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Patent GB-2315825-A (GB)
Title: Transmission with eccentric epicyclic creep gear
Inventor: WEYMAN ROGER MICHAEL
IPC: F16H1/32
Filed: 1996-07-26
Abstract: A transmission, particularly an agricultural tractor transmission, has a creep gear whereby speeds under 0.5km per hour are possible without slipping a clutch. Eccentric epicyclic gearing (20) is used for the creep gear, selectively clutchable into the transmission by means of a dog clutch (31). The eccentric epicyclic gearing comprises an input eccentric (32) which runs inside an inner ring member (33) carrying external gear teeth (34). The inner ring (33), in use, oscillates within an outer ring (36) having interior gear teeth (35) with which the exterior teeth (34) mesh at one point at any given time. Pins (38) are mounted on the inner ring (33) which are received in apertures (47) in a stationary reaction member (44). The oscillating motion of the inner ring (33) is transferred to the outer ring (36) as rotation, at a reduced speed from the input, giving a reduction ratio of 10:1 or higher in a single stage. The direction of the drive is preserved from input to output.
Patent GB-2307004-A (GB)
Title: Engine lubrication system
Inventor: WOODHOUSE TIMOTHY CHARLES
IPC: F16N7/24
Filed: 1996-11-06
Abstract: A timing belt 5 is adapted to entrain oil from an oil sump (3, Fig.1) to lift it to a cylinder head for lubricating purposes. Preferably, an oil pulley 7 is provided below a crankshaft pulley 2 in the sump (3). The timing belt 5 is formed with inner teeth 6 for meshing with the pulley 2, the oil pulley 7 also having teeth 8 for meshing with teeth 9 extending around the outside of the belt 5, the outer teeth 9 providing the means for entraining oil to the cylinder head. The teeth of pulley 2 or (4, Fig.6) run over a part of their rotation in a restricted passage provided by a casing 10 and the belt 5 also runs for part of its movement in a restricted passage provided by the casing, these runs being guided to a meeting point (33, Fig.5; 35, Fig.6) at which oil under pressure is available as a result of meshing action of the teeth.
Patent GB-2321769-A (GB)
Title: Method of fabricating a stacked capacitor
Inventor: CHAO FANG-CHING
IPC: H01L21/8242
Filed: 1997-01-30
Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor memory device with a tree-type stacked capacitor having increased area for reliable storage of electrical charges representative of data thereon. The tree-type capacitor includes a storage electrode having a trunk-like conductive layer 34 coupled to at least one branch-like conductive layer 36, which can be structured in various shapes that allow the branch-like conductive layer to have increased surface area. The branch-like conductive layers are formed successively depositing at least one insulating layer 26 and at least one conductive layer 28 over a pillar structure 24 such that the conductive layer makes a series of twists and turns, defining the shape of the branch-like conductive layer. The conductive layer 28 is divided into a number of segments by etching. A contact hole is formed through the conductive layer to a drain/source region of a transistor in the device, and is filled with a conductive layer 34, forming the trunk-like layer. The insulating material is wet-etched away, leaving the conductive segment attached to the truck-like layer as a branch-like conductive layer. A dielectric layer is formed over exposed surfaces of the trunk-like conductive layer and the branch-like conductive layer, and a further conductive layer is formed overlaying the dielectric layer to serve as an opposing electrode of the tree-type capacitor.
Patent GB-2321986-A (GB)
Title: Circuit and method for isolating a latching circuit
Inventor: MARQUOT ALEXIS
IPC: G11C16/12
Filed: 1997-01-30
Abstract: A portable data carrier (10) embodies an integrated circuit (12) with an EEPROM (24). The EEPROM has a number of rows of memory cells (32, 38, 44) each having outputs respectively coupled to bit lines (50, 54, 56), and control inputs coupled to a common control line (132). The bit lines each include a latch (60, 62, 64) that is set to provide a programming voltage (VPP) during write mode. The bit lines have serial switches (78, 80, 82) that break continuity when writing to the latches. The bit line latches are made transparent to the bit lines during read mode. The common control line is coupled through a programming transistor (130) to an erase line (72). The erase line must be driven to a programming voltage during erase mode. The erase line uses one of the bit line latches to provide its programming voltage.
Patent GB-2317497-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor wafer thermal processing apparatus
Inventor: KANG SEONG-HUN
IPC: C23C16/46
Filed: 1997-05-19
Abstract: The apparatus comprises: a process chamber 21, a susceptor 22 on which a wafer is mounted inside the process chamber, a resistance heater 29 for heating the susceptor, a lamp 28 installed at the top of the process chamber for raising the temperature of the process chamber up to a temperature required in the process, a gas injector 33 installed on one side of the process chamber for supplying gas to the process chamber, and a gas heater 34 mounted on the gas injector for preheating gas supplied to the process chamber. The wafer is held on the susceptor by vacuum supplied to a groove 24 and is lifted off the susceptor by pins 35. The lamp is used for temperatures up to 1200‹C whilst the heater 29 is used for temperatures up to 500‹C. The heater 34 preheats the gas to between 50 and 800‹C.
Patent GB-2314005-A (GB)
Title: Disposable cup bin with liquid collection bowl
Inventor: GURR TONI RICHARD
IPC: B65F1/14
Filed: 1997-06-02
Abstract: A container suitable for receiving used disposable drinks cups or the like has a body portion in which inverted cups can be held, a support 18 with a liquid receptacle for receiving and holding any liquid which has drained from the cups in the body portion and a means to isolate liquid in the body portion from the support 18 to stop any liquid from draining into the support 18 when the body portion is being emptied. Preferably, the body portion is a hollow tube 12, the support 18 comprises a bowl 20 having a removable lid 18 and the isolating means is a disc valve comprised of rotatable disc 24 and fixed disc with communicating aperatures (26 fig 2) and (34 fig 4). The lid 18 may be locked to the bowl 20 and unlocking of the lid 18 and the tube 12 from the bowl 20 for removal of the cups inside the tube 12 may automatically close the valve. The diameter of the tube 12 is preferably not significantly larger than the diameter of the cups so they can be nestled together inside the tube 12.
Patent GB-2325789-A (GB)
Title: Cable trunking system
Inventor: O REILLY KEVIN
IPC: H02G3/04
Filed: 1997-05-30
Abstract: A cable trunking system 1 comprises a standard three metre length of trunking 2 and a lid comprising three sections 3. The sections are each approximately three metres long and include lug 10 which extends longitudinally from one end of each section to engage, on assembly, underneath the other end of an adjacent section. Each section has a single coupling device 20 for mounting the section to the trunking (Figures 4 and 5).
Patent GB-2320218-A (GB)
Title: Mobile friction welding machine
Inventor: BOON TERENCE
IPC: B23K20/12
Filed: 1997-09-02
Abstract: The machine comprises  (i) A wheeled body adapted to support and carry a rotatable probe; (ii) A rotatable probe 22 incorporating a probe head suitable for creating a friction weld joint in work pieces to be joined when the probe head is rotated at speed; (iii) A means of rotating the probe at speeds suitable for forming a joint region in the work pieces; (iv) A track assembly 28 adapted to guide the friction welding machine across the work pieces; (v) A drive means attached to or associated with the body and adapted to drive the welding machine forward along the track assembly; (vi) A loading system to place a downward load on the probe and to urge it into the work pieces; The machine is adapted, in use, to move along the track assembly and to form a joint region in the work pieces as it moves. Alternatively tracks may surround the wheels 21 so that the machine lays its tracks as it moves.
Patent GB-2331160-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of optical fibres and gel in welded metal tube
Inventor: HILTON ANDREW JONATHON
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1997-10-21
Abstract: An optical element for transmission of data or other signals comprising optical fibres located in a metal tube is made by advancing a metal strip 6 and forming it into a tube 4, initially with an open slot 7 between its edges. The fibre(s) 2 are introduced through the slot together with a gel, eg through tube 14, and the tape edges are then welded together at section 4 to form a closed tube after which the product is taken up on a haul-off device 18 and allowed to relax. The gel is selected to apply a viscous drag sufficient to mechanically couple the (or each) fibre to the tube at some point located between the welding point 12 and the haul-off at 18. The temperature of the tube at a point upstream of that point and/or the initial tension in the fibre(s) is continuously controlled in response to determined values of the excess fibre length e.g using gauges 24,26. Temperature gauge 28, heater 30 and cooler 32 are shown.
Patent GB-2321106-A (GB)
Title: A non-destructive process for determining the ageing of a composite material
Inventor: CHATELLIER JEAN-YVES FRANCOIS
IPC: G01N29/11
Filed: 1997-12-17
Abstract: A non-destructive testing method (NDT) using ultrasound to measure changes in acoustic attenuation for a composite material is disclosed. Changes in acoustic attenuation are indicative of material weight loss due to thermal cycling of parts in use. Such measurements can be used to characterise the ageing of the material. Reference charts, or graphs, based upon experimental data are drawn up using a sample of the composite material of interest: weight loss vs. attenuation curves are plotted. Now, once the attenuation of the actual item of interest is measured, it is possible to find the percentage weight loss of the piece using the calibration reference charts. Such charts are created for several different materials, e.g. Kerimid (RTM) 736 and PMR15, and at various temperatures. Preferably the method is used for testing aircraft components.
Patent GB-2332545-A (GB)
Title: Signal signature analysis
Inventor: GRATZE STEPHEN CECIL
IPC: G06V10/88
Filed: 1997-12-17
Abstract: Apparatus (10) comprises a collimated light beam (15) arranged to illuminate an optical modulator (13). The beam (15) is modulated by an input signal (16) to form a modulated light beam (17) which passes through a lens (18) to form a characteristic signature (19). The signature (19) is replicated into an array of signatures (21) which are relayed to a correlator (22) for correlation with each of a plurality of reference signatures (24) located in a reference mask (25). Resultant light (26) from a match between the signatures (19 and 24) is allowed to pass through the mask (25) and is then modified by a lens (27) to form a correlation signal (28) for detection by a detector (29) which produces and electrical signal (30) in proportion to the signal (28).
Patent GB-2318484-A (GB)
Title: Mobile communication systems
Inventor: UENO MAKOTO
IPC: H04W12/12
Filed: 1995-03-02
Abstract: In a mobile communication system, to permit early detection of an unauthorised mobile station, user information about accumulated call account is totalled by the network and the mobile staiton individually so as to be subjected to a comparison to identify an unlawful mobile station (Fig. 10).
Patent GB-2322446-A (GB)
Title: Method of processing seismic signals for the analysis of moveout
Inventor: BAZELAIRE ERIC DE
IPC: G01V1/36
Filed: 1998-02-17
Abstract: It is of the type consisting in performing the following steps: a - transmitting and receiving, on receivers, waves reflected in the said medium and recording them in the form of seismic traces, b - defining a string of N integer indices j lying between two limits (j min , j max ) and representative of the moveouts of at least one predetermined gather of traces, c - calculating a focus depth time tp for each value of j, d - defining a string of P integer numbers u determining an interval (P-1)#x, e - copying, for each value of j, each trace identified by its parameters x 0  and h, as many times as there are integer numbers u in the interval (P-1)#x, h being the offset and x 0  the midpoint of each trace, f - applying at least one static correction (dt) to each of the said copied traces, dependent at least on the parameters j, h and u #x, g - recommencing steps e and f for all the values of x 0  and of j.
Patent GB-2321630-A (GB)
Title: A theft deterrent device
Inventor: SCOTT CLIVE
IPC: B60R25/00
Filed: 1995-10-17
Abstract: A theft deterrent device for use in a motor vehicle is used to lock the gear stick in position. The device includes an outer housing 31 which can be secured to the motor vehicle. A part spherical element is provided which is mounted in a part spherical recess 35 in the housing, and which can move relative to the housing. The part spherical element defines a passage through which the gear stick of the motor vehicle may pass. A lock 45 is provided to lock the movable element in position, thus preventing movement of the gear stick.
Patent GB-2336530-A (GB)
Title: Umbrella with see-through canopy
Inventor: PATEL PARESH HASMUKHBHAI
IPC: A45B25/20
Filed: 1998-04-23
Abstract: A conventional umbrella is extended around the periphery by providing a clear plastics section below the normal circumference of the canopy to provide additional weather protection without obstructing the user's view.
Patent GB-2326266-A (GB)
Title: Field instrument simulator device
Inventor: FLEMMING MICHAEL ANTHONY
IPC: G09B9/00
Filed: 1998-06-03
Abstract: The device is for use in training exercises for realistically simulating operational instruments used in the detection of hazards (e.g. radiological, biological, chemical). GPS, a data source, a programmed data processor and an instrument output indicator (display) are combined in the device. The processor computes a hazard level from the input data and drives the output indicator accordingly. The device may be connected to an operational field instrument sensor such that data received from this sensor may be indicated via the instrument output indicator. One or more of the devices may each be connected to a radio receiver, together with a central control comprising a radio transmitter coupled to a programmable computer for providing radio transmissions of the basic data.
Patent GB-2338314-A (GB)
Title: Attaching supplementary spectacle frame to original spectacle frame using magnets
Inventor: WONG PING-CHEUK
IPC: G02C9/00
Filed: 1998-06-11
Abstract: A spectacle frame 2 is attached to an original spectacle frame 1 using rectangular magnets 22 with very small volume inserted in rectangular sockets of the bridges of the original spectacle frame 1 and spectacle frame 2. The magnets (12, Fig.2) 22 are aligned with each other and magnetically attracted by each other. After the spectacle frame 2 is assembled with the original spectacle frame 1, the appearance of the spectacles remains unchanged. The bridge (11, Fig.2) of the original spectacle frame 1 may have a locating hole (13, Fig.2) while the bridge (21, Fig. 3) of the spectacle frame 2 may have a projecting locating pin (23, Fig.3).
Patent GB-2331425-A (GB)
Title: Lip contour signal reconstruction
Inventor: LEE CHANG-BUHM
IPC: G06T9/20
Filed: 1998-07-06
Abstract: A method for reconstructing a lip contour signal(LCS) having edge points (EP's) representing the position and shape of a symetrical lip image. A reconstructed LCS is obtained from a standard lip contour signal (SLCS) having predetermined standard edge points (SEP's), the SLCS representing the position and shape of a standard symetrical lip image. The centre point of the LCS is first matched as an origin of a 2D xy-plane and then the co-ordinates of the N-number of EP's of the LCS are corrected to generate a corrected LCS having N number of corrected EP's of the LCS. This is done by stretching the x-coordinates of the number of corrected EP's in accordance with a predetermined rule. Thereafter, N number of reconstructed edge points(REP's) are obtained based on the N number of corrected EP's of the corrected LCS and SEP's of the SLCS, thereby generating a reconstructed LCS having the N number of REP's.
Patent GB-2340618-A (GB)
Title: Dental mirror
Inventor: CHEUNG CHUN-KONG
IPC: A61B1/247
Filed: 1998-07-22
Abstract: A dental mirror 1 has a light source attached to a handle 2 and directed towards the mirror surface 3. The light may also provide some additional anti-fog protection to the surface. A flexible portion 15 may be provided between the handle 2 and the mirror surface 3 to allow some manipulation of the angle between the mirror surface and the handle 2.
Patent GB-2340565-A (GB)
Title: A friction pad for a disc brake
Inventor: BUNKER GAVIN
IPC: F16D69/04
Filed: 1998-08-15
Abstract: A friction pad 10 for a disc brake, comprises a block 12 of friction material, and a support 14 on which said block is mounted. The support 14 comprises a rigid portion 15 which provides at least one mounting point 16 by which the pad 10 can be supported for non-rotational sliding movement. The block 12 is secured in engagement with said rigid portion 15 by a flexible strip of spring steel 20, the ends of which are secured by a ratchet mechanism 32. Grooves in the block receive projection 15c of the rigid portion 15 and the strip.
Patent GB-2332150-A (GB)
Title: Golf club hosel
Inventor: KUBICA DANIEL J
IPC: A63B53/02
Filed: 1998-12-10
Abstract: Golf clubs are formed from a head, a shaft and a hosel wherein the hosel is chosen from among a set of hosels, each hosel having a passage for the shaft and the passage of each hosel in the set being at a different angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The invention allows for custom tailoring of clubs to players without the need to invest in costly stocks of heads with differing hosel angles.
Patent GB-2345609-A (GB)
Title: Data handling system
Inventor: PLAYER WILLIAM HENRY
IPC: H04M1/2755
Filed: 1999-01-11
Abstract: A data handling system comprises a multiplicity of digital data processors; a multiplicity of terminals; and data transmission means by way of which communication paths may be established between any one of said terminals and any one of said processors. Each terminal comprises first data input means 11, e.g. a bar-code reader second data input means, e.g. a data entry keyboard 13; data storage means adapted to store data sensed by said first input means; controller means 15 connected to outputs from said associated sensor means and keyboard; and, a modem. A software package, being a software package operative in response to data, including processor address-data, read from the data storage means of said terminal, or entered at the key-board thereof, serves to analyse said data and to establish the appropriate communication path by way of a modem, to a data processor so addressed, and to procure the transmission to the data processor so addressed, of data to be processed.
Patent GB-2342881-A (GB)
Title: Welding
Inventor: JOHNSON TREVOR ALAN
IPC: B23K26/20
Filed: 1999-09-27
Abstract: A method of welding workpieces together uses a welding head of the type enabling welding of the workpieces from one side only. The welding head is operated to weld the workpieces while the welding head and the workpieces are moved relative to one another during welding thereby to produce a weld of a predetermined shape in dependence on the predicted failure mode of the weld.
Patent GB-2338524-A (GB)
Title: A transmission control system for a vehicle
Inventor: JACKSON NEIL DAVID
IPC: B60W30/18
Filed: 1998-05-01
Abstract: A CVT controller (22) of a vehicle (10) communicates with the engine management system (EMS) (20). When a manual shift between simulated fixed ratios is performed, the CVT controller (22) sends a shift signal to the EMS (20) which alters the engine torque for the duration of the shift in order to simulate a manual shift to provide, for example, a sporty feel to the vehicle (10).
Patent GB-2356023-A (GB)
Title: Noise suppression of an air pump
Inventor: WANG CHIAO-MING
IPC: F04B39/00
Filed: 1999-11-03
Abstract: An air pump 20, such as for an aquarium, comprises a body 21 having an inlet chamber 211 and an outlet chamber 212 leading, via one-way valves 24, to a compression chamber 253,254 of a compressing cup 22, or diaphragm, which is reciprocated by an electromagnetically driven vibrating crank 23. A noise suppression device 31,32 is attached to the pump body 21, and comprises an additional air inlet chamber 325 and an additional air outlet chamber 326 which lead to and from the inlet and outlet chambers 211,212, respectively, in the body. Within each additional chamber 325,326 are baffles in the form of air separation plates 323 forming air gaps 324, which define an air flow path through the chambers 325,326. The noise suppression device 31,32 effectively increases the travel path of suction air and delivery air to and from the pump 20 so as to decrease the velocity, and hence the noise created, by air flowing through the pump. An air drain pipe 35 leads from the additional outlet chamber 326 in the noise suppression device.
Patent GB-2348060-A (GB)
Title: Transmitter power control system for a CDMA base station
Inventor: HIRAMA ATSUHIRO
IPC: H03G3/20
Filed: 1999-12-30
Abstract: The amplitude of each base band signal is adjusted by a controller 62 so that the combined signal presented to the modulator 94 attains a set value. This allows the use of an active modulator, which has a lower dynamic range than a passive modulator. The controller 62 adjusts also the gain of the output amplifier 96. The input amplitude adjusting means 91 may be placed before or after the combining means 92. The controller 62 reduces the gain of the level variant means 91 and raises the gain of the output amplifier 96 when the level of at least one input signal exceeds a threshold value.
Patent HU-T66840-A (HU)
Title: Electronic cylinder lock mechanism
Inventor: ASWEGEN HELMUT
IPC: E05B49/00
Filed: 1993-03-05
Abstract: The lock cylinder comprises a profiled housing (1) with a cylinder core (9) mounted rotatably therein and with tumblers (15) which can be controlled by a flat key. Arranged on the profiled housing (1) is an information-recording device (37) which responds contactlessly to control-information signals from a control circuit of the flat key and which is itself connected to an electronic control and current-supply circuit arranged at least with some of its circuit components separate from the lock cylinder. The connection of the circuit components separate from the lock cylinder is made by a cable (43) and a plug connection (45) consisting of two plug parts (49, 51) complementary with one another. A first of the two plug parts (49) is attached fixedly to the profiled housing (1), and the cable (43) carries a second plug part (51) which can be attached loosely to the first plug part (49). A holding part (53), designed especially as a clip, can be fastened to the profiled housing, and engages behind the second plug part (51), at least in the plug pull-out direction, preferably also transversely to this, and secures it, in particular against being pulled out of the first plug part (49). <IMAGE>
Patent HU-T66123-A (HU)
Title: Process of preparing large dimension emulsion polymer particles, polymer product and uses thereof
Inventor: CHIOU SHANG-JAW
IPC: C09D109/00
Filed: 1993-07-13
Abstract: A process for preparing large dimension emulsion polymer particles and the polymer products of the process are disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention provides particles having a high aspect ratio, having a shape described by a long axis and an intersecting short axis. These particles range in shape from egg-like, through rod-like, up to extended filaments. In another embodiment, the invention relates to large, nearly spherical emulsion polymer particles.