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Patent CA-2259578-A1 (CA)
Inventor: TAKANO YOSHINOBU
IPC: G02B6/38
Filed: 1998-05-11
Abstract: A method of joining plastic optical fibers to each other, wherein plastic optical fibers (1 and 2) are bonded to each other by using an organic solvent (4) capable of dissolving or swelling the plastic material of the fibers.
Patent CA-2259978-A1 (CA)
Inventor: FINKLER RAMI
IPC: A61B5/117
Filed: 1997-07-01
Abstract: Cette invention concerne un système permettant de gérer automatiquement des convocations à des séances qui sont destinées à effectuer l'auto-évaluation d'un ou de plusieurs sujets et à les conseiller, entre autres. Ce système comprend un appareil de convocation permettant de convoquer un ou plusieurs sujets à une séance, un appareil servant au déroulement de cette séance, ainsi qu'un appareil permettant de gérer les convocations et la séance. Cette invention concerne également un système et un procédé permettant à une personne de tester automatiquement sa propre vision. Ce système comprend une unité de test optique qui va tester la vision d'un utilisateur, ainsi qu'un ordinateur relié à cette unité de test optique. L'ordinateur va gérer l'unité de test optique, recevoir des données de cette dernière, puis traiter et enregistrer les résultats des tests. Ce système comprend des dispositifs d'entrées permettant de recevoir les entrées d'un utilisateur, ainsi que des dispositifs qui vont conseiller et entraîner automatiquement l'utilisateur. Ce système peut également comprendre des dispositifs permettant d'identifier l'utilisateur, ainsi que des dispositifs qui vont effectuer un rapport sur les résultats des tests, puis communiquer ce rapport à un autre ordinateur local ou à distance. Ce procédé consiste à fournir des conseils à l'utilisateur et à le faire s'entraîner en vue d'une auto-évaluation, puis à lui faire passer automatiquement un ou plusieurs tests de vision, les résultats des tests étant stockés dans une base de données. Ce procédé, qui peut également comprendre une étape d'identification de l'utilisateur avant de procéder aux tests, permet également de fournir un rapport sur le résultat des tests. L'unité de test optique va présenter à l'un ou aux deux yeux de l'utilisateur, des images de test visuelles qui comprennent un diagramme de test unique ainsi qu'un diagramme de réponses à choix multiples. L'unité va ensuite recevoir les réponses sélectionnées par l'utilisateur et les analyser afin de déterminer le résultat du test. Les images de test visuelles peuvent être choisies de manière aléatoire ou pseudo-aléatoire dans un groupe d'images prédéterminé afin que l'utilisateur ne puisse prédire les réponses.
Patent CA-2261534-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SUCHON JOHN
IPC: A61G7/053
Filed: 1999-02-12
Abstract: Disabled people and other people who have difficulty sitting up in bed or who have difficulty moving around in bed often use a device called an overhead bar or bed bar or trapeze bar which is attached to the bed or overhead, to assist them to sit up and move around in bed. These devices usually require a hospital bed for attachment are usually not removable or portable and usually require specialists for installation or customizing.  The Portable Overhead Bar can be used in lieu of these devices and it has the added advantages that it can be used with standard types of beds, does not require specialists for installation and can easily be removed and folded so that it is transportable and can be used for disabled or other travelers. The portability and ease of installation features make the Portable Overhead Bar suitable for home use, suitable for Hotels and other institutions who have multiple beds, and suitable for travelers.
Patent CA-2263024-A1 (CA)
Title: Four bar linkage mounting for mowers
Inventor: WATTS VERNE C
IPC: A01D34/64
Filed: 1999-02-25
Abstract: A rotary mower (26) is mounted onto a skid steer loader (10) through a four bar linkage (36) on each side of a mower housing (38). The linkage (36) is arranged to pivot relative to a mounting bracket (28) on the skid steer loader (10) and relative to the mower housing (38), with differential lengths between upper (72) and lower (66) sets of links (72, 66) of the four bar linkage (36). The upper link (72) on each side of the mower (26) is slidably connected to the mower housing (38) to permit the mower housing (38) to pivot a limited amount about a traverse axis during normal operation. The links (36) include stop members (86, 90) that engage when the mower (26) is raised a selected amount to stop relative movement between the links (36) and also to shut off power to the motor (50) driving the mower (26). The forward end of the housing (38) has depending chains (106) mounted with a channel (100) to provide a shield.
Patent CA-2264076-A1 (CA)
Title: Gas turbine moving blade tip shroud
Inventor: AI TOSHISHIGE
IPC: F01D5/18
Filed: 1998-06-18
Abstract: This invention related to a tip shroud for a moving blade to be used at a downstream stage of a gas turbine.    The tip shroud is elongated in its creep lifetime by feeding it effectively with cooling air. In the tip shroud 11, there are cut-off portions 12 and 13 which are passed by a hot combustion gas so that they are influenced by a thermal stress and liable to have a creep. On the shroud faces, there are formed grooves 31 and 32, and 33 and 34, and cooling guide covers 21 and 22. Cooling guide covers 21 and 22 are closed at their one side with members 21a and 22a are opened at their other end to cover the air holes 17 so that the cooling air is fed to cool the cut-off portions 12 and 13 individually. The metal temperature rise in the cut-off portions 12 and 13, as will be influenced by the hot combustion gas, can be suppressed to elongate the creep lifetime of the tip shroud.
Patent CA-2265186-A1 (CA)
Title: Methods and apparatuses for fitting eyewear
Inventor: KREMER THOMAS J
IPC: G01B3/20
Filed: 1992-12-31
Abstract: Methods are provided for fitting an eyeglass frame to a wearer. The methods include the steps of providing frames which have been classified into predetermined temple to temple size ranges based on the temple to temple frame sizes of the frames. The wearer's temple to temple head size is measured using a device which indicates at least one temple to temple size range as corresponding to the wearer. Eyeglass frames are fitted to the wearer selected from the frames which fall within the temple to temple size ranges corresponding to the wearer. There is also provided a frame measurement platform for measuring the perpendicular distance between the two temples of an open eyeglass frame, and a method for using such a device. The platform includes a support, two spaced-apart reference members which are moveable with respect to each other, and means for measuring. The reference members define respective temple measuring planes which are substantially perpendicular to a reference measuring plane defined by the support. The measuring means is used to measure the perpendicular distance between temples of an open eyeglass frame.
Patent CA-2266751-A1 (CA)
Title: A method and apparatus for cutting material webs comprising images located thereon
Inventor: OBERTEGGER FRANZ
IPC: B26D11/00
Filed: 1999-03-24
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of automatically cutting material webs (3) on which individual images (30, 31, 32) are present. The invention also relates to a cutting unit suitable for performing the method and to a correspondingly prepared material web (3).      The method according to the invention comprises the steps of the machine-reading of data (33, 34, 35) previously applied to the material web (3) and relating to the images (30, 31, 32) present on the material web (3), adjusting at least one cutting means (5, 12) for cutting the material web (3) in accordance with the read-out data (33, 34, 35) and cutting the material web (3) by using the adjusted cutting means (5, 12).
Patent CA-2267178-A1 (CA)
Title: Orpinomyces cellulases and coding sequences
Inventor: CHEN HUIZHONG
IPC: C12N15/56
Filed: 1997-10-03
Abstract: The present invention provides three fungal cellulases, their coding sequences, recombinant DNA molecules comprising the cellulase coding sequences, recombinant host cells and methods for producing same. The present lichenase is from Orpinomyces PC-2.
Patent CA-2268247-A1 (CA)
Inventor: PERDRIZET GEORGE A
IPC: A61K33/24
Filed: 1997-10-07
Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods of induction of a cellular stress response and a protected phenotype using heavy metal ions. The invention relates to methods of protecting a mammal against injury caused by a noxious condition by administering to the mammal a heavy metal in sufficient quantity and under appropriate conditions to induce a sufficient cellular stress response to provide protection (partial or complete) against injury caused by a noxious condition. The invention also relates to methods of inducing a cellular stress response in a mammal by administering a heavy metal in sufficient quantity and under appropriate conditions to induce a cellular stress response to protect the mammal against injury caused by a noxious condition. The invention also relates to compositions comprising a heavy metal, and an additional component, such as a stress protein, agents which enhance a cellular stress response, aid in the uptake of heavy metal into the tissue, or have a synergistic effect with heavy metals, stress proteins and/or other agents for the induction of the cellular stress response.
Patent CA-2268658-A1 (CA)
Title: Apparatus and method for automatically compensating for lateral runout
Inventor: WIGGINS JOHN
IPC: B23B5/04
Filed: 1997-09-04
Abstract: An apparatus (50) and method for automatically compensating for the lateral runout between an on-car lathe apparatus (52) and a vehicle hub (44) axis including one or more stop discs (94, 96) that rotate with the drive shaft of the lathe and that can be selectively stopped from rotating with the shaft by a stop mechanism (98, 100).
Patent CA-2271697-A1 (CA)
Title: Tissue type plasminogen activator (t-pa) variants: compositions and methods of use
Inventor: MADISON EDWIN L
IPC: C12N5/10
Filed: 1997-11-12
Abstract: Variants of tissue plasminogen factor exhibit significantly enhanced fibrin stimulation, dramatically increased discrimination among fibrin co-factors, marked resistance to inhibition by PAI-1, and substantially increased zymogenicity, a combination of properties that enhance the therapeutic utility of the enzyme.
Patent CA-2272933-A1 (CA)
Title: Carbon dioxide absorbent in anaesthesiology
Inventor: ARMSTRONG JOHN RAYMOND
IPC: A61M16/22
Filed: 1997-11-25
Abstract: The invention concerns a carbon dioxide absorbent for use in anaesthesiol-ogy, in which the absorbent comprises at least one pharmaceutically acceptable hy-droxide essentially free of sodium and/or potassium hydroxide and a carbon dioxide absorbingly effective amount of a com-patible humectant. Calcium hydroxide is the preferred hydroxide. The humectant may be of inorganic or organic origin.  The carbon dioxide absorbent of the in-vention may, additionally, include an ef-fective amount of a setting agent, prefer-ably calcium sulphate hemihydrate and/or a compatible agent for internal genera-tion of hydrogen, preferably aluminium metal powder. The carbon dioxide ab-sorbent of the invention is chemically inert to sevoflurane, as well as to the anaesthet-ics enflurane, isoflurane and desflurane.
Patent CA-2273812-A1 (CA)
Title: Positive latch connector
Inventor: WRIGHT JOHN O
IPC: H01R13/627
Filed: 1999-06-08
Abstract: A positive latch connector is provided which includes a first component which includes at least one resilient arm having a pin extending therefrom at a distal end thereof. A mating second component is provided which includes inclined first and second ramps, and an oppositely inclined third ramp. In use, the pin is moved along the first ramp against an elastic member until the pin snaps into a first latch groove to lock the first and second components in place. To release the components from each other, the pin is moved further against the elastic member along the second ramp to a second latch groove from which the pin is urged by the elastic member in an opposite direction along the third ramp, thereby allowing the components to be separated.
Patent CA-2274920-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SEIDL PETER
IPC: G09F3/02
Filed: 1998-10-13
Abstract: The invention relates to a label for labelling preferably cylindrical containers (l3), comprising a base part (1a) which has a first layer (2) of contact adhesive on its underside, an overlapping part (1b) which follows on from the base part in a single piece and which covers the base part (1a) at least partially which the label (1) is placed on the container (13), at least one detachable document section (3a-3e) and means (4) for detachably affixing the detachable document section (3a-3e).  According to the invention, the at least one detachable document section (3a-3e) is configured in the base part (1a). This makes optimal use of the outer surface of a labelled container.
Patent CA-2275136-A1 (CA)
Title: Processes for the preparation of (e)-2-(fluoromethylene)-4-(4-fluorophenyl)butylamine and alkalimetal salts of diformylamide
Inventor: HENTON DANIEL R
IPC: C07C211/29
Filed: 1995-09-18
Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing (E)-1-amino-2-(fluoromethylene)-4-(p-fluorophenyl)butane, also known in the art as (E)-(p-fluorophenethyl)-3-fluoroallylamine, novel intermediates thereof, a novel process for the preparing (E)-2-(fluoromethylene)-4-(p-fluorophenyl)butan-1-ol, a novel process for preparing alkali metal salts of diformylamide, and a novel crystalline form of sodium diformylamide.
Patent CA-2276314-A1 (CA)
Inventor: GALEWSKI JEAN-MARC
IPC: C08J9/00
Filed: 1999-06-28
Abstract: The present invention relates to a homogeneous composition of an expandable styrene polymer in the form of beads comprising (a) 100 parts b.w. of a styrene polymer having a weight-average molecular mass of 150,000 to 300,000 and a residual monomer content of less than 2,000 ppm, (b) from 2 to 9 parts by weight of at least one blowing agent comprising n-pentane, (c) from 0.1 to less than 1.0 part by weight of a petroleum wax comprising a mixture of C18 to C80 alkanes, and (d) from 0 to 1.0 part by weight of a nucleating agent chosen from synthetic Fisher-Tropsch or polyolefin waxes. The composition allows the step of pre-expanding the beads to be improved by increasing the rate of expansion of the beads and by improving the productivity of the pre- expansion step, without substantially affecting the final moulding step.
Patent CA-2276710-A1 (CA)
Title: Device for motor vehicle running flat and method for mounting
Inventor: LELIEVRE ALAIN
IPC: B60C17/06
Filed: 1998-10-30
Abstract: The invention concerns a device for a motor vehicle running flat designed to be mounted clamped on a standard rim (12) with side edges (16) maintaining the tyre beads (18), characterised in that it consists of at least two coaxial ring-shaped parts (22, 24) fitting into each other, the radially inner part being made of a relatively rigid material and forming an open ring around the rim; the radially outer rim being made of an elastically deformable base material and comprising a single-piece continuous ring enclosing the radially inner ring-shaped part (22) and having an internal diameter substantially equal or greater than the rim side edge (16) external diameter.
Patent CA-2276862-A1 (CA)
Title: Fuel injector with a replaceable sensor
Inventor: SULLIVAN DENNIS J
IPC: F23D14/02
Filed: 1999-06-29
Abstract: A premixing fuel injector for a turbine engine includes easily replaceable means for monitoring temperature or other conditions of interest in the interior of the injector. The fuel injector includes a guide conduit (70) that penetrates into the injector's interior and has an externally accessible opening (74) for receiving a sensor probe (88).      The probe carries at least one sensor, such as a thermocouple junction (106), for monitoring temperature or other conditions inside the injector. In one embodiment, the guide conduit has a nonlinear shape and the probe shank (92) is sufficiently flexible to follow the contour of the conduit and sufficiently rigid to overcome any insertion resistance that the conduit might offer. The flexibility of the shank (92) may vary longitudinally to enhance insertability of the probe into the conduit. The probe is longitudinally oversized relative to the conduit so that when the probe is correctly installed, a sensor element positioned at the probe tip (93) contacts the closed, distal end (84) of the conduit to improve the sensor's responsiveness to changing conditions inside the injector.      The probe shank may also buckle slightly and press against the internal sidewall of the conduit to prevent excessive shank vibration.
Patent CA-2277543-A1 (CA)
Inventor: DE GOOYER GERRIT
IPC: B65G47/28
Filed: 1999-07-13
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for engaging on a configuration of a number of products with a certain mutual distance, characterized in that the device is provided with a frame; a number of pushing members which are mounted on the frame for movement between a first and a second position; drive means for moving the pushing members; a number of engaging members which are disposed in a configuration corresponding with the configuration of the products and which are mounted on the frame for movement with a variable mutual distance; wherein each pushing member is provided with at least one contact surface with which the pushing member lies against one or more engaging members for varying the distance between adjacent engaging members during movement of the pushing member between the first and the second position.      The invention also relates to a packaging apparatus provided with a device according to the invention.
Patent CA-2280314-A1 (CA)
Title: Pulmonary surfactant formulation for instillation and for oral application
Inventor: ENZMANN FRANZ
IPC: A61K35/42
Filed: 1999-08-13
Abstract: A pulmonary surfactant formulation for instillation and oral application, containing at least 0.1% by weight of 2,3-dimethoxy-5-methyl-6-decaprenyl-1,4-benzoquinone in addition to an effective amount of pulmonary surfactant and usual excipients.
Patent CA-2280737-A1 (CA)
Inventor: ANDERSEN TOM ERIK
IPC: B27B5/20
Filed: 1998-03-20
Abstract: A guiding device for a rotatable, circular saw blade of a house-building saw. Such a saw comprises a bench-shaped stand (2) with a frame (98) which is movable therein and on which the saw blade (12) is rotatably mounted, and an operating mechanism (26) for raising and lowering the frame (98) in the stand (2). According to the invention the guiding device comprises guide elements (90, 92) whereby the frame (98) can also be moved along the bench surface (4) after the frame (98) has been moved to near an upper position.
Patent CA-2281302-A1 (CA)
Title: Vehicular transmission
Inventor: OHYAMA EIJI
IPC: F16H57/035
Filed: 1999-08-31
Abstract: An inlet opening 41 for a discharge oil passage 76 is provided in a chamber R1 which accommodates a transmission device comprising a drive pulley 8, a driven pulley 9 and a belt 10. This inlet opening is positioned at a location where the inner wall of the chamber is met by a line drawn tangentially to the pitch circle of the drive pulley whose pitch radius is at a maximum and to that of the driven pulley whose pitch radius is at a minimum. This inlet opening 41 for the discharge oil passage 76 is positioned also at a location where the inner wall is met by a line drawn on the upper side of the pulleys tangent to the peripheries of the drive and driven pulleys 8 and 9. By providing an inlet opening for the discharge oil passage in this arrangement, the lubrication oil which is being thrown from the belt 10 is efficiently discharged through the inlet opening 41 directly to the outside of the chamber. This lubrication oil is then led through the discharge oil passage 76 to the oil pan 26. As a result, while the amount of the oil in the oil pan located below the chamber is maintained at a certain amount, the amount of the lubrication oil which flows down along the inner walls of the chamber is kept to a substantially small amount. In this way, the rotational loss which may be caused from agitation of the oil by the drive pulley is substantially reduced.
Patent CA-2282707-A1 (CA)
Title: Factor x analogues with a modified protease cleavage site
Inventor: EIBL JOHANN
IPC: C12N9/64
Filed: 1998-02-27
Abstract: The invention relates to factor X analogues which have a modification in the area of the naturally occurring factor Xa activating cleavage site, said modification representing a processing site of a protease which does not naturally cleave in this area of the factor X sequence. The invention also relates to preparations containing the innovative factor X analogues and to methods for the production thereof.
Patent CA-2284813-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SUZUKI MASUO
IPC: G01N22/04
Filed: 1999-09-30
Abstract: A densitometer using microwaves, which measures the density value of a to-be-measured substance in a to-be-measured liquid on the basis of a reception signal obtained by transmitting/receiving a microwave in/from the to-be-measured liquid by applicators, includes a clock source for generating a reference signal as a phase reference, an oscillator formed from a PLL circuit for generating a microwave having a frequency f in synchronism with the reference signal from the clock source, an oscillator formed from a PLL circuit for generating a microwave having a frequency f+ .DELTA.f in synchronism with the reference signal from the clock source, a mixer for mixing the microwave from the oscillator, i.e., a reception signal having the frequency f measured through the to-be-measured liquid with the microwave having the frequency f+ .DELTA.f from the oscillator, and a phase difference measuring section for comparing the phase of the output mixed by the mixer with that of the reference signal from the clock source to measure the phase difference.
Patent CA-2284970-A1 (CA)
Inventor: FUHL JOSEF
IPC: H04L7/04
Filed: 1998-03-27
Abstract: The invention relates to the use of the sequences TSn0: 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1, TSn1: 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 as training sequences in cellular mobile radiotelephony, specially GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications). Said training sequences have improved cross-correlation properties.
Patent CA-2286715-A1 (CA)
Title: Detergent compositions
Inventor: ADAMS MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: B30B11/04
Filed: 1998-04-09
Abstract: Tablets of detergent composition are compacted using relatively movable mould parts, at least one of which bears an elastomeric layer to contact the composition. This enhances permeability at the tablet surface and hence the speed of water uptake and speed of dissolution/disintegration at the time of use. Compaction is carried out with sufficient pressure to form tablets containing from 20 to 35 % air by volume. Tablets of the invention take up water rapidly upon immersion, such that at least 65 % of the air space within the tablet is filled with water within 30 seconds.
Patent CA-2287438-A1 (CA)
Title: Novel human tumour suppressor gene
Inventor: SUTHERLAND ROBERT L
IPC: C12N15/09
Filed: 1998-04-20
Abstract: A novel human progestin-regulated gene designated EDD (<u>E</u>3 isolated by <u>D</u>ifferential <u>D</u>isplay) is disclosed which encodes a product exhibiting significant amino acid sequence identity with the HYD protein (hyperplastic discs) from Drosophila melanogaster and the 100 kDa HECT  (<u>h</u>omologous to <u>E</u>6-AP <u>c</u>arboxyl <u>t</u>erminus) domain protein from rat. The EDD gene appears to represent a tumour suppressor gene and the detection of a polymorphism or alteration in the gene from a subject may be useful for the diagnosis or determination of a predisposition to hyperproliferative disease such as a cancer. An assay for assessing progestin-responsiveness in a subject is also disclosed.