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Patent EP-0495901-B1 (EP)
Inventor: EDELMAN GERALD M
IPC: G06V10/764
Filed: 1990-10-10
Granted: 2001-01-03
Abstract: An apparatus capable of sensing the presence of objects in its environment, categorizing these objects without a prior description of the categories to be expected, and controlling robotic effector mechanisms to respond differentially to such objects according to their categories. Such responses include sorting objects, rejecting objects of certain types, and detecting novel or deviant objects. The invention includes a device called a "classification n-tuple" (of which a "classification couple" is a special case) capable of combining signals from two or more sensory modalities to arrive at the classification of the object. The invention operates by simulating certain features of animal nervous system, including neurons with responses determined at each moment of time by inputs received along synaptic connections from sensory means or form other neurons. In this invention, neurons are arranged in "groups", which permits them to act cooperatively while still retaining characteristic individual responses. Groups in turn are arranged in "repertoires", which provide a totality of response specificities sufficient to respond to any of a range of possible input objects. Some of these repertoires are organized as "maps", such that groups responding to inputs that are similar along some dimensional (spatial or abstract) are close together in the repertoire, enabling the repertoire to respond correctly to novel objects that are similar to objects it has encountered previously. Maps in this invention are linked by connections, called "reentrant" connections, that enable the responses of one map to be reentered into the system as inputs to another map. Reentrant connections permit signals from different sensory modalities to be correlated in an ongoing fashion, and they are the basis for the operation of classification n-tuples. The responses of the apparatus of this invention may be improved and optimized for a particular task through the operation of "neuronal group selection", a process which enhances the responses of those neuronal groups in the apparatus which were active in some time interval preceding the production of a useful output action. This process operates by modifying the strength of selected synaptic connections. The value of various output actions is determined, for the purpose of regulating selection, by means which are internal to the apparatus of this invention. Accordingly, the invention is capable of self-organization and learning, and does not require a predetermined specification of correct responses for all possible inputs.
Patent EP-0454814-B1 (EP)
Inventor: METROKA MICHAEL P
IPC: H04M1/02
Filed: 1990-11-01
Granted: 1998-06-10
Abstract: A portable radiotelephone with an integral voice recognition circuit is disclosed. Control of the voice recognition circuit is achieved with a foldable housing element which, in a closed position, covers an external keypad and control buttons. When the foldable housing element is in an open position, the portable radiotelephone is placed in an off-hook condition, the voice recognition circuit is activated, and the acoustic transducers are coupled to the voice recognition circuit. When the foldable element is in a closed position, the portable radiotelephone is placed in an on-hook condition, the voice recognition circuit is deactivated, and the electroacoustic transducers are coupled to the radiotelephone. A rapid closing and opening of the foldable element results in the voice recognition circuit being deactivated while the portable radiotelephone remains in the off-hook condition.
Patent EP-0438168-B1 (EP)
Inventor: YAJIMA HIROSHI
IPC: G07G1/14
Filed: 1991-01-18
Granted: 1998-12-02
Abstract: A business monitoring system and method having a supervisory work station (5100) and a staff work station (3000) as well, having a judgement condition storage function, having a condition described for selecting and extracting contents of a business process transaction, having a judgement function for extracting a transaction, having contents to be processed on the basis of the condition, and having a transaction-to-mail converting function for converting the transaction to a mail form according to the judgement result before sending it as electronic mail. The system and method allows a supervisor to register his problem concerned in the judgement condition storage function in a computer language suitable for end users or delete or change the already registered problem. The transaction-to-mail converting function allows the electronic mail converted to the mail form to be sent to and stored in a mail box for the supervisory work station. The supervisor can receive a report related to business processes concerned to his problem in the mail box at any time of his convenience. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0464570-B1 (EP)
Inventor: JAMET DANIEL
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1991-06-24
Granted: 1995-09-06
Abstract: The basic element (1) of this device comprises a volume for storing at least one turn of a transmission medium, this volume being delimited by walls (2, 3, 4, 5) which exhibit interruptions thereby delimiting storage volume portions. The operations of winding or unwinding the said medium being effected by means of the said interruptions, the spaces between adjacent storage volume portions and/or the contours of the interrupted wall portions are specified so as to minimise the mechanical stresses exerted on the said medium during its winding or its unwinding. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0468242-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HASENCLEVER KASPAR D
IPC: D06F35/00
Filed: 1991-07-04
Granted: 1995-05-10
Abstract: A method for the cleaning of textiles, especially of outer garments, with a prewashing bath, a main washing bath and a rinsing bath in a drum rotating in a drum housing and having liquid passages in the drum casing, the drum having alternately running times and standstill intervals, is characterised in that the standstill intervals amount to 20 to 80 seconds and between the standstill intervals the drum executes respectively 2 to 5 revolutions, in that the rotational speed of the drum generates a centrifugal force of 0.8 to 0.9 G and in that the drum used has an inside diameter of 60 to 120 cm.
Patent EP-0444964-B1 (EP)
Inventor: MORISAWA YASUHIRO
IPC: C07H19/01
Filed: 1991-03-01
Granted: 1994-10-26
Abstract: A process of formula (I): <CHEM> [in which: R<1> is hydrogen, halogen, cyano, nitro, optionally substituted alkyl, alkoxy, alkoxyalkoxy, or a group of formula: <MATH>   <CHEM> in which: m is 1 or 2; n is 0, 1 or 2; R<6> is hydrogen or a variety of organic groups; R<7> is alkyl, cycloalkyl, or aralkyl; R<9> is hydrogen or alkyl; R<1><1> is any of R<6>, or cyano, nitro, -COOR<7> or -COR<6>; Y is an oxygen or a sulphur; Z is -COOR<7>, -COR<6> or -SO2R<6>; A is a group of formula: -CHR<2>-CHR<3>-CHR<4>- -CR<2>=CR<3>-CHR<4>- or <CHEM>  in which R<2>, R<3> and R<4> are hydrogen, halogen, alkyl or alkoxy; R<5> is methyl, ethyl, isopropyl or sec-butyl; and X is hydroxy, optionally substituted alkanoyloxy or hydroxyimino] and salts and esters thereof have valuable anthelmintic, acaricidal and insecticidal activities. Methods of preparing the compounds are also provided.
Patent EP-0469919-B1 (EP)
Inventor: CROUX CHRISTIAN
IPC: C12N1/21
Filed: 1991-08-02
Granted: 1997-04-09
Abstract: A process for the production of an E.coli strain producing high yields of 7 beta -(4-carboxybutanamido) cephalosporin acylase, comprises: (a) digesting the DNA of a microorganism whose DNA includes the sequence encoding 7 beta -(4-carboxybutanamido) cephalosporin acylase, and forming a plasmidic library; (b) transforming, with the sequences in the plasmidic library, an auxotrophic E. coli host; (c) selecting for transformed E. coli hosts containing the acylase sequence by growth on a suitable medium; (d) isolating the vector containing the acylase sequence, digesting the vector, and ligating the DNA sequences obtained into an E. coli vector under control of an E. coli promoter; (e) repeating selection procedure of step (c); (f) using the vectors from the selected E.coli hosts to transform an E.coli host lacking substantial  beta -lactamase activity. 7-Aminocephalosporanic acid and its derivatives can be prepared by reaction of substrates like 7 beta -(4-carboxybutanamido) cephalosporanic acid with 7 beta -(4-carboxybutanamido) cephalosporin acylase produced by the E.coli strain produced by the above process.
Patent EP-0486285-B1 (EP)
Inventor: WATSON RICHARD WILLIAM
IPC: F23D14/32
Filed: 1991-11-13
Granted: 1998-10-14
Abstract: An oxygen-air-fuel burner has an open-ended, tubular, body member 2 having an inlet 4. The body member 2 defines a passage through which extend a plurality of first elongate open-ended tubular members 36 whose axes each extend generally parallel to the axis of the body member 2. The proximal end of the body member 2 terminates in a back plate 8 through which the proximal ends of the members 36 communicate with a first gas distribution chamber 10 having an inlet 16. The burner also includes a plurality of second, elongate, open-ended, tubular members 40 extending through respective first tubular members 36 from a second fluid distribution chamber 22 having an inlet 32. In operation, the chamber 22 and second tubular members 40 communicate with a source of commercially pure oxygen or oxygen-enriched air, the chamber 10 and the first tubular members with a source of fuel gas, and the passage 2 with a source of air. The fluids mix with one another on leaving the distal end of the burner. The tubular members 36 and 40 and the passage 4 each have a distal end which communicates directly with the burner flame, no end plate being used. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0524365-B1 (EP)
Inventor: ROHRER GOTTFRIED
IPC: B65G47/61
Filed: 1991-07-22
Granted: 1995-12-20
Abstract: A device (100) for transporting a load is proposed, which essentially includes a transport device (P) arranged on a circulating transport cable (2) and a transfer station (R) designed to accept the load automatically. The transport device (P) has a bracket (3) and a lock element (9) arranged on the latter with a pair of load-bearing pincers (12) to hold the load (1) in a suspended manner. As the bracket (3) is fed to the transfer station (R) which is provided with at least one moving mechanism (20), the pair of load-bearing pincers (12) is forcibly opened against the restoring force of a spring element by a lever (16) which is assigned accordingly. The load (1) is automatically picked up by a holding pin (17) provided on the moving mechanism (20) and can be transported further by means of the moving mechanism (20) which is correspondingly guided in a rail (21) and can be subsequently removed from the holding pin (17). The device (100) is designed especially for transporting banana plants which are to be transported from the plantation into a shed. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0489684-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BOEHLER NIKOLAUS PROF DR-MED
IPC: A61F2/00
Filed: 1991-11-05
Granted: 1994-08-24
Abstract: A supporting element (1) made of titanium forms a three-dimensional framework whose bars are connected together at nodal points (3) and are roughened (4). Windows (5) formed by the bars (2) have a passage (6) of more than 3 mm diameter in order to fill the interior of the supporting element (1) with homologous or autologous bone tissue fragments. 
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Patent EP-0465441-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LOVISOLO GIORGIO ALFONSO
IPC: A61N1/40
Filed: 1991-07-03
Granted: 1996-05-22
Abstract: The object of the invention consists in a capacitive rings hyperthermia applicator which is made up of a first pair (A, A min ) of capacitive rings which are interconnected by means of one or more lines, and of a second pair (B, B min ) of capacitive rings which are also interconnected by means of one or more lines, the second pair of capacitive rings working in a different phase with respect to the rings of the first pair and being more or less coupled to the same inductively, as well as of means (G) for feeding at least one of said two pairs of capacitive rings with a radiofrequency. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0502082-B1 (EP)
Inventor: NEUMANN GERT
IPC: A61L27/10
Filed: 1990-11-28
Granted: 1995-11-08
Abstract: L'invention concerne la mise en forme d'une cupule composite d'une prothèse interne articulée. Le composant anorganique de la cupule présente des phases cristallines d'apatite et/ou de wollastonite, ainsi que des phases cristallines secondaires procurant une stabilité améliorée à l'hydrolyse. Le mélange anorganique renferme en pourcentage en masse: 31-34 % CaO, 10-12 % P2O5, 43-46 % SiO2, 3-5 % Na2O, 2-3,5 % MgO, 3-5 % CaF2 et, pour compléter à 100 %, également 0,5-11 % Al2O3 et/ou ZrO2 et Al2O3 ou TiO2 et ZrO2 ou TiO2 et ZrO2 et Al2O3, la proportion en TiO2 étant comprise entre 0,5 et 5 %. En outre, un caractère essentiel de l'invention réside dans une répartition granulométrique déterminée et dans un rayon d'ouverture déterminé entre sphère et cupule. La prothèse interne ainsi réalisée est d'une utilisation exempte d'usure.
Patent EP-0513011-B1 (EP)
Inventor: FINZER HEINZ
IPC: B21F1/00
Filed: 1990-12-27
Granted: 1994-03-16
Abstract: The description relates to a modular-construction processing centre with various operating modules (6, 8, 10) run by a drive module and with fixed time-controlled tools (12), e.g. bending tools, feed mechanisms, welding stations, assembly units or the like. The drive unit takes the form of a separately handleable plug-in module (2) containing the main drive (4) for the processing centre and has a width (ERM) corresponding to one unit frame measurement of the operating modules (6, 8) integrated into the processing centre. The power is transmitted from the main drive (4) to the individual operating modules (6, 8, 10) via meshing cogs (19, 21, 30, 32, 34, 36) which bridge the interface planes (ES) between the plug-in module (2) and the equipped and fitted processing module (10) on the one hand and between the adjacent operating modules (6, 8) on the other.
Patent EP-0514466-B1 (EP)
Inventor: ODEMARK BJOERN
IPC: E01F9/619
Filed: 1991-02-04
Granted: 1996-01-03
Abstract: L'invention se rapporte à un matériau réfléchissant, en particulier pour panneaux d'affichage et pour panneaux de signalisation routière, qui se présentent sous la forme d'un plateau (20) fabriqué à partir d'un matériau transparent et comportant une surface antérieure (21) et une surface postérieure réfléchissante (22) sensiblement parallèle à la surface antérieure. La surface postérieure comprend des réflecteurs juxtaposés (23) recouverts d'un revêtement de surface récléchissant (24). Vus depuis la surface antérieure du plateau, les réflécteurs se présentent concaves et sont conçus de sorte que les rayons lumineux ayant un angle d'incidence d'environ 7 à 65° soient réfléchis avec un angle de réflection d'environ 0° par rapport à la perpendiculaire de la surface antérieure du plateau.
Patent EP-0520011-B1 (EP)
Inventor: FOSTER TIMOTHY JAMES
IPC: C12N1/21
Filed: 1991-03-12
Granted: 1995-03-01
Abstract: Souches atténuées d'Aeromonas et utilisation de ces souches comme vaccins servant à la prévention de la furonculose chez les poissons. Les souches atténuées d'Aeromonas comportent, en particulier, des mutations dans les gènes du trajet aromatique biosynthétique.
Patent EP-0531310-B1 (EP)
Inventor: RINGWOOD ALFRED EDWARD
IPC: C04B35/583
Filed: 1991-04-17
Granted: 1997-04-02
Abstract: An abrasive compact comprising 40 to 90 volume percent of cubic boron nitride (CBN) crystals bonded by 60 to 10 volume percent of a bonding matrix comprised mainly of an intimate mixture of silicon nitride and metallic diboride MB2 where M represents metal atoms chosen from the group of titanium, zirconium and hafnium atoms. The compact may be produced by a method which comprises intimately mixing particulate CBN crystals with a bonding agent in the proportion 95 to 60 volume percent of CBN and 5 to 40 volume percent of bonding agent, the bonding agent containing the metal atoms in the atomic proportions Si30M70 to Si85 M15, subjecting the mixture of CBN crystals and bonding agent to temperatures in the range 900 degrees to 1800 degrees C. and pressures in the range 5 to 70 Kilobars, and maintaining the temperature and pressure conditions for a period of at least about 30 seconds, sufficient to cause most of bonding agent to form the bonding matrix.
Patent EP-0538333-B1 (EP)
Inventor: JONES MARTYN NEIL
IPC: A61M5/142
Filed: 1991-07-05
Granted: 1995-12-20
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/GB91/01103 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 28, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 28, 1993 PCT Filed Jul. 5, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/00717 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 23, 1992.A device having a manually operable plunger slidably mounted within a container for orally administering liquid. The plunger operates to administer the liquid through an outlet, which is at least partially surrounded by a radially extending shield.
Patent EP-0546059-B1 (EP)
Inventor: JONDELIUS BJOERN KARL EMIL
IPC: A47B87/02
Filed: 1991-09-04
Granted: 1994-11-09
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/SE91/00581 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 3, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 3, 1993 PCT Filed Sep. 4, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/04242 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 19, 1992.A device for supporting printing paper for the printers of computers and computer terminals, the printing paper being present in the form of a stacked continuous paper web. The device includes an upwardly open box having a flat bottom part and upstanding side walls, the latter being removable from the bottom part, the bottom part being flat and rectangular and provided along two mutually opposing side edges with centrally positioned, longitudinally extending projections of which each extend from a respective side edge through a distance which corresponds to the thickness of the upstanding walls, and which projections are intended to directly support two of the vertical side walls which in turn support the other two vertical side walls.
Patent EP-0551434-B1 (EP)
Inventor: YANG DAVID
IPC: C07C217/18
Filed: 1991-09-27
Granted: 1995-11-15
Abstract: Applicants describe the synthesis of tamoxifen derivatives, most particularly halo, halo alkyl and hydroxy tamoxifen derivatives, wherein with the native tamoxifen molecule includes a substituted chemical group positioned on the aliphatic chain of the tamoxifen molecule. Particular halogenated tamoxifen derivatives of the invention include chloro, bromo, iodo and fluoro tamoxifen derivatives, and corresponding lower alkyl halogenated forms. The halogenated tamoxifen derivatives possess superior binding affinities for estrogen receptor rich tissues, such as uterine tissue and breast tissue, relative to unsubstituted native tamoxifen. In particular, the fluoro and bromo tamoxifen derivatives have potential use in imaging estrogen receptors by PET whereas the iodinated tamoxifens have potential use in imaging estrogen receptors by SPECT. The bromomethyl tamoxifen derivatives are demonstrated to bind estrogen receptors with the greatest enhancement of binding affinity over native tamoxifen. Rapid and efficient methods of preparing the tamoxifen derivatives having high specific activity (>6 ci/ mu mol) are also disclosed. Aliphatic chain substituted tamoxifen derivatives are shown to possess greater estrogen receptor binding affinity and more potent tumor cell inhibition than tamoxifen or tamoxifen derivatives substituted at other locations on the molecule (i.e., non-aliphatic chain substituted tamoxifen). The tamoxifen derivatives of the present invention may advantageously be used as anticancer therapeutic agents to halt estrogen-receptor positive tumors, such as those of breast and uterine tissue.
Patent EP-0525362-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BAUMELER HANS
IPC: B02C13/284
Filed: 1992-06-17
Granted: 1994-10-19
Abstract: A hammer mill (1) with a cup-shaped screen (10) comprises a screen removal and tensioning device which consists of two holders (13), a connecting linkage (15, 17) and a common drive device (20-22). The screen (10) lies on a grate (11, 12). In the raised state, it surrounds the rotor (8) and in the lowered state it can be pulled out of the hammer mill through the opening (4a) with a small degree of effort. The operational safety is ensured by securing devices for the milling chamber door (4b) and the screen tensioning device (11-22).
Patent EP-0527442-B1 (EP)
Inventor: ROSCHER GUENTER DR
IPC: C07F9/38
Filed: 1992-08-07
Granted: 1996-02-28
Abstract: Process for the purification of propanephosphonic anhydride, characterised in that crude propanephosphonic anhydride which contains impurities, has a mean degree of polymerisation of 20 to 200 and contains less than 0.5% by weight of water, is distilled by being heated to from 230 to 300 DEG C at a pressure of 0.1 to 100 mbar, giving pure propanephosphonic anhydride with a mean degree of polymerisation of 20 to 60.
Patent EP-0543223-B1 (EP)
Inventor: SCHWALKE UDO
IPC: H01L21/265
Filed: 1992-11-04
Granted: 2000-07-19
Abstract: A method of making a MOS field effect transistor having shallow source and drain regions with improved breakdown and leakage characteristics includes the step of forming a layer of a metal silicide along a surface of a body of silicon at each side of a gate which is on an insulated from the surface. A high concentration of an impurity of a desired conductivity type is implanted only into the metal silicide layers. A lower concentration of the impurity is then implanted through the metal silicide layers and into the body just beneath the metal silicide layers. The body is then annealed at a temperature which drives the impurities from the metal silicide layer into the body to form the junctions. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0544223-B1 (EP)
Inventor: PATZELT SIEGFRIED
IPC: F16D59/02
Filed: 1992-11-24
Granted: 1997-04-23
Abstract: In the case of known electric motors, the braking armature is mounted directly on a braking element which is guided axially on the shaft, can rotate with the rotor and can be pressed against an axially displaceable brake disc. The rotatable braking element has first wedge surfaces which are inclined with respect to the plane of rotation and, when the brake engages, rest on second, inclined wedge surfaces of the rotor. Switching the motor on again during the braking process leads to locking of the motor and premature wear of the linings, because the mutually corresponding oblique surfaces of the braking elements and of the rotor prevent attraction of the armature and hence release of the brake. This disadvantage is avoided according to the invention in that the brake disc (15) has the operating device (43) for a switch (45) which is arranged on the brake-side bearing plate (17) and is moved into a switching position (which prevents the motor being switched on again) by the operating device (43), during its axial displacement. In consequence, using simple means, the electric motor is reliably prevented from being switched on again both during the braking process and after reaching a wear limit of the brake linings (21). <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0508556-B1 (EP)
Inventor: JACKSON EDWARD
IPC: A61M5/168
Filed: 1989-01-13
Granted: 1996-02-21
Abstract: An enteral nutrition pump system (10) operates in a cyclical manner with a period between cycles being selected in accordance with the desired fluid delivery rate. Each pump cycle may correspond to a single rotation of the rotor (18) or a fractional rotation of the rotor. Rotor rotation is sensed by monitoring of the AC component of current supplied to a DC motor driving the rotor. <IMAGE>