Patents Assigned to A/S
  • Process for manufacturing polyester
    Patent number: 6590060
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a process for manufacturing polyester comprising at least the following steps: (a) esterifying or transesterifying a carboxylic diacid or a dieester of a carboxylic diacid with a diol, (b) polymerizing in melt phase the esterification or transesterification product, (c) solidifying and granulating, (d) placing in contact the granules with a liquid swelling medium, and (e) post-condensing the granules in solid phase. The realization of the immersion step in a swelling medium permits increasing the kinetics of the solid phase post-condensation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Rhodia Ster S.A.
    Inventor: Thomas Canova
  • Enzyme-containing granules and process for the production thereof
    Patent number: 6589929
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzyme-containing granules comprising (a) an enzyme and (b) a core which intrinsically is capable of absorbing at least 5% w/w (based on the weight of the core) of water and to processes for the production of such granules comprises (a) contacting absorbent cores, capable of absorbing at least 5% w/w (based on the weight of the core) of water, with a liquid medium, such as an aqueous medium, containing an enzyme in dissolved and/or dispersed form, the amount of the liquid medium employed being such that substantially no attendant agglomeration of the resulting product occurs; and (b) at least partially removing volatile components of the liquid medium from the resulting product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Joao F. De Lima, Eder Manzini Bordin, Erik Kjaer Markussen, Kirsten Boegh Levring, Michael Bonde, Erik Marcussen, Grethe Saugmann
  • Accessory for fixing a wire cable tray, and wire cable tray equipped with at least such an accessory
    Patent number: 6590154
    Abstract: An accessory, called fixing accessory, designed to be fixed by elastic pinching, locally to wire cable tray includes, in meshed form, wires (11,12) of two different types, namely, longitudinal wires (11) and, set transversely at various spots along the longitudinal wires (11), U-shaped transverse wires (12), the assembly globally forming, as for a wireway, three panels (13,14), namely, a base panel (13) and two side panels (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Metal Deploye S.A.
    Inventors: Claude Badey, James Deciry
  • Memory cells incorporating a buffer circuit and memory comprising such a memory cell
    Patent number: 6590812
    Abstract: A memory cell is formed with a buffer circuit. The output of the buffer circuit is linked to the input to form a logic latch. A write-access transistor is disposed between a first node linked to a bit line and the input of the buffer circuit. A control gate of the write-access transistor is linked to a second node linked to a write word line, and a read-access transistor is disposed between the first node linked to the bit line and a third node linked to a read word line. A control gate of the read-access transistor is linked to the output of the buffer circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventor: Christophe Frey
  • Method and apparatus for regulating output voltage of a voltage converter
    Patent number: 6590789
    Abstract: A voltage converter including a circuit for controlling a switch for providing current to a primary winding of a transformer with inverted phase points, a secondary winding of which is associated with a capacitor for providing a regulated D.C. output voltage and an auxiliary winding of which provides a supply voltage of the control circuit. The average value of the voltage across the auxiliary winding close to the end of its demagnetization periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventor: Alain Bailly
  • Apparatus for the automated preparation of solutions and a combined system for metering liquid products, solid products and solutions
    Patent number: 6588464
    Abstract: An apparatus for the automated preparation of solutions with combined metering system is provided with a structure with a platform (1) upon which it is possible to position one or more containers for solid products, one or more bottle-like containers for liquid products, one or more containers for solutions and one or more empty and clean bottle-like containers. A carriage (2) is movable onto the platform (1). An apparatus is associated with the carriage (2), for the removal and handling of the bottles and for the removal, handling and actuation of at least the containers for solid products. An apparatus (6) is provided for preparing solutions and/or mixtures starting from the solid substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Tecnorama S.r.l.
    Inventor: Mario Scatizzi
  • Cosmetic compositions containing a polyoxyalkylenated aminosilicone block copolymer and a conditioner, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 6589519
    Abstract: The invention relates to cosmetic compositions comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, at least one conditioner chosen from poly-&agr;-olefins, fluoro oils, fluoro waxes, fluoro gums, carboxylic acid esters, cationic polymers, silicones that are insoluble in the medium, mineral, plant or animal oils and at least one polyoxyalkylenated aminosilicone of (AB)n type, A being a polysiloxane block and B being a polyoxyalkylenated block containing at least one amine group. This combination gives considerably better cosmetic properties (smoothness, softness) than the properties obtained with one or other of the constituents used alone. These compositions are used to wash and/or condition the hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventors: Serge Restle, Danièle Cauwet-Martin
  • Method of manufacturing unipolar components
    Patent number: 6590240
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a unipolar component of vertical type in a substrate of a first conductivity type, including the steps of: forming trenches in a silicon layer of the first conductivity type; coating the lateral walls of the trenches with a silicon oxide layer; filling the trenches with polysilicon of the second conductivity type; and annealing to adjust the doping level of the polysilicon, the excess dopants being absorbed by the silicon oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventor: Frédéric Lanois
  • Bidirectional flip-flop
    Patent number: 6590349
    Abstract: A bidirectional switch, including a first bidirectional switch between two power terminals of the switch, a low-voltage storage element between a first power terminal and a control terminal of the switch, and a control stage adapted to cause, upon each halfwave beginning of an A.C. supply voltage applied between the power terminals and when the switch is on, the charge of the storage element with a biasing depending on the sign of the halfwave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventor: Laurent Moindron
  • Spectacles frame
    Patent number: 6588895
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spectacles frame (1), particularly for sports spectacles, allowing the inclination of the frame with respect to the user's face to be adjusted to suit his build. It comprises, for each side (2), a part (3) articulated by one of its ends to the free end (21) of the side (2), means (4, 5) allowing the angular position of said part (3) to be varied with respect to the side (2). This part (3) itself is designed to rest on the upper part of the user's ear. By varying the angular position of the part (3) with respect to the side (2), the inclination of the frame with respect to the user's face is varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: BAB Sports S.A.
    Inventor: Patrice Marie Pointet
  • Treating vancomycin-intermediates and multiresistant staphylococci infection with thiamphenicol or a salt thereof
    Patent number: 6589993
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating vancomycin-intermediates and multiresistant staphylococci infection using thiamphenicol or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Zambon Group S.p.A.
    Inventors: Domenico Ungheri, Luciano Licciardello
  • Fixture for locking motorcycle wheels onto balancing machines
    Patent number: 6588273
    Abstract: A fixture for locking motorcycle wheels onto balancing machines, comprising a spindle to be removably fixed onto the direct extension of the balancing shaft to receive the hub of the wheel to be balanced, means for fixing the hub onto the spindle, and means for rotating said wheel about the axis of said shaft; said means comprise two independent operating devices, of which one, known as the locking device, is provided to axially secure said hub onto said spindle, and the second, known as the dragging device, comprises a dragging part arranged to slide parallel to the balancing shaft between a rest position in which it is spaced from the wheel locked on the spindle, and a working position in which it is in contact with and torsionally engages a wheel portion external to the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Corghi S.p.A.
    Inventor: Remo Corghi
  • Phthalazine derivatives as phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitors
    Patent number: 6589951
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein B is alkylene, amino, CONH or a bond; Cy is optionally substituted phenyl or heteroaryl; R is H, phenyl or (C1-4)alkyl optionally substituted; R1 is (C1-6)alkyl or polyfluoro(C1-6)-alkyl; R2 is (C4-7)cycloalkyl optionally containing an oxygen atom and optionally substituted; and the N→O derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are PDE 4 and TNF&agr; inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Zambon Group S.p.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Napoletano, Gabriele Norcini, Daniela Botta, Giancarlo Grancini, Gabriele Morazzoni, Francesco Santangelo, Jorge G. Siro Herrero, José Luis Garcia Navaio, Julio G. Alvarez-Builla
  • Filtering device
    Patent number: 6589421
    Abstract: A filtering device (1), and particularly a filtering device (1), applied to a filter for home water purification is disclosed. The object of this invention is to provide a water filter of a device (1) which improves the efficiency in the water filtration accomplished by ceramic cores (10), thus eliminating the need of employing carbon filled cores or further elements for the filtration (2), and which, in addition, also enables the replacement of the element (1) without the need to replace the core (10). Such object is attained by a filtering device (1), adaptive to a filtering core (10) to be used in a water filter, the core (10) having a tubular projection (14), the device (1) comprising a recipient (3) filled with filtering elements (2), the recipient (3) being associated to a tubular projection (14) and trapping the water previously filtered by the core (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Ceramica Stefani S/A.
    Inventor: Andre Schiavon Villa Nova
  • Configurable transformer
    Patent number: 6590488
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a current and/or voltage transformer comprising at least one primary circuit P and one secondary circuit S. The transformer according to the invention comprises m elementary windings each having Ni turns, m and Ni being integer numbers, and i lying between l and a predetermined integer number n, said groups of elementary windings being capable of being associated in series and/or in parallel in such a way as to produce a particular configuration from among a plurality of distinct configurations of primary circuits P and of secondary circuits S each of said configurations corresponding to previously fixed electrical and magnetic parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Vishay S.A.
    Inventor: Laurent Marcotte
  • Antibacterial aqueous ophthalmic formulations containing ofloxacin and use of chitosan for solubilizing ofloxacin suspended in an aqueous media
    Patent number: 6589999
    Abstract: The aqueous ophthalmic formulation for the treatment and prevention of infections contains ofloxacin as active ingredient and a chitosan having a weight average molecular weight of 500,000-5,000,000 Daltons and a deacetylation degree of 30-90% as solubilizing agent of ofloxacin. Chitosan having a deacetylation degree of 30-90% may be also used for solubilizing ofloxacin suspended in an aqueous media having a substantially neutral pH in any other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Laboratoire Medidom S.A.
    Inventors: Robert Gurny, Olivia Mireille Felt
  • Jigsaw
    Patent number: D476871
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: S-B Power Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Santarsiero, Robert Bruno, Christopher Switalski, Robert Pjevach, Todd LiPetri
  • Closure element
    Patent number: D476893
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Lumson S.p.A.
    Inventor: Paola Pinnavaia
  • Wrist watch
    Patent number: D476907
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Rolex Watch U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Maria Christina Calvani, Eric Bertrand
  • Spectacles (AL 13)
    Patent number: D477011
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Christian Dior Couture, S.A.
    Inventor: Mathieu Jamin