baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent EP-0698722-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PROETT MARK A
IPC: E21B49/00
Filed: 1995-06-19
Abstract: An improved formation testing method for measuring initial sandface pressure and formation permeability in tight zone formations exhibiting formation permeabilities on the order of 1.0-0.001 millidarcies is based on pressure transients which occur shortly after a tester enters its pressure build-up cycle and substantially before reaching final build-up pressure. The method makes an estimate of formation permeability based on fluid decompression transients which occur in the formation tester flowlines, shortly after the tester begins its build-up cycle. The method further estimates initial sandface pressure based on the change in pressure over time shortly after beginning the build-up phase. Accurate estimates of formation permeability and initial sandface pressure are thus made relatively early in the build-up cycle, thus substantially reducing the time required to make the pressure and permeability measurements.
Patent EP-0694877-A2 (EP)
Inventor: IWASAKI TAKUMI
IPC: B41J2/485
Filed: 1995-07-27
Abstract: An irreversible compression system and method, wherein cells (C) of bit map data are fetched from first and second adjacent blocks (B) of bit map data, each of the fetched cells having a predetermined cell size, and each of the fetched cells is converted to compressed code. When the size of the first block of bit map data is indivisible by the predetermined cell size, a first incomplete cell having a first reduced size is fetched from the first block and a second incomplete cell is fetched from the second block, the second incomplete cell being adjacent the first incomplete cell and having a second reduced size such that the sum of the first reduced size and the second reduced size is equal to the predetermined cell size.
Patent EP-0702251-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YOKOI HIDETO
IPC: G02F1/1335
Filed: 1995-09-08
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a color filter by coloring a large number of filter elements on a substrate respectively in a predetermined color. A filter element is colored while ink-jet head nozzle and the filter element are aligned. The method comprises a detection step for detecting the position of the filter element, a correction step of correcting a relative position of the filter element and a discharge nozzle for discharging coloring material, based on position information of the filter element detected at the detection step, so that the filter element and the discharge nozzle are aligned, and a coloring step of coloring the filter element by discharging the coloring material by the discharge nozzle.
Patent EP-0703360-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ANDREWS ERIC B
IPC: F02N19/04
Filed: 1995-09-21
Abstract: An air intake heating and diagnostic system (10) for an internal combustion engine includes a microprocessor based controller (12) for activating electrical heating elements (26 and 28) for a preheat time period prior to starting the engine and for a postheat time period after starting the engine. The controller (12) receives inputs corresponding to intake manifold air temperature, battery temperature, vehicle speed, engine speed, and key switch position. The system (10) continuously monitors the integrity of the various sensors (14,16,18,20), monitors the functionality of the heating elements (26 and 28) during the postheat time period, and warns the vehicle operator by illuminating a "check engine" lamp (38) if certain fault conditions are detected. In both cases, the controller (12) sets fault flags within the controller memory (40) corresponding to the detected fault conditions.
Patent EP-0719759-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CHERPECK RICHARD E
IPC: C10L1/234
Filed: 1995-12-22
Abstract: A fuel additive having the formula:
       
 wherein A 1  is amino, lower alkylamino or dialkylamino, or a polyamine radical; R 1  and R 2  are independently hydrogen, hydroxy, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy; R 3  and R 4  are independently hydrogen or lower alkyl; x is an integer from 0 to 10; n is an integer from 0 to 100; and when n is 0 to 10, R 5  is polyalkyl having an average molecular weight of 450 to 5,000; and when n is 5 to 100, R 5  is hydrogen, alkyl, phenyl, aralkyl, alkaryl or an acyl group having the formula:
       
 wherein R 6  is alkyl, phenyl, aralkyl or alkaryl.
Patent EP-0742436-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BONNER LYDIA M
IPC: B01L99/00
Filed: 1996-04-23
Abstract: A sensor dispensing instrument (20) includes a sensor magazine (26) that contains a plurality of blood glucose sensors (38) disposed in sensor slots (30A-J). Each of the sensor slots is in fluid communication with a desiccant cavity (36A-J) in which desiccant material is disposed. The front and rear walls of the sensor magazine are sealed with burst foils (40,42) so as to seal the sensor slots and the desiccant cavities. The sensor instrument (20) has an outer housing (22) with a laterally extending magazine opening (24) adapted to receive the sensor magazine (26). A pivot rod (28) is moved through the magazine (26) and an indexing wheel (56) into an operating position with a detent arm (48) on the instrument housing engaging a detent groove (50A-J) on the magazine to position the magazine in a sensor feeding position. Once so positioned, a sensor push rod (58) is pushed forward resulting in the push rod piercing the rear burst foil (42) and engaging a sensor in one of the sensor slots to thereby push the sensor out through the front burst foil (40) and into a testing position. Once a test is completed, the push rod (58) is advanced forward further to thereby eject the used sensor from the sensor handling instrument. The push rod then is retracted to a standby position. As the push rod is being retracted, a pin (68) associated with the push rod (58) causes the indexing wheel (56) to rotate so that the pivot rod (28) is rotated until the detent arm engages another detent groove so that another sensor slot is in alignment with the push rod.
Patent EP-0780592-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TANAHASHI HIROAKI
IPC: F16F13/08
Filed: 1996-12-17
Abstract: A hanging-type hydraulic mount includes a tube-shaped first supporter fitting, a rod-shaped second supporter fitting disposed in the first supporter fitting, a rubber-elastic member disposed between the first supporter fitting and the second supporter fitting, a first bracket connected to the bottom end of the first supporter fitting, a second bracket having a connector block connected to the leading end of the second supporter fitting, and a rubber stopper installed onto the connector block of the second bracket. The rubber stopper has an assembly opening formed in one of the opposite sides, and having a size smaller than the cross-section of the connector block. The assembly opening is expanded elastically to accommodate the connector block in the rubber stopper. The rubber stopper thus covers the connector block. Hence, when installing the rubber stopper onto the connector block, it is unnecessary to carry out the vulcanization-adhesion, and the pretreatments associated therewith, which have been required conventionally.
Patent EP-0780064-A2 (EP)
Inventor: DEAN TODD
IPC: A43B5/06
Filed: 1996-12-20
Abstract: A hydrodynamic pad including fluid-filled inner and outer bladders interconnected by fluid channels and configured such that displacement of fluid from the center of pressure distribution generated by foot impact radiates from the inner bladder outwardly to the outer bladder through one or more of the fluid channels causing the outer bladder to expand to an expanded condition. The expanded outer bladder seats the wearer's heel in the hydrodynamic pad, thereby stabilizing the foot of the wearer, and the controlled flow of fluid through the fluid channels to the outer bladder dissipates the impact loads, thereby cushioning the wearer's heel. When the pressure is released from the inner bladder, by lifting the wearer's heel, the expanded outer bladder forces at least a portion of the displaced fluid to the inner bladder, such that the hydrodynamic pad is reinitialized.
Patent EP-0718759-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SMITH DUANE A
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 1989-04-14
Abstract: A system for use in conjunction with a digital data processing system includes an applications program (11), a user interface (14) and a hierarchy information management system (10). The applications program (11) generates an information hierarchy including a plurality of hierarchy information items organized in a plurality of hierarchy levels. The user interface includes a display (15) for displaying information to a user and an event initiator (16), such as, for example, a keyboard or a mouse for generating event information. The hierarchy information management system (10) receives hierarchy information items at selected hierarchy levels from the applications program (11) and transmits the received hierarchy information items to the display (15) of the user interface (14) for display, and responds to the event information by initiating selected operations in connection with the received hierarchy information.
Patent EP-0748140-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TUUTIJARVI MIKA
IPC: H03G3/20
Filed: 1996-06-07
Abstract: In a wireless or cellular telephone system operated, for example, in accordance with the TIA/EIA IS-54 TDMA standard specification and frame structure, wherein RSS measurements in a Mobile Station of scanned communication channels are made in the slot intervals between the RX and TX slots to prepare for determining the gain (AGC) values needed in the receiver for a new channel identified over the current channel communicating with a Base Station, wherein slot interval measurements of the new channel signal strength are used to achieve a shorter handoff time in the Mobile Station and a more accurate initial AGC value in the receiver. The new channel signal strength is measured using the existing MAHO measurement procedure according to the IS-54 standard specification, or like procedure, and is performed in three slot intervals. The results of these measurements are used to determine the AGC value needed for the new radio channel. The handoff acknowledgement message is created, interleaved, and sent on the current channel during or after the measurement period.
Patent EP-0741016-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCHNYDER EUGEN
IPC: B41F13/08
Filed: 1996-05-01
Abstract: The elastically deformable rolling sleeve (6) which interacts with a counter roller (2) has a radially flexible wall which clings to the counter roller (2) over a circumferential section whose width measurement in the circumferential direction can be set within a range of 8 to 40 mm. The roller sleeve (6) is made at least in part of an electrically conductive material to prevent uncontrolled electrostatic charging of the sleeve face. The support face for the roller is concave and has a shape determined by a radius which corresponds to the sum of the radius of the face of the smallest counter roller and the thickness of the rolling sleeve.
Patent EP-0847523-A2 (EP)
Title: Device and method for the removal and determination of volatile or dissolved components of liquids or gases
Inventor: THAMM DIRK
IPC: B01D63/06
Filed: 1996-08-30
Abstract: The invention concerns a device and a method for the removal and determination of dissolved gases or volatile components in a liquid or in a mixture of gases in order to determine their concentration. The device consists of a cylindrical main body with permeation channels in its external surface for a carrier fluid, a permeation membrane located over the channels, carrier-fluid feed and return channels and sensors and is characterized in that the permeation channels are disposed in one or more sectors (3) on the surface of the main body (5), each sector (30) having a feed groove (2), a return groove (4) and parallel connecting channels (3) running from the feed groove (2) to the return groove (4); each sector (30) is connected by the feed groove (2) and a separate feed channel (9; 9'; etc.) to a carrier-fluid inlet (8); and each sector (30, 30') is connected by the return groove (4) and one or more return channels (10; 10'; etc.) to a carrier-fluid outlet (12).
Patent EP-0785418-A2 (EP)
Inventor: STANSFELD JAMES WOLRYCHE
IPC: G01K13/02
Filed: 1993-10-25
Abstract: A thermocouple probe (10) projects through an aperture (30) in the casing (32) of a gas chamber (34). Vibrations in the probe (10) are further reduced by ensuring that the longitudinal axis AA of the probe is angularly offset from the central axis BB of the aperture (30), such that the outer periphery of the sheath (16) is in contact with the inner periphery of the aperture (30) in two diametrically opposite and axially offset locations.
Patent EP-0816764-A2 (EP)
Inventor: JOLLY JUERGEN
IPC: F24D3/12
Filed: 1997-04-26
Abstract: The central heating is complete by prefab. and ready for subsequent installation. It comprises two directly adjacent round or oval pipes, applied as loops to a thin, support fabric mat. The heating medium flows in the pipes in a countercurrent manner. The round or oval pipes pref. are max. 8 mm thick, and the support fabric mat can be rolled over the heated surface in a meandering shape. Typically the heating medium is formed by steam contg. water, fed to the surface heating from a heating station with heat exchangers by a circulation pump. The fabric mat with the pipes may be embedded in the wall or ceiling adhesive mortar.
Patent EP-0790739-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HIRAYAMA KOICHI
IPC: H04N7/52
Filed: 1994-08-30
Abstract: The present invention relates to a recording medium, like a magnetic or an optical disk, comprising program data stored in one area; and management information stored in another area and used for managing the program data, wherein said program data includes: a packet of encoded main image data (VIDEO) which is obtained by compressing and encoding main image data and is divisible in units of one frame; and a packet of encoded sub-image data (SUB-PICTURE) which is independent of the main image data, is selectively superimposable on the main image data, and is data compressed and encoded by means of a system independent of a system used for encoding the main image data. This recording medium can efficiently store data of different types (like main image data/video data, sub-picture data, audio data).
Patent EP-0814372-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GAEBELE FRANK
IPC: G03B42/04
Filed: 1997-06-11
Abstract: The invention relates a loading and unloading device (10) for X-ray film cassettes, said device being further developed in such a way that a number of exposed X-ray films (1c) having different fomats can be haphazardly delivered to a storage place, and in such a way that the filling height (H) as well as the number of X-ray films in storage (1) can be reliably measured. For this purpose, a light-tight storage magazine (1) is positioned in the film conveyor track (4a) of the loading and unloading device (10), said magazine being provided with a single sensor (3) which measures the number of films introduced into, and the height (H) of the stack of films present in the magazine.
Patent EP-0822226-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KOSHIRAI ATSUNORI
IPC: C08L67/02
Filed: 1997-07-30
Abstract: A polytetrafluoroethylene-containing powder mixture
comprising polytetrafluoroethylene particles (A) with a
particle size 10 µm or smaller and organic polymer
particles (B), thermoplastic resin compositions
containing it, and molded articles obtained therefrom.
The polytetrafluoroethylene-containing powder mixture
provides higher dispersibility for
polytetrafluoroethylene in thermoplastic resins, and is
effective for improving the molding workability and
mechanical properties of thermoplastic resins.
Patent EP-0834860-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HAUENSTEIN ALFRED DR-ING
IPC: G10L15/14
Filed: 1997-08-06
Abstract: The method exploits the additional tonal contexts at the ends and the beginnings of the words (M,N). State transitions (Z1 to Z4) hold good for the tonal transitions (Li-1,Li). Hidden Markov models for these tones are supplemented by special context models for the beginning and end of the word. The same consideration applies to the tones (Lj,Lj+1) and the state transitions (ZN to ZN+3) of the other word. At least one of the tonal contexts represents a context boundary which is evaluated in the speech recognition. The tonal contexts are used for the modelling of the characteristics in the co-articulation during the transition from one word to the other.
Patent EP-0827729-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SCHLINGMANN ROLF DIPL-ING
IPC: A61G5/00
Filed: 1997-09-02
Abstract: The wheelchair has a frame with rear and front wheels (1,2), and comprises a seat (3) and a backrest (4). The frame has two parallel side panels (5) which are connected by a scissor-type member (17). Each side panel is made up of individual modules, i.e. a front frame (7), a rear frame (8) and back tubes (9) which are connected with each other. The upper and lower side tubes (11,13) of the rear frame are guided in a telescopic fashion in the upper and/or lower side tubes (10,12) of the front frame. An end tube (29) of the scissor-type member is rotatably mounted on the lower side tube (12). Seat tube supports (16) are mounted at variable opposite distances on the upper side tubes (10) of the front frame. The wheelchair has seat tubes (19) which are detachably engageable with the seat tube supports.
Patent EP-0837408-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YAMADA HIROAKI
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 1997-10-17
Abstract: The method comprises the steps of: calculating a direction-dependent
distribution of ejected particles from the target; dividing a
range of the vertical angle  into sections of an equal interval, counting a
number of the ejected particles for every section of the vertical angle  ,
and calculating a vertical distribution function by interpolating the
counted numbers of the ejected particles as a function of the vertical angle
 ; determining values of the vertical angle  likely to emerge in a
random process of a particle ejection from the target using the vertical
distribution function based on the reject principle; determining values of
the horizontal angle ϕ likely to emerge in a random process of a particle
ejection from the target; and calculating tracks of sputtered particles in a
sputtering arrangement using the values of the vertical angles and the
horizontal angles determined by the third step and the fourth step in
accordance with the Monte Carlo method.
Patent EP-0794500-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SIEMER JOHN ROBERT
IPC: G06K19/06
Filed: 1997-02-14
Abstract: A photographic film camera adapted to receive a film cassette (14) having a rotatable radial bar code data disk (30) mounted at one end thereof is provided with a variable gain opto-sensor circuit (32,33) responsive to the radial bar code (DC,LC) for generating a sensor output signal having transitions through a logic threshold normally representative of transitions between data elements on the data disk. A microcontroller (29) adapted to read the data from the data disk (30) compensates for a noisy, corrupted signal by establishing a first gain setting and selectable other gain settings at the opto-sensor circuit (33) during generation of the sensor output signal, and by counting logic threshold transitions in the output signal such that if the transition count for the first gain setting is other than a count corresponding to a fixed number of bar code data elements (DC,LC) on the data disk (30), the opto-sensor gain is adjusted to one or more of the selectable other gain settings until the transition count corresponds to the fixed number of bar code data elements.
Patent EP-0790136-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YAMAZAKI MASAYASU
IPC: B05D5/04
Filed: 1997-02-14
Abstract: An image-receiving sheet for thermal transfer printing, comprises a substrate and a receptor layer provided on at least one surface of the substrate. The receptor layer is formed by applying a receptor layer forming composition comprising (a) at least one kind of thermoplastic resin and (b) at least one kind of release agent selected from silicone compounds expressed by the following formula (1):  
 
        R   l   -Si-(NCO) 4-     l        (1) 
 
[in the formula (1), "l" indicates an integer of from 0 to 3, and "R" indicates an alkyl group, an aryl group or a vinyl group], 
to the at least one surface of the substrate, and drying the thus applied composition by heat.
Patent EP-0798555-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KATO NOBUHIDE
IPC: G01N27/416
Filed: 1997-03-26
Abstract: Disclosed is an oxide sensor in which O 2  contained in a measurement gas (G) introduced into a first chamber (60) through a first diffusion rate-determining section (56) is removed by the aid of a pumping voltage (Vp1) applied between pumping electrodes (64, 66), and then the measurement gas (G) is introduced into a second chamber (62) through a second diffusion rate-determining section (58) to remove excessive O 2  by the aid of auxiliary pumping electrodes (92a to 92d). A detecting electrode (82) is arranged to satisfy d ≥ t provided that d represents a distance from an end of the auxiliary pumping electrodes (92a to 92d) on the side of the second diffusion rate-determining section (58) to an end of the detecting electrode (82) on the side of the second diffusion rate-determining section (58), and t represents a height of the second chamber (62). A predetermined pumping voltage (Vp2) is applied to the detecting electrode (82) to decompose oxides contained in the measurement gas (G) by the aid of the detecting electrode (82) or a catalyst. The amount of oxygen produced by the decomposition is measured to determine the concentration of the oxides. Accordingly, the amount of the oxides in the measurement gas (G) can be measured extremely highly accurately without being affected by water and carbon dioxide contained in the measurement gas (G).
Patent EP-0820133-A2 (EP)
Inventor: EPWORTH RICHARD EDWARD
IPC: H01S5/0687
Filed: 1997-07-10
Abstract: A control system for an etalon arrangement 4, in an optical transmission system involves applying a dither to a laser 1 upstream of the arrangement, monitoring the output of the arrangement, and using a control means 3 to lock the laser frequency to the etalon arrangement response, or vice versa. The control means operates on the basis of a ratio of derivatives of the monitored output with respect to wavelength, to enable locking to a point on the response curve, independent of power variations.
Patent EP-0837524-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LUH HOWARD H
IPC: H01Q19/02
Filed: 1997-10-17
Abstract: A shaped dual reflector antenna and method for designing
such an antenna comprising the initial selection of a
hyperboloidal or ellipsoidal reflective surface (14) profile
for the main reflector (12) such that the cross-polarization
of the contoured output RF signal beam (RF3) of the
resulting antenna structure (10) is reduced.
Patent EP-0914439-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NARVA KENNETH E
IPC: C12N15/32
Filed: 1997-04-18
Abstract: The subject invention concerns new classes of pesticidal toxins and polynucleotide sequences which encode these toxins. Also described are novel pesticidal isolates of Bacillus thuringiensis.
Patent EP-0914139-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TSAI HSIU-HSIEN
IPC: A61K9/20
Filed: 1997-07-09
Abstract: This invention relates to compositions derived from Chinese herbal medicines, medicinal plants and extracts thereof, and to their use for the treatment of animals infected with viruses, especially with hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). More specifically, the compositions of the present invention arc derived from various Chinese herbal medicines or medicinal plants which have a long history of human consumption. The compositions of the invention are obtained through specific techniques and have demonstrated outstanding efficacy for treating human HBV carriers and hepatitis C patients. Compositions according to the invention have also exhibited in vitro antiviral activities against murine leukemia virus (MuLV) and HIV. HIV is the virus known to cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans and AIDS presents special problems to the medical community which the present invention addresses.