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Patent EP-0564590-A1 (EP)
Title: Bronchoalveolar lavage catheter.
Inventor: STRICKLAND RICHARD D
IPC: A61M16/04
Filed: 1991-12-20
Abstract: An outer catheter so sized and configured so as to extend from a point below the first bifurcation of the trachea through the upper respiratory system of the patient is disposed about an inner catheter having a tip secured in the opening at the distal end thereof with an outer lateral periphery larger in diameter than the outer surface of the inner catheter. A passageway is formed between said outer catheter and said inner catheter. A connector hub assembly, connected to the proximal end of the outer catheter and couplable to a supply of oxygen, allows for oxygen insufflation to take place during the bronchoalveolar lavage procedure. The proximal surface of the tip between the outer lateral periphery and the outer surface of the inner catheter is capable of sealingly engaging the distal end of the outer catheter. In this condition the pair of catheters can be advanced through the upper respiratory system of the patient without contaminating the outer surface of the inner catheter. Thereafter the inner catheter is advanced relative to the outer catheter into a wedging position in a bronchiole of the patient. In one embodiment, the inner catheter is provided with a selectively inflatable cuff by which to engage the walls of a bronchiole of the patient.
Patent EP-0581875-A1 (EP)
Inventor: BARCLAY DAVID A
IPC: C01F7/02
Filed: 1992-04-22
Abstract: Un procédé permettant de cultiver des cristaux à une vitesse accrue consiste à utiliser une dispersion d'un milieu fluide et des germes d'innoculation d'un oxyde métallique, à introduire un matériau d'alimentation comprenant un oxyde métallique dans la dispersion et à maintenir un mélange uniforme des germes d'innoculation, du matériau d'alimentation et du milieu fluide, le matériau d'alimentation ayant une taille moyenne de cristal inférieure à la taille moyenne des germes d'innoculation, le matériau d'alimentation étant ajouté en une quantité et à une vitesse telles que les germes d'innoculation se développent, le matériau d'alimentation constituant une espèce nutritive soluble pour le dépôt du cristal en vue d'effectuer sa croissance, le mélange des germes d'innoculation et du matériau d'alimentation étant traité dans des conditions qui stimulent la croissance des cristaux pendant une période de temps suffisante pour obtenir une quantité désirée d'un produit comprenant au moins un cristal développé ayant une taille moyenne supérieure à la taille moyenne du germe d'innoculation.
Patent EP-0603197-A1 (EP)
Title: Method and system for controlling chemical reaction in a molten bath.
Inventor: NAGEL CHRISTOPHER J
IPC: A62D101/28
Filed: 1992-07-06
Abstract: A method and a system is disclosed for controlling chemical reaction of a feed. The feed is directed into a reactor containing a molten bath to at least partially chemically react the feed to form an intermediate component. A portion of the intermediate component is combined with an off-gas which is emitted from the molten bath. At least a portion of the intermediate is then separated from the off-gas and returned to the molten bath. The returned intermediate component is then substantially converted to its atomic constituents. The atomic constituents subsequently exothermically react with other components of the molten bath for reaction to form compounds which are substantially stable at the operating conditions of the system, thereby allowing control of chemical reaction of the feed.
Patent EP-0602093-A1 (EP)
Inventor: ALDRIDGE GRAHAM JAMES
IPC: D01B1/38
Filed: 1992-09-04
Abstract: Un appareil séparant les fibres de la paille comporte un rotor doseur à ergots (90) et un rotor séparateur à ergots (92), montés de sorte à tourner en sens opposés et dotés de paliers fixes. Le rotor séparateur final (92) est adjacent à un carénage (100) muni de multiples fentes (101) et un rotor de décharge à ergots (97) peut tourner dans l'un ou l'autre sens, la position de son palier étant réglable par rapport au rotor séparateur (92). Un dispositif d'alimentation à joues (94), placé à l'intersection du rotor doseur (90) et du rotor séparateur (92), comporte une surface (95) adjacente au rotor séparateur (92) et épousant pratiquement celle dudit rotor, et une surface (96) adjacente au rotor doseur (90) dont le rayon de courbure est plus grand que celui de ce rotor (90).
Patent EP-0553712-A1 (EP)
Inventor: LOGE HANS
IPC: A61C3/02
Filed: 1993-01-21
Abstract: In a dental laser treatment device (101) with a control device (106) and a supply arrangement (108), connected to the control device via a detachable connection (131), for a laser treatment instrument (2; 122), in which at least two medium lines are provided starting from the control device (106) and extending through the detachable connection (131) and along the supply arrangement (108) to the laser treatment instrument (122), and in which the laser treatment instrument (122) can likewise be connected via a detachable connection (164) to the supply arrangement (108), the detachable connection (131) between the control device (106) and the supply arrangement (108) and/or between the supply arrangement (108) and the laser treatment instrument (122) is formed by an automatically and resiliently engaging and disengaging plug-type coupling (131), with a cylindrical coupling journal (132) and a cylindrical coupling bushing (137) receiving it, in which the medium line for the laser beam (124) extends coaxially through the plug-type coupling (131), and the further medium line (48) passes through the cylindrical separating joint between the coupling journal and the coupling bushing in a sealed manner and continues in the coupling journal and in the coupling bushing, and in which there is provided, beside the opening on the separating joint, an annular groove in the inner wall of the coupling bushing (137) or preferably in the outer wall of the coupling journal (132). <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0560051-A1 (EP)
IPC: B65D41/34
Filed: 1993-02-05
Abstract: A screw cap for containers, in particular for bottles, having an external thread in their mouth region, is proposed, which screw cap has a plastic tamper-proof ring which is provided with at least one barb extending from its inside and is connected to the cap via an intended tearing line which is bridged by tear-off webs and can be torn open, at least in some regions, during initial opening of the cap. The closure is distinguished by the fact that the tamper-proof ring (9) is constructed as a continuous ring with at least one deformation region (25) which can be deformed irreversibly during initial opening of the cap (1). <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0565852-A1 (EP)
Inventor: RUSSELL GREGORY FRASER
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 1993-03-08
Abstract: A sensor grid system (10), and a method of operating a sensor grid system, having a first array of inductors (14a) and a second array of inductors (14b). The first and the second arrays are each responsive to a moveable coil (18) that transmits an electromagnetic signal for having adetectable signal induced therein. The method includes a first step of determining an expected position of the coil relative to an array of inductors. A next step selects a pair of inductors that are located near to the expected position. A third step measures the signals induced into the pair of inductors, and a fourth step, based on the measurement step, determines any additionalinductors from which measurements are required to interpolate the actual position of the coil. A fifth step measures the signals induced into the determined ones of the additional inductors, and a sixth step computes and reports the actual position of the coil based on the results of the first and the second steps of measuring. Significantly, the pair of inductors and the additional inductors include all inductors that are required to compute the actual position of the coil, and includes no inductors that are not required to compute the actual position of the coil.
Patent EP-0594948-A1 (EP)
Title: Clamp straps for roof superstructures
Inventor: TREIBER RUDOLF DIPL-ING
IPC: E04D13/10
Filed: 1993-07-07
Abstract: The invention relates to a clamping strap for producing snow-trapping systems or similar roof superstructures on metal roofs, composed of two clamping jaws (2, 3) which are pressed on both sides against a standing seam (5) of the metal roof (6) by means of screws (7, 8) and serve as clamping parts, and of a through-passage (10) through which a tube (11) can be plugged. Up until now the production and mounting of roof superstructures of this type have been difficult to handle and have wasted a lot of time, and have thus been costly. Furthermore, they were restricted to a single application. The object of the invention is thus to provide a clamping strap for snow-trapping systems or similar roof superstructures, the production, mounting and application of which are improved and which are held more securely on the standing seam. This object is achieved in that the invention provides, as clamping part, a single-part, U-shaped extruded profile (1), the legs of which are configured as clamping jaws (2, 3). <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0582275-A1 (EP)
Inventor: NOE REINHOLD DR PROF
IPC: H04B10/64
Filed: 1993-08-03
Abstract: Method for generating a distortion-free frequency-modulated optical signal, this signal being distorted by a solid-state optical laser, driven by a modulating voltage, in dependence on the modulating voltage on the basis of a thermally caused frequency transfer function of the transmitter for the modulation frequency of the modulating voltage, the modulating voltage and/or the distorted frequency-modulated optical signal itself and/or a heterodyne signal containing this optical signal being subjected to a distortion wholly or partially compensating for the distortion of this optical signal for generating the distortion-free frequency-modulated optical signal. This method is simple and avoids losses of sensitivity in connection with receivers for the frequency-modulated optical signal.   <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0585780-A1 (EP)
Inventor: KESPER HEINRICH DIPL-ING
IPC: H01M2/38
Filed: 1993-08-24
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for introducing an airflow into cells (1) of an accumulator having a hose (8) which can be connected to a pump. At its end which projects out of the cell (1), this hose (8) has a connecting piece (9) with a nozzle opening (12), and at its end which is arranged in the interior of the cell (1) it has an outlet opening (10) in order, while at the same time improving the mixing of the electrolyte, to enable simple connection of the cells (1) of an accumulator to one another and simple connection of the accumulator to a pump of a charging apparatus, it being possible to re-equip accumulators in a simple manner for charging while at the same time introducing an airflow or to convert existing devices in a simple manner, the connecting piece (9) being plugged onto that end of the hose (8) which projects out of the cell (1) and having a retaining opening (14) for an adaptor (20) which connects the accumulator to the pump. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0588204-A1 (EP)
Inventor: KORTE-JUNGERMANN HANS-WERNER
IPC: A63B57/10
Filed: 1993-09-07
Abstract: A driving apparatus for games of golf, with a golf club (1) and a tee (15) which can be driven into the ground by means of a point (20) for receiving the golf ball during the drive, is so designed that the golf club is designed to be capable of releasable connection to the tee (15) via a permanent magnet device (7, 17). The golfer can readily retrieve a tee which, after the driving of the ball, has been torn out of the ground together with the ball, by the action of the permanent magnet device. As a result, ease of handling is facilitated, and it becomes possible for a single tee to be used for a large number of drives. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0592879-A1 (EP)
Inventor: STUETZ MICHAEL
IPC: B60R21/276
Filed: 1993-09-30
Abstract: An air bag assembly for a restraint system in vehicles is provided with a thermally controlled relief valve in the casing wall. The relief valve is composed of a plurality of relief apertures (16) in the casing wall (10a) and a rotatable valve disc (22) which is provided with passage apertures (26) which can be made to coincide with the relief apertures (16). Rotation of the valve disc (22) is controlled by a helical bimetallic spring (24). <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0595362-A1 (EP)
Inventor: HANSEN JAN
IPC: B65B67/12
Filed: 1993-10-30
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for holding a refuse bag (7), having two upwardly directed holding bows (2, 3) with feet (4, 4', 4'', 4'''), having a joint mechanism (5, 5'; 9; 15, 15', 16) which connects the holding bows (2, 3), and having a pedal bar (1, 1') which engages on the joint mechanism, transmits a force onto one of the holding bows, and to whose upper ends the refuse bag (7) is attached. The holding bows (2, 3) are inclined towards one another in the closed state of rest; a joint mechanism (5, 5'; 9; 15, 15', 16) extends in each case between one foot (4, 4', 4'', 4''') of the one holding bow (2, 3) and the opposite foot (4, 4', 4'', 4''') of the other holding bow (2, 3); the ends (1'', 1''') in each case of one pedal bar (1, 1') projecting beyond the connecting line of the two feet (4, 4', 4'', 4''') of the holding bow (2, 3) are connected to the two feet (4, 4', 4'', 4''') in each case of one and the same holding bow (2, 3) so that in each case one end of a pedal bar (1, 1'), of a holding bow (2, 3) and of a joint mechanism (5, 5'; 9; 15, 15', 16) converges in each case at one foot (4, 4', 4'', 4'''), each foot (4, 4', 4'', 4''') constituting a pivot. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0594255-A1 (EP)
Inventor: BECKERS LODEWIJK JOSEPH MICHEL
IPC: G11B7/26
Filed: 1993-10-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for manufacturing a mould for a disc-shaped registration carrier, said device being provided with a station for applying a photosensitive layer, such as a photoresist layer, to a substrate, with a station for exposing said photosensitive layer in accordance with the registration data to be stored, with a station for developing the photosensitive layer and metallizing the side of the substrate carrying the developed photoresist layer, and with a station for applying a metal coating, wherein the various stations are accommodated in a housing and means for receiving the substrates are provided in the various stations, whilst a transport mechanism disposed within the housing is provided with at least one transport means for gripping a substrate, which transport means is movable in a horizontal plane in two directions including an angle with each other, and which is also capable of moving upward and downward within the housing.
Patent EP-0556037-A1 (EP)
Inventor: WHITE WILLIAM THOMAS
IPC: B64F1/36
Filed: 1993-02-10
Abstract: A baggage handling system for use at an aircraft passenger check-in position, has a lift (7,8) for supporting a baggage-conveying cart (1) which can be lowered when loaded, and deposited on rails (6) beneath the check-in position, and then conveyed to a sorting position. Such an arrangement facilitates automatic sorting, and eliminates the need for the conventional belt convey which takes up floor space behind the check-in desks.
Patent EP-0592193-A1 (EP)
Inventor: ING DAN NUNG
IPC: B64F1/36
Filed: 1993-10-05
Abstract: A ground environment mat for VSTOL aircraft (1) and the like, comprising a porous core element (9) having an upper surface (7) porous enough to permit jet entry and controlling the effect of laterally transmitted ground jets resulting therefrom to reduce hot gas and debris ingestion by the aircraft's air intakes, suck-down on the aircraft's surfaces and ground or deck erosion or heating. The porous core element may comprise mesh or strands, or twisted flat strips or metal tubes or perforated elements hingedly attached to a backing layer (8).
Patent EP-0588676-A1 (EP)
Inventor: GALLAND JEAN-MICHEL
IPC: C01B7/19
Filed: 1993-08-24
Abstract: The invention relates to the separation of hydrogen fluoride (HF) from its mixtures with 1,1,1-trifluoro-2-chloroethane (F133a). When the HF and F133a mixture is separated by settling in the presence of trichloroethylene at a temperature below 0 DEG C, a HF-poor lower organic phase and a HF-rich upper phase are obtained. The latter can be directly recycled to the fluorination reactor or distilled in order to separate, at the head, the HF/F133a azeotrope, which is returned to the separating (settling) vessel, and to recover virtually pure HF at the foot. By distillation of the lower phase, the HF/F133a azeotrope is separated at the head, and is returned to the separating vessel, and a mixture of F133a and trichloroethylene is recovered at the foot. This last mixture is distilled, making it possible to separate pure F133a at the head from trichloroethylene at the foot.
Patent EP-0588695-A1 (EP)
Inventor: BERTRAND DOMINIQUE
IPC: H04N1/031
Filed: 1993-09-09
Abstract: This device comprises means for inserting the support, means for reading the information on the support, means for processing the information read from the support with a view to its conversion into digital data and its transmission. The reading means comprise an image detector (15) of elongate form suspended within a housing (1,2,3) and having at its ends mounting means (20) cooperating with complementary mounting means (21) provided in the corresponding end walls (2,3) of the housing, elastic members (23) interposed between the image detector (15) and the housing (22), means for driving the information supports past the image detector, comprising a roller (17) and an electric motor (50) for rotating the roller, the said roller (17) being mounted in the end walls (2,3) of the housing by means of catches (37,38) and retaining the image detector (15) in the said housing, the elastic members (23) applying the image detector (15) against the surface of the roller. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0589781-A1 (EP)
Inventor: GAUCHON JEAN-PAUL
IPC: G21F9/00
Filed: 1993-09-21
Abstract: The invention relates to a reductive decontaminant gel and to its use for decontaminating surfaces. This reductive gel consists of a colloidal solution with a pH at least equal to 13 comprising:     a) 20 to 30% by weight of a gelling agent such as alumina,   b) 0.1 to 14 mol/l of a base such as NaOH, and c) 0.1 to 4.5 mol/l of a reducing agent having an oxidation-reduction potential E0 less than -600 mV/SHE in strongly basic medium (pH >/= 13), for example NaBH4, Na2S, Na2S2O4 or hydrazine.   This reductive gel can be used for decontaminating metal surfaces covered with adhering oxide layers.
Patent EP-0571312-A1 (EP)
Inventor: LAGARES COROMINAS NARCISO
IPC: B01F5/10
Filed: 1993-05-13
Abstract: Apparatus for dissolving or dispersing powder products of different nature in a liquid 
     It comprise a tank (1) to store the liquid, a tubular element (2), uprightly oriented, ending at its top in a funnel-shaped pattern (2a), and with its other end arranged, slidably socketed, in telescopic assembly, within a stiff sleeve (3) guided in its upper part and with its lower end in abutment against a tank draining aperture. Radial arms (6) integral with the part (2a) are supported on a float (7) coaxial to the tubular element (2) and a sector (2d) of said element (2) bears passing holes (9) so that the pierced tubular wall is slightly emerging above the liquid level and a most of it is submerged. Extending in the interior of said tubular element (2) cross walls (10) avoid swirling and means (17), (18) are provided to develop a closed circuit fluid flow by a forced sucking of the liquid from the tank through the sector (2d) with holes, and to impel it through a return duct toward the said tank with a passageway through disgregation and/or dispersion means.
Patent EP-0614688-A1 (EP)
Inventor: SCHNEEBERGER RICARDO DR
IPC: B01D9/02
Filed: 1993-03-03
Abstract: An apparatus for generating crystal nuclei in melts comprises an upright (vertically oriented), closed vessel (2) having a vessel bottom (3) and at least one inlet (5) for the melt and at least one outlet port (7) for the seeded melt provided with crystal nuclei. A preferably annular zone (16) of the vessel wall is designed as a cooling surface. In the interior of the vessel a scraping element (9) is arranged which comprises a rotating shaft (10) which can be driven by a motor and extends axially through the vessel (2) almost as far as the vessel bottom (3). At the end facing the vessel bottom, the shaft (10) is equipped with at least one scraper arm (11) which extends, starting from the end of the shaft near the vessel bottom, firstly in the direction of the vessel wall and there runs essentially parallel to the annular cooling surface (16) and axially parallel to the drive shaft (10). On the scraper arm (11), preferably one or more scraping knives (12) are arranged which during operation sweep along the inner wall of the vessel (2) in the region of the cooling surface (16). The scraper element (9) can be heated. Granular materials having preferably high molecular weights, for example > 300, are produced in a crystallisation plant which comprises a stock vessel for the melt, an apparatus of the abovementioned type for generating crystal nuclei in the melt and a prill tower in which the seeded melt provided with crystal nuclei is sprayed or discharged as droplets into a cooled gas stream. The droplets crystallise as they descend in free fall. The granular material (pellets) thus produced is discharged at the bottom of the tower. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0573391-A1 (EP)
Inventor: MISSBACH MARTIN DR
IPC: C07D277/54
Filed: 1993-05-25
Abstract: The invention relates to novel thiosemicarbazonic acid esters of the formula I <IMAGE>  in which   R1 and R5 denote lower alkyl, lower alk-2-en-1-yl or alternatively lower alk-2-yn-1-yl, R2 and R3 independently of one another denote hydrogen or lower alkyl or together represent lower alkylidene and R4 denotes lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, lower alk-2-en-1-yl, lower alk-2-yn-1-yl, aryl-lower alkyl, aryl-lower alkenyl, or alternatively lower alkoxycarbonyl-lower alkyl and their salts and tautomeric compounds and double bond isomers, processes for the preparation of the compounds mentioned, pharmaceutical preparations containing these and their use as pharmaceutical active compounds.
Patent EP-0645484-A1 (EP)
Inventor: HUNZIKER ANDREAS
IPC: D03D47/26
Filed: 1993-09-24
Abstract: The linear-shed loom is subdivided into a first subassembly (1) containing a weaving rotor (3) and an arrangement (4) for the fabric run, a second subassembly (5) containing a warp beam (23) and an arrangement (7) for the warp run, and a winding device (8). The warp stop motion and a feeding-in device are designed as a constructional unit and either assigned to one subassembly or can be transferred from one subassembly to the other. The modular construction of the loom proves advantageous with regard to the design of the loom and its operation. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0621805-A1 (EP)
Inventor: SMITH ROWLAND CHARLES
IPC: B05B7/08
Filed: 1993-01-12
Abstract: Clapet à air servant à réguler le retour d'air dans des pistolets de pulvérisation, et comprenant un corps (10) de clapet et un élément de clapet (9), une tige (6) traversant de manière hermétique et coulissante le corps (10) et l'élément (9) de clapet, cette tige présentant un épaulement (7) refermant une première surface d'appui dans l'élément (9) de clapet et l'arrière de la tige (6) coulissant dans une navette (15) qui coulisse à son tour dans une bague (12) de clapet fixe comportant une second surface d'appui (12a) refermée par la partie arrière de la navette (15). Deux orifices (22, 23) sont prévus, un de chaque côté de la seconde surface d'appui (12a) entre la bague (12) et la navette (15), pour le retour d'air passant par le clapet, et deux orifices (24, 25) sont prévus, un de chaque côté de la première surface d'appui (18) entre l'élément (9) de clapet et l'épaulement (7) de la tige, pour l'air principal passant par le clapet de sorte que le fonctionnement de la tige (6) permet d'ouvrir le premier clapet avant le second, et de fermer le second clapet avant le premier.