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Patent GB-2284596-A (GB)
Title: Containers
Inventor: CUNNINGHAM DOUGLAS
IPC: B65D5/10
Filed: 1994-12-12
Abstract: A container such as a lunch box is assembled from a blank e.g. of polypropylene with appropriate fold lines. The box may be opened at the base by pushing flaps 9, 10 inwardly for cleaning and has a lid closure system including an upper part 6 bearing a handle and tabs 20 which engage in slots 19 to transmit the weight of the box to the handle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299522-A (GB)
Title: A multi-stage turbo mixer
Inventor: RODRIGUEZ BARRUFET MARIA ELENA
IPC: B01F5/06
Filed: 1995-04-03
Abstract: The mixer comprises a housing having a radial inlet 2 and tangential inlets 3,4 at one end and a tangential outlet (5, Fig 1) at the other end. The multi-stage turbine includes inlet and outlet turbines 9,11 and an intermediate turbine 10. Static plates 13 and 14, having orifices (16,19, Figs 6 and 7), are disposed between the turbines.
Patent GB-2290431-A (GB)
Title: Interactive television system
Inventor: BRASSARD JEAN-PAUL
IPC: H04N7/16
Filed: 1995-06-12
Abstract: A method of providing an interactive program to a television user comprised of transmitting a television program, transmitting variables relating to possible television program choices within the vertical blanking interval of the television program, storing the variables at a user location, displaying the television program, and modifying the variables at the user location during the progress of the television program so as to change the progress of the television program. Program choice variations are controlled at the user location rather than at the head end. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2303217-A (GB)
Title: Measurement of tension in a fibre
Inventor: SHIPILOV GEORGIEVICH
IPC: G01L5/10
Filed: 1995-07-10
Abstract: Tension in a fibre 11 moving between first and second locations in a drawing process is determined by using a jet of gas from a nozzle 16 transverse to undeflected path of the fibre to cause the fibre to be displaced from this path and measuring the displacement. The nozzle is provided on a rotating annulus 17 so that jet of gas follows an orbit around the path of the fibre to cause a point on the fibre 11 passing between the first and second locations to follow, at least in part, a helical path. The speed of gas flow may be varied periodically. The fibre may be an optical glass fibre. The displacement is detected by an optical scanner 27.
Patent GB-2302907-A (GB)
Title: Container closing device
Inventor: BURGESS JOAN VALERIE
IPC: B65D33/16
Filed: 1995-07-06
Abstract: The present invention discloses flexible-walled container closing devices comprising a flexible body 10 having an aperture 20 and radial slits 30 extending outwardly from the aperture. The body has a raised outer wall 40.
Patent GB-2300416-A (GB)
Title: Carbonization process for phenolic based carbon/carbon composites
Inventor: CHIU CHANG-HSUAN
IPC: C04B35/83
Filed: 1995-07-21
Abstract: A carbonization process for phenolic based carbon/carbon composites, wherein a lower melt point metal or alloy (3) and a packing material (2) are used to form an isolated system for blocking from the circumstances, thus a pressure difference effect and a one way dispersion effect are created, air in the system and produced during the process of carbonization can be discharged outwardly, thus a pseudo vacuum state can be created, and oxygen can be prevented from attacking the carbon/carbon composites during the process of producing the composites, hence advantage of reducing carbonization time and cost of producing, elevating Of carbonization rate of the products, lowering of pollution, simplifying of operation as well as lowering of the cost of equipments, can be achieved therewith.
Patent GB-2305960-A (GB)
Title: Locking handle with mounting and locking plates
Inventor: BAKER NEIL MARTIN
IPC: E05B63/24
Filed: 1995-10-04
Abstract: A locking handle assembly 1 comprising a mounting plate 3, a handle 9 pivotally mounted on the mounting plate 3 about a first axis X-X, a locking plate 15 for attachment to a fixed frame 19 accommodating the vent 5 and a releasable latch 21 for acting between the handle 9 and the locking plate 15, wherein the handle 9 can be swung about the first axis X-X to overlay the locking plate 15 and the releasable latch 21 is movable in a direction substantially parallel to the first axis X-X to lock the handle 9 to the locking plate 15. Push button 13 may be depressed to drive latch 25 into plate 15 to open vent 5. Handle grip 11 is shown.
Patent GB-2306390-A (GB)
Title: Protective material
Inventor: WOODS RODERICK IAN
IPC: B32B5/26
Filed: 1995-10-17
Abstract: A protective material from which a protective garment, such as is used by motorcyclists, may be made comprises an outer loop knitted layer (1) of fibres having high abrasion resistance such as para-amid fibres and an inner knitted layer (2) of fibres of high tenacity such as polyester or polyethylene. An inner knitted layer (3), conveniently of a polyamide or polyester rachel knit, supports a solid and flexible impact attenuating layer (4) preferably made from one of polyurethane, polynorbornene, nitrile/PVC or synthetic rubber. Permeability through the material may be provided by through holes (13) directly through the impact attenuating material.
Patent GB-2296633-A (GB)
Title: Battery saving in pager
Inventor: MIYASHITA MAFUMI
IPC: H04B1/10
Filed: 1995-12-29
Abstract: The input signal to a pager is attenuated if the signal level is high and a synchronization signal (eg POCSAG) is not detected, it then being assumed that the signal being received is not a desired signal. The absence of an information stop signal may also be used in this determination. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2305279-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle security system
Inventor: TALBOT KEVIN TREVOR
IPC: B60R25/10
Filed: 1996-09-04
Abstract: A vehicle security system comprises a control unit 10 arranged to produce a coded electrical signal, a warning siren unit 12 arranged to receive the coded signal and, when the system is in an armed state, to produce a warning if it detects that it is not receiving the coded signal. The coded signal comprises a rolling series of codes, each comprising a plurality of bits separated by inter-bit intervals of substantially no current. The inter-bit intervals are substantially longer than the bits, and are the same length as intervals between codes. This arrangement reduces the current needed for transmitting the coded signal and for rolling it, and makes unauthorized recording of the code more difficult.
Patent GB-2306368-A (GB)
Title: Rivet setting tool
Inventor: ROESSLER ANDREAS
IPC: B25B27/00
Filed: 1996-10-30
Abstract: A tool for setting blind rivets of the tubular type having a head 4, an internally threaded portion, and a screw-type mandrel having a pulling head 10, comprises a nosepiece, and a pulling assembly mounted in the nosepiece including collet members 101 for latching behind the mandrel head 10. An abutment assembly also mounted on the nosepiece includes a plurality of abutment members 54 that move between an open position through which the pulling head 10 of the mandrel may be passed to be subsequently engaged by the pulling assembly and a closed position in which the abutment members 54 engage the rivet head 4. Further included is a rod member 103 having a cam surface for opening the collet members 101 to release the mandrel head 10 after the rivet has been set and the pulling assembly has been released.
Patent GB-2319928-A (GB)
Title: Combined beacon and traffic channel transmission
Inventor: GASS JOHN DAVID
IPC: H04B7/26
Filed: 1996-10-30
Abstract: A base transceiver station for a time distributed (TDMA) cellular radio communication has a beacon channel transmitter for transmitting both beacon and traffic signals at a beacon frequency, and a traffic channel transmitter for transmitting traffic signals only at a traffic frequency. A data signal generator 101 produces conventional beacon channel signals in time slot 0 and traffic signals in time slots 1 to 7. These signals are converted into GSM format by modulator 102 before transmission by transmitters 103,104. In the absence of true traffic signals, artificial traffic signals are generated 105 and transmitted. The beacon channel transmits in all the time slots. A control link 106 activates traffic channel transmitter 104 during time slots 1 to 7 only. In an alternative embodiment a common intermediate frequency stage (201, fig.2) and a switch (204) between control signal generator (205) and traffic channel transmitter (104) are included after the modulator. The switch is closed by the control signal generator only in time slots when traffic signals are present, so that traffic signals only are transmitted by the traffic channel transmitter.
Patent GB-2308340-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle interior trim panel assembly with collapsible fixing means
Inventor: CORNFORTH ANTHONY
IPC: B60R13/06
Filed: 1996-11-29
Abstract: A trim panel 20 is connected to a part 10 of the body structure, eg the A-pillar, of the vehicle by a collapsible fixing means 30. An energy absorbing material 16, eg polypropylene or polyurethane foam, is interposed between the trim panel 20 and the body part 10 to absorb energy in the event of a severe impact between a part of a passenger of the vehicle and the trim panel 20. In the event of such an impact in the region of the fixing means 30, the fixing means 30 collapses thereby allowing the energy absorbing material 16 to absorb some of the energy of the impact and reduce deceleration of the human body part. The fixing means may be in the form of a plastics fir tree fastener which is forced into an aperture 11 in the A-pillar 10.
Patent GB-2307782-A (GB)
Title: Structural analysis by time-of-flight mass spectrometry
Inventor: KOESTER CLAUD
IPC: H01J49/40
Filed: 1996-11-29
Abstract: For the structural analysis of large molecules such as peptides or proteins, by scanning daughter ion mass spectra in time-of-flight mass spectrometers; daughter ions from spontaneous fragmentations of ions by high-energy collisions and those from delayed fragmentations of metastable ions are differentiated by separately detecting the different kinds of ions using a short Einzel lens 4,5,6 directly behind a fragmentation zone 19. Spontaneously decomposing ions leave the fragmentation zone with smaller kinetic energy due to the loss of mass. Daughter ions from spontaneous decompositions on the one hand, and from metastable decompositions on the other, display characteristic differences which can be used for the determination of structure. Spontaneously decomposing peptide ions show, for example, simultaneously occurring fragmentations of the main and side chains on the then terminal links, while metastable decompositions display no fragmentations of the side chains. In this way, for example, it can be distinguished whether a terminal amino acid is leucine or isoleucine, even though both amino acids have the same mass. Parent ions are preferably formed by MALDI techniques from a sample support 1, the ions being fragmented by a collision gas fed at 18 in pulses at the same rate as ionisation pulses of a laser beam 8. Fragmentation by electrons or photons is also possible.
Patent GB-2309613-A (GB)
Title: Variable-length coding and decoding digital data
Inventor: JEONG JECHANG
IPC: H04N19/593
Filed: 1997-01-24
Abstract: A system for coding and decoding digital data divided into segments codes the segment data into symbols according to various scanning patterns, accumulates the various lengths of variable-length-coded data (ACCM 1 -ACCM N ), selects a scanning pattern corresponding to a minimum accumulated length (52), transmits or stores the coded data according to the selected scanning pattern, and scans the transmitted or retrieved data according to the same scanning pattern as applied to the coding process, thereby decoding the scanned data. As a result, the efficiency of data compression can be improved by means of utilising an optimised scanning pattern for coding and decoding the segment data.
Patent GB-2322618-A (GB)
Title: Reeling device
Inventor: PHILLIPPS JOHN QUENTIN
IPC: B65H75/44
Filed: 1997-02-28
Abstract: A reeling device is provided which allows an electrical lead to be wound up without the need for slip-rings. The lead 12, 13, 14 is partially wound around a spool 6 and is electrically connected to contacts in a spindle 1, about which the spool rotates. A portion 14 of the lead is sprung and is loaded as the spool 6 rotates to pay out the lead. A ratchet and pawl mechanism is provided to lock the lead in its extended configuration. The ratchet and pawl mechanism can be relased by button 11 so that the lead is retracted using the energy stored in the sprung portion (14) of the lead. In an altemative construction the lead is replaced by an optical fibre.
Patent GB-2312796-A (GB)
Title: cable enclosure
Inventor: FOSS R C
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1997-03-05
Abstract: An enclosure for cable joint or termination devices comprises a base section (10) to receive those devices, one or more cable inlet ports (25) in at least one end wall of the base section, a plurality of cable outlet ports (36) in the bottom of the base section adjacent its opposite ends, and a lid section (12) fitted onto the base section. To fit a cable (34) to an inlet port, a tube is inserted into an inlet port from inside the enclosure, a cable (34) fitted with a seal is passed through the table, the tube is withdrawn, the cable is pulled through the port and the seal is fixed to the port. The lid (12) may be hinged to the base (10). The plane dividing the base and lid may be angled with respect to the plane of the base bottom wall.
Patent GB-2324430-A (GB)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: WENG HAN-CHANG
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 1997-04-16
Abstract: Image forming apparatus includes a document-inlet (110), a multifunction opening (112) and a document-outlet (132). A first document path (11), responsive to a document fed in through the document-inlet (110), directs and drives the document from the document-inlet to an illumination/scan position (16), and, after the document is scanned, discharges the document to the multifunction opening (112). A second document path (13), responsive to a document fed in through the multifunction opening (112), directs and drives the document from the multifunction opening (112) to the illumination/scan position (16), and, after the document is scanned, discharges the document to the document outlet (132).
Patent GB-2327013-A (GB)
Title: Micro cellular handover with macro cell backup channel
Inventor: BALCK KENNETH
IPC: H04W36/04
Filed: 1997-06-30
Abstract: In a cellular communications network including microcells 14,16 and macrocells 2, a mobile device preferably communicates with an appropriate one of the microcells. When a handover from one microcell to another is imminent, a backup channel in the macrocell layer is allocated to the mobile device, for use if the handover is not successfully completed.
Patent GB-2327822-A (GB)
Title: Good quality video for the internet at very low bandwidth
Inventor: GALTON BRIAN NEIL
IPC: H04N7/46
Filed: 1997-07-25
Abstract: A method for processing digitised video material comprising the steps of: capturing 4 a video sequence having a first start-time and a first end-time to provide plurality of digitized frames; filtering 6-13 the frames according to a pre-determined filter function; decimating 6-13 the frames to reduce the frames to a predetermined horizontal and vertical frame size; and encoding 15 the filtered and decimated frames. In response to the encoding step failing to encode the data at a failure time between the first start-time and the first end-time, the video sequence is divided 20 into two or more sequences having a respective start-time and end-time. One of the sequences, having a start-time and an end-time temporally including the failure time, is selected; and the filter function for the selected sequence is re-defined 21. The capturing, filtering, decimating and encoding steps are then repeated for the selected sequence.
Patent GB-2316104-A (GB)
Title: Paperbead for protecting drywall corners
Inventor: RENNICH GEORGE
IPC: E04F13/06
Filed: 1996-02-13
Abstract: An improved corner bead (1) for drywall construction having a paper layer (4) bonded to an exterior surface of a formed metal or plastic core (3). The paper (4) is impregnated with a latex prior to affixing it to the core. The uniformly impregnated paper (4) provides improved protection against adverse abrasion at all levels of thickness of the paper (4). An improved method for covering joints formed between abutting sheets of drywall (8) involves spreading a bonding layer (10) of joint compound, embedding the paper strip (4) in that compound, applying an exterior layer (12) of compound, and sanding the exterior layer (12) so as to provide a smooth and continuous surface between the drywall sheets (8).
Patent GB-2316744-A (GB)
Title: Nuclear spectroscopy signal processing system
Inventor: JURION BRUNO
IPC: G01V5/12
Filed: 1997-08-28
Abstract: Image pulses produced when nuclear particles or gamma rays are incident on a detector are sampled at a constant frequency to produce a digital image of the pulse. The length of the pulse is determined by counting the number of consecutive valid samples in that pulse where a valid sample has an amplitude exceeding a threshold value. The pulse length is adjusted 25,26 by comparing the ratio of pulses having x consecutive valid samples eg 5 to the number having x + 1 consecutive valid samples eg 6. Also disclosed is a system to identify and reject pile-up pulses when the number of consecutive valid samples is greater than a predetermined number. The threshold for a valid sample may be set in accordance with the maximum amplitude of the samples in a pulse. Pile-up can also be determined upon comparison of the area under the valid samples with a number of predetermined pulse shapes, by comparing a predicted change of amplitude between adjacent valid samples with an actual change or if the time between the first valid sample of a pulse and the maximum value exceeds a set time. The ability to be able to determine the time of arrival of a pulse is also envisaged.
Patent GB-2321626-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to seat anchorages
Inventor: UNWIN CECIL NORMAN
IPC: B60N2/015
Filed: 1997-11-01
Abstract: An anchorage system to hold a rail (7, 7', 13, 18) to ribbed sheet metal floors (1) such as those in vehicles has a bridge (4; 4'; 14, 15; 19) securable across adjacent ribs (2). The bridge (4, 4') may be separate from the rail (7, 7') (which runs parallel to the ribs) and their mutual engagement may be by an undercut tongue (6, 10) and a complementary groove (8, 9), such as an elongated dovetail joint. Alternatively, rail (13, 18) and bridge (14, 15; 19) may be a single extrusion, the bridge being hollow but spanned by one or more strengthening webs (16, 28).
Patent GB-2320748-A (GB)
Title: Regulating the pressure in at least one wheel brake
Inventor: HECKMANN HANS
IPC: G05D16/20
Filed: 1997-12-01
Abstract: At least one wheel brake (5, Fig. 1) pressure is continuously regulated by signals I up , I down from regulator 100 in ECU (12) for a pressure increasing seat valve (3) and a pressure decreasing seat valve (4), respectively, on the basis of a predetermined characteristic 13, 13a charting the current in the coil (which determines the degree of opening of the valve) against presure difference across the seat. When P ref (resulting from brake pedal operation)- P act (actual pressure at the wheel brake) exceeds * minutes * a threshold , valve 17 or 18 closes and a signal I up0 or I down0 , derived from the characteristic in dependence on * capital Greek delta *P(3)=P ref - P sp (pressure from source (1)) or * capital Greek delta *P(4)=P ref - P(atmosphere), is continuously transmitted and summed at point 23 or 21 with a signal I upR or I downR produced by a regulator 20, 21 when switch 19 closes due to P ref - P act having a sufficient value. P ref may be modified by parameters such as wheels speeds, axle loads, and atmospheric pressure received by the ECU from sensors (14a...16a), and * capital Greek delta *P(3) may equal P act - P sp and * capital Greek delta *P(4) may equal P act .
Patent GB-2317835-A (GB)
Title: Golf shaft with bulge section
Inventor: HOFFMEYER MONTE J
IPC: A63B53/10
Filed: 1996-06-14
Abstract: A composite shaft used in the manufacture of golf clubs includes a straight shaft (2) of tapered form extending between an upper butt end (8) and a lower tip end (10). A radially outwardly protruding bulge section (4) is located on the shaft with the bulge section (4) spaced from both the tip end (10) of the shaft and the butt end (8) of the shaft. The bulge section (4) has a relatively short length compared to the length of the shaft and is located on the shaft to begin in the lower one third of the shaft length.
Patent GB-2325954-A (GB)
Title: Frame gasket which modifies the appearance of the frame
Inventor: DUTTON GARY HUGH
IPC: E06B3/62
Filed: 1998-03-30
Abstract: A frame comprises a plurality of frame members 10 which together provide a generally rectangular opening 11 for a infill 12, each of the frame members 10 comprising a body part 13 and an upstand 15, and the body part 13 having means to receive a retaining member 18 so as provide a recess 19 to receive an edge of the infill, the upstand 15 having means 24 to retain a gasket 25, 26, 27 which forms a seal between the upstand 15 and the infill 12. The upstand has a surface 30 which faces inwardly of the opening 11 and the part 27 of the gasket overlies a substantial proportion of the surface 30 such that the appearance of the frame is altered. The gasket may be formed in two parts, the second part 26 being more flexible than part 27 and overlying part 25. The two parts 25, 27 and 26 of the gasket are either coextruded or separately extruded and bonded together before fitting, which may be before mounting the infill or by press-fit with the infill in place. Also disclosed is a method of changing the appearance of an existing frame by replacing the conventional gasket with one of the invention having a overlying part 25.
Patent GB-2333019-A (GB)
Title: Triangular mesh decimation method
Inventor: SHIN KWANG-SUNG
IPC: G06T9/00
Filed: 1998-06-30
Abstract: An adaptive triangular mesh decimation method and apparatus for decimating an initial mesh having vertices and edges to provide a decimated mesh, classifies the vertices in the initial mesh into one of 4 groups and decimates the vertices of the ith group to thereby generate a jth decimated mesh, i and j being 1. If the amount of bits required to represent the jth decimated mesh is greater than a predetermined threshold and the value of i is smaller than 4, the values of i and j are increased by 1 and the vertices of the ith group in the jth decimated mesh are decimated. If the amount of bits required to represent the jth decimated mesh is greater than the predetermined threshold and the value of i is 4, the value of i is set to 1, the value of j is increased by 1 and the vertices of the ith group in the jth decimated mesh are decimated. And if the amount of the bits required to represent the jth decimated mesh is not greater than the predetermined threshold, the jth decimated mesh is finally provided.
Patent GB-2340997-A (GB)
Title: Optoelectronic integrated circuit and method of testing
Inventor: CORR WILLIAM ERIC
IPC: H01L21/66
Filed: 1998-08-26
Abstract: An integrated circuit device is described having a circuit including an optical receiver (22) for receiving all optically distributed clock or trigger signal. To enable functionality testing of the die in an electronic-only test machine, the circuit includes an input (40) for receiving an electronic simulation clock signal. A selector (42) selects whether the circuit responds to the optically derived clock signal or to the simulation signal in dependence on a test control signal (44).