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Patent GB-2294591-A (GB)
Title: A method of forming a non-planar capacitor electrode
Inventor: SHISHIGUCHI SEIICHI
IPC: H01L21/02
Filed: 1995-10-31
Abstract: In a method for forming a capacitor, after preparing a substrate having at least one device area thereon, an amorphous silicon film containing one type of dopant is formed e.g. by LPCVD on the device area. A mask layer e.g. of W or Cr comprising mask islands is formed and distributed on a surface of the amorphous silicon film. The surface of the amorphous silicon is dry-etched by using the mask layer as a selective etching mask to produce a jagged surface having a lot of protrusions. After forming the jagged surface, the amorphous silicon film is changed by heating into a polycrystalline silicon film serving as a storage electrode 113. Finally, a dielectric film 114 and then another electrode 115 are formed sequentially on the jagged surface of the storage electrode. The capacitor may be used as the stacked capacitor of a DRAM. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2298552-A (GB)
Title: Cordless radio telephone system with a plurality of portable units
Inventor: KIM KEUN-BAE
IPC: H04M1/72505
Filed: 1995-11-07
Abstract: The system has a base station 20 which can communicate with a plurality of portable units 21 to 25 each having a unique ID number. When an incoming call is received from a telephone line connected to base 20, an answering voice message is sent to the caller from the base 20, the message including the ID's of all the portable units. The caller then selects a particular portable unit by sending DTMF signals corresponding to the required ID. The base 20 detects the required portable from the DTMF signal, scans channels to find a free channel, and transmits the ID of the required portable on the selected channel. Each portable scans channels to find a channel with a signal strength above a reference level, then if the signal on the selected channel includes its own ID the portable operates a bell or buzzer to alert the user and transmits an acknowledge signal to the base 20 in response to which the base establishes a call mode. By operating certain buttons, a portable can be set in locked state which is registered with the base 20. If the base receives an incoming call for a portable which is in a locked state, it sends a voice message indicating that this portable is in a call denial state. To set up a call from a portable, the portable scans channels for a free channel, indicated by signal strength below a reference, and then transmits its ID on the selected channel, and the base scans channels to find one with a signal strength above a reference, and then determines if the signal in the selected channel includes the ID of one of the portables.
Patent GB-2305575-A (GB)
Title: Method for accessing subscriber databases
Inventor: CHEW CHEE HEONG
IPC: H04M3/493
Filed: 1995-11-24
Abstract: A wanted subscriber name entered at a substation 115,120 is transmitted over a PSTN to a database 103 where a search is conducted to find the corresponding wanted subscriber telephone number which is then transmitted back to the enquiring substation.
Patent GB-2309484-A (GB)
Title: Door or window stay
Inventor: SMITH CLIVE JAMES
IPC: E05D15/30
Filed: 1996-01-24
Abstract: A door or window stay comprises an arm (17, Figs 1,2) connected to a base member 11 by a link (16, Fig 1), and a slider 14 constrained for sliding movement along the base member. The slider 14 carries a latch 19 formed by a preferably Z-shaped lever arm 20 which carries a locking member 30 for engagement with the base member. All opposite end 23 of the arm 20 is manually pivotable to disengage the locking member 30 and permit movement of the slider. The member 30 may be urged towards the base member by a conical spring 32, and there may be several holes 31 in the base member to allow latching in different positions. A second latchable slider may be pivoted to a further link.
Patent GB-2312716-A (GB)
Title: Overload clutch
Inventor: JORGENSEN DEREK
IPC: F16D7/10
Filed: 1996-04-29
Abstract: A pulley wheel 2 carried on a shaft 4 comprises a ball 22 slidably received in a radical bore 24 and biased radically inwardly towards the shaft 4. A recess (34, Fig 4) is formed in a side wall of the shaft 4 in which the ball 22 engages to transmit drive between the shaft and the pulley wheel 2. The ball 22 is disengaged from the recess (34) when the applied drive torque overcomes the biasing force on the ball. The pulley wheel 2 may be provided with surface formations or a grit coating to increase friction between the pulley wheel and a draw cord used to operate blinds.
Patent GB-2303390-A (GB)
Title: Fencing bracket
Inventor: HENSON TIMOTHY GEORGE
IPC: E04H17/16
Filed: 1996-07-15
Abstract: A fencing bracket (10) for securing wooden fencing panels (21) to wooden support posts (30) comprises a member (11) moulded from polypropylene having a centre section (14) and ends (12 and 13). The ends are joined to the centre section (14) by thinned areas (15,16) of substantially less thickness than the centre (14) and end sections (12,13). The thinned areas (15,16) extend transversely across the full width of the member (11) and allow the member (11) to be folded along a plurality of notional transverse lines positioned within the thinned area (15,16) to form a U-shaped bracket. The centre section (14) is nailed to the post (30) and the end sections (12,13) are nailed to the panel (21). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2315416-A (GB)
Title: Cricket game
Inventor: HELPS GEORGE
IPC: A63B67/00
Filed: 1996-07-24
Abstract: A cricket match can produce a result as the outcome of a single innings by a procedure in which the first side declares a score which is offered to the second side. The second side then decides whether to contract to bat against or bowl against that score.
Patent GB-2304420-A (GB)
Title: Testing switches in street furniture
Inventor: MEW RAYMOND
IPC: H02B1/50
Filed: 1993-12-10
Abstract: Street furniture is provided with a permanent or temporary housing component 60 which has test facilities and LED display means 62. A test button 65 is used to initiate the test and the results compared to table 63 to indicate neutral/earth faults, reversed poles or lack power. A power supply outlet 64 is also provided. This can be used for further diagnostic tests e.g. loop impedance or insulation resistance.
Patent GB-2307775-A (GB)
Title: Reel driving apparatus for a video cassette recorder
Inventor: AHN SEONG-ICK
IPC: G11B15/44
Filed: 1996-11-28
Abstract: A reel drive 100 rotated by a capstan motor (13, figure 1) through a belt 144 provides two-speed drive to a reel 250 by way of an idler 200. The drive 100 has two gears 181, 182 of different diameter respectively engagable with two gears 213, 214 on the idler 200 to transmit two different speeds to the reel 250. The gears 181, 182 are carried on a support 180 movable axially on a shaft 110 to change speed. The drive 100 also has clutch means 141, 161.
Patent GB-2323718-A (GB)
Title: Electrical socket outlet having combined switch and fuseholder
Inventor: SCHULTE SIEGFRIED
IPC: H01R13/68
Filed: 1997-02-08
Abstract: A fused and switched electrical socket outlet (1) comprising a housing (5) including at least one socket (6) for receiving an electrical plug, an electrical supply inlet (10) for supplying electricity to the socket, connection lines (15, 16, 17) connecting the supply inlet (10) to the at least one socket, a switch (8) for switching the supply to the at least one socket (6) and an associated fuse assembly (30) for holding a fuse (7), the switch (8) including a fixed contact (25) and a movable contact (24), and the fuse assembly (30) including a clip (26) for making electrical contact with one end of the fuse (7). the fixed contact (25) of the switch (8) being integral with the said clip (26) of the fuse assembly (30).
Patent GB-2322471-A (GB)
Title: Self stabilising cathode
Inventor: BEETESON JOHN
IPC: G09G1/20
Filed: 1997-02-24
Abstract: A virtual remote cathode, e.g. for a matrix addressed electron beam display, has the position of a space charge cloud associated with it fixed by the geometry of a fixed apertured insulating plate 902. The plate 902 can be made to accurate dimensions and hence the cathode 510 to control grid 502 dimension can be accurately controlled and will not change as a result of any mechanical, electrical or physical changes in the construction. The fixed insulating plate 902, which may have a metal coating, is located on a surface of the control grid 502 facing the cathode. Electrons which pass the control grip 502 enter channels in a collimation block 506 which may be magnetic or electrostatic. The cathode 510 may comprise thermionic emitters from which electrons are extracted by an extractor grid 514.
Patent GB-2325525-A (GB)
Title: Testing storage tanks and pipework etc. for leaks
Inventor: DENBY CARL
IPC: G01M3/32
Filed: 1997-03-20
Abstract: A testing procedure is disclosed for testing a road tanker, and other transportable storage tanks, for fluid-tightness. A positive test pressure is first applied to one storage compartment 4 of the road tanker, and simultaneously a negative pressure is applied to the outlet pipe 20 of the storage compartment, and a different negative pressure is applied to the vapour recovery manifold 28. The subsequent pressure variations within the storage compartment, the outlet pipe, the vapour recovery manifold and the adjacent storage compartments are then monitored in order to determine whether the interconnecting valves are leaking, and whether the various compartments under test are fluid-tight. In a second stage of the testing procedure, the pressure within the storage compartment is raised in order to test the pressure release level of a pressure release valve in the storage compartment, and the pressure within the storage compartment is then reduced in order to test the vacuum pressure release level of the pressure release valve. Similar testing procedures are applied to each of the storage compartments in turn.
Patent GB-2324188-A (GB)
Title: Coin-insertion mechanism with shutter
Inventor: WIGLEY KARL DAMON
IPC: G07F1/02
Filed: 1997-04-11
Abstract: A coin-insertion mechanism comprising a slot (2) through which a coin may be inserted. A shutter 3 is movable between an open and closed position to open or close the slot (2). A coin detection circuit 10 has a single coil 9 which on detection of a coin, signals solenoid 6, attached to the shutter 3, to move the shutter 3 to its open position. The mechanism can be used on coin operated devices such as an amusement ride, where, when the ride is operative, the shutter closes the slot so that no further coinage can be inserted.
Patent GB-2322455-A (GB)
Title: Cylinder lens and plates for beam shaping for an optical pickup
Inventor: LEE CHUL-WOO
IPC: G11B7/1381
Filed: 1997-04-14
Abstract: A beam from a light source 51 is shaped by a cylinder lens 53 and plates 55,57. The beam may be shaped from an elliptical cross-section to a circular cross-section, by reducing the long-axis of the ellipse, or vice versa. The cylinder lens 53 may have a surface with a negative power 533 and a surface with a positive power 535 of greater magnitude. An optical pickup employs such a beam-shaper and further includes an objective lens 60 for focusing light from the plates 55,57. The pickup may also include a collimating lens 59. One surface 555 of the first plate 55 may act as a beam-splitter and reflect light transmitted from the second plate 57 to a photo detector 63. The photo detector 63 may detect light according to an astigmatic method.
Patent GB-2308815-A (GB)
Title: A set of golf club irons having a low density rear cavity perimeter insert for selected weight distribution of each iron
Inventor: BOONE DAVID D
IPC: A63B53/00
Filed: 1995-09-29
Abstract: This invention is an improved set of golf club cavity backed irons, wherein each golf club iron head has a structure for increasing the volume of the cavity (28) using an undercut perimeter which permits weight redistribution to increase the thickness of the top line (16), the toe (20), and the sole (18) of the club head. The undercut portion of the invention is sealed from moisture by means of a low mass density insert (30) wherein the insert is made of a low mass density material which addable serves the function of dampening sound and vibration upon ball impact. A weight slot (32) is used to vary the location of the center of gravity between the toe (20) and the heel (22) as a function of the loft of the club to provide maximum accuracy of trajectory and ball hitting capability.
Patent GB-2314882-A (GB)
Title: Controlling fuel supply to i.c. engine using cylinder pressure measurements derived from strain gauge in cylinder head bolt
Inventor: PETERS LESTER L
IPC: F02D35/02
Filed: 1997-06-18
Abstract: A single strain gauged cylinder/bolt (10)/to measure cylinder combustion pressures in a plurality of internal combustion engine cylinders. The strain gauged cylinder bolt (10) issued as one of the bolts coupling the multiple-cylinder head to the engine block. Because the cylinder head covers multiple cylinders, combustion pressures within each cylinder will be transmitted by the head to the strain gauged bolt (10) as each cylinder fires. Such pressures cause a strain in the bolt (10) which can be measured. For fuel injection control systems which have the capability to trim fuel injection fueling or timing electronically, the cylinder pressure information gathered by the strain gauged cylinder head bolts (10) offer the capability to monitor and calibrate fuel injection performance automatically. This information may be used to calibrate fuel injection parameters over time as the engine exhibits increased wear, and also to calibrate engine-to-engine variations which require differences in initial fuel injection fueling and timing due to variations in the manufacturing tolerance of the engines.
Patent GB-2316806-A (GB)
Title: Impact detecting apparatus
Inventor: ITO KOJI
IPC: G01P15/00
Filed: 1997-08-28
Abstract: Impact detecting apparatus has a housing 1 having a conical slope 21a therein and a ball 3 on the slope 21a. A shaft 6 is located in the housing 1. A fixed electrode 4 is located in the housing 1 and a movable electrode 5 is electrically connectible with the fixed electrode 4. A lever 7 is rotatably and slidably supported in the housing 1. One end of the lever 7 is able to push the movable electrode 5 and the other end of the lever is able to contact the shaft 6. A spring 8 urges the shaft 6 towards the ball 3. The apparatus is suitable for a safety system of a vehicle, and operable by the acceleration on a collision.
Patent GB-2313991-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for processing burst signals in a telecommunications system
Inventor: BURKE TIMOTHY MARK
IPC: H04L7/033
Filed: 1996-12-21
Abstract: A control unit (102) efficiently decodes burst signal transmissions in a TDMA based telecommunication system (100) by decimating down the number of samples requiring processing during symbol detection. The control unit (102) includes a sampling receiver (304) that inputs burst signals from cable access units, converts them to a pair of baseband quadrature signals, I and Q. fThe sampling receiver (304) also includes an A/D converter (314) that samples the I and Q signals at preferably four times the symbol rate. A digital signal processor circuit (306) produces a timing error signal for substantially all of the samples. The digital processor circuit (306) also accumulates a timing error sum for each of the four samples. The processor circuit (306) selects the optimum sample between the samples having the largest positive and negative error sums. The processor circuit (306) also includes a * small Greek pi */4-DQPSK differential detector that processes the optimum sample of each symbol for symbol detection.
Patent GB-2317495-A (GB)
Title: Time-of-flight mass spectrometers
Inventor: FRANZEN JOCHEN
IPC: H01J49/40
Filed: 1997-09-18
Abstract: The invention relates to measurement methods for time-of-flight mass spectrometers which operate with an ionization, e.g. by MALDI, of analyte substances adsorbed at the surface of a sample support 1 and an improvement in mass resolution through delayed ion acceleration (or "delayed extraction") in front of the sample support. It particularly relates to velocity focusing for good mass resolution simultaneously for a wide range of masses of the spectrum. The invention consists of focusing the flight-times of the ions simultaneously for all masses in wide ranges of interest relative to their initial velocity, by allowing the acceleration in a first accelerating region between electrodes 1,2 to increase in time after the initial delay. Thus a good resolution can be set not only for one mass in the spectrum but for all masses simultaneously. The acceleration in a second accelerating region between electrodes 2,3 may also be varied.
Patent GB-2318022-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus, method and system for wireline audio and video conferencing and telephony
Inventor: BURKE TIMOTHY JOHN
IPC: H04M3/56
Filed: 1997-10-02
Abstract: A video access apparatus (110, 150) provides for audio and video teleconferencing and telephony via a first communication channel (103) having communication with a network (140), such as the public switched telephone network or an ISDN network. The video access apparatus (110) includes a wireline network interface (210) for reception of a first protocol signal to form a received protocol signal and for transmission of a second protocol signal to form a transmitted protocol signal; a radio frequency modulator/demodulator (205) to convert a baseband output video signal to a radio frequency output video signal and to convert a radio frequency input video signal to a baseband input video signal; a user interface (215) for reception of a first control signal of a plurality of control signals; and a processor arrangement (190) responsive, through a set of program instructions, and in response to the first control signal, to convert the received protocol signal to the baseband output video signal and to an output audio signal, and to convert the baseband input video signal and an input audio signal to the second protocol signal.
Patent GB-2334075-A (GB)
Title: Container having a membrane pump for removing air to preserve contents
Inventor: BRYAN PINO DANNY
IPC: B65D81/20
Filed: 1997-12-16
Abstract: The membrane pump 1 is incorporated into the lid 2 of the container 3 and is actuated repeatedly by hand, causing a non-return air flow from the container via intake nozzle 5 and exhaust nozzle 4. The contents 6 may be, for example, jam, coffee, paint, glue, milk, cake, biscuits or cornflakes.
Patent GB-2320699-A (GB)
Title: Production of a composite hollow article
Inventor: RICHARDSON LAURENCE CHARLES
IPC: B29C70/44
Filed: 1997-12-16
Abstract: A method of producing a hollow article at least partially from a base material composed of continuous, relatively inelastic fibres extending in at least one direction and a binder material for retaining the fibres in a desired orientation in which at least one layer (5) of base material is placed within a hollow former with the fibres (6) of the material extending peripherally to form a closed formation, the peripherally extending fibres being divided so that, during outward expansion of the material in a moulding operation to produce the hollow article, the fibres and binder move outwardly together. The article may also include a layer (7) in which the fibres extend longitudinally, and inner and/or outer plastics layers (1) and (3).
Patent GB-978043-A (GB)
Abstract: 978, 043. Electric selective signalling systems. INDUSTRIAL NUCLEONICS CORPORATION Oct. 15, 1963 [Oct. 22,1962], No. 40718/63. Heading G4H. [Also in Division H3] A variable 30 to be measured controls the frequency of an oscillator 10,12, 34 which is gated by a tube 16 so as to oscillate for a known duration, and the number of cycles of oscillation occurring in the known duration are counted to determine the oscillator frequency, and hence the value of the variable. After a suitable pause this process is repeated. Between the periods during which oscillations occur the counter reading is serialised 50 for remote transmission, and the counter is zeroised, all under the control of a timing pulse generator 44.
Patent GB-2333763-A (GB)
Title: Fluid bag for brake bleeding
Inventor: BREMNER PETER
IPC: B65D75/58
Filed: 1998-01-31
Abstract: A deflated bag 1, has a tube 2, attached. The bag 1 can be connected to a brake bleed nipple by tube 4 via a conical connector 3 and the tube 2. The fluid expelled from the nipple during the bleeding process is collected in the bag. The collected fluid cannot be spilt and once the bag is sealed the fluid may be disposed of. Preferably, a cap 5 is provided and the tube 2 has a one-way valve.
Patent GB-2334293-A (GB)
Title: Locking device for an optical scanner chassis
Inventor: TSENG GILBERT
IPC: H04N1/10
Filed: 1998-02-16
Abstract: An optical scanner has a movable chassis (not shown) which is locked by a sliding plate 3. Plate projections 31 are guided in scanner casing slots 13 and an actuator 2 is turned to slide the plate so that an aperture 32 - which receives a formation (eg a headed pin) on the chassis in one position of the chassis - either permits or prevents removal of the formation. The actuator carries a pin 230 which projects through a slot 11 to engage the plate 3 at 33 and the main diameter of the pin 230 is received in only enlarged ends of the slot 11 to resist rotation from the end positions. However the actuator can be pushed axially inwards against a spring 24 so that a reduced diameter portion 234 is aligned with the slot 11 to allow pin movement along the slot. The actuator 2 is supported for rotational and axial movement on a spindle which mounts at 12, the pin 230 is carried in a support which engages into apertures in the actuator body and the spring 24 acts between a circlip on the spindle and the support.
Patent GB-2320362-A (GB)
Title: Optical disk drive
Inventor: NAKANE KAZUHIKO
IPC: G11B27/11
Filed: 1997-03-25
Abstract: An optical disk drive for a single spiral land/groove disk comprises an address extracting circuit 1 for selecting between respective addresses recorded in first and second address data regions in the ID part of a disk track sector, and an address reproduction circuit 114 for using the extracted address as the physical address of the track sector.
Patent GB-2323596-A (GB)
Title: Curable coating composition containing a clathrate compound
Inventor: OHNISHI KAZUHIKO
IPC: C08F8/30
Filed: 1998-03-25
Abstract: A curable coating composition comprises (A) a functional group-containing base resin and (B) a clathrate compound consisting of (i) at least one guest compound selected from the group consisting of a curing agent having a functional group crosslinkable with the functional group of the base resin and a curing catalyst, and (ii) a host compound consisting of tetrakisphenol(s). The resin may be an epoxy resin, the guest compound may be ethylenediamine or 2-ethyl-4-methylinidazole, alone or together with dihydrazide adipate, and the lost compound may be 1,1,2,2-tetrakis(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethane.