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Patent EP-0362937-A2 (EP)
Title: Safety control system for power operated equipment
Inventor: GRASSELLI GIORGIO
IPC: F16P3/12
Filed: 1989-09-28
Abstract: A safety control system for power operated equipment ensures operator safety by immediately disconnecting or reversing the power drive from a power driven rotating member such as a circular blade of a meat trimming knife or a toothed feed shaft of a meat skinning machine, upon a metal conductive glove worn by the operator, contacting the blade or toothed shaft or other electrically isolated portion of the equipment. The operator's glove is electrically connected to a safety switch which immediately disconnects or reverses the power drive from the rotating member upon the glove completing a circuit upon contact with the electrically isolated portion of the equipment. A moisture impervious dielectric plastic glove preferably is worn by the operator to prevent the moisture in the meat from conducting current between the metal glove and isolated machine portion until the plastic glove is cut and contact made with the metal glove. A switch requires manual actuation to connect the power drive to the rotatable member. The metal gloves are connected to the safety switch by electrodes secured to the operator's wrists in close proximity to the metal gloves. In a second embodiment the gloves are connected to the safety switch by a pair of metal electrodes mounted on the operator's garment adjacent the thigh areas which contact another pair of electrodes provided by a pair of pivotally mounted conductive arms which extend outwardly from the power operated equipment. A dielectric platform may also be used to completely electrically isolate the operator from all metal components of the skinning machine.
Patent EP-0336729-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GRIFFIN TONY KENNETH
IPC: A01J5/007
Filed: 1989-04-05
Abstract: A pulsation controller for automatic milking apparatus providing the customary "On" and "Off" electrical pulses corresponding, respectively, to "milk flow" and "no milk flow" into the relevant teat up. The controller provides variation of pulse frequency, while maintaining constant duration of "Off" pulses, and also provides for pre-set adjustment of the "Off" pulse duration then maintained constant. The pulsation controller is itself controlled by a microcomputer, which executes a stored programme to provide the set pulse sequence in quadrature at four output terminal pairs. All required intervals are achieved using 1m sec. interrupts, loading a register with the required 1m sec. number and decrementing to zero the number stored by the corresponding number of interrupts.
Patent EP-0338775-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HARROW GEORGE ARTHUR
IPC: B65G47/90
Filed: 1989-04-18
Abstract: Sagger loading apparatus, for loading unfired ceramic sparking plug bodies (3) into a sagger (37), includes a clamp (8) for removing the bodies from a conveyor (2) and depositing the bodies on pins (14) in an array, which form an intermediate store. A gripper assembly having four inwardly and outwardly movable walls (22) grips the bodies on the pins and removes them and moves them simultaneously into the sagger, where the walls of the gripper are moved apart to leave the sparking plug bodies in the sagger, ready for firing.
Patent EP-0340946-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YAMADA SHUNICHI
IPC: F02F7/00
Filed: 1989-04-21
Abstract: A heat insulating ceramic insert-cast article for an internal combustion engine, comprising a ceramic liner (1) and a metallic member (2) enclosing the outer periphery of the ceramic liner. The ceramic liner contacts the exhaust gases. The joint boundary between the ceramic liner and the metallic member is constituted by contact faces (3) at which the ceramic liner contacts the metallic member and heat insulating air layers (4) at which the ceramic liner and the metallic member do not contact each other. To produce such an article, first, the outer periphery of the ceramic liner is covered with a heat insulating layer which is partially formed with cuts, and then the ceramic liner is enclosed with a molten metal. Thus, the metal flows into the cuts and solidifies therein to form the contact faces (3) between the ceramic liner and the metal. Portions at which the metal does not flow inside due to the presence of the layer are converted to heat insulating layers.
Patent EP-0355996-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GOLDENBERG TSVI
IPC: A61B17/22
Filed: 1989-07-20
Abstract: A guidewire (1) for a catheter comprises a wire coil (2) having a distal end and a optical fiber (5) having a distal end and extending axially through the center of the wire coil. The distal end of the optical fiber is bonded to the distal end of the wire coil.
Patent EP-0354062-A2 (EP)
Inventor: JACKSON ROY JAMES
IPC: F16L23/14
Filed: 1989-08-04
Abstract: A corner bracket (20, 120) forming part of a system of corner brackets adapted for mechanically inter-connecting in an air tight manner generally rectangular duct portions (37, 38). A first bracket (12) on the end of a first duct (37) is placed in adjacent, abutting, back to back relationship with a second bracket (6) on a second duct (38) and similarly at all four corners of the duct ends. Tabs (27, 127) which are formed from the corner bracket (20, 120) are located so as to be foldable over the adjacent, back to back brackets so as to mechanically bind the brackets together. The folding operation can be performed with hand tools such as hammers and the like. 
     Using appropriate seals an air tight, mechanically sound duct join is accomplished. The brackets and the bracket inter-connection system are particularly suited for use with air conditioning duct networks.
Patent EP-0359398-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HORTON TREVOR
IPC: G01M3/22
Filed: 1989-08-14
Abstract: Moisture detection apparatus for detecting the presence of water leaks from water cooled panels in an electric arc furnace comprises one or more moisture sampling members (10) mounted on the furnace shell at locations below the bottoms of the water cooled panels. Each member (10) comprises a sampling tube (36) extending through a bore (30) into the furnace lining and an air intake (38) external of the furnace shell communicating with the sampling tube (36). An extractor pump sucks air through the intake (38) and sampling tube (36), thus picking up any moisture which is present below the water cooled panel (26), to cause the air to flow through an associated moisture sensor. The apparatus includes signal means responsive to a predetermined maximum permissible moisture content sensed by a sensor. The signal means may provide a visual and/or audible signal and/or a signal to actuate an air flow control valve to prevent further intake of air through the associated sensor.
Patent EP-0357377-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KEES GEORGE JR
IPC: B25B5/12
Filed: 1989-08-30
Abstract: A toggle action aneurysm clip (10) which comprises a pair of jaw members (14, 22) pivoted (26) together. The jaw members (14, 22) swing between an open position in which gripping portions of the jaw members (14, 22) are spaced and a closed position in which the gripping portions of the jaw members (14, 22) are in gripping position. A toggle linkage (28, 32) between the jaw members (14, 22) is urged by spring means (34) to urge the toggle linkage (28, 32) alternately to open position and to closed posi­tion. Jaw facing members (15, 23) are mountable on the jaws (14, 22) to adjust the interjaw gap (25) and firmness of the aneurysm engaging surfaces (59, 60).
Patent EP-0363209-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GANNON RAYMOND
IPC: H04N5/33
Filed: 1989-10-05
Abstract: Pictorial data from a thermal imager is applied on a line 21 to a RAM 4 at which a histogram representing the numerical distribution of pixel values is produced. This is applied to a microprocessor 9 which uses the histogram to produce a transform to control the gain and offset of the data output of the processor. The microprocessor sets a look-up table 10 to apply the transform to the received data, the output of the table 10 being converted to analogue form at an analogue-to-digital converter 11.
Patent EP-0326510-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KISTNER KENNETH J
IPC: G01F5/00
Filed: 1989-01-23
Abstract: A method and apparatus for metering and pumping multicomponents of high and low viscosity materials and subsequently mixing and applying such mixture includes gear pumps (62, 64) for pumping each component. Each gear pump has gears (156, 162) operating in a gear housing (66) for receiving and pumping one of the components. The gear pumps are simultaneously driven at a predetermined speed and each gear pump is designed to pump a predetermined amount of its respective components, at the predetermined speed. Flexible hoses (42, 44) connect the pumps (62, 64) to an applicator (44). Check valves (96, 98) are used to maintain the pressure in these hoses when the pumps are in their at-rest position. The gear pumps (62, 64) may be driven at the same rotational speed but are designed to pump a predetermined amount of the different materials so that the ratio of materials can be precisely set. 
     Where a single fluid is pumped, a gear pump (62′, 62˝) is driven by a hydraulically driven torque motor (64′) or an electric motor (70˝). The pump has a discharge connected by a hose (40′, 40˝) to a dispenser (44′, 44˝). A check valve (96′, 96˝) is used to maintain the pressure in the hose when the pump is in its at-rest position. The gear pump need only be operated as necessary to maintain pressure in the hose. Precise metering of the fluid pumped is accomplished by controlling the operation of the gear pump.
Patent EP-0359722-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BUCEFARI MASSIMO
IPC: B21L11/00
Filed: 1989-09-11
Abstract: A machine for the production of an ornamental chain of the type formed by so-called "figure-of-eight" links, comprising a slide (23) for transferring a section of wire of prefixed length, folded in a U shape, from a unit (S1) for supplying said section of wire to a calibrated tubular guide (34), holding the already formed chain, to engage it with the last formed link of the chain. the guide (34) is radially surrounded by tools for bringing together (55,56) and permanently joining (71,72) the ends of the arms of said U-shaped section engaged in the last U-shaped link, and tools for centring (73) the resulting closed link with respect to the axis of the guide (34). 
A push device (81) is further provided for performing an alternating movement away from and towards the last formed U-shaped link along the axis of the guide (34) so as to supply a force onto said link, causing at the same time sliding of the chain inside the guide and folding the closed link about its middle transverse axis.
Patent EP-0388600-A2 (EP)
Inventor: JUVINALL JOHN W
IPC: G03B15/00
Filed: 1990-01-30
Abstract: Apparatus for inspecting the sealing surface (36) of a container finish (34) that includes a light source (42) positioned to direct light energy onto the container sealing surface as the container is held in stationary position and rotated about its central axis. A camera (48) that includes an array (80) of light sensitive elements (80a through 80n) is positioned and oriented with respect to the container axis of rotation (23) to receive light energy reflected by the sealing surface, with the camera having an effective field of view limited to an angular portion (58) less than the entire circumference of the container sealing surface. The camera array is scanned at increments of container rotation to develop information indicative of intensity of light at each array element as a function of such increments, and commercial variations in the container sealing surface are detected as a function of such information. The camera array is oriented with respect to the container axis of rotation and coupled to the scanning mechanism to scan the array in linear fields orthogonal to the axis of rotation, and scan information is stored for subsequent analysis in two-dimensional electronic memory (54) as a function of array element and scan increment. The light source is strobed at increments of container rotation and the camera array, which may be either a linear array or an area array, is scanned at each strobe increment of container rotation.
Patent EP-0382260-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MIYAKE TORU C O DAI NIPPON INS
IPC: H01J17/49
Filed: 1990-02-09
Abstract: A plasma display panel comprises a front plate disposed on the side of a viewer, a rear plate disposed in parallel and opposing the front plate, and cell barriers arranged between the front and rear plates of matrix shape or linear shape. The cell barrier is formed of a material including a phosphor. The cell barriers are formed by printing multiple times a phosphor paste containing glass frit in an overlapped manner by a screen printing method. The cell barrier is formed in another method in which a positive pattern of cell barriers are formed on the front or rear plate by using photo resist, a slurry containing a phosphor fills in portions except for the pattern of the photo resist, and the photo resist is thereafter removed to thereby form cell barriers. In the case of the cell barrier of a color display PDP, the cell barrier may be composed of a material containing phosphor of different colors each with a width corresponding to a one half width of the cell barrier.
Patent EP-0388715-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OHLIG ERNEST
IPC: G03B27/20
Filed: 1990-03-08
Abstract: A method and an apparatus for supporting photographic sheet materials (9,11) in intimate surface contact during contact exposure includes a flexible membrane (15) which forms a common boundary wall between two gas-tight chambers. Air at ambient pressure is admitted to one chamber at a controlled rate slower than air is evacuated from the other chamber containing the photographic sheet materials. Progressive expansion of the surface area of contacting force assures that residual volumes of air between photographic sheets (9,11) are squeezed out in an orderly pattern and not trapped in isolated pockets that would distort resulting photographic images.
Patent EP-0389924-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PARENTI FRANCESCO
IPC: A61P1/16
Filed: 1990-03-20
Abstract: Use of the antibiotic purpuromycin for the topical treatment of infectious vaginitis and topical dosage forms containing said product. The antibiotic purpuromycin is simultaneously active against the main causative agents of infectious vaginitis i.e.:  Candida vaginalis ,  Trichomonas vaginalis  and  Gardnerella vaginalis .
Patent EP-0417454-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HAVIV FORTUNA
IPC: C07K7/23
Filed: 1990-08-01
Abstract: The present invention relates to novel LHRH analogs. The LHRH analogs include "pseudo" hexapeptide, heptapeptide, octapeptide and nonapeptide analogs of LHRH, wherein all or some of the amino acids 1, 2 and 3 have been eliminated and the remaining (2-9), (2-10), (3-9), (3-10), (4-9) or (4-10) peptide is linked to various carboxylic acids which take the place of amino acids 1, 2 or 3 in LHRH.
Patent EP-0416411-A2 (EP)
IPC: E04F15/024
Filed: 1990-08-27
Abstract: A carrying plate is proposed, in which a building plate 1 is provided with a multiplicity of hollow-foot shells 2, each possessing a cup piece 5 displaceable in a sleeve piece 4. In this arrangement, it is desired that the hollow-foot shells of the carrying plate can be preset inexpensively at a given installation height and the carrying plate rests, in the mounted state, on preset hollow-foot shells, and that adaptation to floor unevennesses takes place by fine adjustment of the length of hollow-foot shells. This is achieved in that, for fixing the cup pieces 5 on the sleeve piece 4, in each case a radially interlocking bar device 8 is provided and in that, in the mounted state of the carrying plate, some of the hollow-foot shells 2 are barred in interlocking manner with respect to the rough installation height, whereas with the other hollow-feet shells it is possible to carry out a fine lengthwise alteration of the bar device 8. The mounted carrying plate is firmly supported firstly by some hollow-foot shells for walking on, and the other hollow-foot shells are altered finely, when the carrying plate is mounted, for the purpose of compensating floor unevennesses. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0415392-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OHBA HISAO
IPC: G03D5/04
Filed: 1990-08-29
Abstract: A light-sensitive material processing apparatus for processing an image-wise exposed light-sensitive material by immersing the light-sensitive material in a processing solution while the light-sensitive material is being automatically conveyed. The apparatus includes a scraping brush constituted by a shaft and a synthetic resin-made elongated brush wound spirally around an outer periphery of the shaft. Accordingly, the light-sensitive layer of the light-sensitive material is scraped off by the scraping brush to effect processing.
Patent EP-0420209-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YOSHIDA TAKAHARU C O INTELLECT
IPC: G11B7/126
Filed: 1990-09-26
Abstract: In an optical disk (1) apparatus which reads specifications data from a control track (c) on various types of optical disks (1) requiring different laser powers for data reading, in reading data from the control track (c), the power of the laser beam of a semiconductor laser oscillator (9) is set low according to an optical disk (1) requiring a low-power laser beam for data reading, and when accessing the control track (c) indicates that the optical disk (1) actually requiring a high-power laser beam, the power of the laser beam is changed to high power.
Patent EP-0423586-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MILTENBERGER CHRISTOF
IPC: G04B23/02
Filed: 1990-10-08
Abstract: The alarm clock (1) consists of a rocker (21) which closes and opens a switching contact in order to produce and cancel the alarm-set state. The rocker (21) has an actuation face (22) which can be controlled manually and is mounted so as to be rotatable about an axis (48). The rocker (21) is let into a recess (28) of the housing (2, 14) in such a way that when not in the alarm-set state the actuation face (22) of the rocker (21) forms part of the contour (16) of the one housing (2) and that in the alarm-set state one part of the actuation face (22) protrudes out of the contour (16) of the housing (2) on this side of the axis (48) of rotation of the rocker (21) while the other part of the actuation face (22) penetrates the recess (28) of the housing (2) on the other side of the axis (48) of rotation. According to the invention, the axis about which the rocker (21) can be rotated is located on the one hand outside the contour (16) of the housing (2) and on the other hand extends parallel to the axis (23) of the hands of the alarm clock (1). <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0424879-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HASHIMOTO KAZUNOBU
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 1990-10-23
Abstract: An air tempering apparatus (20) for use in an automotive vehicle including a duct (21) having a first passage through which tempered air is discharged into a front compartment portion (42) in front of the front seats and a second passage (50) through which tempered air is descharged into a rear compartment portion in rear of the front seats. A switch is provided for manual operation in the rear compartment portion to generate a command signal to a control unit which thereby controls the amount of tempered air discharged through the second passage into the rear compartment portion.
Patent EP-0427297-A2 (EP)
Inventor: JOHNSON STANLEY JEROME
IPC: B24B3/36
Filed: 1989-03-28
Abstract: A material chopping machine like a forage harvester (10) has a control unit for automatically controllingg the move­ment of a sharpening stone (20) to sharpen the knives of a rotating cutterhead (12). The stone (20) is moved toward and away from the cutterhead (12), and also across it for the sharpening. 
     The control unit involving a programmed microprocessor (U4) responds, for example, to knock sensors (34, 36) sig­nalling contact of the knives with the stone (20) and to a rotation speed sensor (32) on the cutterhead (12).
Patent EP-0381334-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BEST DAVID W
IPC: G06F11/18
Filed: 1990-01-17
Abstract: In a fault tolerant, fail-active computer system a Redundancy Management Unit (RMU) (40) has a plurality of Dual-Port Message Buffers (DPBs) (30) connecting each of a corresponding plurality of communication channels to the RMU (40). Each DPB (30) includes a message channel interface (36), a dual-port RAM (31), a word counter (33), a page FIFO (32), a message header FIFO (34), and a message buffer control circuit (35). The RMU (40) includes word comparators (43), 3-state gates (44), a message comparison control circuit (41), and a voted message FIFO (45). Under software control, the RMU (40) and DPBs (30) perform the functions of management of asynchronous redundant digital messages, sorting of redundant messages received in arbitrary order, synchronization of distribution computing elements, comparison of data words of arbitrary bit length, and configuration control of active channels and communication path redundancy. The dual-port RAMs (31) of the DPBs (30) store incoming words from the respective message channels in an ordered way, and correspondingly addressed words in the dual port RAMs (31) are subsequently synchronously read out from the RAMs (31) under the control of the message comparison control (41) to the word comparators (43) each one of which compares one word from one RMB (30) with one word from another RMB (30) and indicates to the message comparison control (41) whether or not the words are equal. One word is allowed through a 3-state gate (44) to the voted message FIFO (45) on the basis of the word comparator signals to the message comparison control (41).
Patent EP-0389116-A2 (EP)
Inventor: IKEGAYA ISAO C O FUJI KIKO COM
IPC: B60N2/22
Filed: 1990-02-27
Abstract: A power seat lifter arrangement has a drive mechanism for driving a seat cushion (12) for adjustment of the height level, which drive mechanism is mounted on an upper rail (104) of a seat slide. The drive mechanism is separated into two parts, one is for adjusting the height level at the front portion of the seat cushion (12) and the other is for adjusting the height level at the rear portion of the seat cushion (12).
Patent EP-0388047-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MADELEY DAVID ROBERT
IPC: G05B9/03
Filed: 1990-02-28
Abstract: A depowering apparatus for controlling selection and deselection of devices such as a pair of torque motors (1, 1′) comprises two channels. Each channel has a normally open switch (3, 3′) in series with a normally closed switch (4, 4′) connecting a power supply line (5, 5′) to the torque motor (1, 1′). A control circuit (9, 11, 9′, 11′) in each channel closes the normally open switch (3, 3′) of that channel and opens the normally closed switch (4, 4′) of the other channel in response to a channel select signal (TLIC, TLIC′) so as to ensure that each of the torque motors (1, 1′) can be depowered to allow the other to take control.
Patent EP-0387059-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GIBBONS WAYNE MICHAEL
IPC: C09K19/56
Filed: 1990-03-08
Abstract: Disclosed is a process for aligning the molecules in a liquid crystal medium having a surface adjacent to a substrate, in which the liquid crystals have a molecular weight of less than 1500, and anisotropically absorbing molecules in the medium or in the substrate adjacent to it are exposed to linearly polarized light of a wavelength within the absorption band of the absorbing molecules, and alignment of the liquid crystal medium at an angle + or - ϑ with respect to the direction of the linear polarization of the incident light beam is induced by the exposed anisotropically absorbing molecules.