DIE WALL LUBRICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS
    3.
    发明公开
    DIE WALL LUBRICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS 有权
    方法和设备润滑按FORM的墙壁

    公开(公告)号:EP1230054A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-08-14

    申请号:EP00979283.9

    申请日:2000-11-17

    IPC分类号: B22F3/03 B30B15/00

    摘要: A method of lubricating the wall surfaces (W) of a die cavity used in powder metallurgy involves spraying the wall surfaces with tribocharged particles of a lubricant material. The method is carried out by means of an apparatus centered about a plug member (14) which has a three-dimensional shape conforming generally to that of the article to be formed. The plug member is slightly smaller than the article so that when the plug member is inserted into the die cavity there is a small, but uniform, gap (G) created between the outer wall surfaces of the plug member and the walls of the die cavity. The plug member is secured to a closing plate (8) which can be inserted into the die cavity so as to be sealed therewith. The closing plate is provided with vent holes and the plug member has a plurality of spaced apart tubes (11) extending therethrough, which tubes exit at one or more of the wall surfaces of the plug member. The lubricant material is fed using an inert gas under pressure through tubing which tribocharges the lubricant particles and the tribocharged particles are sprayed from the tubes in the plug member into the gap so that they are electrostatically attracted to the walls of the die cavity and adhere thereto. Any excess gas and lubricant exits the gap through the vent holes (8) in the closing plate. A uniform thin coating of lubricant is created on the walls of the die cavity. The green density of the article formed in the die is greater, and the ejection force required to remove the formed article from the die cavity is less than with existing methods and apparatus.

    STRATEGY FOR CARBOHYDRATE-BASED CANCER VACCINES
    5.
    发明公开
    STRATEGY FOR CARBOHYDRATE-BASED CANCER VACCINES 审中-公开
    战略疫苗对抗癌症的碳水化合物

    公开(公告)号:EP1198244A2

    公开(公告)日:2002-04-24

    申请号:EP00951149.4

    申请日:2000-07-28

    摘要: The sialic acid component of a sialic acid unit-containing cell surface marker characteristic of cancerous mammalian cells, such as α2-8 polysialic acid, is modified, so that cells normally expressing such a marker express instead a modified sialic acid unit-containing cell surface marker which is strongly immunogenic. For example, the present invention enables, in a portion of patient cells which regularly express α2-8 polysialic acid (i.e. various types of cancer cells), the expression of a highly immunogenic surface antigen namely, modified α2-8 polysialic acid. The modification is suitably N-acylation of a precursor of the sialic acid, so that the N-acylated precursor becomes chemically incorporated in the polysialic acid during its intracellular biochemical synthesis. Antibodies specific for the modified antigen, which can be induced using a conjugate of a suitable portion of the modified sialic acid unit-containing marker (such as α2-8 polysialic acid) and a protein, can then be used to eliminate cells which express α2-8 polysialic acid. Vaccines can be prepared utilizing conjugates of the modified sialic acid-containing marker, or utilizing antibodies produced in response to exposure of a suitable subject to the modified sialic acid-containing marker, for managing cancer conditions which involve cancer cells characterized, at least in part, by expression of modified sialic acid unit containing marker.

    THREE-DIMENSIONAL COLOR IMAGING
    8.
    发明公开
    THREE-DIMENSIONAL COLOR IMAGING 失效
    三维彩色图像记录装置

    公开(公告)号:EP0885374A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-12-23

    申请号:EP97903190.0

    申请日:1997-02-26

    IPC分类号: G01B11 G01J3 G06T1

    CPC分类号: G01B11/24

    摘要: An optical method and apparatus is provided for determining the color and profile of a target surface of an object (8). The target surface is scanned with an incident beam of light (6) containing a plurality of wavelengths including at least one well-defined wavelength. A return beam (7) reflected from the target is split into a first and second return beam (13a, 13b). The first return beam (13a) is utilized for detecting the profile of the target surface (8); and, a plurality of detectors (34R, 34G, 34B) are provided that detect color information corresponding to the target surface (8) from the second return beam (13b).

    THROMBIN INHIBITORS BASED ON THE AMINO ACID SEQUENCE OF HIRUDIN
    10.
    发明公开
    THROMBIN INHIBITORS BASED ON THE AMINO ACID SEQUENCE OF HIRUDIN 失效
    与水蛭素样序列凝血酶INHIBITORE

    公开(公告)号:EP0815139A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-01-07

    申请号:EP96905636.0

    申请日:1996-03-18

    发明人: DIMAIO, John

    IPC分类号: A61K38 A61P7 C07K7 C07K14

    CPC分类号: C07K14/815 A61K38/00

    摘要: A thrombin inhibitor comprising a first bulky hydrophobic portion interacting with the catalytic side of thrombin responsible for proteolysis and a second portion maintaining the hydrophobic and acidic character of amino acids 55 to 60 of native hirudin at the C-terminal non-catalytic region of N-acetyl-hirudin45-65. Between the first and second portions is a divalent linker moiety. The compound is useful in the treatment of thrombotic disorders.