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Patent EP-2666442-A1 (EP)
Inventor: LAMBORNE ANDREW
IPC: A61F2/44
Filed: 2007-11-15
Abstract: Spinous process implants and associated methods are provided. In one aspect of the invention the implant limits the maximum spacing between the spinous processes. In another aspect of the invention, a spacer has at least one transverse opening to facilitate tissue in-growth. In another aspect of the invention, an implant includes a spacer and separate extensions engageable with the spacer. The spacer is provided in a variety of lengths and superior to inferior surface spacings. In another aspect of the invention, an implant includes a spacer and a cerclage element offset from the midline of the spacer in use so that the spacer defines a fulcrum and the cerclage element is operative to impart a moment to the vertebrae about the spacer. In another aspect of the invention, instrumentation for inserting the implant is provided. In other aspects of the invention, methods for treating spine disease are provided.
Patent EP-2712677-A1 (EP)
Inventor: KERN PETER
IPC: B01L3/00
Filed: 2013-09-05
Abstract: The device comprises: a reaction container (12a, 14a) including a work volume (20a, 22a) for accommodating a liquid reservoir and for performing a substep of an analysis reaction; and an interface (60a) for connecting the work volume to an additional media container, where the reaction container is implemented as a container which is completely closed in an assembled state. The work volume is designed for reaction performance under conditions of reduced gravity, has a shape which widens from an interface, where the work volume is in rectangular, drop, circular or nozzle shape. The device comprises: a reaction container (12a, 14a) including a work volume (20a, 22a) for accommodating a liquid reservoir and for performing a substep of an analysis reaction; and an interface (60a) for connecting the work volume to an additional media container, where the reaction container is implemented as a container which is completely closed in an assembled state. The work volume is designed for reaction performance under conditions of reduced gravity, has a shape which widens from an interface, where the work volume is in rectangular, drop, circular or nozzle shape. The additional media container is implemented as: a waste container (28a) for storing of excess liquid volumes, where the waste container has a wicking body, is completely closed, and performs a pressure-equalization operation; an analysis-material container (30a) for providing analysis materials, where the analysis-material container is connected with the waste container; and a multichamber syringe. The reaction container is preassembled together with another reaction container and/or the additional media container to form a module that is connected with the additional media container, where the module allows parallel performance of a set of biochemical analyses. The device further comprises a set of magnetic mixing bodies for mixing reaction materials and a sample for an analysis reaction. An independent claim is included for a method for performing a biochemical analysis.
Patent EP-2717381-A1 (EP)
Inventor: SHI SHAWN
IPC: H01Q1/32
Filed: 2013-09-16
Abstract: A radome (26) for a radar sensor (24) that includes a first and second section (34). Each section is formed of layers that have an electrical thickness substantially equal to an integer multiple of a guided half-wavelengths of the radar beam (14). Each of the sections (62A) are configured such that, at a location (52) spaced apart from the radome (26), a first phase angle of the first portion (32) of the radar beam (14) differs from a second phase angle of the second portion (36) of the radar beam (14) by an amount substantially corresponding to an integer number of three hundred sixty degrees (360°) of phase angle shift.
Patent EP-2851786-A1 (EP)
Inventor: VAN KAMPEN DAVID
IPC: G06F7/48
Filed: 2013-09-23
Abstract: A class of digital signal processor instructions, comprising at least a first instruction type and a second instruction type, is proposed. The class of instructions may be added to the instruction set of a digital signal vector processor and a program instruction is selected from the digital signal processor instruction set. 
     The digital signal processor is adapted to cause execution of a method comprising obtaining a program instruction, selecting a real valued input as one of a first real valued input and a second real valued input (the first and second real valued inputs organized as adjacent elements of a first input vector), performing an arithmetic operation on the selected real valued input to provide a real valued result, and providing a first real valued output and a second real valued output during a first operation cycle (the first and second real valued outputs organized as adjacent elements of a second output vector). 
     The real valued input is selected as the first real valued input if the program instruction is of the first instruction type and as the second real valued input if the program instruction is of the second instruction type. 
     Furthermore (if the program instruction is of one of the first instruction type and the second instruction type), the real valued result is provided as the first real valued output and as the second real valued output, and the second output vector is a real valued second output vector for real-complex multiplication with a complex valued third vector.
Patent EP-2682343-A1 (EP)
Inventor: DUIVENVOORDEN MARTINUS FREDERICUS JOHANNES
IPC: B65B35/20
Filed: 2011-04-29
Abstract: An apparatus (1) for transport and controlled discharge of products (2) comprises a guide (7) , a transport unit (3) including a support tray (4) for supporting a product and driving means for transporting the transport unit (3) in a transporting direction (X). The transport unit (3) is provided with a pushing member (6) which is displaceable with respect to the support tray (4) in a displacement direction extending transversely with respect to the transporting direction for pushing a product from the support tray. The pushing member (6) is provided with a pushing portion (10) which pushes against a product under operating conditions and an actuator (8) which is guidable along said guide (7) such that under operating conditions the pushing portion (10) is displaced with respect to the support tray (4) upon moving the transport unit in the transporting direction when the actuator (8) contacts the guide (7) . The pushing member (6) forms a substantially closed construction that surrounds the support tray (4) in a plane extending transversely with respect to the displacement direction of the pushing member. The transport unit (3) is provided with a pushing member guide (11) along which the pushing member (6) is mainly guided in the displacement direction under operating conditions. The pushing member guide (11) extends at the underside of the support tray (4).
Patent EP-2719795-A1 (EP)
Inventor: PARK SOOHO
IPC: H01L31/0224
Filed: 2013-10-08
Abstract: A zinc oxide (ZnO) precursor and a method of depositing a ZnO-based thin film using the same, with which a high-quality and high-purity ZnO-based thin film can be deposited. The ZnO precursor includes a mixture solvent containing at least two organic solvents which are mixed and a source material comprising diethyl zinc or dimethyl zinc which is diluted in the mixture solvent.
Patent EP-2866339-A1 (EP)
Inventor: PLAVEC LUBOMIR
IPC: H02M3/07
Filed: 2013-10-23
Abstract: A charge pump circuit comprises a charge pump unit, which is operable to output a voltage which increases from a low or zero voltage to a high voltage. The charge pump circuit further comprises a control unit configured to control the ramp-up of the output voltage by a variable ramp rate which comprises at least a first rate which precedes a second rate, the first rate being greater than the second rate, and the second rate being applied as the magnitude of the output voltage approaches that of the high voltage. Accordingly, since the second rate is applied after and is less than the first rate and is applied proximate the high voltage, the peak power consumption can be reduced when compared to a constant ramp-up rate applied over the same ramp-up time.
Patent EP-2868375-A1 (EP)
Inventor: DENIFL PETER
IPC: B01J31/22
Filed: 2013-10-31
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for producing a solid olefin polymerization catalyst component from an emulsion wherein the particle size of the solid catalyst or the droplet size of the emulsion is controlled. The actual size of the droplets or the solid catalyst particles is measured, or alternatively, both are measured. Then a difference between the actual size and the set point is calculated and the process is controlled based on the difference.
Patent EP-2727451-A1 (EP)
Title: Rotary blade for weed cutter
Inventor: TOMITA HIROSHI
IPC: A01D34/84
Filed: 2013-10-31
Abstract: A rotary blade for a weed cutter, in which a center face part (3) including an axial center (2) of a thin disc body (1) wholly made of a spiral steel material is in the form of a horizontal plane, and a circumferential part adjacent to the center face part has a one rotation-directional corrugated cutting part (7) having one side face of concave form (4) and the other side face of convex form (5), wherein the cutting part face is corrugated in the circular curved-surface form (8) instead of the triangular form.
Patent EP-2732789-A1 (EP)
Inventor: OKONIEWSKI GREGORY G
IPC: A61B19/00
Filed: 2013-11-13
Abstract: A surgical instrument configured for insertion through a surgical access device including a seal member is disclosed. The surgical instrument includes an elongate body having a central passageway extending at least partially therethrough and a plurality of slots extending radially outward from the central passageway. The plurality of slots are configured to engage the seal member and the surgical access device when the elongate body is translated therethrough to remove debris from the seal member and the surgical access device. The plurality of slots and the central passageway are configured to retain the removed debris therein during withdrawal of the surgical instrument from the surgical access device.
Patent EP-2741503-A1 (EP)
Inventor: STAUDER JÜRGEN
IPC: H04N13/00
Filed: 2013-11-18
Abstract: A method and an arrangement for color transfer between images for compensating color differences between at least two images as a first and a second image represented by pixel data are recommended, wherein for corresponding feature points of the images a color map and a geometric map are calculated for compensating a first image by applying said geometric map and said color map to the first image resulting in a compensated first image for detecting regions where a compensation fails by comparing the compensated first image with the second image to perform a color transfer excluding image regions where the compensation failed. The method can be performed on the fly and is applicable for equalizing color differences between images different in geometry and color which is e.g. helpful to reduce the resulting bitrate for transferring data, data compression or precise disparity estimation in 3D applications as well as for an improved color coherence of textures of 3D objects.
Patent EP-2709188-A1 (EP)
Inventor: BRADWELL DAVID
IPC: H01M50/152
Filed: 2010-07-20
Abstract: An electrochemical battery that exchanges energy with an external device. The battery includes a container (22) having walls and containing a positive electrode (16), a negative electrode (14) and an intervening electrolyte (20), the electrodes and electrolyte existing as liquid material layers in a vertical stack within the container walls at the operating temperature of the battery. One of the positive electrode (16) and the negative electrode (14) is disposed over the electrolyte. A lid (26) closes a top of the container (22); a positive current collector (23) is in electrical contact with the positive electrode (16); and a negative current collector (27) is in electrical contact with the negative electrode (14). Positive and negative current collectors (23, 27) are adapted for connection to the external device to create a circuit through which current flows. The current collector is in contact with the one electrode is suspended from the lid (26) and comprises a structure (62) configured to hold one of the electrodes away from the walls of the container.
Patent EP-2813375-A1 (EP)
Title: Procédé et système de préparation de substrat avant dorure
Inventor: ABERGEL EDMOND
IPC: B41M3/00
Filed: 2013-06-11
Abstract: La présente invention concerne un procédé et/ou un système de personnalisation de substrat et/ou de préparation de substrat avant dorure. En particulier, la présente invention consiste en un procédé d'impression comprenant une étape d'impression de substrat par jet d'encre suivie d'une étape de dorure par contact entre les zones du substrat à dorer et la feuille de dorure caractérisée par une étape additionnelle qui est préalable à l'étape de dorure et qui consiste en une préparation du substrat.
Patent EP-2802763-A1 (EP)
Inventor: DADD MICHAEL WILLIAM
IPC: F02G1/044
Filed: 2013-01-07
Abstract: Stirling cycle machines, including engines and coolers or heat pumps are described. In a disclosed arrangement, there is provided a Stirling cycle engine, comprising: an expansion volume structure defining an expansion volume;a compression volume structure defining a compression volume; a gas spring coupling volume structure defining a gas spring coupling volume; a first reciprocating assembly comprising an expansion piston configured to reciprocate within the expansion volume and an expander gas spring piston rigidly connected to the expansion piston and configured to reciprocate within the gas spring coupling volume; and a second reciprocating assembly comprising a compression piston configured to reciprocate within the compression volume and a compressor gas spring piston rigidly connected to the compression piston and configured to reciprocate within the gas spring coupling volume, wherein the gas spring coupling volume structure and the first and second reciprocating assemblies are configured such that power is transferred in use from the expansion piston to the compression piston via the gas spring coupling volume.
Patent EP-2812604-A1 (EP)
Inventor: BECK STEFAN
IPC: F16H3/72
Filed: 2013-01-10
Abstract: Boîte de vitesses multi-étagée pourvue de huit rapports de marche avant et d'un rapport de marche arrière, comprenant un arbre d'entrée (1), un arbre de sortie (2), trois trains planétaires (P1, P2, P3), un premier et un deuxième étage de pignons cylindriques (S1, S2) en liaison avec un arbre intermédiaire qui est monté en parallèle à l'axe longitudinal des trains planétaires (P1, P2, P3) et qui forme l'arbre de sortie (2) de la boîte de vitesses, ainsi qu'au moins cinq éléments de commutation (03, 15, 24, 45, 46, 56, 58) et huit arbres rotatifs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), l'arbre d'entrée (1) étant relié au porte-satellites du premier train planétaire (P1) et pouvant être relié de manière détachable par l'intermédiaire d'un premier embrayage (15) au cinquième arbre (5), lequel est relié à la couronne du deuxième train planétaire (P2) et peut être relié de manière détachable par l'intermédiaire d'un troisième embrayage (58) au huitième arbre (8) qui est relié à la roue planétaire du troisième train planétaire (P3).
Patent EP-2830577-A1 (EP)
Inventor: KRUEGER MARCUS
IPC: A61K8/49
Filed: 2013-02-14
Abstract: The present invention relates to hair treatment agents containing a synergistic combination of selected fatty acid amides and oil bodies selected from ester oils and vegetable oils.
Patent EP-2814508-A1 (EP)
Inventor: BEY RUSSELL F
IPC: A61K39/15
Filed: 2013-02-14
Abstract: La présente invention concerne des polypeptides antigéniques ou des antigènes de rotavirus qui déclenchent une réponse immunitaire antirotavirus chez un animal et chez l'homme, des compositions comprenant lesdits polypeptides de rotavirus, des procédés de vaccination contre le rotavirus, et des kits pour une utilisation avec ces procédés et ces compositions. L'invention concerne également de nouveaux vecteurs d'expression pour produire les polypeptides antigéniques du vaccin.
Patent EP-2820313-A1 (EP)
Inventor: JAGODA AARON HERTZEL
IPC: F15B21/14
Filed: 2013-02-28
Abstract: A hydraulic system (10) that includes a rotating group (600) with a plurality of fluid chambers and a plurality of valve sets that valve a corresponding one of the fluid chambers is disclosed. The hydraulic system may function as a hydraulic transformer (26). The hydraulic system may transfer energy between a high pressure fluid supply (12,720) (e.g., from a pump), an accumulator (34,734), a hydraulic component (e.g., a hydraulic cylinder, a hydraulic motor, and/or a hydraulic pump-motor), and/or an input/output shaft (36,736). The hydraulic system may include a single rotating group with a common axis. Each of the valve sets may include a first valve (670s) that fluidly connects to the pump, a second valve (670t) that fluidly connects to a tank, a third valve (670a) that fluidly connects to the accumulator, and a fourth valve (670x) that fluidly connects to the hydraulic component. The valves may have a valving period set to less than half or one- third of a rotational period of the rotating group. The valves may have a frequency of greater than 100 Hertz and may be digitally controlled.
Patent EP-2825632-A1 (EP)
Inventor: ROMARI KHADIDJA
IPC: C12R1/89
Filed: 2013-03-15
Abstract: The invention relates to new strains of cyanobacteria belonging to the Nostoc genus, allowing high-yield production of polysaccharides, in mixotrophic mode, and to a method for selecting and culturing such strains, using a variable and/or discontinuous light source, in particular a flashing light.
Patent EP-2836816-A1 (EP)
Inventor: AL-SOFI ABDULKAREEM MOHAMAD
IPC: G01N15/08
Filed: 2013-04-11
Abstract: Disclosed is a method for estimating porous-media longitudinal dispersion and adsorption coefficients. According to various embodiments of the invention, a method for estimating porous-media longitudinal dispersion coefficients is provided, which includes introducing a pure phase component though a porous medium, and. introducing a component having a same phase as the pure phase component through the porous medium. The component includes a viscosifying agent having a non-linear viscosity-concentration dependence. The method further includes measuring, using a permeability analyzer, a pressure drop across the porous medium after each introduction at a plurality of intervals over a period of time. Further, the method includes determining, using the measured pressure drops, a pressure transition, and analyzing the pressure transition across the porous medium to determine a dispersion coefficient for the porous medium.
Patent EP-2841633-A1 (EP)
Inventor: JONES MARK F
IPC: D04H1/485
Filed: 2013-04-23
Abstract: L'invention porte sur une lingette non tissée qui présente une multiplicité de fibres, de parties liées et de parties non liées. Les parties liées sont espacées les unes des autres, chaque partie liée comportant des parties des fibres qui sont liées les unes aux autres, et chaque partie liée ayant une épaisseur s'étendant perpendiculairement entre des faces opposées de la lingette non tissée. Chaque partie non liée comporte des parties des fibres qui ne sont pas liées les unes aux autres, et chaque partie non liée présente une épaisseur s'étendant perpendiculairement entre les faces opposées de la lingette non tissée. Les épaisseurs des parties non liées sont supérieures aux épaisseurs des parties liées. Les parties liées sont dimensionnées et agencées de façon à fournir un équilibre de propriétés souhaitable.
Patent EP-2842283-A1 (EP)
Inventor: YOUNG ROBERT
IPC: H04L27/00
Filed: 2013-05-10
Abstract: A method for determining a frequency error embodied in a series of values, each comprising a phase component, by a change in those phase components across the series, the method comprising: processing each of two or more selected values with another value in the series, each other value being spaced from its respective selected value by a first spacing, to generate processed values that all comprise substantially the same phase component; combining the processed values to generate a combined value that comprises substantially the same phase component as the processed values; repeating the processing and combining with the same selected values but a second spacing, different from the first spacing, to generate a combined value comprising a different phase component from the combined value generated using the first spacing, reflecting the frequency error; and determining the frequency error in dependence on the combined values generated using the first and second spacings.
Patent EP-2850213-A1 (EP)
Inventor: DEFRETIN SOPHIE
IPC: C12R1/425
Filed: 2013-05-15
Abstract: The present invention relates to a strain of  Serratia plymuthica  capable of producing turanose and to the uses thereof.
Patent EP-2861665-A1 (EP)
Inventor: KRÄMER ROLAND HELMUT
IPC: C08L67/00
Filed: 2013-06-11
Abstract: La présente invention concerne des matières à mouler thermoplastiques contenant A) 10 à 97 % en poids d'un polyester thermoplastique, B) 0,1 à 60 % en poids de phosphore rouge, C) 1 à 25 % en poids d'un homopolymère polyacrylonitrile, D) 0 à 50 % en poids d'une charge sous forme de fibres ou de particules, et E) 0 à 60 % en poids d'autres additifs, la somme des pourcentages en poids de A) à E) équivalant à 100 %.
Patent EP-2867528-A1 (EP)
Inventor: NAGEL THOMAS
IPC: A61M5/24
Filed: 2013-06-25
Abstract: The invention relates to a linear actor arrangement (1), comprising a linear actor (2) with two ends (2.1, 2.2) whose distance is variable depending on an energizing of the linear actor (2), wherein each end (2.1, 2.2) is attached to a respective first or second coupling element (3.1, 3.2) which engage a coupling surface (4), wherein the coupling surface (4) and the coupling elements (3.1, 3.2) exhibit mating surface structures in such a manner that the coupling elements (3.1, 3.2) are prevented from moving in a direction (F) while being allowed to move in an opposite direction (/F).
Patent EP-2864288-A1 (EP)
Inventor: MOLONEY MARK
IPC: C07D213/69
Filed: 2013-06-24
Abstract: The present invention relates to certain tetramic acid derivatives that are suitable for use in the preparation and development of antimicrobial (e.g. antibacterial or antifungal) compositions. The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds as antimicrobial (e.g. antibacterial or antifungal agents) and, in particular, as topical antibacterial or antifungal agents.
Patent EP-2870756-A1 (EP)
Inventor: RAPAKA KRISHNAKANTH
IPC: H04N19/593
Filed: 2013-07-08
Abstract: An apparatus for coding video information according to certain aspects includes a memory unit and a processor in communication with the memory unit. The memory unit stores difference video information associated with a difference video layer of pixel information derived from a difference between an enhancement layer and a corresponding base layer of the video information. The processor determines an enhancement layer weight and a base layer weight, and determines a value of a current video unit based on the difference video layer, a value of a video unit in the enhancement layer weighted by the enhancement layer weight, and a value of a video unit in the base layer weighted by the base layer weight.