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20140296643 | Image Capture Assembly for Use in a Multi-Viewing Elements Endoscope - An image capturing assembly for use in an endoscope includes a manifold with a base and a casing extending outward from the base, a partially enclosed housing adapted to physically attach to the manifold, a foldable LED carrier substrate capable of carrying a plurality of LEDs, a flexible optical carrier substrate capable of carrying a plurality of camera sensors, and a tip cover adapted to cover the manifold, housing, LED carrier substrate, and optical carrier substrate. The manifold includes at least one continuous channel extending throughout its length. The foldable LED carrier substrate includes a central, forward facing portion, adapted to carry at least one illuminator for a front viewing element, and a pair of arms extending proximally from the central portion. Each arm includes at least one foldable protrusion adapted to carry an illuminator for a side viewing element. | 10-02-2014 |
20140296866 | Multiple Viewing Elements Endoscope Having Two Front Service Channels - An endoscope assembly has a tip that includes at least one front-pointing camera and at least one front illuminator associated therewith, at least one side-pointing camera and at least one side illuminator associated therewith, a first front service channel with a first exit point, and a second front service channel with a second exit point where the first and the second service channel exit points are located in close proximity on the front distal end of the tip. Further, an interior volume of the tip is in a range of 2.75 cm | 10-02-2014 |
20140309495 | Multiple Viewing Elements Endoscope System With Modular Imaging Units - An optical assembly adapted to be positioned within an endoscope tip and having three modular camera units, comprising: a front modular camera unit defined by a front central axis and a first and second side modular camera units defined by first and second side central axes that are substantially parallel to one another and substantially perpendicular to the front central axis. Each modular camera unit further comprises a holder for housing an associated optical element and an image sensor in data communication with a corresponding printed circuit board. The front, first side and second side modular camera units are respectively positioned in first, second and third compartments of an assembly holder. | 10-16-2014 |
20140316198 | Circuit Board Assembly of a Multiple Viewing Elements Endoscope - There is provided herein, an electronic circuit board assembly for a tip section of a multiple viewing elements endoscope, the assembly including a base board configured to carry a first metal frame to support a front looking viewing element and a second metal frame to support a side looking viewing element; and a flexible illumination circuit board comprising a front foldable panel configured to carry three sets of front illuminators for essentially illuminating the field of view (FOV) of the front looking viewing element, and a side foldable panel configured to carry a set of side illuminators for essentially illuminating the field of view (FOV) of the side looking viewing element. | 10-23-2014 |
20140364694 | Manifold For A Multiple Viewing Elements Endoscope - There is provided herein an integrated manifold for the tip of a multiple viewing elements endoscope which combines the functionalities of the front holder, side holder/cage and fluid channeling components into a single part. The manifold includes square slots that are equipped with tracks. Square shaped lens assemblies having protrusions are used in the endoscope tip, such that the protrusions allow the optical assemblies to slide into the tracks of the square slots. This ensures gapless placement of viewing elements with no deviation in their position and field of view. | 12-11-2014 |
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20100280743 | INDIVIDUAL ACCUMULATOR, HIGH-PRESSURE COMPONENT, AND COMMON RAIL FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM, AS WELL AS AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT, AND METHOD FOR THE OPEN-LOOP AND/OR CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An individual accumulator for a high-pressure component of a high-pressure fuel guide of a common rail fuel injection system. The individual accumulator is equipped with a pressure sensor, and the common rail fuel injection system is equipped with a source of high pressure and a fuel injector, which has a fluid connection with this source of high pressure via the high-pressure fuel guide, for injecting the fuel into a working chamber of an internal combustion engine. The pressure sensor is designed as a strain sensor. | 11-04-2010 |
20110130944 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A a method for automatically controlling an internal combustion engine, in which an individual accumulator pressure (pE) of a common rail system is detected in a measurement interval and stored; in which an evaluation window is determined for the stored individual accumulation pressure (pE), within which window an injection was brought about; in which, in a first step, both a representative injection start and a trial injection end are determined in this evaluation window as a function of the detected pressure values, and, in a second step, both a trial injection start and a representative injection end are determined in this evaluation window as a function of the detected pressure values; in which the representative injection start is checked for plausibility against the trial injection start; and in which the representative injection end is checked for plausibility against the trial injection end. | 06-02-2011 |
20130276743 | SEPARATOR WALL FOR A CRANKCASE - A crankcase for an internal combustion engine, having a suction arrangement which is assigned to the crankcase and is configured for ventilating the crankcase of blow-by gas, in particular a gas/oil mixture, to produce a limited vacuum in the crankcase is disclosed. The crankcase has at least one dividing wall which is configured to feed blow-by gas and to separate oil. A ventilating housing part and a carrier housing part which is arranged above the ventilating housing part in included in the crankcase. The dividing wall is formed between the ventilating housing part and the carrier housing part and a suction arrangement is formed in the form of a suction jet pump which is configured for extracting oil from the dividing wall. | 10-24-2013 |
20140209065 | COMMON-RAIL SYSTEM, INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AND/OR REGULATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Exemplary illustrations are provided of a common rail system for an internal combustion engine, having a rail for fuel and an injector for the purpose of injecting the fuel into a working space of the internal combustion engine, said injector having a fluid connection to said rail via a high-pressure conduit. The high-pressure conduit may have a high-pressure component with an individual reservoir, and the high-pressure conduit and/or the rail may have a pressure measurement device. The pressure measurement device may be coupled to a local logic and storage device of a decentralized, local electronic device which is designed for the purpose of locally analyzing and storing measurement data of the pressure measurement device, e.g., injector data and/or rail data, and the pressure measurement device is connected to the central electronic device via a bus, with the local logic and storage device connected between the same. | 07-31-2014 |
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20100284417 | DATA STREAM ROUTER - The invention provides a router for providing isochronous data transfer and asynchronous data transfer on the basis of a predetermined protocol between devices of different network sections connected to said router, wherein a connection management application executed by said router translates a user request to transfer data from a transmitting device of a first network section to a receiving device of a second network section into commands of said protocol for establishing a first data connection between said transmitting device and said router and a second data connection between said router and said receiving device, wherein said data is transferred from said transmitting device via the established data connections to said receiving device. | 11-11-2010 |
20100287491 | DESKTOP CONTROL FOR A HOST APPARATUS OF A DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA NETWORK - The invention provides a desktop control and a browser for a host apparatus of a digital multimedia network. The desktop control comprises a processing core having at least one desk parameter link (DPL) to a device parameter of the host apparatus. Furthermore, the processing core can have at least one desk application link (DAL) to a browser application of the host apparatus. The processing core further has one or more desk item links to other desktop controls of another apparatus within the digital multimedia network. | 11-11-2010 |
20100290486 | A Digital Multimedia Network With Latency Control - The present invention relates to a digital multimedia network | 11-18-2010 |
20100299421 | DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA NETWORK WITH HIERARCHICAL PARAMETER CONTROL PROTOCOL - The present invention relates to a digital multimedia network of apparatuses each comprising a control device, wherein a device parameter of an apparatus is controlled by sending a command message (CMD) to said control device of said apparatus containing a tree-structured hierarchical parameter address (HPA) which consists of parameter grouping identifiers each corresponding to a hierarchy level of a predetermined tree-structured parameter hierarchy used for addressing device parameters throughout said digital multimedia network. | 11-25-2010 |
20100299424 | AN APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR MODIFYING A COMMAND MESSAGE IN A DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA NETWORK - An apparatus for modifying a command message (CMD) received from a source apparatus to control a target device parameter of a target apparatus within a digital multimedia network, wherein a hierarchical parameter address (HPA) or a parameter value contained in said command message (CMD) is changed according to at least one change script to provide a modified command message (CMD'). | 11-25-2010 |
20110007666 | DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA NETWORK WITH PARAMETER JOIN MECHANISM - The present invention relates to a digital multimedia network with a parameter join mechanism comprising at least one apparatus, wherein a requesting device parameter of a source apparatus updates a local parameter group list (PGL) by adding an entry for each device parameter of a target apparatus which joins said parameter group (PG). | 01-13-2011 |
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20090203537 | NUCLEAR RECEPTOR ASSAY - The present invention relates to methods for measuring compound efficacy and potency on nuclear receptor-co-regulator interaction, comprising the steps of (a) co-incubating at least one nuclear receptor and at least one compound under conditions that allow interaction; (b) co-incubating the nuclear receptor-compound mixture of step (a) with an array of co-regulators, under conditions that allow compound modulated receptor-co-regulator interaction; (c) determination of compound-modulated receptor-co-regulator interaction in function B of co-regulator concentration, and (d) determination of compound-modulated receptor-co-regulator interaction in function of compound concentration; wherein steps (c) and (d) are performed in a single assay. | 08-13-2009 |
20100203043 | TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF METASTATIC PROSTATE CANCER WITH INHIBITORS OF EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR (EGFR) - The present invention relates to a method for the treatment, prevention and/or diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer. More specifically inhibitors of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) are used in the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing metastatic prostate cancer. The EGFR inhibitors can for instance be EGFR inhibitors, EGFR signaling inhibitors and/or inhibitors of kinases downstream of EGFR kinases. The EGFR inhibitors can also be used in detection, screening, prediction and treatment monitoring methods for metastatic prostate cancer. | 08-12-2010 |
20110111980 | METHOD FOR PROFILING DRUG COMPOUNDS - The present invention relates to systems and methods for testing kinase inhibition using an array of substrates, in particular protein kinase substrates, preferably immobilized on a porous matrix. More particularly, the method provides kinase inhibition profiles of kinase inhibitors using phosphorylation patterns. The present invention can therefore be used to predict the response of cells, tissues, organs and/or warm-blooded animals to a drug, to determine the clinical outcome of a drug therapy and for diagnostical and prognostical purposes. | 05-12-2011 |
20120021939 | METHOD FOR PROFILING DRUG COMPOUNDS USING PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS - The present invention relates to a method for determining the effect of a drug on the kinase activity in a sample or predicting the response of a patient to a drug, wherein the kinase activity of a sample in the presence of a protein kinase inhibitor is measured, said protein kinase inhibitor mimicking the effect of said drug compound on the kinase activity in said sample. | 01-26-2012 |
20120046199 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR STATUS OF BREAST CANCER - The present invention relates to a method for determining the estrogen receptor status of patients suffering from breast cancer. The present invention also aims to provide methods and devices for predicting the response of patients diagnosed with breast cancer to specific medicaments. More specifically, the present invention provides methods which measure kinase activity by studying phosphorylation levels and profiles in samples obtained from patients diagnosed with breast cancer. | 02-23-2012 |
20120115754 | METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING AND/OR TYPING RENAL CELL CARCINOMA - The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing, typing and/or subtyping renal cell carcinoma as well as predicting the response to medication of patients suffering from renal cell carcinoma. More specifically, the present invention provides methods which measure kinase activity by studying phosphorylation levels and profiles in samples of said patients. | 05-10-2012 |
20120135888 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE RESPONSE OF LOCALLY ADVANCED RECTAL CANCER TO CHEMORADIOTHERAPY - The present invention relates to a method for determining or predicting the response of a patient diagnosed with locally advanced rectal cancer to chemoradiotherapy. The present invention also aims to provide methods and devices for predicting the response of patients diagnosed with rectal cancer to specific medicaments, radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. More specifically, the present invention provides methods which measure kinase activity by studying phosphorylation levels and profiles in samples of said patients. | 05-31-2012 |
20130017963 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING SURIVIVAL PROGNOSIS OF PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC)AANM De Wijn; RichardAACI NijmegenAACO NLAAGP De Wijn; Richard Nijmegen NLAANM Ruijtenbeek; RobbyAACI UtrechtAACO NLAAGP Ruijtenbeek; Robby Utrecht NLAANM Hilhorst; Maria HelenaAACI WageningenAACO NLAAGP Hilhorst; Maria Helena Wageningen NL - The present invention relates to a method for determining the survival prognosis of patients suffering from non-small cell lung cancer. More specifically, the present invention provides methods which measure kinase activity by studying phosphorylation levels in response to a kinase inhibitor and profiles in samples obtained from patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer. The present invention also provides methods for predicting the response of a patient diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer to a medicament. | 01-17-2013 |
20130217055 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR (TKI) RESISTANCE IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA (CML) - The present invention relates to a method for determining or predicting the response of a patient diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) to treatment with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor. More specifically, the present invention provides methods which measure kinase activity by studying phosphorylation levels and profiles and inhibitions thereof thereby diagnosing CML patients resistant to treatment with Imatinib. | 08-22-2013 |
20140155286 | MODIFIED TYROSINE AMINO ACIDS, PEPTIDES CONTAINING THEM, AND THEIR USE FOR DETECTING HYDROLASE ENZYME ACTIVITY - The present invention relates to a method and tools which allow the kinetic monitoring of hydrolase enzyme activity. The present invention also aims to provide synthetic peptides and peptide residues modified such that they can be used in assays for monitoring hydrolase enzyme activity, and preferably phosphatase activity. Also claimed are modified tyrosine amino acid derivatives of formula (IV), wherein Y is chosen from —PO | 06-05-2014 |