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Patent GB-2390232-A (GB)
Title: Temporary electrical supply system
Inventor: EVANS DAVID
IPC: H01R25/16
Filed: 2002-04-25
Abstract: An electrical supply system for a temporary construction, such as a stand at an exhibition, comprises an electrical bus bar which can be releasably secured to the temporary construction. The bus bar has power outlets along its length, to which electrical components 14 can be plugged in to provide lighting and power sockets 28 on the construction at desired locations. The bus bar may contain four wires (24, Fig 3C), and may be cut to length or joined to additional bus bars.
Patent GB-2390475-A (GB)
Title: Control of the Gain of a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier
Inventor: KELLY ANTHONY EDWARD
IPC: H01S5/50
Filed: 2002-07-02
Abstract: A semiconductor optical amplifier 1 comprises a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifier stages 2 which are integrated in series along a waveguide 7 in a single semiconductor chip 6. Each semiconductor optical amplifier stage 2 may have respective electrical contacts 10, 11-13 for supplying a drive current across the respective semiconductor optical amplifier stage 2. A control circuit 4 controls the drive current of each semiconductor optical amplifier stage 2 to provide a desired overall gain. Over a predetermined operating range for the overall gain at the ends of which range the semiconductor optical amplifier stages 2 each have a respective minimum and maximum operating gain, the gain of each semiconductor optical amplifier stage 2 along a direction of signal propagation along the waveguide 7 is changed between its respective minimum and maximum operating gains over a successively higher portion of the predetermined operating range for the overall gain. A semiconductor optical amplifier in which at least one electrical contact for each stage of the amplifier is electrically isolated from the electrical contacts of the other semiconductor amplifier stages to allow independent control of drive current across each semiconductor amplifier stage is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2380878-A (GB)
Title: Direct Conversion Receiver
Inventor: TAKAKI TETSUYA
IPC: H03G3/30
Filed: 2002-07-31
Abstract: A direct conversion receiver which amplifies a high-frequency reception signal from an antenna 101 by using an amplifier 103 and converts the signal into a baseband signal by using a mixer 106,107, comprises an attenuator 104 provided on the input stage of the mixer, and a control device 113 for comparing antenna reception power with a first threshold and controlling the attenuation amount of the attenuator 104 on the basis of the comparison result. In an alternative arrangement (Fig. 5) the control device 113 compares the antenna reception power with the first threshold and controls switching between a route through the attenuator 502 and the route through the amplifier 503 on the basis of the comparison result.
Patent GB-2374999-A (GB)
Title: Incorporating graphics and interactive triggers in a video stream
Inventor: MARTINOLICH JAMES
IPC: H04N7/24
Filed: 2001-02-09
Abstract: Triggers for interactive television display are incorporated into a video stream in coordination with graphics associated with the triggers. Graphic sources such as channels (16, 18) of a character generator (21) supply graphics associated with the triggers to graphic signal inputs (26, 28) of a switch. When a channel supplies a graphic, a message denoting the associated trigger and associating the trigger with the channel is forwarded to a gateway computer (60). The gateway computer monitors connections between graphic signal inputs (26, 28) and the video output (32) of the switch, and forwards triggers associated with a particular channel to an inserter (40) only if such channel is connected to output (32).
Patent GB-2393751-A (GB)
Title: Joint in weather strip using both moulding and heat activated material
Inventor: TITZ PETER
IPC: B60J10/00
Filed: 2002-10-02
Abstract: A joint 17 between two sections of a sealing, trimming or guiding strip 53, 76 is formed by joining part 72 of the first section to part of the second section with a heat activatable material. The remaining parts (for example 78) of the first and second sections are joined by a moulding operation. This method is particularly applicable to corner joints in a guiding strip for a window pane, where the parts with flocked surfaces may be joined by the heat activatable material, and other parts are joined by moulding. This reduces damage to the flocked areas caused by the heat of the moulding operation. The heat activatable material may be activated by this heat, and the moulding may additionally form a flap 20 to obscure a corner of the window frame.
Patent GB-2380546-A (GB)
Title: Process for differential diagnosis of alzheimer's dementia and device therefor
Inventor: JACKOWSKI GEORGE
IPC: C07K16/40
Filed: 2002-04-24
Abstract: A method for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease(AD) is disclosed. The method involves directly detecting the presence of a biochemical marker, specifically human glutamine synthetase, in bodily fluid, preferably blood or a blood product. The detection is by an immunoassay incorporating an antibody specific to human glutamine synthetase. In addition, a method for distinguishing between AD and non-AD dementia is disclosed.
Patent GB-2388470-A (GB)
Title: Low capacitance bidirectional protection device
Inventor: BALLON CHRISTIAN
IPC: H01L27/02
Filed: 2002-12-20
Abstract: A low-capacitance bidirectional device of protection against overvoltages, intended to be used at high frequencies, including first 41 and second 42 discrete ona-way Shockley diodes, the cathode and the anode of the first diode being respectively connected to the anode and to the cathode or the second diode, the break-over voltages of each diode ranging between 50 and 125 V.
Patent GB-2385213-A (GB)
Title: Device for fixing a self-supporting cable on a support with vertical overload limiter
Inventor: LIBERT JEAN-CLAUDE
IPC: H02G7/08
Filed: 2003-01-03
Abstract: This device comprises two metal jaws (M1, M2) which can be brought closer together by transverse bolts (1) and bearing, near at least one of their longitudinal edges, an asymmetric C-shaped longitudinal groove (7, 8) delimiting a channel for housing the carrier cable (C2), the said channel opening to the side via a slot (10) for accommodating the connecting strap (9b) of the self-supporting cable (C). In each jaw (M1, M2), the groove or each of the longitudinal grooves (7, 8) is formed in an overload-limiting piece (G1, G2) consisting of a lining made of plastic and connected to the corresponding jaw (M1, M2), the material defining this groove (7 or 8) being connected to the body of the lining (G1, G2) by a longitudinal region (Zr) that can rupture in the event of vertical overload and comprising, for example, recesses (26).
Patent GB-2397739-A (GB)
Title: A blower-vacuum device for collecting garden waste
Inventor: TATE CLARE
IPC: A47L5/00
Filed: 2003-01-31
Abstract: The present invention provides a blower-vacuum device having means for collecting garden waste, the garden waste collecting means comprising: an attachment part (42) for receiving a garden waste receptacle; and a garden waste receptacle (30) for removable engagement with the attachment part; wherein the attachment part (42) comprises an arcuate groove (44); and the garden waste receptacle (30) comprises a band (33) defining a mouth (35) of the receptacle for sliding engagement with the groove. Thus the receptacle may be easily removed from the attachment part of the blower-vacuum device merely by sliding the band (33) of the receptacle out of the groove (44), whereupon the receptacle may then be emptied of garden waste by tipping it upside-down. In a preferred embodiment, the band (33) is made of a resilient material, whereby when the band is inserted into the groove (44), the band is constrained by the groove and the mouth (35) of the receptacle defined by the band is made narrower than when the band is withdrawn from the groove. Thus when the band is withdrawn from the groove (44), the mouth (35) of the receptacle opens out (arrows R and S), making it easier to empty.
Patent GB-2400776-A (GB)
Title: method of using an algebraic interleaver for turbo encoding/decoding
Inventor: KOFMAN YOSSI
IPC: H03M13/29
Filed: 2003-04-14
Abstract: A method (400) for coding one or more data blocks in a communication unit comprises the step of performing an intra row permutation operation in an algebraic interleaver (215, 320, 345) or de-interleaver (335, 350). A permutation is performed on a matrix comprising bits or symbols of said one or more data blocks arranged in a number of rows and a number of columns. The method further comprises the step of calculating (420) an index value (m) of a sequence s(m) based on a sequence of values (g(i)) by iteratively performing a number of modulo addition operations for intra-row permutation. Advantageously, by performing intra row calculations using modulo arithmetic in an algebraic interleaver, a reduction of computational complexity in an interleaving operation is achieved.
Patent GB-2391740-A (GB)
Title: Foldable cell phone device
Inventor: YAMAMOTO KOICHI
IPC: H04M1/02
Filed: 2003-02-04
Abstract: A foldable cell phone device, comprising an operating part (3) installed on the opposed surface of a lower casing (200) opposed to an upper casing (100) when folded up, a circuit substrate (7) installed in the lower casing (200), and a plate-like spacer (5) installed between the operating part (3) and the circuit substrate (7) and supported by a rib.
Patent GB-2394458-A (GB)
Title: Covering for opening with base element used for packaging
Inventor: SINGH AMRIK
IPC: E06B9/266
Filed: 2003-10-22
Abstract: A covering 10 for a window, door or similar opening comprising a cover member 16 and a load or base member 14 located on the cover member 16 for urging in use the cover member 16 to cover the opening when the covering is in the unpackaged condition. When the covering 10 is in an new or original unpackaged condition, the load or base element 14 forms at least part of packaging for the cover member 16. The cover member 16 can be of a pleated form 18 and can be fixed in the aperture by an adhesive member (Fig 4, 36). Coverage adjustment in opening can be achieved by the use of a cord (fig 4, 32) running through holes (fig 4, 30) in the cover member 16 and a holding notch (fig 4, 34) where the cord (fig 4, 32) can be located and held against the load or base member 14.
Patent GB-2397869-A (GB)
Title: Bi-directional piloted solenoid-operated valve
Inventor: LIANTONIO VITO M
IPC: F16K37/00
Filed: 2003-11-26
Abstract: A bi-directional piloted solenoid-operated valve comprises valve housing <B>12</B> having first and second ports <B>14</B>, <B>16</B>, a main disc <B>18</B> positioned in the housing and movable between an open and closed position and defining a fluid chamber within the housing and including first and second passages <B>24</B>, <B>26</B> extending therethrough and communicating with the fluid chamber and first and second flow-diverting mechanisms <B>28</B>, <B>30</B>. The flow-diverting mechanisms <B>28</B>, <B>30</B> providing pressure-assisted actuation and sealing to the main sealing disc. A manual override mechanism can be provided; the valve may also include a mechanical position indicator for providing visual confirmation of the main disc.
Patent GB-2394600-A (GB)
Title: One-cylinder stack capacitor
Inventor: OH JUNG-HWAN
IPC: H01L21/02
Filed: 2002-11-27
Abstract: A one-cylinder stack capacitor is disclosed in which an etch stop layer 20 is formed over a surface of an interlayer insulating layer 100 and over a surface of a conductive plug 115 extending at a depth from the surface of the interlayer insulating layer. A lower mold layer is deposited over the etch stop layer, and a wet etch rate of the lower mold layer is adjusted by adding dopants to the lower mold layer during formation of the lower mold layer, and by annealing the lower mold layer. An upper mold layer is then deposited over the surface of the lower mold layer, such that a wet etch rate of the upper mold layer is less than the adjusted wet etch rate of the lower mold layer. The upper mold layer, the lower mold layer and the etch stop layer are then subjected to dry etching to form an opening therein which exposes at least a portion of the surface of the contact plug. Then a wet etching of the upper mold layer and the lower mold layer is performed so as to increase a size of the opening at the lower mold layer and so at to expose a surface portion of the etch stop layer adjacent the surface of the conductive plug. A conductive material is then deposited over the surface of the opening in the upper and lower mold layers to define a tapered cylindrical capacitor electrode 150, where diameter A   /  C, C > B, and C > D.
Patent GB-2409901-A (GB)
Title: Determining shear wave velocity from tube wave characteristics
Inventor: KRITSKI ALEXANDER
IPC: G01V1/30
Filed: 2004-01-09
Abstract: A method is provided for processing seismic data records, such as VSP data obtained from a borehole having an interface between a borehole fluid and a rock formation. The seismic data records comprise of tube waves, pseudo-Rayleigh waves, guided waves or surface waves measured at the formation-fluid interface. A transform (eg wavelet transform) is applied to pairs of seismic records to generate a pair of two dimensional fields (wavelet fields). The phase velocities of the tube waves are computed by applying a cross correlation to the wavelet fields and analysing the distribution of maxima and minima of phase differences in the phase field of the cross correlation. The phase velocities are then inverted to compute the shear velocities.
Patent GB-2419271-A (GB)
Title: A gripping means to aid travel on a slippery surface
Inventor: PATEL HITESH DHANJI
IPC: A43B13/26
Filed: 2004-10-11
Abstract: A gripping means to aid travel on a slippery surface which comprises at least one member 14 which obtrudes (extends) and retrudes (retracts) from a surface 30. The member may be a spike cleat or stud for a sports shoe or a tyre. The gripping means may be adapted to be retruded resiliently by using either a spring 16 or pneumatic means which allows the amount of retrusion to vary depending upon the ground being travelled upon. Also claimed is a means to select the resilience and for attaching the gripping means to a traction member.
Patent GB-2409653-A (GB)
Title: A filter assembly having a bypass filter in a bypass passageway
Inventor: FRITH TERENCE G
IPC: E21B21/00
Filed: 2004-12-02
Abstract: A filter assembly, eg a downhole filtering tool, comprises an internal filtering module 110 which includes a primary flow passageway 115 having filters 120, 130 and a secondary flow passageway in the form of a bypass flow tube 145 having a bypass filter 160. A bypass valve 150 selectively opens and closes the flow tube 145 when fluid pressure is respectively above and below an adjustable, predetermined threshold value which is altered by a spring 158. In operation, filtering sub (100, fig 2) is connected to a drill string (see fig 1). As drilling fluid is pumped down the drill string it flows though passageway 115 and debris and drill cuttings are trapped by filters 120, 130. When the filters 120, 130 become clogged, the pressure builds up opens the bypass valve 150 and fluid flows though flow tube 145 via the bypass filter 160. The filters 120, 130 may be made of a high strength alloy steel which have a high wear resistance to minimized erosion.
Patent GB-2421927-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in wipes
Inventor: ABBOSH ODAY
IPC: B32B7/02
Filed: 2005-01-10
Abstract: A wipe comprises a laminate of two layers of tissue paper, one being soft and absorbent, the other being harder and sufficiently non-porous that it can act as a hygienic barrier layer. Each layer may further comprise a plurality of tissue plies. The wipe may further be impregnated with a scented material or an antibacterial material and may be generally oval or pear-shaped in order to ecomomise on used material. The wipes may be decorated eg. by embossing, printing, perforating or quilting. In one embodiment the wipe comprises a sheet of conventional soft lavatory paper laminated to a sheet of conventional hard lavatory paper and is intended to prevent strike-through during use.
Patent GB-2411308-A (GB)
Title: Video signal processor
Inventor: HARTLEY RICHARD
IPC: H04N5/45
Filed: 2005-01-11
Abstract: A video signal processor receives an input video signal S of a first definition and processes this to provide a picture component signal P e.g. for creating the display of a picture of reduced size, and also to provide a measurement component signal W for the display of a graphical representation of at least one characteristic associated with the input video signal. A video signal generator G generates a video signal V of a second (higher) definition for providing a background signal, and the picture component signal, measurement component signal and video signal P,W,V of the second definition are all combined to provide an output video signal S'.
Patent GB-2411642-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible cartons
Inventor: BINGLEY DAVID
IPC: A47B43/02
Filed: 2005-02-28
Abstract: Compartments 114, 116 and 118 are defined which, if not suspended from above by the handle 122 collapse around parallel folds at each side. Each compartment can be made relatively rigid by inserting a container to abut with, for instance, the side walls 128 and 130 of a compartment 124 to prevent those side walls from moving relative to each other. The container may comprise a plant pot in which the tray of the plant pot rests on the base 124 of the lower compartment 118 and with the flowers projecting up into the remainder of compartment 118. The compartments 114,116,118 may be formed from respective blanks or by folding a single blank (Figs 1 and 2).
Patent GB-2413217-A (GB)
Title: Coupler detector
Inventor: FRANK MICHAEL LOUIS
IPC: H04B1/04
Filed: 2005-03-21
Abstract: A coupled circuit 10 (10', 10'') comprises a semiconductor substrate 18, e.g. GaAs, a coupler 12, and a detector 14 electrically connected to the coupler, the coupler and detector being integrated into the substrate. In the coupler circuit, semiconductor processing allows for small trace and space rules which provide for tight coupling.
Patent GB-2429347-A (GB)
Title: Fail safe switching of an electrical load
Inventor: BEAUDION DAVID
IPC: H01F7/18
Filed: 2005-04-01
Abstract: A circuit for switching a load 50 by a switch 98 that interrupts a current path between the load 50 and a power source 56 comprises a logic manipulator 72 that receives a condition signal 26 and executes a truth table producing an enable signal 76 to a bias circuit 80 to operate switch 98. Bias circuit 80 may comprise a photodiode 82 and a photovoltaic element 84 and switch 98 may comprise a power semiconductor such as a MOSFET. The circuit may include a second logic manipulator 100 which may comprise a microprocessor, that independently validates condition signal 26 and produces a second enable signal 78 and a third enable signal 102 for a second switch 104 that also interrupts the current path to load 50. Microprocessor 100 may receive feedback signals 110,122 from isolating feedback means 108,120, associated with load 50, that monitor the state of switches 104, 98. A watchdog circuit 126 monitors the operation of microprocessor 100 and, with annunciator 130 warns of fault conditions such as component failure and microprocessor software malfunction. The circuit may be used to operate a load 50 that may include a motor, a solenoid or a power operator in applications such as machines and operating doors on transit vehicles. The switches may be arranged in an H bridge configuration (fig 4, 200) and include pulse width modulators (fig 4, 206,224) where a motor (fig 4, 180) is to be operated in either direction.
Patent GB-2425570-A (GB)
Title: I.c. engine with cylinder head, cylinder block and manifold formed integrally
Inventor: TURNER JAMES WILLIAM GRIFFITH
IPC: F02F1/00
Filed: 2005-04-27
Abstract: The monoblock i.c. engine has a single component 10 comprising a cylinder head portion 203, a cylinder block portion 202 and a manifold portion 204. The manifold portion may be an exhaust manifold. Inlet runners (23,24,25, fig.1) may also be integral with the component 10. The engine has a number of poppet valves 14,16 which extend through passages provided in the cylinder head portion 203 and which are engageable with valve seats that span both a surface of the cylinder head portion 203 and of the cylinder block portion 202. The valves 14,16 can thus be larger, improving performance and/or packaging of close-spaced fuel injectors and facilitating spray-guided direct injection technology. A gasoline direct fuel injector 400 may be provided in a region where the cylinder head portion 203 meets the cylinder block portion 202. A crankcase 214, eg of magnesium, may be attached to the unitary component 10 by mechanical fasteners 310, 311. The whole assembly may have a metal-matrix composite (MMC) insert for strength. The engine may be of Vee-configuration. with two head/block/manifold units attached to a common crankcase.
Patent GB-2426044-A (GB)
Title: Heating system and valve
Inventor: RICE KENNETH RICHARD
IPC: F24D12/02
Filed: 2005-05-13
Abstract: A heating system including two heat sources (7 and 1, figure 1), one of which heats water which is held in a heated water storage reservoir (3 figure 1) and a temperature responsive valve 6 having one inlet 22 and two outlets 20, 21 such that water is supplied from the reservoir, unless the temperature of the water in the valve falls below a predetermined temperature, when the water is supplied via the second heat source, which is a boiler 7 and may be a combi-boiler. The first heat source may be solar powered and may employ a heat exchanger (13 figure 1). The valve 6 may include a body 23 with a bore 27 and a central chamber 24, outlets 20, 21 at opposite ends of the bore and the inlet 22 communicating with the chamber, a valve member 31 movable between blocking each of the two outlets and resiliently biased towards blocking the outlet 20 and including a part 32 which expands with heat to move the valve member to a position blocking outlet 21. Part 32 may contain material which undergoes a transition when heated, such as wax which melts.
Patent GB-2416449-A (GB)
Title: Method of detecting a sample region in a laser scanning microscope with point like light source distribution and movement between the sample and light
Inventor: ENGELMANN RALF
IPC: G02B21/24
Filed: 2005-06-21
Abstract: Method of detecting at least one sample region using a laser scanning microscope by means of a relative movement between the illumination light and the sample via first scanning means along at least one scanning axis substantially perpendicular to the illumination axis, wherein the illumination light illuminates the sample in parallel in several points or regions and several points or regions are detected simultaneously, wherein second scanning means are moved at an angle to the plane of the relative movement, preferably perpendicular thereto, and an image is recorded, in that the movement of the first and second scanning means is coupled and a three-dimensional scanning movement is performed by virtue of the illumination in the sample, and wherein the second scanning means coupled to the movement of the first scanning means are moved in such a manner that straight and/or curved lines and/or planar and/or curved surfaces are scanned which are extended along at least one scanning direction of the first scanning means and also along the scanning direction of the second scanning means.