid catalyst and (B) a cocatalyst consisting of a sulphonic acid ion exchange resin based on crosslinked polystyrene (S-XPS), in which at least 10% of the acid groups are neutralised before use with mercaptoamines and/or thiazolidines. The amt. of (B) is such that the mercapto groups and ketone (III) are in a mole ratio of at least 1:10.
Patent EP-0768621-A2 (EP)
Inventor: COK DAVID ROY
IPC: G06T5/20
Filed: 1996-10-04
Abstract: A method and apparatus for editing continuous tone digital images representing pixels in which regions containing defects, called "defect regions", are unnoticeable or less visually discernible. Corrected pixel data for pixels in the defect region, called defect pixels, in the digital image are provided while data representing non-defect pixels outside of the defect region are not altered. These digital images may have one color channel (gray side) or multiple color channels. The apparatus and method includes a computer system which operates according to a set of instructions for providing the steps of: Selecting one of the defect pixels in the defect region, and then allocating a plurality of line segment, through the selected defect pixel, wherein each line segment is composed of pixels in the image about the selected defect pixel. Next, representative models are determined for the non-defect pixels of each line segment. A deviation is determined of the non-defect pixels along each line segment from their models. The line segment is selected having the lowest deviation, and then corrected values of the selected defect pixel are calculated based on the values of at least two non-defect pixels in the selected line segment on either side of the selected defect pixel. In another embodiment, the corrected values of the selected defect pixel are based on intermediate values for the selected defect pixel which are calculated for each line segment, and which contribute to the corrected values relative to calculated weights based on the deviations for the line segments. Each pixel in the digital image is successively scanned, and the selecting of the defect pixels occurs while the image is being scanned. A corrected image is outputted containing the non-defect values in the digital image and the corrected pixel values for defect pixels in the defect region.
Patent EP-0775860-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GONZALEZ TEODORO
IPC: F16K31/383
Filed: 1994-09-02
Abstract: A diverter valve cartridge (34) adapted to be received in a cavity (50) in a solid body is provided said cartridge comprising a tubular elongated housing (60) adapted to be received in said cavity (50) to define a first compartment (B) between an inner end of said housing and the inner end of said cavity and defining a second compartment (A) within the housing (60), an inlet port at one side of the housing, and a first outlet port at the outer end of said housing; a shaft (64) mounted in said housing in coaxial relationship therewith for rectilinear movement along the longitudinal axis of said housing; a piston member (70) mounted on one end of said shaft (64) in sliding sealed relationship with the inner wall of said housing and serving to separate the first and second compartments; a valve member (66) mounted on the other end of said shaft (64) in position to open and close said first outlet port in response to rectilinear movement of said shaft (64); said housing defining a second outlet port (56) communicating with the interior of said first compartment (B); and means (60c) defining a passage from said second compartment (A) to said second outlet port (56), to provide for restricted water flow from said second compartment (A) to said first compartment (B) and to said second outlet port (56).
Patent EP-0727451-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CHIOU SHANG JAW
IPC: C08F2/22
Filed: 1996-01-30
Abstract: Aqueous emulsions of grafted polymer compositions are provided. The grafted component of these compositions has two or more polymeric substituents. The aqueous emulsions of grafted polymer compositions are particularly useful as cement modifiers.
Patent EP-0747112-A2 (EP)
Inventor: JACOBS EDMUND PETRUS
IPC: C12N11/08
Filed: 1996-06-06
Abstract: A method of making a hollow fibre membrane comprises extruding a membrane-forming polymer solution through the annulus of the tube-in-orifice spinneret (12) to form a nascent hollow membrane (32), there being a lumen coagulant in the lumen of the nascent membrane, and the outside of the nascent membrane being contacted with an external coagulant (34) . The external coagulant has a solvent content which is such that, at the interface between the nascent membrane and the external coagulant, liquid-liquid phase separation rather than gelation is thermodynamically the favoured process, and the membrane is then subjected to a vapour-phase non-solvent environment to induce precipitation of the phase-separated polymer.
Patent EP-0757318-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KRAUSE JOHN C
IPC: H04L69/40
Filed: 1996-06-06
Abstract: A multiprocessor system includes a number of sub-processor systems, each substantially identically constructed, and each comprising a central processing unit (CPU), and at least one I/O device, interconnected by routing apparatus that also interconnects the sub-processor systems. A CPU of any one of the sub-processor systems may communicate, through the routing elements, with any I/O device of the system, or with any CPU of the system. 
     Communications between I/O devices and CPUs is by packetized messages. Interrupts from I/O devices are communicated from the I/O devices to the CPUs (or from one CPU to another CPU) as message packets. 
     CPUs and I/O devices may write to, or read from, memory of a CPU of the system. Memory protection is provided by an access validation method maintained by each CPU in which CPUs and/or I/O devices are provided with a validation to read/write memory of that CPU, without which memory access is denied.