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Patent EP-0683401-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HADDY ALAN
IPC: G01V3/15
Filed: 1995-04-13
Abstract: A locating device is disclosed which includes: underground object locating means (24, 26); positional data receiving means (6) for receiving data relating to the geographical position of the locating device; and data storage means (12) for storing data relating to the position of the underground object (16) as determined by the geographical position of the locating device (14). 
     In this way the geographical positional data is stored relating to the location of the underground cable, and may be subsequently retrieved for relocation of the cable.
Patent EP-0691682-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HORIUCHI MICHIO C O SHINKO ELE
IPC: H01L23/15
Filed: 1995-06-22
Abstract: A fired body (24) for manufacturing a substrate (14) is pillar shaped and includes metallic wires (10) arranged inside the fired body parallel with its axis. The melting point of the metallic wires (10) is higher than the melting point, pour point or softening point of an insulating base body (22) of the fired body. A method of manufacturing a substrate includes the steps of: forming a pillar shaped unfired body (22) in which metallic wire rods (10) having a melting point higher than the firing temperature of a fired body are embedded and parallel with the axis; firing the unfired body at a temperature higher than the melting point of the fired body; and cutting the fired body (24) in a direction perpendicular to the axis to provide a substrate (14) of a pre-determined thickness.
Patent EP-0700073-A2 (EP)
Inventor: IKEDO TOMOYUKI
IPC: H01J61/10
Filed: 1995-08-31
Abstract: The present invention is to provide a gas discharge tube having a long service life and capable of an operational stability during long-time continuous light emission. The gas discharge tube includes an envelop for accommodating a hot cathode for emitting thermoelectrons, an anode plate for receiving the thermoelectrons, a focusing electrode having a focusing opening for converging a path of the thermoelectrons, and a discharge shielding member of an insulator having a through hole coaxially arranged with an inner diameter larger than the focusing opening, and a support member having projections efficiently gripping the anode plate with the discharge shielding member so as to increase the heat radiation efficiency of the anode plate.
Patent EP-0712127-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YANAGIHARA NAOMFUMI
IPC: H04N7/52
Filed: 1995-11-14
Abstract: A digital VTR is capable of reproducing a recorded picture image in a normal mode and a variable speed reproduction mode. During normal speed reproduction, the digital VTR reproduces a recorded picture from data that has been recorded in a normal play area of a recording medium. When the digital VTR is in a variable low speed reproduction mode, it reproduces a picture from data recorded in a first trick play area. When the digital VTR is in a variable high speed reproduction mode, it reproduces a picture from data recorded in a second trick play area. The first and second trick play areas are located at respective tracks that correspond to different azimuths.
Patent EP-0671836-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SPYRIDON BLIONAS
IPC: H04L25/03
Filed: 1995-02-22
Abstract: In modern data transmission systems the main reasons for the unreliable reception of data is the InterSymbol Interference (ISI), the noise together with the errors (in the demodulation stage and the timing of the samples). There is, however, a maximum likelihood receiver that minimises these effects in an optimum way, using dedicated algorithms. One well known algorithm which eliminates ISI, due to multi-path propagation, in mobile communication receivers is the Viterbi algorithm that determines the real transmitted sequence, by observing the data for a long time interval. 
     The Viterbi algorithm can be used not only for the decoding of convolutional code sequences but also for the estimation of the maximum likelihood sequence of data distorted by ISI. 
     The current patent application concerns an integrated circuit that executes a properly modified Viterbi algorithm using parallel architecture. Implementations of the Viterbi algorithm using commercial DSPs or ASICs have been reported in the past. However they do not employ a parallel architecture and thus, require much longer processing times. 
     The main use of the proposed invention is in the Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) of digital data sequences, distorted by noise attributed to ISI. The same architecture, however, with minor modifications, can also be used to decode digital data coded with convolutional codes.
Patent EP-0674932-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ROSENBERG PERETZ
IPC: B01D29/15
Filed: 1995-03-16
Abstract: The filter operable in either a filtering mode or in a flushing mode, includes a cylindrical filter body (8), and a plurality of partitions (10) defining a plurality of axially-extending, circumferentially-spaced filter compartments (11) each communicating with an axial section of the filter body (8). All the filter compartments (11) communicate with the fluid inlet (3) except for at least one filter compartment which is blocked. A flushing pathway is provided between each blocked compartment and the flushing outlet (5). A valve (17) in the flushing pathway is movable either to (a) a closed position during the normal filtering mode, or (b) an open position during the flushing mode.
Patent EP-0730883-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MUELLER HANS
IPC: A61M1/36
Filed: 1996-02-15
Abstract: The device has a UV lamp (11) built into a housing (6) and a receptacle for the blood or tissue extract to be illuminated which can be placed in the radiation region of the lamp and rotated within the radiation region by a rotary drive (7-9). The receptacle is a cylindrical cuvette (1) transparent to the UV region of the electromagnetic spectrum, pref. of quartz glass. At one end the cuvette has a stopper (2) with an opening for insertion of an injector cone (5a). At the other end the cuvette has a stopper (3) with a central bore and at least one bacteria filter (4) for the air inlet and outlet. The illumination device contains devices for holding the cuvette and rotating it in the radiation region of the UV lamp.
Patent EP-0742299-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MUTO SHIGEYUKI
IPC: D03C3/32
Filed: 1996-05-06
Abstract: In the thread selecting device, a link is connected to an arm, moving up and down in synchronism with the action of a weaving machine, and the link pivots when the arm moves up and down. Pivoting links lift a plurality of threads via a plurality of knives, the thread lift distance varying according to the pivot angle of the arm. By providing a mechanism which moves the connection point between the arm and the link along an arc having a radius equal to the length of the arm, the lift distance of the thread may be varied without varying the lift position of the thread.
Patent EP-0769637-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WEITZENHOF DAVID A
IPC: F16F9/53
Filed: 1996-06-22
Abstract: A vibration damping device for mounting between two spaced portions of a vehicle for absorbing road forces exerted on the vehicle. An inner metal cylindrical housing (2) forms an internal piston chamber and is connected at one end to one portion of the vehicle, with the outer end of the rod (12) of a piston (10) which is slidably mounted within the piston chamber (11), being connected to the other portion of the vehicle. An outer housing (25) surrounds a portion of the inner housing and forms a fluid transfer duct or flow channel (37) between fluid chambers formed on opposite sides of the piston within the piston chamber. An electrode (52) is mounted in the fluid duct for applying a voltage across the duct to affect the viscosity of an electrorheological (ER) fluid flowing therethrough to increase the damping force of the device. The electrode includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced splines and intervening grooves (54,55) extending longitudinally along the fluid duct. The bottom portions of the grooves have a decreased electric field applied thereto than the splines, providing bleed grooves or leak paths for the ER fluid to decrease the shear-rate of the fluid. The inner housing may be formed with elongated projections which extend into the grooves of the electrode to provide a more uniform electric field along the fluid duct to control the amount of leakage through the bleed grooves. A secondary electrode ground may be formed in the grooves to control the electric field in the bleed grooves.
Patent EP-0735219-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KULHA STEVEN P
IPC: B60R25/00
Filed: 1996-03-05
Abstract: Disclosed is a hands-free remote entry system for vehicles. This hands-free remote entry system includes a base transceiver having wake-up sensors for automatically detecting an object. Upon detecting an object, a transmitter within the base transceiver transmits a wake-up/data signal to a fob transceiver. A wake-up receiver within the fob transceiver receives the wake-up/data signal. Upon receipt of the wake-up/data signal, the fob transceiver transmits an identification/data signal, via a transmitter, back to a receiver in the base transceiver. Upon receipt of the identification signal, output drivers from the base transceiver actuate a door lock system and an auto theft system.
Patent EP-0750186-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GARRITANO RONALD F
IPC: G01N19/00
Filed: 1996-06-18
Abstract: Apparatus and method for the simultaneous measurement of rheological and thermal characteristics of a test specimen subjects the test specimen to stress for rheological measurements, while at the same time subjecting the same test specimen to controlled temperature changes for the measurement of temperature differentials indicative of thermal characteristics of the test specimen while the test specimen is being stressed for the rheological measurements, and a measuring cell for measuring the thermal characteristics of a specimen.
Patent EP-0776978-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LAM LAPYUEN HARRY
IPC: C12P19/62
Filed: 1996-12-04
Abstract: Preparation of 4'-deoxy-O-mycaminosyltylonolide by feeding repromicin to a fermentation broth of a strain of the microorganism  Streptomyces fradiae  (ATCC 31733/ATCC 55671) under aerobic conditions in an aqueous nutrient medium containing inorganic salts and assimilable sources of carbon and nitrogen.
Patent EP-0727510-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RUPPI SAKARI
IPC: C23C16/56
Filed: 1996-02-09
Abstract: An improved multilayer alumina coated cemented carbide insert is made by depositing on the substrate a κ-alumina layer, wet blasting the surface of that insert and then heat-treating the resulting insert at 900°C-1100°C for 0.3-10 hours to convert the κ-alumina to α-alumina. One or more further alumina layers can then be applied.
Patent EP-0815216-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MORELLI SUSANNA
IPC: C12N15/09
Filed: 1996-03-01
Abstract: An antisense transcript which complements the immature mRNA of the IgH gene, originates in the 3' region downstream the enhancer region (E) and terminates in the 5' region upstream the J region. Oligodeoxynucleotides directed to any region of said antisense transcript and their use for diagnostic or pharmaceutical purposes.
Patent EP-0814594-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OGURA NOBUHIKO
IPC: G01T1/29
Filed: 1997-06-12
Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first laser stimulating ray source for emitting a laser beam having a wavelength of 633 nm or 635 nm, a second laser stimulating ray source for emitting a laser beam having a wavelength of 470 to 480 nm, a laser beam scanning device for scanning the laser beam, at least one light detector for photoelectrically detecting light released from an image carrier carrying an image, and at least one filter member disposed in front of the light detector and having a plurality of filters for transmitting light of different wavelengths. The thus constituted image reading apparatus can be used for a radiation diagnosis system, an autoradiographic system, an electron microscope detecting system and a radiation diffraction image detecting system using a stimulable phosphor and a fluorescence detecting system and an image can be read with high sensitivity.
Patent EP-0839489-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ERRMANN HANS
IPC: A47L9/24
Filed: 1997-09-04
Abstract: The system has one element (8) which can be wall-mounted and a second element (5) attached to the vacuum cleaner and its accessory, which forms a counterpart complementary to the first element and can be removably attached to it. The first and second elements consist of a protrusion of essentially T or double L cross-section, and a counter profile for accepting the protrusion.
Patent EP-0828342-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YABUUCHI MASATAKA
IPC: H03K3/53
Filed: 1997-09-05
Abstract: A small-sized pulsed power supply unit capable of
being manufactured at low cost. A switch (4) is connected
in parallel to a capacitor (5) and a discharge load (6) in
such a manner that it forms a closed circuit together with
a DC voltage source (1) and a reactor (2) when the switch
(4) is turned on, so as to store electromagnetic energy in
the reactor (2), and a closed circuit together with the
reactor (2), the capacitor (5) and the discharge load (6)
when the switch (4) is turned off, so as to charge the
electromagnetic energy stored in the reactor (2) to the
capacitor (5) as electrostatic energy at a charge voltage
higher than an output DC voltage of the DC voltage source
(1). A voltage detector (7) detects the voltage of the DC
voltage source (1), and a current detector (8) detects a
current flowing through the reactor (2). A control
circuit (9A) switches on and off the switch (4) based on
the detected voltage and the detected current.
Patent EP-0845808-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KINOSHITA MASAAKI
IPC: H01L23/528
Filed: 1997-11-14
Abstract: The semiconductor device according to the present
invention includes a first wiring formed on a first
insulating film, a second insulating film provided
on the first wiring, a second wiring provided on the
second insulating film, and a plurality of via holes
for electrically connecting the first wiring and the
second wiring where the first wiring and the second
wiring intersect, provided in a via hole formation
region, wherein the first wiring is divided in the
via hole formation region into a first branch wiring
and a second branch wiring, and the widths of the
first branch wiring and the second branch wiring are
respectively 7 µm or less.
Patent EP-0791897-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCOTT PAUL JAMES
IPC: G06T17/05
Filed: 1997-02-13
Abstract: An apparatus and method for the processing of height information indicative of the roughness or texture of a surface which may be used to produce an improved two dimensional recording of the surface. The apparatus or method has particular applicability in the field on metrological instruments. In processing the surface information, the apparatus or method takes account not only of the basic height information but also of gradient information. Such gradient information is furthermore adjusted dependent upon a desired angle of illumination which may be selected by the user.
Patent EP-0810643-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FUJIYAMA YASUTOMO
IPC: H01L21/3063
Filed: 1997-05-28
Abstract: Provided is a suitable cleaning method of porous semiconductor substrate without occurrence of collapse of porous structure due to cavitation or resonance. 
     In a cleaning method of porous surface of semiconductor substrate having the porous structure at least in the surface, cleaning for removing dust particles adhering to the porous surface of the substrate takes place with pure water on which a high-frequency wave with a frequency in the range of from 600 kHz to 2 MHz is superimposed.
Patent EP-0858247-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KIM GONG-SU
IPC: H05B6/76
Filed: 1997-08-20
Abstract: A microwave oven including a housing (100) having a cooking chamber (200) and a
door (400) for providing access to the interior of the cooking chamber (200). The
microwave includes means (520) for providing a seal between the door (100) and a
front face (110) of the cooking chamber (200) when the door (400) is shut. The
means includes a sealing member (522) biased into contact with the front face (110).
Patent EP-0838141-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCARLETT ANDREW JAMES
IPC: A01B79/00
Filed: 1997-10-07
Abstract: In the field of agricultural tractor / implement combinations, there have
been numerous attempts at improving the efficiency of isolated sub-systems
such as the engine, the implement control and the transmission.
Such sub-systems have individually successfully been automated, but
previous attempts to automate the entire control of a tractor during eg.
ploughing operations have previously failed. 
     The disclosure relates to a tractor implement combination (10) including
a control apparatus comprising a plurality of microprocessors (21,40-45,
48). The microprocessors (21,40-45 & 48) are arranged in a hierarchical
control strategy that includes a steady state reference model of various
performance parameters of the tractor / implement combination. 
     The tractor / implement combination can therefore be controlled in an
automated, integrated way such that the tractor operator does not have to
operate any of the sub-systems yet the performance is maximised against
a chosen criterion (eg. minimum fuel consumption, maximum work rate,
etc).
Patent EP-0851105-A2 (EP)
Inventor: COFFINBERRY GEORGE ALBERT
IPC: F02C7/14
Filed: 1997-12-19
Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a turbocooler and configure so that, in one
embodiment, cool air from the turbocooler is supplied to the combustor (10) for
cooling the combustor (10) and then, after cooling at least a portion of the combustor
(10), for mixing with fuel in the fuel injector (30), is described. In one form, the
combustor (10) includes a flowpath (42) in flow communication with cool air supplied
by the turbocooler. The air flows through the flowpath from an aft portion to an outlet
located at the fuel injector (30) The cooling air, after having cooled walls of the
combustion chamber (18), mixes with fuel in the fuel injector (30). Mixing the high
pressure air form the turbocooler with the fuel in the fuel injector (30) facilitates
dispersion of fuel from the fuel injector (30) into the combustion chamber (18), and
also aids in increasing the fuel/air energy shear gradients. As a result, the injection
velocity is believed to be significantly increased, and NOx emissions are believed to be
reduced.
Patent EP-0812110-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MURRAY CHRISTOPHER S
IPC: H04N7/24
Filed: 1997-05-23
Abstract: A method is provided for allowing the transmission of digital video segments along a number of transmission channels, with the line speed, or rate of transmission in bits per second, being variable during a transmission. For each transmission channel, video data segments are stored in a data buffer, along with data segments known as Write Control Blocks (WCBs). Each WCB includes a pointer to the video data segment with which it is associated and a line speed code indicating the preferred rate of data transmission. The addresses of the WCBs are stored in a FIFO buffer which is established for each transmission channel. When coded information within a WCS indicates that a speed change is needed, a run-time subroutine executing in a co-processor sets bits within a channel control word forming a portion of each WCB to stop a DMA process and to issue an interrupt when the corresponding video segment is to be transmitted. An interrupt handler determines the new line speed and sets a variable speed clock accordingly.
Patent EP-0801275-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TARPIO TAPIO
IPC: F24F13/24
Filed: 1997-04-14
Abstract: The valve (5) comprises control components for the air flow (7) arranged so that they at least partly guide upwards the air being fed to the room of a building. A canalisation has one or more channels so arranged that in the plane located in the longitudinal direction of the upper horizontal part of the installation frame (4a) and vertical to the main plane of the window they are at least partly inclined. The air coming into the building room is guided against the edges of the window. The control components for the air flow incorporate the upper and lower control components for the air current (7a,b). The canalisation is formed by channel components arranged between the control components for the air flow.
Patent EP-0806558-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ANDERSON GORDON
IPC: F02C7/232
Filed: 1997-04-15
Abstract: Each burner (1) for feed of fluid fuel (4) has a fuel lance (3) with at least one additional air channel (7) and an air blast nozzle (2) for atomisation of the fluid fuel. Atomisation air (5) is fed to the nozzle from outside the burner hood (13). An adjustment mechanism is provided for at least partial throttling of the inflow of atomisation air during gas operation. The adjustment mechanism is an external valve, which is arranged in a main feed conduit for the atomisation air coming from a compressor outlet. The main feed conduit issues in a ring conduit, which is connected with the head of each fuel lance. The ring conduit is arranged outside on the housing of the gas turbine.
Patent EP-0858555-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ALBERTER GUENTER
IPC: F02D41/14
Filed: 1997-08-09
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/EP97/04350 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 16, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 16, 1998 PCT Filed Aug. 9, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/07971 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 26, 1998A method for the cylinder-selective control of combustion processes in diesel engines. In this case, a measuring device with associated processing unit is used to detect the rotational crankshaft angle and to determine the instantaneous rotational crankshaft speed. A control device determines suitable parameters from the rotational crankshaft speed, which parameters permit a cylinder-selective equalizing or a defined unequalizing of the mean pressures in various operating ranges of the internal combustion engine, thereby minimizing the effects of component differences in the fuel feed system and the combustion system on the combustion process.
Patent EP-0888500-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KOBLER ALBERT
IPC: E04B1/61
Filed: 1997-12-19
Abstract: Die Erfindung betrifft ein mechanisches Verbindungsmittel in Form eines Spannschlosses, das für das verdeckte Verbinden und Fixieren von vorwiegend vorfabrizierten Bauteilen aller Art bestimmt ist. Das Spannschloss ist eine flächige, vorwiegend rundliche Metallscheibe, die mit zwei gegenüber liegenden Ausschnitten in Form von Spannzungen und einem Loch von bestimmter Form im Zentrum der Metallscheibe, als Spannelement ausgebildet ist. In Verbindung mit zwei Haltebolzen, die in den zu verbindenden Bauteilen gleichteilig eingesetzt sind, übernimmt die Metallscheibe die Funktion als Verbindung. Durch das Einsetzen des Spannelementes und dem speziellen Steckschlüssel für die Drehbewegung zum Spannen, in die jeweils zur Hälfte ausgefrästen Aussparungen in den zu verbindenden Teilen, übernimmt das Spannschloss (Erfindung) die Funktion als Schloss, welches fixiert wie auch problemlos geöffnet werden kann. Dimensionen und Material des Spannschlosses richten sich weitgehend nach der Anwendung und dem Einsatz.
Patent EP-0948537-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCOTT JOHN D
IPC: G01N33/577
Filed: 1997-12-19
Abstract: L'invention concerne, de façon générale, des fragments de gravine de liaison aux protéines et des polynucléotides codant ces fragments. Les fragments de liaison aux protéines comprennent les fragments qui se lient à la sous-unité régulatrice de type II de protéine-kinase AMPc-dépendante ou de protéine-kinase C. L'invention concerne en outre des anticorps dirigés contre les fragments de liaison aux protéines et les tests d'identification de composés modulant la liaison de la gravine à la protéine liante.