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Patent EP-0448651-A4 (EP)
Title: Feedthrough connector for implantable medical device
IPC: H01R13/41
Filed: 1990-02-23
Abstract: A feedthrough connector for an implantable medical device, combines the connector function with the feedthrough function and eliminates the need for the cast epoxy connector previously used on such devices. The feedthrough connector includes a barrel assembly (74) having an open and closed ends. The open end of the assembly has an opening for receiving a slidably inserted electrical lead (62). The barrel assembly includes cylindrical metal conductive portions (80) separated by cylindrical ceramic insulating portions (82). Spring contacts (90, 96) are mounted on the inside of the metal portions and are adapted to make electrical contact with the appropriate contacts of an electrical lead (62) when the lead is inserted into the connector. The outer side of the metal portions are electrically connected to the appropriate electrical circuit within the housing, and the open end of the barrel assembly is bonded (welded) to the device housing so that the inside of the device can be hermetically sealed. Releasable lead gripping means (70) are included as part of the barrel assembly to detachably lock and seal the electrical lead in its inserted position inside of the connector.
Patent EP-0431179-A4 (EP)
Title: Nonslip pin unit and nonslip tire provided with said unit
IPC: B60C11/16
Filed: 1990-06-06
Abstract: A nonslip pin unit (10) to be buried into the tire tread (11), which is provided with a nonslip pin (32) having an expanded part (20) and a diametrally enlarged neck part (22), the pin being inserted into the cylinder (12) retractably in the axial direction and tiltably with respect to the axial direction to be energized by a spring (30). For easy tilting of the pin (32), the side wall (20C) of the expanded part (20) is inwardly inclined. When the tire slips on the icy or snowy road, the nonslip pin (32) tilts with the expanded part (20) thereof functioning as a fulcrum in the cylinder (12) and the neck part (22) engages with the open edge (12a) of the cylinder so as to keep the pin protruding. When the tire travels on the dry road, the pin (32) is thrusted into the cylinder (12) so as to prevent damage to the road surface.
Patent EP-0478700-A4 (EP)
Title: A method of manufacturing a circuit breaker
IPC: H01H69/00
Filed: 1990-06-27
Abstract: This invention relates to a method of manufacturing a circuit breaker. Known methods suffer from the drawbacks of difficult preassembly of the breaker mechanism because it is held together by the housing and also because it is difficult to automate the process because parts need to be assembled along three orthogonally related axes. The above problems are solved by peassembling the movable parts of the circuit breaker (10) between a pair of frame members (42, 89) supporting the unitary breaker assembly (40) without attachments. Other circuit breaker components, attached to the unitary breaker assembly, are also supported in the housing (11) without attachments. A cover (11b) is secured to the housing to complete the circuit breaker. Another version of the invention preassembles the movable parts of the circuit breaker (10') and the stationary contact mechanism (28) and trip coil (31) with the line and load terminals (12, 14) attached, between a pair of supporting frame members (105) to form an operable circuit breaker module (40). The module (40) is in turn supported in a housing (11) without attachments. The circuit breaker module (40) may be tested and adjusted prior to final assembly.
Patent EP-0550439-A4 (EP)
Title: Powder metallurgy repair technique.
Inventor: LIBURDI JOSEPH
IPC: C22C19/05
Filed: 1990-08-28
Abstract: To repair or join sections of a metal article, matching metal powder is sintered in the solid state to form a porous structure in the joint. A layer of matching powder, modified to incorporate melting point depressants such as boron and silicon is subsequently added to the surface of the sintered region. The joint is processed at a temperature where the modified layer melts while the sintered layer and base metal remain solid. The modified material flows into the sintered layer by capillary action and promotes liquid phase sintering, resulting in a dense joint with properties approaching those of the base metal.
Patent EP-0535146-A4 (EP)
Inventor: GILLICK LAURENCE S
IPC: G10L15/32
Filed: 1991-06-17
Abstract: The system of the invention relates to continuous speech pre-filtering systems for use in discrete and continuous speech recognition computer systems. The speech to be recognized is converted from utterances to frame data sets, which frame data sets are smoothed to generate a smooth frame model over a predetermined number of frames. A resident vocabulary is stored within the computer as clusters of word models which are acoustically similar over a succession of frame periods. A cluster score is generated by the system, which score includes the likelihood of the smooth frames evaluated using a probability model for the cluster against which the smooth frame model is being compared. Cluster sets having cluster scores below a predetermined acoustic threshold are removed from further consideration. The remaining cluster sets are unpacked for determination of a word score for each unpacked word. These word scores are used to identify those words which are above a second predetermined threshold to define a word list which is sent to a recognizer for a more lengthy word match. Control means enable the system to initialize times corresponding to the frame start time for each frame data set, defining a sliding window.
Patent EP-0598720-A4 (EP)
Title: Nonintrusive flow sensing system.
Inventor: BARKHOUDARIAN SARKIS
IPC: G01F1/66
Filed: 1991-08-14
Abstract: A nonintrusive flow sensing system (10) and related method are provided for monitoring fluid flow within a conduit (14), particularly such as a liquid flow (12). The sensing system (10) includes an array of ultrasonic transducers (18, 20, 24, 26) mounted on the conduit (14) and adapted to send and receive pulsed ultrasonic signals bidirectionally across the conduit with an upstream-downstream component of direction, and through the conduit in longitudinal and circumferential directions. Signal transit times are processed to obtain accurate measurements of liquid flow velocity, temperature and pressure.
Patent EP-0559754-A4 (EP)
Title: Reflective display and method of manufacture
Inventor: LONGOBARDI LAUWRENCE J
IPC: B42D15/00
Filed: 1991-11-07
Abstract: A display has a transparent plastic substrate and a colored image formed on the substrate. The colored image is formed on the substrate by process printing a large number of small dots, colored red, yellow, and blue, in a predetermined pattern onto the substrate. The red, yellow, and blue ink dots are translucent to visible light. A reflective layer is deposited against the ink layer to reflect light which passes through the ink layer and thereby give the image formed by the ink layer a shiny, metallic appearance. A stratum of opaque white ink is deposited between the reflective layer and preselected portions of the image to block the passage of visible light from the preselected portions to the reflective layer.
Patent EP-0622841-A4 (EP)
Title: Method and apparatus for transportation of highly clean material.
Inventor: OHMI TADAHIRO
IPC: H01L21/677
Filed: 1992-12-02
Abstract: A method and apparatus for transportation of wafers from one stage to another in a manufacturing process while protecting clean silicon surfaces and thin films on them from contamination through the air. The apparatus includes a wafer container (101) having a gas inlet (103) and a gas outlet (112), an inert gas container (103) having an inert gas sealed therein, and a piping (114) for connecting the gas inlet (113) of the wafer container to the inert gas container (103) and for sending the inert gas in the inert gas container to the wafer container (114), and wafers are transported while the inside of the wafer container is constantly purged by introducing the inert gas.
Patent EP-0727036-A4 (EP)
Inventor: AKBAR HABIB
IPC: F41H11/24
Filed: 1994-10-26
Abstract: L'invention concerne une charrue de déminage légère (14) pouvant être montée sur n'importe quel type de véhicule blindé (10) de manière à permettre à ce dernier (10) de traverser des champs de mines en formation d'attaque ou de sortir de champs de mines dispersées déposées par voie aérienne ou par l'artillerie, en enlevant les obstacles tels que des mines de toutes les zones du champ. Ladite charrue (14) présente des dents (86) qui pénètrent dans la terre pour déterrer les mines. Les lames des dents (86) sont configurées de sorte qu'elles écartent les mines du chemin des chenilles du véhicule (10). Un dispositif anti-patinage pliable (54) commande l'articulation de la charrue (14) sur les irrégularités du sol et s'étend vers l'avant pour faciliter la traversée de tranchées. Un système à liaison coulissante est prévu pour que la charrue puisse être enlevée par recul du véhicule tracteur (10). Les dents fixes (86) peuvent être remplacées par des dents en étoile rotatives (86') qui remplacent automatiquement la partie de travail par une deuxième dent, lorsque ces dernières heurtent un obstacle souterrain, empêchant ainsi qu'elles-mêmes (86') ou le reste de la charrue (74) ne soient endommagés. La charrue selon l'invention peut être montée sur n'importe quel véhicule sans que cela ne perturbe le fonctionnement normal de ce dernier.
Patent EP-0781108-A4 (EP)
Title: Method and apparatus for draining ground meats
Inventor: MARGOLIS GEOFFREY
IPC: A23L13/40
Filed: 1995-09-08
Abstract: A method for fat removal from cooked meat product that employs a draining apparatus in a cooking vessel or container. The draining apparatus includes a draining slot array (20), a draining box (22), a draining tube (26) and a controller element (24). Fat and excess liquids, which are liberated during cooking, are drained out of the container through the draining slots (20), and into the draining box (22) and draining tubes (26). A method and system for producing low fat ground meat is disclosed. Hot water is added to a mixture of cooked ground meat, liquified fat and broth in an amount sufficient to cause a significant percentage of the liquified fat to float above the surface of the cooked meat mixture. The liquified fat layer is then removed through a series of tubes.
Patent EP-0790823-A4 (EP)
Title: Drug releasing surgical implant or dressing material
Inventor: HAYNES DUNCAN H
IPC: A61K9/70
Filed: 1995-11-28
Abstract: A surgical implant or external wound dressing which functions as both a hemostat and a device to safely and effectively deliver any of a number of pharmaceuticals to targeted tissue at a controlled rate is disclosed. The device generally comprises a carrier in the form of fibers, sutures, fabrics, cross-linked solid foams or bandages, a pharmaceutical in solid micoparticulate form releasably bound to the carrier fibers, and a lipid adjuvant which aids the binding of the microparticles to the fibers as well as their function in the body.
Patent EP-0835078-A4 (EP)
Title: Fluorochemical liquid augmented cryosurgery
Inventor: STERN ROBERT G
IPC: A61B18/02
Filed: 1996-05-21
Abstract: A method for cryogenic treatment of a lesion which includes the steps of delivering a fluorochemical liquid to the lesion, placing at least one cryoprobe into the lesion, and circulating cryogenic fluid through the cryoprobe, the cryogenic fluid causing an ice ball to form in a vicinity around the cryoprobe, wherein the ice ball obliterates at least a portion of the lesion. The fluorochemical liquid is utilized to augment the cryosurgical procedure and is perfused or injected into and/or around the lesioned site prior and/or during the application of a cryoprobe to the site. In one embodiment of the invention, the fluorochemical liquid acts as a contrast agent to enhance real-time medical imaging of the lesioned area and modifies the environment in and around the lesioned area. In another embodiment of the invention, the fluorochemical liquid augments cryosurgical procedures by controlling the size and shape of ice balls formed during the cryosurgical procedures. In this embodiment, a fluorochemical liquid with a properly chosen thermal conductivity and freezing point is utilized. Depending on the thermal properties chosen, the liquid either augments freezing of the target area and/or promotes thermal conduction to freeze larger areas, or limits the freezing of the target area and reduces thermal conduction. In a non-cryoprobe embodiment, the liquid is cooled to a temperature below the freezing point of the biological tissue. The cooled liquid is then infused into or around the cystic lesion to produce ablation.
Patent EP-0845174-A4 (EP)
Inventor: TURNER MICHAEL D
IPC: H04L25/49
Filed: 1996-08-16
Abstract: Il est possible d'accroître la portée des services de transmission de données numériques, du type canal de transmission 2B1Q à débit de base du RNIS, jusqu'à des locaux de clients situés au-delà de la portée standard de l'industrie accessible à une ligne deux fils, et ce en accroissant, d'une part, la capacité du code en ligne du RNIS de deux bits d'information par symbole à trois bits d'information par symbole, dans le but de réduire le débit efficace de symboles, ledit code étant modifié par correction d'erreurs en un code en ligne efficace 4B1H de manière à définir une forme d'onde du signal PAM à seize niveaux, et en utilisant, d'autre part, des techniques perfectionnées de traitement du signal à faible rapport signal-bruit, à la fois dans l'émetteur et le récepteur afin de prendre en charge le renforcement de l'affaiblissement d'insertion de la ligne deux fils qui résulte de l'augmentation de sa longueur. De telles techniques perfectionnées de traitement du signal à faible rapport signal-bruit font usage, au niveau de l'émetteur, d'un précodeur Tomlinson (25) et, au niveau du récepteur, d'un correcteur linéaire adaptatif (53) et d'une unité modulaire (55).
Patent EP-1007113-A4 (EP)
Title: Implantable devices and methods for controlling the flow of fluids within the body
Inventor: NIGAM ALOK
IPC: A61M1/00
Filed: 1997-10-09
Abstract: Implantable fluid shunting devices and associated methods for controlling the pressure of fluids within anatomical spaces or cavities of the body. The device generally comprises a tube having a diffusion barrier (e.g., diffusion chamber) formed on a proximal end thereof. Fluid which flows through the tube will collect within the diffusion chamber and will diffuse outwardly therethrough. However, the presence of the diffusion chamber will prevent microbes, cells or other matter from interfering with or backflowing through the tube. Additionally, the tube may be provided with a pressure-openable aperture through which fluid from the tube may flow into the diffusion chamber. Such pressure-openable aperture will remain closed, until the pressure of fluid within the tube exceeds a predetermined maximum pressure PMAX. In this manner, the pressure-openable aperture will limit the amount of fluid drained from the anatomical space or cavity of the body, thereby avoiding hypotony within such anatomical space or cavity.
Patent EP-0939105-A4 (EP)
Inventor: WADA SUSUMU
IPC: C09D127/16
Filed: 1997-11-18
Abstract: La présente invention concerne un hydrofuge tenace qui est puissant et résiste aux pluies acides, cet hydrofuge étant principalement destiné à des matériaux tels que le béton, le bois, les textiles. Il laisse intactes les textures propres à ces matériaux, tout en conservant pendant longtemps ses qualités hydrofuges. L'invention concerne également des articles, en béton par exemple, enduits de cet hydrofuge. Ce produit est constitué d'un agent hydrofuge et d'une résine fluorée. L'agent hydrofuge appartient au groupe des composés perfluoroalkyle (I), des tensio-actifs fluorés (II), des huiles fluorées (III), des huiles fluorosiliconées (IV) et des huiles siliconées (V). Le rapport massique hydrofuge/résine en solides varie entre 50/50 et 99/1.
Patent EP-0939796-A4 (EP)
Title: Uses of oncofetal antigen specific cd4, cd8 cytotoxic and suppressor t cells and interleukin-10
Inventor: COGGIN JOSEPH H
IPC: G01N33/574
Filed: 1997-04-04
Abstract: The present invention provides a method of determining the success of a cancer therapy in an individual, comprising the step of measuring the frequency of occurence of an oncofetal antigen-specific subclasses in the individual's peripheral blood. Also provided is a method of determining whether protective immunity against a tumor will develop in an individual, comprising the step of measuring the frequency of oncofetal antigen-specific T cells, tumor cells and macrophages at the site of the tumor which secrete IL-10. Additionally, a method of determining whether an individual having a tumor will go into remission or remain in remission, comprising the step of measuring the frequency of oncofetal antigen-specific Th1 cells, Tc cells and Ts cells, IL-10 and interferon-gamma secreting T cells in the peripheral blood.
Patent EP-0907691-A4 (EP)
Title: Decorative films and laminated formable sheets with dual protective film layers
Inventor: NAIZY R RICHARD
IPC: C09J7/02
Filed: 1997-06-16
Abstract: A decorative film (10), such as a film of pigmented paint (12) or other coating covered by a film of clear coat (14), has the outer (clear coat) surface protected by a removably fixed thermoformable first protective film layer (16). A flexible plastic film forming a second protective layer (18) is removably fixed to the first layer (16). The underlying paint film (12) may be laminated to a thin wall or thick wall thermoplastic formable sheet (22). The second protective layer (18) is removed just prior to forming of the paint film (12) or laminated decorative sheet (10), carrying with the protective film (16) any surface damage marks or irregularities. Subsequent compression forming, as into a body panel or trim part, thus will not cause marking of the paint film (12) from transfer of damage marks since the underlying first protective layer (16) remains undamaged. The first protective layer (16) may remain in place during assembly of the formed body panel or trim part (20, 24) into a vehicle, and thereafter until delivery of the vehicle by a dealer to a customer. The second layer (18) may act as a carrier for the films and is stripped from the first protective layer (16) before forming, so it may be made from non formable material such as PET polyester.
Patent EP-0846279-A4 (EP)
Inventor: MILLER WILLIAM J
IPC: G02F1/365
Filed: 1997-06-09
Abstract: La présente invention concerne un commutateur interférométrique monolithique compact utilisant le principe de Mach-Zehnder. Ce commutateur est configuré de façon que les trajets de guide d'ondes (47) entre les coupleurs d'entrée et de sortie contiennent un matériau à résonance non linéaire, et dont l'indice de réfraction varie lorsque l'énergie de pompage se propage suivant ces trajets. La constante de propagation dans chacun des trajets de guide d'ondes (47, 46) étant différente, il en résulte que la lumière du signal subit des retards différents dans chacun des trajets lorsqu'aucune énergie de pompage ne se propage suivant le trajet non linéaire raréfié. Un signal d'entrée appliqué à l'entrée du commutateur se retrouve à la première borne de sortie lorsque l'énergie de pompage ne se propage pas suivant le trajet non linéaire, et il se retrouve à la seconde borne de sortie lorsque l'énergie de pompage s'applique au trajet non linéaire. Une énergie de pompage de niveau relativement bas suffit à la réalisation d'une telle commutation.
Patent EP-0927060-A4 (EP)
Title: Intraluminal radiation treatment system
Inventor: MELOUL RAPHAEL F
IPC: A61M29/02
Filed: 1997-09-23
Abstract: In a transfer device having a fluid passageway therein in fluid communication with an integral fluid control valve and useable in a system for intraluminal treatment of a selected site in a body of a patient by at least one treating element advanced from the transfer device into a lumen of a catheter by means of pressurized fluid. The fluid passageway of the transfer device is in communication with a source of pressurized fluid, the improvement comprising a pressure indicator in fluid communication with the fluid passageway and interposed between the fluid passageway and the fluid control valve. The said pressure indicator includes a transparent elongated housing having a first portion of a first inside dimension and viewable by a user of the transfer device, a piston slidingly received within said housing, and sized to sealingly engage said first portion. The said piston is biased into said first portion of said housing. An inlet port in said first portion in communication with the source of pressurized fluid through the fluid passageway, whereby the relative position of said piston in said first portion of said housing provides a visual indication of the relative fluid pressure.
Patent EP-0934746-A4 (EP)
Title: Substance in the form of an aqueous extract of vegetal raw material for treating oncological diseases, and method for producing the same
Inventor: VOROZHTSOV GEORGY NIKOLAEVICH
IPC: A61P35/00
Filed: 1997-12-03
Abstract: The present invention relates to a substance in the form of an aqueous extract of vegetal raw material which is used for treating oncological diseases, as well as a method for producing said substance. The substance comprises the aqueous extracts of plants from the genus Geranium and Plantago as well as from the species Calendula officinialis, wherein said extracts are obtained from the following amounts in grams of said plants and water : from 10 to 60 of dried Geranium or from 300 to 360 of fresh Geranium ; from 10 to 60 of dried Plantago ; from 10 to 60 of dried Calendula officinialis : and 300 grams of water. This substance may also contain an extract of a plant from the species Pentaphilloides fruticosa obtained from an amount of 10 to 60 grams of dried plant as well as an extract of a plant from the genus Angelica obtained from an amount of 10 to 60 grams of dried plant. The method for producing said aqueous extracts comprises macerating the plants in water before press-filtering the mixture and submitting it to a centrifugal treatment. This substance may be used in oncological practice as part of a cancer therapeutic program.
Patent EP-1000988-A4 (EP)
Inventor: TOMIHASHI NOBUYUKI
IPC: C08K3/22
Filed: 1998-08-04
Abstract: Composition de revêtement aqueuse à base de caoutchouc fluoré, qui comprend un caoutchouc fluoré et au moins un composé mixte inorganique faisant office d'accepteur d'acide. Le composé mixte peut être un oxyde mixte inorganique ou un sel mixte inorganique, notamment un composé magnésien mixte inorganique, tel que l'hydrotalcite. Une fois que ce composé mixte inorganique est dispersé de façon à atteindre la taille des particules primaires, il ne s'agrège plus en formant des particules secondaires et la composition de revêtement aqueuse à base de caoutchouc fluoré reste stable à la conservation.
Patent EP-1052257-A4 (EP)
Inventor: SAGAWA YUKIHIRO
IPC: C07C309/66
Filed: 1999-01-13
Abstract: Composés de threo-3-amino-1,2-epoxy optiquement actifs, extrêmement purs et appropriés pour des matériaux servant à préparer des médicaments et procédé servant à produire ces composés à l'échelle industrielle. On soumet un dérivé de threo-3-amino-1,2-diol à une alkylsufonylation ou arylsulfonylation dans un solvant organique en présence d'une base, de manière à obtenir le composé correspondant optiquement actif de threo-3-amino-2-hydroxy-1-sulfonyloxy. On soumet ensuite le produit obtenu à une époxydation en présence d'une base, de manière à produire le composé correspondant optiquement actif de threo-3-amino-1,2-epoxy. On purifie le composé époxydique obtenu de cette façon au moyen d'un solvant organique et d'eau, ce qui permet d'obtenir un composé époxydique extrêmement pur.