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Patent GB-2308000-A (GB)
Title: A data display system based on a paging signal
Inventor: WATANABE ISAO
IPC: G08B5/22
Filed: 1996-12-06
Abstract: For effectively achieving a display remotely at long distance by using a paging system, a personal computer 1 codes information to be transmitted into message code, divides it into sub-message codes which can each be transmitted by one transmission operation of the paging system, and automatically transmits 4 them in sequence. The message code sent through the paging system is received with a page adapter 6 and input to a display device 5.
Patent GB-2309863-A (GB)
Title: Cell aligners
Inventor: CHOPPING GEOFFREY
IPC: H04L12/70
Filed: 1996-12-19
Abstract: For terminating an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) multiplexed data stream at a functional unit, where virtual channel data not including a frame alignment signal is carried in cells each having a message sequence number; a cell aligner having a plurality of cell buffers each storing the payload data contained in a single cell, the cell buffers being conditionally loaded in accordance with lower significant bits of the message sequence number provided the message sequence number does not correspond to the message sequence number of the cell buffer being depacketised and is not more than a pre-determined number of message sequence numbers in advance of the cell buffer being depacketised or an empty cell buffer being replaced by a fill-in cell and the cell buffers being emptied according to the conditions of a combined depacketiser and slip algorithm to form a continuous data stream aligned to the clock and frame start signal of the functional unit; the cell aligner further having a fill-in cell format generator which on the failure of a valid cell to arrive causes the replacement of the missing cell by a fill-in cell in the continuous data stream and a time-out function which is cleared and restarted after each valid cell is received in order to cause a restart of the combined depacketiser and slip algorithm if it should mature.
Patent GB-2315994-A (GB)
Title: Rainwater collection arrangement for vehicles
Inventor: WESTBROOK JAMES CHARLES
IPC: B60S1/50
Filed: 1997-08-07
Abstract: An apparatus for automatically replenishing a water utilisation device, such as a windscreen washer, by collecting rainwater falling on the surface of the vehicle, such as the windscreen (4) in a gutter (2) situated at the base thereof which is connected to a delivery pipe (6) for transporting the water to a storage container, such as a windscreen wash bottle (20).
Patent GB-2332056-A (GB)
Title: Surface measuring appartus
Inventor: HOPKINS IAN
IPC: G01B11/00
Filed: 1997-12-04
Abstract: A metrological instrument for measuring surface characteristics such as surface form of a component 300. The instrument includes a slideway 32 to cause relative movement between a surface sensing probe 84 and the component which allows the probe to traverse a surface of the component. A probe carriage 80 supports the probe to allow the probe to move as a body in a measurement direction relative to the carriage so as to follow a surface being sensed. An optical sensor (82, fig.16) provides a signal indicative of the displacement of the probe relative to the probe carriage. A controller (83) acts in response to a signal from the optical sensor, to move the probe carriage so as to maintain the probe in an operational range. A further sensor (11) measures measurement of displacement of the probe in the measurement direction as it follows a surface during use of the instrument.
Patent GB-2329146-A (GB)
Title: Hand-held heating tool
Inventor: HUBERMAN MICHELLE
IPC: B23K3/047
Filed: 1998-01-15
Abstract: An electrically heated hand-held heating tool 10 comprises a handle 12, and a heating applicator 15 attached to the handle 12, wherein the heat applicator comprises a metal sole plate 20 of generally planer shape with an upwardly and forwardly directed lip 26. In use the lip 26 at the leading end of the tool is moved forwardly over the substrate to be heated. Also disclosed is a method of hot foil bonding using the heating tool 10, wherein the foil has a material removably adhered to a backing sheet, the material being transferable from the backing sheet onto indicia that have been printed on a substrate using a heat responsive toner.
Patent GB-2325134-A (GB)
Title: An induction heating oven cavity
Inventor: ESKILDSEN CHRISTIAN
IPC: H05B6/02
Filed: 1998-03-12
Abstract: An oven cavity is energized by means of eddy currents induced inside the cavity walls 4a, in baking plates or in a suitable baking tin 3 by means of externally installed induction heating units. The tin comprise ferromagnetic material, and may have pole pieces to increase the flux through the tin. The unit may comprise a laminated ferromagnetic material mantle 3 and a coil 1 or a series of coils and associated mantle pieces.
Patent GB-2325129-A (GB)
Title: Demodulating digital video broadcast signals
Inventor: HAFFENDEN OLIVER PAUL
IPC: H04N7/24
Filed: 1998-04-27
Abstract: Apparatus for demodulating digital video broadcast signals with an improved mechanism for automatic frequency control comprises data modulated on a multiplicity of spaced carrier frequencies, including: analog to digital conversion means 20 for providing a series of digital samples of the broadcast signal, Fourier Transform means 24 for analysing the samples to provide a series of data signal values for each carrier frequency signal, processing means for processing the series of data signal values including the phase-error-correcting means 30, and automatic frequency control means 38 for controlling the frequency of the signals input to the Fourier Transform means, wherein the automatic frequency control means includes coarse frequency control means for controlling the frequency in terms of increments of the carrier spacing frequency, and fine frequency control means for controlling the frequency for values less than a single carrier spacing frequency interval, wherein the coarse frequency means includes a recursive filter means for assessing a predetermined number (N) of carrier signals on either side of the nominal position of a predetermined continual pilot signal, to determine which signal best represents the continual pilot signal, whereby to determine the coarse frequency error.
Patent GB-2337470-A (GB)
Title: Barrier coatings
Inventor: OKHAI ABDUL AZIZ
IPC: C08J7/048
Filed: 1998-07-24
Abstract: A method of reducing the gas-permeability of a substrate comprises applying a barrier coating of a first polymer to the substrate, and then applying a protective coating of a second polymer to the barrier-coated substrate. The substrate may be a film for shrink-wrapping, a bottle, gasoline tank or paint can, or a preform which is expanded by blow moulding, after applying the coatings, to become oriented. The barrier coating may be polyvinyl alcohol, ethylene-polyvinyl alcohol copolymer or polyvinylidene chloride, of thickness 1-5 Ám. The protective coating may be a solution of a second polymer of molecular weight 5,000 - 50,000.
Patent GB-2340620-A (GB)
Title: Making an optic fibre integrated optic device package`
Inventor: YEANDLE JONATHAN CHARLES
IPC: G02B6/38
Filed: 1998-08-12
Abstract: A method of making an optics package involves an exposed length of optical fibre 10 being deliberately subject to a predetermined bend. The relationship between the exposed length L of the optical fibre and a distance (  W  h) between a location P2 at which it is supported and a fixing point P1 on an integrated optical device 4 is determined taking into account the induced strain in the optical fibre. Ferrule 8, ceramic wafer 6, V-groove 14 and fibre optic cable 12 are shown.
Patent GB-2336230-A (GB)
Title: An electronic cash register
Inventor: YAMAMOTO MAYUMI
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 1998-09-04
Abstract: An electronic cash register (Figure 5) comprises a first means for accepting a combination of unit items (38 figure 5) ordered by a customer, and a second means for deciding whether or not unit items among the accepted unit items compose a predetermined set - menu item combination having a predetermined discount price. If the unit items compose a predetermined set-menu item combination, then a third means calculates a price corresponding to a customers order in response to the predetermined discount prices. The electronic cash register (Figure 5) has a memory 21 for storing firstly information regarding predetermined set-menu item combinations and secondly information relating to predetermined set-menu item combinations. An input section 28 accepts items ordered by a customer, and a menu search unit 25 decides whether or not items among the accepted items compose at least one of the predetermined set-menu item combinations by referring to the first information stored in the memory 21. When the menu search unit 25 decides that items among the accepted items compose at least one of the predetermined set-menu item combinations, a calculator 22 acts to produce a price corresponding to a customers order in response to the predetermined discount price of the predetermined set-menu combination by referring to the second information stored in the memory 21.
Patent GB-2341798-A (GB)
Title: Nutritional or pharmaceutical compositions comprising desiccants
Inventor: WHITTLE BRIAN ANTHONY
IPC: A61K47/02
Filed: 1998-09-25
Abstract: The present invention relates to nutritional and pharmaceutical compositions. More particularly it is concerned with improving compositions which due to the presence of an efflorescent component may be unstable and prone to decomposition and/or spoilage. The problem is overcome by incorporating one or more anhydrous compounds into the composition in an amount capable of sequestering any water which may be released from one or more water containing components. The preferred anhydrous compounds are anhydrous or calcined MgSO<SB>4</SB> and CaO.
Patent GB-2342087-A (GB)
Title: Applicator for flowable material
Inventor: BAILEY PATRICK WARREN
IPC: G01F11/26
Filed: 1998-10-02
Abstract: An applicator for dispensing a predetermined quantity of a flowable material, the applicator comprising a dispensing chamber 14 having a volume defining the predetermined quantity, the dispensing chamber 14 having an inlet opening 24 for receiving the material and an outlet opening 26 for dispensing the material, wherein the inlet and outlet openings are arranged in the dispensing chamber such that with the applicator in one orientation, the material may freely flow through the inlet opening so as to fill the volume of the dispensing chamber without flowing out of the outlet opening and, with the applicator in another orientation, the material held in the volume of the dispensing chamber may be freely dispensed from the outlet opening without material flowing into the dispensing chamber through the inlet opening. The volume of the dispensing chamber 14 may be adjusted by adjusting the position of the plunger 22.
Patent GB-2343639-A (GB)
Title: Diffuse reflection glass
Inventor: PILLOY GEORGES
IPC: G02B5/02
Filed: 1998-11-13
Abstract: A coated glass sheet having diffuse reflection properties for use in furnishing applications carries a coating formed of a two-phase transparent polymer resin composition, characterised in that the coated sheet has a resolution in the range 1 to 6 lines/mm. The resin composition may comprise a varnish containing a dispersion of a solid particulate material of average diameter 0.1-60ž, the proportion of particulate material in the coating being 0.1-10 wt%. The resin may be heat treated to adjust the resolution and gloss.
Patent GB-2328944-A (GB)
Title: Metal-containing side chain liquid crystal polymers
Inventor: STYRING PETER
IPC: C08F30/04
Filed: 1997-06-12
Abstract: A group of liquid crystalline compounds defined by Formulas (1) and (2) including polymers, monomers, oligomers and intermediates for their preparation. Also included are symmetric and non-symmetric poly(dimethylsiloxy) compounds having end groups derived from Formulas (1) and (2).
Patent GB-2328911-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle door module
Inventor: EMERLING DAVID M
IPC: B60J5/04
Filed: 1997-05-30
Abstract: A door assembly (10) is disclosed for a motor vehicle. The door assembly (10) comprises a molded door panel (12) having a first side and a second side (22). The first side of the door panel is adapted to face into a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle. The second side (22) of the door panel supports a belt line reinforcement (14), a lock and catch assembly (16), and a window lift assembly. The door assembly (10) of the present invention is adapted for joining with a door exterior.
Patent GB-2334224-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle body treatment
Inventor: HALL DAVID THOMAS PATRICK
IPC: B05C11/08
Filed: 1999-01-15
Abstract: In order to distribute wax for sealing and protection within a motor vehicle body 8 as it travels through an oven 11, respective tracks 6, 7 are arranged to diverge from a presentational single track 2. The heights of tracks 6, 7 have a relative variable undulation therebetween such that a body 8 supported at each end across said tracks 6, 7 see-saws. Furthermore, the body 8 is typically presented at an inclined angle to the perpendicular between tracks 6, 7 in order to enable lateral distribution of an applied fluid. After see-saw movement, the motor vehicle body 8 is returned to a normal manufacturing single track and so the treatment arrangement avoids the necessity and inconvenience of providing specific static stations within a continuous manufacturing path.
Patent GB-2346195-A (GB)
Title: Piston and connecting-rod assembly
Inventor: PIRAULT JEAN-PIERRE
IPC: F16J1/16
Filed: 1999-01-29
Abstract: A piston and connecting rod assembly comprises an articulated piston 1,2 within which the small end 6 of a connecting rod 7 is loosely retained by a retention member such as a gudgeon pin 4, During the expansion stroke, a concave load bearing area 8 on the undersuface of the piston engages a convex load bearing area 9 on the small end and there is a clearance between the small end and the gudgeon pin. Thus the piston loads are directly transmitted to the connecting rod. During the exhaust stroke of a 4-stroke engine, the gudgeon pin contacts the small end and the load bearing areas move out of contact. Thus the somewhat smaller loads are transmitted via the gudgeon pin. The connecting rod may be provided with oil passages 11 opening to the load bearing surface. Oil from this surface is directed to an oil receiving cavity 14 via radial passages 13 and drains through a gap 16a around a closure plate 16 forming part of the skirt 2. The retention member could alternatively be a curved cradle secured to the crown and the piston could alternatively be monolithic. In a modification (figures 8a-8g) the small end of the connecting rod is partially spherical and cooperates with a part-spherical recess in the underside (183) of the piston crown where it is retained by a cradle (83). The piston skirt and crown are connected by a gudgeon pin (92).
Patent GB-2345888-A (GB)
Title: A trailer with interchangeable wheels for towing and launching a boat
Inventor: LYONS MICHAEL PAUL
IPC: B60P3/10
Filed: 1999-03-04
Abstract: A trailer system comprises a frame (10) having a support structure (22, 24) for supporting a boat. A first connector is attached to the front of the frame (20) for coupling the frame to a vehicle. The second and third connectors are attached to either side of the rear (12) of the frame (10), each for connecting either a launching assembly or a towing assembly. Each towing assembly includes a road wheel connected to a connector. Each launching assembly includes a wheel connected axially to a connector. The connectors of the launching assemblies and towing assemblies are removably attachable to the second and third connectors. The towing assemblies and launching assemblies are interchangeable allowing the frame (10) to be used for towing the trailer behind a vehicle or launching a boat.
Patent GB-2340630-A (GB)
Title: Protected storage device for computer system
Inventor: ROBB DAVID SHEPHERD STEWART
IPC: G06F21/80
Filed: 1999-05-07
Abstract: The invention is a storage device (1) for a host computer system. The device (1) incorporates a Supervisor function for controlling access to information stored in a storage medium (2) of the device. The main embodiment described is a hard disk drive (1) comprising: one or more disk platters (2) for storing information; a ROM (4) for storing firmware for controlling operation of the drive; a volatile RAM (5); a micro-controller (7) for controlling the transfer of information to and from the disk platter(s) (2); and an interface (6) for interfacing the drive (1) with the host computer system and via which information is transferred to and from the disk platter(s) (2) under the control of the micro-controller (7). A Supervisor is provided in the form of firmware which is preferably stored in the ROM (4), the Supervisor operating the micro-controller (7) so as to protect information stored on the disk platter(s).
Patent GB-2337507-A (GB)
Title: Interconnected block of bags and their manufacture
Inventor: SCHNEIDER JAKOB
IPC: B31B19/98
Filed: 1999-05-17
Abstract: The rear wall 10 of a thermoplastics film bag has a blocking section 34 in the vicinity of its mouth for detachable adhesive-free connection to the front wall 20 of an adjacent such bag, and a recess or aperture 32 associated with that section 34 into which fingers can be inserted to open the bag. Joining of adjacent bags at section 34 is effected by heat or pressure, and perforations 33 around section 34 enable the bag to be torn away from the rest of the block. Each wall 10, 20 may have a respective connection section and aperture in interchanged positions, so that they alternate through the block. A connection section and aperture may be adjacent in the direction from top to bottom of the bag, as shown, or transversely of the bag, Figure 5. The bags are formed from a flattened tubular web, the top and bottom layers of which are held apart during punching to form the apertures 32 and perforations 33.
Patent GB-2341986-A (GB)
Title: A connector mountable in a plurality of positions on a housing
Inventor: PAMART OLIVIER
IPC: H01R9/24
Filed: 1999-07-21
Abstract: An assembly 2 comprises a housing 4 and a connector 6. The connector 6 is separate from but mountable on the housing 4 in a plurality of predetermined positions as each has positioning members 32. The positioning members 32 may be cooperating studs and holes which allow the connector 6 to be located around the perimeter of the housing 4. The connector 6 can be electrically connected to the housing 4 via a supple cable. The connector 6 may have IDC blades to allow connection to the cable. It is suggested that the housing 4 be the housing of a motor or similar device.
Patent GB-2340504-A (GB)
Title: Hard surface cleaning and disinfecting compositions
Inventor: CHEUNG TAK WAI
IPC: C11D1/645
Filed: 1999-08-11
Abstract: Provided are aqueous hard surface cleaning and disinfecting compositions which comprise the following constituents: (a) at least one cationic surfactant having germicidal properties; and (b) a fluorosurfactant selected from the group of nonionic fluorosurfactant, cationic fluorosurfactant, and mixtures thereof. Optionally, the compositions may further include (c) one or more detersive surfactants particularly selected from carboxylate surfactants, as well as nonionic, cationic, amphoteric surfactants, and mixtures thereof; (d) one or more organic solvents; (e) one or more alkanolamines; and further conventional additives.
Patent GB-2340423-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for working sheet material
Inventor: PURDY COLIN
IPC: B21B1/22
Filed: 1999-08-16
Abstract: For working of sheet material to allow that material to be bent to a complex shape or cut, there is provided apparatus comprising a jaw having an upper jaw member and a lower jaw member, a first tool 4A associated with the upper jaw member, a second tool 4B associated with the lower jaw member, said tools being operable to work sheet material fed between the tools, and adjustment means whereby at least one of the spacing between the tools and the force with which the tools bear against one another or an interposed workpiece may be selectively varied.
Patent GB-2342309-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to bending of thermoplastics tubes
Inventor: RAFFERTY JOHN
IPC: B29C53/08
Filed: 1999-09-16
Abstract: A method and apparatus for bending thermoplastic tube in which a preheated region 2 of the tube 1 is conformed to a required bend configuration while supported internally and externally to prevent the tube wall collapsing. The external support is provided by relatively movable formers 3,4 which enclose a section of the tube 1 at the point where the bending force is applied and this enclosed section moves progressively along the heated region 2 as the bend is developed by the relative movement of the formers 3,4. The internal support is provided by fluid pressure higher than atmospheric pressure within the tube 1 during the forming operation. Multiple bends can be formed sequentially and/or simultaneously. The formers can be of different types as illustrated in figures 12, 14, 16 etc (not shown). A forming station for producing tubes of multiple bends is illustrated in figures 17-19 (not shown). The pressure differential may be created by a fluid medium being confined within the tube or confined in an inflatable bladder inserted into the tube.
Patent GB-2345387-A (GB)
Title: Submersible electromechanical actuator
Inventor: RAYSSIGUIER CHRISTOPHE MARCEL
IPC: H02K11/04
Filed: 1999-11-18
Abstract: An electromechanical actuator includes a housing 102 and a magnetic core 126 movably disposed in the housing. An impervious chamber containing the stator is defined between the housing wall and can 114, the chamber being filled with a dielectric fluid. Pressure balancing is provide by bellows 152. The actuator may be rotary and arranged to surround the stator - 126 fig 6 or may be linear - 205 fig 5. Fluid tight electrical connection is provided through bulkhead 108.
Patent HU-T75195-A (HU)
Title: Sidechain-bearing taxane derivatives, intermediates and processes for preparation thereof
Inventor: CHEN SHU-HUI
IPC: C07C233/17
Filed: 1993-12-15
Abstract: Novel methods for the preparation of sidechain-bearing taxanes, comprising the preparation of an oxazoline compound, coupling the oxazoline compound with a taxane having a hydroxyl group directly bonded at C-13 thereof to form an oxazoline sidechain-bearing taxane, and opening the oxazoline ring of the oxazoline sidechain-bearing taxane so formed. Novel compounds prepared by the methods of the present invention are also provided.
Patent HU-T72919-A (HU)
Title: The use of anti-helminth vaccines in the control of parasite disease associated with loss of natural immunity
Inventor: ANDREWS STUART JOHN
IPC: A61P33/00
Filed: 1994-02-23
Abstract: The invention provides a use of a helminth hidden antigen, or antigenic fragments, precursors and functionally-equivalent derivatives or variants thereof having immunogenic activity against one or more helminth parasites, in the manufacture of a vaccine composition for administration to an animal at least once prior to and/or during a period of loss or warning of natural immunity to gastro-intestinal helminth parasites, whereby to stimulate protective immunity against said helminth parasites during the period of compromised natural immunity. The invention has particular utility in the control of the periparturient rise of the helminth nematode Haemonchus in sheep, and of type II ostertagiasis.
Patent HU-T74199-A (HU)
Title: Sleeper for rails of superstructure for rail vehicles
Inventor: BENENOWSKI SEBASTIAN
IPC: E01B7/22
Filed: 1994-04-23
Abstract: Proposed is a connector (16) between sections (12, 14) of a sleeper on which several rails are fixed and by means of which the sections are movable with respect to each other while maintaining, or substantially maintaining, the distance between the rails, the connector being mounted so that it is softer in the vertical direction than in the horizontal direction.