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Patent GB-2310511-A (GB)
Title: A safety device for an electrically operated window
Inventor: GREENWOOD JEREMY JOHN
IPC: E05F15/00
Filed: 1995-12-01
Abstract: A safety device (10), for an electrically operated openable and closeable window, comprises pressure sensitive switch means (S1) operative to sense the presence of an obstruction to closing movement of said window and to activate switching means (T1). The switching means (T1) provides a demand signal for a drive system (30) of said window to cause opening movement of said window which opposes any other command signal for closing of said window. Prolonging means (C1, R2) is also provided operative to prolong said release demand signal for a predetermined length of time.
Patent GB-2325855-A (GB)
Title: Preparation for topical application to the male sexual organ comprising at least one vasodilator & an aloe extract as active ingredients in an aq cream or gel
Inventor: KEMP DONALD JACK
IPC: A61K36/886
Filed: 1997-06-04
Abstract: The preparation for topical application to the male sexual organ to overcome erectile dysfunction comprises, as active ingredients, at least one vasodilator and an aloe extract. The preparation includes adjuvants such as one or more of stearic acid, triethanolamine, silicone oil, cetyl alcohol, glycerol, acidic carboxyvinyl gelling agents, methyl cellulose, wax emulsifiers, methyl paraben and propyl paraben so as to form an aqueous cream or gel. The aloe extract is preferably prepared using an extract prepared from the plant aloe ferox which contains at least 30 per cent by weight amino acids and also includes polysaccharides. The vasodilator may comprise glyceryl trinitrate and/or isosorbide dinitrate, or combination of theophylline and ethylene diamine, or co-dergocrine mesylate (ie a combination of dihydroergocornine mesylate and dihydroergocristine mesylate with alpha- and beta- dihydroergocryptine mesylate). To assist penetration the adjuvants may include one or more of propylene glycol, isopropyl palmitate and isopropyl myristate. Preferably the preparation is substantially thixotropic and supplied in unit dosage form. The preparation is preferably manufactured by mixing the active ingredients as a finely divided solid or as a solution to form a solution or dispersion in an aqueous cream or gel composition. The aloe extract and one or more gelling agents are advantageously prepared as one batch, a soap composition is prepared as a second batch and thereafter the two batches are mixed to form a homogeneous mixture to which the vasodilator is admixed.
Patent GB-2316566-A (GB)
Title: Television standards converter
Inventor: YAMAUCHI TASTSUO
IPC: G11B27/32
Filed: 1997-07-23
Abstract: A standards converter converts an input video signal having time codes from a first television standard to a second television standard. The time codes are separated (2) from the input video signal to obtain hours, minutes, and seconds values and input frame numbers. The hours, minutes, and seconds values are stored in a memory (4). Output frame numbers are generated in a consecutive sequence (5), from a first frame number to a last frame number, starting at times that are synchronized with the start of the sequence of input frame numbers. The output frame numbers are combined (6) with the hours, minutes, and seconds values stored in the memory to generate output time codes, which are combined (9) with the converted video signal.
Patent GB-2327979-A (GB)
Title: I.c. engine fuel vapour extraction system
Inventor: MA THOMAS TSOI HEI
IPC: F02M55/02
Filed: 1997-08-01
Abstract: The i.c. engine 10 is supplied with a volatile liquid fuel from a fuel storage tank 20. The engine 10 has an air intake system 12, 14, 16 and a liquid fuel injection system for dispensing fuel to mix with air to be burnt in the engine. The fuel vapour extraction system includes a volatising chamber 30 connected to the fuel storage tank 20 by a valve 26. A pipe 42 connected to one or more vacuum sources leads into the vapour space in the chamber 30 and maintains a reduced pressure in the volatising chamber. A pump 32 draws liquid fuel from the volatising chamber 30 and supplies it under pressure to a fuel rail 34 which feeds fuel injectors 18. A relief valve 36 maintains a constant fuel pressure in the fuel rail 34 and returns unused fuel from the fuel rail 34 to the reduced pressure vapour space in the volatising chamber 30 via fuel return pipe 38. An evaporator 40 having a significantly larger exposed area than the cross-section of the volatising chamber 30 is provided in the vapour space of the volatising chamber 30 in the path of the returned fuel which comes into intimate thermal contact with the evaporator 40 and spreads over a large area of the evaporator 40.
Patent GB-2328001-A (GB)
Title: Radiator isolating bush
Inventor: ALAWI ADNAN
IPC: F24H9/12
Filed: 1997-08-07
Abstract: A radiator isolating bush as illustrated in drawing No 1, consist of a standard radiator bush but with one difference being an open and shut valve to enable a plumber to isolate the radiator from the rest of the system for whatever reason.
Patent GB-2328486-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for making python
Inventor: BROWN COLIN
IPC: B29C63/20
Filed: 1997-08-19
Abstract: The python is made by covering a bundle 13 of tubes with a foam sheath 12, wherein the cross-section of the foam sheath is expanded, the bundle of tubes is passed through the sheath and the sheath collapsed on to the bundle of tubes, in which, for the expansion, the sheath is placed in an evacuable pipe 14 and sealed thereto at its ends, e.g. by conical split ferrules 21 compressing sheath ends against flanged end caps 18. Multiple sheaths are applied by a series of evacuation pipes separated by wheel guides in a sinuous two-dimensional path.
Patent GB-2317984-A (GB)
Title: House sign lighting and alerting system
Inventor: SANDERS MARK JOHN
IPC: G08B7/06
Filed: 1997-10-03
Abstract: The system comprises a housing 1, 3 the front of which includes the house number 2. The housing contains a lamp (6, Fig.4), a light sensor (5) and electronic control circuitry (17). The light sensor senses the onset of dusk and causes the circuitry to energise the lamp (battery or mains powered). The system also comprises a manually operable switch (22) remote from the housing. This switch is operable by a person in the house to send a signal (via a cable or wirelessly) to the circuitry which causes the lamp to flash. The housing may also contain an audible alarm, eg a voice alarm, which is also energised by operation of the switch. A smoke or other hazard detector in the house may also cause the lamp to flash and the alarm to sound. An automatic telephone dialler may also be provided. Other features that may be provided are solar cells to charge batteries in the housing, a PIR sensor to cause the lamp to come on when a person approaches and a video camera contained within the housing.
Patent GB-2316047-A (GB)
Title: Shock absorber for a bicycle front fork
Inventor: FUKUTAKE HEIJI
IPC: B62K21/20
Filed: 1995-01-25
Abstract: A shock absorber mechanism 10 is mounted between the handlebar stem 4 and the fork stem 5 of a bicycle and includes a sleeve 11, a spring 18 and a friction member 20. The sleeve 11 is mounted to the lower end of the handlebar stem 4. The upper portion of the fork stem 5 slides freely but does not rotate relatively to the sleeve 11. The spring 18 is arranged between the sleeve 11 and the fork stem 5. The friction member 20 is mounted at the lower end of the sleeve 11 and can be freely installed and removed as well as slide on the outer peripheral surface of the fork stem 5. One purpose of the present invention is to allow for easy adjustment of the buffering and/or dampening characteristics depending on bicycle riding conditions and rider requirements.
Patent GB-2331500-A (GB)
Title: Multipack of tapering containers
Inventor: THAYER EDWARD JOHN
IPC: B65D77/04
Filed: 1997-11-25
Abstract: A multipack for storing chilled or frozen food or the like includes a plurality of containers 5 each tapering from a closed end to an openable end 6 of greater cross-sectional area than the closed end. The containers are arranged within an outer receptacle 2 side by side in an alternate upright and inverted configuration. The containers may be of thermoformed plastics or cardboard, with a cover at 6 of cardboard, plastics or metal foil. The outer receptacle may comprise a cardboard box 2 having a polyethylene lining and covered by plastics film 3 and a snap-on plastics lid (not shown).
Patent GB-2322175-A (GB)
Title: Telescopic joint between conduits of two riser connectors.
Inventor: WATKINS BRUCE J
IPC: E21B17/10
Filed: 1998-02-11
Abstract: Two connectors sealably connect the lower ends of an upper riser member 11A and an upper conduit 15A on the lower ends of an upper riser pipe and upper auxiliary line joint, respectively, to the upper ends of a lower riser member and a lower conduit on the upper ends of a lower riser pipe and upper conduit thereof, respectively. The conduit line includes a telescoping sealed joint between two conduits 20A, 21A which is of such construction as to permit differential movement between the riser and the auxiliary conduit line. The joint is at a diameter equal to those of other conduit joints to balance pressures in them.
Patent GB-2330065-A (GB)
Title: Rucksack with a removable pouch
Inventor: WOODS ANDREW
IPC: A45F3/06
Filed: 1998-04-17
Abstract: A rucksack (1) has a bag (2) with a cover flap (3), shoulder straps mounted on a rear wall of the bag (2) and a removable pouch (5) for carrying a radio set mounted within the bag (2) on said rear wall. The removable pouch (5) is preferably secured to the rear wall of the bag (2) by means of quick-release spring clips (17). The cover (3) may have a pair of slits (24, 25) extending inwardly from each side of the cover (3) for through passage of an aerial and a handset cable when a radio set is mounted in the pouch (5) and the cover (3) is closed. The rucksack (1) may be collapsible, having fasteners (28)(29) which engage to hold the bag (2) in a smaller state, straps (30)(31) can also be used for this purpose. The rucksack may also have removable pockets, an aerial pouch (20) and be made of material which gives protection against infra-red night visibility.
Patent GB-2325570-A (GB)
Title: High resolution scanning antenna arrangement
Inventor: UPTON ERIC L
IPC: G01S3/04
Filed: 1998-05-05
Abstract: An antenna arrangement 10, suitable for a millimetre electromagnetic wave transceiver, comprises a flexible resilient slot antenna 12 with a tapered horn and resonant cavity, formed from a metallic layer on a dielectric substrate, with means 20 for vibrating the said slot antenna 12 in a vacuum environment. The vibration induces the slot antenna to scan over a field of view. A two dimensional amplitude modulator 34 and a signal processor 32 are arranged with the antenna 12 to generate a signal with a certain power distribution orthogonal to the slot antenna. The amplitude modulator 34 may be a pattern of conductive strip elements formed on a dielectric substrate with regard to a transform function such as Walsh functions. The signal processor 32 may include a power distribution template and when an input signal is correlated against this template a high resolution scan of the field of view may be obtained. A solenoid arrangement 20 may be used to vibrate the slot antenna.
Patent GB-2327576-A (GB)
Title: Group communication system
Inventor: MIKAMI HIROSHI
IPC: H04W84/08
Filed: 1998-06-09
Abstract: A group communication system includes at least one controlling station, (2) at least one base station (3,4,5) and a plurality of mobile stations (6,7,8) connected to the relevant base stations. The mobile stations include means for transmitting a mobile station identification number and a group communication number to the base station when a radio zone is handed over. The controlling station or the base stations have zone area presence determining means for determining whether or not a particular mobile station is present in a radio zone wherein, the base stations have means for releasing a communication channel in the relevant radio zone when a mobile station is not present in the radio zone as the result of a determination made by the zone area presence determining means.
Patent GB-2333426-A (GB)
Title: Digital demodulator and clock recovery control method
Inventor: USUI HISAYOSHI
IPC: H04L7/00
Filed: 1998-09-30
Abstract: A digital demodulator for differentially demodulating a received RF signal includes a clock recovery circuit 203 for regenerating a clock signal from the RF signal. The phase of the clock is adjustable in steps of a clock corrective width. A variance calculator 301 calculates a variance of the phase differences in the RF signal. When the variance and the received signal strength are above predetermined thresholds (indicating interference conditions), the clock corrective width is reduced to allow more accurate clock phase adjustment. The digital demodulator further includes a data comparator 304 for detecting when constant value data is consecutively received for more than a predetermined time period. When this occurs the clock phase is fixed by stopping clock phase correction control. This prevents non-modulated interference from disturbing the clock.
Patent GB-2334682-A (GB)
Title: A method of simulating an extraction system
Inventor: UEDA YOSHINORI
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 1998-11-10
Abstract: Abnormal flows in an extractor are simulated, with (see e.g. Figure 8) a flow divider model (1, 2, 3, 4) and a flow merger model being introduced. Overflow state, entrainment occurrence state and reflux state in the extractor are simulated. Moreover, abnormal flows under a variety of conditions are simulated efficiently by using object-oriented software as the simulation program.
Patent GB-985525-A (GB)
Abstract: 985, 525. Electric selective signalling. SIEMENS & HALSKE A.G. Feb. 2, 1962 [Feb. 3, 1961], No. 4099/62. Heading G4H. [Also in Division H3] An analogue-digital converter is provided with a plurality of pains of impart terminals, each pair associated with a different measuring channel and each pair feeding a sampling circuit comprising a switching transistor in series with the primary winding of a transformer. As shown in Fig. 1, each sampling circuit comprises a transistor T which is normally biased from a rectified high frequency supply so as to be non-conductive, the transistor T being in series with the primary winding of a transformer Tr1 a damping resistor R1 being connected across one of the transformer windings. When a gating pulse is fed via transformer Tr2 to the base of transistor T a pulse is developed across secondary of transformer Tr1, the amplitude of which is proportional to the instantaneous value of the analogue voltage present at terminal E. This pulse is amplified by an A.C. coupled amplifier V, stored in a pulse storage circuit HK and fed to an analogue-digital converter AD. Fig. 2 shows a system for monitoring a plurality of analogue voltages each comprising a switching arrangement as shown in Fig. 1, made conductive successively by gating pulses supplied via an electronic distributer U. The transformer secondary windings are all connected in series and feed an analogue-digital converter AD. Alternatively the primary windings shown in Fig. 2 may be wound on a single core having a common secondary winding.
Patent GB-2351636-A (GB)
Title: Virtual video conferencing apparatus
Inventor: TAYLOR MICHAEL JAMES
IPC: G06F3/00
Filed: 1999-01-20
Abstract: In a desktop video conferencing system, a plurality of user stations 2-14 are interconnected to exchange data. Each user station 2-14 stores data defining three-dimensional computer models of the participants in the conference, and displays images of the models to a user. Each user station uses a pair of cameras 26, 28 to record images of the user wearing coloured body markers 70, 72 and a headset 30 on which lights 56-64 are mounted. The image data is processed to determine the movements of the user and the point in the displayed images at which the user is looking. This information is transmitted to the other user stations where it is used to animate the corresponding computer model. Each computer model is animated so that movements of its head correspond to scaled movements of the user's head. Image data is processed in each user station to determine the type of transformation which relates the positions of the camera 26, 28 to be used in determining the user's movements. The sound of the other participants is output to the headset 30 worn by a user. The sound is adjusted in dependence upon the position of the user's head.
Patent GB-2334324-A (GB)
Title: A guided missile
Inventor: SEPP GUNTHER
IPC: F41G7/22
Filed: 1999-02-12
Abstract: A guided missile for engaging a flying target comprising an infrared seeker head (4), an electronic guidance and control system (5), an explosive charge and a propulsion mechanism (7). The propulsion mechanism (7) is designed such that the guided missile, after reaching its cruising velocity (Vm), flies with a constant velocity. A safety system (20) ensures that, after DIRCM jamming, the now "blind" guided missile continues to fly on exactly the same trajectory and thereby successfully engages the target.
Patent GB-2335811-A (GB)
Title: A feedforward distortion correction arrangement in which a pilot signal is derived from the input signal
Inventor: KENNINGTON PETER
IPC: H03F1/32
Filed: 1999-03-08
Abstract: A feed forward arrangement for linearising a distorting element such as an amplifier 100. The arrangement has error correction means which produces an error correction signal that is combined 855 with the output signal of the distorting element to produce a corrected output signal. A pilot signal 865, 870 is injected into the distorting element path so as to be processed by the error correction means and the presence of the pilot signal in the corrected output signal is monitored by comparison 915 with the pilot signal so as to produce another error correction signal to adjust the error correction means 835, 840. The pilot signal may be derived from the distorting element input or output signal.
Patent GB-2349385-A (GB)
Title: Organic nitrates and nitrites useful against heart disease
Inventor: ZHANG ZHI
IPC: A61K47/48
Filed: 1999-04-30
Abstract: The invention relates to compounds for use in the treatment of heart disease comprising a superoxide scavenger and an organic nitrate or nitrite moiety. These compounds do not suffer from the problem of patient tolerance that is associated with the use of conventional agents such as organic nitrates.
Patent GB-2340604-A (GB)
Title: Acoustic crack detection in shaping by deep drawing
Inventor: BERGS NORBERT
IPC: G01N29/30
Filed: 1999-08-02
Abstract: An apparatus for crack detection in the shaping of metal workpieces (4) by deep drawing in a drawing press (1) by picking up the noises accompanying shaping using body sound sensors (7, 8). To this end, during the deep drawing process simultaneous and direct detection of the body sound is carried out on the workpiece both in the shaping zone and outside the shaping zone. Signals with the same amplitude and frequency are determined as noise signals by comparison of the detected body sound signals and are filtered out. The body sound signals picked up in the shaping zone (VZ) are adjusted by removal of the noise signals and subjected to crack detection analysis.
Patent GB-2353236-A (GB)
Title: Cyclone separator with multiple baffles of distinct pitch
Inventor: SMYTH IAN C
IPC: B01D17/038
Filed: 1999-08-17
Abstract: An improvement is made in the efficiency and/or throughput of a hydrocyclone by providing a multi-sloped back wall ramp which imparts a greater axial component to the fluids at the periphery as measured radially from the longitudinal axis of the hydrocyclone and a lesser axial component to portions of the incoming fluid stream closer to the longitudinal axis of the hydrocyclone.
Patent GB-2341583-A (GB)
Title: An air bag arrangement
Inventor: KARIMI HOMAYOUN
IPC: B60R21/231
Filed: 1999-08-26
Abstract: A guide tunnel 6 defined by the vehicle's steering wheel 1 confines the expansion of the air bag 9 so that, in the event of a crash, initially a lower part 10 of the air bag is directed by the tunnel to engage with an occupant's legs and lower torso before pressure vents 12 open and an upper part 11 of the bag inflates to protect the occupant's upper torso and head. The steering wheel is of a split cone configuration (see Figure 1) so that the lower abdomen of the vehicle occupant is not exposed to contact with a robust surface as would be the case with a conventional circular wheel and, in this respect, the wheel has orientation means to return the wheel to its normal position should it have been turned so that the grip 4 is adjacent the occupant's lower torso. The steering wheel is hinged about its dashboard mounting end 5 so that as the air bag inflates the wheel can either be lifted into a less dangerous position or rotated in the opposite sense to arrow A so that the guide tunnel further confines the bag's expansion. The steering wheel may be biased about the hinge under it own weight or be provided with a spring loaded mechanism. In an alternative embodiment the wheel is presented in an upturned configuration so that the initial deployment of the air bag is confined between the guide tunnel and the windscreen of the vehicle.
Patent GB-2343562-A (GB)
Title: Flanged connector
Inventor: SHOBARA YOSHITAKA
IPC: H01R24/00
Filed: 1999-09-13
Abstract: A connector has a fixing flange 28 displaced form a mating end of the connector. The flange preferably includes a threaded aperture 30 for receiving a fixing screw. When the connector is mounted in an aperture in the panel of computer equipment, the mating end is sufficiently displaced from the flange that the head 9 of a fixing screw does not interfere with a mating counterpart connector 12. The flange 28 may be formed integrally with the outer shield 23 of the connector by bending in the vicinity of the mating surface. The connector may be a IEEE 1394 connector with one top flange (figure 5, not shown) or two side flanges.
Patent GB-2354185-A (GB)
Title: Submersible water pump with inlet filter air backwash
Inventor: BAKEY MICHAEL TERRANCE
IPC: F04D13/14
Filed: 1999-09-17
Abstract: A submersible pump apparatus 10 has a water pump impeller 16 and a fan of an air compressor 19 driven by an electric motor 14. A rotatably mounted filter has a perforated plate 29 and a turbine 32. In operation, water 38 is drawn in through the filter by the impeller 16 and directed to an outlet pipe 41. Some water travels through outlet pipe 26 and with air from the compressor outlet 24 forms a back-wash flow 40 through the filter causing it to rotate and removing debris from the filter. Alternative embodiments describe rotating water within a channel (182, fig 2) transmitting torque from the motor to the filter; compressed air driving a turbine (292, fig 3); apparatus without an electric motor where a compressed air supply (353, fig 4) turns turbines to rotate an impeller and filter before backwashing the filter; and the use of a venturi device to provide a combined air/water jet.
Patent GB-2344538-A (GB)
Title: Skateboard with convexly curved wheels
Inventor: DOANE SCOTT S
IPC: A63C17/24
Filed: 1999-12-07
Abstract: A skateboard having relatively large diameter wheels 11 and 12, each having a convexly curved tread profile with a flat central portion 20. The wheels may be carried in bearings resiliently mounted for longitudinal movement and are mounted beyond the ends of the board, with their axes being approximately level with the board. Straps 15 and 16 receive the user's feet. A pivoted portion 14 at the rear may be spring-loaded and has a braking element underneath. The pivoted portion is also coupled through a one-way clutch to the rear wheel, so that the user can drive the board by pumping up and down on the pivoted portion.