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Patent EP-2133883-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HANTSCHEL THOMAS
IPC: G01Q60/40
Filed: 2009-06-11
Abstract: An Atomic Force Microscopy probe configuration (6) is disclosed, comprising a cantilever (8), and a planar tip (19) attached to the cantilever (8), which only partially overlaps the planar tip (19), and extending along a longitudinal direction (x) thereof. The planar tip (19) is of a two-dimensional geometry having at least one corner (20) remote from the cantilever (8), which corner (20) during use contacts a surface (18) to be scanned.
Patent EP-2088378-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SHON JONG CHULL
IPC: F24C15/32
Filed: 2009-01-22
Abstract: An oven which is convenient to supply water and clean a steam generation unit thereof. The oven includes a cooking chamber in which food is cooked, a door which opens and closes the cooking chamber, and a steam generation unit formed at a front part of a bottom plate of the cooking chamber.
Patent EP-2083215-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PALAZZETTI MARCO
IPC: F23B90/00
Filed: 2009-01-23
Abstract: A vertical burner (10) for a domestic heating apparatus (12) fed by granular biomass fuel such as pellets, olive pulp, maize and suchlike, comprises a support frame (13) inside which a combustion unit (11) is installed, having inside it a combustion chamber (25). The combustion unit (11) comprises an internal conveyor body (26) which delimits the combustion chamber (25) inside it and, outside it, a containing chamber (22) for the comburent air, wherein the internal conveyor body (26) is made of material with low heat conductivity and high resistance to temperature, able to maintain, in normal use, the internal temperature of the chamber (25) at a determinate combustion temperature. The internal conveyor body (26) is shaped so as to vertically define one or more parts (28, 30, 32) of the chamber (25), which are shaped with cross sections having predetermined and different geometry so as to determine an ascent of the combustion fumes upward at a determinate speed of outflow, so that they have adequate time to remain in the chamber (25) in order to allow a substantial complete combustion.
Patent EP-2109238-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WEINBLATT LEE S
IPC: H04H60/45
Filed: 2009-04-07
Abstract: A technique is disclosed for identifying members of an audience tuned to a program broadcast by a programming signal source, comprising the steps of storing personal identification signals in a plurality of portable devices to be carried by members of the audience; periodically transmitting said identification signals from the portable devices; providing a stationary detector to detect the identification signals if they exceed a selectable response of said detector; and setting the selectable response of said detector to a level such that the identification signals are detected only if the respective portable devices are located relative to the detector in positions where persons can perceive performance of the broadcast program.
Patent EP-2154673-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TANAKA NAOYUKI
IPC: G09G3/34
Filed: 2009-04-30
Abstract: A liquid crystal panel displays an image from image signals. A backlight device disposed on the back side of the liquid crystal panel, and divided into a plurality of regions. The backlight device is configured to allow light emitted from the light source of each of the regions to leak to adjacent regions. A light emission luminance calculator obtains a light emission luminance by using, as adjacent regions, a group of regions from the regions in the backlight device and at least two virtual regions provided respectively at opposite ends of the group of regions.
Patent EP-2148161-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WOLFE IV EDWARD
IPC: F28F13/06
Filed: 2009-06-29
Abstract: An internal heat exchanger assembly for an air conditioning system, having a housing defining a cylindrical with opposing ends. The ends are sealed with end caps having inlets/outlets. A helical coil tube is coaxially disposed within the cylindrical cavity, in which the helical coil includes two tube ends extending in opposing directions and exiting the cylindrical cavity through tube ports provided in the end caps. A twisted elongated strip is coaxially disposed within the cylindrical cavity extending from the first end to the second end. The twisted elongated strip includes a plurality of radially extending fingers adapted to engage the helical coil to maintain the helical coil in a predetermined position.
Patent EP-2116971-A2 (EP)
Inventor: VINCENT LUC
IPC: G06V30/224
Filed: 2007-09-07
Abstract: Subregions of a document image are clustered. A replica image of the document is created by replacing sub-regions in the document image with a representative cluster image generated for the cluster in which the respective sub-regions are included. This allows to obtain a higher resolution image.
Patent EP-2187615-A2 (EP)
Inventor: STAMM TOBIAS
IPC: H04N1/405
Filed: 2009-08-25
Abstract: The present invention refers to an image data processing method for processing input image data representing input color pixels of an input color image to be reproduced wherein the image data processing method uses an error diffusion process in order to produce output binary image data which represent an output binary image which represents a processed binary version of the input color image, the output binary image comprising output pixels having output binary color values; process pixels are determined by the error diffusion process, which process pixels constitute a process image and which respectively have a process color value, wherein the error diffusion process uses the process pixels in order to process the input color pixels step by step in order to stepwise determine the output binary values of the output pixels by quantization; wherein the process pixel determined from that one of the input color pixels which is processed in a current one of the steps is a current process pixel,  characterised in that  the following is performed in the current step: a) a current binary color value is set for a current output pixel which corresponds to the current process pixel; b) a plurality of reproduction color values of particular ones of the output pixels are respectively calculated based on output binary color values determined in previous steps and based on the current binary color value; c) an error indicator is determined based on a plurality of provisional quantization errors, said provisional quantization errors are calculated based on the differences between the reproduction color values of the particular output pixels and the process color values of the process pixels corresponding to the particular output pixels; wherein the steps a), b) and c) are repeated for different current binary color values; and, for quantization of the current pixel, that one of the different current binary color values is selected as output binary color value for the current output pixel for which the error indicator indicates the smallest error.
Patent EP-2166659-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MAYELL ROBERT J
IPC: H02M3/335
Filed: 2009-09-17
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to select functional parameters and/or operating modes of a circuit based on a measurement during an initialization period. In one aspect an integrated circuit includes a threshold detection circuit coupled to measure during an initialization period of the integrated circuit a signal from a first external circuit comprising one or more components coupled to a first external terminal of the integrated circuit. A selection circuit is coupled to the threshold detection circuit to select a parameter/mode of the integrated circuit in response to the signal from the first external circuit during the initialization period of the integrated circuit. The first external terminal is further coupled to one or more additional external circuits, each of which comprising one or more components. The one or more additional external circuits are coupled to provide one or more signals at the first external terminal to be used by the integrated circuit during normal operation at times other than the initialization period to provide at least one additional function for the integrated circuit after the initialization period of the integrated circuit is complete.
Patent EP-2141870-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HART MICHAEL JOHN BEEMS
IPC: H04L12/54
Filed: 2007-07-31
Abstract: A module for use in a base station of a cellular wireless communication system in which frames of data are transmitted to a plurality of subscriber stations via the base station, the frames being divided timewise into a plurality of zones and each zone comprising a number of bursts, the base station receiving signals from and defining connections with subscriber stations within a plurality of adjacent regions and serving those connections by allocating resources within the frames. The module comprises zone assignment means for receiving a signal level for each connection and performing zone assignment of the connection based on a comparison of said signal level with a threshold level, and a fractional frequency reuse (FFR) manager for selecting the threshold level employed by the zone assignment means for zone assignment. The threshold used for fractional frequency reuse is selected to provide an optimal Reuse3/Reuse1 transition for subscribers within a particular cell.
Patent EP-2146177-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FERRARA VINCENT R
IPC: B29C45/44
Filed: 2008-03-13
Abstract: A method of making a protective unit comprising the steps of: 
forming a mold including a split outer mold section defining a cavity having an end wall, an annular flange surrounding an opening spaced from the end wall and angled side walls extending between the end wall and the flange wall and having symmetry about an axis centered on the end wall and opening and diameters that vary along said axis, a radially collapsible core having a core end wall, a core flange wall and core side walls extending between said core end walls and core flange wall, said core walls being somewhat smaller radially than the corresponding walls of the outer mold section so that when the core is positioned coaxially in the cavity in its uncollapsed state, the corresponding walls of the core and outer mold section are substantially parallel and defme a continuous gap between them; 
filling said gap with molten thermoplastic material; 
allowing the thermoplastic material to harden; 
collapsing the core so that the maximum diameter of the core side walls is appreciably smaller than that of the opening and sliding the core axially from the outer mold section through said opening, and 
splitting the outer mold section and removing the set thermoplastic material therefrom to reveal said impact-energy management structure as a thin-wall enclosure having an end wall, a flange and side walls extending between the enclosure and wall and flange.
Patent EP-2193959-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SIMONAZZI GIUSEPPE
IPC: B60R11/02
Filed: 2009-12-03
Abstract: The electronic interface device for interfacing a digital file player with the audio system of a vehicle comprises a support base installable inside the compartment of a vehicle and has at least a seat for housing a digital file player, electronic management and control means for said player associated with the support base and associable with a car radio fitted in the vehicle, and an electronic connection port arranged inside the housing seat and suitable for electronically connecting the digital file player to the electronic management and control means.
Patent EP-2199866-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TANAKA TOSHIAKI
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 2009-12-04
Abstract: An image forming apparatus for conducting a fixing process by plural fixing devices for a sheet on which a toner image has been transferred from a transfer section, comprises: a first fixing device (9a) arranged on a sheet conveyance passage; a second fixing device (9b) arranged on the sheet conveyance passage at a downstream side of the first fixing device (9a); and a curl correcting section (11) arranged on the sheet conveyance passage between the first fixing device (9a) and the second fixing device (9b).
Patent EP-2182067-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LEADLAY PETER FRANCIS
IPC: C07H17/08
Filed: 1997-07-04
Abstract: A hybrid type I polyketide synthase gene typically containing a starter module and a plurality of heterologous extender modules is used to synthesise novel polyketides. It is preferably under the control of a type II polypolyketide synthase promoter e.g. act I of S. coelicolor.
Patent EP-2231456-A2 (EP)
Title: Véhicule aérien hybride
Inventor: MA THOMAS TSOI-HEI
IPC: B60K6/12
Filed: 2009-01-12
Abstract: L'invention porte sur un véhicule aérien hybride alimenté en énergie par un moteur à combustion interne qui peut être équipé ou non d'un suralimenteur ou d'un turbocompresseur pour suralimenter le moteur. Selon l'invention, de la puissance est prélevée du véhicule pour entraîner le moteur durant une décélération ou un vol non propulsé du véhicule. Le moteur absorbe l'énergie cinétique du véhicule et utilise celle-ci pour produire de l'air de suralimentation qui est transféré et stocké dans un réservoir de stockage d'air de suralimentation à bord du véhicule à une pression de stockage ne dépassant pas une pression absolue de 3 bars. Le véhicule permet d'obtenir une économie de carburant et des performances élevées par une substitution de suralimentation lorsque cet air de suralimentation est utilisé pour alimenter le moteur pendant de courtes périodes durant l'accélération ou le vol de croisière du véhicule sans reposer sur un quelconque compresseur à suralimentation en air, remplissant temporairement le rôle d'un compresseur à suralimentation en air sans réellement entraîner un compresseur à suralimentation en air par substitution de la suralimentation normalement fournie par un compresseur à suralimentation en air par une suralimentation équivalente produite et stockée durant un freinage à récupération. Pour adapter un réservoir de stockage d'air de suralimentation de grande capacité, le corps du véhicule comporte des volumes étanches à l'air liés ensemble pour former un grand volume de stockage.
Patent EP-2252926-A2 (EP)
Inventor: DUNCAN RICHARD J
IPC: G06F3/041
Filed: 2009-02-16
Abstract: A method for interpreting ambiguous click events in relation to click targets on a touch-screen display disposed at respective click target locations includes detecting a touch at a touch location and determining whether the touch location corresponds to a click target location. The method also includes searching for nearby click target locations in a predetermined click region and, upon locating a first click target location within the predetermined click region, associating the touch with the first click target location to identify a click event. A computing device for facilitating accurate touch input targeting with respect to a touch-screen display includes a display component, a touch detection component, a targeting component that associates a touch with a click target, and an event detection component that associates the touch with one of a right click event, a left click event, or a drag event.
Patent EP-2268810-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ARA KATSUTOSHI
IPC: C12N15/09
Filed: 2009-03-23
Abstract: A method of modifying a target region in a host DNA using a donor DNA: wherein the donor DNA having regions homologous to a 5'-side region outside of the target region in the host DNA, a 3'-side region outside of the target region in the host DNA and a first homologous recombination region inside of the target region in the host DNA, respectively, in this order, and further having a first selectable marker gene, an expression-inducing promoter and a second selectable marker gene expressed under the control of the expression-inducing promoter between the region homologous to the 3'-side region and the region homologous to the first homologous recombination region; which method has the steps of: a first step of performing homologous recombination between the donor DNA and the host DNA at the regions of the 5'-side region and the first homologous recombination region, to conduct selection of a host integrated with the donor DNA based on expression of the first selectable marker gene; and a second step of performing homologous recombination, within the host DNA integrated with the donor DNA by the first step, between two regions of the 3'-side region derived from the host DNA and the 3'-side region derived from the donor DNA, to conduct selection of a host whose target region is modified based on expression of the second selectable marker gene under an expression-inducing condition for the expression-inducing promoter: and a selectable marker cassette for use in the method.
Patent EP-2265217-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HOLLIDAY KEITH
IPC: A61F2/14
Filed: 2009-04-03
Abstract: Methods of designing corneal implants, such as inlays, to compensate for a corneal response, such as epithelial remodeling of the epithelial layer, to the presence of the implant. Additionally, methods of performing alternative corneal vision correction procedures to compensate for an epithelial response to the procedure. Methods of compensating for a corneal response when performing a vision correction procedure to create a center near region of the cornea for near vision while providing distance vision peripheral to the central near zone.
Patent EP-2269395-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SON YEONG-MOON
IPC: H04W4/90
Filed: 2009-04-24
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for providing an emergency service in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes allocating a Connection IDentifier (CID) used to transmit the emergency service message, determining a Convergence Sublayer (CS) type for processing the emergency service message, generating a Downlink Channel Descriptor (DCD) message which comprises at least one of the allocated CID and information relating to the determined CS type, and transmitting the generated DCD message to a Mobile Station (MS).
Patent EP-2315577-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GAUTHIER YVON
IPC: A61Q19/02
Filed: 2009-07-22
Abstract: L' i n v e n t i o n c o n c e r n e u n e c o m p o s i t i o n de rmo c o s mé t i qu e e s s e n t i e l l eme n t c a r a c t é r i s é e en ce qu ' e l le comprend au mo ins une hydro l ase cho i s ie parmi le s pho sphatase s acides. L' i n v e n t i o n c o n c e r n e a u s s i u n p r o c é d é d e t r a i t eme n t e s t h é t i qu e de l a p e a u v i s a n t n o t amme n t à l ' é c l a i rc i r. Ce pro cédé e s t e s s en t i e l l eme nt cara cté r i s é en ce que l ' on t ra i te l a peau, au mo in s l ocal ement, avec une compo s i t i on se l on l ' invent ion. L' i n ve n t i o n p o r t e é g a l e me n t s u r l ' u t i l i s a t i o n d ' une c omp o s i t i o n s e l o n l' i nve n t i o n p ou r é c l a i r c i r l a peau, notamment pour trai ter le s masque s de gro s se s se, ou le s lent igos.
Patent EP-2268538-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PROUTIERE SEVERINE
IPC: B63G8/28
Filed: 2009-04-07
Abstract: A weapon storage device (10) which is to be attached to an external face (8) of a hull (4) of a submarine (2) and which is capable of containing weapons (14), such as ammunition or weapon carriers, which are to be deployed from the storage device on receipt of a deployment signal transmitted from inside the submarine, includes a compensation element (16, 18, 30, 40) which allows the variation in mass of the storage device (10) resulting from the deployment of at least one weapon to be compensated for, partially or wholly, by replacing a volume of gas initially contained in the storage device by an identical volume of water introduced into the storage device.
Patent EP-2347505-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PFISTERER HANS JUERGEN
IPC: G05B11/26
Filed: 2009-10-23
Abstract: Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft einen Elektromotor mit einer Motorlogik-Niederspannungsversorgung und einer Steuerung, die einen Mikrokontroller und ein elektronisches Schaltelement enthält, wobei mittels des elektronischen Schaltelementes die Motorlogik-Niederspannungsversorgung in Abhängigkeit von einem Sollwertsignal durch den Mikrokontroller aus- und einschaltbar ist.
Patent EP-2334824-A2 (EP)
Title: Procédé d' estimation du risque de sepsie chez un individu ayant une infection
Inventor: RYAN THOMAS
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2009-10-09
Abstract: La présente invention concerne un procédé d’estimation du risque de sepsie chez un individu ayant une infection comprenant une étape consistant à doser un échantillon biologique provenant d’un individu à la recherche d’une valeur de l'ARNm de l’IL-2 ou de l’IL-7, et à corréler la valeur de l'ARNm avec le risque de sepsie. Les valeurs de l’ARNm de l’IL-2 et de l’IL-7 sont quantifiées par une quantification absolue du nombre de copies de l’ARNm, le nombre de copies étant normalisé à un gène domestique et corrigé en fonction d’une courbe d’étalonnage construite à l’aide de dilutions en série des ADNc de l’IL-2 et de l’IL-7. Le procédé comprend généralement une étape consistant à doser un échantillon biologique provenant de l'individu pour déterminer les valeurs de l'ARNm de l'IL-2 et/ou de l'IL-7, éventuellement en association avec des valeurs de l’ARNm pour d’autres cytokines, et à corréler une somme ou une différence des valeurs avec le risque de sepsie en utilisant une courbe d’analyse de régression en fonction du résultat.
Patent EP-2321105-A2 (EP)
Title: Method and manufacturing mold for the production of a rotor blade for a wind turbine
Inventor: FAULKNER BENN
IPC: B29C33/20
Filed: 2009-06-22
Abstract: The invention relates to a manufacturing mold for producing a rotor blade for a wind turbine. The finished rotor blade has an aerodynamic cross-sectional profile at least in one area of its longitudinal extension, between a rotor blade root and a rotor blade tip, said cross-sectional profile having a leading edge (nose) and a trailing edge that are interconnected by means of a suction side and a pressure side of the cross-sectional profile. The invention also relates to a method for producing a rotor blade for a wind turbine. The claimed manufacturing mold is characterized in that the same can be separated into one part of the manufacturing mold for producing a rotor blade part comprising the leading edge of the profile and into one part of the manufacturing mold for producing a rotor blade part comprising the trailing edge of the profile, said manufacturing mold being separated along at least one of the separating surfaces that extend in the longitudinal direction of the rotor blade and between the leading edge and the trailing edge of the profile while also separating the suction side and the pressure side.
Patent EP-2344190-A2 (EP)
Title: Nouveaux facteurs de virulence de la pneumonie à streptocoques
Inventor: HERMANS PETER WILHELMUS MARIA
IPC: A61P31/04
Filed: 2009-10-07
Abstract: La présente invention concerne des protéines/des gènes, qui sont essentiels pour la survie, et par conséquent la virulence, de s treptococcus pneumoniae in vivo,  et sont ainsi des candidats de vaccins parfaits pour une préparation de vaccin contre l'infection pneumococcique. En outre, l'invention porte sur des anticorps contre ladite ou lesdites protéines.
Patent EP-2306959-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FAUSTMAN DENISE L
IPC: A61J1/05
Filed: 2009-07-13
Abstract: L'invention concerne un appareil pour séparer magnétiquement les constituants du sang, comprenant : une première partie ayant un support solide ayant une pluralité d'aimants en anneau reliés à celui-ci de manière ferme, chaque aimant en anneau définissant un périmètre intérieur entourant une ouverture ; et une seconde partie reliée de manière amovible à la première partie, la seconde partie comprenant un substrat solide ayant des surfaces définissant une pluralité de secondes ouvertures, chaque seconde ouverture étant configurée pour maintenir, de manière amovible, un tube.