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Patent GB-2410389-A (GB)
Title: Display device and system
Inventor: MARTINEZ ANTHONY
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2004-01-20
Abstract: A display system comprises a display device and a remote image capture device 24. The display device is a container 10, preferably a briefcase, having open and closed configurations incorporating a display 12 on its external surface, preferably the surface of an upper briefcase portion. The container 10 may house a power supply and display driver, and may be powered by solar cells 20. The remote image capture device 24 transmits image data to the display device, preferably via RF transmission. The display device may transmit the data to, and receive data from, a further remote transceiver, preferably a node of a communications network. The display device may also incorporate a camera to allow conferencing via said network. The display device may be remotely operable, wirelessly, or hardwired, allowing control of the images displayed. The image capture device 24 may attach to another object, such as a boom or remote controlled carriage.
Patent GB-2399417-A (GB)
Title: Detecting faults or aging in an exhaust gas sensor
Inventor: WANG WEI
IPC: F02D41/14
Filed: 2004-02-12
Abstract: A non-intrusive method and arrangement for detecting proper functioning or aging of an oxygen sensor, without increasing tailpipe emissions. The method is operated only when at least one engine operating condition such as coolant temperature, rotational speed or unbiased air/fuel ratio satisfies a predetermined condition. A series of sensor output level signals are taken over a predetermined time interval, at least one mathematical characteristic is determined from the readings, the characteristic is compared with a standard, and proper functioning or aging is determined from the comparison. The mathematical characteristic may be an average, a difference between two successive readings or a maximum or minimum value.
Patent GB-2395411-A (GB)
Title: Game system and image generation method
Inventor: KITSUTAKA SHIGERU
IPC: G06T15/04
Filed: 2001-01-23
Abstract: A game system which generates a game image for a domestic game, comprises: means which sets an adjustment data for adjusting display properties of a monitor based on operational data inputted by a player through a game controller; save means which saves the set adjustment data in a saved information storage device for storing personal data of the player; and means which performs transformation processing on image information of an original image based on the adjustment data obtained by adjusting the display properties or loaded from the saved information storage device. Also disclosed is creating a focused image e.g. corrected by a video filter for index colour texture mapping.
Patent GB-2400435-A (GB)
Title: Methods for determining characteristics of earth formations
Inventor: SPROSS RONALD L
IPC: E21B47/00
Filed: 2002-10-01
Abstract: A method for measuring one or more characteristics of an earth formation whereby energy is emitted circumferentially about a borehole (16) into the formation, and the amount reflected back is detected during a plurality of sample periods. The samples are grouped into two or more groups by the azimuthal sector in which the sample was collected. Within a group, each sample is mathematically weighted according to the standoff of the detector from the borehole wall when the sample was taken. Within a group, the weighted samples are summed to produce a weighted total amount of energy detected within a sector. The weighted total is then transformed into the one or more characteristics.
Patent GB-2396774-A (GB)
Title: Relay for personal interpreter
Inventor: ENGELKE ROBERT M
IPC: H04M3/42
Filed: 2001-09-19
Abstract: A relay method to facilitate communication through the telephone system between deaf and hearing people. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the words spoken by a hearing person are transmitted to a computer operating a voice recognition software package untrained to a new users voice. It is therefore also contemplated that the deaf user is provided with a specific key or signal to summon a call assistant into the call if the error rate begins to increase for any reason. The deaf user presses a designated key, labelled "Help", to signal the call assistant to re-enter the call. The call assistant, to whom the voice recognition software is trained, then re-engages in the call and begins re-voicing or correcting the text stream for the assisted user.
Patent GB-2413292-A (GB)
Title: A receptacle used as a filter
Inventor: FEWSTER ERIC ALAN
IPC: B01D27/08
Filed: 2004-04-20
Abstract: A receptacle functions as an intermittent slow sand filter if filled with sand and is stackable. Preferably the receptacle has a main compartment (10, Fig 1) partially filled with the sand or other suitable filter media. Preferably the receptacle filters water which is allowed to enter through a diffuser plate 15, travel through the filter media and exit through an outlet 13. A cavity may be formed between two components forming an inner 5 and outer wall 4 of the receptacle and wherein the inner wall is roughened to avoid water short-circuiting the filter media. The inner and outer walls 5, 4 may be held together by a clip device (15, Fig 6). Advantageously the receptacle tapers from one end to another and allows multiple receptacles to stack in a space saving manner.
Patent GB-2402806-A (GB)
Title: Disk playback apparatus
Inventor: TAKAHASHI AKIHITO
IPC: G11B27/30
Filed: 2004-05-24
Abstract: A disc playback apparatus is provided which can play back video and audio without a sense of incongruity regardless of the contents of a video CD even after a stop. The disk playback apparatus includes an address detecting section 18 for detecting an address, at which picture data is recorded on a disk, from the playback data stored in an external memory 14. A continued playback address is stored in the memory section 19. Every time the continued playback address detecting section detects the address, the detected address replaces the previous address. A control microcomputer 17 restarts reading, with a pickup, the data recorded on the disk from the address stored in the continued playback address memory section in response to a playback instruction issued after a stop.
Patent GB-2402175-A (GB)
Title: Dispensing device
Inventor: EBERHARDT HEIKO
IPC: B05B1/00
Filed: 2001-05-29
Abstract: A dispensing device comprises a hollow cap 7 which includes an actuating button 6 and which contains a spray conduit 10 communicating between a container 1, which includes a reservoir for a product, and a product dispensing nozzle of the cap 12, the spray conduit 10 has an outer wall which is spaced from the hollow cap. The spray conduit is encompassed by a sound absorbing material 13, 20 which functions as a noise damper.
Patent GB-2407915-A (GB)
Title: Microwave antenna with strip-line matching element adjacent horn radiator
Inventor: GOTTWALD FRANK
IPC: H01Q1/38
Filed: 2004-10-08
Abstract: In the case of a microwave antenna, a dielectric substrate (1) is provided with a stripline (2). A conical or horn-shaped waveguide radiator (4), which is disposed above the stripline (2), is integrated into a metallic cover (3). A matching element (5) is provided for the transition from the stripline (2) to the aperture of the waveguide radiator. The matching element is a dielectric body having an elongate shape arranged above and along the strip-line. The matching element body is shaped such that the distance between the underside of the body and the strip line increases with increasing distance along the strip line away from the horn. Plural antennas may be formed as an array.
Patent GB-2419387-A (GB)
Title: Belt tensioning mechanism
Inventor: VOOREN SANDOR W VAN
IPC: F16H7/12
Filed: 2004-10-22
Abstract: A belt tensioning mechanism comprises a cranking arm 28 pivotable about a fixed axis between two positions and connected to move an idler roller 20 into and out of contact with a belt 10 to be tensioned. A plate 46 rotatable with the cranking arm 28 cooperates with a spring biased locking lever 50 to lock the cranking arm 28 in each of the two positions. The idler roller 20 may be connected to a rod 24 which is slidably connected to said cranking arm 28. Said idler roller may be spring biased by springs 36,38. The belt tensioner may be used in a forage harvester.
Patent GB-2419774-A (GB)
Title: Accessing IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) services
Inventor: LINDGREN HANS
IPC: H04Q7/20
Filed: 2004-10-27
Abstract: A method of facilitating access to IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services by non-IMS enabled terminals. Non-IMS enabled terminals, such as blackphones and DECT phones are registered with a Home IMS gateway (Residential Gateway) and, in response to the registration, an IMS registration is performed, on behalf of the terminal, between the Home IMS gateway and the IMS, using information obtained from a Universal SIM application of a UMTS Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) present at the Home IMS Gateway. The Home IMS Gateway may comprise a SIP Back-to-Back User Agent having an interface to the ISIM on the UICC.
Patent GB-2421770-A (GB)
Title: Stepless infinitely variable ratio gearbox
Inventor: TURVEY ROGER JAMES
IPC: F16H3/72
Filed: 2005-01-04
Abstract: A stepless infinitely variable ratio gearbox comprises a first stage epicyclic gear train having a first carrier (a) connected to an engine and having first planet gears (b) engaging a first ring gear (d) and a first sun gear having a shaft (c). The shaft (c) is connected to a second ring gear (g) of a second stage epicyclic gear train having a second sun gear (e) connected the first ring gear (d). Second planet gears (f) engage the second sun gear (e) and the second ring gear (g) and drive a second carrier (h) which is connected to an output. A viscous brake (e.g. see (i), fig 5) acts, for example, on the first ring gear (d) and produces a relatively high braking force when a relatively low torque is applied to it so as to provide a low velocity ratio in the first and second epicyclic gear trains. When a relatively high torque is applied to the brake it produces a relatively low braking force and thereby a high velocity ratio in the first and second epicyclic gear trains.
Patent GB-2423490-A (GB)
Title: Cyclonic triple separator
Inventor: PARKINSON DAVID JOHN
IPC: B04C7/00
Filed: 2005-02-23
Abstract: A separator 10 for separating or partially separating oil, water, gas and solids from hydrocarbon production well fluids comprises a vessel 12 and a cyclone 14 contained within the vessel. An inlet passage 18 passes through a wall of the vessel 12 and into the cyclone 14, the inlet passage having means for causing the flow to rotate within the cyclone. A first outlet passage 22 for an oil rich phase extends from a position within the cyclone and substantially on a central axis 24 of the cyclone; a second outlet passage 32 for a water phase extends from a base of the vessel; and a third outlet passage 38 for the solids extends from a lower end of the cyclone.
Patent GB-2430141-A (GB)
Title: Pulverising disk for juicer
Inventor: LIN KOU-CHI
IPC: A47J43/25
Filed: 2005-11-17
Abstract: A cutting disc for a juicer is mounted co-axially with its inlet aperture or pipe. The disc comprises a thin metal sheet 11 attached to a thicker plastic disc 12 with screws 13 or like fasteners. The disc is divided into a plurality of cutting or grinding zones, a first zone located eccentrically to the centre of the disc with cutting blades or pawls 15, a second zone with smaller cutting formations 14 which encircles the first zone, and a third perimeter region with cutting ridges 16.
Patent GB-2435952-A (GB)
Title: A method of operating a print head and a print head with associated memory for storing the value of the electrical resistance of the print head
Inventor: BEECH ALAN
IPC: B41J2/37
Filed: 2006-03-09
Abstract: A method of operating a printing apparatus 10 (eg a thermal printer) of the kind including a print head 12 having an array 14 of printing elements which in use are selectively energised for an "on" period in each of a plurality of row positions of an image to be printed, to effect printing, and a power supply 15 to provide electrical power to the print head 12 in each row position, includes setting the duration of the "on" period for which the printing elements are selectively energised in each row position, depending upon a characteristic of the print head 12. The value of the electrical resistance of the print head can be stored on a memory in the print head. The printer apparatus can measure the resistance of the print head.
Patent GB-2427833-A (GB)
Title: Transformable toy and leg structure for toys
Inventor: TORIYAMA RYOSUKE
IPC: A63H17/21
Filed: 2005-01-14
Abstract: A transformable toy in which its unprecedented process of transformation can be enjoyed. A movable toy includes assembled parts composed of a plurality of parts which are mounted on the upper half of a toy doll to constitute the exterior (30) of the upper half of a toy robot. The assembled parts are constituted by first through third assembled parts constituting sections. The first assembled parts constituting section (13A, 14, 15) is disposed in the front of the toy doll. The second assembled parts constituting section (11, 13B, 17) is connected to first assembled parts constituting section and disposed in the back of the toy doll. Handles (16A, 16B) constituting the third assembled parts constituting section connect the first and second assembled parts constituting sections. The first through third assembled parts constituting sections are annularly fitted together to constitute the exterior (30) of the toy doll.
Patent GB-2430332-A (GB)
Title: Multifunction processor for mobile digital devices
Inventor: JAMES DAVID
IPC: H04M1/72427
Filed: 2006-09-20
Abstract: This patent concerns a multi-function processor that allows special control of mobile digital devices such as mobile phones MDAs, mobile gamers or PDAs. This processor has a number of functions for using the mobile device as an external device controller and using the camera, microphone and other input sensors/ devices, other than simply as recording or sensing devices. An example of such processor functions include: using the camera to move cursors on the screen and using the camera for object recognition such as iris, fingerprint and facial recognition, movement sensing and object 3D tracking and the microphone for sound recognition and the option of plugging in other input sensors or devices for advanced tracking, recording or sensing eg: smoke, PIR detectors, radar, IR cameras and ultrasound acoustic detectors to name but a few types of sensor. This processor may also be used to switch on cameras and microphones and other input sensors/ devices, of remote digital device, do advanced data analysis on the sensed information and transmit this information to remote mobile and/or static devices. The invention's multi-function processor also allows direct (point to point) mobile to mobile device gaming and other control messages to be sent to one or more mobile or static devices, equipped with suitable wireless transceiver and processor. The processor allows the mobile device to be used as a general remote interface/ controller/ transceiver for suitably equipped devices, such as locks, TVs, ATMs, RF identity systems, amplifiers, switches, thermostats, computer cursors and pointing devices, among others.
Patent GB-2431307-A (GB)
Title: Police radar detector with reduced emissions
Inventor: MARTINSON GLEN D
IPC: G01S7/02
Filed: 2006-10-16
Abstract: A radar detector for detecting signals in a police radar band is disclosed. The detector includes features to reduce emissions such as those typically generated by the detector's local oscillator. Two low noise amplifiers (LNA's) 73,76, operating in X band and a combined K/Ka band, respectively amplify X and K/Ka band signals from separate antennae 34,32 and deliver those signals over separate, elongated and narrow signal paths to X and K/Ka mixers 74,77, where those signals are mixed with local oscillator (LO) signals to produce an intermediate frequency signal for detection. The elongated, narrow signal paths from the antennae to the mixers reduce LO emissions, and those emissions are further reduced by incorporating radar absorbers between the circuit board and detector case along the antenna-mixer path, including radar absorptive paint on the circuit board itself along this path, and sealing the case with a conducting sealing gasket.
Patent GB-2435650-A (GB)
Title: Matrix body drill bits
Inventor: SQUIER BRIAN D
IPC: E21B10/60
Filed: 2006-12-15
Abstract: An earth boring shear bit having a plenum from which drilling fluid flows along passageways to the outside of the bit is made by positioning a plenum blank 509 in a mould, at least partially filling the remainder of the mould with matrix powder and binder and then sintering. The plenum blank 509 is made in a mould which in turn is formed using a pattern of the plenum. The pattern may be made using a computer aided manufacturing technique. Also a method of manufacturing an earth-boring shear bit having a plenum and at least one fluid pathway by modeling fluid flow through the plenum fluid pathway, determining a geometry to reduce fluid separation through the fluid pathway, constructing a plenum blank 509 based upon the model and sintering matrix powder between the plenum blank and a bit head mold to create the fluid plenum and at least one fluid pathway.
Patent GB-2429958-A (GB)
Title: Polyimide thickfilm flow feature photoresist and method of applying same
Inventor: BERTELSEN CRAIG M
IPC: B41J2/015
Filed: 2005-06-29
Abstract: A polyimide photoresist for thick film flow features adheres to a polyimide nozzle plate or other materials, without the use of an adhesive material between the two surfaces. Further, the photoresist can utilize an acrylate UV initiator, which can reduce the potential for HF to interact with the ink, and which can cause flocculation and eliminate the need for extremely long postbake cures used to remove HF from the photoresist. In another embodiment, an epoxy adhesive containing a dicyandiamide catalyst can be used to improve adhesion between polyimide films and a respective substrate.
Patent GB-2435280-A (GB)
Title: An expandable cone or tubular having a coating of tungsten disulfide
Inventor: PARKER WILLIAM PATRICK
IPC: E21B43/10
Filed: 2007-02-15
Abstract: An expansion cone 600 for expanding a tubular includes on one of its surfaces a coating of tungsten disulfide which acts as a solid lubricant. The tungsten disulfide may also be applied to the interior surface of the tubular being expanded. The expansion cone 600 has a first outer surface comprising a first angle of attack 602 from about 8-20 degrees and a second outer surface having an angle of attack 604 from 4-15 degrees. In another embodiment the angle of attack 702 of said surfaces may be described by a parabolic equation.
Patent GB-2434705-A (GB)
Title: Battery pack for a cordless power tool
Inventor: HEMPE DAVID A
IPC: H01M10/00
Filed: 2003-11-24
Abstract: The invention provides a battery pack for an electrical device, which may be a power tool such as a driver drill or a circular saw. The battery pack can be connected to the electrical device and supported by it, and includes several battery cells, which may be arranged in series, having a lithium-based chemistry and having a combined nominal voltage of approximately 28 V. Each cell may have a nominal voltage of 4.2 volts, and the cells may have a combined capacity of 3.0 ampere hours and a produce an average discharge current of 20A.
Patent GB-2447484-A (GB)
Title: Security system for a motor vehicle with hand gesture recognition
Inventor: PICKERING ANTHONY CARL
IPC: B60R25/20
Filed: 2007-03-15
Abstract: A security system for remotely locking and unlocking the closure members 11 of a motor vehicle 10 has a portable device 19 for transmitting lock/unlock commands and a security device 23 which validates the commands when the correct hand gesture is detected by a gesture recognition device connected to device 23. The recognition device includes at least one sensitised area 25 (for example an array of capacitive switches) and a device located within the passenger compartment for creating or selecting the hand gesture to be applied for recognition. The portable device can be either a transmitter 19 with switches 20, 21 to be operated to transmit commands or a transponder which sends a command in response to interrogation by a vehicle transmitter.
Patent GB-2438080-A (GB)
Title: Characterising marine seismic air guns
Inventor: VAAGE SVIEN TORLEIF
IPC: G01V1/137
Filed: 2007-05-10
Abstract: A marine seismic air gun 34 comprises a charge chamber 50 which is filled with pressurized fluid. The fluid is allowed to escape from the chamber to create a seismic wave. A sensor 80 measures a parameter related to the pressure of the fluid in the chamber. The parameter may be the pressure or a time derivative of the pressure. The parameter is used to charcterise the air gun. A control circuit may detect when the parameter differs from a threshold by a given amount. The characterizing may determine when the air gun fires, detect a leak in the air gun, detect that the pressure in the charge chamber is too low to correctly fire the gun or detect that the gun failed to fire. The temperature and humidity of the fluid in the charge chamber may also be measured. All the air guns in an array may be characterised.
Patent GB-2449659-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable hinge with eccentric shaft portions
Inventor: TSAI MIAO HSUEH
IPC: E05D7/00
Filed: 2007-05-30
Abstract: An adjustable hinge assembly includes a first part 1 connected with a door case 6 and a second part 2 connected with a door. The second part 2 has a pivot 21 pivotably connected between two protrusions of the first part. Two end members 3 are inserted into two ends 210 of the pivot of the second part and a driving shaft 4 extends through two elongate slots in the two protrusions, the two end members 3 and the pivot 21. The driving shaft 4 includes a driving end 40 at a first end and two eccentric driving portions 41 which are engaged with the passage of the pivot so that when rotating the driving shaft, the door is shifted relative to the door case 6. The driving shaft 41 is supported on two rods 5 that threadedly extend through the two protrusions, and moved within the elongate slots when rotating the two rods 5 to adjust the second part relative to the first part.
Patent GB-2435785-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for determining the combustion rate of a nuclear reactor fuel assembly and use thereof
Inventor: GUYOT JACQUES
IPC: G21C17/06
Filed: 2005-12-15
Abstract: The invention concerns a method which consists in measuring the emission rate of at least one emission spectral line of at least one fission product constituting a combustion rate tracer, less than thirty days after removal of the assembly from the nuclear reactor core, using a high-purity germanium photon detector (8) cooled by a cryogenic system and a collimator (7) having a rectilinear duct (7a) under air extending between a zone proximate the fuel assembly (1) and the photon detector (8); moving the fuel assembly along its longitudinal direction (5) relative to the collimator (7), so as to perform the measurement in each of a number of measuring points. The tracer is one at least among <144>Ce ‰ 2185 keV, <134>Cs to 795 keV <137>Cs to 661 keV and <106>Ru to 622 keV; calculating from calculation and correction software's the combustion rate of the fuel assembly in each of the measuring points based on the measurement of the emission rate. The invention enables the combustion rate of barely cooled fuel assemblies.