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Patent GB-2373721-A (GB)
Title: Floor mat
Inventor: DE SOUSA NEVILLE
IPC: A47L23/26
Filed: 2001-03-29
Abstract: A floor mat assembly includes a base portion 2 with a polymeric backing layer 10 and a fibre upper layer 8, and a removable insert 6 with a polymeric backing layer 13 and a fibre upper layer 12 that fits into an aperture 4 in the base portion 2. The aperture 4 may be formed by die cutting and the cut - out portion then used as the insert 6 by placing it in the aperture. Alternatively, the insert 6 may be made from a separate, cheaper material such as a polyester fabric bonded to a rubber backing. A printed image may be placed on the surface of the insert which may be held in place by connecting means 14 such as hook and loop material, a releasable adhesive or cleats. Preferably the base portion is nitrile rubber which is thicker than conventional floor mat backing and is bonded in a heat press to the fibre layer of tufted pile. Advantageously the floor mat can carry printed messages such as advertisements or company logos, is washable and may be used in establishments such as shops and factories.
Patent GB-2369966-A (GB)
Title: Location-dependent data collection
Inventor: ATKINSON SIMON JOHN
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2001-08-13
Abstract: A method is described for collecting location-dependent data in a central data collection point. The method comprises the steps of: collecting location dependent data from a data source, in a nearby portable communications device 10; transmitting the collected data to a base station 20 of the portable communications device; and communicating the collected data along with a location identifier to the data collection point 40.
Patent GB-2361592-A (GB)
Title: Electrical distribution system automation
Inventor: MURRAY DAVID RUSSELL
IPC: H02J13/00
Filed: 2000-02-08
Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling at least a portion (10) of an electricity distribution network including conductors (13, 14) and a plurality of network devices (18, 19, 20, 21, 22) cooperating with the conductors to facilitate distribution of electricity, wherein control apparatus (27) are preferably co-located with selected network devices (18, 19, 20, 21) and communications apparatus (29) are associated with each control apparatus (27) to provide a communications link (32) between respective control apparatus. The control method includes the steps of monitoring (28) of distribution network state by the control apparatus co-located with the selected network devices and, upon detection of an abnormal condition (31) in the distribution network, one of the control apparatus temporarily assumes coordinating control of the network portion (10); whereby said one control apparatus issues commands to other control apparatus over the communications link (32) in accordance with a predetermined automation scheme.
Patent GB-2382548-A (GB)
Title: Release mechanism for vehicle bonnet
Inventor: SIMMONDS CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B60R21/34
Filed: 2001-10-06
Abstract: The release mechanism, for a bonnet (2) hinged at its front and latched at its rear, includes at least one latch assembly (4) engagable with a detent (22) on the bonnet (2) and which is mounted to the vehicle body (21) by a shear pin (24). The latch assembly (24) is connected to a pyrotechnic cylinder assembly (6) fixed to the vehicle body such that operation of the pyrotechnics cylinder assembly moves the piston upwards, shearing the pins (24), and lifting latch assembly (4) and the rear of the bonnet (2).
Patent GB-2381605-A (GB)
Title: Internet browsing system
Inventor: GROSVENOR DAVID ARTHUR
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2001-10-31
Abstract: The present invention provides, in one aspect, an apparatus for Internet browsing and other Internet-interactive activities, which apparatus comprises:<BR> ```a camera to focus on to a printed hypertext document for generating video signals representing an image of the printed hypertext document in electronic form;<BR> ```a processor linked to the camera for processing an image of the printed hypertext document captured by the camera and of a finger or other pointing implement within the field of view of the camera pointing to a region of the printed hypertext document and configured to determine from the image the identity of a linked web page or a linked multi-media, i.e. audio and/or video sequence, data file referred to on that hypertext document in the region pointed to, and to then fetch from the Internet or a local cache of web pages data that comprises the linked web page or linked multimedia data file referenced in the printed hypertext document.<BR> ```a receiver for receiving and displaying or playing the fetched data.
Patent GB-2372396-A (GB)
Title: Correcting for uneven illumination in document scanner.
Inventor: POLLARD STEPHEN BERNARD
IPC: G06T1/00
Filed: 2001-12-19
Abstract: An image capture apparatus is disclosed which includes a digital camera 101 having a detector 107, a light source 106 which illuminates a document 102 to be captured, a read out circuit 108 which captures an image of the document 102 from the detector 107 and a memory 111 with accommodation calibration information. The captured image is processed together with the calibration information which is dependent upon the illumination of the light incident upon the document. Calibration data comprises an array of sealing valves which are predetermined for the camera used. The final image produced after applying the calibration information is substantially free of the effects of uneven illumination as shown in Figure 2(a), from the light source 106. Optionally, the detector is a colour detector and the calibration information is applied to the raw captured data prior to colour plane reconstruction.
Patent GB-2382790-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for extracting an object from a workpiece
Inventor: FINCH STEVEN CAFFALL
IPC: B25B27/18
Filed: 2001-12-21
Abstract: An object such a a broken bolt or tap 1 is extracted from a threaded hole 2 by welding a torque transmitting element 30 to it and then rotating the torque transmitting element. The torque transmitting element includes at least one electrode, and an electric current is passed through the electrode and between the electrode and the object so as to weld the electrode to the object. An apparatus for carrying out the method comprises a hand held tool 15 containing a transformer and an impact driver. A protruding sleeve carries two replaceable electrodes, and in use the sleeve is inserted into the hole containing the object so that the electrodes are pressed against the exposed end of the object. The transformer is actuated, welding the electrodes to the object. The driver then rotates the sleeve, so unscrewing the object.
Patent GB-2369220-A (GB)
Title: Business partner overall power judging system
Inventor: HARA YOSHINOBU
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 2001-06-06
Abstract: A business partner overall power judging system applicable to a bidding system in which a business partner presents a bid price through a network in response to presentation of an object by a buyer company. The business partner overall power judging system comprises a business partner database where numerical data on the power of the business company is stored. A controller of the business partner overall power judging system reads the numerical data on the business partner from the business partner database in response to reception of a bid price and selects a business partner for the object on the basis of the bid price and the numerical data. The controller can give a weight to the power of the business partner with respect to the object of the bidding. The selection of a business partner can be based on the weighted power. A business partner most suitable for the object of the bidding can be selected in consideration of not only the bid price but various powers of the business partner.
Patent GB-2386032-A (GB)
Title: Estimating/calculating traffic values, estimating the effect of/and modifying the network
Inventor: SIMONIS HELMUT MATTHIAS
IPC: H04L12/26
Filed: 2002-03-01
Abstract: A method of estimating traffic values or intervals in a communications network, the network comprising a plurality of nodes being interconnected by links, the method comprising the steps of (a) obtaining traffic data through said nodes and/or links as input data; (b) obtaining network data relating to the network topology and network behaviour; and (c) estimating the effect of a modification of said communications network and/or its behaviour by calculating traffic information between a selected first and a selected second node of said network using said input data. Other embodiments include a method of calculating traffic values comprising (a) and calculating a cumulative traffic flow, and a method of modifying a communications network comprising (a), (b) and automatically selecting promising candidates for a network modification.
Patent GB-2385299-A (GB)
Title: Thermally writeable card, ticket or pass with holder's image
Inventor: GARDNER MARK KINGSLEY
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 2002-03-08
Abstract: A card, ticket or pass has a thermally writeable region and magnetic or electronic data storage means. When it is issued, an image of the authorised holder or purchaser, along with other information, is thermally written. Further information is stored in the data storage means. The card may be authenticated by comparing information written in the thermally writeable region with information in the data storage means. The identity of the card holder may be checked visually by observation of the image. The card may be used as an aircraft boarding pass or cinema, sporting event, etc, entrance ticket, as a means of ensuring that its bearer is the person to whom it was issued. After use, cards which have been collected may be reused.
Patent GB-2373189-A (GB)
Title: Inflatable pressure pad support
Inventor: CHAPMAN PAUL WILLIAM
IPC: A61G7/05
Filed: 2002-03-15
Abstract: A pressure pad 1 has two sets of cells 11, 12, fluid supply lines 14, a pump 6 to inflate the cells, a sensor pad 8 beneath the pressure pad, and a supply line to an exhaust through the sensor. Change in patient weight/position causes flow in tube 10 to alter differential pressure measured by transducer 16. Control means 50 controls the output of the pump to increase/decrease the supply of fluid to the cells depending upon the rate of fluid exhaust at the sensor exit. This is achieved by microprocessor control of power delivered to the pump by varying the pulse wave modulation to the compressor(s) C1, C2, thus adjusting the fluid flow to the cells. The pressure pad is segmented into heel, upper leg, torso and head sections, with the torso section being maintained at a higher pressure than the other sections. The pressure pad is an alternating or static pad.
Patent GB-2371132-A (GB)
Title: Efficient member authentication and authorization for a tree-based reliable multicast data distribution setup
Inventor: WESLEY JOSEPH
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2000-08-15
Abstract: To authenticate and authorize prospective members in a reliable multicast data distribution setup, the prospective members contact a central authority to obtain a "participation certificate" for the multicast session. The central authority (12) authenticates each node (10-S, 10-R1, ... 10-Rn) and issues a digitally signed certificate (16-S, 16-R1, ... 16-Rn) to the node. Each certificate (16-S, 16-R1, ... 16-Rn) contains information specifying the manner in which the respective node is authorized to participate in the multicast session in addition to the respective node's public key. The nodes (10-S, 10-R1, ... 10-Rn) exchange their participation certificates (16-S, 16-R1, ... 16-Rn) with each other during session-establishment dialog to prove their identities and their authorization to participate. Each node verifies the rights of other nodes base on authorization information contained in the participation certificate received from the other node. Thus, a node is allowed to participate as a repair node only if it presents a participation certificate authorizing it to do so. Disruption in network operation is avoided by reducing the ability of malicious nodes to consume resources to the detriment of legitimate session members.
Patent GB-2389925-A (GB)
Title: Provision of content to a client device
Inventor: BUTLER MARK HENRY
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2002-06-18
Abstract: Content accessible to a variety of client devices from a web page is associated with machine readable labels setting out capabilities required by a client device in order to manifest the content in a meaningful manner. Several versions of the content may be provided by the author, each version of the content being associated with its own specification of client device capabilities required to manifest it. The capabilities required are matched with the technical attributes of a client device, in order to establish which version of the content to provide to a client device.
Patent GB-2380591-A (GB)
Title: Promotion card or ticket which limits player to a specific gaming machine(s)
Inventor: ROWE RICHARD
IPC: G06Q20/02
Filed: 2002-08-05
Abstract: A promotional device e.g. card or ticket, has credit associated therewith for playing a specific gaming application on a gaming machine 100. The promotional device identifies the specific gaming application and limited use of credit thereto. In another embodiment a processor determines whether a specific gaming application is associated with the gaming machine 100. In a further embodiment, the gaming application is on the internet (255, Fig 2).
Patent GB-2377527-A (GB)
Title: Click based trading with intuitive grid display of market depth
Inventor: KEMP GARY ALLAN
IPC: G06Q40/06
Filed: 2001-03-02
Abstract: A method and system for reducing the time it takes for a trader to place a trade when electronically trading on an exchange, thus increasing the likelihood that the trader will have orders filled at desirable prices and quantities. The "Mercury" display and trading method of the present invention ensure fast and accurate execution of trades by displaying market depth on a vertical or horizontal plane, which fluctuates logically up or down, left or right across the plane as the market prices fluctuates. This allows the trader to trade quickly and efficiently.
Patent GB-2393586-A (GB)
Title: Device and method for fixing the rotor of an outer-rotor motor to a shaft
Inventor: WERSON MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: H02K1/30
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: A motor includes a rotor 10 mounted on a shaft 18 for rotation about a stator 11. The rotor 10 includes a generally cylindrical wall 12a and a rotor top 12b which generally closes the cylinder of the rotor wall. The rotor 10 is connected to the motor shaft 18 by a connecting device 20 which is received within an opening in the rotor top 12b and has an aperture, which may be splined, to receive the shaft 18. In use, the connecting device 20 grips the rotor top 12b by means of radially outwardly extending formations 21b and 21c. A toothed washer (spring washer) 22 improves grip. The connecting device 20 is supplied with the material which will make up the formation 21b forming a continuation of the cylindrical body portion 21a. During manufacture, the cylindrical portion 21a of connecting device 20 is inserted through the opening in the rotor top 12b, the washer 22 is mounted, the shaft 18 is inserted and the connecting device 20 is then mechanically deformed, e.g. by peening or forging, to clamp the rotor. Also disclosed is the reduction of noise and damping of vibration, by means of forming the rotor from a layered material comprising two sheets of metal separated by a layer of visco-elastic material.
Patent GB-2377328-A (GB)
Title: Integrated circuit having various operational modes and a method therefor
Inventor: YARCH MARK A
IPC: G06F1/32
Filed: 2001-03-06
Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit has two voltage domain regions. The integrated circuit provides for changing the operational voltage of one of the voltage domain regions with respect to the other.
Patent GB-2396028-A (GB)
Title: Email filtering method
Inventor: BARKER NEIL
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2002-11-04
Abstract: A secure email retrieval system (10) allows a remote user to access a server and thereby to access e-mails addressed to that user, but only if those e-mails are from a remote sender or remote senders recognised by the server. If an email is received from a remote sender who is not recognised by the server, that email is forwarded to a remote guardian, together with a message to the effect that an unrecognised email has been received. The system also provides for the remote guardian to edit a list of remote senders who are recognised by the server for that particular remote user. It is envisaged that the remote guardian may be a parent if the remote user is a child.
Patent GB-2379595-A (GB)
Title: Process for manufacturing shirts with raglan sleeves
Inventor: RIBBLE BRENDON FRANK
IPC: A41D13/12
Filed: 2001-06-07
Abstract: The present invention provides a continuous process for the manufacture of a garment. A web of fabric including opposing web side edges wherein one of the opposing web side edges is proximate the garment bottom edge of the garment is provided. The web of fabric is cut, thereby forming a fabric web wherein the fabric web includes one of the opposing web side edges opposed to an octagonal shape pattern defining pairs of shoulder side edges having a side edge located between the shoulder side edges of each pair of the shoulder side edges and edges located between the pairs of shoulder side edges. The side edges of the fabric web are cut, thereby forming edges defining neck openings in the fabric web. The fabric web is cut, thereby defining discrete garment-sized pieces wherein each of the discrete garment-sized pieces of the fabric web includes at least one neck opening, a front panel having a pair of opposing garment side edges, a garment end portion, and a bottom edge.
Patent GB-2384800-A (GB)
Title: Obtaining fluid from a multizone well
Inventor: COOK ROBERT LANCE
IPC: E21B33/10
Filed: 2000-02-23
Abstract: An apparatus for obtaining fluid from a multizone well includes primary solid tubulars (3335) with associated external seals (3340) positioned in the well. n slotted tubulars (3345) are positioned within the wellbore and coupled to the primary solid tubulars (3335). n-1 intermediate solid tubulars (3350) positioned in wellbore are coupled to and interweaved among the slotted tubulars (3345) where each of the intermediate solid tubulars (3350) includes external seals (3340). A shoe (3355) is coupled to one of the slotted tubulars (3345) and some of the tubulars are plastically deformed in the well.
Patent GB-2388523-A (GB)
Title: Modular storage system with housing and connecting clips for CD's and DVD's
Inventor: CHOW TAT-CHI
IPC: G11B33/04
Filed: 2003-04-17
Abstract: An add-on storage device for flat objects such as CD's and DVD's comprises at least two box-shaped housing elements 1,2 which are open at the front and lie against one another with facing side walls. At least two clip-shaped connecting elements 3 can be pushed onto the adjoining side walls in a predetermined fastening region 4 along the open or closed side of the housings to form a common edge. The fastening regions at least on the open side, have at least one depression (13, 14 figure 2) and or elevation, and at least one elevation (17, 18 figure 8) and or depression on the connection element. The clip-shaped connectors may be stored in the slot-shaped opening in the bottom of the housings.
Patent GB-2395483-A (GB)
Title: Crystalline lamotrigine and its monohydrate
Inventor: MANJUNATHA SULUR G
IPC: C07D253/075
Filed: 2003-07-03
Abstract: The invention relates to crystalline lamotrigine (3,5-diamino-6-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,4-triazine) monohydrate (Ia) and anhydrous lamotrigine. An improved process is provided for manufacturing these products. The process comprises reacting 2,3-dichlorobenzoyl cyanide (II) with aminoguanidine bicarbonate in aqueous mineral acid, optionally together with a water miscible organic solvent, at 30 - 80{C to produce the 2-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-2-(guanidinylamino)acetonitrile (Schiff base). The Schiff base (III) is further cyclised in aqueous organic solvent, eg. alcohol to produce pure lamotrigine (I) of a pharmaceutically acceptable quality which on further drying at 45 - 50{C under vacuum yields lamotrigine monohydrate, and/or on further drying at 100 - 110{C yields anhydrous lamotrigine. The lamotrigine monohydrate or anhydrous lamotrigine thereby produced may then be brought into association with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for administration to a patient in need thereof. <EMI ID=1.1 HE=100 WI=137 LX=417 LY=1284 TI=CF>
Patent GB-2404751-A (GB)
Title: System for providing user targeted adverts
Inventor: SNEESBY THOMAS GUY
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 2003-08-07
Abstract: The system comprises a server which builds custom Internet adverts on the fly in response to a call from a traditional advert server based on demographic data held by any host web site. Each meta ad is multi-facted and contains numerous arrays of data with numerous data in each array. Data arrays include, but are not limited to: product data, product images, product pricing, personal salutations, maps of retail outlets, direct links to specific products at specific retailers. The server arbitrates between the demographic data held by the host web site, the query architecture of the host's traditional advert server and the specific campaign data in each meta data array, to deliver an advert that is perfectly tailored to the demographic of the user viewing the advert.
Patent GB-2405806-A (GB)
Title: An amusement with prizes machine incorporating a ball accept/reject mechanism
Inventor: JONES DAVID
IPC: G07F17/34
Filed: 2003-09-10
Abstract: A coin operated amusement machine is fitted with an 'accept/reject' ball mechanism, enabling the player to check or manipulate a ball before either accepting or rejecting the ball. A number of mechanisms would allow the player to select balls to create a winning line and trigger a payout by the machine. Balls could also be selected to complete a winning line or board on a bingo type game. A video version of the game played on a screen is also provided.
Patent GB-2395990-A (GB)
Title: Braking system comprising two braking cylinders
Inventor: HERSCHEL JAN
IPC: B60T17/18
Filed: 2003-10-23
Abstract: A braking system 20 for an industrial truck, comprising a hydraulic brake cylinder 22 which is coupled to an actuating element (brake pedal, not shown) and is connected with at least one hydraulic brake associated with a wheel (10, 12, 14, 16) of the industrial truck via a brake line 18 wherein another hydraulic brake cylinder 26 is connected to said hydraulic brake line 18, the second brake cylinder 26 being coupled to an electromagnet 44, and an emergency stop device (not shown) is provided which supplies a braking signal to the electromagnet 44 to actuate the second brake cylinder 26. A shuttle valve 24 may be provided where the brake lines of the first brake cylinder 22 and second brake cylinder 26 meet.