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Patent GB-2301622-A (GB)
Title: Anti-trap sealing device with sensor
Inventor: HARRIS DAVID STRACHAN
IPC: E05F15/00
Filed: 1995-06-02
Abstract: An anti-trap sealing device comprises a sealing member 50 with a flexible sealing portion (8, 10, 12, Fig 4), a portion (4, Fig 4) for mounting the member on a vehicle body and a locating portion defining an elongate chamber (52, Fig 4) for receiving an elongate sensor member 36 which is activated on deformation of the chamber (52) owing to an object being trapped. The sensor may be removable, and may be shaped so that it is not rotatable within the chamber. The chamber may be formed of a sponge or of a solid polymeric material. The sensor member may be a conductive robber switch, a piezo-electric cable or tape, a capacitive sensor, pressure sensitive conductive rubber, or a fibre-optic sensor. The sensor and the sealing member may be formed by extrusion. The device is particularly for use in a window region of a vehicle to prevent trapping of fingers or the like.
Patent GB-2290385-A (GB)
Title: Well logging apparatus
Inventor: MUMBY EDWARD SHELDON
IPC: G01V3/30
Filed: 1995-06-14
Abstract: Well logging apparatus includes a body supporting a plurality of antenna coils 100 housed in recesses 60 formed on the body. A metallic sleeve 24 covers the segment of the body containing the antenna recesses and seals the antennas from borehole fluids. Electronics compartments 70 formed in the body for housing signal conditioning circuitry 102 are likewise sealed by the sleeve. The sleeve includes slotted regions 120 filled with a sealant, the slotted regions being disposed about the antenna coils and providing an electromagnetically transparent window through the sleeve. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2291710-A (GB)
Title: Liquid level monitoring apparatus
Inventor: BULLOCK DAVID FRANCIS
IPC: G01F23/292
Filed: 1995-07-20
Abstract: An apparatus 2 for monitoring the level of liquid in a container comprises a liquid level monitoring assembly 4 adapted in use to receive liquid from the container, and a float-operated air-vent valve means 6 thereabove. The liquid level monitoring assembly may comprise a monitoring device such as a float-operated switch 16 or an optical sensor (Figs 2b and 4) in a liquid housing. The apparatus may be located independently of the container, and be connected to an alarm. The same float may operate a switch and the air-vent valve (Fig 3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2304046-A (GB)
Title: Diabetes therapy
Inventor: JACKSON KOFI ABAKA
IPC: A61K31/64
Filed: 1995-08-08
Abstract: A method of treating diabetes consists in the use in combination of pharmacologically active products extractable from garlic with a material selected from the group of pharmacologically active product extractable from birch leaf, lecithin, or mixtures thereof; optionally in combination with sulphonylurea drugs and/or vitamin supplements.
Patent GB-2306770-A (GB)
Title: MOS transistor
Inventor: KER MING-DOU
IPC: H01L29/10
Filed: 1995-10-21
Abstract: In an electronic device, and more particularly in an MOS transistor, a square-type layout style is used to improve the output driving/sinking capability of output buffers as well as the ESD protection capability of NMOS and PMOS devices in output buffers or input ESD protection circuits within smaller layout area. Both gate (42) and source diffusion (43) are in square loop form. Drain diffusion (41) area and drain-to-bulk parasitic capacitance at the output node are reduced by this square-type layout. Devices using the present layout style can be assembled to form larger, rectangular (or square) and similarly functioning devices. Thus, the present square-type layout style is very attractive to submicron CMOS VLSI/ULSI in high-density and high-speed applications.
Patent GB-2295594-A (GB)
Title: A lighting diverter for aircraft
Inventor: MORRIS RICHARD BRIAN
IPC: B64D45/02
Filed: 1995-11-30
Abstract: A lightning diverter 1 is provided for protecting an aircraft body part (eg randome) 3 from lightning, which comprises a material having a positive temperature coefficient of resistivity in excess of that of a metallic material. The material, e.g. carbon black loaded ethylene vinyl acetate, exhibits the PTC effect as the diverter is heated by lightning current and as the line resistance of the diverter increases with temperature, an electric field is established at the surface of the diverter sufficient to ionise air. As the resistance of the diverter increases above that of the ionised air, the lightning current is ejected from the diverter into the current path provided by the ionised air above the diverter. Various cross-sectional shapes of diverter are disclosed such as triangular (figure 2), inverted-T (figure 4) and rounded (figure 5). The diverter is stated to be cheap to manufacture and can withstand multiple strokes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299202-A (GB)
Title: Battery
Inventor: MAWSTON IAN GRANT
IPC: H01M50/593
Filed: 1996-03-15
Abstract: Batteries for boats and vehicles require a CRA (cranking) battery 23 and an AUX (auxiliaries) battery 22 to ensure a start. The preferred version has an AUX battery made of parallel plates and a CRA battery made of parallel plates lying in a monobloc case in face to face positions. Each battery has a pair of CRA terminals 20,30 for the electric starter and a pair of AUX terminals 19,31 for the AUX loads of the vehicle and the alternator. The AUX and CRA negative are joinable by a link or a switch 41 so that a single earth connection is made to the vehicle. Alternatives show the AUX and CRA batteries side by side, at 90 degrees, providing 24v or 36v with a 12v tap.
Patent GB-2298511-A (GB)
Title: Coin validator
Inventor: CHURCHMAN JAMES
IPC: G07D5/08
Filed: 1993-10-14
Abstract: Apparatus for determining whether an input coin 1 is acceptable and for distinguishing between acceptable coins comprises, capacitor means 73,75, inductor means 71, guide means 3 to guide the coin past the capacitor means to affect its capacitance, and past the inductor means to affect its inductance depending on the magnetic qualities of the coin, oscillator means for providing an oscillating output signal the frequency of which is affected by the capacitance of the capacitor means and the inductance of the inductor means, and decision means for receiving the oscillating output signal and making a decision on the basis of the frequency thereof whether the coin is acceptable and, if so, which of a plurality of acceptable coins it is.
Patent GB-2300744-A (GB)
Title: Bi-directional communication device for burglar alarm
Inventor: SIMONAZZI GIUSEPPE
IPC: B60R25/102
Filed: 1996-05-09
Abstract: A remote device for a vehicle theft alarm comprised a transmitter 6 for activating and deactivating the alarm and a receiver 5 for confirming activation and deactivation of the alarm and warning when an intrusion has occurred. The alarm transmitter 3 on the vehicle is part of a circuit which activates the vehicles indicators. The remote device is charged at a point inside the vehicle; if the driver forgets to take the remote with him when leaving the vehicle a warning signal is given.
Patent GB-2302159-A (GB)
Title: A slipper bushing having a coextensive slip surface
Inventor: STEVENSON JAMES F
IPC: F16C33/04
Filed: 1996-06-05
Abstract: A slipper bushing comprises an inner tube member 12 having a slip surface 44 of a heat shrinkable material, eg polyvinylidene fluoride. The surface 44 may be applied to the member 12 either in tube form or in sheet form, the sheet being a polyethylene film. Between the member 12 and an outer tube member 16 there is an elastomeric member 14 which is injected moulded around surface 44, cured and then pressed fitted into the outer member 16 and/or held by adhesive. To prevent relative axial movement between respective parts a profile, eg bulge 40b or flared surface (see fig 3), is provided. By altering the clamping force on bushing assembly 10 the torque-displacement characteristics of the bushing may be controlled. Alternatively the slip surface 44 may be applied to the inside of the outer tube member 16 and the elastomeric member 14 fixed to the inner member 12.
Patent GB-2303235-A (GB)
Title: Sounding devices
Inventor: WITHINGTON DEBORAH JANE
IPC: G08B23/00
Filed: 1996-06-17
Abstract: The device can be used in a plurality of environments such as in buildings, transport vehicles, pedestrian aids and sirens which device produces a sound that alerts individuals to a situation such as potential danger and also enables them to locate the source of the sound with a view to moving in a given direction. Two signals are emitted eg successively, one 31-33 being a narrow frequency band (or single tone) to provide an alerting warning. The second 34 is a wide band (eg random) noise from which the human ear can more readily locate the direction of the emitter. Instead of random noise, a stepped or swept frequency may be used.
Patent GB-2303725-A (GB)
Title: Radio selective calling receiver
Inventor: SONE TOMOSHI
IPC: H04W88/02
Filed: 1996-07-22
Abstract: A selective calling receiver previously stores 111 a plurality of visual patterns which are different in area from each other on screen. A counter function 110 counts the number of times a single message was received for a predetermined period and then, according to the number of times the single message was received, a single visual pattern is selected from the stored visual patterns. The single message is displayed 12 with the single visual pattern on screen. The visual pattern is preferably displayed with a selected attribute such as color and/or blinking cycle which are determined according to the number of times the single message was received.
Patent GB-2318796-A (GB)
Title: Coating compositions
Inventor: HALL STEPHEN ANTHONY
IPC: H05K3/28
Filed: 1996-10-25
Abstract: Photopolymerizable material, suitable for use in the production of photopolymerizable coatings or resists on, for example, printed circuit boards, is an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable reaction product of an epoxidized compound of a condensate of a phenolic compound and an aromatic aldehyde and a mixture of (i) a major proportion of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and (ii) a minor proportion of a saturated aliphatic or aromatic carboxylic acid; further modified by reaction with a polybasic-carboxylic acid anhydride.
Patent GB-2307055-A (GB)
Title: Liquid crystal uv shutter
Inventor: NOLAN PATRICK
IPC: C09K19/42
Filed: 1996-10-28
Abstract: The invention relates to a switchable UV shutter comprising two plane-parallel carrier plates which, together with a frame form a cell, a cholesteric liquid-crystal mixture contained in the cell, means for applying an electrical field on said liquid-crystal mixture, wherein said liquid-crystal mixture comprises the following components:   a) up to 98 % by weight of a nematic liquid crystalline component A composed of one or more mesogenic compounds, b) 1 to 10 % by weight of a chiral component B, and c) 1 to 30 % by weight of a dichroic component C that absorbs in the UV region.
Patent GB-2322839-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle anti-static earthing strip
Inventor: SAUL MARTIN KINROSS
IPC: B60R16/06
Filed: 1997-03-08
Abstract: A motor vehicle having a metal body in which there are means on the interior of the vehicle body to enable a passenger seated within the vehicle body to contact the metal of the body before rising from their seat to disembark from the motor vehicle; whereby any static charge which has built up on the passenger's body will not cause an electric discharge between the passenger's hand and the vehicle body upon alighting from the vehicle. One way of achieving this is by means of an earthing strip 9 or wire which may be formed from a self-adhesive electrically conductive plastic sheet, connected between the interior component and the metal of the vehicle body.
Patent GB-2314439-A (GB)
Title: Selective call receiver
Inventor: MAKINO TETSUYA
IPC: H04W88/02
Filed: 1997-06-23
Abstract: A selective call receiver includes a memory 107 storing a plurality of predetermined data pieces which correspond to different displaying colors, respectively. After checking whether a received message includes one of the predetermined data pieces, message characters following a predetermined data piece included in the received message are displayed in a displaying color corresponding to the predetermined data piece.
Patent GB-2327634-A (GB)
Title: A hand tool handle with a shock absorbing airbag
Inventor: CHEN JOHN
IPC: B25G1/10
Filed: 1997-07-24
Abstract: A handle 1 for a hand tool 3 comprises an elongate grip portion having a reception hole 12 extending from one end which accommodates the shank 31 of the hand tool. Further hollows extend from the other end of the handle to accommodate legs 22,23 of an air bag 2. The two legs are interconnected by means of a hollow body 21 having a projecting block 24. When assembled the air bag portions reside between the shank and the hand grip to provide shock absorbing means. The air bag may locate in the hand grip with the body 21 engaging in an annular recess 14 in the hand grip, in the absence of a projecting block. The air bag may take the form of a cylindrical bag defined by an outer surface (2', fig 5) and an inner surface (25', fig 5) corresponding to the shape of shank 31. The air bag may be formed integrally with the hand grip. The hand tool may take the form of a hand hammer.
Patent GB-2328321-A (GB)
Title: Sensor package optimization
Inventor: MORGAN DAVE
IPC: H04N1/03
Filed: 1997-08-14
Abstract: In order to locate a package (110) which houses active elements including an opto-electric type transducer (100), in a position which assures that the opto-electric sensor and other active elements will be located in proper operative positions when the package is installed in a piece of apparatus such as a scanner, the package casing (102) is provided with location features (112) at least some of which are deformable. During optimization (Fig.5), the package is moved with respect to a target until such time as the sensor is detected as producing an optimal output. Selected location features are then deformed using, e.g. ultrasonic welding to form location faces (112a, Fig.4) which have a predetermined spatial relationship with the active elements and which ensure that the active elements will be supported in an optimally operative position when the package is operatively disposed in the scanner or the like.
Patent GB-2318544-A (GB)
Title: A carpet seaming iron with improved heatshield and base plate, and a temperature controller for electrical appliances.
Inventor: DEVENEY JOHN
IPC: B29C65/50
Filed: 1997-09-18
Abstract: A carpet seaming iron comprises a base plate 52 heated by an electrical element 51 an upper surface and a handle. The upper surface forms a heatshield 20 with a plurality of ridges 21 which, in use, allow air to flow between the upper surface of the iron and the underside of the carpet 10, 11, preventing overheating and possible damage to the carpet backing. The ridges are preferably semicircular and the heatshield may be demountable. The electrical element may be formed of a wafer thin element formed by spraying a layer of metal oxide onto a stainless steel sole plate or it may be formed by applying a thick film resistive track such as a printed circuit onto a steel substrate. The base plate may be shaped to improve distribution of hot, melt adhesive by forming a raked leading edge (31, Fig. 5b) and a transverse rebate (32, Fig. 5b) along the lower leading edge. Additionally, an enlarged longitudinal inverted V shaped groove (60, Fig. 11) extending substantially across the whole width of the base plate may be formed at the rear thereof, possibly including a longitudinal channel (61, Fig. 10) adjacent each side of the groove. Finally, a preferred form of temperature control for any heated electrical appliance is disclosed whereby the control circuit (Fig. 13, 14), including a user adjustable temperature regulator (120, Fig. 13), is situated within the appliance plug (112, Fig. 15) only the temperature sensor (110, Fig. 13) being located within the appliance.
Patent GB-2334435-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable supporting furniture
Inventor: LIN JOE
IPC: A47C20/08
Filed: 1997-10-24
Abstract: An adjustable piece of supporting furniture comprises a base frame 10 having a main transverse member 11, a first movable arm 20 pivotally attached to the base frame 10, which first arm 20 includes a first transverse member 22, a plurality of first base frame pulleys 31 disposed at the main transverse member 11, a plurality of first pulleys 32 disposed at the first transverse member 22, and a first driving device 40 for winding or unwinding a first cable 33 running over the plurality of first base frame pulleys 31 and first pulleys 32, thereby facilitating movement of the first movable arm 20. Another piece of supporting furniture is disclosed which further incorporates a second movable arm 50 pivotally attached to the base frame 10, which second arm 50 includes a second transverse member 52, a plurality of second base frame pulleys 61 disposed at the main transverse member 11, a plurality of second pulleys 62 disposed at the second transverse member 52, and a second driving device 70 for winding or unwinding a second cable 63 running over the plurality of second base frame pulleys 61 and second pulleys 62, thereby facilitating movement of the second movable arm 50.
Patent GB-2323529-A (GB)
Title: Seal for a fire damper
Inventor: JACKSON ROY JAMES
IPC: A62C2/12
Filed: 1998-02-05
Abstract: A seal 1 for fitting into and opening between a fire damper 3 and a wall 2 comprises a longitudinal, metal sheet having a flat central portion 4 and two longitudinal side portions 6 which are folded at least twice parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sheet. A first fold 8 is folded through more than 90‹ so that both the side portions 6 extend toward each other on one side of the central portion 4 . A second fold 9 is bent through more than 90‹ in an opposite direction to that of the first fold 8 so that outer parts 7 of the side portions 6 extend away from each other substantially parallel to the sheet. The first and second folds 8 and 9 have a number of spaced apart apertures which decrease the resistance of the folds to bending in situ.
Patent GB-2323530-A (GB)
Title: Collagenase and Dupuytren's Disease
Inventor: WEGMAN THOMAS L
IPC: A61K38/48
Filed: 1998-03-11
Abstract: A medicament containing very high concentrations of collagenase (eg. 20,000 ABC units/ml) is used in a method of treatment of Dupuytren' s disease. The method comprises injection of a mixture of collagenase and suitable diluent into fibrous cord near the metacarpophalaugeal (MP) joint of the finger and immediate immobilisation of the hand for about 4 to 10 hours. The injection into chord rather than Dupuytren' s nodules as well as the point at which it is made in the progression of the disease are thought to be critical to the success of the method.
Patent GB-2323899-A (GB)
Title: Protective gaiters for joints
Inventor: HAYWARD PHILLIP FIELDS
IPC: F16D3/84
Filed: 1997-01-15
Abstract: A protective gaiter fits around a lubricated joint such as a vehicle constant velocity joint. The gaiter is in the form of a generally conical rubber tube (10) having stepped configurations at its wider end so that it can be cut down to fit different diameters of joint members. The stepped configurations have seating areas (23 or 40-42) for a fixing strap (49) and there are flexible transitions between these areas to enable the gaiter to flex and pivot. In one embodiment the flexible transitions are inwardly directed folds (24). In a second embodiment the seating areas (41, 42) are inclined inwardly and the flexible transitions are defined by angular joints with radial linking walls (43-45).
Patent GB-2332487-A (GB)
Title: Friction clutch with rivet head clearance recesses
Inventor: KLEIFGES JURGEN
IPC: F16D13/64
Filed: 1996-04-16
Abstract: A friction clutch comprises a sheet metal support carrier 13 having on each side a friction lining ring 16 which has a substantially uniform thickness and is fixed to the support carrier 13 by rivets 21. The lining rings 16 are radially extended to a region radially inside the zone of frictional surfaces 4, 7 and are rivetted to the support carrier 13 in this region. Frictional surfaces 4, 7, in this region, are provided with recesses 26, 27 having inclined obtuse angled surfaces which afford clearance to rivet heads as the lining rings wear, thus assuring a trouble free release operation of the clutch. Friction surface 4 is on a flywheel mass 2 secured to a crankshaft of an engine and friction surface 7 is on a pressing plate 6 loaded by diaphragm spring 8 towards mass 2. Support carrier 13 is rotationally fixed, eg via a torsional damper 12, to a hub and plate 6 is torsionally fixed but axially moveable with respect to a casing 5. The lining rings 16 may possess circumferentially offset recesses so as to vary where the rivet heads bear (see fig 4).
Patent GB-2350723-A (GB)
Title: Operating mechanism for an autorecloser
Inventor: JOHNSON KENNETH JOSEPH
IPC: H01H33/52
Filed: 1999-06-01
Abstract: The operating mechanism provides a mechanical interlock between circuit breaker element and a disconnector in electrical series with it. A shaft 82 transmits linear motion between the circuit breaker's moveable contact and the profile of a bell crank 50 which is attached to a link 70 for manual rotation of the bell crank and also to a link 60 for moving a moveable contact 20 of the disconnector between OPEN and CLOSED positions. The geometry of the bell crank profile and linkages is such that when the bell crank is manually rotated clockwise through an initial angle from a starting position in which the moveable contacts of both the circuit breaker and the disconnector are in the CLOSED position, the moveable contact of the circuit breaker is moved to an OPEN position by bellcrank contact with a flange 40 while the moveable contact 20 of the disconnector is maintained CLOSED. During further manual clockwise rotation of the bell crank 50 to a predetermined limit of movement, the moveable contact 20 of the disconnector is moved to an OPEN position while the moveable contact of the circuit breaker is maintained in the OPEN position by a sector of the bell crank profile 59 of constant radius. When the bell crank 50 is manually rotated back to its starting position, the moveable contact 20 of the disconnector is moved back to its CLOSED position before the moveable contact of the circuit breaker is moved back to its CLOSED position.
Patent GB-2353965-A (GB)
Title: Forming curved extruded members
Inventor: EVANS HERBERT GEORGE
IPC: B29C53/84
Filed: 1999-08-27
Abstract: There is disclosed a method of providing a generally rectilinear extruded profiled member M comprising thermoplastic material, with a curved intermediate region, the method comprising:-<BR> ```heating at least the intermediate region to a temperature of at least 100{C;<BR> ```introducing the heated region between shaped elements 1,2 which cause the member M to have the desired curve, the shaped elements 1,2 being cooled to a temperature not exceeding 18{C;<BR> ```maintaining the heated region between the cooled shaped elements 1,2 for a period of at least 60 seconds;<BR> and<BR> ```releasing the cooled region. A forming tool (figure 3 - not shown) is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2353770-A (GB)
Title: Lifting devices
Inventor: FLETCHER NEIL LAWRENCE
IPC: B62B1/14
Filed: 1999-09-03
Abstract: A lifting device comprises a wheeled support structure 12 and a raising/lowering mechanism 26, 28, 40 provided on the support structure for raising a load. The raising/lowering mechanism is operated in response to movement of the support structure in one or other direction along the ground. A brake can prevent raising and lowering movement.
Patent GB-2343463-A (GB)
Title: Disposable toilet bowl liner
Inventor: OLMOS FULGENCIO GONZALEZ
IPC: A47K11/10
Filed: 1999-09-14
Abstract: A disposable toilet bowl liner made from cellulose or other appropriate material, suitably stamped and having an oval shape, adaptable to a sump neck and which is manually arranged in the bottom of the toilet by the user him/herself to collect the feces on falling.