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Patent GB-2289869-A (GB)
Title: Golf cart folding frame assembly
Inventor: WU CHING-CHANG
IPC: B62B5/06
Filed: 1994-06-03
Abstract: The golf cart folding frame assembly includes a folding frame bar mounting structure and a telescopic drag bar mounting structure. The folding frame bar mounting structure includes a first connecting frame 63 mounted on the rear end of a frame bar 6 and having inner 6312 and outer 6313 locating notches on two opposite, arched side walls thereof, a second connecting frame 65 mounted on the front end of a frame member and having two sliding slots 6511 on two opposite side walls thereof, a locating device 62 having two locating rods 621 inserted into the sliding slots 6511 and controlled by a spring supported control knob 60 to alternatively engage into the inner or outer locating notches so as to lock the fold frame bar mounting structure in the operative or collapsed position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278620-A (GB)
Title: Protective walls and method of construction
Inventor: NEGRI YERMIYAHU
IPC: E04B2/16
Filed: 1993-01-11
Abstract: A bomb blast protective wall consisting of light-weight high energy absorbing hollow building blocks (2) placed in direct contact on top of and next to one another, said hollow blocks providing vertical and horizontal voids (11, 14), said voids having disposed therein an interconnected web of vertical and horizontal steel reinforced concrete beams (21, 24), said reinforcements extending beyond said wall into a retaining frame structure (3), and a method for making a conventionally constructed room protected against bomb blast by constructing such a wall adjacent the outside wall of the room. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2291345-A (GB)
Title: Reinforcing a bath
Inventor: SCHOFIELD CHRIS
IPC: A47K3/02
Filed: 1994-07-15
Abstract: A bath 10 comprises a fluid receiving portion 11 having a base 12 and an open end 13. The base is formed with a waste aperture 14 and further comprises reinforcing means 15 in the form of a chipboard fixedly attached to the base 12 of the bath 10. The chipboard 15 is formed with an aperture 16 which is substantially coaxial with and of the same size as the waste aperture 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281799-A (GB)
Title: Correcting directional data and/or pitch data of streaked patterns, for example fingerprints
Inventor: HARA MASANORI
IPC: G06K9/03
Filed: 1994-08-31
Abstract: At step 11, entered picture data 1 and directional (or pitch) data 2 are displayed on a display unit 4. At step 13, the operator designates the areas in which the directional data 2 is to be corrected. At step 14, the operator designates direction indicating lines. At step 15, the direction of a zone whose direction was not set at step 14 is calculated. The direction is the direction to minimize the value of a function H. With the distance between a zone D and a defined zone Zi being represented by Ri, the function H is so set that the greater the value of Ri the more remote the correlation between the direction of the zone D and the direction Di or the defined zone Zi, and the smaller the value of Ri, the closer their correlation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294396-A (GB)
Title: Devices for restoring, enhancing or maintaining natural mobility
Inventor: KAVINA YAZZDI BAHADUR
IPC: A61H1/02
Filed: 1994-10-31
Abstract: A remedial device for restoring or enhancing motor functions of a brain-damaged patient comprises a plurality of independently driven and programmable endless belts arranged side-by-side such that the patients arms, legs etc. may rest thereon for controlled movement. The device may comprise four or six belts and may be combined with a head and torso supporting harness suspended from an overhead rail. Such harness may provide powered movement of the head in synchronism with other input movements. Loops or straps may attach the patient to the belts. In a further embodiment, the device comprises a plurality of independently driven and programmable manipulators mounted on a frame for attachment to respective limbs, together with a suitable harness.
Patent GB-2296933-A (GB)
Title: Ladder warning device
Inventor: HOBBS ROBERT LESLIE
IPC: E06C7/00
Filed: 1995-01-11
Abstract: An audible warning system for ladders consisting of more than one section, comprises a pressure plate 7 remains inactive until depressed by the persons foot, using the ladder. The plate is situated on the last double rung 8 of the extendible section of the ladder and connected to audible warning device 4 retained within a case 1 on the ladder stile. An incline angle finder 3 in the case 1 remains inactive when ladder is at a safe working angle as no electrical current flows to warning device 4. When the ladder is at an unsafe angle the liquid retained within the angle finder 3 contacts the electrical poles allowing current to flow from the power pack, to the incline angle finder, and warning device retained within the case 1. A fail safe switch is provided which when depressed causes an audible sound and a light emitting diode to light up thus, showing effectiveness of the device.
Patent GB-2288839-A (GB)
Title: Bridge with shock transmission unit
Inventor: TOWNSEND GERALD
IPC: E01D19/00
Filed: 1995-04-28
Abstract: A bridge structure comprises at least two piers (11), a deck structure between each pair of adjacent piers supported to allow for relative movement longitudinally of the deck between at least one pier and the deck, a connecting bar (22) and a shock transmission unit (25) in series connected between each pair of adjacent piers, the bar being supported for longitudinal movement independently of the deck. This arrangement allows free relative movement due to thermal expansion, and can accommodate flexing of the deck structure due to live loads. The shock transmission unit forms a longitudinal lock along the piers in the event of a sudden shock such as an earthquake, so that all the piers are combined to resist the shock. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2301697-A (GB)
Title: Harmonica tuning system
Inventor: BREWIS RONALD HOWARD
IPC: G10D7/12
Filed: 1995-06-01
Abstract: A system of musical-note organisation for a harmonica is developed as exemplified in Figures 1 and 2 whereby the two notes of a diatonic or harmonic-minor scale available in each of a series of wind-channels by alternately BLOW and DRAW methods represent exclusively one of those steps of the scale greater than one semitone. This is achieved by repeating where applicable each of degrees two, five and six of the major scale or the fourth degree of the harmonic-minor scale in the same method of production in successive channels. As alternate notes of the scale are produced by alternate BLOW or DRAW methods, equivalent notes in alternate octaves are produced by alternate methods. Chromaticity is possible entirely by the playing technique of BENDING consistently in all channels and comprehensive harmonious chords from the scale key may also be produced. Notes obtained by blow are shown against 15 (31), those obtained by draw are shown against 16 (32) and those obtained by bending are shown against 17 (33).
Patent GB-2302817-A (GB)
Title: Production of coloured concrete tiles
Inventor: BUCHANAN JAMES GILBERT
IPC: B28B17/02
Filed: 1995-07-05
Abstract: In the manufacture of concrete roof tiles 2 using otherwise conventional roller and slipper apparatus, colourant is introduced via inlet 50 into a continuous mixer 18 which mixes sand and cement to form mortar. The colourant is supplied from feed means 51 which comprises three separate and different supplies 52, 54, 56 which feed colourant into manifold 68 from where it is pumped by pump 72 to the mixer at a rate commensurate with the supply of mortar mixture. On/off valves 62, 64, 66 control the amount of colourant fed into the manifold and are themselves under the control of a random signal generator 61. This gives the tiles a marbled or streaked effect, the degree of colouring being dependent upon the random setting of the on/off valves.
Patent GB-2293740-A (GB)
Title: Signal processing apparatus for a digital audio mixing console
Inventor: FRINDLE PAUL ANTHONY
IPC: H04H60/04
Filed: 1995-07-31
Abstract: Signal processing apparatus comprises at least one digital signal processing device 40 (e.g. am ADC) mounted on a circuit board 10, for performing sample-based signal processing at a sampling frequency; and a switched mode power supply 70 mounted on the same circuit board, the switched mode power supply operating at a switching frequency derived from the sampling frequency of the digital signal processing device. A microphone amplifier 30, ADC 40 end programmable filter 50 receive power from supply 70. The arrangement reduces the effect of clock-induced noise. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290330-A (GB)
Title: Method of controlling the execution of a well drilling plan
Inventor: HOLBROOK PHILIP
IPC: E21B44/00
Filed: 1993-04-01
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling the execution of a well drilling plan in which the drilling strength of the lithology is continually evaluated and is used to calculate pore pressure, this value of pore pressure then being used to decide whether to continue or modify the well drilling plan. At least a portion of a given well is drilled with a given drill bit. An abrasive-wear-affecting variable (drilling strength) for the lithology which has been most recently drilled with the bit is continually evaluated. The current abrasive wear of the bit by the total lithology which has been drilled thereby is continually calculated, based on the abrasive-wear-affecting variable. Continued use or retirement of the bit is controlled in accord with the wear calculation. Relative pore pressure at the current site of the drill bit is a parameter which can be independently used to control other aspects of the well drilling plan, e.g. mud weight and the setting of casing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293845-A (GB)
Title: Improvments in road signs
Inventor: BETHUNE MAAN
IPC: E01F9/012
Filed: 1995-09-29
Abstract: A road sign comprising a generally planar upper frame 2 to which a signboard can be attached, the upper frame having a horizontal lower edge to which a number of hinge lugs 11 are attached, and the upper frame having two leg frames attached to its lower edge by hinge portions (12) Fig. 2 cooperating with the hinge lugs. Each of the leg frames is hingeable from a closed position, wherein it lies substantially in the plane of the upper frame, to a deployed position wherein the leg frames are set at an angle of approximately 45 DEG on either side of the plane of the upper frame. The hinge lugs and the hinge portions include cooperating stop surfaces which limit the arc of travel of the leg frames relative to the upper frame. The parts are preferably made of plastics. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294555-A (GB)
Title: Regulating the feed of additional fluid streams into an intaketract of an IC engine
Inventor: RUMEZ WERNER
IPC: F02D35/00
Filed: 1995-10-03
Abstract: A system for regulating the feed of additional fluid streams 8, 9 into an intake tract 4 of an internal-combustion engine, in which exhaust-gas parameters in the exhaust-gas tract 6 are measured continuously, the determined exhaust-gas parameters are compared with desired parameters of a characteristic diagram which was determined in the light of the criteria of minimum fuel consumption and minimum emissions of harmful substances, and the feed of the mass throughputs for the additional fluid streams 8, 9 is regulated in such a way that the set mass throughputs correspond to the suitable mass throughputs selected by means of the characteristic diagram. The additional fluid streams may include additional air, exhaust gas, water and fuel streams. The detected exhaust gas constituents may be hydrocarbon content, carbon monoxide content, nitrous oxide content, benzene content and soot content. In addition, gas or mixture streams may be sucked off via suction nozzle 8. The time-related formation of flow structures eg swirl and tumble can also be regulated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295233-A (GB)
Title: Holder for a wheel speed sensor
Inventor: BROCKMUELLER UWE
IPC: G01P1/00
Filed: 1995-11-15
Abstract: A motor vehicle wheel speed sensor of rod-shaped form and which cooperates with a pulser wheel (12, Fig. 2) is attached to an axle journal (10) by means of a holder 1 having a bore to receive the sensor which is then held by a hinged portion 3 of the holder when the portion 3 is placed in the closed position. As described the sensor holder is formed integrally of resilient plastics with a weakened part 4 as the hinge between the portion 3 and a base portion 2. The latter has a foot 5 with a brass bush 7 providing a hole 6 by which the holder may be screwed to the axle journal. The portion 3 has a detent 9 to engage behind a projection 8 on the base portion 2. While the sensor holder holds the sensor firmly and securely in place, it allows quick, easy and simple replacement of the sensor if the latter becomes damaged or defective. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2308453-A (GB)
Title: Voltage detector
Inventor: MARQUOT ALEXIS
IPC: H03K17/30
Filed: 1995-12-22
Abstract: A voltage detector is provided with a voltage sensing circuit (1) having first (P1) and second (P2) FETs connected to an input voltage (V DD ). The first FET is connected as a diode and the second FET has a reference voltage (V BIAS ) applied by a bias circuit (2) to its gate electrode by biasing circuit (N3,P3). The output of the voltage detector is derived from a switching circuit (N1,N2) which compares the conductances of the first and second FETs and produces a different output depending on whether the input voltage is less than or greater than a predetermined threshold voltage (V DDT ). In order to reduce the overall temperature dependence of the voltage detector, the biasing circuit is provided to have a temperature dependence that compensates for the temperature dependence of the rest of the voltage detector circuit.
Patent GB-2313261-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and Method for Setting Transmitter Antenna Weights
Inventor: WHINNETT NICHOLAS WILLIAM
IPC: H01Q3/26
Filed: 1996-05-17
Abstract: A receiving communication device (101) receives a reference signal transmitted through at least one of the antennas (106,110,112) of an antenna array of a transmitting communication device (102). The receiving communication device determines a weight to be associated with the at least one of the antennas, and transmits weight information to the transmitting communication device. The transmitting communication device adjusts the weight associated with the at least one of the antennas according to weight information received from the receiving communication device.
Patent GB-2307519-A (GB)
Title: Diaphragm carburettor
Inventor: WALSH PATRICK
IPC: F02M17/04
Filed: 1996-06-27
Abstract: The fuel chamber 6 supplies fuel into the mixing passage via a main discharge port 7 and primary and secondary idle discharge ports 8A, 8B. To overcome lean pick up, an additional fuel discharge port 20 is provided upstream of the throttle shutter 13 between the main and idle discharge ports. The additional fuel discharge port 20 is operative to commence feeding fuel into the mixing passage 2 when the throttle shutter 13 is opened beyond a point at which substantially only the idle discharge ports 8A, 8B are supplying fuel to the mixing passage but before the throttle shutter becomes fully open.
Patent GB-2305041-A (GB)
Title: Wavelength multiplexed light transfer unit
Inventor: MIZUOCHI TAKASHI
IPC: H04B10/29
Filed: 1996-07-31
Abstract: A light transfer unit 1, for use as a branch circuit in a wavelength multiplexed light transfer system, is formed from a triangular arrangement of three optical filters 2, 3, 4. Each filter 2, 3, 4 comprises two fibre gratings 9a, 9b, acting as wavelength selective reflectors, two refractive index adjusting sections 8a, 8b, and two directional couplers 10a, 10b. In the branch circuit, the three optical filters are connected to each other such that when wavelength multiplexed light signals enter an input terminal 5a, 6a, 7a, the output terminal 5b, 6b, 7b, from which any one signal emerges is dependant on whether its wavelength matches the wavelengths at which the fibre gratings reflect. Other light transfer units comprising arrangements of one, two, and four filters are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2306264-A (GB)
Title: Method for transforming grayscale image data
Inventor: SOBOL ROBERT E
IPC: H04N1/41
Filed: 1996-08-20
Abstract: A method for transforming grayscale image data in accordance with preselected transformation factors may be accomplished by first reducing the number of gray image pixels by "punching to black" gray image pixels having intensity values less than a black punch value and by "punching to white" gray image pixels having intensity values greater than a white punch value. The resulting "punched" image data are then transformed in accordance with preselected transformation factors to create transformed image data. The transformed image data are then converted to binary image data, which may be reproduced in a conventional manner.
Patent GB-2317262-A (GB)
Title: Floor labelling system
Inventor: HUMPHRIES JEFFREY WALTER
IPC: G09F19/22
Filed: 1996-09-16
Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying labels such as bar code plates to the floors of warehouses, factories and the like. A concrete floor is drilled using a core drill to prepare a circular channel in the concrete, and the concrete lying within the perimeter of the channel is scabbled out to a depth substantially less than the depth of the channel. A floor plate is introduced into the prepared hole, the cylindrical wall 2 of the plan being received into the channel and a closed, top end of the cylinder covering the scabbled area. The top end of the cylinder includes a recess 4 for receiving a label plate. The bottom end of the cylinder is open. The label plate may be adhered into the recess. The floor plate can be fixed in place by the use of screws or bolts, with or without the use of adhesive.
Patent GB-2305357-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to drawer units
Inventor: COLE ANTHONY PETER
IPC: A47B95/04
Filed: 1996-09-23
Abstract: The invention provides that a mobile drawer pedestal unit has a top rail 4 which is located above the top drawer and in front of the top of the pedestal. It is a separate item from the top of the pedestal and top drawer front, but is connected thereto. Its faces can be flush with the pedestal top and the drawer fronts. Typically, it will be an injection moulded component, and by making it separate from the top drawer front and top of the pedestal, the rail can be provided with a finger gripping recess 12 to enable the pedestal to be moved from place to place easily, and it can also provide the housing for the pedestal lock, whereby it no longer becomes necessary to machine the top, sides or drawers to accommodate the lock or locks for the pedestal.
Patent GB-2314444-A (GB)
Title: An ornamental device
Inventor: WILLIAMS GRAHAM
IPC: A63H1/00
Filed: 1997-02-17
Abstract: An ornamental device is disclosed consisting of a transparent container 10 enclosing two or more immiscible liquids 11,12 of different density and a plurality of particles 13 to which the first less dense liquids adheres to a greater extent than the second more dense liquid. When the container 10 is agitated, the particles 13 form a temporary suspension in the first liquid 11 and then gradually collect in a mass 14 of higher density than the second liquid 12. Portions of this mass 14 fall through the second liquid 12 under their own weight but droplets of the first liquid tend to escape and rise back up to rejoin the remainder of the first liquid, thereby creating a pleasing visual effect. The device may include means to mount the container so that it may be rotated to agitate the liquids (Figure 2). The device may take the form of a spinning top (Figure 3). The liquids may be oil and water, and may be colored, The particles may be glitter, metal dust, beads or foil shapes. An agitator, such as a stone or a ball bearing, may be included in the device to assist in the dispersion of the mass and formations of the temporary suspension. The device may include lighting means for the container. The container may be provided with a diffraction grating to create lighting effects.
Patent GB-2310703-A (GB)
Title: A manually adjustable damper/spring unit
Inventor: AVON RODNEY WILLIAM
IPC: B60G15/06
Filed: 1997-02-26
Abstract: A manually adjustable damper/spring unit comprises a flow control device having a piston plate 14 which is pressed, under the action of spring 15, so as to close control ports in a piston 13. Adjustment of adjuster rod 3, via knob 1, causes linear movement of retaining nut 16 so as to vary the force exerted by spring 15 against control plate 14, thereby altering the hydraulic resistance to relative rebound movement of the piston 13. A spring loaded detent arrangement 18, 19 limits the rotary adjustment of free end 2. A reserve tube body 27 forms an outer housing having an internally mounted pressure tube 34. Surrounding the body 27 is a spring 38 which is pre-loaded by adjuster nut 35. In another embodiment a further flow control device (113, 117, fig 4) is provided to control bump and/or impact relative movement of the piston 13.
Patent GB-2318195-A (GB)
Title: Portable information processing apparatus with automatic orientation of display
Inventor: NOBUCHI ATSUNOBU
IPC: G09F9/00
Filed: 1997-04-09
Abstract: A portable information processing apparatus includes an apparatus body 1, a display device 3 pivotally attached to the body and capable of length-wise and width-wise display orientations, a detector 30 for detecting the angular position of the display device relative to the body, and means for automatically selecting one or other display orientation according to the detected position. Whether a pen or keyboard is used to input data to the apparatus, user selection of the orientation is, therefore, unnecessary. The detector may also be used to disable selectively input by the pen or keyboard and to invalidate part or all of the display.
Patent GB-2314576-A (GB)
Title: Offshore platform assembly
Inventor: WADDELL JOHN WILLIAM
IPC: E02B17/02
Filed: 1997-06-27
Abstract: A method of assembly for a gravity based offshore platform including a base slab 30 to rest on the seabed with a slender leg or legs 31 upstanding therefrom to support a deck 32 above the wave effected zone; the method comprising the steps of setting the base slab 30 on the seabed, locating a ballastable raft 36 with lifting means upstanding therefrom around the leg or between the legs 31, moving the deck 32 to a position over the lifting means, deballasting the raft 36 so that the raft rises and the lifting means raises the deck to a required position above the wave effected zone, fixing the deck to the leg or legs 31 in that position, and reballasting the raft 36 so that it descends to rest on the base slab 30, so to form a part of a gravity base for the plafform during the working life of the platform.
Patent GB-2317458-A (GB)
Title: Multi-domain liquid crystal cell
Inventor: KIM JONG HYUN
IPC: G02F1/1337
Filed: 1997-09-09
Abstract: A multi-domain liquid crystal cell is fabricated by providing a photo-alignment layer on each substrate and illuminating the substrates with uv light through a mask. The mask includes regions 33a which are fully transparent to uv light, regions 33b that are only partially transparent, and opaque regions 33c. The illumination takes place in two stages. First, the substrate is vertically exposed to polarized uv light to determine the degenerated alignment directions. Second, the substrate is exposed obliquely with polarized light having a polarization direction which is perpendicular to that of the first light to select one of the degenerate directions.