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Patent GB-2367611-A (GB)
Title: Method of serving draught beverage
Inventor: SCULLION SIMON DANIEL
IPC: B67D1/14
Filed: 1999-05-14
Abstract: A method of serving a draught beverage 50 in an open-topped drinking vessel, the beverage comprises a water content and a dissolved gas content and said method comprises dispensing said beverage into an open-topped drinking vessel 52 in which the beverage experiences in an open environment of a drinks' bar a temperature resulting in aforesaid water content becoming ice in the beverage in the vessel. The said temperature is below the freezing point of water at ambient atmospheric pressure. The beverage can be non-alcoholic or it can be alcoholic, in which latter case the alcoholic beverage may be a beer such as a lager or a cider.
Patent GB-2373988-A (GB)
Title: Rotary drum system for batter coating french fried potato strips
Inventor: ARENSMAN DANKER
IPC: A23P1/08
Filed: 2002-03-15
Abstract: A rotary drum system is provided for applying a batter coating to French fried potato strips prior to strip parfrying and freezing. The system comprises an elongated open-ended rotary drum 12 oriented for flow-through passage of cut potato strips upstream from a parfryer. The drum is rotatably driven about the center axis and includes internal baffles or vanes for tumbling the potato strips passed therethrough. A batter delivery manifold is mounted within the drum at a position above the center axis and includes multiple nozzles 56 for dripping or spraying a wet batter composition onto the tumbling potato strips. The batter flow rate through the manifold nozzles is adjustably correlated with the mass flow rate of potato strips through the rotary drum for thoroughly coating the potato strips, substantially without excess batter usage.
Patent GB-2387599-A (GB)
Title: Methods for producing antibodies
Inventor: BROWN JASON PETER
IPC: C07K16/32
Filed: 2002-04-17
Abstract: A method for producing immortalised antibody-secreting cells, comprising: <SL> <LI>(a) providing a transgenic animal having antibody-secreting cells capable of expressing one or more transgenes, wherein the antibody-secreting cells are in a non-immortalised state in the absence of a stimulus and are capable of changing to an immortalised state by means of the transgene or transgenes upon exposure of the cells to the stimulus; <LI>(b) extracting the antibody-secreting cells from the animal; and <LI>(c) exposing the antibody-secreting cells to the stimulus, thereby immortalising the antibody-secreting cells by means of the transgene or transgenes. </SL> The method may be used for the production of monoclonal antibodies. In a preferred embodiment, conditional immortalisation is achieved using the SV40 Large T Antigen, myc or abl under the control of an ecdysone-inducible promoter.
Patent GB-2371940-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring the degree of action in video transmissions
Inventor: TRIPATHY AUROBINDO
IPC: H04N21/45
Filed: 2000-10-16
Abstract: A system (130) enables the user to monitor a number of channels to determine the degree of action occurring on each of those channels which are not currently tuned for reception. The system may develop a count of the number of packets received over a given period of time for a plurality of channels selected by the user and may advise the user when those channels exceed a preset level. Thus, the user may be advised when the action level on another channel exceeds a desired level allowing the user to tune to that channel if desired.
Patent GB-2373939-A (GB)
Title: Protection in mixed optical WDM systems
Inventor: OEBERG MAGNUS
IPC: H04B10/032
Filed: 2000-12-28
Abstract: Devices (13.1, 31.1) communicate with each other on a wavelength channel using wavelength specific signals on a working WDM fiber (21) having a parallel protection WDM fiber (23). An SDH system (13.S, 31.S) uses one channel of the WDM system of the fibers as one of the fibres of the working pair of the SDH system and has a separate fibre (37) constituting that fibre of the protecting fibre pair for the SDH-system. To provide an unambiguous or predictable protection behaviour for the SDH system for the case of the working WDM fibre being cut the RETs (29.1 ..., 29.S) have two modes. In the first mode a RET will be on and always carry traffic when the input power is high enough. In the second mode a RET they will not automatically turn on again after it has first lost the input signal and thereupon the input signal has returned. The RET can then be manually restarted or restarted after some suitable delay. Then the sequence of events will always be unambiguously defined. For a break of the working WDM fibre, the RET will loose its input signal, turn off, and will not immediately turn on again. Thereby there will always be enough time for the protection scheme of the SDH-system to be carried out. The SDH-system will thus automatically have a working protection path, i.e., the now working, former WDM protection fibre.
Patent GB-2380404-A (GB)
Title: Hair treatment device
Inventor: DE BENEDICTIS DANIELLE ANITA
IPC: A44B18/00
Filed: 2002-07-04
Abstract: Selected strands of hair to be treated, eg coloured, are separated from other strands by an elongate sheet 4 of flexible material, eg a transparent plastics, bearing at one end a strip 6 of hooked material which engages the hair to be treated. The hooks may be mushroom-like with rounded, flat or conical heads or may be elongate T-shaped members (420 Fig 16) defined by grooves or channels (422). The strip may be adhered to or integral with the sheet, curved to conform to the scalp and have at one end a trough 24 or ridge (26 Fig 6) to prevent treatment fluid reaching the hair roots. The lower edge of the sheet may include a further strip (eg 104 Fig 9) which engages the strip 6 when the sheet is in use folded back on itself at 28. Holes 10 allow a plurality of sheets to be mounted to a support from which individual sheets may be torn off via a line of perforations 14.
Patent GB-2379611-A (GB)
Title: Inflatable compression sleeve
Inventor: HAMPSON DAVID MARK
IPC: A61F5/37
Filed: 2002-07-15
Abstract: A compression sleeve 1 comprises two sheets of laminated materials welded to form a number of airtight chambers P1, P2 and P3 between the two layers. Restrictors 5 and 6 interconnect the chambers P1, P2 and P3. Chambers P2 and P3 also have orifices 8 and 9 of a predetermined size for exhaust of air to atmosphere. Chamber P1 is provided with a conduit 14 connecting chamber P1 to the pump 2. Compressed air is supplied to chamber P1 by conduit 14. The compressed air inflates the subsequent chambers P2, P3 through restrictors 5 and 6, giving a sequential rise in pressure to each chamber P2 and P3. The orifices 8 and 9 to atmosphere, control the leak rate out of each chamber P2, P3 and are sized to give a predetermined pressure gradient between chambers P1, P2, P3. The pressure is lower in the successive chambers P1, P2 and P3, varying the pressure from ankle to calf to thigh.
Patent GB-2387151-A (GB)
Title: Anchorage systems
Inventor: KOLLER MAX ARNOLD
IPC: A61G3/08
Filed: 2002-08-05
Abstract: A method of installing an anchorage system in a vehicle comprises: providing an anchorage rail 11 having a substantially flat lower surface and an upper surface formed with a channel the base 19 of which has a plurality of spaced bores; providing a strengthening rail 10 which has a substantially flat lower surface 12 and an upper surface formed with a channel the base 15 of which has a plurality of correspondingly spaced bores, the substantially flat lower surface of the strengthening rail having an area greater than the corresponding part of the anchorage rail; fastening the strengthening rail to the floor of the vehicle; positioning the respective bores on top of each other; and fastening the two rails together by means of fasteners. The rails may be extrusions of aluminium or aluminium alloy, and the anchorage rail may have outwardly extending flanges 22,23 which rest on floorboards (24, figure 2) positioned between the two rails.
Patent GB-2393070-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring service description tables of a compressed transport stream
Inventor: TOWLER MATTHEW
IPC: H04N5/00
Filed: 2002-09-11
Abstract: A compressed transport stream 20, comprising programs, is analysed to determine whether there are program identifiers in Service Description Tables (SDT) 10,11,12 of the transport stream for all of the programs in the transport stream. The transport stream is received to identify, in the transport stream, a program association table (PAT) containing a transport stream identifier and a plurality of program numbers, each of the plurality being associated with one of the programs respectively in the transport stream. A checklist 44 is generated from the PAT of the plurality of program numbers. The transport stream is analysed to detect a SDT containing a transport stream identifier and a second plurality of program numbers and associated program descriptions to determine whether for each member of the checklist for the transport identifier corresponding to the detected SDT there is a program number and program description in the SDT.
Patent GB-2382428-A (GB)
Title: System and method for configuring a storage area network
Inventor: BRISSE MATTHEW P
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2002-09-13
Abstract: In accordance with teachings of the present disclosure, a system and method are described for configuring a storage area network. In one aspect, the system includes a multiple SAN elements that a user may select as well as a design module in which the selected SAN elements may be graphically configured. The system also includes a validation engine which dynamically validates the configuration of the selected SAN elements. More particularly, the system may include a report engine operable to provide a configuration report of the selected SAN configuration. The report engine may produce a SAN topology report, a SAN inventory report, including a listing of existing SAN elements and a SAN cable configuration report.
Patent GB-2387385-A (GB)
Title: Chemotherapeutic agents for treating cancer
Inventor: WARENIUS HILMAR MEEK
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2002-10-08
Abstract: A method for screening for effective chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer comprising testing a putative agent likely to disrupt a critical normal gene product present in said cancer for its cytotoxic and/or growth inhibitory effect. The critical gene is one or more of p27<kip1>, retinoblastoma (Rb) cyclin dependent kinase (CDK1, CDK4) and telomerase. The test agent may be an antisense oligonucleotide. Also claimed is a method for screening for agents which reduce the ability of metastatic cancer cells to metastasise by disrupting one of the genes p9Ka, CDK4 and osteopontin. A method for identifying critical normal genes in L23COR cells is also provided.
Patent GB-2394168-A (GB)
Title: Culinary press
Inventor: HARRISON-GRIFFIN ANTHONY
IPC: A47J19/06
Filed: 2002-10-18
Abstract: A culinary press comprises first and second elongate members (4,6) pivotably connected to each other near a pressing end at a first pivot point (8), the first member (4) at least in part defining a food receiving chamber (9), and with a perforated surface provided against which forced to be crushed is pressed, and a pivotably mounted plunger (30) disposed between the elongate members to be pivotable about a second pivot point (28) into said chamber (9). The plunger is mounted so that the second pivot point (28) is disposed on the opposite side of the first pivot point from the majority of the chamber (9). The second elongate member (6) is formed with an actuating finger (16) which bears on the plunger (30) on one side of its pivot. The second elongate member may be further adapted to act on the plunger on the opposite side of its pivot as the first and second elongate members are moved apart on opening of the press in order to drive the plunger out of the chamber.
Patent GB-2385631-A (GB)
Title: A tubular lock having blocking elements in housing
Inventor: LIAO WU-CHANG
IPC: E05B15/06
Filed: 2003-01-03
Abstract: A variable tubular lock comprising a lock body (400) and a key (440) is disclosed. The lock body comprises a casing (401), a lower pin seat (403) inserted in the casing, a spindle (402) provided with an upper pin seat (421), a plurality of springs (405) and plural sets of cylindrical upper pins (406) and cylindrical lower pins (407). This variable tubular lock is characterized in that the inner edge of a keyhole (411) in the casing is provided with one or more protruding blocks (413), axial grooves (443) for the protruding block passing through and an annular groove for receiving the protruding block and spinning the key. With this structure, the tubular lock can be prevented itself from being unlocked by a common unlocking device. Further, with the number and the position arrangement of the protruding blocks and the axial grooves, the variation of the lock codes can be substantially increased and thus the security of the tubular lock is significantly improved. The shapes of the protruding blocks and corresponding axial grooves can take any form.
Patent GB-2402346-A (GB)
Title: Portable electric warming device
Inventor: HOWELL PETER ROY
IPC: A61F7/02
Filed: 2003-06-04
Abstract: Portable warming device comprising a sealed container 100 containing a heat storage medium 103, an electrical heating element 107 to heat the heat storage medium terminating in one part of a plug and socket connecter, and a separate base unit (200, fig 2) which houses the other part of the plug and socket connector. Preferably the base unit includes a sleeve (202, fig 2) to facilitate and maintain electrical contact. The container 100 may be covered with a fibrous material 102. The container 100 may be made of an elastic material which may be natural or synthetic rubber or plastic, or it may be made from a rigid composite plastics material. The heat storage medium may be a fluid or oil. The warming device may be heated by plugging it into the base unit which is connected to a mains power supply.
Patent GB-2389336-A (GB)
Title: In line faced marine insulation and method of production
Inventor: PFEFFER JACK RAYMOND
IPC: B32B37/20
Filed: 2003-06-06
Abstract: An insulation board comprises a first layer 31 of homogenised glass fibre and binder, a second layer 32 of binder and a third layer 33 of woven glass fibre cloth, which may be partially impregnated (10% by weight) with binder. Curing the binder integrates the three layers into a finished board. The bulk of homegenised fibres in layer 31 may have a length of 1-2 microns and layer 32 may be formed by a spray process. The binder in all three layers may be a phenol/formaldehyde or melamine/formaldehyde resin. The insulation board may be manufactured by a continuous in line process whereby layer 31 is melt-blown onto a conveyer, sprayed with binder and united with woven glass cloth 33 in a nip, the resulting assembly being cured and cut into individual boards.
Patent GB-2406183-A (GB)
Title: Accessing audio data from a database using search terms
Inventor: LEFEBVRE WILIAM
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2003-09-17
Abstract: The invention provides a knowledge sharing method for supporting mobile workers before, during and after visiting a location, organisation or individual as part of their day to day activities. It achieves this through a knowledge management system which has a database 12 for storing knowledge specific to a plurality of entities such as customers, maintenance locations, client organisation or individuals, for example. The database 12 provides stored knowledge to a user in response to said user providing an identity of one of said plurality of entities. The retrieved knowledge being provided to the user in audio form on a voice enabled interface between the user and the system. The retrieved knowledge is provided to said user from the knowledge stored in the database specific to that entity. This knowledge may be based on information provided by other users of the knowledge management system. The voice enabled interface is provided by a voice getaway 16 which can be used to carry out speech synthesis.
Patent GB-2392697-A (GB)
Title: Bi-directional and internal pressure trapping packing element system
Inventor: PEDERSEN GERALD DEAN
IPC: E21B33/128
Filed: 2002-12-10
Abstract: A packer (100) for sealing an annular region in a wellbore is provided. The packer (100) includes a packing element (150) which is held through bi-directional forces. The packer first comprises an inner mandrel (110). Disposed around the inner mandrel are three tubulars: a top sleeve (120).a bottom sleeve (130), and a booster sleeve (140). A packing element (150) is disposed circumferentially around the outer surface of the booster sleeve (140). The top sleeve (120) and bottom sleeve (130) each include an upper compression member (124,134) which rides across the booster sleeve (140) in order to compress the packing element (150). The packing element is expanded outward from the packer to engage a surrounding string of casing (10) through compressive forces provided by the top and bottom sleeves (120,130). Thereafter, differential pressure applied above or below the packer acting on the packer element (150) and booster sleeve (140) may provide additional compression of the packer element (150).
Patent GB-2409129-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring of multiple talk groups in direct mode communication
Inventor: BAR EITAN
IPC: H04W84/08
Filed: 2003-12-13
Abstract: A mobile station (MS) 110, 220, 330, preferably a TETRA MS, maintains a direct mode group set (DGS), which comprises an ordered list of two or more user groups together with their respective direct mode radio frequency channels. These groups are maintained so that the MS 110, 220, 330 operating in direct mode can periodically scan for alternative RF activity among some or all of the user groups. If no group activity exists on the scanned channels then an MS 110, 220, 330 initiating a group call may determine the physical and logical time division pattern for the scanned channels and all other MSs 110, 220, 330 detecting this activity synchronise to this timing. The MS 110, 220, 330 may alert a user to a detected group call and may automatically switch to a detected call in a group assigned a higher rank in the DGS.
Patent GB-2410633-A (GB)
Title: Broadcast receiver with user audio interface
Inventor: CRAWFORD COLIN
IPC: H04B1/06
Filed: 2004-01-29
Abstract: A broadcast receiver, for example a DAB radio, an FM radio with RDS, or a digital television receiver, is provided with means (16, 12) for audibly indicating information about the received station, or about the receiver status, including signal strength, menu options and control settings. The system can also make an audible announcement of any broadcast textual data. The system may include a voice synthesizer (20, fig.2) or may include pre-recorded or user-recorded voice samples. The voice samples may be up-dated by voice samples delivered over a broadcast.
Patent GB-2411080-A (GB)
Title: Synchronisation in an unsynchronised or single carrier synchronised communication system
Inventor: BAR EITAN
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 2004-02-14
Abstract: A plurality of frequency resources are employed in an unsynchronised or single carrier synchronised communication system, e.g. a TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked Radio) system employing direct mode operation (DMO) for direct communication between mobile stations and a mobile wireless communication unit comprises a transmitter for transmitting on a first frequency resource of the plurality of frequency resources, wherein the transmission on the first frequency resource dictates a timing of transmissions of one or more other wireless communication units on a second frequency resource of said plurality of frequency resources. Either the timing of the transmission on the first frequency resource is used as the basis for the timing of transmissions on the second frequency resource or the transmission on the first frequency resource is a wireless message (dedicated protocol data unit (PDU)) that indicates to wireless communication units affiliated to the mobile wireless communication unit that the mobile wireless communication unit is to initiate a call on the first frequency resource, wherein the message is characterised in that it further signifies to the other wireless communication units that they should monitor transmissions on the first frequency resource, in order to synchronise a timing of any of their transmissions on a second frequency resource to the transmission on the first frequency resource. In this manner the system supports self-synchronisation since wireless communication units, operational on an unsynchronised or single carrier synchronised system, monitor an active transmission on a first frequency and synchronise subsequent transmissions on any coupled frequency to the active transmission.
Patent GB-2400673-A (GB)
Title: Artifact rejection of oscillometric blood pressure and pulse rate measurements using pulse quality values
Inventor: MEDERO RICHARD
IPC: G06F17/00
Filed: 2004-03-12
Abstract: Blood pressure and pulse rate are determined from measured oscillometric waveform data that has been processed to remove spurious data by considering the quality of the measured oscillometric pulses. The oscillometric blood pressure data is collected as cuff pressure is incrementally decreased. For each pulse complex individual quality values are calculated for measurements of the pulse complex features (e.g. amplitude of pulse, slope of pulse, pulse period etc.) and an overall quality assessment for the pulse is obtained based on the individual quality values. The pulse is accepted if it satisfies matching criteria and data collection continues until an overall quality threshold is satisfied. Blood pressure and pulse rate are then determined from the accepted measured data.
Patent GB-2403819-A (GB)
Title: Automatic initiation and removal of a field device bypass in a process control system
Inventor: LAW GARY
IPC: G05B23/02
Filed: 2004-04-01
Abstract: A control system, or function block, for a process control environment where a processor is in communication with field devices 125, which can be configured in different states, comprises means 132 to receive an input signal from a field device 125 and determine the configuration state of the device 125, and inhibit logic means that automatically produces an inhibit signal when the field device 125 is determined to be in a non-normal configuration state. The inhibit logic may also produce a bypass signal for bypassing the use of further signals from the field device 125 and an override signal for overriding a decision made using a signal from the field device 125. The inhibit logic may automatically remove the bypass signal when the field device 125 is returned to a normal configuration. The system is said to increase safety and reduce the risk of losing product by automatically determining when testing or calibration is being carried out on a field device, and treating signals from that device accordingly.
Patent GB-2403185-A (GB)
Title: Pressure buffer and inkjet recording apparatus
Inventor: WATANABE TOSHIAKI
IPC: B41J2/175
Filed: 2004-06-16
Abstract: A pressure buffer (5) having a structure capable of completely removing air bubbles from a chamber (18) provided in the pressure buffer (5), the ink flow outlet (11) in the pressure buffer is always positioned in an uppermost portion in a vertical direction, during use of the ink-jet recording apparatus. Furthermore, an elastic member (13,Fig 3) for preventing the flexible film of the pressure buffer from adhering to a bottom surface of the chamber (18) is provided inside of the chamber (18), and a rigid reinforcing plate (14,Fig 3) for suppressing excess deformation of the flexible film is provided outside of the chamber. Further, the reinforcing plate (14) includes means to enable the reinforcing plate (14,Fig 3) to communicate a gap 3 (17,Fig 3) with the atmosphere. Also, the body of the pressure buffer (5) and at least the flexible film (9, Fig 3) or the reinforcing plate (14, Fig 3) are respectively made of a material that does not transmit UV-light.