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Patent EP-1033941-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HARDCASTLE PHILIP HOBSON
IPC: A61F2/00
Filed: 1998-11-27
Granted: 2004-08-04
Abstract: A surgical implant (2) for fusing adjacent vertebrae (V) together comprises a body portion (4) with spaced arms (10). The body portion (4) has passages (16a and 16b) to receive surgical fixing screws (100) engaged in holes drilled in the vertebrae (V) for securing the body portion (4) to the anterior faces of the vertebrae (V) to be fused. The arms (10) extend into a prepared space between the vertebrae to be fused. Graft material is packed between the arms (10). Each surgical fixing screw (100) has an externally screw-threaded shank (101) divided into wings which can be outwardly deformed to anchor the shank (101) in the hole. Each surgical fixing screw (100) also had a head (102) which can be transformed between a laterally expanded condition and a laterally contracted condition to permit the head to be interlocked with the implant (2).
Patent EP-0947767-B1 (EP)
Inventor: NALINI LUIGI
IPC: F22B1/28
Filed: 1999-03-22
Granted: 2005-05-18
Abstract: A device for detecting the thickness of scale on resistive elements of electric resistor-based steam generators, comprising a temperature probe (19) which is arranged inside a sheath (15) that contains the resistive element (14) that is used to generate the steam. The probe is connected to means which at least indicate to the user the temperature in comparison with a preset threshold. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0950540-B1 (EP)
Inventor: GOFFI ITALO
IPC: B44C1/17
Filed: 1999-04-12
Granted: 2002-03-27
Abstract: A process for decorating artefacts comprises:   resting an artefact to be decorated on a work bench and preparing said artefact on said work bench, by tight-closing said artefact in a transfer support; creating a vacuum between said transfer support and said artefact, so that said transfer support adheres and exercises a pressure on said artefact; heating said artefact through heating means located above said work bench and associated to ventilation and air circulation, said heating means being positioned in a hood.
Patent EP-0953691-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LUENSTEDT FRANK
IPC: E03B3/02
Filed: 1999-04-27
Granted: 2005-10-12
Abstract: The pipe has slot-shaped, water through passage apertures which are distributed over the pipe periphery. The periphery is divided from the pipe sole (11) to the pipe vertex (13), into segments with water through passage apertures of different widths. The pipe segment in the area of the pipe sole has the smallest width, that in the area of the pipe abutment (12) the largest width and that in the area of the pipe vertex has the medium width of the water through passage apertures. The pipe segment in the area of the pipe sole has at least two slot rows (2) of a width of 1.2 mm, provided symmetrically to the pipe axis in the pipe wall. In the area of the pipe centre, the segment has at least two slot rows (3) with a width of 1.6 mm and that in the area of the pipe vertex has at least four slot rows (4) with a width of 1.4 mm. All slot rows are symmetrical to the pipe axis in the pipe wall.
Patent EP-0992382-B1 (EP)
Inventor: SCHNEIDER BORIS SEBASTIAN HEIN
IPC: B62D25/04
Filed: 1999-09-18
Granted: 2005-11-23
Abstract: The offset opening in a vehicle roof (10) is subdivided by a horizontal shackle (5,6) whereby the shackle is pivotally attached to one boom (2) via a hinge (7) and to another boom (3) via a lock system (9). The shackle consists of two separate stirrups (5,6), which close against the first boom via an inclined hinge attachment which projects into the opening of the vehicle roof. The closure system is a safety catch or a rotating spring lock
Patent EP-1010804-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HEISKANEN PASI
IPC: D21F1/66
Filed: 1999-11-19
Granted: 2004-03-03
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for treating broke. Especially the invention relates to treating the so-called dry broke from the paper and/or paperboard machine so that the pulp may be metered back to said machine. The method and apparatus for treating the so-called dry broke according to the invention, by which method and apparatus the so-called dry broke material obtained from a paper, paperboard or the like production machine is defiberized with a defiberizer (10) and thickened with a thickening device for storing at high consistency, are characterized in that directly after said defiberizing the broke is thickened into high consistency and taken into a storing container at a consistency of 12 - 45 %. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0984013-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LIOTTA DENNIS C
IPC: C07D/
Filed: 1992-02-20
Granted: 2004-06-30
Abstract: Enantiomerically enriched cis-4-amino-5-fluoro-1-(2-hydroxymethyl-1,3-oxathiolane-5-yl)-(1H)-pyrimidin-2-one, derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions thereof.
Patent EP-0941841-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LEWIS THOMAS E
IPC: B41C1/10
Filed: 1999-03-11
Granted: 2004-02-11
Abstract: The performance-limiting effects of thermal breakdown on ablation-type lithographic printing plates are overcome by rendering the ink-accepting surface largely impervious to the effects of debris originating with the surface layer of the printing member, or by discouraging the formation of harmful debris altogether. In one approach, the ink-accepting surface is a highly crosslinked polymer. The resulting cured matrix exhibits a sufficient degree of three-dimensional bonding to resist melting, softening, or chemical degradation as a result of the imaging process. Alternatively, an intervening layer, disposed between the imaging layer and the surface layer, prevents the surface layer from undergoing significant thermal degradation in response to imaging radiation or ablation of the underlying imaging layer, and is also formulated to produce little debris or debris having an affinity for ink and/or fountain solution similar to the affinity of the substrate --e.g., which does not reduce the oleophilicity of the underlying ink-accepting surface. Following imaging, the remnants of the insulating layer are removed along with the surface layer where the plate received imaging radiation. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-1056473-B1 (EP)
Inventor: SCHNEIDER MICHEL
IPC: A61K41/00
Filed: 1999-02-02
Granted: 2005-05-25
Abstract: The invention concerns a method for administering bioactive substances to patients at selected sites in the body and remotely promoting delivery of said media to selected organs or tissues in the body. The method comprises providing an administrable formulation comprising, dispersed in an aqueous carrier liquid, liposomes filled with bioactive substances and gas-filled microspheres, injecting said formulation into the circulation of a patient so that it is directed to a site of interest, and applying ultrasound pulses to said site so as to make the gas-filled microbodies explode and the gas confined therein to expand in the carrier liquid, the energy of expansion of said confined gas causing the liposome vesicles to open and release the trapped substances at said site. Also disclosed are formulations for delivery of biologically active substances to selected target sites in the organism, the formulations comprising an aqueous suspension of gas-filled microvesicles and liposomes filled with active susbstances such as drugs or diagnostic agents. The formulations are available in a kit form in which the kit comprises sterile precursor components.
Patent EP-1105078-B1 (EP)
Inventor: JOHNSON LARRY KENNETH
IPC: A41B9/02
Filed: 1999-03-04
Granted: 2003-08-06
Abstract: A method of making a flangeless seam for a disposable article including the following steps: a first member (200) of the disposable article is provided. A conductive member (205) is provided on the first member (200). The first member (200) is folded about the conductive member (205) providing opposing first proximal and first distal portions of the first member (200), the conductive member (205) being disposed at least partially between the opposing first proximal and first distal portions. A second member (202) of the disposable article is provided in a folded configuration juxtaposed at least a portion of the first member to form a laminate including the first member (200) and the second member (202). An electromagnetic field is applied across at least a portion of the laminate to heat the conductive member (205) to a temperature which joins at least a portion of the first member (200) and at least a portion of the second member (202). The resulting seam can be opened to provide the article with a flangeless seam.
Patent EP-0986822-B1 (EP)
Inventor: SCHOLZ RUDOLF
IPC: H01H50/04
Filed: 1999-03-24
Granted: 2005-08-24
Abstract: An electromagnetic switching device with a multipart housing. The magnet core of the switching device, including the coil, is accommodated in one of the housing parts. Identical connecting modules are provided for each outer terminal of the device. These connecting modules can be slipped on on the top side of the housing part in which the magnet core is accommodated, in the area of the four corners of said housing part. A blank module is configured externally in the same way and can be slipped on on the corner of the housing part which is not occupied by a connecting module.
Patent EP-1075186-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BOURNE NIGEL
IPC: A61K31/555
Filed: 1999-05-06
Granted: 2010-11-24
Abstract: Herpes virus infection can be prevented by the topical application of metallo-organic cobalt compounds according to formula (I) to the site of infection, wherein each A may be the same or different and is an alkyl group, a phenyl group or a substituted derivative of a phenyl group; wherein each Y may be the same or different and is hydrogen, an unbranched alkyl group, a halide or a group having the structure of formula (a) wherein R is hydrogen, an alkoxide group, and alkyl group, or OH; wherein each B may be the same or different and each is hydrogen or an alkyl group; wherein each X may be the same or different and each is a water soluble group having weak to intermediate ligand filed strength; and Z<-> is a soluble, pharmaceutically acceptable negative ion. Metallo-organic cobalt compounds may also be used to disinfect liquids which contain herpes virus.
Patent EP-1077608-B1 (EP)
Inventor: MEGEED MOHAMED EID A
IPC: A23L7/10
Filed: 1999-05-10
Granted: 2007-10-17
Abstract: The extent of fermentation of a food product by a microorganism can be controlled by using a selected quantity of a nutrient for which the microorganism is auxotrophic. For example, an improved sourdough bread product was produced using a bread dough made with a starter that included a Lactobacillus fermentum strain that is auxotrophic for methionine and a quantity of whey, a source of methionine, that was selected to stop fermentation when the bread dough reached a desired acidity level.
Patent EP-1095187-B1 (EP)
Inventor: DESSAUER GUIDO PROF DR
IPC: D21H23/30
Filed: 1999-07-01
Granted: 2003-09-17
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for improving the coating surface of a coating mass deposited on or applied to a paper web (8, 23) by a film press. An anionic aqueous coating mass or an anionic paper web are provided with an opposite electric charge by an electric charger, whereby the applied coating is attracted to the oppositely charged paper (8, 23) in a nip exit area of the film press. The electric charger is, for example, a corona generator (13, 17) or a direct current voltage source (9) that is connected to the paper (8, 23) and coating slip by electrodes (5, 5a, 7, 7a).
Patent EP-1100418-B1 (EP)
Inventor: SCHULZ STEFAN
IPC: B25J9/14
Filed: 1999-07-14
Granted: 2004-03-31
Abstract: In a worm-like operating mechanism including hydraulic or pneumatic actuators arranged around a central axis, the actuators include serially arranged bags disposed in communication with one another and folded meander-like and having fluid passages for supplying fluid under pressure to, or evacuating, the actuators individually, so that the operating mechanism can be lengthened or shortened or bent in any direction.
Patent EP-1124838-B1 (EP)
Inventor: MCGALL GLENN H
IPC: C07H19/04
Filed: 1999-07-20
Granted: 2005-06-01
Abstract: Nucleic acid labeling compounds containing heterocyclic derivatives are disclosed. The heterocyclic derivative containing compounds are synthesized by condensing a heterocyclic derivative with a cyclic group (e.g. a ribofurano
Patent EP-1109577-B1 (EP)
Inventor: PATTI JOSEPH M
IPC: A61K39/00
Filed: 1999-08-31
Granted: 2009-02-11
Abstract: Multicomponent vaccines are provided which aid in the prevention and treatment of staphylococcal infections and which include certain selected combinations of bacterial binding proteins or fragments thereof, or antibodies to those proteins or fragments. By careful selection of the proteins, fragments, or antibodies, a vaccine is provided that imparts protection against a broad spectrum of Staphylococcus bacterial strains and against proteins that are expressed at different stages of the logarithmic growth curve. In one embodiment of the invention, a composition is provided that includes at least a collogen binding protein or peptide (or an appropriate site directed mutated sequence thereof) such as CNA, or a protein or fragment with sufficiently high homology thereto, in combination with a fibrogen binding protein, preferably Clumping factor A ("ClfA") or Clumping factor B ("ClfB"), or a useful fragment thereof or a protein or fragment with sufficiently high homology thereto. The vaccines and products of the present invention are advantageous in that they respond to the urgent need of the medical community for a sustitute for small molecule antibiotics, which are rapidly losing effectiveness and provide effective combinations of the large number of known bacterial surface adhesins which can impart effective protection against a broad spectrum of bacterial infections.
Patent EP-1119250-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BEHAN JOHN MARTIN
IPC: A61K8/86
Filed: 1999-09-17
Granted: 2002-11-06
Abstract: The use of specific perfume ingredients, e.g. tricyclodecenyl allyl ether, to repel insects. The perfume ingredients may be used in a composition comprising from 0.1 to 40 percent by weight of one or more of the perfume ingredients. Preferably at least one of the perfume ingredients has a hydrophobicity such that the common logarithm of the octanol-water partition coefficient, log P, of the perfume ingredient is in the range 1.0 to 6.0.
Patent EP-1125336-B1 (EP)
Inventor: DAVIS STUART M
IPC: H01M4/06
Filed: 1999-10-20
Granted: 2004-01-02
Abstract: L'invention se rapporte à une cathode (12) comportant du dioxyde de manganèse et un oxy-sel de titane, de préférence un oxysulfate de titane. Les batteries (10) dotées d'une telle cathode (12) présentent de bonnes caractéristiques de rendement. Ces batteries (10) sont, par exemple, bien adaptées aux applications impliquant un épuisement par intermittence, telles que l'utilisation dans des jouets. L'invention se rapporte également à une cellule électrochimique comportant une cathode (12), une anode (14) et un séparateur (16) disposé entre la cathode et l'anode. La cathode contient du dioxyde de manganèse et un oxy-sel de titane.
Patent EP-1095206-B1 (EP)
Inventor: GUTSCHMIDT HOLGER
IPC: E21D11/38
Filed: 1999-06-24
Granted: 2003-08-27
Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing device consisting of two contiguous building elements made of concrete, steel, reinforced concrete, cast iron or other materials, and a shaped sealing element made of an elastomer material which is inserted into a recess and bridges the gap between the building elements in a sealing manner. The building elements are in particular segments which are assembled into a tube-like tunnel such that transverse and longitudinal joints are formed. Each segment has a recess which runs around all bearing surfaces and has two outer side faces and a base side. A rod-shaped sealing element is positioned in the recess. According to the invention the recess within the central area of its base side has a support for the shaped sealing element such that two parallel recesses are formed. Each recess has an outer side face, an inner side face and a base side and a shaped body is housed in each recess. These two shaped bodies are joined to each other by means of a shaped body situated above the support.
Patent EP-1151364-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BEST RONALD
IPC: G05D16/06
Filed: 1999-12-15
Granted: 2004-03-03
Abstract: La présente invention concerne un dispositif permettant de réguler la pression et/ou l'écoulement d'un flux de gaz, ce dispositif comprenant une chambre (4, 104) de régulation de la pression, dont au moins une partie des parois comprend un diaphragme (10, 110) qui est lui-même soumis, du côté éloigné de la chambre (4, 104) de régulation de la pression, à une force de précontrainte réglable. La chambre (4, 104) de régulation la pression est dotée d'une ouverture d'entrée (3, 28, 128) destinée à un gaz et d'une ouverture de sortie (5, 29, 129) destinée à un gaz, au moins une desdites ouvertures (3/5, 28/29, 128/129) pouvant être fermée totalement ou partiellement à l'aide d'un élément (15, 115) de fermeture déplaçable qui est connecté au diaphragme (10, 110) de telle sorte que la position de l'élément de fermeture dépende du déplacement du diaphragme.
Patent EP-1141291-B1 (EP)
Inventor: SIPPEL ALBRECHT E
IPC: C07K14/47
Filed: 1999-12-29
Granted: 2009-03-25
Abstract: The invention relates to fusion proteins comprising at least three domains, where a first domain facilitates membrane localization of the fusion protein in a cellular context, and a second domain has or presumably has a ligand-binding function of a nuclear receptor, a third domain has an activity able to activate a signal pathway connected to a Ras protein in a cell, characterized in that when there is a lack of binding or, alternatively, when there is binding of ligand to the second domain the third domain cannot exert its activity to activate a signal pathway connected to a Ras protein in a cell, despite membrane localization. It additionally comprises inter alia cells which comprise such fusion proteins, assay methods using such cells, which are used inter alia for detecting specific interactions between ligand-binding sections of nuclear receptors and ligands, and kits for use in these assays.
Patent EP-1109615-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BROWN GREGORY N
IPC: B01D53/50
Filed: 1999-08-27
Granted: 2006-12-06
Abstract: A process is provided for removing sulfur dioxide out of gases by feeding the gases into a scrubber, where they are counter-currently contacted with a descending solution containing ammonium hydroxide and ammonium sulfate so that the sulfur dioxide is sorbed into the solution containing ammonium hydroxide and ammonium sulfate and a scrubbed gas is discharged from the scrubber. The sulfur dioxide-loaded solution is collected in a sump at the bottom of the scrubber, where a mixture of ammonia and air is injected into the sulfur dioxide loaded solution so that the ammonia reacts with the sulfur dioxide to produce ammonium sulfite which is (in turn) oxidized by the air into ammonium sulfate. The mixture of air and ammonia is injected into the solution in a direction that is towards the bottom of the sump so that portions of solution containing a higher pH and higher ammonium sulfite levels than the remainder of the solution is avoided, thereby minimizing ammonia slip out of the scrubber.
Patent IE-86637-B1 (IE)
Title: A passive water leak detector
Inventor: THOMAS MCHALE
IPC: G01M3/00
Filed: 2013-05-03
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a water detector comprising a self-contained power source, a moisture sensor pad, an alarm, and a casing housing the power source, the moisture sensor pad and the alarm; the water detector activating the alarm using the self-contained power source when the moisture sensor pad detects a predetermined level of moisture in a surrounding environment of the water detector; wherein, the casing comprises a substantially elongate body having an upper, free end, and, a ceiling-abutting plate connected to a lower end of the elongate body. The advantage of providing the water detector having a substantially elongate body is that the water detector can be quickly and easily installed in a ceiling by inserting the free end of the water detector through a hole in the ceiling so that a majority of the elongate body is situated above the ceiling, hidden from view, with substantially only the ceiling abutting plate on view. <Figure 1>
Patent IT-1264587-B1 (IT)
Title: Sistema idropneumatico molla-ammortizzatore per veicoli
Inventor: SCHOTE NORBERT
IPC: B60G17/015
Filed: 1993-06-11
Granted: 1996-10-04
Abstract: L'invenzione si riferisce ad un sistema idropneumatico, molla-ammortizzatore per veicoli. Viene proposto di sostenere, per mezzo di una molla supplementare, un pistone di un accumulatore a pistone, previsto nel sistema molla-ammortizzatore, a partire da un determinato punto del suo movimento, nel senso del molleggio di espansione. A partire da questo punto, la caratteristica forza-corsa del sistema molla-ammortizzatore presenta una deviazione degressiva. Il punto di flessione della caratteristica viene definito dalla lunghezza, o più precisamente dalla posizione dell'estremità libera della molla. La pendenza della caratteristica forza-corsa nella parte flessa può essere variata in maniera semplice scegliendo in modo mirato la caratteristica della molla supplementare e può essere adattata in modo mirato.
Patent IT-1301946-B1 (IT)
Inventor: PREVIERO FLAVIO
IPC: B01D29/09
Filed: 1998-07-28
Granted: 2000-07-20
Abstract: A filter device for separating particulate material (19) from a stream of flowable plastics; the device comprises a body member (10) having at least a filter chamber (18) and a flow path (17, 18, 20, 23) extending between inlet (12) and outlet (13) sides. A filter band (11) transversally extends in said filter chamber (18), across the flow path, being supported by a back-plate (31) having a perforated area. An axially movable valving member (21) comprising a flow passage (20, 22) for the plastic material, is provided into the chamber (18), and an actuator (24) to axially move the valving member (21) between an advanced and a retracted position in which the valving member (21) connects respectively disconnects the flow passage (17, 18, 20, 23) from the inlet (12) or the outlet (13) sides of the device, and for sealingly clamping the filter band (11) peripherally around the perforated area of the back-plate (30). <IMAGE>
Patent IT-1321192-B1 (IT)
Inventor: DELL AMICO GIANCARLO
IPC: B66C1/12
Filed: 1999-03-29
Granted: 2003-12-30
Abstract: Protected cable device comprising a stranded load-bearing cable provided with eyelets at its ends and covered by a thick and longitudinally flexible reinforcement sheathing of metallic material with a substantially continuous external surface, such as a cylindrical spiral spring element concentric with said cable portion. In one embodiment, suitable for demanding applications, it is also envisaged providing a continuous layer of plastic or elastomeric material formed on the cable, adhering thereto and including said metal reinforcement. <IMAGE>