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Patent CA-2239092-A1 (CA)
Title: Methode de diagnostic et de traitement de l'atherosclerose a l'aide d'anticoprs anti-cholesterol
Inventor: NACY CAROL A
IPC: G01N33/53
Filed: 1996-12-05
Abstract: Méthodes d'utilisation d'anticorps anti-cholestérol destinées au diagnostic et au traitement de l'athérosclérose. Dans un mode de réalisation de l'invention, on utilise des anticorps anti-cholestérol afin de doser des échantillons prélevés sur des lésions athéroscléreuses afin de déterminer la quantité de molécules de lipoprotéines de très basse densité, de lipoprotéines de densité intermédiaire et de lipoprotéines de faible densité mais pas de lipoproteines de haute densité. Dans un autre mode de réalisation de l'invention, on utilise les anticorps anti-cholestérol en tant que fusiogènes pour stimuler la fusion de molécules de lipoprotéines et de liposomes, de manière à stimuler l'élimination du cholestérol par le corps.
Patent CA-2239915-A1 (CA)
Title: Digital engine analyzer
Inventor: JONKER GARY D
IPC: G01M15/00
Filed: 1991-08-01
Abstract: A digital engine analyzer has an oscilloscope display and is controlled by microprocessors operating under menu-driven stored program control.  The analyzer receives analog input signals from an engine being analyzed, engine identification and parameter data entered via a keyboard, function and mode data selected by keyboard, and data communicated from an engine on-board computer via a hand-held scanner device.  The analyzer calculates and displays spark plug burn time information derived from a single analog input signal, a historical display of peak ignition voltage values for a selected cylinder over a number of engine cycles and real time cylinder time balance information.  Peak capture circuitry permit the display of a full cylinder period of a waveform, even though it contains very high frequency portions, by selectively switching between normal and high resolution modes.  The scanner interface permits the scanner control functions to be effected from the analyzer keyboard.
Patent CA-2240600-A1 (CA)
Title: Caching dynamic webpages
Inventor: HON LENNY K
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1998-06-12
Abstract: Web pages for commercial applications, such as electronic retail, are built "on-the-fly" in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) from product data stored in the merchant's database. To reduce costs in time and computing resources and to improve customer access to data from the merchant's web site, pages created in HTML are cached on the merchant server.  On a customer request for a page, the merchant server checks the cache first for the page, and if it isn't found there, generates a new page from the database. To maintain the validity of the content of the cached pages, the database tables include triggers that cause identifying information for any changes made on the stored data to be forwarded to a cache log. A  synchronization daemon walks the cache log from time to time to locate pages that should be purged from the cache because their content is no longer synchronous with the data stored in the database. By setting preferences for identifiable customers in advance, data generated from the database can be selected for specific customer groups.
Patent CA-2242403-A1 (CA)
Title: Fastening nail
Inventor: KIRSCH AXEL
IPC: A61L31/00
Filed: 1997-01-08
Abstract: The invention concerns a fastening nail made of bioresorbable plastic material for securing a cover membrane to body bone surrounding a bone defect filled with bone substitute material. The nail has a head designed to enable it to be acted on by a pressure and/or impact tool and, joined to the head, a shaft with a smaller diameter. The shaft has an essentially cylindrical gripping section and, joined to it, a tip section with a conical surface tapering towards the point. The nail is characterized in that the plastic material is at least partly non-crystalline (amorphous) and has a glass transition temperature in the range of body temperature, the direction of the preferred molecular orientation in the material in the region of the shaft running essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the nail.
Patent CA-2242417-A1 (CA)
Title: Novel administration of thrombopoietin
Inventor: THOMAS GRIFFITH R
IPC: C12P21/02
Filed: 1997-01-13
Abstract: The present invention is directed to the surprising and unexpected finding that biologically active thrombopoietin materials can be administered with substantial therapeutic effect at dosage rates commensurate with previously reported administration of such materials, but in a single or low-multiple daily administration. Thus, the predicate of the present invention relates to the reversal of thrombocytopenia by administering to a patient having or in need of such treatment a single or low-multiple daily dose of a therapeutically effective amount of a thrombopoietin. The preferable dose of the active material ranges from about 1 to about 10 .mu.g/kg body weight.
Patent CA-2244455-A1 (CA)
Title: A hot pluggable connector
Inventor: KAMIYAMANE SHIN
IPC: H01R13/71
Filed: 1998-08-04
Abstract: A hot pluggable connector of the invention accompanies no phisical shock when a circuit package (9) is plugged or unplugged. When the circuit package (9) is inserted, board-side terminals (34) and package-side terminals (52) of the hot pluggable connector are not put in contact. By rotating a rotary body (32) having pads (33A to 33C) of different lengths, sequential connection/disconnection between the board-side side terminals (34) and the package-side terminals (52) are performed by way of the pads (33A to 33C). Therefore, it is not necessary to plugging or unplugging the circuit package (9) within a time limit, enabling to insert or remove the circuit package (9) quietly. The timings of the sequential connection/disconnection can be arranged only by arranging length difference of the pads (33A to 33C), enabling to reduce production cost of the hot pluggable connector.
Patent CA-2246130-A1 (CA)
Title: Web based help desk
Inventor: EVANS RON
IPC: G06Q10/10
Filed: 1998-08-31
Abstract: A web based help desk includes a web server having memory storing a help desk web page. The web server allows remote user computers to access the we b server via an internet or intranet connection thereby to access and display the help desk web page. A plurality of computers, operated by support specialists, are in communication with the web server to allow support specialists to communicate wi th remote users requiring support. The support specialists are selectable through t he web page. A support specialist status application monitors the status of the support specialists and remote users requesting support and prompts the web server to establish a connection between a support specialist and a remote user when a sup port specialist becomes available. A method of providing support to a user operating a remote computer and a help desk web page are also provided.
Patent CA-2246849-A1 (CA)
Title: Disposable beverage brewing system
Inventor: SWOBODA DEAN P
IPC: B65D81/00
Filed: 1998-09-11
Abstract: A disposable filter press device for making a brewed beverage from a combination of liquid and material to be brewed includes a first disposable cup and a second disposable cup. The first disposable cup has a closed bottom, an open top and a sidewall extending around the entire circumferential extent of the first cup, while the second disposable cup is sized and configured to be positioned in the first cup. The second cup has a bottom end, an open top and a sidewall extending around the entire circumferential extent of the second cup. The second cup also includes a filter for filtering the brewed beverage from the material used to brew the brewed beverage as the second cup is moved relative to the first cup. The filter press device can also be provided with a mechanism for connecting the second cup to the first cup with the second cup being in an inverted, bottom end up position. The filter press device provides enhanced beverage taste over conventional drip brewed coffee, coffee ground or tea leaf separation from the brewed beverage, a spill proof closure of the brewed beverage cup, and improved insulation and structural rigidity of the cup both during and after brewing. Also, single-cup brewing, disposability and convenience are realized.
Patent CA-2250450-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and system for presenting customized advertising to a user on the world wide web
Inventor: LEMOLE SUZANNE L
IPC: G06Q30/02
Filed: 1998-10-13
Abstract: A customized advertising repository server is connected on the World Wide Web (WWW), which can be accessed by a registered user through his or her browser either by clicking on an icon, or by inputting the specific URL address of the particular server which stores that user's advertising repository. When the user accesses his or her customized ad repository through the browser, a composite advertising page is dynamically configured by the Customized Advertising Repository (CAR) server for that particular user based on that user's previously provided user profile. Furthermore, at least a portion of that composite advertising page can be dynamically configured on a context dependent basis determined from the particular Web site or sites that the user has accessed prior to accessing the CAR. The dynamically configured composite page or pages of advertising provided to the user may contain plural static images, streaming banners, 3-D images, animation, video and/or audio clips, using any of the technologies available on the Web for presenting textual and/or visual information. Such a composite page or pages is configured from a database which stores such images, banners, animation, etc., from plural advertisers. The customized page is created by selecting from among a storehouse of plural different subscribing advertisers and their associated banner ads, images, etc., those particular images, etc. that will be elements of the customized page based on the user's specific areas of interest as determined from the profile, and/or the context dependency. From such dynamically configured composite page or pages, the user can then click on a particular image, video window, banner, etc., to retrieve, through a hyperlink, further information directly from the selected advertiser's own Web site or mirror Web site.
Patent CA-2252696-A1 (CA)
Inventor: HICKEY DEIRDRE MARY BERNADETTE
IPC: A61K31/397
Filed: 1997-04-15
Abstract: On décrit des composés choisis de la formule (I) dans laquelle R?1¿ représente hydrogène, ou un ester correspondant, ou un sel de celui-ci, acceptables sur le plan pharmacologique, R?2¿ et R?3¿ qui peuvent être semblables ou différents sont choisis chacun parmi hydrogène ou alkyle C¿(1-6)? éventuellement substitué, X représente soit un groupe X'(CH¿2?)¿m?, dans lequel X' représente CO, CONR?4¿, COO, CONR?4¿CO, CONHO ou CH¿2?O, où R?4¿ représente hydrogène ou alkyle C¿(1-6)? et m vaut 0 ou est un nombre entier compris entre 1 et 12, soit une chaîne alkylène C¿(1-12)? éventuellement interrompue par X', Y représentant un groupe aryle éventuellement substitué. Ces composés présentent la configuration absolue (4RSS), constituent des inhibiteurs de l'enzyme Lp-PLA¿2? et sont, par conséquent, utiles pour traiter l'athérosclérose.
Patent CA-2252856-A1 (CA)
Title: Absorbent fibrous granules
Inventor: BERRIGAN MICHAEL R
IPC: B01J20/28
Filed: 1997-04-25
Abstract: There is provided a cellulosic-based fiber granule with added non self-associating particulates or fibers. The resulting granule is free-flowing with a densified outer surface and is capable of removing substantially all oil or other fluids from a flat surface such as a floor. The granule is also capable of being incinerated by being formed substantially of organic materials. Cellulosic plant fibers form at least 10 percent up to 99 percent of the granule. There is also provided a method for forming the incineratable absorbent, free-flowing granules.
Patent CA-2253095-A1 (CA)
Title: Internal combustion engine with dry sump lubricating system
Inventor: SHIGEDOMI HIDEO
IPC: F02B75/20
Filed: 1998-11-06
Abstract: An internal combustion engine with dry sump lubricating system includes a feed pump which supplies lubricating oil from a lubricating oil tank disposed outside an engine body to all moving parts in the engine. After circulating through the engine, the lubricating oil drops down into a crank chamber and is immediately picked up from the crank chamber and sent back into the lubricating oil tank by a recovery pump. Since the lubricating oil tank is attached to an end of the engine body from which a crankshaft project, it does not increase the overall width (dimension in the direction perpendicular to the axis of the crankshaft) and height of the engine. Even when the engine has inclined cylinders, the lubricating oil tank can avail a high degree of design freedom because the end face is not influenced by inclination of the cylinders as greatly as side surfaces of the engine body. The engine also includes a breather system so designed as to prevent an operation failure of the engine which would otherwise be caused due to inflow of the lubricating oil into an intake system of the engine.
Patent CA-2253422-A1 (CA)
Inventor: MALCOURANT VERONIQUE
IPC: A46B5/00
Filed: 1998-03-26
Abstract: The invention concerns a toothbrush (10) with bristles (12) at the top and a handle (14) including means for maintaining the brush in vertical storage position, characterised in that the brush (10) handle (14) is longitudinally divided in its upper part into at least two branches (16, 18, 20) articulated between an open position for storage wherein the free ends (22, 24, 26) of the branches (16, 18, 20). mutually spaced, form support points for the brush (10) on a horizontal surface, and a closed position wherein the branches are brought together for the toothbrush (10) to be used.
Patent CA-2256067-A1 (CA)
Inventor: CHELEHMAL MAJID
IPC: H03M1/08
Filed: 1998-12-29
Abstract: A quantizer that adaptively determines a value of an optimum threshold for quantizing an analog signal  to minimize  the  overall  quantizing error  rate by observing signal  strengths  of  said analog  signal.  It  comprises  a histogram generator that generates histograms that indicate said signal  strengths of said analog signal,  an optimum reconstruction level generator that uses said histograms to generate  optimum  reconstruction  levels  by  determining minimum  mean  squared  errors;  and  an  optimum  decision threshold generator that uses said optimum reconstruction levels   to  generated  optimum  decision  thresholds  by determining  the  average  of  said  optimum  reconstruction levels.
Patent CA-2256324-A1 (CA)
Title: Shaped woven tubular soft-tissue prostheses and methods of manufacturing
Inventor: SCHMITT PETER J
IPC: A61F2/06
Filed: 1997-05-20
Abstract: Continuously flat-woven implantable tubular prostheses have seamless woven sections which gradually change the number of warp yarns to smoothly transition, i.e., taper, from one diameter to another. Multi-diameter endoluminal grafts having a variety of shapes and configurations are made using a seamless weaving process without unacceptable voids or gaps in the tubular wall.
Patent CA-2257681-A1 (CA)
Title: Inspection device
Inventor: GAY JOHN M
IPC: G21C17/003
Filed: 1997-06-13
Abstract: A device (1) for inspecting the interior of steam generators (4) capable of visually inspecting interior of tubes (79) in steam generators, including upper portions steam generator tubes (79), tops and bottoms of support plates (15), wrapper-to-support plate welds, and other internal structures.
Patent CA-2262358-A1 (CA)
Title: Fdd forward link beamforming method for a fdd communications system
Inventor: RYAN DAVID JAMES
IPC: H04B7/06
Filed: 1999-02-23
Abstract: A highly bandwidth-efficient communications method is disclosed, to maximize the signal-to-interference-noise ratio (SINR) of transmissions from a base station to a remote station in a wireless communications system. The method is used for base stations that have a plurality of antenna elements that are capable of spatial beam steering by altering the relative phase of transmission of signals from the respective elements. The method of the invention is based on providing calibration frames that sequentially transmit calibration bursts from the respective antenna elements for a particular destination remote station. The calibration bursts include a plurality of tone frequencies arranged in a distinctive orthogonal frequency division multiplexed pattern unique to the base station. The unique pattern enables a remote station to distinguish the base station's bursts from other signals present in a crowded area. The distinctive orthogonal frequency division multiplexed pattern can be a Hadamard code pattern, for example. The plurality of calibration bursts are part of a transmission frame having a reference phase. The remote station receives the calibration bursts and measures values related to the relative phase difference between the calibration bursts and the reference phase. The remote station also measures the SINR of the received bursts. The measured values are then prepared as a sampling data message that is transmitted by the remote station back to the base station. The base station then calculates therefrom a beam steering correction to modify the relative phase difference. This beam steering correction is then applied to traffic bursts that are respectively transmitted from the plurality of antenna elements at the base station, to steer the plurality of traffic bursts toward the remote station. The beam steering correction steers the traffic bursts to maximize the signal-to-interference-noise ratio (SINK) of the traffic bursts at the remote station.
Patent CA-2265169-A1 (CA)
Inventor: PHAN LIEN
IPC: D21H17/38
Filed: 1999-03-09
Abstract: The invention relates to a paper saturant composition comprising an aqueous emulsion polymer prepared by reacting at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and from about 0.1 to about 5 weight percent, based on the total weight of ethylenically unsaturated monomer, of a water-soluble or water-dispersible polymerizable surfactant having a terminal allyl amine moiety. Paper saturated with the emulsion is especially useful in the production of core sheets used to prepare decorative laminates.
Patent CA-2265841-A1 (CA)
Title: Liquid distribution apparatus for a dough processing line
Inventor: USGAARD DENNIS B
IPC: A21C9/04
Filed: 1997-09-09
Abstract: A liquid distribution apparatus for distributing liquid to a dough product includes a source of liquid and an enclosure fluidly coupled to the source of liquid for receiving liquid. The enclosure includes a plurality of spaced-apart holes through which the liquid exits the enclosure. Preferably, a plurality of guide structures on the enclosure guide the liquid to a bottom surface of the enclosure whereat the liquid drops to the dough product. In a further embodiment, a plurality of guiding elements receives the liquid from the plurality of spaced-apart holes and guides the liquid to the dough product. Each guiding element includes a first end disposed proximate the enclosure to receive liquid from one of the plurality of spaced-apart holes and a second end remote from each corresponding first end.
Patent CA-2268901-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and apparatus for rapid in situ analysis of preselected components of homogeneous solid compositions, especially pharmaceutical compositions
Inventor: SABSABI MOHAMAD
IPC: G01N33/15
Filed: 1997-11-04
Abstract: A method and apparatus for rapid in situ spectroscopic analysis of preselected components of homogeneous solid chemical compositions, especially pharmaceutical products. The apparatus comprises a high-power pulsed laser (10) whose beam is focused on the material (18), typically a tablet or the powder prior to compaction into the tablet, which generally consists of an active ingredient (e.g. a drug) and a filler material (cellulose, glucose, lactose, etc.). The pulsed laser beam vaporizes a small volume of the pharmaceutical product and produces a plasma having an elemental composition which is representative of the pharmaceutical product. The atomic composition of the vaporized material is analyzed with an optical spectrometer (24).      As the temperature of the plasma is sufficiently elevated to cause dissociation of the molecules of the constituents of the pharmaceutical product, the concentration of the active ingredient is obtained by analyzing the atomic concentration of an element which is present in the active ingredient but not in the matrix or filler material, or whose concentration in the active ingredient is substantially different from the matrix, and acts as a tag on the active material. The technique can also be used to analyze inactive ingredients or the presence of unwanted contaminants which consist of elements not normally present in such pharmaceutical products such as trace metals introduced accidentally during processing.
Patent CA-2270282-A1 (CA)
Title: Novel coding sequences from herpes simplex virus type-2
Inventor: ESSER KLAUS MAX
IPC: A61K38/00
Filed: 1997-10-31
Abstract: This invention relates to newly identified HSV-2 polynucleotides, polypeptides encoded by such polynucleotides, the uses of such polynucleotides and polypeptides, as well as the production of such polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant host cells transformed with the polynucleotides. This invention also relates to inhibiting or activating the biosynthesis or action of such polynucleotides or polypeptides and the use of such inhibitors or activators in therapy.
Patent CA-2270381-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SHIMOSATO ISAO
IPC: C11D9/00
Filed: 1997-09-05
Abstract: A transparent solid soap or transparent soap stock composed mainly of a fatty acid salt prepared by the saponification of a fatty acid or an animal or vegetable oil with an alkali, wherein 1) the alkali comprises sodium hydroxide and an organic amine such as triethanolamine and the molar ratio of sodium hydroxide to the organic amine is (1 : 0.8) to (1 : 2); and 2) the amount of the alkali is 2 to 3 saponification equivalents based on the fatty acid or animal or vegetable oil. The soap and the soap stock can be easily prepared without requiring careful regulation of the water content and the aging period until the weight reduction ceases, and the stability of the transparency and the weight after the elapse of time is good.
Patent CA-2272605-A1 (CA)
Inventor: MURATA KAZUKO
IPC: A61P29/00
Filed: 1998-09-24
Abstract: A medicinal composition containing a gp34 binding inhibitor as the active ingredient for treating autoimmune diseases including rheumatism, multiple sclerosis, sarcoidosis, autoimmune ophthalmic diseases and inflammatory bowel disease or graft-versus-host disease. It has been experimentally confirmed that the onset of pathological conditions in rheumatism models and multiple sclerosis models can be inhibited by administering an antimouse gp34 rat monoclonal antibody to model mice for inducing collagen arthritis and those for inducing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.
Patent CA-2273504-A1 (CA)
Title: Method for making drying more effective
Inventor: SEGURA LUIS ELVIRA
IPC: B01D33/21
Filed: 1999-06-02
Abstract: A method for suction drying of finely divided materials, in which method a filter cake made of a slurry containing liquid and finely divided solids is formed on a substantially planar surface of a filter medium by suction, the filter cake having an inner surface being in contact with an outer surface of the filter medium. The method includes placing the outer surface of the filter cake and planar outer surface of an oscillator in a mechanical contact with each other, so that an acoustic field, having an oscillation frequency is generated throughout the filter cake. The entire outer surface of said oscillator is in substantially continuous contact with said outer surface of said filter cake when said acoustic field is generated, thereby removing residual liquid in the filter cake combined with suction applied to an inner surface of the filter cake.