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Patent EP-0494586-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ERIKSSON KURT
IPC: G01F1/74
Filed: 1991-12-03
Abstract: A system for separating gas from a liquid flow whose volume is to be measured with the exclusion of gas inclusions comprises a liquid conduit (5) through which the liquid flow is conducted. The conduit (5) incorporates a volume meter (5), a fluid homogeneity meter (20, 21) arranged upstream of the volume meter, a closure valve (6; 60) and a gas discharge conduit (7; 71) connected to the liquid conduit. The fluid homogeneity meter is constructed to hold the valve (6; 60) in its valve setting in which the liquid conduit (5) is open when the difference between the gas contents of the liquid detected at different time points is lower than a predetermined limit value, and to close the valve (6; 60) when these difference values are not beneath the limit value. The arrangement can be used, for instance, with a system for emptying oil products from a tank in a petroleum tanker. The fluid homogeneity meter may include a pair of electrodes (210, 211) which are mounted in the liquid conduit (5), in which case the meter (20, 21) will detect the capacitance formed by the electrodes and the liquid/or gas present therebetween, and compare the difference between the detected capacitance values with the limit value.
Patent EP-0527446-A2 (EP)
Inventor: IU SIU-LEONG
IPC: H04N7/50
Filed: 1992-08-07
Abstract: Apparatus for selecting a block of data in a previous frame to be used as a predicted block for a given block in a current frame in a system that reduces the bit rate by codifying the difference between the predicted block and the given block in a given manner by deriving the differences between the given block in the current frame and a plurality of blocks in the previous frame and selecting as the predicted block that block for which the codification of its differences with the given block requires the least number of bits. The apparatus can also select a predicted block from a number of blocks selected in accordance with ABD or SBD techniques.
Patent EP-0516258-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BOINET JEAN-LUC
IPC: F03G7/06
Filed: 1992-05-26
Abstract: The invention relates to a heat engine comprising at least one cylinder 105 with a piston element 106, devices 121, 122 for the successive heating and cooling of the medium enclosed in the cylinder 105, and an output linkage 110. In order to obtain a high efficiency in the continuous output of the heat engine, a plurality of cylinders 105 is arranged on a frame 104 rotatable about a rotationally fixed eccentric shaft 101, the devices 121, 122 being arranged diametrically opposite in the rotational area of the cylinder 105 and the output linkage 110 of the plurality of piston elements 106 being supported on a bearing ring 109 capable of rotating on the eccentric shaft 101, and the rotatable frame 104 and the bearing ring 109 being supported on different areas of the rotationally fixed eccentric shaft 101. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0524715-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CROSBY PHILIP S
IPC: H04N9/804
Filed: 1992-03-24
Abstract: A format converter for converting an input signal having a specified format to a digital signal of a pre-existing format, and for converting the digital signal back to the input signal automatically, loads an active data portion of the input signal into an input first-in/first-out (FIFO) buffer (30) at a first data rate and reads the active data portion together with dummy filler samples from the FIFO at a second data rate as the digital signal. The number, location and/or values of the filler samples identify the specified format. In reverse the filler samples are stripped from the digital signal and the resulting active samples are loaded into an output FIFO at the second data rate. The stripped filler samples are used to determine the specified format of the original source of the data signal, and the active samples are read from the output FIFO at the first data rate in the specified format to reproduce the input signal.
Patent EP-0508666-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BEGLIN THOMAS WILLIAM
IPC: G06F12/00
Filed: 1992-03-31
Abstract: The average time a user must wait to have an object retrieved from an automated optical disk library is reduced by a method for prioritizing read requests. When a read request is received it is added to a queue of pending requests. All pending requests associated with volumes currently mounted on optical disk drives are processed first. The pending requests associated with the opposite sides of the currently mounted volumes are processed next. The next requests to be processed are those pending read requests associated with the unmounted volume having the greatest number of pending read requests. Thereafter any other pending requests for that unmounted volume will be processed as normally would be done for a currently mounted volume. This method continues until all pending read requests have been processed for the unmounted volumes. Allowing pending requests to go unprocessed, a problem referred to as starvation, is avoided by determining a mean response time of processed requests and increasing the priority of pending requests associated with unmounted volumes having a response time greater than some factor of the mean response time.
Patent EP-0538013-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAHARA KATSUMI
IPC: H04N21/2383
Filed: 1992-10-14
Abstract: Image data of four frames in total are stored in four memories and the image data from the four memories are sequentially transmitted, whereby still picture image data having a resolution twice the resolution of a CIF (common intermediate format) image based on a video CODEC recommendation H.261 can be transmitted. 
     In the still picture transmission conforming to the video recommendation H.261, frames four times the transmission frame are prepared and first to fourth frames are stored in first to fourth frame memories (27a to 27d), thereby obtaining a still picture having pixels the number of which is four times the number of pixels of a CIF still picture based on the video CODEC recommendation H.261.
Patent EP-0541402-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SOMMER EDWARD J JR
IPC: B09B3/00
Filed: 1992-11-09
Abstract: A bag opener for opening bags containing recyclable materials includes a source of heat sufficient to melt the bags and an assembly that brings the bags into the vicinity of the source of heat to open the bags. In a preferred embodiment the source of heat includes a heated member and the assembly brings the bags into contact with the heated member to open the bags.
Patent EP-0562235-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BAUMEISTER ROLF
IPC: G06F15/00
Filed: 1993-01-29
Abstract: For telecommunications exchanges having a hybrid processor control comprising a central processor and distributed processors, a switching network and peripheral interfaces for connecting system-associated and non-system-associated terminals for transmitting voice and data, it is proposed to connect each terminal to the corresponding interface by using only a two-wire line and to carry out the voice transmission bidirectionally in four-wire mode within the switching network and unidirectionally in two-wire mode outside the switching network. The data are transmitted by means of a data-over-voice method and a direct-current transmission with low transmitting level. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0576926-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KIENLE CHRISTOPH
IPC: A21D13/00
Filed: 1993-06-17
Abstract: Disposable containers manufactured as a bakery product in the form of shells and the like receive a particularly long shelf-life and liquid-tightness by their being furnished at least on the inside with a glazing containing at least a protein. To further increase the liquid-tightness, they can be manufactured from a dough which is formed as a lye-treated (pretzel-type) dough.
Patent EP-0581037-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KUHN BERNHARD
IPC: A61C1/08
Filed: 1993-06-30
Abstract: Medical or dental treatment instrument, especially a handpiece (1), with a driven treatment tool (4), in which a drive connection (6) comprising one drive section or two drive sections with or without one gear (6, 36c) is arranged so as to be exchangeable, is mounted in a bearing sleeve (15) which can be pushed into the treatment instrument from behind and can be fixed in the pushed-in position. In the treatment instrument (1) there is provided an inner sleeve (28) which can be pushed into the treatment instrument from behind, and between the inner sleeve (28) and the bearing sleeve (15) there is a releasable connection (15c) and between the, preferably rear, terminal region of the inner sleeve (28) and an outer sleeve (29) of the treatment instrument surrounding it there is another releasable connection (31a). <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0583591-A2 (EP)
Title: Verfahren zur Herstellung hoch enantiomerenreiner Oxiranalkohole
Inventor: MANERO JAVIER DR
IPC: C07D303/14
Filed: 1993-07-05
Abstract: Verfahren zur Herstellung hochenantiomerenreiner Oxiranalkohole der Formel (I), dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß eine Mischung der isomeren Oxiranalkohole, in der das gewünschte Enantiomere in einem Überschuß von mindestens 60 % ee vorliegt, in einem Lösungsmittel oder Lösungsmittelgemisch bei einer Temperatur dicht, unterhalb des Schmelzpunkts des Oxiranalkohols umkristallsiert wird. Erfindungsgemäß dargestellte Oxiranalkohole zeichnen sich durch eine hohe Enantiomerenreinheit aus. Ferroelektrische Flüssigkristalle, die erfindungsgemäß hochenantiomerenreine Oxiranalkohole und/oder von diesen abgeleitete Derivate enthalten, haben besonders kurze Schaltzeiten. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0589195-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HOSHINO HIDEKAZU C O NHK SPRIN
IPC: G07D7/20
Filed: 1993-08-10
Abstract: A number of high-permeability magnetic elements (12) are dispersed in a scanning region (13) of a checking object (10). A core (41) of a processing apparatus (20) is provided with an exciting coil (31) and a sensor coil (32). When a bias magnetic field is applied to the core (41), and the scanning region (13) is passed in the vicinity of a gap (42), the permeability of the gap (42) varies depending on the density of the magnetic elements (12), so that a magnetic flux passing through the core (41) changes. A detection signal corresponding to the change of the magnetic flux is detected by means of the sensor coil (32). This detection signal is converted into a cipher code and then recorded in a code indicator section of the checking object (10). In checking the authenticity of the object (10), a detection signal obtained by scanning the scanning region (13) by means of the processing apparatus (20) and a code for collation obtained by decoding the cipher code recorded in the code indicator section are compared, and it is concluded that the checking object (10) is real when the detection signal and the collation code correspond to each other.
Patent EP-0588136-A2 (EP)
Inventor: DORFMAN JAY ROBERT
IPC: H05K1/09
Filed: 1993-08-30
Abstract: A polymer thick film resistor composition is disclosed which comprises: (1) finely divided particles of a conductive metal having a surface area of 0.3 to 3.0 m²/g; (2) finely divided particulate material having a surface area greater than 100 m²/g; (3) a thermoplastic resin; dissolved in (4) an organic solvent having a volatility rating of 10,000 to 50,000; wherein the composition is substantially curable within 2.5 minutes by heating to a temperature of 135C, and further wherein the volume ratio of particulate material to resin is at least 3.5, and the weight ratio of solvent to resin is 3 to 5.
Patent EP-0615342-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MIYASAKA TADASHI C O FUJI ELEC
IPC: H03K17/082
Filed: 1993-09-16
Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a main insulated gate type switching element having a gate electrode and controllable by a gate voltage applied to the gate electrode, a current detecting insulated gate type switching element connected in parallel to the main insulated gate type switching element, a detecting resistor for detecting a current flowing in the current detecting insulated gate type switching element, a gate controlling element capable of controlling the gate voltage by a drop voltage in the detecting resistor, and a gate control relieving element for relieving a varying speed of the gate voltage varied based on an operation of the gate controlling element.
Patent EP-0562878-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAKAGO TOSHIO
IPC: C08K5/54
Filed: 1993-03-26
Abstract: A room temperature curable organopolysiloxane composition comprising : (A) 100 parts by weight of a diorganopolysiloxane blocked by hydroxyl group at both terminal ends of its molecule, (B) from 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of an organosilicon compound having at least three silicon-bonded hydrolyzable groups in its molecule or a partially hydrolyzed product of the organosilicon compound, (C) from 0.1 to 15 parts by weight of an alkoxysilane having the following general formula (1) :
     wherein R 1  and R 2  are each an unsubstituted or substituted monovalent hydrocarbon group of from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, R 3  is a divalent hydrocarbon group of from 1 to 8 carbon atoms which may contain an amide linkage (-CONH-) or ether oxygen linkage, Rf is a divalent perfluoroalkylene group or a divalent perfluoropolyether group, and n is an integer from 1 to 3, and a cured product of the composition. The composition and the cured product thereof ensure lessened contamination on surfaces of the cured product and in the surroundings, and permit easy removal of fungi, if any, from surfaces of the cured product.
Patent EP-0601685-A2 (EP)
Inventor: DAGGS ROBERT WILLIS
IPC: B41J33/28
Filed: 1993-04-27
Abstract: A gear system in a printing ribbon cartridge includes two gears (30,32; 60,62; 70,72) between which a ribbon (24) passes in use. The gears have undercut teeth (34,34a) which intermesh. The teeth are preferably smoothly curved and each includes a plurality of lobes on its end surface (38,38b). The gaps (39) between the lobes leave an extra spacing between a tooth (34,34a) on one gear and a tooth receiving gap (36,36a) between teeth on the other gear. One gear is a drive gear (30; 62; 72) and the other gear is an idler gear (32; 60; 70). The drive gear is on a fixed hub but the idler gear is on a hub (44; 66; 76) which is mounted for sliding movement in a slot (46; 68; 82) such that movement of the idler gear through the slot brings the gears closer together.
Patent EP-0643385-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KIUCHI KATSUMI C O FUJITSU LTD
IPC: G11B5/39
Filed: 1994-09-09
Abstract: In a magnetic recording medium wherein a magnetic recording layer for storing information, a carbon type protective layer (5) for preventing damage of the magnetic recording layer and a lubrication layer are sequentially formed on a non-magnetic substrate, the carbon protective layer has a relatively smaller hydrogen content on the side (52) nearer the lubrication layer than on the side (51) nearer the magnetic recording layer. In a magnetic head slider having an electromagnetic conversion device mounted thereto, a carbon protective layer is laminated on at least a sliding surface side, and a lubrication layer is disposed on the carbon type protective layer. In a recording apparatus including a recording medium for storing information and a magnetic head for recording or reproducing information to and from the memory medium, a carbon protective film having a lower hydrogen content at an upper, surface portion thereof than at a lower, initial portion thereof is formed on either the recording medium or a sliding portion of the magnetic head.
Patent EP-0675332-A2 (EP)
Inventor: IVANOVIC BRANKO DIPL-ING
IPC: F25D23/04
Filed: 1994-10-27
Abstract: The inside wall (3) of the door (1) features a number of parallel slots (4) with dovetail edges for retention of the hooks (15, 16) on the back of trays (14) holding refrigerated prods. The slots are closed and enlarged at their ends and incorporate grooves (5, 6) along their length, the lower edges (9) of which are interrupted over a length corresp. to that of the hooks for ease of insertion. The hooks are firm enough to prevent the trays from being tipped out. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0614186-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OGASAWARA YOSHIMI
IPC: H04N7/24
Filed: 1994-02-28
Abstract: A transmitting apparatus for inserting new information from a designated position of one channel and transmitting in a transmitting system for compressing a series of information signals by a non-prediction coding and a prediction coding which uses non-prediction coding information as reference information and for transmitting prediction coding information and the non-prediction coding information in accordance with a predetermined order, wherein the non-prediction coding information just after an insertion point and the past information than the non-prediction coding information are preserved, and a first predetermined number of information in the information to be inserted is prediction coded by using the non-prediction coding information just after the insertion point as reference information.
Patent EP-0647049-A2 (EP)
Inventor: DIPIERRO ANTHONY R JR
IPC: H04Q3/00
Filed: 1994-08-24
Abstract: A facility (305,310,315) is disposed in a telecommunication network (200) to provide an alternative to the conventional call waiting feature. More particularly, if a telephone call is placed to a subscriber (e.g. S1) while the subscriber's telephone station set is busy with another telephone call, then the facility (305) notes that fact and terminates the new telephone call after advising the caller that the subscriber's station is busy. Thereafter, the facility (305) places a telephone call to the subscriber (S1) and presents thereto at least the telephone numbers of the telephone stations that placed a call to the subscriber during the time that the latter's station was busy.
Patent EP-0625831-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KOHAMA KAZUMASA
IPC: H04B1/44
Filed: 1994-05-20
Abstract: A radio receiver-transmitter apparatus equipped with a signal changeover switch which is capable of properly dealing with a high-power radio frequency signal and ensuring a desired insertion loss and superior isolation characteristic. The switch has a signal input terminal (12/22), a signal output terminal (14/24) and a signal input-output terminal (11/21), and comprises a 1st FET unit (15/25) connected to the input terminal (12/22) and the input-output terminal (11/21), a 2nd FET unit (16/26) connected to the input terminal (12/22) and the ground, a 3rd FET unit (18/28) connected to the output terminal (14/24) and the input-output terminal (11/21), and a 4th FET unit (17/27) connected to the output terminal (14/24) and the ground. The gate width of each transistor in the 1st FET unit (15/25) is so determined as to render the source-drain saturation current greater than the maximum current amplitude of the input signal fed from the input terminal, and each of the 2nd and 3rd FET units (16,18/26,28) consists of one or more transistor stages equal in number to the result of rounding up the numerical value which is obtained by dividing the maximum voltage amplitude of the input signal fed from the signal input terminal, by the withstand voltage of the transistors in the 2nd and 3rd FET units.
Patent EP-0686669-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MINE KATSUTOSHI DOW CORNING TO
IPC: C08L27/12
Filed: 1995-06-06
Abstract: Curable silicone compositions comprise either (a) microparticles of a fluororesin, which exhibits low adhesion to the cured composition, or (b) microparticles of an organic or inorganic material whose surfaces have been coated with this type of fluororesin. The compositions are useful coatings for semiconductor devices requiring high levels of moisture- and heat-resistance.
Patent EP-0694599-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SHINJO KENJI
IPC: C09K19/42
Filed: 1995-07-25
Abstract: A liquid crystal composition includes at least one fluorine-containing mesomorphic compound (a) having a fluorocarbon terminal portion and a hydrocarbon terminal portion, and at least one optically active compound (b) having at least one substituted or unsubstituted terminal alkyl group containing an asymmetric carbon atom directly connected with F, CF₃ or CH₃. The liquid crystal composition shows a layer structure of so-called bookshelf or a layer structure having a small inclination angle (closer to bookshelf structure). The liquid crystal composition is useful in improving response characteristics and display characteristics, particularly a contrast ratio, of a liquid crystal device using the liquid crystal composition.
Patent EP-0700781-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BALSFULLAND PAUL
IPC: B41F15/08
Filed: 1995-09-05
Abstract: The printing system is used to print information on the outside surface of a cylindrical object (32), rotated about its axis, via a programme-controlled screen printing machine. A marking carried by the object is detected during its rotation about its axis, with the corresponding angular position used as the zero reference point for the object rotation and entered in a memory of the programme control.   The required printing position is obtained by rotating the object through a defined angle from the stored reference position, with coordinated displacement of the printing screen (18).
Patent EP-0715117-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LANDWEHR DIERK DR
IPC: F16L59/02
Filed: 1995-11-09
Abstract: A heat insulating bag has an easily deformable, flexible outer skin which encloses at least one chamber containing at least one deformable flexible material giving heat insulating properties corresponding to a thermal conductivity of less than or equal to 0.02 W/m.K. Pref. the enclosed volume is pref. greater than 0.9 times the overall volume and the edges are sealed by coining, welding or adhesives, or they can be produced by continuous extrusion. Several chambers can be formed by additional dividing walls. The outer skin is a flexible polymer film up to 2 mm thick, metallised, pref. with aluminium, on at least one side. The skin is pref. polyethylene vinyl acetate, polyamide, polyimide or polyester, esp. polybutylene terephthalate or polyethylene terephthalate.
Patent EP-0716460-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAKEDA TORU
IPC: H01M50/569
Filed: 1995-11-09
Abstract: To provide a combined battery capable of stabilizing the battery performance, prolonging the service life of the battery and making easy the manufacture thereof. 
     A battery pack (66) includes a stack of unit cells (110) arranged in one row and two columns. These unit cells are arranged in a staggered fashion between an upper column (120) and a lower column (122). An insulating member (126) has between-column unit cell partitioning portions (128) for partitioning the unit cells in the upper and lower columns (120,122) from each other, and in-row unit cell partitioning portions (130) branched alternately upward and downward from the between-column unit cell partitioning portions (128) and respectively inserted between the adjacent unit cells in the upper and lower columns (120,122) for partitioning the adjacent unit cells in the row of each column from each other. With this arrangement, a relatively small gap (124)is formed between three pieces of the adjacent unit cells (110). As a result, the size of the battery pack (66) is reduced and the temperature, which can be measured through the thermistor (116), in the battery pack (66) is equalized. This is effective to stabilize the battery performance and prolong the service life of the battery. The assembly of the battery pack (66) is also made easy, resulting in the improved workability.
Patent EP-0710517-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NIEBAUER KENNETH L
IPC: B23B27/22
Filed: 1992-01-09
Abstract: An indexable cutting insert is shown capable of cutting operations over a wide range of parameters such as depth of cut or feed rate. The insert has different geometries at certain locations on the cutting surface such that under differing parameters a desirable cutting surface will be in contact with the workpiece.