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Patent CA-2279449-C (CA)
Inventor: MOSHER BRUCE
IPC: A01K93/00
Filed: 1999-07-30
Granted: 2004-11-09
Abstract: An adjustable bobber system for allowing adjustment of the buoyancy and for attaching to a fishing line without the use of a bead. The inventive device includes a hook member connected to a buoyant member. The hook member includes a body with an open end that receives the buoyant member, a jaw extending from the body with a slot within, and a slit extending into the jaw to the slot for receiving the fishing line below a stop knot. The buoyant member is preferably constructed of an elongated buoyant material, such as plastic foam, that is easily severed in any position by a cutting device. The user first ties the stop knot along the fishing line in the desired location. The user then simply engages the hook member upon the fishing line below the stop knot. If the user desires less remaining buoyancy, the user simply removes a portion of the buoyant member with a conventional cutting device, such as a scissors. A marker band is preferably adjustably positioned about the buoyant member for providing a visible mark upon the buoyant member that is a finite distance above the water level when the fishing lure and/or bait are attached. If the fish engages the bait and pulls the buoyant member downwardly, the marker band will become submerged informing the fisherman that a fish is present. Because the hook member remains in contact with the fishing line at all times beneath the water surface, there is not freezing of the fishing line to the hook member. In addition, any ice buildup upon the buoyant member can be easily removed by simply squeezing or bending the buoyant member without breaking or damaging the buoyant member.
Patent CA-2279473-C (CA)
Inventor: BOKOR KEN
IPC: F01N1/12
Filed: 1999-07-30
Granted: 2003-03-18
Abstract: A blower noise silencer comprises both an air turbulence stage and a noise absorption stage. The air turbulence stage includes a tubular screen enclosing a spiral vane wrapping around a central bore running through the air turbulence stage. The screen is surrounded by a hollow chamber. The noise absorption stage includes a hollow tubular screen surrounded by a chamber packed with sound dampening material. Each chamber in the silencer is closed other than through the screen that it surrounds whereas the screens open at one another and to opposite ends of the silencer to provide air flow movement into and out of the silencer.
Patent CA-2279695-C (CA)
Title: Ink jet printing process
Inventor: SMITH THOMAS W
IPC: B41J2/175
Filed: 1999-08-05
Granted: 2004-09-21
Abstract: A process comprising (a) incorporating into an ink jet printing apparatus (1) a developing composition comprising a liquid vehicle and a color developer; (2) an oxidizing composition comprising a liquid vehicle and an oxidizing agent; (3) a coloring composition comprising a liquid vehicle and a dye coupler; and (4) a fixing composition comprising a liquid vehicle and a fixative; (b) causing droplets of the developing composition to be ejected in an imagewise pattern onto the substrate; (c) causing droplets of the oxidizing composition to be ejected in an imagewise pattern onto the substrate; (d) causing droplets of the coloring composition to be ejected in an imagewise pattern onto the substrate; and (e) causing droplets of the fixing composition to be ejected in an imagewise pattern onto the substrate; wherein the process results in at least some portions of the substrate bearing images comprising all four of the developing composition, the oxidizing composition, the coloring composition, and the fixing composition, said portions forming a printed image. Specific embodiments of the present invention are directed to the realization of continuous tone and gray scale in images by (1) control of the time at which color forming reactions are quenched by controlling the time period between deposition of the color forming liquids and deposition of the fixing liquid; (2) control of the extent of color forming reactions by limitation of the quantity of one of the color forming liquids; or (3) control of pixel size by drop placement control over the overlap areas of drops of color forming liquids.
Patent CA-2291141-C (CA)
Inventor: WANG LIXIAO
IPC: A61L31/10
Filed: 1998-06-01
Granted: 2007-05-22
Abstract: A medical device for partial insertion into a patient and navigating passageways, channels, canals, cavities, and other interior parts of said patient, said medical device comprising an elongate body having an in-the-body segment which, in normal use, is inserted in the body of a patient. At least a portion of the in-the-body segment is provided with a lubricious coating. The coating displays a gradient of lubricity along the length of thereof.
Patent CA-2292304-C (CA)
Title: Mounting device for securing a sink to a countertop and method of using same
Inventor: JOHNSON FRANK J
IPC: E03C1/33
Filed: 1999-12-15
Granted: 2004-08-03
Abstract: A sink mounting device includes a weld bracket, a movable clip member and a hanger assembly used to movably couple the clip member to the weld bracket. The weld bracket is secured to a side portion of a sink bowl and the movable clip is used to engage an overhanging portion of the underside of the countertop. The clip includes a base having an axially positioned through-opening, an elongated arm member which extends longitudinally in a direction axially from the base, a projecting finger, which extends laterally from the end of the arm remote from the base, and includes a locating flange which, when the sink mounting device is operated, engages the hanger assembly, weld bracket and/or sink bowl at a limit position to prevent further rotation of the movable arm about the axis.
Patent CA-2294078-C (CA)
Title: C-peptide specific assay procedure
Inventor: PAU BERNARD CHRISTIAN
IPC: C12R1/91
Filed: 1998-06-15
Granted: 2005-11-01
Abstract: The invention concerns a C-peptide specific assay procedure eliminating any interference due to proinsulin and its intermediates, in particular des-31,32 proinsulin and/or des-64,65 proinsulin. The invention also concerns antibodies for implementing said assay.
Patent CA-2295694-C (CA)
Inventor: KRECH JOHN E
IPC: B24D18/00
Filed: 1997-11-12
Granted: 2006-05-02
Abstract: L'invention concerne un procédé permettant de fabriquer des articles en forme de feuilles, par exemple des articles abrasifs, des articles rétroréfléchissants (panneaux de signalisation par exemple), des articles de signalisation horizontale, ou bien des articles adhérents ou antidérapants. Selon le procédé, on fait passer les particules dans un pistolet thermique, qui les chauffe et les projette sur une feuille polymère, de façon à les incorporer au moins partiellement à cette dernière. De préférence, on chauffe la feuille avant de la bombarder par les particules chauffées. L'un des procédés préférés pour ramollir la feuille consiste à utiliser le même pistolet thermique que pour chauffer les particules. Un pistolet thermique préféré est un pistolet à flamme qui comporte une busette, destinée à émettre une flamme, qui a une largeur transversale et une épaisseur longitudinale, la largeur étant sensiblement supérieure à l'épaisseur.
Patent CA-2296946-C (CA)
Title: System and method for transmission and delivery of travel instructions to informational appliances
Inventor: LADD DAVID J
IPC: H04H20/00
Filed: 2000-01-26
Granted: 2003-08-05
Abstract: A system and method to provide requested travel directions to a user's pager or voice mail system includes an Internet based server which accepts the geographic endpoints defining the desired directions and the user's pager or voice mail information The server uses the endpoints as a query to a mapping database to determine the directions. The server then formats and sends the directions to the paging system and pager or voice mailbox identified by the user.
Patent CA-2298074-C (CA)
Title: Method and apparatus for analyzing an ultrasonic image of a carcass
Inventor: STOUFFER JAMES R
IPC: G01B17/00
Filed: 2000-02-03
Granted: 2006-01-10
Abstract: The present disclosure teaches a system for analyzing ultrasonic image that provides an output of a measurement of muscle width from an ultrasonic image input of an outline of a muscle from an animal or carcass. The muscle that is used in the preferred embodiment is the longissimus dorsi muscle when an ultrasonic scan is taken in a transverse direction relative to the backbone. The analysis is done with a computer that receives the electronic input of rows and columns of gray level pixel data from an ultrasonic scan image of the outline of the muscle of the animal or carcass.  The software is set to select a region of the ultrasonic image input to analyze to determine a first edge of the muscle. The selected region is divided into subregions Sj.K. J designates a row and ranges between 1 and n. K designates a column and ranges between 1 and o such that o is greater than I. The subregions are aligned in rows and columns throughout the ultrasonic image input. The software calculates a sum of the gray level pixel data for each of the subregions Sj,k then compares the sums to determine which of the subregions Sj,k has the highest sum within each row j. The software defines a position of the first edge of the muscle by comparing the highest sum within each row j. This position is then used to calculate a relative muscle width when compared to a defined second edge of the muscle. The second edge can be defined as one edge of the selected region of the ultrasonic image input or it can be defined using the same steps used to define the first edge.
Patent CA-2304159-C (CA)
Title: Methods of evaluating transplant rejection
Inventor: STROM TERRY B
IPC: C12N15/09
Filed: 1998-09-22
Granted: 2012-07-10
Abstract: The invention relates to methods of evaluating transplant rejection in a host comprising determining a heightened magnitude of gene expression of two out of three immune activation marker genes perforin, granzyme B and Fas ligand, in a tissue biopsy or peripheral blood mononuclear cell sample, particularly using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; methods of assessing antirejection therapy; and kits for use in evaluating transplant rejection.
Patent CA-2304177-C (CA)
Inventor: WAGGONER MARION GLEN
IPC: C07C51/347
Filed: 1998-09-30
Granted: 2008-12-02
Abstract: L'invention concerne un procédé de recyclage de polyesters comprenant l'hydrolyse de polyesters contenant des motifs répétés dérivés d'acide 2,6-naphtalène-dicarboxylique en présence d'un acide carboxylique, ce qui permet d'obtenir de l'acide 2,6-naphtalène dicaboxylique pouvant être utilisé comme monomère.
Patent CA-2304254-C (CA)
Inventor: THOGERSEN HANS CHRISTIAN
IPC: A61K38/00
Filed: 1998-06-11
Granted: 2012-05-22
Abstract: The present invention relates to the design of trimeric polypeptides using polypeptide structural elements derived from the tetranectin protein family, and their use in rational de novo design and production of multi-functional molecules including the application of the multi-functional molecules in protein library technology, such as phage display technology, diagnostic and therapeutic systems, such as human gene therapy and imaging. The trimeric polypeptides being constructed as a monomer polypeptide construct comprising at least one tetranectin trimerising structural element (TTSE) which is covalently linked to at least one heterologous moiety, said TTSE being capable of forming a stable complex with two other TTSEs; or as an oligomer which is comprised of two monomer polypeptide constructs as mentioned above, and which comproses three TTSEs or a multiplum of three TTSEs, or which is comprised of three monomer polypeptide constructs.
Patent CA-2315729-C (CA)
Inventor: ISMAN MARSHALL A
IPC: G06F11/34
Filed: 1998-12-23
Granted: 2005-02-22
Abstract: L'invention se rapporte à une méthode d'analyse des performances et de la capacité d'une application (200) et d'un système de traitement (202) à architecture parallèle. Sur la base d'une représentation graphique (204) d'une application (200) et d'un système de traitement parallèle (202) et sur la base de valeurs de performances fournies (206), on crée un fichier de données (210) qui décrit le graphe (204) et les valeurs fournies (206). Puis au moyen de ce fichier de données (210), on génère des équations (214) relatives aux performances qui modélisent les performances de l'application (200) et du système de traitement parallèle (202). L'utilisateur peut afficher et modifier ce modèle aux fins d'analyse, d'évaluation et d'extrapolation.
Patent CA-2319423-C (CA)
Inventor: SAKO YOICHIRO
IPC: G11B7/09
Filed: 1999-12-07
Granted: 2012-08-07
Abstract: Des données audio à vingt bits sont séparées en premières données d'ordre élevé à 16 bits et en secondes données d'ordre moins élevé à 4 bits. Des données modulées par procédé EFM sont crées à partir des premières données. Un faisceau laser est mis en marche/arrêt en fonction du niveau logique des données de voies créées en modulant par procédé NRZI une suite de données en série. Par conséquent, les premières données sont enregistrées de la même façon que dans un disque compact. Selon les secondes données, chaque cuvette est contrôlée pour suivre un déplacement horizontal par rapport au centre de la piste, ce qui permet de former une cuvette de déplacement. Lorsque les données sont enregistrées en fonction du déplacement de la cuvette, le composant haute fréquence d'un signal d'erreur de piste est modifié pendant la reproduction. Ainsi, on peut extraire les secondes données du signal d'erreur de piste.
Patent CA-2320246-C (CA)
Title: Substance dispensing headgear
Inventor: FLANN RANDALL D
IPC: B67D3/00
Filed: 1999-02-09
Granted: 2007-01-09
Abstract: A headgear {12) for dispensing a substance has a container (28) to carry the substance. A spigot (14) is secured to the container (28). The spigot (14) can be opened to dispense the substance by gravity, suction, pressure or levity flow from the container (28). The spigot (14) can be closed to retain the substance in the chamber (20). A hat like recess (26) is formed within the bottom wall (24) of the container (28) sized for wearing on an individual's head, and for maintaining the container (28) in a freestanding condition during hands-free ambulation of the individual.
Patent CA-2322490-C (CA)
Title: Dispositif semi-conducteur electroluminescent au nitrure
Inventor: TANIZAWA KOJI
IPC: H01L33/04
Filed: 1999-03-10
Granted: 2010-10-26
Abstract: L'invention concerne un dispositif semi-conducteur électroluminescent au nitrure, comprenant une couche active d'une structure multiple à puits quantique, située entre une région dopée n comprenant une pluralité de couches semi-conductrices au nitrure et une région dopée p comprenant une pluralité de couches semi-conductrices au nitrure. Ce dispositif possède une sortie d'émission lumineuse améliorée, les caractéristiques de la couche pouvant présenter un puits et pouvant être appliquées à une grande plage de produits d'application variés. Un film multicouche comprenant deux couches de nitrure est formé dans au moins l'une des régions dopée n ou p.
Patent CA-2325360-C (CA)
Inventor: SAROSI ILDIKO
IPC: A61K48/00
Filed: 1999-04-21
Granted: 2008-11-04
Abstract: Methods and compositions for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease are described. Administration of osteoprotegerin (OPG) in a pharmaceutical composition prevents and treats atherosclerosis and associated cardiovascular diseases.
Patent CA-2327712-C (CA)
Title: Procedure for connecting a mobile radio network to a target destination call number in a private communication network
Inventor: DRESSEL JAN
IPC: H04W76/12
Filed: 1999-04-01
Granted: 2008-08-26
Abstract: Disclosed is a method for setting up a connection between a mobile radio network and a destination call number in a private communication network via a mobile radio network gateway. According to the inventive method, a call request is transferred from a mobile terminal to the mobile radio network gateway. The mobile radio network gateway begins by setting up a connection to the desired destination call number of the private network and, once this has been successfully achieved, subsequently sets up a connection to the mobile terminal.
Patent CA-2330361-C (CA)
Title: Ceiling lighting assembly
Inventor: BERNHART HORST
IPC: F21V21/26
Filed: 2001-01-05
Granted: 2010-08-10
Abstract: A recessed lighting fixture with a side mounted auxiliary device, the fixture being installable through an aperture of a ceiling mounting frame from below the ceiling and including a reflector housing with a lamp socket cup assembly connected thereto, a swing arm assembly with an auxiliary device, such as a second socket for a lamp, is attached to a side of the reflector housing.
Patent CA-2333684-C (CA)
Title: Solid state transformer
Inventor: SUDHOFF SCOTT D
IPC: H02M5/22
Filed: 1999-06-02
Granted: 2007-09-25
Abstract: A solid state distribution transformer (T) provides transformation between voltage levels through the use of power electronic converters rather than through the use of magnetics, al-though a high frequency isolation transformer (22) is also used. Advantages of this device over a traditional distribution transformer include no mineral oil, less weight, smaller, mitigation of all power quality issues at the load (can compen-sate for non-sinusoidal loads, DC offset loads, input power factor at input of transformer re-gardless of unity power factor at output of trans-former.   The solid state distribution transformer (T) also features a DC bus capable of supporting motor drives and may also be readily interfaced to energy storage devices (such as batteries) for operation as an uninterruptable power supply. In addition, the input frequency (12) is decoupled from the output frequency (30), and changing the number of output phases could be readily achieved. Further, phase shifting of the out-put voltage relative to the input voltage may be achived with the solid state distribution trans-former (T).
Patent CA-2333865-C (CA)
Title: Improved counter weight door
Inventor: BRAUN DENNIS
IPC: E05D15/16
Filed: 2001-02-05
Granted: 2006-12-12
Abstract: A counter weight door has a plurality of counter weights each associated with a respective one of the panels and an interconnecting spring connecting each of the weights to the next. At least one of the counter weights has a cradle which is arranged to receive a plurality of weighted members. The spring arrangement connecting one counter to the next is housed within the cradle and includes a shaft on which the spring is mounted. The door has a pulley system which has a first pulley on one side of the door, a second double pulley on the other side of the door, a first cable fixed at a first end to the door extending through the first pulley and a second cable fixed at a first end to the door extending through the second pulley to the counter weight system.
Patent CA-2335681-C (CA)
Inventor: LEFEVRE DU GROSRIEZ CAROL
IPC: B65H29/00
Filed: 2001-02-12
Granted: 2008-10-21
Abstract: The invention proposes a stack (50) of supple and absorbent sheets, for example made of cellulose wadding, which comprise a longitudinal fold line (22) forming a longitudinal border (28) and at least one transverse fold line (30) perpendicular to the longitudinal fold line (22), characterized in that the longitudinal (22) and transverse (30) fold lines of an upper folded sheet (36) in the stack are not adjacent to the respective longitudinal (22) and transverse (30) fold lines of the previous lower folded sheet (36). The invention also proposes a method for stacking sheets.
Patent CA-2340808-C (CA)
Inventor: GERBER PETER
IPC: G08C19/16
Filed: 2001-03-14
Granted: 2013-05-21
Abstract: The simulation system is used in the course of firing exercises, in particular with a laser beam, for simulating conditions which would arise if actual ammunition were used. For identifying a response device (2), a transmitting device (1) transmits a coded radiation, which is detected in the responder device and is converted into electrical signals, which are supplied to a central unit (25) on the receiving end for transmitting identification messages back to the transmitting device in accordance with decisions made by this central unit (25). The transmitting device generates laser radiation or electromagnetic pulses or pulse bursts containing information which is coded in such a way that the response pulses being sent back by the responder device to the transmitting device additionally enable a central unit (15) on the transmitting end to calculate the distance between the transmitting device and the responder device.
Patent CA-2344434-C (CA)
Inventor: HARTSHORN RICHARD TIMOTHY
IPC: C11D3/12
Filed: 1998-09-25
Granted: 2005-10-18
Abstract: The invention relates to solid detergent compositions comprising an aluminosilicate builder and an anionic surfactant and comprising (n) components (i), n being at least 2, whereby the level of aluminosilicate builder in said components together is at least 5 % by weight of the composition and the level of the anionic surfactant in said component s together is at least 5 % by weight of the composition, and whereby the degree of mixture (M) of the anionic surfactant and the aluminosilicate builder is from 0 to 0.7, as defined in the description.</SD OAB>
Patent CA-2346384-C (CA)
Title: Method for prevention and/or cosmetic treatment of skin striae and use in dermatology
Inventor: MSIKA PHILIPPE
IPC: A61K8/64
Filed: 1999-10-05
Granted: 2011-07-12
Abstract: The invention concerns a method for prevention and/or cosmetic treatment of skin striae, characterised in that it consists in applying on the zones likely to form or already affected by striae a composition comprising, in an appropriate excipient, at least an anti-striae agent selected among the group consisting of soya bean peptides, tripeptides formed with Glycine, Histidine and Lysine amino acids, and the mixtures thereof. The invention concerns the use of said composition in dermatology. It enables to prevent and/or treat skin striae efficiently and is acceptable as far as skin tolerance is concerned.
Patent CA-2348954-C (CA)
Title: A pharmaceutical composition for treating immune diseases
Inventor: TEZUKA KATSUNARI
IPC: A61K/
Filed: 2000-08-30
Granted: 2011-03-01
Abstract: An antibody against AILIM (alternatively called JTT-1 antigen, JTT-2 antigen, ICOS and 8F4) was found to have a significant therapeutic effect on arthrosis, for example, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, graft versus host disease, graft immune rejection, inflammation (hepatitis and inflammatory bowel diseases), diseased condition accompanied by the excessive production of an antibody against a foreign antigen triggered by immunological sensitization by the antigen.
Patent CA-2348965-C (CA)
Inventor: WOODS TERRANCE J
IPC: F16K5/08
Filed: 2001-05-28
Granted: 2007-03-13
Abstract: The present invention provides in combination with a ball-valve, an improvement comprising a threadless metallic fitting that incorporates both a male portion and a female portion formed as an integral unitary structure extending from at least one end wall of a housing portion of the ball-valve. The threadless metallic fitting includes a sleeve portion having a female interior surface adapted for receiving one of a tube and a pipe section therein and a male exterior surface having at least two distinct cylindrical sections. There is also a driver member having at least two distinct cylindrical sections for engaging the male exterior surface of the sleeve portion for deforming the sleeve portion and concurrently deforming such one of such tube and pipe section engaged within the sleeve portion when the driver member is forced longitudinally along the male exterior surface of the sleeve portion so as to effect an air tight seal between the pipe section and the female interior surface of the fitting.