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Patent AU-768274-B2 (AU)
Title: Locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards and method for production thereof
Inventor: PERVAN DARKO
IPC: E04F15/04
Filed: 2001-01-24
Granted: 2003-12-04
Abstract: The invention relates to a locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards (1, 1') which have a body (30), a lower balancing layer (34) and an upper surface layer (32). A strip (6) is integrally formed with the body (30) of the floorboard (1) and extends under an adjoining floorboard (1'). The strip (6) has a locking element (8), which engages a looking groove (14) in the underside of the adjoining floorboard (1') and forms a horizontal joint. A tongue (38) and a tongue groove (36) form a vertical joint between upper and lower plane-parallel contact surfaces (43, 45) and are designed in such manner that the lower contact surfaces (45) are on a level between the upper side of the locking element (8) and a plane containing the underside (3) of the floorboard. The invention also relates to a floorboard having such a locking system, a floor made of such floorboards, as well as a method for making such a locking system.
Patent AU-619244-B2 (AU)
Title: Anterior cruciate ligament prosthesis
Inventor: KENNA ROBERT VINCENT
IPC: A61F2/08
Filed: 1989-02-03
Granted: 1992-01-23
Abstract: An adjustable housing (20) suitable to be used with another housing (18) and with a synthetic ligament (22) so as to provide (for example) an anterior cruciate ligament prosthesis system (16) for a knee joint is provided. The adjustable housing (20) features an interior having a step shoulder (46) located therein. A set screw (32) in the housing (20) fixes the synthetic ligament (22) at a desired level of tension. The system (16) has many significant advantages including (but not limited to) being able to withstand very high loads and being able to be retensioned repeatedly and easily without replacing the artificial ligament (22).
Patent AU-623378-B2 (AU)
Title: Process for separation of asbestos-containing material and prevention of floating of dust
Inventor: WADA EIJI
IPC: E04G23/00
Filed: 1989-03-06
Granted: 1992-05-14
Abstract: A process for separation of an asbestos-containing material from a surface to which the asbestos-containing material is adhered and for prevention of floating of dust of the asbestos-containing material in the air, comprising jetting pressurized water from a plurality of nozzles to the surface at a pressure of at least 80 kg/cm<2>.G so as to remove the asbestos-containing material by the energy possessed by the pressurized water.
Patent AU-756004-B2 (AU)
Title: Biodegradable expanded starch products and the method of preparation
Inventor: ROESSER DAVID S
IPC: C08J9/04
Filed: 1999-05-28
Granted: 2003-01-02
Abstract: A biodegradable expanded starch product having low bulk density of less than 0.45 lb/ft<3> and low dustiness of less than 1.0% at 10% relative humidity and 23 DEG C comprising:   a) modified starch having an amylose content of about 10 to 30% by weight and modified with about 2 to 6% by weight of bound alkylene oxide having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, and b) from about 8 to 15% by weight of hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol based on the weight of starch and having a degree of hydrolysis of from about 88 to 99%.
Patent AU-571154-B2 (AU)
Title: Wiping cloth
Inventor: KNEBEL MICHAEL
IPC: A47L13/20
Filed: 1984-11-13
Granted: 1988-03-31
Abstract: Wiping cloth for a cleaning device with squeezing and/or wringing facilities (3), whereby on the T-formation hem reinforcement (8) - central reinforcement (9) fixing studs (10) are provided, which are clipped on with an asymmetrical spacing and with their longitudinal axes (2) being disposed on the central pitch line (21) of the retraction device (5).
Patent AU-613491-B2 (AU)
Title: New process for curing amino plast resins
Inventor: GARRIGUE ROGER
IPC: C09J161/20
Filed: 1989-06-01
Granted: 1991-08-01
Abstract: -Process for curing aminoplastic resins. -Process for curing aminoplastic resins with the aid of a catalyst consisting of a strong acid salt of hexamethylenetetramine. -Application to the manufacture of particle boards.
Patent AU-682000-B2 (AU)
Title: Method for overburden drilling, casing shoe and casing tube for the method, and coupling element for the casing tubes
Inventor: EDMAN KNUT OSTEN
IPC: E21B17/00
Filed: 1993-02-25
Granted: 1997-09-18
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/SE93/00158 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 28, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 28, 1994 PCT Filed Feb. 25, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO93/17215 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 2, 1993When drilling in soil and simultaneous loading of casing tube, it is desirable to be able to use casing tubes of plastic material such as PEH-plastic. This is made possible by a special design of a casing shoe giving a strong joint between the casing shoe and the casing tube. The casing shoe is made of metal and has a part which is perforated with holes filled with the plastic material. Tube couplings between the casing tubes can also be joined to the tubes in the same way as the casing shoe. In other words, they can be made of metal and each have one part perforated with holes filled with the plastic material.
Patent AU-565823-B2 (AU)
Title: Tamper-proof container closure
Inventor: STUBBS PETER
IPC: B65D41/48
Filed: 1985-02-28
Granted: 1987-10-01
Abstract: A container closure has a cap part which can be removed from and replaced upon an associated container as required and a tamper evident tear band 3 which has to be removed from the closure before the cap part can be initially removed from the container. The tear band 3 is connected to the skirt 2 of the cap part by a number of spaced apart relatively strong frangible nibs 6, the spaces between the nibs being each filled by a relatively weak thin web 7 of material.
Patent AU-554570-B2 (AU)
Title: Fouling prevention in thermal cracker
Inventor: PORTER RANDALL ALAN
IPC: C10G9/16
Filed: 1985-03-04
Granted: 1986-08-28
Abstract: The formation of carbon on metals exposed to hydrocarbons in a thermal cracking process is reduced by contacting such metals with an antifoulant selected from the group consisting of a combination of tin and phosphorus, a combination of phosphorus and antimony and a combination of tin, antimony and phosphorus.
Patent AU-584330-B2 (AU)
Title: Self-tuning coin recognition system
Inventor: HEIMAN FREDERIC P
IPC: G07F9/04
Filed: 1985-03-01
Granted: 1989-05-25
Abstract: A self-tuning coin testing apparatus having a coin sensor circuit which produces an output signal indicative of a parameter characteristic of the coins which are tested by the coin sensor and a programmed microprocessor which stores an initial acceptance limit, determines whether the output signal from the coin sensor is indicative of a valid coin, stores a signal based on the output signal for each valid coin, calculates a statistical function based on the stored signal, and finally computes and stores a new acceptance limit based on the stored signals for a predetermined number of previously accepted coins. The statistical function, is preferably weighted so that it is based upon values for only a predetermined number of the most recently accepted coins so that a recent average is maintained.
Patent AU-760238-B2 (AU)
Title: Bag comprising matching closing sections actuated by a slider
Inventor: BOIS HENRI GEORGES
IPC: B65D33/16
Filed: 1999-06-17
Granted: 2003-05-08
Abstract: A bag including two generally parallel sheets forming the main walls of the bag, complementary closure strips fixed to respective ones of the sheets, and a cursor for actuating the strips for closing and opening purposes. The bag further includes, parallel to the closure strips, between the sheets, and level with the mouth of the bag, additional structure in relief disposed on the insides of the closure strips, designed to provide sealing by forming a barrier between the sheets in the closed position of the bag, the additional structure in relief being placed facing the flanks of the cursor to be urged towards their sealing position by the cursor when the cursor is moved towards the sealing position.
Patent AU-571332-B2 (AU)
Title: Bleach products
Inventor: HO TAN TAI
IPC: C11D3/39
Filed: 1985-04-25
Granted: 1988-04-14
Abstract: A bleach product for use in the washing machine as an adjunct to a normal detergent powder or liquid comprises a closed bag containing a particulate bleach composition, the bag being formed of sheet material having pores large enough to render it water-permeable but small enough to confine the bleach composition within the bag. The bleach composition comprises sodium perborate with an activator : such as tetraacetyl ethylenebiamine or sodium octanoyloxybenzene sulphonate. Preferably at least 25 mole per cent of the perborate is in monohydrate form: this gives reduced malodour development on short storage.
Patent AU-779281-B2 (AU)
Title: Uteroglobin in the treatment of IgA mediated autoimmune disorders
Inventor: MUKHERJEE ANIL B
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2000-04-13
Granted: 2005-01-13
Abstract: Uteroglobin has been discovered to prevent IgA mediated diseases, such as IgA nephropathy, by preventing the deposition of IgA-Fibronectin immunocomplexes in tissues such as the renal glomeruli. The invention therefore includes methods of treating such diseases by administering therapeutically effective amounts of uteroglobin (and variants or mimetics) to prevent or improve the IgA mediated condition. Transgenic uteroglobin knockout animals, and animals in which uteroglobin-protein expression is reduced by antisense technology, also provide systems for studying IgA mediated diseases, and screening for appropriate treatments.
Patent AU-644779-B2 (AU)
Title: Enhanced electrochemiluminescence
Inventor: SHAH HARESH P
IPC: G01N31/22
Filed: 1989-11-03
Granted: 1993-12-23
Abstract: A composition suitable for use in an ECL assay, wherein electromagnetic radiation emitted by said composition is detected, which composition comprises (a) a metal-containing ECL moiety which, when oxidized by exposure to an effective amount of electrochemical energy, is capable of being converted to an excited state from which electromagnetic radiation is emitted upon exposure of the excited ECL moiety to conditions sufficient to induce said emission; (b) a species, which, when oxidized, forms a strong reducing agent; (c) an electrolyte capable of functioning as a medium in which said ECL moiety and said species can be oxidized; and (d) a substance in the presence of which the amount of electromagnetic radiation emitted by said composition is increased.
Patent AU-611833-B2 (AU)
Title: Novel shaped pintle wire for papermachine clothing
Inventor: HOOD PAUL F
IPC: D21F7/10
Filed: 1990-01-05
Granted: 1991-06-20
Abstract: An endless fabric comprises a pin seam in which a pintle wire joins loops 26 formed by machine-direction yarns at the ends 22,24 of an open-ended papermachine fabric, wherein the pintle wire 28 is an extrudeed monofilament having a length at least as great as the width of the fabric and having a non-circular cross-section of which the major and minor dimensions lie respectively in and perpendicular to the plane of the fabric. The major dimension of the pintle stretches the loops and reduces seam gap. The minor dimension is approximately equal to the thickness of the fabric under load. Both serve to reduce the marking of the paper sheet by the seam region.
Patent AU-655154-B2 (AU)
Title: Method and apparatus for screening cells or formed bodies with populations expressing selected characteristics
Inventor: COULTER WALLACE H
IPC: A61K49/00
Filed: 1989-12-13
Granted: 1994-12-08
Abstract: A method and apparatus (320, 340, 360) for automatically and rapidly retrieving, counting and/or analyzing at least one selected population of cells or formed bodies, such as a white blood cell population and at least one subset thereof of a whole blood sample (322, 342) or portion thereof. A volume of a biological medium containing the white blood cells is prepared and at least one reactant (326, 346) specific or preferential at least to some selected biological cells is introduced thereto and rapidly mixed (384) for a short period of time. The opacity and/or volume parameter of the cells can be modified and the mixture is then counted and analyzed (332, 352, 416, 422) in one or more steps to obtain the desired white blood cell population and subset analysis. The biological sample can be a whole blood sample and the reactant can include or be a lyse or a monoclonal antibody bound to microspheres, which will bind to specific ones of the cells or a combination of lyse and microspheres with antibody bound thereto. The microspheres can be magnetic and the bound cells can be magnetically removed for retrieving and analyzing the remaining blood cell population.
Patent AU-571165-B2 (AU)
Title: Repairing utility poles
Inventor: PHILLIPS CECIL LUTHER
IPC: E04H12/22
Filed: 1985-10-14
Granted: 1988-03-31
Abstract: A method and kit for repairing in situ a utility pole, especially a wooden one, when damaged at around ground level uses a sleeve (4) to surround a substantial length of the pole (1) and a non-shrink hardenabie pourable composition to occupy a clearance between the sleeve (4) and the pole (1) and form a solid core (7) bonded to both of them. so as to yield a very strong assembly. Preferably the skeve (4) is of two identical perts (6) clipped together round the pole, and the composition is a magnesium phosphate cement.
Patent AU-770458-B2 (AU)
Title: Mastitis detection method
Inventor: DAVIS STEPHEN RICHARD
IPC: G01N33/04
Filed: 2000-06-09
Granted: 2004-02-19
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting mastitis in an animal, characterized by the steps of collecting milk from the animal, and assaying the milk for a substance produced in the animal in an anaerobic environment, and comparing the substance levels obtained with typical substance levels found in uninfected milk.
Patent AU-622778-B2 (AU)
Title: Athletic shoe with pressurized ankle collar
Inventor: POTTER DANIEL R
IPC: A43B17/03
Filed: 1990-03-16
Granted: 1992-04-16
Abstract: A customized fit shoe comprising:  a sole;  an upper attached to said sole; arch chamber means (250) inflatable to contour to the arch area of a wearer's foot; malleoli chamber means attached to and positioned inside of said upper and inflatable to contour to the area directly below the malleoli of a wearer's foot; and valve means for adjusting the air pressure in said arch chamber means and said malleoli chamber means to provide a customized fit for a wearer's foot. <IMAGE>
Patent AU-677020-B2 (AU)
Title: Use of 4-hydroxy- or 4-aminobenzimidazole or their derivatives as couplers in oxidation dyeing compositions, and compositions and processes for implementation
Inventor: AUDOUSSET MARIE-PASCALE
IPC: H04B10/12
Filed: 1993-11-23
Granted: 1997-04-10
Abstract: The invention relates to the use of 4-hydroxy- or 4-aminobenzimidazole or derivatives thereof, corresponding to the formula (I): <IMAGE>  in which:   R1 and R2 represent hydrogen or alkyl; at least one of the substituents being equal to hydrogen;   R3 denotes OH or NH2, as a coupling agent for dyeing keratinous fibres, in particular hair, in the presence of a p-phenylenediamine, the ratio between the p-phenylenediamine and the coupling agent of formula (I) being greater than or equal to 1.2.
Patent AU-751181-B2 (AU)
Title: Anti-vibration plug-in nipple
Inventor: OETIKER HANS
IPC: F16L27/10
Filed: 1999-09-13
Granted: 2002-08-08
Abstract: The two-part plug nipple connects a tool to a coupling of a hydraulic/pneumatic medium transport pipe. The first part (11) has a locking section (13) for fitting into an aperture in the coupling from where it can be removed easily. A second part (3) has a connector section (5) for connection to the tool. Each part has a further section (9,17), with one section enclosing the other one radially, and an elastic connection (19) between the two. The connection is formed by casting, injection-molding, or extruding of an elastic rubber-like material e.g. an elastomer polymer, between the sections.
Patent AU-623260-B2 (AU)
Title: Smoking article
Inventor: SENSABAUGH ANDREW JACKSON JR
IPC: A24D1/22
Filed: 1990-05-24
Granted: 1992-05-07
Abstract: The cigarette has a carbonaceous fuel element. A separate aerosol generator has a substrate bearing an aerosol forming material. The fuel element and substrate are arranged in a conductive relationship, so that the heat-stable substrate receives conductive heat transfer throughout the burning time of the fuel element. The fuel element is less than 30mm in length, with a density of at least 5 g/cc. An insulation material can surround part of the fuel element. The insulation is resilient and at least 15 mm thick. The cigarette also has a mouthpiece.
Patent AU-628612-B2 (AU)
Title: Spirocyclic 1-substituted spiro(napthalene-1,4`-piperidine) derivatives as antipsychotic agents
Inventor: BILLINGTON DAVID CHARLES
IPC: A61K31/451
Filed: 1990-07-25
Granted: 1992-09-17
Abstract: A class of spiro[1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene-1,4 min -piperidine] and spiro[1,4-dihydronaphthalene-1,4 min -piperidine] derivatives are selective ligands at sigma recognition sites and are therefore useful in the treatment and/or prevention of psychiatric disorders.
Patent AU-668292-B2 (AU)
Title: Safety assembly for a separable linking device, especially for a motor vehicle steering column
Inventor: PERICHON OLIVIER
IPC: F16B5/06
Filed: 1994-02-22
Granted: 1996-04-26
Abstract: Safety assembly for a separable coupling device, particularly for a motor vehicle steering column having two coaxially arranged shaft sections whose end portions are offset with respect to their common geometric axis and which overlap. Each shaft section carries a plate. Each plate is connected to the other plate by separable link pins. The safety assembly comprises a clip made up of a fork having two faces connected to each other by a web so that each of the two faces bears against one side of a corresponding plate: one of the two faces has a system for attaching one of the ends of one part of the link pins; the other face has a system for clamping one of the ends of the other part of the link pins; one of the two faces is provided with openings intended to receive the corresponding end of the link pins that are not connected to the face, in such a way that the clip blocks the axial separation of the two plates with respect to each other when this separation occurs at a slow speed frontal impact, while at the same time permitting this separation when a frontal impact occurs at high speed.
Patent AU-681633-B2 (AU)
Title: Anti-HIV monoclonal antibody
Inventor: EDA YASUYUKI
IPC: C12P21/04
Filed: 1994-03-09
Granted: 1997-09-04
Abstract: The invention provides a clinically useful monoclonal antibody which can recognize the conserved region of the V3-PND region of a glycoprotein antigen (gp120) having a molecular weight of about 120,000 Da and contained in the coat of a human immunodefiency virus (HIV) and which can neutralize a wide variety of HIV variants, or a fragment of the above antibody, and chimera and humanized antibodies derived from the above antibody. It is possible to prepare a monoclonal antibody having the activity of neutralizing various HIV variants by using as the immunogen several types of peptides having a PND tip region containing a GPGR sequence having a high conservability in the PND region of the gp120 of an HIV. It is possible to obtain a chimera antibody or an altered antibody having an anti-HIV neutralization activity effective for clinical application by transplanting a fragment of a gene coding for the variable region of the above monoclonal antibody or the complementarity-determining region of that region to a human antibody gene.
Patent AU-723932-B2 (AU)
Title: Inhalation device
Inventor: VIRTANEN RISTO
IPC: A61M15/00
Filed: 1998-03-13
Granted: 2000-09-07
Abstract: An inhaler for administering powder by inhalation and a method of constructing the same, the inhaler comprising: a housing having a screw thread (28) and a substantially circular sealing surface (40) coaxial therewith; a mouthpiece (2) attached to the housing; and a cap (14) for covering at least the mouthpiece (2), the cap (14) having a screw thread (17) for engaging the screw thread (28) on the housing and a substantially circular sealing surface (15) for engaging the sealing surface (40) on the housing; wherein the sealing surfaces (15, 40) are shaped and dimensioned such that the radial force therebetween is substantially constant for any relative position where the sealing surfaces (15, 40) engage one another.
Patent AU-597924-B2 (AU)
Title: Solubilization of protein aggregates
Inventor: PATRONI JOSEPH JOHN
IPC: C12P21/02
Filed: 1985-12-11
Granted: 1990-06-14
Abstract: A source of proteins in insoluble form and a source of at least one cationic surfactant are provided. The insoluble protein is then treated with the cationic surfactant(s) in an amount sufficient to effect solubilisation without substantial modification to the structural backbone of the protein. The treatment is particularly applicable to the solubilisation and recovery of biologically active proteins synthesised by microorganisms and eukaryotic cell lines which have been modified by recombinant DNA technology.
Patent AU-667638-B2 (AU)
Title: Metal-oxide polymer composites
Inventor: WELLINGHOFF STEPHAN T
IPC: C08G79/00
Filed: 1994-04-11
Granted: 1996-03-28
Abstract: A method of making metal oxide clusters in a single stage by reacting a metal oxide with a substoichiometric amount of an acid in the presence of an oxide particle growth terminator and solubilizer. A method of making a ceramer is also disclosed in which the metal oxide clusters are reacted with a functionalized polymer. The resultant metal oxide clusters and ceramers are also disclosed.
Patent AU-598273-B2 (AU)
Title: Photoreactive lenses
Inventor: HELLER HARRY GEORGE
IPC: C07D311/92
Filed: 1987-06-17
Granted: 1990-06-21
Abstract: Photoreactive plastics lenses are disclosed which are coated or impregnated with an adamantane 2-spiro-benzo or naphthopyran and with a blue colouring pho tochromic benzo- or naphthopyran having a nitrogen containing substituent in the 2-position in the pyran ring. The lenses darken in sunlight and fade rapidly at ambient temperatures in the dark or in white light which does not contain a U.V. component. The combination of the yellow/orange colouring adamantane 2-spiro pyran compound with the purple/blue colouring pyran gives a desired brown/grey colouration in the sunlight-darkened lens. The invention includes novel blue-colouring pyran compounds in which the nitrogen-containing substituent in the 2-position is a phenyl group having an amino or substituted amino or nitrogen-containing heterocyclic substituent in the ortho- or para-position of the phenyl group.
Patent AU-685494-B2 (AU)
Title: Asymmetric synthesis
Inventor: BERGLUND RICHARD ALAN
IPC: C07C53/10
Filed: 1994-10-10
Granted: 1998-01-22
Abstract: Prepn. of S-(+)-N,N-dimethyl-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-3-(2- thienyl)-propanamine (I) comprises reacting (S)-(-)-N,N- dimethyl-3-(2-thienyl)-3-hydroxy-propanamine (II) with sodium hydride, potassium benzoate or acetate and 1-fluoro-naphthalene (III) in an organic solvent. (II) and NaH are dissolved in the solvent, the potassium cpd. is added with stirring, then (III) is added with stirring. (I) is isolated as the phosphoric acid salt. Typically the solvent is DMSO, the use amt. of NaH is 1 equiv/equiv. (II), the use amt. of potassium cpd. is 0.05-1 equiv./equiv. (II) and stirring is at 10-35 [deg] C for 5-60 min. Use amt. of (III) is 1-25% excess and stirring is at 40-75 [deg] C for 1.5-4 hrs.