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Christiaan Baelus, Antwerpen BE
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20150223784 | Liquid Sampler, Kit of Parts, and Method for Assembly - A device for capturing a predetermined volume of a predefined portion (e.g. first void) of a liquid flow, comprises an inlet, an outlet, and a guide with an element displaceable in a first position for capturing the first liquid portion in a reservoir, and in a second position for blocking access to the reservoir, and for passing the liquid to the outlet. The displaceable element moves in transverse direction to the liquid flow, and has lifting means. The element may be substantially flat, or tubular with an elliptical cross section. A kit of parts and a method of assembly are also claimed. | 08-13-2015 |
Christiaan Cokas, Niantic, CT US
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20120202594 | SIMULATED SPORTS EVENTS UTILIZING AUTHENTIC EVENT INFORMATION - Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for simulating events utilizing authentic event information. One aspect provides receiving event data associated with one or more real-world events at one or more event data software modules being executed on a computing device; and formatting the event data via the one or more event data software modules into a form utilized by one or more video game applications operable on the computing device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 08-09-2012 |
Christiaan Debien, Holsbeek BE
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20120046436 | POLYISOCYANATE COMPOSITION - Polyisocyanate composition comprising a polyisocyanate, a lithium halide and a urea compound, wherein the number of moles of lithium halide per isocyanate equivalent ranges of from 0.0001-0.04 and the number of urea+biuret equivalents per isocyanate equivalent of from 0.0001-0.4. Process for making such composition. Curable composition comprising this polyisocyanate composition and an epoxy resin. Polyisocyanurate made from this curable composition. | 02-23-2012 |
20130303694 | Epoxy Resin Composition - Curable composition obtained by combining and mixing an epoxy resin composition comprising an epoxy resin, a monool and/or polyol and a a compound comprising a carboxamide group, and a polyisocyanate composition comprising a polyisocyanate, a lithium halide and a urea compound, wherein the number of moles of lithium halide per isocyanate equivalent ranges of from 0.0001-0.04 and the number of urea+biuret equivalents per isocyanate equivalent of from 0.0001-0.4. The epoxy resin composition is claimed as well. | 11-14-2013 |
Christiaan Ditolla, Northport, NY US
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20100105528 | Verticle exercise cycle - A vertical exercise apparatus having a set of waist high support rails capable of supporting the users body weight for use in conditioning upper body and lower body muscle groups of person using the device. | 04-29-2010 |
Christiaan Fivez, Wilsele BE
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20110286637 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNING A STONEFRUIT TO A PREDETERMINED CLASS AND A DEVICE THEREFOR - Method for assigning a stonefruit to a predetermined class, in which the stonefruit is transported along at least one source of high-energy electromagnetic radiation such that at least a part of the radiation penetrates through the stonefruit to at least one camera thereto provided and is there captured by the camera to form a contrast image using the captured radiation after which the contrast image is processed by a processing unit which is provided to evaluate a pattern in the contrast image caused by a variation in the density or thickness of a material of the stonefruit corresponding to at least one predetermined feature of the stonefruit and to assign, based on the evaluation of the feature, the stonefruit to a predetermined class, characterised in that the feature mainly corresponds to the presence or absence of a slit in a pit of the stonefruit. | 11-24-2011 |
20120021101 | METHOD FOR SORTING POTATO PRODUCTS AND SORTING APPARATUS FOR POTATO PRODUCTS - The invention concerns a method and a sorting apparatus for sorting potato products that are moved in a product flow through a detection zone, whereby irregular products are detected in the product flow and are separated from the product flow, characterised in that a light beam having a wavelength of in between 350 and 450 nm is directed towards said products in said detection zone and wherein the intensity of the light that is irradiated by the products is detected in a detection band from 460 nm to 600 nm, wherein a product is qualified as an irregular product and is separated from the product flow when said intensity is below a predetermined value. Further, the invention also concerns a method and a device for detecting the presence of solanine in potato products by means of fluorescence. | 01-26-2012 |
20120097583 | METHOD FOR DISCERNING AND SORTING PRODUCTS WHEREBY THE CONCENTRATION OF A COMPONENT OF THESE PRODUCTS IS DETERMINED - The invention concerns a method for discerning and sorting suitable products in a product flow having a certain concentration of a component versus anomalous products having this component in an anomalous concentration, whereby a beam of light strikes these products, and the absorption of this beam of light by said component in the products is detected by measuring the intensity of the light reflected by the products at least at a wavelength or in at least a wavelength band which is situated between 900 nm and 2500 nm in order to generate a detection signal on the basis of said absorption, whereby a product will be identified as an anomalous product if said detection signal exceeds a threshold value. | 04-26-2012 |
Christiaan Kool, Willow Glen ZA
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20130057133 | SERVICE TROLLEY - The invention relates to a service trolley. The service trolley includes a tabletop having at least one stowable wing, wheels attached to the trolley for moving the trolley, and a hot plate integrated into the tabletop. | 03-07-2013 |
Christiaan Mattheus, Monaco MC
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20120067909 | CAP FOR A DRINKING STRAW - A cap for a drinking straw preferably includes a container provided with an inner chamber and with an element to be torn from one of the wall of the container for enabling access within the chamber, and a body attached to the container and provided with a portion adapted to enter at least partly within the drinking channel, whereby the body is adapted so as to form an air passage between the drinking channel and the gas atmosphere when the body extends within the drinking straw. | 03-22-2012 |
Christiaan Nijst, Amsterdam NL
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20100184873 | MULTI STAGE PROCESS FOR PRODUCING HYDROCARBONS FROM SYNGAS - The invention pertains to a multi-stage process for the production of hydrocarbons from syngas comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which comprises the steps of: a) providing a fresh syngas feed to a first stage Fischer-Tropsch reactor and allowing CO and hydrogen to convert into hydrocarbon products at a temperature in the range from 125 to 400° C. and a pressure in the range from 5 to 150 bar absolute, and a gaseous hourly space velocity in the range from 500 to 10000 Nl/l/h; b) feeding the effluent from the first stage reactor to a separation unit; c) removing a gasous effluent stream comprising hydrogen and CO from the separation unit; d) removing one or more other streams comprising hydrocarbon and/or water from the separation unit; e) conveying a first portion of the gaseous effluent stream to a second stage Fischer-Tropsch reactor and allowing CO and hydrogen to convert into hydrocarbon products in the second stage Fischer-Tropsch reactor at a temperature in the range from 125 to 400° C. and a pressure in the range from 5 to 150 bar absolute, and a gaseous hourly space velocity in the range from 500 to 10000 Nl/l/h, whereby the first stage Fischer-Tropsch reactor and the second stage Fischer-Tropsch reactor are separate reactors; f) feeding the effluent from the second stage Fischer-Tropsch reactor to the separation unit; g) removing a second portion of the gaseous effluent stream as off-gas. | 07-22-2010 |
20110008277 | POLYOL-BASED POLYMERS - The present invention provides inventive polyol-based polymers, materials, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of making and using the inventive polymers and materials. In certain aspects of the invention, an inventive polymer corresponds to a polymer depicted below. Exemplary inventive polymers includes those prepared using polyol units (e.g., xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, or maltitol) condensed with polycarboxylic acid units (e.g., citric acid, glutaric acid, or sebacic acid). The inventive polymers may be further derivatized or modified. For example, the polymer may be made photocrosslinkable by adding methacrylate moieties to the polymer. | 01-13-2011 |
20110297885 | PROCESS TO CONVERT BIOMASS - The invention is directed to a process to prepare a fuel or an intermediate to a fuel from residues as obtained in a palm oil process wherein shredded agricultural residue having a water content of between 40 and 75 wt % water is dried to obtain a dried agricultural residue having a water content of between 5 and 40 wt % and then is compacted into pellets, cubes, or small briquettes having a two dimensional size of between 5 and 1000 mm and a thickness of between 5 and 300 mm and a density of between 200 and 1200 kg/m | 12-08-2011 |
20140186312 | Method Comprising Contacting Tissue With a Cross-Linkable Polyester Prepolymer - The present inventions in various aspects provide elastic biodegradable polymers. In various embodiments, the polymers are formed by the reaction of a multifunctional alcohol or ether and a difunctional or higher order acid to form a pre-polymer, which is cross-linked to form the elastic biodegradable polymer. In preferred embodiments, the cross-linking is performed by functionalization of one or more OR groups on the pre-polymer backbone with vinyl, followed by photopolymerization to form the elastic biodegradable polymer composition or material. Preferably, acrylate is used to add one or more vinyls to the backbone of the pre-polymer to form an acrylated pre-polymer. In various embodiments, acrylated pre-polymers are co-polymerized with one or more acrylated co-polymers. | 07-03-2014 |
Christiaan Nijst, Eindhoven NL
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20090011486 | Biodegradable Elastomers - The present inventions in various aspects provide elastic polymers compositions for encapsulation of cells. In various embodiments, the polymers are formed by the reaction of a multifunctional alcohol or ether and a difunctional or higher order acid to form a pre-polymer, which is cross-linked in the presence of glycerol and a population of cells to form elastic porous polymer scaffolds suitable for cell encapsulation and/or proliferation. | 01-08-2009 |
20090047256 | Biodegradable Elastomers - The present inventions in various aspects provide elastic biodegradable polymers. In various embodiments, the polymers are formed by the reaction of a multifunctional alcohol or ether and a difunctional or higher order acid to form a pre-polymer, which is cross-linked to form the elastic biodegradable polymer. In preferred embodiments, the cross-linking is performed by functionalization of one or more OR groups on the pre-polymer backbone with vinyl, followed by photopolymerization to form the elastic biodegradable polymer composition or material. Preferably, acrylate is used to add one or more vinyls to the backbone of the pre-polymer to form an acrylated pre-polymer. In various embodiments, acrylated pre-polymers are co-polymerized with one or more acrylated co-polymers. | 02-19-2009 |
20120269761 | BIODEGRADABLE ELASTOMERS - The present inventions in various aspects provide elastic biodegradable polymers. In various embodiments, the polymers are formed by the reaction of a multifunctional alcohol or ether and a difunctional or higher order acid to form a pre-polymer, which is cross-linked to form the elastic biodegradable polymer. In preferred embodiments, the cross-linking is performed by functionalization of one or more OR groups on the pre-polymer backbone with vinyl, followed by photopolymerization to form the elastic biodegradable polymer composition or material. Preferably, acrylate is used to add one or more vinyls to the backbone of the pre-polymer to form an acrylated pre-polymer. In various embodiments, acrylated pre-polymers are co-polymerized with one or more acrylated co-polymers. | 10-25-2012 |
Christiaan Radelet, Aarschot BE
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20120013894 | OPTICAL FIBRE NETWORK TEST DEVICE - An optical fibre network test device comprising an actuator that is manually operable, without manual handling of optical fibres, firstly to direct light from a light path of the optical network so that test equipment associated with the network can be operated to test the quality of the said light path, and secondly to return the light path to its previous state after completion of the test. | 01-19-2012 |
Christiaan Righolt, Winnipeg, CA US
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20160131569 | Methods For Assessing Cancer Cells Using Granulometry - A method of measuring a characteristic optionally a clinical characteristic of a cancer test cell sample comprising: characterizing nuclear organization of DNA of the test cell sample: obtaining DNA image data of the cancer test cell sample nuclei using microscopy, processing the image data using granulometry to obtain one or more data points corresponding to DNA occupied space and/or DNA low space; and quantifying a feature of the DNA occupied space and/or a feature of the DNA low space. | 05-12-2016 |
Christiaan Roelant, Leuven BE
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20120015390 | Methods for the Detection and Treatment of Aberrant Prion Disease - The invention relates to methods and tools for detecting and treating patients suffering from aberrant prion functioning or Aberrant Prion Disease (APD), methods for determining the presence of aberrant prion functioning-inducing agents in a sample and to methods for determining the appropriate therapy for a patient having symptoms of aberrant prion functioning based on detecting aberrant NADH oxidase activity. | 01-19-2012 |
20120077278 | METHODS AND KITS FOR DETECTING, DIAGNOSING AND MONITORING DISEASES - The invention provides methods and kits for detecting metabolites in a body fluid by contacting a sample of the body fluid with at least one reducible dye at a pH-value which is higher than the pKa-value of the reducible dye, whereby a color change resulting from reduction of the reducible dye is indicative of the presence of metabolites in the body fluid. The methods and kits are of use in the detection and monitoring of disease conditions. | 03-29-2012 |
20130129670 | MACROPHAGE ACTIVATING FACTOR FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (CFS) AND CFS-RELATED DISEASES AND DISORDERS - The present invention relates to Macrophage Activating Factors such as GcMAF and compositions thereof, for use in the treatment of a patient suffering from CFS/ME and/or XMRV infection. | 05-23-2013 |
20130237492 | USE OF 2',5'-OLIGOADENYLATE DERIVATIVE COMPOUNDS - The invention relates to the therapeutic uses of 2′,5′-oligoadenylate derivative compounds, more particularly for the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and in the treatment of infection by a gamma-retrovirus. | 09-12-2013 |
Christiaan Scheepers, Centurion ZA
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20140136480 | FAST REPLICATION OF AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM TO A REMOTE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Technologies for fast, automated replication of an enterprise system from a source computing environment to a target computing environment over a network are provided. A shell system is created by deploying a pre-installed system template in the target computing environment. Customer-specific data from the enterprise system in the source computing environment is exported and written to a set of files. The set of files are uploaded to an upload area of the target computing environment, and the files are imported into the shell system to create the replicated. | 05-15-2014 |
Christiaan Vander Ploeg, Aurora CA
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20090131208 | Tensioner With Molded Arm - A tensioner for tensioning a flexible drive means is disclosed which has fewer components than comparable prior art tensioners. The tensioner is less expensive to manufacture and assemble and is easily installed. The tensioner includes a tensioner arm molded from a suitable plastic material and a pivot bushing formed from a different material, the pivot bushing preferably being over molded about the tensioner arm. The pivot bushing and tensioner arm include a series of longitudinal slots to form fingers from the tensioner arm and pivot bushing, the fingers engaging the pivot surface of the pivot shaft about which the arm pivots. A coil spring is used to bias a rotatable member on the tensioner arm into contact with the flexible drive means to be tensioned and a portion of the coil spring engages the fingers to squeeze them to increase the frictional force between the pivot bushing and the pivot surface to dampen the tensioner when the tensioner arm is moved in one direction. A unique thermal management system is also disclosed which employs thermal insulating coatings and thermal dispersant coatings to manage the temperature of the tensioner arm to enhance its expected operating lifetime. | 05-21-2009 |
20100230227 | DRIVEN ACCESSORY WITH LOW-POWER CLUTCH FOR ACTIVATING OR DE-ACTIVATING SAME - A driven accessory having a clutch that permits selective operation of an accessory portion. The clutch employs rotational inertia to control driving engagement of a wrap spring to an interior clutch surface on a drive member and/or driving disengagement of the wrap spring from the interior clutch surface. | 09-16-2010 |
20120133465 | ELECTROMAGNET AND ELECTROMAGNETIC COIL ASSEMBLY - An electromagnet may comprise a pole piece and a coil assembly. The pole piece may be monolithically formed of a magnetically susceptible material and have a channel structure and a first flange member. The channel structure may have an annular inner side wall, an annular outer side wall and an annular end wall that fixedly couples the inner and outer side walls to one another on a first axial end of the pole piece. The channel structure may be open on a second axial end of the pole piece that is opposite the first axial end. The first flange member may be coupled to an end of one of the inner and outer side walls on the second axial end and extend radially from the channel structure. The coil assembly may be fixedly coupled to the channel structure between the inner and outer side walls. | 05-31-2012 |
Christiaan Van Der Westhuyzen, Alberton ZA
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20080199912 | Methods for Obtaining Optically Active Epoxides and Diols from 2,3-Disubstituted and 2,3-Trisubstituted Epoxides - The invention provides yeast strains, and polypeptides encoded by genes of such yeast strains, that have enantiospecific internal epoxide hydrolase activity. The invention also features nucleic acid molecules encoding such polypeptides, vectors containing such nucleic acid molecules, and cells containing such vectors. Also embraced by the invention are methods for obtaining optically active internal epoxides and corresponding optically active internal diols. | 08-21-2008 |
Christiaan Van Mullem, Tienen BE
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20150075269 | CONTAMINANT MEASUREMENT FOR SENSOR ELEMENT POISONOUS EXHAUST ENVIRONMENT - A sensor according to embodiments of the present invention is protected or shielded from exhaust gas under the conditions applying when no measurement is necessary. In embodiments the shield can be a flow of clean air or any other suitable protection gas shield. The present invention provides a sensor wherein close to the sensor in the exhaust system that requires protection as well as calibration, a means for providing a shielding gas is placed adjacent to the sensor element, the means for providing shielding gas being adapted to flow shielding gas over the sensing element when in virtual mode and/or calibration gas in calibration mode so that exhaust gas can not reach the sensor. For example a gas nozzle can be installed blowing a gas such as air over the sensing element when in virtual mode or in calibration mode so that exhaust gas cannot reach the sensor. The sensor and the sensing element in any of the embodiments may be adapted to measure the concentration of NOX, oxygen or NH3. | 03-19-2015 |