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Patent GB-2245694-A (GB)
Title: Fluidized bed drying of objects
Inventor: JUDGE FRANCIS JOHN
IPC: F26B3/22
Filed: 1990-06-27
Abstract: A delicate object, such as a flower head, is dried by:   a) inducing relative motion between particles in a bed of dry particulate material such as sand, e.g. by gas fluidization;   b) immersing the delicate object in the bed c) causing the relative motion to cease, so that the particulate material holds the delicate object while a low gas flow continues through the bed and the temperature is increased, eg from 3 to 60 DEG C initially to 30 to 90 DEG C.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2252667-A (GB)
Title: Contact in DRAM device
Inventor: SEO KWANG HA
IPC: H01L21/285
Filed: 1990-10-02
Abstract: In a DRAM the contacts to the source and drain of a field effect transistor comprise a metal layer (19) on a TiN layer (22) on a TiSi2 layer (22) formed on the source and drain regions (16). A low temperature oxide film (17) and a Boron Phosphor Silicate Glass (BPSG) layer (18) are formed over the gate (14) of the transistor and field oxide regions (12). The reliability of the metal wiring is thus improved, with better contact resistance, in DRAMs with high integration. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2252762-A (GB)
Title: Portable paper roll dispenser
Inventor: WATKINS GEORGE
IPC: B44C7/02
Filed: 1991-02-13
Abstract: A portable paper roll dispenser 10 is of steel and is formed and shaped to fit to a table or other suitable structure. The unit 10 is held in position by means of thumb screws 20. The unit carries the dispensing roll e.g. of wallpaper, on removable spindle 12. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2242138-A (GB)
Title: Balloon inflating machine
Inventor: SHORE WILLIAM PATRICK
IPC: A63H27/10
Filed: 1991-03-22
Abstract: A gas operated machine (1) for inflating balloons of the kind having a body, and a filling neck terminated in a beaded edge. The apparatus includes a gas operated releasable clamping device 2 to secure the beaded edge of the balloon between a support surface 12 and a sealing surface 16 thereby providing for inflation of the balloon from an aperture 7 in the sealing surface. A gas operated control valve selectively supplies gas to the aperture 7 from a reservoir (5) and a gas operated sealing device is used to seal the neck of the balloons after inflation. A logic controller selectively supplies pressurised gas from a high pressure source (4) to the clamping device, control valve and sealing means to sequentially clamp, inflate, seal and release balloons. The exhaust gas from each of these devices is directed to the reservoir (5) for inflation of the balloons. The size to which the balloons are inflated is preferably controlled by this size of the inflating reservoir (5) and regulation of the pressure in the reservoir. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2243787-A (GB)
Title: Chiropractic belt
Inventor: BUDDINGH CORNELIUS CURTIS
IPC: A61F5/02
Filed: 1991-04-10
Abstract: A chiropractic belt 10 has two belt segments 16 and 18 joined together by a central elastic section 12. An elastic cross-structure 26 overlies and is connected at the intersection of the cross-structure to the mid-section of the elastic member. The ends of the cross-structure are connected to the belt segments. Right hand and left hand tensioning members 58 and 60 are attached at the midsection at the intersection of the cross structure, with free ends of the tensioning members being adapted to be connected or disconnected, respectively, to the left and right hand belt segments. The belt, by tending to pull the sacrum and ilium together reduces tension in the sacro-iliac ligaments so that sprained ligaments are able to heal. Moreover, the design of the belt allows the pelvic region to move freely so that muscles do not atrophy. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246441-A (GB)
Title: Outfall monitoring
Inventor: THATCHER KEITH
IPC: E02B3/00
Filed: 1991-04-16
Abstract: Method and apparatus for monitoring the outfall of a discharge pipe 10 in which at least one measuring unit is provided in the vicinity of the outfall in a submerged location and arranged to act as a monitoring unit which transmits information to an onshore site. Preferably several measuring units are secured to a support structure 12 comprised by a plurality of individual segments 13 flexibly interconnected together in a two-dimensional array so as to be flexible about at least one axis. The measuring units may each be housed wholly or at least in part in a segment. The support structure 12 rests on the seabed 11 and pipe 10 and some of the segments 13 contain ballast to provide the necessary stability. The sensors may monitor such parameters as temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, tide level, and pipe outlet flow rate, and the data signals may be transmitted to shore by cable or radio. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2243530-A (GB)
Title: Footwear
Inventor: COOK ANDREW NICHOLAS
IPC: A43B13/40
Filed: 1991-05-17
Abstract: An item of footwear such as a sports shoe is provided with a plurality of filaments (15) in the heel and midsole portions (3, 5) of its sole (1), extending between arms of support frames (9, 21). Spaces (31) are provided in the layer (7) of material below the filaments into which the filaments can be deformed under the weight of the wearer of the item of footwear. The filament may be formed by a moulded grid and may be embedded in resilient material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2244834-A (GB)
Title: Circuit having multiplex selection functions
Inventor: KIKUDA SHIGERU
IPC: G11C11/407
Filed: 1991-05-31
Abstract: A semiconductor circuit device includes a first column decoder (15) for decoding a column address and generating a column select signal which selects one column and a second column decoder (16) for simultaneously selecting a plurality of successively adjacent columns from a memory cell array (1) in accordance with the column select signal in such a way that columns are selected in common in response to different column select signals. An input/output selection control circuit (71) selects a column from the columns simultaneously selected in accordance with the column select signal in such a way as to avoid columns with defective bits. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2248016-A (GB)
Title: Day surgery trolley
Inventor: SCHOFIELD IVOR
IPC: A61G1/02
Filed: 1991-09-13
Abstract: A day surgery trolley 1 has a wheeled base 2, a high adjustable support structure 3, an upper portion 5 having a telescopic foot section 52, a Trendelenburg tilting mechanism 7 and a removable head support platform 8. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2257075-A (GB)
Title: A welding process.
Inventor: ASHIDA TOSHIYUKI
IPC: B23K9/04
Filed: 1991-12-13
Abstract: To allow multi-layer welding on a base metal with harder metal to form overlaid layers of greater thickness, the welding process comprises the steps of: limiting a heat input value J, at the time of applying multi-layer welding with high hard metal onto a surface of base metal, to be in the range of 2000 to 6000 J/cm; said heat input value J being calculated by:                              J=60xIxE/v   where: J is heat input value (J/cm); E is arc voltage (V); I is welding current (A); v is welding speed (cm/min) and limiting interpass temperature to be not higher than 300 DEG C at all times so that a large number of fine cracks are evenly and dispersedly produced on a bead of deposited metal in a direction perpendicular to the bead. As a result, substantially all of the residual welding stress existing in the entire overlaid layer is released, and there is no occurrence of large cracks resulting in the spalling of a part of the bead. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2252646-A (GB)
Title: Air conditioner having refrigerant heater
Inventor: MIYAZAKI KOICHI
IPC: F24F11/00
Filed: 1992-01-14
Abstract: The air conditioner includes a refrigerant heater for heating a refrigerant by combustion of a fuel delivered through a control valve 10, an indoor heat exchanger through which the refrigerant circulates, combustion command signal generation means 31 including minimum and maximum. combustion command generation units 31N and 31M each having a plurality of stages of command values, a memory 36 for storing values of minimum and maximum command signals corresponding to command values according to an optimum combustion state, and control valve control means 32 for carrying out control of said control valve by using values of the minimum and maximum combustion command signals stored in the memory. Alternatively, the control valve can be initially adjusted to supply fuel at a pressure determined according to the type of fuel used and this valve opening data is then control into memory for setting the valve in a subsequent @ <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2252528-A (GB)
Title: Dressing
Inventor: IGARASHI MASATOSHI
IPC: A61F13/00
Filed: 1992-02-03
Abstract: A dressing comprises a light-transmissive adhesive layer (3) and a light-transmissive, flexible plastics film (1), which film is laminated on one side to a non-woven fabric layer (2), wherein the non-woven fabric layer is provided with a pattern of protrusions (5) on one surface which allows part of the patterned non-woven fabric layer to be light-transmissive. The protrusions may be square, triangular, circular or oval in cross-sectional shape. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265849-A (GB)
Title: Coupling arrangement for rotating tool systems
Inventor: LOSONCZI ISTVAN
IPC: B23B31/00
Filed: 1992-04-09
Abstract: The coupling arrangement for rotating tool systems is for joining a basic body, which can be clamped in the main spindle of machine-tools, with a joining-element formed as an adapter or an extension means or a tool characterised in that the cone angle (13) of the internal cone (17) of the tapered-bore (6) is less by a predetermined amount than the cone angle (14) of the external cone of the tapered centering pin (12) and in the tapered centering pin (12) of coaxial internal cone (17) ensures simultaneous deformation of constant degree along the whole length of the joining taper surfaces, and in that the direction of the taper of the internal cone (17) is the same as the taper of the external cone of the tapered centering pin (12), while its length is longer than that of the joining taper surfaces. As the tapered-bore (6) and the tapered centering pin (12) are formed with different cones angles, the elastic deformation centrally tightens them against each other. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266247-A (GB)
Title: Gas mask device
Inventor: CHEN KUO-JEN
IPC: B01D46/00
Filed: 1992-04-16
Abstract: A gas mask device comprised of a goggles 1 worn around the upper pan of the head to protect the eyes and detachably connected to a mask 2 worn around the lower part of the head to eliminate poisonous substances from inhaled air, a chemical filter 26 within the mask, and a detachable wet type chemical air filter can 3 connected to said mask to treat intake air before entering said mask. The goggles has detachable eyepieces so that different lenses can be used according to user's eyesight (Figs 2 and 3). The goggles can be separately used in water sports. The filter 26 is sealed by covering strips (264, Figs 5 and 6) provided with pull wires extending through the mask to facilitate strip removal prior to use. The inlet of the filter can 3 is sealed by a tape 331 before use. In a modifications (Fig 8), the filter can 3 includes a motor-driven fan. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2257092-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic token and token transaction system
Inventor: JARROLD RICHARD WILLIAM
IPC: G07F7/02
Filed: 1992-06-29
Abstract: A magnetic token (1) bears a stripe (6, 7) incorporating a magnetic data recording medium of high coercivity having region (1 and -1) which are magnetised and separated by unmagnetised (0) regions (20). The sequences 1, 0, -1 and 1, 0, 1 define a magnetic fuse (21) which can be removed by magnetising the unmagnetised (1) region (20). The magnetic fuses (21) can either be used as a direct measure of the unexpired units on the token (1) or recorded in a read/write strip (8). Once a magnetic fuse (21) has been removed , any fraudulent attempt to "refresh" the token by demagnetising region (20) to its former unmagnetised state is frustrated due to the hysteresis of the magnetic recording medium.
Patent GB-2257276-A (GB)
Title: Frequency divider
Inventor: LINDHOLM RUNE
IPC: H03K23/50
Filed: 1992-07-01
Abstract: A frequency divider provides an output signal (5) of a frequency which is equal to the frequency of an input signal (1) divided by an odd integer. This is achieved by feeding back the output from a binary counter (6-11) through an AND gate (12), delay flip-flop (13) and an OR gate (4) so that one cycle is added to the binary counter. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2258590-A (GB)
Title: Secret communication apparatus
Inventor: HANE TOSHIHISA
IPC: H04L9/14
Filed: 1992-07-15
Abstract: A secret communication apparatus (Figure 2) used in an audio and data transmission system has scramble/descramble circuits formed of programmable logic means (14). A control circuit (15) in the apparatus instructs the programmable logic means to alter the arrangement of scramble/descramble circuits in accordance with the control signal received from the partner of communication. The control circuit in the partner's apparatus also instructs its programmable logic means to alter the arrangement of scramble/descramble circuits. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271074-A (GB)
Title: Glove box
Inventor: RYDER MARTYN
IPC: B25J21/02
Filed: 1992-09-24
Abstract: A glove box comprises a front face (11) and a rear face (12) and side faces (13) and (14). The glove box front face comprises an in dented portion (15) having two inward faces, (16, 17) each of which comprises a glove port (18) and (19) respectively. A transfer hatch includes a housing (50) and a transfer carriage movable between the housing and the glove box interior. The housing has a door external to the glove box and an interlock prevents the door being opened when the carriage is within the housing. Vertical laminar air flow may be provided within the glove box. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272311-A (GB)
Title: Call management in a collaborative working network.
Inventor: ALDRED BARRY KEITH
IPC: G06F9/48
Filed: 1992-11-10
Abstract: A programmable workstation for collaborative working in a network comprises a conventional operating system and network control layer for controlling physical routing of data between nodes. A collaborative application subsystem which interfaces with application programs is responsive to a predetermined call from a collaboration call manager to establish the call manager at the node to handle incoming events which are not specific to any application program instances at the node. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276585-A (GB)
Title: Portable mortising tool
Inventor: PAUL-KIRRI ANDREW
IPC: B27F5/12
Filed: 1993-03-26
Abstract: A portable mortising tool on which various cutting bits can be used, comprises:     a) means for attaching the tool to the workpiece; b) means for attaching cutting bits and positioning them over the workpiece;   c) means for guiding the cutting tool into the workpiece   and d) means for plunging the cutting tool into the workpiece.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275666-A (GB)
Title: Container with separate compartments
Inventor: RIGNEY PATRICK
IPC: B65D25/04
Filed: 1993-04-01
Abstract: A beverage container 1 has two sub-compartments 2,3, the larger sub-compartment 2 containing a dark coloured liqueur and having a capacity of approximately twice that of the smaller compartment 3 which contains a white cream liqueur. The difference in specific gravity between the liqueurs is approximately 0.03g/litre so that the white liqueur floats on top of the dark liqueur when the liqueurs are poured into a glass. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281031-A (GB)
Title: Survival blanket
Inventor: TILL DAVID TREVOR
IPC: A47G9/02
Filed: 1993-04-07
Abstract: A high insulation survival blanket, capable of being inflated through an inflator and valve (5) to contain gas (usually exhaled air) comprises two layers of metallised plastic film (1) welded together along seams (2). Internal pockets (3) provide strength and rigidity. Outside the weld are reinforced holes 9. The blanket may also function as a splint. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279047-A (GB)
Title: Banking suspension
Inventor: DOVISON DAVID
IPC: B60G21/00
Filed: 1993-06-16
Abstract: A form of vehicular suspension which duplicates the dynamic properities of a motor/pedal bikers suspension and which is also capable of keeping the vehicle upright when it is moving slowly or is stationary is achieved by having at least one pair of wheels 3 laterally disposed about the vehicle's body 4 in conjunction with a mechanism connecting the wheel's uprights and the body in such a manor as to allow them to rotate freely and in unison about the wheel's contact points with the ground. Thus the machine may be banked into corners like a bike. The vehicle's angle of lean is controlled by use of wheel gyroscopic forces. At low speed and when stationary the mechanism is locked in rotation relative to the body and thus the vehicle becomes in effect a narrow car. As the rider/driver does not have to be able to touch the ground with his feet to stabilise the vehicle, it may be fully enclosed, and therefore has the potential to be as safe as car. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284032-A (GB)
Title: Bolt anchoring device
Inventor: MIDGLEY NICHOLAS WILLIAM
IPC: E21D21/00
Filed: 1993-11-06
Abstract: A bolt anchoring device includes an expandable sleeve 16 and a plug 18 which is press fitted within the trailing end of the sleeve 16. The plug 18 may be advanced by means of the bolt (not shown) within the sleeve 16 so as to cause the sleeve 16 to expand and grip the surfaces of a bore hole. Also claimed is an assembly including an expandable sleeve and a cartridge for curable bonding medium, and a method of anchoring a rock bolt into the bore hole. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275114-A (GB)
Title: Metal-detecting unit for securing to vehicle
Inventor: PINCHER JAMES
IPC: G01V3/15
Filed: 1994-02-14
Abstract: The unit comprises a metal-detecting coil 10, control and indicator means for the coil and motorised means 11, 15 to move the metal-detecting coil transversely across a direction of motion of the vehicle. The unit fits by dovetails into a bracket 26, 27 mounted on the vehicle. The coil 10 is supported by a nylon tube 12 fitted into aluminium tube 11. The height of the tube 11 is adjustable by bracket 17, 19, 20, 21, and the detector assembly is scanned transversely across the direction of motion of the vehicle by motor 15. The height of the coil 10 above the ground may be measured and controlled. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289144-A (GB)
Title: Surveillance camera control system
Inventor: BRIARS ROBERT DAVID
IPC: G08B15/00
Filed: 1994-04-30
Abstract: A surveillance camera (1, figure 1) is activated and controlled according to the output of an array of sensors S1, S2, S3 eg Infrared detectors.The outputs 11, 12, 13 of the array of detectors are input to respective latches L1, L2, L3 which are sequentially interrogated and when the output O1, O2, O3 of one of the latches indicates the presence of an intruder, the sequential interrogation is paused for a preset period and the camera moved so as to view the area associated with the activated sensor. The period for which interrogation is paused is adjusted in dependence on the frequency at which detection signals are sensed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277917-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for adjusting the positions of suction-type gripperson a sheet-transfer drum
Inventor: HAUPENTHAL RUDI
IPC: B41F21/10
Filed: 1994-05-10
Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for adjusting the positions of suction-type grippers 38 - 43 on a sheet-transfer drum of a sheet-fed rotary printing press, wherein the sheets are held in grippers and fast adjustment of the suction-type grippers transversely with respect to the sheet-transport direction is made possible, according to the respective size of sheets to be processed. The grippers are mounted on hollow elements e.g. 11, 12, 15, 16, 23, 24 which are telescopically connected to allow ease of position adjustment. The hollow elements have fluid seals such as O-rings, 19 - 21 etc, and are connected to a suction source 9. Adjustment may be achieved manually, or by means of a motor with the aid of a gear drive, which could be in the form of a differential helical-gear unit or of the rotatable threaded spindle type. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283347-A (GB)
Title: Analogue multiplier
Inventor: KIMURA KATSUJI
IPC: G06G7/16
Filed: 1994-10-31
Abstract: A circuit for multiplying three or more input signals V1, V2, V3 and operable at a low power source voltage such as 3 V or less has two emitter-coupled pairs of bipolar transistors Q1 - Q4 and a multiplier MP1. The emitter-coupled pairs are given by the differential output current of the multiplier MP1. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289715-A (GB)
Title: Power closing mechanism for vehicle door latch
Inventor: MIZUKI TETSURO
IPC: E05B79/20
Filed: 1995-05-22
Abstract: A vehicle door latch device comprises a latch unit (6) having a fork member (10) which engages with a striker (9) fixed to avehicle body and a pawl (11) which engages with the fork member (10) for preventing the fork member (10) from reversing, a power unit forturning the fork member (10) from a half-latch position to a full latch-position, and a cable (15) for transmitting power of the power unit to the fork member (10). The cable (15) has a middle portion provided in the vicinity of a bottom edge (39) of the door (1), a first end portion which is provided in proximity of a rear edge (38) of the door (1) in such a manner as to extend nearly vertically, and a second end portion which extends almost parallel with the first end portion and is connected to the power unit. See Fig. 1 (not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294635-A (GB)
Title: Inflatable mattress
Inventor: WALLER MARTIN
IPC: A61G7/057
Filed: 1995-11-01
Abstract: An inflatable mattress has an upper layer of inflatable tubular sections (10) covered with a microporous vapour permeable material (14) and a rectangular lower base layer (12) formed into a matrix of blocks with discrete, separate, support surfaces (22) by means of intersecting channels (18, 20). The mattress also has means (32) for inflating at least one of the inflatable sections (10) at a first, higher pressure and at least one of the inflatable sections at a second, lower pressure and means for changing the sections to which the higher and lower pressures are applied. As the higher pressure is applied to a section (10) the foam blocks (12) located immediately below that section are deformed downwardly without producing any substantial deformation of adjacent blocks and thus without moving adjacent tubular sections. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296164-A (GB)
Title: Mobile communication system with means for determining position of mobile using signal strength
Inventor: TOKUYOSHI TAKAYA
IPC: H04W64/00
Filed: 1995-12-15
Abstract: A mobile communication system having a plurality of base stations covering respective radio zones, includes a mobile terminal that moves in a radio zone and registers its location at a base station, the mobile terminal including location registration means for detecting the levels of signals received from the base stations for calculating the difference between the highest level of a received signal and the second highest level of a received signal and for registering its location at the base station that transmits the signal which has been received at the highest level, if the difference is larger than a threshold value. A location display may be provided at an exchange. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299688-A (GB)
Title: Darkroom analyser
Inventor: WOODHOUSE CHRISTOPHER JOHN
IPC: G01J1/42
Filed: 1995-12-20
Abstract: A darkroom analyser has a main control box 10 and sensor box 12 with sensor 32 which is placed under an image in an having means for enlarger to sense the intensity of the light at that point of the image to be projected onto printing paper and by use of a precalibrated scale displays on display 16 the print density of that point on the resulting print after exposure and development of the printing paper under the same parameters as employed during calibration. The analyser can also control the subsequent printing of the enlarger.