baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent EP-0854262-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WATERS LEOPOLD ARNOLDUS MARIA
IPC: E05F15/12
Filed: 1998-01-20
Abstract: Devices (4) suitable for electrically opening a door (13) or a
window, for example, which pivots in a frame (1). The device (4)
comprises a longitudinally adjustable element (15), which is to be
pivotally connected to the frame (1) with one end (16) and which is to
be pivotally connected to the door (13) or the window with the other end
(18). The longitudinally adjustable element (15) comprises a rod (41)
which can be telescoped out of a housing by means of an electric motor
(42). The longitudinally adjustable element (15) can also be manually
adjusted for length against spring force. 
     The device may comprise an
elongated section (17) present between parallel posts (2) of the frame
(1), to which section (17) one end (16) of an electrically operated
moving mechanism (15) is attached, whilst the other end (18) of said
mechanism (15) is attached to the door (13) or the window. The section
(17) is provided, at least at one end, with a clamping mechanism (19)
comprising four hemispherical elements (26,29,31,32), which are arranged
in opposite pairs, with the convex sides being turned towards each
other, whereby movement of the elements of a first pair towards each
other will cause the elements of the second pair to move away from each
other.
Patent EP-0855725-A2 (EP)
Inventor: METT RICHARD R
IPC: H01G5/06
Filed: 1998-01-12
Abstract: A variable capacitor (110) containing a high efficiency
slip ring (218) for optimally coupling RF power to the
capacitor. The slip ring contains a beveled annulus (312)
that abuts a rotor contact portion (316). The rotor contact
portion attached to a shaft (214) that supports the rotor
blades (212) of the capacitor. The shaft passes through the
aperture and the slip ring. The slip ring further contains
a biasing means (308, 400) that maintains the beveled
annulus in contact with the rotor contact portion.
Patent EP-0861859-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KINKER BERNARD GEORGE
IPC: C08F265/04
Filed: 1998-02-19
Abstract: A process for the preparation of continuously variable-composition
copolymers by effecting gradual changes in monomer composition during the
polymerization is disclosed. Poly(meth)acrylate copolymers made by the process
of the present invention have improved lubricating oil additive properties, for
example, as pour point depressants, when compared to related polymer additives
made by conventional means.
Patent EP-0887406-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LARK MICHAEL
IPC: A61P19/02
Filed: 1998-04-23
Abstract: FRAZZLED polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods for producing such
polypeptides by recombinant techniques are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing
FRAZZLED polypeptides and polynucleotides in the design of protocols for the treatment of
chronic and acute inflammation, arthritis, osteoarthritis, septicemia, autoimmune diseases (e.g.,
inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis), transplant rejection, graft vs. host disease, infection, stroke,
ischemia, acute respiratory disease syndrome, renal disorders, restenosis, brain injury, AIDS,
metabolic and other bone diseases (e.g., osteoporosis), cancer (e.g., lymphoproliferative disorders),
atherosclerosis, and Alzheimers disease, among others, and diagnostic assays for such conditions.
Patent EP-0887560-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NIX ROBERT J
IPC: B65B13/22
Filed: 1998-06-15
Abstract: A strapping tool has a timing control circuit (210)
incorporated therein which comprises a first
pressure-operable valve (260) for time-controlling a
plastic strap welding operation, and a second
pressure-operable valve (241) for restricting fluid line
flow from a source of fluid (214) to an air drive motor
(222) of the tool during the tensioning phase of the
strapping operation while permitting unrestricted fluid
line flow from the source of fluid (214) to the air drive
motor (222) of the tool during the welding stage of the
strapping operation.
Patent EP-0919984-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BENOIT ERIC
IPC: G09G3/20
Filed: 1998-09-11
Abstract: The invention relates to a process and device for scanning cells
of a matrix-controlled display for the displaying of grey levels of a video
signal, the scan being split up into sub-scans relating to each bit of column
control words, characterized in that, when the coding of the image does not
activate the high-order bit, the processing sub-scan relating to this bit is
allocated to the displaying of an additional item which corresponds to a bit
of lower weight than the smallest weight of the column control word used
when the condition is not fulfilled. 
     The applications of the invention relate to matrix-controlled
display devices using the principle of temporal modulation for the
generation of half-tones, especially plasma panels of the a.c. type with
memory or d.c. type with memory.
Patent EP-0924873-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MAURER MICHAEL
IPC: H04B3/20
Filed: 1998-12-04
Abstract: The control of echo suppression in a transmission in a telecommunication system is based upon the use of a digital fast Fourier transformation using a Goertzel algorithm. This process is made on the detected response of a modem connection. The presence of a non speech condition is identified and the echo control automatically switched.
Patent EP-0876776-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MORENO JUMILLA JUAN
IPC: A45B25/14
Filed: 1998-03-12
Abstract: Applicable to covers, tarpaulin canvases, large sized
sunshades, screens, supporting and grooving fabrics, filters,
etc. of the type including onto a longitudinal edge of said
fabric (1), very close to the structural member (5) to which
it has to be fastened, an enlarged retaining element, which
is arranged embedded within a related groove having a narrow
mouth and a passageway downstream the section of said
retaining element, this groove being shaped in said structural
member (5). It is proposed that said retaining element
comprises an elongated profile (2, 2a, 2b) provided with a
longitudinal opening (3) in the interior of whose profile (2,
2a, 2b) a peripheral band (1a), very close to a side edge of
the fabric or canvas (1) to be fastened, remains locked
between said profile and a strip (4), having suitable shape,
socketed in said longitudinal opening (3). The invention also
refers to a sunshade, namely large sized, constructed by using
said arrangement.
Patent EP-0893140-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CALBET BENACH JOSE
IPC: A61N1/40
Filed: 1998-07-15
Abstract: With these devices a relative H F (high frequency)
electric current applicable to the human body is generated
by means of an active electrode and a neutral or return
electrode, whose electrodes are connected to the
transformer of the output stage of the corresponding
circuit. The invention is characterised by the coil of the
output transformer having on the secondary winding, besides
connections for the end terminals for connecting the
neutral or return electrode and an active metallic
electrode with electrically insulating cover, an
intermediate terminal for connecting an active metallic
electrode without insulating cover, whose terminal is
furnished with an adequate very reduced impedance with an
average which adapts only and exclusively to the different
sizes of said metallic electrodes without metallic cover
which are used.
Patent EP-0977854-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BOHLEN PETER
IPC: C12N5/10
Filed: 1998-04-20
Abstract: Cette invention se rapporte à de nouvelles formes tronquées de protéines apparentées au facteur de croissance endothéliale vasculaire (VRP) qui servent à stimuler l'engiogenèse in vitro et in vivo. Cette invention se rapporte également à des acides nucléiques codant ces nouvelles protéines VRP tronquées et à des procédés pour produire ces protéines VRP tronquées. Des compositions pharmaceutiques contenant ces protéines VRP tronquées et des procédés de thérapie génétique utilisant les acides nucléiques qui codent ces protéines VRP tronquées peuvent servir dans le traitement des maladies cardiaques et pour la cicatrisation des plaies.
Patent EP-1001930-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CURTIN MICHAEL L
IPC: C07C317/40
Filed: 1998-07-27
Abstract: Compounds having formula (I) are matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors. Also disclosed are matrix metalloproteinase-inhibiting compositions and methods of inhibiting matrix metalloproteinase in a mammal.
Patent EP-1017396-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BREITER HANS C
IPC: A61K31/4515
Filed: 1998-09-24
Abstract: L'invention concerne des procédés d'inhibition de l'état de besoin induit par les psychostimulants ou la nicotine, se manifestant par un désir impérieux de consommer d'autres psychostimulants (ex. cocaïne ou l'amphétamine) ou de la nicotine. Dans ces méthodes, des antagonistes du type D1 ou des agonistes du type D1 sont administrés à un patient dépendant de psychostimulants ou de la nicotine et sujet audit état de besoin ou souffrant de celui-ci. L'invention porte également sur un système de modèle animal utile pour la mesure de la capacité de composés d'essai à inhiber l'état de besoin induit par les psychostimulants ou la nicotine chez les humains.
Patent EP-0942488-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KAWAHATA KAZUNARI
IPC: H01Q5/10
Filed: 1999-02-18
Abstract: The invention provides an antenna device (1), comprising:
a substrate (2) made of an insulation material and including a
first major surface and a second major surface face; a ground
electrode (2a) provided substantially on the whole of the first
major surface of said substrate (2); and an inverted F-shape
antenna (3) and a microstrip antenna (4) respectively provided
on the surface of the substrate (2). An open end of a radiation
electrode (4a) of the microstrip antenna (4) and a feeding
electrode (3c) of the inverted F-shape antenna (3) are
capacitively coupled to each other. A first direction (3x)
through the open end and ground end of the radiation electrode
(3a) of the inverted F-shape antenna (3) is substantially
perpendicular to a second direction (4x) through the open end
and ground end of the radiation electrode (4a) of the
microstrip antenna (4). By the above arrangement, a mutual
interference hardly occurs between the two antennas (3, 4).
Patent EP-0942321-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FUJII TAKASHI
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 1999-03-10
Abstract: An image sensing apparatus such as digital still camera
and video camera having a lens barrel which is driven to
extended-out and retracted-in positions by drivers (104b,
105). The apparatus comprises an external operation device
(116) externally operated by a user. When the image sensing
apparatus is released from an OFF mode, the user is allowed
to make a selection between cases where the optical system
is positioned in the extended-out position and retracted-in
position, through the operation device.
Patent EP-0943352-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CRAWFORD JAMIE
IPC: A61B5/15
Filed: 1999-03-12
Abstract: The present invention is a needle holder assembly for using during a blood
collection procedure and more particularly to a blood collection tube holder (40) with means (100) for
easily engaging and disengaging a blood collection needle from the holder and for not
prematurely disengaging a blood collection needle. The needle holder includes an engaging
trigger (300) to engage the holder with a needle and a disengaging trigger (400) to disengage the holder with
a needle and a preventative needle release indicator (542) that prevents premature movement of the
disengaging trigger (400) and disengagement of the needle from the holder.
Patent EP-1013517-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BUERGER THORSTEN
IPC: G06K7/00
Filed: 1999-12-14
Abstract: The method involves wireless transmission of data from a transmitter unit (1) to a receiver unit (2). After capacitively coupling of the transmitter and receiver units the data are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver with the aid of a signal produced by a capacitive alternating field. A transmitter sends coded information to a receiver for comparison with predefined coded information for drive generation if they coincide. An Independent claim is also included for a system for activating and/or deactivating a safety device.
Patent EP-1022442-A2 (EP)
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI MUSASHI
IPC: F01L9/20
Filed: 1999-12-29
Abstract: An intake-air quantity control apparatus for an
internal combustion engine with a variable valve timing
system associated with at least an intake valve,
comprises a control unit controlling an intake-air
quantity of air entering the internal combustion engine
based on at least one of an intake valve open timing and
an intake valve closure timing of the intake valve. The
control unit determines a desired internal pressure in
an intake-air passage based on a predetermined operating
parameter, and detecting an operation delay-time
fluctuation rate for at least the intake valve. A
desired intake-air quantity is arithmetically
calculated on the basis of engine operating conditions.
The control unit includes a compensation section which
compensates for the desired internal pressure based on
at least one of the operation delay-time fluctuation rate
and the desired intake-air quantity to produce a
compensated internal pressure. A throttle opening is
controlled depending on both the compensated internal
pressure and the desired intake-air quantity. Also, the
intake valve open timing and the intake valve closure
timing are controlled depending on both the compensated
internal pressure and the desired intake-air quantity.
Patent EP-0931450-A2 (EP)
Inventor: JANSSEN WILHELMUS HENRICUS JOH
IPC: A01G5/02
Filed: 1995-01-12
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for sorting and bundling flowers. The device has been provided with a frame and with a conveyor belt, which runs in a substantially horizontal plane during operation and to which supporting means are coupled so as to support the flowers. Said supporting means are capable of reciprocating movement in said substantially horizontal plane with respect to the conveyor belt in order to deliver the flowers to a second conveyor belt provided near a bundling station. A plurality of fork-shaped means are coupled to said second conveyor belt so as to be pivotable about horizontal pivot axes. Weights are coupled to said pivotal fork-shaped means in such a manner that said weights attempt to keep said fork-shaped means in a horizontal position.
Patent EP-0936623-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ABRAHAM DAVID WILLIAM
IPC: G11C11/15
Filed: 1999-02-04
Abstract: Magnetic memory cells include a changeable magnetic region with a
magnetic axis along which two directions of magnetization can be imposed,
thereby providing two respective states into which the cells are
changeable according to electrical and resultant magnetic stimuli applied
thereto. Asymmetry in the magnetic stimuli applied to the cell while
writing a state therein is disclosed to provide a predictable
magnetization pattern evolution from the first direction to the second
direction. Physical asymmetry in the layout and/or magnetization of the
cell is also disclosed which provides the predictable pattern evolution.
These principles can be applied to magnetic random access memory (MRAM)
arrays which employ magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) cells at the
intersections of bitlines and wordlines which supply the electrical and
resultant magnetic stimuli to write the cells therein.
Patent EP-0935217-A2 (EP)
Inventor: DAVIES KEN
IPC: G06T11/00
Filed: 1999-02-08
Abstract: A system for generating graphics montage images comprises an
image database, a display generator having an image selector and an image
arranger. The system also includes a user interface and a display for
displaying the generated montage images. The image database stores
image data records correlated to images. The image selector selects a
plurality of images from the database and the image arranger determines
the display characteristics for each selected image. The selected images are
then displayed together, as modified by their display characteristics,
forming the graphics montage image. Typically, a plurality of graphics
montage images are generated and displayed to the user. The invention
also involves a method for assisting in the generation of graphic montage
images, having the following steps: (a) selecting a plurality of selected
images from an image database; (b) determining modifying characteristics
for each of the selected images; and (c) displaying the selected images as
modified by the modifying characteristics, thereby displaying a graphics
montage image.
Patent EP-0967384-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NISHIOKA TAKAO
IPC: F04B39/00
Filed: 1999-04-22
Abstract: A fuel injection pump for high pressure injecting
gasoline, fuel whose main component is gasoline or
light oil having a sulfur content of 0.05% by weight or
less by a reciprocation of a piston sliding relative to
a cylinder, wherein at least a sliding surface of the
piston to slide on the cylinder is made of ceramic and
the surface roughness thereof, expressed in ten-point
mean surface roughness R z , is 0.05-0.4 µm in a
direction perpendicular to the sliding direction and
0.2-0.6 µm in a direction parallel to the sliding
direction while the surface roughness expressed in the
ten-point mean surface roughness R z  of a cylinder
sliding surface corresponding thereto is 0.2-0.8 µm in
a direction parallel to the sliding direction. By
using the above combination of piston and cylinder, the
wear resistance of the piston and cylinder is improved,
the durability thereof is improved and the production
cost can be largely reduced.
Patent EP-0957617-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TRAVERSAT BERNARD A
IPC: H04L29/08
Filed: 1999-05-12
Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for providing a data framework
and associated client/server protocol for storing and exchanging data among
computers in a network. A data schema having an n-way tree-type structure
with a root node layer, intermediate node layers, and a data layer for storing
configuration data is described. The intermediate node layers contain a
multitude of nodes containing categorical information relating to components
and various aspects of the computer network. Following a tree structure, each
intermediate node and root node has branches emanating to nodes below it.
These subordinate nodes are referred to as children nodes. The data node
layer is at the bottom of the tree and contains actual specific configuration
data relating to components and other aspects of the computer network, such
as information regarding users registered to use the network. Certain portions
of the intermediate nodes and data nodes make up persistent dataspaces in
which the actual specific configuration data in the data nodes is modified on
either a client or a server computer, and is stored on the server computer. This
allows the associated specific information to be nonvolatile and accessible by
a multiplicity of client computers. The client/server protocol allows
configuration data to be transferred between a client and server and for the
maintenance of the connection between the client and the server.
Configuration data and user profiles are stored on a server computer thereby
minimizing the amount of memory needed by the client computer, which can
be a device with low memory capabilities such as network computers, PDAs,
or smart cards. The protocol also includes a method of coalescing
configuration data before sending it to a client computer thereby reducing the
memory requirements of the client computer.
Patent EP-0962377-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GRABOWSKI JOHN ROBERT
IPC: B62D117/00
Filed: 1999-05-20
Abstract: A method is provided for controlling an electro-hydraulic
power assist steering system including a variable-speed
electric motor (12) for pumping hydraulic fluid in the
system. The method includes monitoring a vehicle steering
wheel angle and determining if the vehicle steering wheel
angle exceeds a steering travel limit. If the steering
travel limit is exceeded, the method reduces a desired motor
speed to a predetermined end of travel motor speed until the
steering wheel angle drops below the steering travel limit.
Accordingly, energy is conserved by reducing the power
consumed while the steering system is maintained at its
steering travel limit.
Patent EP-0969416-A2 (EP)
Inventor: EDMARK JOHN T
IPC: G06T1/00
Filed: 1999-06-23
Abstract: A limitation of modeling three-dimensional objects in a virtual world occurs when
a user moves within the world and still wishes a certain target object to remain visible,
instead of being occluded by other surfaces in front of the object along the direction the
user is viewing the target object. Therefore, in accordance with the principles of the
invention, a target object which is to remain visible, regardless of the user's view point,
is duplicated and modeled as being located a close distance to the user, but scaled
accordingly to make the cloned object appear to be farther away from the viewpoint of the
user and co-located with and of the same size and orientation as the target object. In this
manner, as the user moves within the world, surfaces located in front of the target object
do not occlude the cloned object from the user's view, thus appearing to give that same
property to the target object.
Patent EP-0980157-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NOMURA KIYOSHI
IPC: H04L27/26
Filed: 1999-08-06
Abstract: A receiver for receiving the digital broadcasting
of a signal having a pause period and digital data in
every frame comprises a first detector for detecting a
start point or an end point of the pause period, a timer
of which period is equal to a frame time, and a second
detector for detecting a difference between the point of
time detected by the first detector and the time of the
timer. The offset of a frame signal indicative of the
length of time of the digital data is corrected by the
output of the second detector.
Patent EP-1062657-A2 (EP)
Title: Systeme et procede de codage de donnees par quantification de vecteurs segmentes
Inventor: ASHLEY JAMES PATRICK
IPC: H03M7/30
Filed: 1999-02-04
Abstract: L'invention porte sur un procédé et un système de quantification de vecteurs segmentés servant à déterminer des valeurs d'ensembles ordonnés contraints telles que des paramètres de paires de spectres de raies (LSP) afin de déterminer les paramètres spectraux de systèmes de compression de données. On utilise à cet effet plusieurs livres de code (22a-22c) contenant des valeurs d'ensembles ordonnés contraints à codage delta normalisés jusqu'à une limite supérieure et inférieure. Un reconstructeur LSP reconstruit les paramètres spectraux reçus pour décoder les données telles que les données vocales en fonction des données normalisées de quantification delta de paramètres de paires de spectres de raies obtenus à partir des livres de code (22a-22c) de reconstitution des vecteurs segmentés. Le reconstructeur LSP (34) produit dynamiquement des paramètres de paires de spectres de raies sur la base des données de quantification delta. Dans une autre exécution, au lieu de stocker dans des livres de code segmentés les valeurs absolues des paramètres de paires de spectres de raies, on utilise pour la quantification une combinaison d'au moins deux vecteurs de valeur absolue et au moins un vecteur normalisé de quantification delta.
Patent EP-1074136-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WALL GERARD A
IPC: G06F13/00
Filed: 1999-04-20
Abstract: Authentication and session management can be used with a system architecture that partitions functionality between a human interface device (HID) and a computational service provider such as a server. An authentication manager executing on a server interacts with the HID to validate the user when the user connects to the system via the HID. A session manager executing on a server manages services running on computers providing computational services on behalf of the user. The session manager notifies each service in a session that the user is attached to the system using a given HID. A service can direct display output to the HID while the user is attached to the system. When a user detaches from the system, each of the service's executing for the user is notified via the authentication manager and the session manager. Upon notification that the user is detached from the system, a service can continue to execute while stopping its display to the HID.