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Patent EP-0879549-B1 (EP)
Inventor: TAVARES JOAO F
IPC: H05B41/392
Filed: 1997-02-06
Granted: 2000-05-17
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/CA97/00079 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 1, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 1, 1997 PCT Filed Jun. 2, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/29618 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 14, 1997A dimmer applies a phase-controlled AC voltage to a lighting assembly which includes a fluorescent lamp operated with a magnetic ballast. A microprocessor performs a calibration routine in which the phase angle used in phase control is increment from 0 toward 180 degrees. The microprocessor monitors current conducted by the lighting assembly in response to each incrementing, effectively determining an operative range of phase angles free of flickering or drop-out. During steady-state operation, the microprocessor converts nominal power settings into corresponding phase angle settings within the operative range, preventing operation in undesirable states.
Patent EP-0935696-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KUNI STEFAN
IPC: D21H23/72
Filed: 1997-10-31
Granted: 2003-06-04
Abstract: Method and apparatus for coating a moving paperboard web with at least two coating layers. A first coating layer is applied onto the surface of the web and a second coating layer is applied onto the surface of this first undried coating layer. The first coating layer is applied by means of a film transfer coater and the second coating layer is applied by means of a nozzle applicator, whereby the first layer is neither mixed nor doctored off the web during the application of the second layer.
Patent EP-1012500-B1 (EP)
Inventor: UNGER WALTRAUD ROSALIE
IPC: G02B5/02
Filed: 1997-07-01
Granted: 2003-04-02
Abstract: The reflectivity of a substrate can be improved by combining a reflective diffuse layer with a specular layer. The light output of individual light sources can be improved by embedding them in a composite diffuse and specular substrate resulting in a superior illumination source. A tapered coupling waveguide having a large input surface can be used to couple the illumination source to a thin waveguide having a relatively small input surface area.
Patent EP-1021353-B1 (EP)
Inventor: FRESNEL ERIC
IPC: G09F3/02
Filed: 1997-10-01
Granted: 2001-08-29
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/FR97/01732 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 29, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 29, 1999 PCT Filed Oct. 1, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/15469 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 16, 1998The invention relates to a method of marking an article by transfer from a sleeve of heat-shrink plastics material which is shrunken on the article. According to the method, a transferable element (30) whose free face is coated in a layer (33) of reactivatable adhesive, together with an integrated circuit (40) on said layer, is placed on the inside surface (25) of the film constituting the sleeve (20), after which the sleeve (20) fitted in this way is engaged on the article (10) and is heated so as to shrink said sleeve and press said transferable element together with its integrated circuit onto the facing wall of the article (10), and the adhesive of the layer (33) of reactivatable adhesive is reactivated so that the transferable element (30) adheres to the article (10) and presses the associated integrated circuit (40) against the wall of said article. The invention also provides a sleeve (20) specially designed to implement the above method, having an inside face which includes a transferable element (30) with its free face coated in a layer of reactivatable adhesive and with an integrated circuit on said layer.
Patent EP-0906460-B1 (EP)
Inventor: DENTON JEFFREY SCOTT
IPC: D03D15/56
Filed: 1997-09-12
Granted: 2005-01-12
Abstract: The present invention is directed towards yarns of covered high modulus filament materials and fabrics which are formed therefrom. The present invention is intended to provide a composite filamentary material which exhibits the advantages of high modulus materials while providing a means for compensating the diminished properties exhibited by such fibers in the direction normal to molecular chain orientation. The composite filament structure of the present invention is a high modulus filament material covered with bicomponent filaments. The composite filament structure has a first interior layer of high modulus filament material and a second exterior layer of bicomponent fibers, the second exterior layer of bicomponent fibers being covered around the first interior layer of high modulus material along its entire length. The entire surface area of the high modulus material should be covered.
Patent EP-1009356-B1 (EP)
Title: Dual vial connecting system for lyophilized products
Inventor: MOISIO FRANCK
IPC: B65D81/32
Filed: 1997-08-27
Granted: 2002-01-16
Abstract: For temporary connection of two containers (1, 3) such as vials, bottles, etc. . . . , with guaranteed tightness thanks to a cylindrical screwing closing and connection plastic sleeve (4) having a plastic perforable membrane (7) located between its upper portion (6) and lower portion (5) including an elastomer sealing ring (13) fixed around a cylindrical plastic skirt (12) located in the inner lower portion (5), and an elastomer sealing plug (18) fixed by the collar (17) and the annular rib (16) in the inner upper portion (6), a cylindrical plastic skirt (12) coming in contact with the inner neck (10) of the glass or plastic vial (1), the whole assuring complete tightness of the system when stored and when used for the reconstitution of the product (2) contained in a glass or plastic vial (1) with a corresponding solvent (23) contained in a plastic solvent bottle (3).
Patent EP-0941318-B1 (EP)
Inventor: WITTIG BURGHARDT
IPC: C12N15/87
Filed: 1997-11-13
Granted: 2001-01-17
Abstract: The invention concerns an expressible nucleic acid construct, which contains only the sequence information necessary for expressing a gene for RNA or protein synthesis. Expression constructs of this type can be used in gene therapy and genetic vaccination and avoid many of the risks associated with constructs today. The invention further concerns the possibility of improving the conveying of the construct into cells or tissue by covalent linkage of the construct, for example to particles of peptides.
Patent EP-0944573-B1 (EP)
Inventor: AICHINGER HEINRICH
IPC: C07C67/58
Filed: 1997-11-21
Granted: 2001-09-12
Abstract: L'invention concerne un procédé pour la préparation d'esters d'acide (méth)acrylique par réaction d'acide (méth)acrylique avec des alcanols C4-C12 en présence d'acide sulfurique ou bien d'un monoester d'alkyle C4-C12 d'acide sulfurique comme catalyseur. Ce catalyseur est régénéré par extraction avec de l'eau du mélange de réaction et la solution aqueuse de catalyseur est réutilisée pour l'estérification. La concentration en alcanol n'ayant pas réagi dans le mélange de réaction à extraire atteint au maximum 5 % en poids par rapport au mélange de réaction à extraire.
Patent EP-0899064-B1 (EP)
Inventor: WADGE BRIAN
IPC: B25F3/00
Filed: 1998-08-13
Granted: 2001-11-28
Abstract: A power tool comprises a body (14) having a motor (22) with an output. A detachable tool head (50) is engageable with the motor output wherein the motor output has a first engagement means (32) for complimentary engagement with a second engagement means (62) on the tool head drive. The first engagement means (32) is recessed within the body (14) and accessible through an aperture (44) therein. And the second engagement means (62) is recessed within the tool head (52) and accessible through a second aperture therewithin. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-1007999-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KRISTENSEN MARTIN
IPC: H01S3/067
Filed: 1998-02-13
Granted: 2007-12-12
Abstract: A method of producing an active optical waveguide having asymmetric polarization, said method comprising the steps of (a) providing an active optical waveguide (10) comprising: (i) a transverse refractive index profile (21) comprising a guiding region (11), an intermediate region (13), and a non-guiding region (12); (ii) a transverse photorefractive dopant profile (31) comprising a constant or graded photorefractive dopant concentration within at least one of the guiding, non-guiding and intermediate regions, except that the photorefractive dopant is not located solely in the guiding region; and (iii) exhibiting in said guiding region, intermediate region, or both, light guiding modes having different polarizations; and (b) exposing at least a part (10a, 10b) of the active optical waveguide to an effective transverse illumination of light (20) reacting with the photorefractive dopant and modifying said transverse refractive index profile; said part of the active optical waveguide being exposed to a fluence selectively suppressing the propagation of the light guiding modes having different polarizations so that the propagation of one mode is less suppressed than the propagation of the other mode(s). Such an active optical waveguide, single polarization mode optical waveguide lasers and multi-wavelength single polarization mode optical waveguide lasers comprising such an active optical waveguide, methods of their production, and their uses in telecommunications, in spectroscopy, in sensors and in absolute calibrated laser light sources.
Patent EP-0966735-B1 (EP)
Inventor: MOSHER WALTER W JR
IPC: G09F3/00
Filed: 1998-03-03
Granted: 2003-07-02
Abstract: A radio frequency identification device includes an attachment element (12) which is maintained in operative relationship with an object or individual by a securement element (14). The attachment element (14) is disposable and the securement element (14) is easily separable therefrom for reuse, the securement element (14) including a radio frequency identification circuit (30) which can be reused after the attachment element (12) has been disposed of. One form of the radio frequency identification device is an identification wristband (10) which incorporates attachment element (12) and securement element (14) for the attachment element (12), the securement element (14) incorporating an RFID such as a chip (30) which is removed from operative relationship with the attachment element (12) when the securement element (14) is removed to permit reuse of the securement element (14) and chip (30).
Patent EP-0974183-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LANGE ANDREAS
IPC: H02K1/27
Filed: 1998-03-13
Granted: 2003-07-23
Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for an electrical machine, specially a transversal flow machine, having at least one pole structure. The pole structure encompasses two adjacent rows of magnet arrangements which are alternatively magnetized in the peripheral direction. The rows are separated by an intermediate layer made of magnetically and electrically non-conductive material (intermediate ring). The magnet arrangements having of inter-lying collector and soft iron elements. The magnet arrangements interlock with adjacent collector or soft iron elements in the peripheral direction. The collector or soft magnet elements are at least partially provided with an insulating layer. The invention is characterized in that at least one of the collector or soft iron elements that is adjacent in the periphery of the magnet arrangement is devoid of a radially external stop providing at least indirect support for the magnet arrangements in radial direction.
Patent EP-0971589-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HUNTER JAMES S
IPC: A61P33/00
Filed: 1998-03-25
Granted: 2003-05-14
Abstract: Utilisation d'un composé de formule (I) ou de formule (II) pour la préparation d'une composition pour l'éradication des puces dans les locaux d'habitation ou d'hébergement des mammifères de petites tailles, notamment chats et chiens, par application périodique sur l'animal ou les animaux du local considéré d'une préparation topique en quantité efficacement parasiticide d'un composé de formule (I), ou éventuellement de formule (II), selon une périodicité mensuelle.
Patent EP-0966649-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BEAL HAROLD F
IPC: F42B12/74
Filed: 1998-03-16
Granted: 2003-03-12
Abstract: Ammunition for a small-bore weapon operable in the semi-automatic or automatic mode. A round of the ammunition includes a combination of case (12), powder (28) and projectile (24) which enables the projectile to be propelled at subsonic velocity from the weapon to a target while generating sufficient energy to consistently operate the bolt of the weapon and which generates substantially no audible sound during its free flight through air. The projectile (24) of the ammunition is formed from a core (25) including multiple elements (40, 46), each of which is formed from a mixture of heavy metal powder and light metal powder that is densified under high pressure to provide enhanced density of the elements, hence of the core. These elements are incorporated into a light metal jacket (52) by high pressure. A method for the manufacture of the projectile is disclosed.
Patent EP-0997029-B1 (EP)
Inventor: FOTTA KEITH A
IPC: H04M3/38
Filed: 1998-05-08
Granted: 2005-12-14
Abstract: A method of implementing call compliance at a central facility, the method involving: receiving a call from a caller on an incoming connection; enabling the caller on the incoming connection to initiate an outgoing call on an outgoing connection; receiving over the incoming connection an identifier of a destination to which a call is to be initiated over the outgoing connection; checking a do-not-call database for an indication of whether the destination is a do-not-call destination; if it is determined that the destination is a do-not-call destination, blocking the outgoing call from taking place over the outgoing connection; and if it is determined that the destination is not a do-not-call destination, allowing the outgoing call to take place over the outgoing connection.
Patent EP-1001710-B1 (EP)
Inventor: EDWARDS STUART D
IPC: A61N1/06
Filed: 1998-06-03
Granted: 2005-01-12
Abstract: An apparatus that reduces a volume of a selected site in an interior of the tongue includes a handpiece means and an electrode means at least partially positioned in the interior of the handpiece means. The electrode means includes an electrode means electromagnetic energy delivery surface and is advance able from the interior of the handpiece means into the interior of the tongue. An electrode means advancement member is coupled to the electrode means and configured to advance the electrode means an advancement distance in the interior of the tongue. The advancement distance is sufficient for the electrode means electromagnetic energy delivery surface to deliver electromagnetic energy to the selected tissue site and reduce a volume of the selected site without damaging a hypoglossal nerve. A cable means is coupled to the electrode means.
Patent EP-0981813-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KOECHEL MATTHIAS
IPC: H03K5/13
Filed: 1998-05-11
Granted: 2002-09-11
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for contrast control in impulse-bandwidth controlled picture displays such as plasma displays. With this type of display the time interval available for displaying a picture is divided into several consecutive partial time intervals and the luminance signal assigned to a picture element is generated by transforming an analogue luminance value into a predetermined number of voltage pulses present during one or more of the partial time intervals. If the contrast is changed the predetermined number of voltage pulses which can be generated in each of the partial time intervals is modified.
Patent EP-0943204-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KREXNER CHRISTIAN
IPC: H04M1/72
Filed: 1998-07-27
Granted: 2005-09-07
Abstract: A fax and phone combination device. The combination device is coupled to an external phone. From a phone line, the combination device receives a call signal, a fax signal, and an information signal. The call signal precedes the fax signal and the information signal. The combination device comprises a fax, an internal phone, and a call signal processor. The call processor processes the call signal received by the combination device and produces a first ringing signal from the call signal. The first ringing signal is intended for the internal phone. The combination device further comprises a ringing signal generator for generating a second ringing signal that is intended for the external phone, and a switch coupled to the fax, the internal phone, and the call processor. A call pulse in the call signal causes the switch to switch the combination device in a simulated receiving mode. In the simulated receiving mode, the fax signal detector detects whether the fax signal is present. If the fax signal is present, the fax signal is routed to the fax. If no fax signal is present, the second ringing signal is routed to the external phone.
Patent EP-1017977-B1 (EP)
Inventor: CHEN HAIWEN
IPC: G01M3/22
Filed: 1998-07-21
Granted: 2008-01-23
Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for detection of leaks in boilers containing a temperature control liquid which is supplemented with feedwater and removed as blowdown, main steam and sootblower steam. In a preferred embodiment, the boiler has an automatic liquid level control mechanism. The methods include measuring rates associated with feedwater supplementation and removal, correcting for the offsets between the supplementation and removal rates, determining the unaccounted for water rate, and comparing the unaccounted for water rate with zero to determine if a leak condition is present.
Patent EP-1005275-B1 (EP)
Inventor: FYFE LORNA
IPC: A61K31/235
Filed: 1998-08-21
Granted: 2002-11-13
Abstract: The present invention provides an inhibitor and preservative formulation comprising a combination of a plant oil chosen from the oils of fennel, anise or basic, or derivatives or active ingredients thereof with benzoic acid, methyl paraben, ethyl paraben, propyl paraben or butyl paraben. Suitably the formulation comprises between 0.1% and 1% of plant oil derivative or active ingredient thereof and 0.1% benzoic acid or paraben. The ingredients may be administered separately or together to a foodstuff. Alternatively the ingredients may be used in the manufacture of medicament to inhibit micro-organism growth.
Patent EP-0970157-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KUIKEN ARJEN WILLEM
IPC: C09J5/00
Filed: 1998-11-13
Granted: 2004-06-23
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for bonding a first plate-shaped object to a second plate-shaped object by means of an adhesive. According to the method, the adhesive is applied to one of the two surfaces of the first object, whereafter said surface of the first object and one of the two surfaces of the second object are pressed together. According to the invention, the plate-shaped objects are rotated at equal rotational velocities about an axis of rotation extending perpendicularly to said surfaces of the objects for at least a time period during which the two objects are being pressed together. In this way, the adhesive present between the two objects spreads homogeneously between the two objects under the influence of the centrifugal force acting on the adhesive, so that a homogeneous, relatively thin and strong layer of adhesive is formed between the two objects. In addition, the pressure with which the objects are to be pressed together is reduced. In a special embodiment of the method and device in accordance with the invention, during a first phase, the two objects are moved towards each other at a predetermined relatively low approach speed, and are rotated at a predetermined relatively low rotational speed, and, during a second phase following said first phase, the objects are pressed together with a predetermined compressive force and rotated at a further predetermined relatively high rotational speed. The method and device according to the invention can be used in the manufacture of SOA-semiconductor devices for bonding a disc-shaped semiconductor substrate to a disc-shaped insulating carrier, such as a glass carrier.
Patent EP-0977960-B1 (EP)
Inventor: CHIORBOLI GIANNI
IPC: F16L3/22
Filed: 1998-11-07
Granted: 2000-09-06
Abstract: L'invention concerne un dispositif de fixation qui permet de maintenir des tuyaux en amortissant les vibrations, destiné notamment aux tuyaux de liquide dans les véhicules automobiles. Le dispositif comprend un corps de base (1) constitué d'un plastique élastique dur, pouvant être fixé sur une plaque support et comportant une plaque de base (5) dont partent des parois latérales (6, 7) en forme de U; et une coquille de fixation (8) entourant plus de la moitié de la périphérie du tuyau, dont les extrémités sont reliées en monobloc avec les parois latérales par deux tiges (9) obliques vers le haut. Afin de fixer les tuyaux en direction axiale sur l'élément de fixation après les avoir enfoncés et alignés, une bride d'obturation (10), disposée pivotante à l'extrémité supérieure de l'une des parois latérales (6), comporte à son extrémité libre une tige à encoche (12) faisant saillie sensiblement perpendiculairement et comportant un rebord à encoche (13) opposé au point de pivotement. Le rebord coopère avec un rebord à encoche opposé (14), formé vers l'extérieur sur la paroi opposée (7) et tourné vers l'intérieur. Quand la bride de fixation est ouverte, la distance (a) qui sépare la tige à encoche (12), formée sur la bride d'obturation (10), de la charnière de pivotement (11) de la première paroi latérale (6) est légèrement inférieure à celle (b) qui sépare la charnière (11) de la zone supérieure de l'autre paroi (7).
Patent EP-1048081-B1 (EP)
Inventor: JOHNSON RALPH H
IPC: H01S5/20
Filed: 1998-11-20
Granted: 2003-04-23
Abstract: A light emmitting device having a first mirror (58), an active layer (64), a second mirror (68), and a beryllium implantation (82) resulting in a peripheral boundary of a waveguide (86) through the first and second mirrors (58, 68), the active layer (64) and the trapping layer (62). A P-N junction is situated within the implantation and the guide. The turn on voltage is lower for the junction within the waveguide than that within the implantation, resulting in confinement of current within the guide at a voltage applied to the device that is greater than the lower junction voltage and less than the higher junction voltage. The device also has an electron trapping layer (62) between said first mirror (58) and said active layer (64), and a conduction layer (72), situated on said second mirror (68).
Patent EP-0972088-B1 (EP)
Inventor: NIEMINEN MATTI
IPC: C22B7/00
Filed: 1998-12-18
Granted: 2002-09-25
Abstract: A process for treating a raw material containing aluminum or a similar metal melting at a low temperature and organic matter, including metal separation, particularly intended for the treatment of liquid container rejects consisting of aluminum foil, polymer material and possible fibre residues in order to recover the aluminum and to utilise the organic matter as a fuel. The raw material is introduced in a bubbling fluidised bed, where the organic matter is gasified at a temperature higher than the melting point of the metal present. The gas removed from the fluidised bed and the entrained metal are subsequently cooled to a temperature below the melting point of metal by admixing a cooling medium such as water in the gas flow. The solid metal particles are eventually separated from the gas e.g. with a cyclone and the gas flow is possibly filtered before combustion.
Patent EP-1074788-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KUNZ VERENA
IPC: F21V17/00
Filed: 1999-09-10
Granted: 2006-06-21
Abstract: The attachment element has a device (19) for attaching the attachment element to a housing wall, an anchoring device (32) for anchoring one or more lamp holders to the attachment element and a shape-locking and/or force-locking connector (26a, 26b) for connecting the attachment element to a light matrix and/or reflector. An Independent claim is also included for a light.