All The Claims

1. A flexible bag (1) intended to receive a biological fluid with a view to its centrifugation, comprising an external enclosure (2) formed by two sheets of flexible plastic (3, 3) connected at their periphery (4) so as to define an internal volume (5) for the said fluid, the said external enclosure (2) being provided with at least one inlet (6) andor outlet (7) orifice for the fluid, the said bag (1) also comprising means (8) for the temporary association of at least one component with the said bag (1), the said means (8) being disposed on the external enclosure (2), the said bag (1) being characterised in that the temporary association means are assembled on the bag (1) on a part of the periphery (4) of the enclosure (2) and are arranged to allow the insertion of the said component between the said means (8) and the said enclosure (2) so as to provide temporary association during the centrifugation of the bag (1).
2. A bag (1) according to claim 1, characterised in that the temporary association means (8) are formed from at least one strip of flexible plastics material (9), the said strip (9) being connected to the bag (1) so as to form a passage between the said strip (9) and the said enclosure (2).
3. A bag (1) according to claim 2, characterised in that it has a substantially rectangular shape, the lateral ends (10) of the strip (9) being assembled respectively on two opposite edges (11, 11) of the bag (1).
4. A bag (1) according to claim 1, characterised in that the temporary association means (8) are formed by a portion of sheet of flexible plastics material (16), the said portion (16) being associated with the bag (1) so as to form a housing (19) between the said portion (16) and the said enclosure (2).
5. A bag (1) according to claim 4, characterised in that the bag (1) and the portion of sheet (16) have a substantially rectangular shape, three sides (17, 17, 17) of the portion of sheet (16) being assembled respectively on three adjacent edges (18, 18, 18) of the bag (1).
6. A bag system comprising at least one bag (1, 35) according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterised in that a filter (13, 13) is connected to the said bag (1, 35) by means of a tube (25, 42) so as to be able to be associated temporarily with the said bag (1, 35).
7. A bag system according to claim 6, characterised in that it also comprises at least one other bag (21, 34) connected to the filter (13, 13) andor to the bag (1, 35).
8. A method of separating blood into its various components using a bag system according to claim 6 or 7, the said method comprising the steps making provision for:
associating a filter (13, 13) with a bag (1, 35);
taking off the whole blood in a bag (21);
centrifuging the bag system so as to separate the blood into its various components;
separating the filter (13, 13) from the bag (1, 35) so as to allow subsequent filtration of at least one component of the blood.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A system for obtaining status of a receiving device over a network comprising:
equipment adapted to provide output signals indicative of the status of the receiving device, wherein the receiving device comprises an address for receiving communications;
a status file connected to the equipment for receiving the output signals from the equipment;
a first network connected to the status file;
a sending device connected to the first network, the sending device comprising instructions for accessing the status file over the first network,
and for obtaining the status of the receiving device, wherein the status comprises an identifier of a user within a preset access distance of the receiving device to receive communications.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the receiving device comprises a telephone, and wherein the signals indicative of the status of the receiving device comprises off-hook signals from the telephone if the telephone is off-hook.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein the status file comprises the off-hook status of the telephone if the of telephone is off hook.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the receiving device comprises a telephone, and wherein the signals indicative of the status of the receiving device comprises on-hook signals from the telephone if the telephone is on-hook.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the status file comprises the on-hook status of the telephone if the of telephone is on-hook.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the first network is selected from the group consisting of a wired network, wireless network, a fiber network, hybrid fiber coax network, a switched network, a packet-based network, a cable network, a public switched telephone network, and the Internet.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the receiving device is selected from the group consisting of a computing device, a digital telephone providing voice over IP, a personal data assistance, a cell phone, a radio phone, and a video phone.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein a sending device is selected from the group consisting of a computing device, a digital telephone providing voice over IP, a personal data assistance, a cell phone, a radio phone, and a video phone, a switch, a router, a proxy server, and a PBX.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises a second network and wherein the sending device is adapted to:
associate a user address with the user identifier; and
route communications addressed to the user address to the address of the receiving device via the second network.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein the second network is selected from the group consisting of a wired network, wireless network, a fiber network, hybrid fiber coax network, a switched network, a packet-based network, a cable network, a public switched telephone network, and the Internet.
11. The system of claim 1, wherein the receiving device is a telephone and the user address and the receiving device address are telephone numbers.
12. A system for determining the status of a receiving device over a network comprising:
the receiving device, wherein the receiving device comprises a receiving device address;
a datastore comprising a user identifier associated with a user address;
a receiving device monitor adapted to:
provide state data indicative of a state of the receiving device; and
provide proximity data indicative of a user within a preset access distance of the receiving device to receive communications from the sending device, and wherein the proximity data comprises a user identifier;

a status file adapted to receive the state data and the proximity data from the receiving device monitor;
a first network connected to the status file;
a sending device connected to the first network and a second network, wherein the sending device is adapted to:
access the status file over the first network;
obtain the status of the receiving device;
using the user identifier, obtain a user address; and
route communications addressed to the user address to the receiving device address via the second network.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the receiving device comprises a telephone, and wherein the signals indicative of the status of the receiving device comprises off-hook signals from the telephone if the telephone is off-hook.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the status file comprises the off-hook status of the telephone if the of telephone is off hook.
15. The system of claim 12, wherein the receiving device comprises a telephone, and wherein the signals indicative of the status of the receiving device comprises on-hook signals from the telephone if the telephone is on-hook.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the status file comprises the on-hook status of the telephone if the of telephone is on-hook.
17. The system of claim 1, wherein the first network and second network are selected from the group consisting of a wired network, wireless network, a fiber network, hybrid fiber coax network, a switched network, a packet-based network, a cable network, a public switched telephone network, and the Internet.
18. The system of claim 1, wherein the receiving device is selected from the group consisting of a computing device, a digital telephone providing voice over IP, a personal data assistance, a cell phone, a radio phone, and a video phone.
19. The system of claim 1, wherein a sending device is selected from the group consisting of a computing device, a digital telephone providing voice over IP, a personal data assistance, a cell phone, a radio phone, and a video phone, a switch, a router, a proxy server, and a PBX.
20. The system of claim 1, wherein the receiving device is a telephone and the user address and the receiving device address are telephone numbers.
21. A system for determining the status of a receiving device over a network comprising:
the receiving device, wherein the receiving device comprises a receiving device address;
a datastore comprising a user identifier associated with a user address;
a receiving device state monitor adapted to provide state data indicative of a state of the receiving device;
an RFID monitor adapted to provide proximity data indicative of a user within a preset access distance of the receiving device to receive communications from the sending device, and wherein the proximity data comprises a user identifier;
a status file adapted to receive the state data from the receiving device state monitor and the proximity data from the RFID monitor;
a first network connected to the status file;
a sending device connected to the first network and a second network, wherein the sending device is adapted to:
access the status file over the first network;
obtain the status of the receiving device;
using the user identifier, obtain a user address; and
route communications addressed to the user address to the receiving device address via the second network.

1. An evaluation apparatus which evaluates environmental load and cost when a group of products is reused in a plurality of markets that differ from each other in value lifetime of the group, the value lifetime of the group in each market being an upper limit of a product age at which the group can be used in each market, the apparatus comprising:
a generating unit configured to generate an attribute data item of the group including an initial value of the product age of the group, and to generate an attribute data item of a component included in each product of the group, the attribute data item of the component including an initial value of a remaining useful lifetime of the component, and to store the attribute data item of the group and the attribute data item of the component in a memory;
a simulation executing unit configured (a) to select in turn, from the plurality of markets, one market into which the group is introduced, according to an order determined based on a reusable product age corresponding to each market of the markets, the reusable product age of each market designating the product age of the group at which the group can be introduced into the respective market and being determined by the value lifetime of the respective market and a period of use of the group in respective market, (b) to calculate, for each of calculation step times, the environmental load and the cost of a circulated life cycle in which the group is introduced into the one market selected, (c) to update the product age of the group in the memory, by adding a period of use of the group in the one market selected, (d) to update the remaining useful lifetime of the component in the memory, by subtracting the period of use of the group in the one market selected, and (e) to repeat (a) to (d) until a threshold value obtained by adding a period of use of the group in one of the markets whose value lifetime is the longest among the markets to the product age of the group in the memory is larger than the value lifetime of the one of the markets; and
a display to display the environmental load and the cost calculated for each calculation step time.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the simulation executing unit further calculates, when the threshold value is larger than the value lifetime of the one of the markets, the environmental load and the cost of the circulated life cycle in which the group is disassembled for reuse of components and for material recycling.
3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the simulation executing unit selects the one market from the markets by comparing the product age of the group and the reusable product age corresponding to each market of the markets.
4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a optimizing unit configured to optimize a period of use of the group in each of the markets so that the product age of the group at a point in time when the group is recovered from one of the markets satisfy a reusable product age corresponding to another of the markets.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the simulation executing unit selects the one market from the markets according to the order determined based on the reusable product age corresponding to each market of the markets from which the group is recovered.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the simulation executing unit selects the one market from the markets according to the order determined based on reusable product age corresponding to each market of the markets and the environmental load and the cost calculated when each of the markets is selected.
7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the simulation executing unit further calculates the environmental load and the cost of the circulated life cycle in which the component whose remaining useful lifetime in the memory is less than the period of use of the group in the target market that is replaced with a new component or a reuse component.
8. An evaluation method executed in an evaluation apparatus for evaluating environmental load and cost when a group of products is reused in a plurality of markets that differ from each other in value lifetime of the group, the value lifetime of the group in each market being an upper limit of a product age at which the group can be used in each market, the method comprising:
(a) generating an attribute data item of the group including an initial value of the product age, and an attribute data item of a component included in each product of the group, the attribute data item of the component including an initial value of a remaining useful lifetime of the component, and storing the attribute data item of the group and the attribute data item of the component in a memory;
(b) selecting in turn, from the plurality of markets, one market into which the group is introduced, according to an order determined based on a reusable product age corresponding to each market of the markets, the reusable product age of each market designating the product age of the group at which the group can be introduced into the respective market and being determined by the value lifetime of the respective market and a period of use of the group in the respective market;
(c) calculating, for each of calculation step times, the environmental load and the cost of a circulated life cycle in which the group is introduced into the one market selected;
(d) updating the product age of the group in the memory, by adding a period of use of the group in the one market selected;
(e) updating the remaining useful lifetime of the component in the memory, by subtracting the period of use of the group in the one market selected;
(f) repeating (b) to (e) until a threshold value obtained by adding a period of use in one of the markets whose value lifetime is the longest among the markets to the product age of the group in the memory is larger than the value lifetime of the one of the markets; and
(g) displaying the environmental load and the cost calculated for each calculation step time.
9. A computer readable medium including computer readable instructions, that when executed, evaluate environmental load and cost when a group of products is reused in a plurality of markets which differ from each other in value lifetime of the group, the value lifetime of the group in each market being an upper limit of a product age of the group that the group can be used in each market, the computer readable instructions comprising:
instruction means for instructing a computer to (a) generate an attribute data item of the group including an initial value of the product age, and an attribute data item of a component included in each product of the group, the attribute data item of the component including a remaining useful lifetime of the component, and to store the attribute data item of the group and the attribute data item of the component in a memory;
instruction means for instructing the computer to (b) select, from the plurality of markets, one market into which the group is introduced, according to an order determined based on a reusable product age corresponding to each market of the markets, the reusable product age of each market designating the product age of the group at which the group can be introduced into the respective market and being determined by the value lifetime of the respective market and a period of use of the group in the respective market;
instruction means for instructing the computer to (c) calculate, for each of calculation step times, the environmental load and the cost of a circulated life cycle in which the group is introduced into the one market selected;
instruction means for instructing the computer to (d) update the product age of the group in the memory, by adding a period of use of the group in the one market selected;
instruction means for instructing the computer to (e) update the remaining useful lifetime of the component in the memory, by subtracting the period of use in the one market selected;
instruction means for instructing the computer to (f) repeat (b) to (e) until a threshold value obtained by adding a period of use in one of the markets whose value lifetime is the longest among the markets to the product age of the group in the memory is larger than the value lifetime of the one of the markets; and
instruction means for instructing the computer to (g) display the environmental load and the cost calculated for each calculation step time.
10. The evaluation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reusable product age corresponding to each market designates an upper limit of the product age of the group at which the group can be introduced into the respective market and is obtained by subtracting the period of use of the group in the respective market from the value lifetime of the respective market.
11. The evaluation method according to claim 8, wherein the selecting (b) selects, from the markets, a next one market into which the group recovered from the one market selected last is introduced when the threshold value is less than or equal to the value lifetime of the one of the markets, (c) calculates, for each of calculation step times, the environmental load and the cost of a circulated life cycle in which the group is introduced into the next one market selected, (d) updates the product age of the group in the memory, by adding a period of use of the group in the next one market selected, and (e) updates the remaining useful lifetime of the component in the memory, by subtracting the period of use of the group in the next one market selected.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A compound of formula I
wherein
R1 is C1-C4alkyl or C1-C4haloalkyl;
R2 is C1-C4alkyl;
R3 is hydrogen or halogen;
R4 is hydrogen, C1-C4alkyl or C1-C4halogenalkyl;
R5 and R6 are, independently from each other, hydrogen, halogen, C1-C4alkyl or C1-C4haloalkyl;
R8 and R10 are, independently from each other, hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6alkyl, phenyl which can be mono- or di-substituted by halogen or phenoxy which can be mono- or di-substituted by halogen;
or R7 and R8 together or R8 and R9 together form together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, a six-membered aromatic ring; and
R7, R9 and R11 are, independently from each other, hydrogen, hydroxy, halogen, C1-C6alkyl, C3-C6alkinyl, C1-C4alkoxy, halophenoxy, C1-C6haloalkyl or C1-C6haloalkoxy;
and agronomically acceptable saltsilstereoisomersdiastereoisomersenantiomerstautomers and N-oxides of those compounds.
2. A compound according to claim 1, wherein
R1 is C1-C4haloalkyl;
R2 is C1-C4 alkyl;
R3 is hydrogen;
R4 is C1-C4alkyl;
R5 is hydrogen or C1-C4alkyl;
R6 is hydrogen;
R7 is hydrogen, C1-C4alkoxy or halogen;
R8 is hydrogen, halogen, phenyl which can be mono- or di-substituted by halogen or phenoxy which can be mono- or di-substituted by halogen;
or R7 and R8 together or R8 and R9 together form together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, a six-membered aromatic ring;
R9 is hydrogen, halogen or phenoxy which can be substituted by halogen;
R10 is hydrogen and
R11 is hydrogen.
3. A compound according to claim 2, wherein R5 is methyl.
4. A compound according to claim 1, wherein
R1 is difluoromethyl;
R2 is methyl;
R3 is hydrogen;
R4 is methyl;
R5 is hydrogen or methyl;
R6 is hydrogen;
R7 is hydrogen, methoxy or chloro;
R8 is hydrogen; iodine, phenyl is mono- or di-substituted by chlorine or phenoxy which is mono- or di-substituted by chlorine;
or R7 and R8 together or R8 and R9 together form together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, a six-membered aromatic ring;
R9 is hydrogen, iodine, chlorine or phenoxy which is substituted by chlorine;
R10 is hydrogen and
R11 is hydrogen.
5. A compound according to claim 1, wherein
R1 is difluoromethyl, trifluoromethyl or methyl,
R2 is methyl;
R3 is hydrogen or fluoro;
R4 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl; preferably methyl;
R5 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl; and
R6 is hydrogen.
6. A compound according to claim 1, wherein
R1 is difluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl;
R2 is methyl;
R3 is hydrogen;
R4 is methyl;
R5 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl;
R6 is hydrogen;
R8 is hydrogen; iodine, phenyl which can be mono- or di-substituted by chlorine, phenoxy which can be mono- or di-substituted by chlorine, phenyl which can be mono- or di-substituted by chlorine,
R10 is hydrogen;
R7, R9 and R11 are, independently from each other, hydrogen or halogen, preferably hydrogen or chlorine.
7. A method of controlling infestation of useful plants by phytopathogenic microorganisms, wherein a compound of formula I according to claim 1 or a composition, comprising this compound as active ingredient, is applied to the plants, to parts thereof or the locus thereof.
8. A composition for controlling phytopathogenic microorganisms, comprising a compound of formula I according to claim 1 and at least one inert carrier.