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Patent GB-2464151-A (GB)
Title: Measuring gravity and magnetic gradients by detecting the displacement of a tensioned ribbon using an optical interferometer
Inventor: MCRAE WAYNE
IPC: G01R33/022
Filed: 2008-10-07
Abstract: An apparatus 1 for measuring quasi-static gravity gradients and/or magnetic field gradients comprises a flexible elongate ribbon 3 held under tension at both ends 5, 7, a sensing means 10 to detect the transverse displacement of the ribbon from an undisturbed position S due to the gravitational gradient or magnetic field gradient and output means 35 coupled to said sensing means to generate an output signal which is a function of the tensor of the gravitational gradient or magnetic field gradient. The sensing means comprises a coherent light source 11 (e.g. laser) to produce a coherent light beam 13, a beam directing means 15 to produce a sensing beam 19 from the coherent light beam and to direct the sensing beam onto the ribbon at a first sensing position 23 from a transverse direction, and detecting means 33 arranged to detect the interferometric superposition of the sensing beam reflected from the surface of the ribbon and another beam 21 and to generate said displacement signal.
Patent GB-2464309-A (GB)
Title: Insole having a resilient heel insert
Inventor: BYRNE CHARLES
IPC: A43B7/00
Filed: 2008-10-10
Abstract: An insole for the treatment of plantar fasciitis is provided, the insole comprising a heel portion 8 for extending between the heel of a subject and the inner sole of a shoe being worn by the subject; wherein the heel portion comprises a first layer 20 of a first material having a first density and a first resilience and a resilient member comprising a second layer 30 of a second material having a second density and a second resilience, the resilient member being disposed within the first layer, the first density being greater than the second density and the second resilience being greater than the first resilience. The second layer 30, or insert, may be removable. In use, the resilient member is deformed by compression from its rest condition by the load applied by the heel of the subject, the resilient member returning to its rest condition upon release of the load with sufficient force to exercise the Achilles tendon of the subject. The resilient member is preferably removable. A method of treating plantar fasciitis using a resilient member is also described.
Patent GB-2450668-A (GB)
Title: Turbine for extracting energy from a flowing fluid
Inventor: MCSHERRY DAVID
IPC: F03B13/26
Filed: 2007-05-02
Abstract: A turbine (1) for extracting energy from a flowing fluid for conversion into electricity, comprising a first rotor (3) with longitudinally extending blades (6) which is mounted for rotation about a rotor axis (A) extending transversely of the direction of fluid flow, and a second rotor (7) which is also mounted for rotation about the rotor axis. The blades (10) of the second rotor are displaced radially outwardly from the blades of the first rotor so that the blades of the first rotor rotate within the space defined by the blades of the second rotor. The second rotor rotates about the rotor axis in the opposite sense to that of the first rotor. The arrangement may be such that the sense of rotation remains the same irrespective of the direction of fluid flow. One of the rotors may rotate the stator of an electrical generator, whilst the other rotates the rotor of the generator. The turbine is preferably buoyant and is useful in tethered, submerged configurations.
Patent GB-2451215-A (GB)
Title: Drum brakes
Inventor: MONOPOLI MARCO
IPC: F16D65/54
Filed: 2007-05-17
Abstract: A drum brake has a pair of brake shoes (40) moveable radially outwardly into contact with an associated brake drum to provide a handbrake function by a cross strut (100) which acts between the brake shoes or between pivoting brake operating levers (14) which actuate the brake shoes. A handbrake lever (18) is pivoted on one brake shoe or brake operating lever (14) and contacts one end of the strut to displace the other brake shoe or brake operating lever towards the drum to apply the associated shoe against the drum and by reaction through the strut to also force the other brake shoe or brake operating lever toward the drum to apply the other shoe against the drum. The strut (100) is in two parts (101,102), one part being connected for movement with each respective brake shoe or operating lever, the strut parts having inter-engageable formations in the form of teeth (103, 104) which when engaged allow the strut (100) to transmit axial force between the shoes or operating levers. Bias means (105,106) are provided for biasing the strut parts apart to disengage the inter-engageable formations to disable the strut, the inter-engageable formations (103, 104) being engaged when the handbrake lever (18) is operated to connect the strut parts (101,102) to allow the brake to be applied and being disengaged when the handbrake lever is released so that the strut parts can disengage and move apart with the brake shoes or brake operating levers to adjust the effective length of the strut as the brake shoes wear.
Patent GB-2455643-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for separating mixed materials of different flowability
Inventor: SCHAARSCHMIDT MARTIN
IPC: A23L19/00
Filed: 2008-12-11
Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus (10, Fig 1) for separating mixed materials of different flowability. The apparatus comprising a housing having side walls, a rotationally driven hollow drum 11 with perforated peripheral surface 12, an endless compression belt (14, Fig 1) which can be pressed against the peripheral surface from the outside, wrapping round part of the circumference of the hollow drum 11, a product feed wedge (18, Fig 1), a supporting apparatus having at least one supporting element (15, Fig 1) which is arranged on the side of the compression belt opposite the hollow drum, and a stripping means 19 for stripping the compressed material from the hollow drum. The stripping means can be actively controlled such that during the separating process the stripping means is movable back and forth between a working position (Figs 2 and 3), for producing a functional connection with the peripheral surface of the hollow drum in the direction of the hollow drum, and a standby position (Fig 4) for obtaining a distance between stripping means and hollow drum.
Patent GB-2466222-A (GB)
Title: Managing the resources processing data transfers in input/output chips using a FIFO memory to hold the details of resources that have been timed out.
Inventor: KLEIN MATTHIAS
IPC: G06F9/50
Filed: 2008-12-15
Abstract: Disclosed is a system for managing the resources processing data transfers in a transaction based input/output chip of a computer system. A transaction is associated with a resource, 18 the transaction being a request packet and a corresponding response packet. The system has a transaction table 10 for holding one resource for each request until the resource has been processed and a resource management 12 for storing information about the availability of these resources, which has become available before a predetermined timeout period T has been exceeded. The system has a FIFO (first-in first-out) memory 14 for buffering those resources, which have been made available after the first timeout period and a second timeout period Q have been exceeded. An arbiter circuit 16 for chooses the resources from the resource management, if any are available, if not the timed-out resources from the FIFO memory are used.
Patent GB-2453080-A (GB)
Title: Efficient and accurate alignment of stereoscopic displays
Inventor: HEWITT GORDON S
IPC: H04N13/00
Filed: 2007-06-11
Abstract: A method and apparatus for aligning the left and right image channels a two-image stereoscopic three-dimensional display is disclosed. A left and right alignment pattern may be shown on the left-eye and right-eye image screens, respectively, pre-computed for any given input imaging geometry. The operator (or alignment processor) then adjust the displays to converge the superimposed left-eye and right-eye test patterns by moving the display elements using display positioning equipment and/or software. This ensures that the stereoscopic three-dimensional display geometry matches the three-dimensional camera imaging geometry in order to produce a minimally-distorted visual depth perception of objects in space. Such precision alignment can be essential for efficient and safe telerobotic operation applications, as in the case of remote aerial refueling operations, for example.
Patent GB-2460312-A (GB)
Title: Focus error correction in a digital camera
Inventor: YOUNG-GEOL KIM
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2009-03-19
Abstract: A focus error adjustment apparatus corrects a focus error when a digital image processing device is manufactured or used. The focus error adjusting apparatus includes a photographic unit that captures a first image whose autofocus is set using a phase detection system 505 and photographing a plurality of images 513, 517 that bracket the first image by controlling a focus motor 511, 515. A digital signal processing unit detects image with the maximum high frequency component 519, which if a peak sets this as the focus and if not repeats the process using the image with the maximum hf content as the first image. The processing unit adjusts movement of the focus motor by as little as a variation value of the focus motor with respect to the image having the greatest evaluation value of the hf component. The apparatus may store error values for different focal distances and lenses in a DSLR camera. An independent claim is included for selecting the image with the highest hf content when two images are captured.
Patent GB-2456283-A (GB)
Title: Ion transfer arrangement
Inventor: MAKAROV ALEXANDER
IPC: H01J49/06
Filed: 2007-11-07
Abstract: An ion transfer arrangement for transporting ions between higher and lower pressure regions of a mass spectrometer includes an electrode assembly (120) with a first plurality of ring electrodes (205) arranged in alternating relation with a second plurality of ring electrodes (210). The first plurality of ring electrodes (205) are narrower than the second plurality of ring electrodes (210) in a longitudinal direction, but the first plurality of ring electrodes have a relatively high magnitude voltage of a first polarity applied to them whereas the second plurality of ring electrodes (210) have a relatively lower magnitude voltage applied to them, of opposing polarity to that applied to the first set of ring electrodes (205). In this manner, ions passing through the ion transfer arrangement experience spatially alternating asymmetric electric fields that tend to focus ions away from the inner surface of the channel wall and towards the channel plane or axis of symmetry.
Patent GB-2457202-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus and a method of enhancing a person's sporting abiity
Inventor: FOSTER LESLIE
IPC: A61M21/02
Filed: 2007-12-18
Abstract: This invention relates a recording that is adapted to enhance a person's ability to perform one or more surfing related tasks. The recording includes a hypnotic stage that includes words and/or phrases and/or sentences and/or sounds that are adapted to induce a state of hypnosis in the person when the while the person is listening to the recording. The hypnotic stage of the recording is followed by one or more behavioural messages or instructions that are directed at surfing related actions the person must execute, namely to "paddle hard", "charge in" and "stay focused", if the surfing related task or tasks are to be performed or performed with a predetermined level of expertise, and wherein each of said behavioural messages or instructions is subsequently reinforced at least once during the recording by at least one affirmation concerning the person's ability to execute said messages or instructions.
Patent GB-2460353-A (GB)
Title: A high oil pressure lateral action rotor seal
Inventor: RODRIGUES MICHAEL VICTOR
IPC: F16J15/16
Filed: 2009-08-27
Abstract: A high oil pressure lateral action rotor seal comprises at least one bonded washer 1, and a disc 2 characteristically embodying a minimal free running peripheral bore/rotor clearance gap 2g. The bonded washer 1 comprises a metal washer with an internally bonded trapezoidal elastomeric ring 1r, the hypotenuse side of which laterally shuts off the clearance gap 2g to provide high oil pressure sealing when concentrically installed on matching rotor, 3, in matching housing, 4, with housing closure means, 4c; optionally the disc is provided to be a housing closure means. Also, the seal may include several bonded washers 1.
Patent GB-2475669-A (GB)
Title: Animated progress indicator for smartphone
Inventor: TITTEL JORG
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2009-09-03
Abstract: Display of animation sequences for smart phone, which may have a touch screen display and a processing unit. The processing unit executes a series of predetermined animation sequences, the animation sequences each comprising a set of images, displayed on the device, the animation sequence forming a part of said series of predetermined animation sequences. The processing unit executes an animation sequence in the series as a current animation sequence, and subsequently executes a different animation sequence. The device may respond to touchscreen input of a first characteristic, to execute an animation sequence following the current animation sequence in said series; and displays a progress indicator, which may be a thumbnail, on the display to indicate a current state of progress within said series of predetermined animation sequences. A text caption may be superimposed on an image, on the basis of rendering instructions.
Patent GB-2467195-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic document holder
Inventor: BADGER DONALD ROBERT
IPC: B60R13/10
Filed: 2009-09-18
Abstract: A document holder comprises at least two annular elements 3, 6 (figure 1) or 3, 8 (figure 2), one (3) of which is provided with retaining means for establishing retention of the one element on a surface and in which the two elements 3, 6 (figure 1) or 3, 8 (figure 2) are designed to be held together magnetically. In a preferred embodiment, one element is formed of a ferromagnetic material whilst the other contains permanently magnetized particles.
Patent GB-2465274-A (GB)
Title: Laser distance measuring device with optical filter for laser emitting part
Inventor: YANG DEZHONG
IPC: G01S17/32
Filed: 2009-11-11
Abstract: The laser distance measuring device of the present invention comprises an emitting part 20 having a laser generating device with a first spectral bandwidth arranged on an emitting optical path and a collimating lens. The emitting part also has an optical filter 23 with a second spectral bandwidth which is less than the first spectral bandwidth. The laser distance measuring device also has a receiving part having a photoelectric receiving and conversion device to receive the measuring beam reflected by the object to be measured and convert it into an electric signal. Using the optical filter, most of the unneeded portions of the laser beam emitted from the laser are filtered out so that the useful proportion of the measuring beam of the laser beam is improved within the limits of the maximum emitting power allowed by safety regulations, and the power of the useful portions of the measuring beam emitted from the optical filter can be close to or equal to the upper limit of the max power allowed by safety regulations. The ranging capability of the laser distance measuring device under a bright or strong light environment is enhanced.
Patent GB-308840-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the method of and apparatus for taking pictures by cinematography
IPC: G03B35/00
Filed: 1929-03-28
Abstract: 308,840. Le Barbier, E. P. L. March 30, 1928, [Convention date]. Stereoscopic kinematography.-Images are taken so that bands thereof spaced from the centre, symmetrically placed, and parallel to the direction of feed, are in focus for a particular plane of the subject, the other parts of the image being out of focus for that plane; the invention may be carried into effect by curving the film in the gate, or by using lenses having different curvatures in horizontal and vertical sections; the lens may be moved to and from the film when producing the images, As shown, the gate may comprise a rear resilient plate 6 and upper and lower front resilient plates 8, 9, shaped to form the exposure aperture, the plates being mounted at their edges on vertical shafts 7 carried by slide members 7', 7<2> which may be moved to or from one another by means of a rod 13 having oppositely out threads and rotated through worm gearing 13<1> by a knob on a shaft 14<1>. A plate 15 having an opening engaged by a lever 16 may be secured to the plate 8. Movement of the slide members towards one another causes curvature of the resilient plates in one direction when the lever is in the position shown, and in the other direction when the upper end of the lever is moved into the position 16<2>. The curvature may be varied periodically during exposure, and, for this purpose, the screwed rod 13 may be omitted, being replaced by pawl and ratchet mechanism through which the curvature of the plate 6 is periodically varied by the feed mechanism. The objective may comprise lenses having different curvature from the centre to the periphery along a band in the horizontal direction and constant curvature in the vertical direction. The lenses may alternatively have different curvature from the centre to the periphery and be used with an aperture in the form of a very narrow slot, or may be cylindrical with a varying curvature.
Patent GB-1002626-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the operation of drying and grinding plant
IPC: B02C21/00
Filed: 1964-03-10
Abstract: 1,002,626. Grinding cement ; grinding coal. METALLGESELLSCHAFT A.G. March 10, 1964 [March 12, 1963], No. 10100/64. Heading B2A [Also in Division G3] A combined drying and milling plant for coal, cement and cement clinker comprises a mill 1, a feeder 2 for charging the stock into the mill from a conveyer belt 3, upon which it has been moistened by a device 4. The milled product emerges from an opening 7. Hot gas for drying the material in the mill is fed through an opening 5 and leaves through an opening 8 connected by a flue 12 to an electrostatic precipitator 13, from which it is removed to a stack 18 by a suction fan 17. The temperature and dew-point of the gas leaving the precipitator are measured at points 14, 15 respectively, and their difference determined in a regulator 19. Relays 21, 22 are actuated in dependence on the temperature difference to position a valve 10, by a servomotor 9, to vary the flow to nozzles 6 spraying water into the mill. It is stated that a gate valve 26 in the gas duct 12 can be controlled by a regulator 25 in dependence on the temperature difference. To increase atomization, air is injected into the water supply to the sprayers 6 through branch pipes 11.
Patent GB-103609-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Protective Relays for Electric Circuits.
IPC: H02H3/00
Filed: 1916-07-18
Abstract: 103,609. British Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Go., (Westing- house Electric & Manufacturing Co.). July 18, 1916. Protective arrangements; electro-magnetic switches.-For protecting electric circuits and apparatus against short circuits, a reverse-power relay of the dynamometer type is employed, having current and potential coils, the value of the resistance and the inductance in the potential coil being so adjusted that the current in the potential coil lags behind the voltage across the coil by an angle equal to the angle by which the short-circuit current lags behind the potential in the circuit to which the relay is connected. The theoretical considerations underlying the invention are set out in the Specification. In the form shown in Fig. 1 applied to a single-phase transmission line, the circuit-breaker 2 has its trip coil 3 controlled jointly by an ordinary time-limit overload relay 5, and by the reverse-power relay having fixed current coils 6, between which the freely-movable uncontrolled potential coil 7 is mounted on. a shaft 8, to which is fastened the movable contact 9 consisting of a thin iron sheet plated with platinum and dipping into a mercury cup 16. With reverse energy flow, the contact 9 moves against the platinum-plated end of a core 10, which serves also as a contact, and if at the same time the contacts 11, 12 of the overload relay are closed, the tripping-circuit is completed, passing through the winding 15 on the core 10 so as to reinforce the contact pressure between the contacts 9, 10. The relay is provided with a second contact-core 19 with a high-resistance winding 20 in the tripping- circuit. When the contacts 9, 19 are in engagement and the overload relay closed, the contacts are maintained together by the coil 20, so as to prevent the relay from operating incorrectly due to heavy surges when it is used to disconnect sections of a line which compose a complicated network. The circuit-breaker, however, is not tripped because of the high resistance of the winding 20. In a modified construction, the shaft 8, Figs. 2 and 3, carries a transverse arm 21, from which a platinum-plated thin steel plate 22 is suspended by wires 23 in front of a pair of horse-shoe magnets 24, 25. When the plate is brought into contact with the platinum-plated poles of the magnet 24, 25, the local tripping-circuit is completed through the contact-maintaining coils 28, 29. The magnet 33, 34 serves the same purpose as the magnet 19 in the form shown in Fig. 1. The resistance 31 and the impedance 32, connected in series with the potential coil of the reverse-power relay and producing the phase-relationships referred to, are shown in Fig. 1. The application to a three-phase circuit is described also. Instead of causing the current in the potential coil to lag, the current in the current coil may be caused to lead with the same result.
Patent GB-794962-A (GB)
Title: Driving mirror for motor vehicles, in particular for tractors
IPC: B60R1/078
Filed: 1956-04-03
Abstract: 794,962. Rear-viewing mirrors. ZINGG, H. April 3, 1956 [April 1, 1955], No. 10121/56. Class 103(2) A driving mirror 7 for a tractor &c. is adjustably mounted at 10 on a vertical pin 8 which engages a bearing bush 9 fixed near the outer end of a jib 5, a depending extension 4 at the inner end of the jib engaging bearings 2, 3 on a bracket 1 secured to the side of the bonnet H of the tractor and being provided with a handle 16 by which the position of the jib may be changed from the tractor seat S. The lower end of the pin 8 has a rearwardly-extending part 11 which is connected to a control rod 13 pivoted in a further bearing 15, offset from the bearings 2, 3, on the bracket 1 so that the pin 8 and mirror 7 rotate as the jib is swung. The bearing 2 is provided with a cage 6 locating a spring-pressed ball adapted to engage one of a ring of angularly-spaced notches on the jib extension 4, and the outer end of the jib is preferably equipped with a flash light 17.