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Patent GB-2408774-A (GB)
Title: Lock actuation mechanism comprising latch spindle mounted in cruciform aperture
Inventor: SHENTON NIGEL PHILIP
IPC: E05B15/00
Filed: 2003-12-06
Abstract: A lock actuation mechanism 10 for use with a latch mechanism 4 having a latch spindle 8 which is substantially square in cross section and one end of which is mounted for rotation in a bearing, which latch spindle is rotatable by turning a handle at the second end of the latch spindle in a first direction to retract a latch bolt 6 of the latch mechanism and is rotatable by turning said handle in a second direction to engage a locking mechanism 26,28. The lock actuation mechanism further comprises a cam 12 adapted to be coupled, by means of a rotatable coupling member 16, in driving engagement with the latch spindle 8 so that the cam is driven via the coupling member by the latch spindle when the latter is rotated in said second direction, to engage the locking mechanism 26,28 and when the latter is rotated in said first direction to disengage the locking mechanism 26,28, and the latch spindle is mounted within a cruciform aperture 14 in the coupling member 16 and rotatable relative to the coupling member between a non-engaged rest position and one of two engaged positions. Rotation of the handle causes a drive peg 20 to move along a slot 22, and drive a connecting rod 24, which operates the locking mechanism. The locking mechanism may comprise shoot bolts 26,28.
Patent GB-2409138-A (GB)
Title: Display enhancement to assist reading
Inventor: BEAL STEPHEN
IPC: G09B17/02
Filed: 2004-02-24
Abstract: A method of assisting the reading of alphanumeric characters on a display of a digital device is disclosed, in which the alphanumeric characters are displayed in horizontal rows and/or columns. A user selection of a position in the displayed alphanumeric characters is received and a row or column corresponding to the selected position in the displayed alphanumeric characters is visually emphasised to assist the reading of the alphanumeric characters in the row or column.
Patent GB-2403235-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable mounting arrangement for light or speaker located in ceiling void
Inventor: KOVACS LAURENCE KEITH
IPC: F21V25/00
Filed: 2002-07-20
Abstract: A mounting arrangement comprises at least one retention means including first and second members (P, M) which are adjustably connected preferably by a lock (K) to allow the overall length of the members to be increased or decreased. The first member is, in use, attached to a support structure such as a ceiling and the second member may be secured to a cover or panel. The mounting arrangement is claimed in combination with an expansion cover.
Patent GB-2416913-A (GB)
Title: A centrifugal particle mass analyser
Inventor: RUSHTON MARK GEOFFREY
IPC: B03C3/15
Filed: 2004-08-07
Abstract: A centrifugal particle mass analyser removes particles from an aerosol except those close to a desired mass to charge ratio by holding the desired particles in a rotating flow between two electrodes 17,18 or 24,25 between which an electric field exists. Other particles strike the electrodes. The analyser is constructed so that the electric field is not inversely proportional to the required centripetal acceleration of the particles, thereby providing a stable classification of the particles. In one embodiment (fig 8), the electric field is generated in two channels 13 each of which has a centre of curvature which is not coincident which the axis of rotation of the analyser. Another arrangement is described (fig 9) in which an electric field is generated between two coaxial cylindrical electrodes 24,25 which rotate at different velocities.
Patent GB-2409524-A (GB)
Title: A dual gas sensor having first and second working electrodes separated by a gas impermeable member
Inventor: SAFFELL JOHN R
IPC: G01N33/00
Filed: 2004-12-14
Abstract: A dual gas sensor is described, having first and second working electrodes separated by a gas impermeable portion. The electrodes are preferably located on a gas permeable polymer support, with the gas impermeable portion being formed by compression of the permeable support. The sensor may also include one or more filters for location adjacent the electrodes to filter certain gases from the air. The preferred sensor is able to detect carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide. The sensor housing is formed with four connection pins, allowing a standard sensor housing to be used for dual sensors as well as single sensors having a dummy pin.
Patent GB-2422004-A (GB)
Title: Plate heat exchanger
Inventor: BARNES DAVID
IPC: F28F3/08
Filed: 2005-01-07
Abstract: A heat exchanger 1 comprises a stack 7 of spaced plates 9, 11, 13 and a first 3 and second 5 header connected to the plate stack 7 by tubes 21, 23, 27, 29, 31, 33. The plates 9, 11, 13 comprises spaced pairs of plates (fig 2) joined together and are separated by spaces 15, 17, 19. A first fluid flows though the plates 9, 11, 13 and a second fluid of equal pressure to or less than the first fluid flows over the plates. The tubes 21, 23, 27, 29, 31, 33 may be flexible and arranged to direct the first fluid in an angular direction (fig 8). The plates 9, 11, 13 may be connected to both headers 3, 5 by support members (83, figs 3 and 4) comprising a joint allowing rotational movement between the headers and the plates. At least one pusher bar (261, figs 10 and 11) may be connected to both headers 3, 5 by a hinge and permits rotational movement. The plates 9, 11, 13 may be arranged in a rectangle, radially (figs 5 - 7) with radial inner (161 and 163, fig 6 and 7) and radial outer (175 and 177, fig 6 and 7) headers, and the plates (191, 193, 197, fig 7) may be curved and arranged in an involute. Pins (67 and 69, fig 2) of a variety of shapes and/or orientation may be provided on the plates 9, 11, 13.
Patent GB-2422108-A (GB)
Title: Safety catheter
Inventor: PARKER JERRY W
IPC: A61M25/00
Filed: 2005-01-13
Abstract: A safety catheter has a stand (10), a spring (20), a barrel (30) and a hub (40). The stand (10) and the spring (20) are mounted slidably within the barrel (30). The stand (10) has a proximal end, a distal end, an outer surface, a needle (18) protruding from the proximal end and multiple annular notches (19) formed in and extending radially inward from the outer surface. The barrel (30) has multiple clipper springs (38) mounted on one end of the barrel (30). The clipper springs (38) can clip the annular notches (19) to hold the needle (18) introduced into the hub (40). After insertion of the catheter is complete, the hub (40) can be simply withdrawn from the catheter to let the needle (18) retract in the barrel (30) automatically to prevent accidental pricking of staff.
Patent GB-2425601-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring apparatus with a remote sensor and wireless link
Inventor: BURDETT ALISON
IPC: A61B5/00
Filed: 2005-04-26
Abstract: Apparatus for monitoring and or treating a substance or body. The apparatus comprises a sensor 1, at least a portion of which 6 is arranged in use to come into contact with a body, tissue, bodily fluid or other substance, and a computer device 3. Both the sensor 1 and the computer device 3 have radio frequency circuitry 12,16 for facilitating the transmission of data between them via a wireless communication link, the computer device 3 having means 15,17 for selecting wireless link transmission properties based upon user location, and for signalling these properties to the sensor 1.
Patent GB-2421461-A (GB)
Title: A transmission housing for a power tool
Inventor: ARICH KLAUS DIETER
IPC: B25F5/02
Filed: 2005-05-27
Abstract: A transmission housing is disclosed for a power tool (20, fig 3) having a transmission mechanism for driving a reciprocating member in response to rotation of an output shaft of a motor, in order to actuate a tool bit. The transmission housing is adapted to at least partially encapsulate the transmission mechanism to define a first chamber 433 for receiving a rear end of the reciprocating member, and a second chamber 435 remote from the first chamber, where the first and second chambers are connected in use by at least one channel (429a, Fig 19). in order to allow air flow between the first and second chambers to reduce pressure differences generated by the reciprocation of the rear end of the reciprocating member. Preferably the power tool is a hammer drill.
Patent GB-2427541-A (GB)
Title: Vision system for food cutting and portioning apparatus
Inventor: BURTON COLIN MICHAEL
IPC: G01N33/12
Filed: 2005-09-01
Abstract: A vision system is described for viewing the end face of product mounted in a machine which in use produces measurements relating to the area of the end face and of at least one constituent part of the product which is visible in the end face. The system comprises means for illuminating the end face and a video camera for producing a video signal from an image of the illuminated end face. The end face is illuminated by light of two predominantly different wavelengths. One wavelength illuminates an area which contains both the end face and surrounding parts of the machine, while light of the other wavelength from a laser source produces a pattern of parallel spaced apart lines of light of the said other wavelength. A memory stores information on the components of the machine which in use extend into the field of view of the scanning means, and signals obtained from the stored information are employed to gate the video signal to exclude video signal corresponding to regions of the field view which are known not to contain any part of the product end face. The parallel lines cross the end face at a specific given angle, and parallel lines in the field of view at other angles indicate regions in the field of view which are not part of the end face of the product. Gating excludes video signal of parallel lines in the image which are not at the specific angle and of parallel lines crossing flat regions of the machine parallel to the end face of the product, to leave a residual video signal corresponding to the end face, from which an electronic mask is generated which represents the extent of the product end face. A full colour video signal of the field of view is gated by the mask. The vision system forms part of a product slicing machine and measurements and/or dimensional values obtained from the video signal control the thickness of the next slice to be cut and are also sent to slice and pack grade-level decision logic, to control down-line gates.
Patent GB-2430233-A (GB)
Title: Electrical cable belt clip
Inventor: MOORE DAVID
IPC: A01D75/20
Filed: 2005-09-17
Abstract: An electrical cable supporting and storing unit has a clip to support the unit at waist height of the user. The cable may be clamped by an open topped plastic sleeve 7 and supported by a plastic clasping arm 1. The clasping arm may also be used to store the electrical cable when it is not in use. The lower edge of the unit may be sharpened 8 to be used to scrap off debris from gardening equipment. The clasping arm may have a metal spring that forces the arm into engagement with the belt/clothing clip. The unit is designed to be used with garden equipment such as lawnmowers to stop the electrical cables from getting in the way.
Patent GB-2415753-A (GB)
Title: Sliding member
Inventor: TAKAYANAGI SATOSHI
IPC: C23C14/06
Filed: 2004-04-16
Abstract: A sliding member which has a substrate and a sliding layer (overlay), wherein the overlay (sliding layer) (4) comprises a base material of a metal selected from among Sn, Pb, Bi, In and Al or an alloy based on the metal and an amorphous carbon as an additive. The overlay (4) is formed by sputtering. Sn, Pb, Bi or In is excellent in non-seizure property due to its low adhesion to a mating material such as Fe. An amorphous carbon improve wear resistance and fatigue resistance due to its high hardness and also improve non-seizure property due to its low friction coefficient. Further, by the addition of an amorphous carbon, the above base material having finer crystal grains is formed, which results in the enhancement of the mechanical strength and further improvement of the wear resistance and fatigue resistance of the overlay (sliding layer).
Patent GB-2434006-A (GB)
Title: Processing nutritional data
Inventor: WILSON BARBARA
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 2006-01-06
Abstract: Nutritional item data is stored related to various foodstuffs. The nutritional item data includes count values assigned to each foodstuff depending on an amount of the foodstuff. Nutritional selection data is also received indicating food for ingestion by a user and nutritional record data is then generated based on the nutritional item and selection data, the record data including a cumulative count value for food to be ingested. A count value is assigned to the amount of foodstuff depending on the energy content in the foodstuff, the count value further depending on at least one of: type of carbohydrate, type of fat type of protein, salt content, sugar content, alcohol content, and food origin, particularly whether it is of plant or animal origin.
Patent GB-2421865-A (GB)
Title: Restoring power in an optical fibre communication system using Raman pump light
Inventor: DEGUCHI HIROYUKI
IPC: H04B3/48
Filed: 2004-03-05
Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic power restoring method capable of reliably detecting continuity by the dissolution of a line fault, to restore the optical power, even in a structure including an optical amplification medium (12) on an optical transmission path (2) and an optical communication system using the method. To this end, in an optical communication system to which an automatic power restoring method embodying the present invention is applied, a pilot signal light transmitting section controls, when a line fault occurs, pumping light for Raman amplification at the power of a predetermined level or lower to switch to a pilot signal light, to send out the pilot signal light from the optical receiving station to the optical transmission path, and a pilot signal light receiving section detects continuity by receiving at the optical transmitting station the pilot signal light sent out from the pilot signal light receiving section to the optical transmission path, to restore the power state at the occurrence of line fault to the power state at a time of normal operation.
Patent GB-2436558-A (GB)
Title: Beverage dispense valve
Inventor: MILLER SIMON ROBERT
IPC: B67D1/14
Filed: 2006-03-30
Abstract: A beverage dispense valve comprising (i) a valve body; (ii) a female taper member inside the valve body the internal diameter increasing in a downstream direction away from the beverage inlet port; (iii) a male taper member, the external diameter of the taper portion increasing in a downstream direction so as to be at least partially complementary to the female taper member, and having a hollow outlet portion downstream of the taper portion, one taper member being slidable relative to the other forming a flow regulator; (iv) one or more apertures penetrating through the male taper member to allow beverage to pass into the interior of the outlet portion, (v) a valve closure arrangement for sealing flow between the beverage inlet port and the beverage outlet port; and (vi) an actuating mechanism outside the valve body to operate both the flow regulator and the valve closure arrangement. The beverage dispense valve described allows simultaneous control of the flow rate of beverage through the valve in unison with the opening and closing of the valve.
Patent GB-2437772-A (GB)
Title: Digital circuit arrangements for ambient noise-reduction
Inventor: CLEMOW RICHARD DAVID
IPC: G10K11/178
Filed: 2006-04-12
Abstract: A digital circuit arrangement for an ambient noise-reduction system affording a higher degree of noise reduction than has hitherto been possible, through the use of a low latency signal processing chain. The circuit arrangement includes analogue-to-digital converter 81, a digital processor including digital filter 82 and digital delta-sigma modulator 83, and digital-to-analogue converter 84. The arrangement converts analogue ambient noise signals into N-bit digital signals at sample rate f0, and then subjects the converted signals to digital filtering. The value of N in some embodiments is 1, but, in any event, is no greater than 8, and f0 may be 64 times the Nyquist sampling rate but, in any event, is substantially greater than the Nyquist sampling rate. This permits digital processing to be used without incurring group delay problems that rule out the use of conventional digital processing in this context. Furthermore, adjustment of the group delay can readily be achieved, providing the ability to fine tune the group delay for feed-forward applications.
Patent GB-2438460-A (GB)
Title: Animal cleaning device
Inventor: CALLAND MARK
IPC: A01K13/00
Filed: 2006-05-23
Abstract: An animal cleaning device comprises a square of towelling 10, secured by clips 12 and 13 to the end of an extensible and retractable cord 14 with a spring loaded housing 15. This can be attached by a further clip 16 to a handler's belt. Alternatively the extensible and retractable device can be a helical spring (17, fig.3) connected by clips (13 and 16, fig.3) to the towel and the handler's belt.
Patent GB-2440555-A (GB)
Title: Acoustic testing of wooden elements
Inventor: GREENOUGH RODNEY DAVID
IPC: G01N29/12
Filed: 2006-07-31
Abstract: A method for non-invasively testing an elongate wooden element 1, especially utility poles, comprises injecting 2 an input acoustic signal (e.g. swept frequency signal), detecting 6 a return signal and determining a spectral profile for the return signal. In at least a predetermined range in the spectral profile each resonance peak is detected whose amplitude exceeds a first predetermined value, and from the resonance peaks so detected the number of higher peaks is determined whose amplitude exceeds 3dB. For each of said higher peaks a quality factor Q is calculated. A mean quality factor Qm is determined and Qm is compared with a predetermined value to provide an indication of the presence or absence of external decay of the element. A ratio R of the number of higher peaks to the number of resonance peaks detected and the statistical spread S of the average Q for the spectral profile are calculated and compared with a predetermined boundary function Fn(R,S) to determine acceptability or unacceptability of the element.
Patent GB-2440500-A (GB)
Title: Animal feeding bowl
Inventor: CARDY NICOLA
IPC: A01K5/01
Filed: 2006-07-29
Abstract: The bowl provides a combination of protrusions 115 and recesses to slow down animals that tend to gulp their food too fast. One or more protrusions 110 may overhang the base of the bowl, creating one or more recesses below. The recesses are preferably open rather than blind, having perhaps two or more exits from them through which food can be pushed. A single protrusion may be provided however (figs 13-16).
Patent GB-2440992-A (GB)
Title: Encryption of an ordered first set of bits using rearrangement which depends on at least two encryption keys
Inventor: DALVI FARHAD
IPC: H04L9/34
Filed: 2006-08-02
Abstract: A method of encryption of an ordered first set of bits that has a plurality of positions with each bit being in a respective one of the positions. The positions of the bits are rearranged in dependence on at least two encryption keys. Each position is identified by at least two identifiers in combination. The rearranging of the positions of the bits includes, for each position, the steps of determining the identifiers of a respective one of the positions using the encryption keys, and placing the bit in that one position in the corresponding position. The steps are performed by subjecting each bit in the first set to operation of an algorithm under the control of the encryption key. Specifically, each bit of the first set is placed sequentially in a respective position in a first array having N columns and N rows defining N<2> positions, each first identifier being indicative of a respective column, and each second identifier being indicative of a respective row. (Where N is greater than 1.) A corresponding method of decryption is also disclosed, in which the positions of the bits are rearranged in dependence on at least two decryption keys, corresponding respectively to the encryption keys, so that each bit is returned to its respective position in the first set before encryption.
Patent GB-2440601-A (GB)
Title: Cream formulations
Inventor: MITCHELL JULIE ANN
IPC: A61K36/534
Filed: 2006-08-05
Abstract: A cream formulation which comprises a base cream composition containing at least one fixed non-volatile oil of vegetable origin, blended together with at least one of the following botanical components: Myroxylon balsamum var. Pereirae, Helichrysum angustifolim, Pelargonium graveolens, Taraxacum officinale, Gardenia jasminoides, Mentha piperita, Calendula officinalis, Arnica Montana, Silybum maranum, Salix alba and, Hypericum Peroratum.
Patent GB-2441012-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for retaining shuttering
Inventor: MASSEY CHRISTOPHER JON
IPC: E04G11/48
Filed: 2006-08-18
Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for retaining shuttering in place immediately beneath a space 10 between two beams 12. The apparatus 20 comprises a base member 22 with two resilient arms 24 extending downwardly and outwardly to engage against the sides of the beams 12. A connection member preferably a cable tie 28 is engageable with the base member 22 and the shuttering 18 to pull the base member and the shuttering together. The arms 24 engage against the beam sides 12 to retain the apparatus 20 and hence shuttering 18 in place. The base member may have four arms and may have the cable tie integrally formed. The apparatus is preferably formed from plastics such as nylon or polypropylene. A later embodiment relates to a method of using said apparatus.
Patent GB-2438269-A (GB)
Title: Drainage channel section
Inventor: KING ROBERT JAMES
IPC: E01C11/22
Filed: 2003-10-03
Abstract: The drainage channel section 1, primarily for use in drainage arrangements for large catchment areas, comprises a longitudinally extending pipe portion 2 and a longitudinal slot 3 that lies, in use, in a surface to be drained and that is in liquid communication with the pipe portion, in use, wherein the drainage channel section comprises one or more transverse openings 4 into which a material in which the channel section is embedded in use can extend from either side of the channel section to form a structural bridge element. The application excludes channel sections which comprise a number of longitudinally spaced hollow projections communicating with the pipe portion. The or at least one of the openings may extend through the pipe portion and the channel section may be formed as one piece or the pipe and slot portions may be formed separately. The or at least one transverse opening may be divided by a substantially incompressible wall which is arranged centrally along the section. The longitudinal slot may be wider than the pipe portion, which is preferably triangular in cross-section. A removable filter and/or a heel guard grating or a slotted rail may be arranged in the slot, in use. The channel is preferably formed from medium density polyethylene and includes a locating foot with the slot preferably having a rolled edge.