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Patent GB-2305548-A (GB)
Title: Electrical installations in vehicles
Inventor: ASKEW GEORGE
IPC: B60R16/023
Filed: 1996-09-23
Abstract: Power supply to lamps L1-6 of a commercial trailer vehicle is via cables C1-9 via junction boxes B1-2. The boxes B1-2 are installed with cables C3-5 and C6-9 respectively, already attached, the cables C3-4,6-9 being individually of a length for direct connection to the relevant lamps L1-6; alternatively, the cables C3-4,6-9 are already attached to the lamps L1 to L6. Connections within the junction boxes B1-2 are made via circuit boards 11 (Figs 2,3) and jumper leads 16. The rear junction box B2 may be incorporated with the lamps L6 into a unit (Fig 5) for mounting the rear number/identification plate 31 of the vehicle.
Patent GB-2317431-A (GB)
Title: Moving Toy
Inventor: CHOUNG CHIK TING
IPC: A63H17/00
Filed: 1996-09-23
Abstract: A moving toy incorporates an operating mechanism 10 which comprises a plurality of ground-engaging wheels 12 and 13, an electric motor 16, and a gear train 18 arranged to be driven by the motor 16 to rotate at least one 12 of the wheels in order to move the toy. The gear train 18 includes a reciprocatable gear 24 to periodically reverse the direction of rotation of said at least one wheel 12 and swivel another said wheel 13 in order to cause the toy to periodically turn backwards. The reciprocatable gear 24 is arranged to be moved in an axial direction between two positions through a cam action which is effected between the recoprocatable gear 24 and a further gear 22 rotated simultaneously at different speeds. Preferably the front wheel 13 is arranged to be swivelled by means of a crank action provided by the gear train using a slider 36 moved by a crank member 23A.
Patent GB-2306988-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for forming a slot in a wellbore
Inventor: TULLOCH RORY MCCRAE
IPC: E21B29/00
Filed: 1996-11-06
Abstract: Apparatus for cutting slots in a wellbore casing and the surrounding formation comprises a single or a pair of cutting chain assemblies 37 rotatably mounted on a body and moveable from a storage position in which the axes of the cutting chain assemblies are parallel to the axis of the tool to a position at right angles to the storage position. The chains are driven by a motor, gearbox, drive shaft 20 and bevel gear 34. The position of the chain arms is controlled by a piston 44 which is connected by rods 41A to racks 41 which mesh with pinions provided on the arms of the chain assemblies 37. When the piston 44 has moved a sufficient distance to bring the cutting chain assemblies 37 to a position perpendicular to the axis of the tool the slot may be increased in size by movement of the entire tool as the chains continue to rotate.
Patent GB-2320590-A (GB)
Title: Novelty watch
Inventor: PIKE WILLIAM HAROLD
IPC: G04B47/02
Filed: 1996-12-20
Abstract: An electronic liquid crystal display watch has a casing 10 and spring biassed releasable lid 11. The watch includes a melody chip that plays automatically when the lid 11 is opened. The casing 10 is integrally moulded with a slot 17 behind a bracket 18 and with a loop 20. The slot 17 is arranged to receive a watch strap and the loop arranged to receive a necklace string so that the watch can be worn as a wrist watch or a necklace.
Patent GB-2307952-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for testing a fluid pressure apparatus
Inventor: LAFOUNTAIN ROBERT HENRY
IPC: G01M3/26
Filed: 1996-07-16
Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing and filling hydraulic assemblies such as a hydraulic clutch control assembly (12) for a motor vehicle. A conduit (36b) is placed in communication with a pressure chamber of the assembly; air is sucked out of the pressure chamber through the conduit while a series of pressure readings are taken in the conduit indicative of the gradually declining pressures within the pressure chamber; the pressure readings are utilized to generate a vacuum signature (114); the vacuum signature is compared to a stored vacuum signature corresponding to an acceptable hydraulic assembly; the hydraulic assembly is accepted or rejected based on the match between the generated vacuum signature and the stored vacuum signature; assuming that the assembly is accepted, liquid is supplied through the conduit to gradually fill the pressure chamber of the assembly while taking a series of pressure readings indicative of the pressure in the chamber during the fill process; the fill pressure readings are utilized to generate a fill signature (116); the fill signature is compared to a stored fill signature corresponding to an acceptable assembly; and the assembly is rejected or accepted based on the correspondence between the generated fill signature and the stored signature.
Patent GB-2313722-A (GB)
Title: Battery charger
Inventor: MARTENSSON NILS ERIK VILHELM
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 1997-05-15
Abstract: A housing 2 of a battery charger unit 1 contains a mains powered charging current supply (20, Figs.3-5) connected to contacts 17 in a battery receiving recess 3 on the housing, current supply (20) also being connected to a cable 8 for coupling to a battery in an electrical or electronic apparatus (21) located remotely from the unit 1. Housing 2 may carry pins (14-16, Fig.2) for plugging into a mains wall socket, or unit 1 may be connected to the mains via a cable (28, Fig.6). A spare battery 10 in recess 3 may be slow charged simultaneously with fast charging of a battery (23) in a remote apparatus, such as a video camcorder, a computer, or particularly a cellular radio telephone. Fast charging of battery (23) is under control of control logic (25) in the radio telephone (21). Unit 1 may also incorporate control logic (24, Fig.5) so that spare battery 10 can be fast charged when the telephone battery (23) is fully charged, or when no telephone is coupled to cable 8. The cable 8 may alternatively be connected to a desk stand (30, Fig.4) having recesses for receiving a radio telephone (21) and a spare battery (31), for simultaneous fast charging of the telephone and slow charging of the spare battery. A removable cover (19, Fig.2) may be provided to protect the recess when there is no battery 10 therein. A switch-mode type current supply (20) may be used. The charger unit 1 may have a recess (6, Figs.7,8) to receive a spare battery or the whole telephone, the recess (6) being oriented so that a battery inserted therein is at an angle of about 45 degrees to the vertical irrespective of whether the unit 1 is plugged into a wall socket (Fig.9) or a floor socket (Fig. 10), whereby the battery remains in the recess (6) due to gravity. A slidable cover (9) fits over the recess (6) when not in use.
Patent GB-2325950-A (GB)
Title: Composition for manufacturing a support of railroad rails
Inventor: HWANG CHAO-LUNG
IPC: E01B3/28
Filed: 1997-06-03
Abstract: A composition for manufacturing a support of railroad rails comprises a granular material including gravel and sand, the amount of the granular material being 64-75% by weight based on the total weight of the composition; a fibrous material, the amount of which is 1.5-2.5% by weight based on the total weight of the composition; a cement, the amount of which is 15-25% by weight based on the total weight of the composition; a pozzolanic material, the amount of which is 5-25% by weight based on the total weight of the composition; a ligninsulfonate including a salt of formaldehyde-naphthalene sulphonate which serves as a workability-aid, the amount of the ligninsulfonate being 2-6% by weight based on the weight of the cement; and an amount of water such that the water-binder ratio of the composition is below 0.4.
Patent GB-2327296-A (GB)
Title: Reverse self aligned narrow gate fet
Inventor: HONG GARY
IPC: H01L29/78
Filed: 1997-07-14
Abstract: Openings 38 are formed in a first doped polysilicon layer 34 to expose the surface of the substrate 30. A layer of doped oxide 40 is deposited over the first layer of polysilicon and within the openings in the first polysilicon layer. Etching is performed to provide doped oxide spacers 42 on the sidewalls of the openings. An anneal is performed to diffuse impurities from from the first polysilicon layer and the doped oxide spacers into the substrate, forming source/drain regions. A gate oxide layer 52 is formed on the substrate within the openings. A second layer of polysilicon 56 is deposited on the device, onto the surface of the insulating spacer structures within the openings in the mask, and onto the gate oxide layer at the bottom of the openings. The second polysilicon layer is patterned to form gate electrodes, with the gate electrodes extending between the spacers in the openings in the first polysilicon layer. The effective length of the gate electrodes formed by this method is smaller than the design rule for conventional processes.
Patent GB-2330202-A (GB)
Title: Flexible MRI antenna for intra-cavity use
Inventor: GILDERDALE DAVID JOHN
IPC: G01R33/34
Filed: 1997-10-07
Abstract: An interventional RF antenna, suitable for urethral or vascular use, comprises a pair of conductors 7,8 separated by a support such as a web 9. The conductors approach each other at positions A,B along the length of the antenna so that the antenna may be flexed in the plane of the support about the arrows 12,13. Without these nodes, the antenna could be flexed only transverse to the plane of the web, about arrow 10. A second pair of conductors 4,5 may be provided, orthogonal to the conductors 7,8 and having points of approach between those of conductors 7,8. The web may be PTFE or polypropylene. The antenna and web may be moulded into a tubular structure of flexible silicone rubber or alternatively the conductors may be moulded directly into a flexible tubular structure without use of a web. The conductor separation profile may be sinusoidal or trapezoidal.
Patent GB-2316968-A (GB)
Title: Mechanism for anchoring a well tool
Inventor: PRINGLE RONALD EARL
IPC: E21B33/1295
Filed: 1996-04-16
Abstract: A longitudinally compact mechanism for anchoring a well tool to a casing includes a plurality of first slip members (70) and a plurality of second slip members (100). The first slip members (70) and the second slip members (100) are carried on the well tool at the approximate same longitudinal position, and the first slip members are alternately radially positioned with the second slip members. Each slip member is expanded by relative movement of an independent piston (63, 88) operatively connected thereto.
Patent GB-2322162-A (GB)
Title: Double-acting i.c. engine with two combustion chambers per cylinder
Inventor: PAGEL ARNFRIED GUENTER DAGOBER
IPC: F02B71/04
Filed: 1997-10-27
Abstract: The engine has a cylinder containing a piston with a combustion chamber on each side of the piston so that the piston is driven by explosions on both sides. Each combustion chamber may have a spark plug and an injection pump. The engine does not need a crankshaft, con rod piston bolt or valves. Force transmission is mechanical and/or hydraulic with a pump system. Several cylinders may be used to increase power. The engine has low production costs and is highly wear resistant with low repair costs.
Patent GB-2324007-A (GB)
Title: An electronic postal system
Inventor: LEVITSKY PAUL A
IPC: H04L12/58
Filed: 1997-12-22
Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting, producing, and delivering a finished mailpiece includes the step of selecting, at an initiating node (12,14,22,24), a set of parameters which together comprise a mailpiece to be produced at a remote location (32,34,36). The selection is made from a series of menus within a program resident within a data processing system. Among the parameters which can be selected or determined are the destination address, type of delivery service to be used, and a choice of the media stock upon which a selected text can be printed. Additionally, a choice of language for the text can be made, and an account number for debiting the cost of the transaction may be entered. The selected parameters are transmitted to a data center which reads the destination address and then determines the most appropriate destination node. It is possible for the data center to be co-located with the initiating node, or to be the destination node. The data center, which maintains all data with respect to a particular transaction, will transmit the selected parameters to the destination node. Upon receipt of the data, the destination node prints the selected text upon a media which is inserted into an envelope with the destination address printed upon the envelope. The envelope is then franked in proper local currency and delivered to a local postal stream for final delivery to the destination address.
Patent GB-2328112-A (GB)
Title: Rap alternate routeing for ISO 10589
Inventor: ASPREY MARTIN JOHN
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 1998-03-13
Abstract: In a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) based communications network comprising a plurality of Intermediate Systems (IS), the IS being divided between at least one IS-IS Area and at least one non-IS-IS Area, an IS-IS Area being an area with which a routeing protocol forming part of the Network Layer (Layer 3) of the Open Systems Interconnection including routeing (OSI), is provided for routeing messages between areas, including routeing means, whereby where a message is routed from an IS-IS Area to a destination IS within a non-IS-IS Area and the connection to the destination IS is broken, and as a result a message is returned from the non-IS-IS Area to the originating IS-IS Area connection to the destination IS is made by a second choice connection.
Patent GB-2329267-A (GB)
Title: Testing computer date-handling capability
Inventor: BOSSERT PATRICK
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 1998-03-18
Abstract: A system for testing computer systems for year 2000 compliance. Test clips 12-14 are connected respectively to the RAM, ROM and real time clock (RTC) of an embedded control system 10. The instructions processed by the control system's microprocessor are sampled from the ROM containing the program code, via test clip 13, by a logic analyser 15. The sampled instructions are recorded in a buffer. The logic analyser selects some of them from the buffer in response to a signal from the test clip 14 indicating the reading of date information from the RTC, or in response to a signal from the test clip 12 indicating the accessing of predetermined memory locations in the RAM which store date information. The selected instructions necessarily contain instructions relating to the manner in which the embedded control system manipulates and stores dates, and can be examined for year 2000 compliance without the need to examine all of the instructions processed by the microprocessor.
Patent GB-2322022-A (GB)
Title: Constant-current/constant-voltage battery charger
Inventor: YOSHIDA TAKESHI
IPC: H02J7/10
Filed: 1996-10-23
Abstract: A constant-current/constant-voltage battery charger which can safely charge a lithium ion battery. The battery charger is provided with a power source circuit which supplies electric power, a chopper circuit which controls the charging current (i) and the battery voltage (v), a charging voltage detecting circuit which detects the charging voltage, a charging current detecting circuit which detects the charging current (i), a battery voltage detecting circuit which detects the battery voltage (v), a charging current calculating circuit which calculates the charging current (i) from the detected battery voltage (v) and charging voltage, and an arithmetic circuit which outputs a control voltage (a) for controlling the battery voltage and charging current (i) according to the detected battery voltage (v) and calculated charging current (i), and a voltage-controlled oscillator which outputs oscillation control (b) having a frequency corresponding to the control voltage (a) to the chopper circuit.
Patent GB-2324702-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for untangling tobacco.
Inventor: FORSYTH RICHARD JOHN
IPC: A24C5/39
Filed: 1998-04-29
Abstract: Apparatus for opening tangled tobacco comprising one pair of rotating rolls positioned across a flow path for tobacco, means to drive a one roll of the pair to convey the tobacco at a greater rate than the other roll, and the speed of the rolls being variable so as to regulate flow of the tobacco through the apparatus, a further pair of rotating rolls, means to drive a one roll of the further pair to convey the tobacco at a greater rate than the other roll to thereby open the tangled tobacco, the arrangement being such that, in use, said tobacco passes from one pair of rolls to the other pair of rolls.
Patent GB-2322210-A (GB)
Title: Processor having multiple program counters and instruction registers
Inventor: KAMIJO SHUNSUKE
IPC: G06F9/38
Filed: 1994-11-29
Abstract: Consecutive program words are stored alternately in memories 1A, 1B which are addressed by program counters 2A, 2B to provide outputs to instruction registers 3A, 3B. An instruction decoder 4 is controlled to select an instruction from the registers in turn for execution by circuit 5C. This arrangement enables branch instructions to be processed quickly. Embodiments may include decoder bypass paths (7A, 7B, Figure 11) or a double-length-instruction decoder (4N, Figure 13).
Patent GB-2340505-A (GB)
Title: Reduction of malodour causing mercaptan content of hydrocarbon streams using imidazoline compounds
Inventor: BRANKLING DAVID
IPC: C10L1/232
Filed: 1998-08-14
Abstract: Oil soluble imidazoline compounds derived from the condensation of natural or synthetic fatty acids with amines have been added to crude oil and natural gas feedstocks in order to reduce the amount of malodour causing mercaptans and thiols present in these feedstocks. The imidazoline compounds of choice are those obtained from the condensation of tall oil fatty acids with aminoethyl ethanolamine (NH<SB>2</SB>-(CH<SB>2</SB>)<SB>2</SB>-NH-(CH<SB>2</SB>)<SB>2</SB>-OH) which are sold commercially under the tradename Unimid Z940. These imidazoline compounds may be injected as a spray or in liquid form in batch or continuous mode to a mercaptan containing hydrocarbon feedstock at a level required to deodorise the feedstock to the desired degree. These compounds may also provide corrosion inhibition and detergent properties which may benefit subsequent downstream processing of the feedstock.
Patent GB-2343330-A (GB)
Title: Soft handoff method using a backup link
Inventor: MOHEBBI BEHZAD
IPC: H04W36/30
Filed: 1998-10-29
Abstract: In a call setup process uplink and downlink channels are allocated between the mobile station and a first base station of the network. The mobile station and a further base station neighbouring the first are provided with the call setup information to use the same uplink and downlink channels between the further base station and the mobile station. Upon completion of the call setup process, the first base station is set initially to an active state, in which its said uplink and downlink channels are in use, and the further base station is set to a dormant state. When, during the course of the call, it is determined that the mobile station should be handed off to the further base station, the call setup information provided in the call setup process is employed to bring about change of that further base station from the said dormant state to the said active state. Such a hand-off procedure can be sufficiently fast to operate usefully in a microcellular environment.
Patent GB-2345986-A (GB)
Title: Computer mouse/mice driver
Inventor: CHANG VAM
IPC: G06F3/038
Filed: 1999-01-19
Abstract: A method for driving a computer mouse or plurality of mice which uses a communication interface to convert the different protocols of different types of mice (e.g. a Microsoft(RTM) mouse or a PS/2(RTM) mouse) into a generic standard format is disclosed. The universal driver permits one or more mice to be connected to, and used by, the computer simultaneously. It also enables one mouse to be replaced by another (hot-swapped) without needing to restart (in order to load new drivers) or re-configure either the computer system or any software that the computer is running.
Patent GB-2334064-A (GB)
Title: Window glass run
Inventor: TOYOSHIMA TAKAYUKI
IPC: B60J10/04
Filed: 1999-02-09
Abstract: A glass run for use in the corner portion of an automobile window frame comprises, a moulded glass run (60) having a pillar side portion and a roof side portion, with a bend between the two defining the boundary, and an extrusion moulded glass run (70) which is united with the pillar side portion of the moulded corner glass run. The pillar side portion of the corner unit has an outer lip (62) having a ridge (66), and the roof side portion also has similar features, outer lip (62') and ridge (66'). The extrusion moulded glass run also has an outer lip (72) and ridge (76), the latter being united with ridge (66) and shifted towards the glass pane with respect to ridge (66'). The shift in position of the ridge either side of the bend in the glass run with regards to the window pane is intended in use to prevent insufficient curvature of the glass run, and hence undesirable water and wind intrusion.
Patent GB-2352952-A (GB)
Title: Tile divider and support for tank
Inventor: GARCIA RODOLFO NEPOMUCENO
IPC: A01K63/00
Filed: 1999-08-09
Abstract: The tile acts as a divider in tank suitable for water life and has slots 2 to allow waste food and the like to pass to lower areas of the tank. The tile is supported on wire legs (fig 2). The tile may have removable portions 2.
Patent GB-2353666-A (GB)
Title: Call control system
Inventor: PINARD DEBORAH L
IPC: H04M3/436
Filed: 1999-08-23
Abstract: A call manager (202) receives an incoming call (204) and from this may generate a subsidiary call signal, which it directs to a first call reception component (208, 210, 212, 214, 216). For instance, the call manager may direct the call to a messaging system (216). If the call manager receives an intercept signal from the caller, it may redirect the subsidiary call signal to another call reception component (210), for example to another recipient.
Patent GB-2337112-A (GB)
Title: Measuring the energy output of x-ray sources
Inventor: DIDSBURY DAVID
IPC: G01T1/20
Filed: 1998-02-27
Abstract: A detector head (10) for measuring the energy of x-rays emitted from a source. The head (10) comprises a linear array of photodiode detector devices (23) each positioned beneath a respective x-ray attenuation window (16). Preferably seven pairs of detector devices (23) are provided symmetrically arranged about an axis, each pair for detecting x-rays through an attenuating filter (16) of different thickness to the other pair.
Patent GB-2340768-A (GB)
Title: Rotary drum filtration apparatus
Inventor: PRATT JEFFREY
IPC: B01D33/11
Filed: 1999-08-25
Abstract: A rotary drum apparatus comprises a rotary drum 1, an end inlet 15, a receptacle 8 for collection of separated solids falling from the interior wall of the drum and means into which clarified liquid drains. Preferably a filtering medium or cloth 10, which can be supported by permeable material such as a gauze 100, forms the periphery of the rotary drum. The clarified liquid can drain into a tank 3 from which the drum can be mounted. Magnetic means exterior of the drum, which can comprise a series of magnets (6, figure 4), or an upstream magnetic drum may be used to separate magnetic/ferrous solids. Gravitational removal of the solid from the walls can be assisted by a scraper (7, figure 4) and/or brush 12 which may be attached to the receptacle 8 or by longitudinal blades 101 which are fixed within the drum. The receptacle 8 may comprise a removable tray or a trough containing an Archimedian screw (88, figure 9) which may be co-axial with the drum 1. The rotary drum may operate in combination with a further finer filtration drum 1a. The drum may be used for machine liquid coolant filtration.