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Patent EP-0741036-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GASPARRINI ROBERT C
IPC: B65H75/24
Filed: 1996-02-16
Abstract: A cleaning material supply system for a printing press having a supply core disposed around a supply shaft, the supply core having an internal polygonal cross-sectional shape corresponding to an outer shape of the supply shaft to couple the shaft and core together so as to prevent relative rotation between the supply core and the supply shaft. The cleaning system for a cylinder of a printing press may also include a supply core having a key receiver dimensioned to receive a key to couple the supply core to a supply shaft to prevent relative rotation between the supply core and the supply shaft. A slot receiving arrangement for the take-up shaft having a movable finger and the receiving slot is also depicted. In addition, a take-up shaft having an external polygonal cross-sectional shape is also disclosed.
Patent EP-0740223-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KISHIMOTO TADAO
IPC: G03G15/20
Filed: 1996-04-23
Abstract: A fixing unit for printers and copiers includes: a heater (4), adapted in the fixing unit, for heating a fixing member to fix a toner image on a sheet; a zero-cross detector (5) for detecting zero-cross timing of voltage of electric power supply (1); a switching circuit (2,3) for turning on and off the electric power to the heater; a controller (9) for controlling the switching operation of the circuit so as to provide a first state that the electric power is continuously supplied to the heater (4) from a zero-cross point to other zero-cross point and a second state that the electric power is not supplied to the heater from a zero-cross point to other zero-cross point. In the fixing unit, the electric power is supplied to the heater with a intermittent pattern, including the second state, for a predetermined period after at least one of a turn-on operation of the heater and a turn-off operation of the heater.
Patent EP-0774492-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SUKEJIMA HAJIME C O KANSAI PAI
IPC: C09D4/02
Filed: 1996-11-13
Abstract: A near infrared radiation curable putty composition containing (A) a polymerizable unsaturated group-containing resin, (B) a polymerizable unsaturated compound and (C) a near infrared polymerization initiator, said near infrared polymerization initiator (C) being a near infrared radiation-absorbing cationic dye.
Patent EP-0790276-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCHERZER DIETRICH DR
IPC: C08J9/40
Filed: 1997-02-04
Abstract: A process for the production of moulded polyurethane (PU) sheet materials (I), by (a) completely impregnating a porous sheet material (II) with one of the components of the PU system, (b) completely impregnating with the other component and (c) reacting the components in a heated mould.
Patent EP-0800146-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NAKAMURA MITSUAKI
IPC: G06V30/10
Filed: 1997-03-20
Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a character recognition method which can accurately presume each character area in an input image of a license plate even in case if the input image lacks information (for example, a part of the number plate is not contained or a part of a serial number is hidden by an obstruction) or contains noise signals caused by both side frame of the license plate and/or an indicating lamp. 
     The present invention comprises: Character-circumscribing-rectangle extracting means (105) extracts information on rectangles circumscribing respective characters from an input binary quantized image. Plate-frame presuming means (106) sets a plurality of temporary plate-frames (401) prepared according to known character areas (a serial number area N k , a use-code area Y, an administration branch office-name /classification-number area R) of license plates, compares the character-circumscribing rectangle information to the character areas and selects, as a correct plate-frame, a plate-frame which is least contradictory in relative positions of character areas to the rectangle information. Characters in respective character areas on the correct plate frame (400) are recognized.
Patent EP-0803960-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MAEHARA FUYUKI
IPC: H02J7/24
Filed: 1997-04-22
Abstract: Battery voltage is compared by a comparator (16) with a reference level so that when the voltage of the normally charged battery (6) becomes higher than a normal reference voltage, it is regulated as high as the normal reference voltage. When an average value of the battery voltages in a period, in which a typical operating speed of the engine is included, becomes higher than an upper level V1, the reference voltage is lowered. On the other hand, when the average of the battery voltages in such period becomes lower than a lower level V2, the reference voltage is increased.
Patent EP-0820206-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CHATTERJEE ARUN K
IPC: H04W92/24
Filed: 1997-07-15
Abstract: A method and system automatically activates a mobile station in a wireless
communications network. The system includes an over the air activation function
(OTAF) processor in the network that initiates an activation process in response to
receiving a registration message from a mobile switching center serving the mobile
station requesting the activation. Each mobile station has a unit of information stored
into it at the time of its manufacture to enable it to request over the air activation. That
unit of information is either the network routing address of the OTAF processor, or
alternately, it is a value that is translatable into that address, either an OTAF ID
number that is the same value for every mobile station or it is a sequentially serialized
dummy value for the mobile identification number (a dummy MIN). When the mobile
station is turned on for the first time in the network, it requests activation over the air
by transmitting to the local mobile switching center a registration order. The
registration order will include one of the three alternative forms of the information unit
described above, either the routing address of the OTAF processor, or the OTAF ID
number, or a dummy MIN.
Patent EP-0833141-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BERLETH MANFRED
IPC: G01N1/06
Filed: 1997-09-10
Abstract: The knife holder has at least one operating lever (12a,12b), the operating of which effects an arrest of a knife (9) held by a knife holder or a blade holder at the knife holder. The operating lever has an extension (13a,13b), which in a position effecting an arrest extends at least partially over the cutting edge (29) of the knife or the blade. One or more magnets (7a-7d) are provided in the base part (1) of the knife holder, for arresting the knife (9), and a movement of the operating lever effects a movement of the magnets. The magnets are located in a direction vertical to the contact surface of the knife and movable in the base (1).
Patent EP-0840478-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAKARAGI KAZUO
IPC: G06F7/72
Filed: 1997-10-28
Abstract: A digital signature generating/verifying method using a public key encryption scheme which ensures high security, reduction in length of the digital signature and independency of the length of the digital signature on that the order of a base point. In generating a digital signature, a first hash value (e) satisfying a condition that e = H(M) is determined for a given message (M) by using a hash function (H), a numerical value (x) is obtained from translation of a random number, a hash value (r) satisfying a condition that r = h(x) is determined by using a hash function (h) whose output value is shorter than that of the first hash function (H), and the digital signature is generated by using the hash values (e) and (r) as determined. For verification of an inputted digital signature, the hash value (e) satisfying the condition that e = H(M) is determined, and for a numerical value (x) obtained from arithmetic operation of a public key (Q), a base point (P) and the inputted digital signature (r, s), a hash value (r') satisfying a condition that r' = h(x) on the basis of the hash value (e), the digital signature (r, s), the base point (P) and the public key (Q) by using a hash function (h) whose output value is shorter than that of the first hash function (H). The hash value (r') is then compared with a tally (r) of the inputted digital signature to thereby verify the inputted digital signature. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0851347-A2 (EP)
Inventor: O'LEARY DANIEL J
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 1997-12-04
Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products
centrally manage references to objects recently employed by
a user operating in a software development environment.
After transmission of collection messages to plural
applications (324, 328), a receiver (310) centrally
managing object references receives an information block of
object references. A writer (304) of the centrally
managing object references system writes the information
blocks into memory (320). A reader (304) further reads
previously written information blocks to inform plural
applications (324, 328) of what objects were previously
referenced.
Patent EP-0818905-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MCKAY DANNY NEIL
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 1997-06-25
Abstract: A communication network and method improves the performance
(measured e.g. in terms of throughput) of a RTS/CTS based distributed
media access control protocol. The medium reservation is done in a
hierarchical fashion where first the shared medium is reserved for two
stations called the participants. All other stations called observers
stay quiet during the time reserved for the participants. In this
fashion, a shared medium can be reserved for a subset of the plurality of
devices. During this period called the reserved period, a master (or
primary), and a slave (or secondary) station attribute can be given to
the participating devices and the medium can be shared using another
medium coordination algorithm which is not necessarily the same as the
one used to reserve the medium for a reserved period in the first place.
After the medium is reserved, the participating devices can establish a
conventional point-to-point connection within the reserved time period
between participating devices for a predefined period of time. 
Specifically, the primary attribute can be exchanges with a secondary
attribute which in effect gives the control of the shared medium during
the reserved period to another station different from the one that
originally was assigned the primary attribute. During the reserved time,
the secondary can signal the primary station that it has data to send to
the primary station and request that the primary and secondary roles or
attributes to be exchanged. In the case that a role exchange takes place,
the control of the medium is transferred from one station to another and
data transfer in an opposite direction can take place without requiring
another reservation attempt.
Patent EP-0837133-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BURNHAM MARTIN K
IPC: C12N9/88
Filed: 1997-09-23
Abstract: The invention provides DNA strand resolution polypeptides and DNA (RNA) encoding DNA strand resolution polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are methods for utilizing DNA strand resolution polypeptides to screen for antibacterial compounds.
Patent EP-0841497-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OKAZAKI MICHIO
IPC: F16D27/112
Filed: 1997-10-10
Abstract: A electromagnetic clutch (1) comprises a hub (10) rigidly fitted on a drive shaft (2) and having a flange portion (11), a rotor (20) which is rotatable about the drive shaft (2), a magnetic coil (21) arranged in the rotor (20), an armature plate (30) which is magnetically attracted into abutment with the rotor (20) upon energisation of the magnetic coil (21), and a plurality of spring members (40) interposed between the hub flange portion (11) and the armature plate (30) along a circumference of the rotor (20), for connection between the flange portion (11) and the armature plate (30). The armature plate (30) comprises a first annular disc (30 a  axially opposed to the rotor (20) with a predetermined axial gap therebetween, a second annular disc (30 b ) connected to the first annular disc (30 a ) in a manner axially opposed thereto with a predetermined space (30 x ) formed therebetween, and at least one elastic body (30 c ) held in the predetermined space (30 x ) between the first annular disc (30 a ) and the second annular disc (30 b ).
Patent EP-0912096-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BROEKAERT WILLEM FRANS
IPC: A01N27/00
Filed: 1997-06-20
Abstract: L'invention concerne un procédé de protection d'une plante contre un agent pathogène. Ce procédé consiste à induire l'expression du gène défensine de la plante en stimulant le processus du jasmonate et/ou de l'éthylène. L'invention concerne également un procédé d'induction de l'expression du gène défensine de la plante, une composition pouvant induire l'expression du gène défensine de la plante et un procédé de criblage de composés conférant une activité induisant une résistance. L'agent pathogène est de préférence un agent pathogène nécrotrophe.
Patent EP-0854654-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NUBER RAY
IPC: H04N19/89
Filed: 1998-01-14
Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for
communicating VBI user information in digital
television data streams via a generic syntax. The
syntax allows the digital transport of virtually any
type of user data that may be carried in the VBI
portion of an analog television signal. A pixel
generator is used to insert VBI lines into a digital
video signal using information provided in the user
portion of the digital data stream. The syntax
provides the pixel generator with the start time of
the first symbol, the number of pixels per symbol,
the high and low levels to insert, the fraction of
the symbol time that is transition time, the number
of symbols to insert and the frame line number on
which to insert the data.
Patent EP-0856633-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SWAN DAVID A
IPC: E06B3/70
Filed: 1998-01-23
Abstract: An enclosure (10) includes a door (12) having a window
panel (20) extending from a top edge to a bottom edge. The
door (12) includes venting members (26) having vents formed
therein extending substantially along either lateral edge of
the window panel (20). A spaced apart inner portion (60)
provides a vertical conduit for improved circulation. The
window panel (20) attaches with adhesive (50) on engagement
surfaces (32, 34 and 36) as well as a mechanical connection
through threaded members (44).
Patent EP-0864412-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CLAUDIO GINI
IPC: B29C48/10
Filed: 1998-03-04
Abstract: An annular extrusion head for the production of tubular films, of a type comprising at least one
cylindrical body (2) fitted on its surface with a number of adduction channels (6) for the molten
material, esternally closed by a sleeve (1) inserted over said cylindrical body and ending in an
extrusion chamber (4) equipped in its upper section with an annular gap (5) from which the product
exits, in which the molten material is fed to said channels by a feeding conduit (3) wherein said
feeding conduit is connected to the said adduction channels by a series of connecting channels (7)
having a symmetrical tree-shaped structure leading to each branching off point, where said tree-shaped
structure extends to the point of attaining a number of branches equal to the said adduction
channels, so that the path of the material coming from the said feeding conduit is identical for all
channels.
Patent EP-0862168-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OGAWA KOICHI
IPC: G11B33/12
Filed: 1992-11-24
Abstract: Optical disk apparatus (300, 330, 340) for
recording and/or reproducing information on and from a
recording surface (17a) provided on an optical disk
(17) has a connector (303), for connecting the said
apparatus (300, 330, 340) to a corresponding connector
of an information handling device, in a slot of which
the apparatus (300, 330, 340) may be detachably
mounted, and further by interface circuitry (310) for
enabling the said optical disk apparatus (340) to carry
out an exchange of information with the said
information handling device when mounted in the said
slot thereof.
Patent EP-0877221-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KOBAYASHI OSAMU
IPC: F28D1/053
Filed: 1998-05-07
Abstract: An inside wall surface (33a) of a cap (33) covering the
end portion of a header tank (3) is formed into a spherical shape,
and a connecting portion (A) between the inside wall surface
(33a) of the cap (33) and a inside wall surface (32a) of a tank
portion (32) is separated away from a connecting portion (B)
between the inside wall surface (32a) of the tank portion (32)
and an outside wall surface (21b) of a tube (21). Thus, the
brazing material is suctioned into both connecting portions (A,
B) (both gaps) sufficiently, and both connecting portions (A, B)
are brazed firmly.
Patent EP-0879706-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OHASHI TETSUYO
IPC: B41J29/02
Filed: 1998-05-22
Abstract: The present invention provides a recording
apparatus comprising a main body, a recording means
disposed in the vicinity of a front side of the main
body and adapted to record an image on a sheet, a sheet
supporting means disposed in the vicinity of a rear
side of the main body and arranged in a side-by-side
relation to the recording means and adapted to support
the sheet to be supplied to the recording means, and a
lift/lower means for lifting and lowering one of the
recording means and the sheet supporting means, and
wherein, when one of the recording means and the sheet
supporting means is lifted or lowered by the lift/lower
means from a side-by-side relation condition, the sheet
supporting means can be dismounted from the main body
at the front side.
Patent EP-0865790-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MIYAKE AKIO
IPC: A61K31/50
Filed: 1994-09-17
Abstract: Use of a compound of the formula:
 
   wherein R 1  represents a hydrogen atom, an optionally
substituted lower alkyl group or a halogen atom;   either A or B represents a nitrogen atom with the other
representing a methine group, or both of them
represents a methine group;   R 2  and R 3  independently represent a hydrogen atom or
an optionally substituted lower alkyl group, or R 2  and   R 3  taken together with the adjacent -C=C-, may form a
5- to 7-membered ring;   X represents a methylene group, an oxygen atom or S(O) p 
wherein p represents an integer of 0 to 2;   Y represents (i) a group of the formula:
     wherein R 4  and R 5  independently represent a hydrogen
atom or an optionally substituted lower alkyl group or
(ii) a divalent group derived from an optinally
substituted 3- to 7-membered homocyclic or heterocycliC
ring;   R 6  represents a primary to tertiary amino group; m and   n independently represent an integer of 0 to 4, or a
salt thereof for the preparation of a medicament for
treating atopic dermatitis.
Patent EP-0893451-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HARRIS ROSEMARIE
IPC: C08B3/00
Filed: 1998-07-13
Abstract: This invention relates to a process for chemically modifying
polysaccharides in a densified fluid. In particular, the modification includes
esterification and/or etherification of a starch in supercritical carbon dioxide.
The process is advantageous in that it allows for a high degree of substitution
without the use of organic solvents or repeated reactions.
Patent EP-0898901-A2 (EP)
Inventor: XU ZU-FENG
IPC: A23L21/12
Filed: 1998-08-13
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a viscosifier prepared by enzymatically
hydrolyzing a ungelatinized, granular starch or flour. Such starch or flour is useful as
an ingredient in food products, particularly fruit- or vegetable-based products, as a
viscosifier and may be used to replace pectin or tomato solids.
Patent EP-0945808-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCHOOVAERTS JAN
IPC: G06F15/02
Filed: 1998-12-18
Abstract: A label printing device is disclosed which is operable to convert a first numeric value
represented by an inputted first character string into a second numeric value represented
by a second character string, by multiplication (or division) of the first numeric
value with a predetermined value, and to print the first character string and the second
character string onto the image receiving tape (114). Thus, a key (47) having a function
marked with a Euro symbol is present. When this key is depressed, the user inputs a
price in a first currency. The second price is obtained by multiplying the inputted price
with a fixed conversion factor, and printed onto a label. The first currency and thus the
conversion factor could be fixed (country-specific) or user-defined.
Patent EP-0922966-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GILBOA PINHAS
IPC: G01S5/02
Filed: 1998-12-04
Abstract: A method for determining the position and orientation
of an object with respect to a reference frame comprises
the steps of providing the object with three independent
transmitters (12, 14, 16) of electromagnetic radiation;
providing three independent receivers (20, 22, 24) of the
electromagnetic radiation, each of the receivers having a
fixed position in the reference frame; transmitting the
electromagnetic radiation, using the transmitters, each of
the transmitters transmitting an electromagnetic radiation
with different frequency; receiving signals corresponding
to the electromagnetic radiation; for each of the
receivers, processing the signals received by the receiver
from the transmitters and inferring the position and the
orientation of the object from the processed signals.
Patent EP-0862179-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KULAKOWSKI JOHN EDWARD
IPC: G11B27/30
Filed: 1998-01-20
Abstract: In an optical data storage device for storing data on a removable
optical disk in a continuous sequence of sectors or blocks, the input
data buffer may be subject to under-run. An under-run detector is
disclosed which is responsive to the buffered data comprising less than a
sector of data for indicating an under-run, and a padding provider is
disclosed which is responsive to the under-run indication for providing
padding characters for formatting into sectors. The sectors may be
provided with headers indicating the sectors as padding. A reading
device for reading the data sectors and providing the data to a host
detects padding and prevents the padding data from transmission to the
host.
Patent EP-0889589-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OZAWA NAOKI
IPC: H03K3/03
Filed: 1998-02-18
Abstract: A voltage controlled oscillation circuit with an
oscillation frequency thereof controlled in accordance
with an external voltage is disclosed. An odd number of
inversion circuit elements (1-1 to 1-(2n+1)) such as
inverters for inverting output signals thereof with
respect to input signals thereto are connected in series
with each other. An output side of the last-stage one of
the odd number of the inversion circuit elements (1-1 to
1-(2n+1)) is connected to an input side of the
first-stage one of the inversion circuit elements (1-1 to
1-(2n+1)) to thereby cause an oscillation. A plurality
of oscillation frequency variable control units (2-1 to
2-(2n+1)) such as variable resistor circuit elements for
changing an oscillation frequency in accordance with an
external voltage are each inserted between each set of
adjacent inversion circuit elements. A plurality of
fixed resistor circuit elements (3-1 to 3-(2n+1)) each
having a fixed resistance value are connected in parallel
with a plurality of the oscillation frequency variable
control units (2-1 to 2-(2n+1)), respectively. The
functions of both the variable resistor circuit elements
and the fixed resistor circuit elements can be carried
out at the same time by the use of a depletion type
transistor or a transistor of a short channel type.
Patent EP-0881805-A2 (EP)
Inventor: EMBREE MILTON LUTHER
IPC: H04L27/00
Filed: 1998-05-19
Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to interface devices
(204) that provide an interface between a first device (202) and a second device (206),
where the interface device provides electrical isolation between the first device and the
second device, and where codec processing is distributed between the first-device side
and the second-device side of the interface device. In a preferred embodiment, the
second device has a transmission line. the interface device is a modem, and the electrical
isolation is provided by one or more digital couplers that transmit sigma-delta signals
that are coded and decoded in both the first-device-side and second-device-side
circuitries of the modem.