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Patent GB-2457139-A (GB)
Title: Water heating system comprising an immersion heater supplied with electricity generated by an alternative energy source
Inventor: MACPHAIL NICHOLAS JULIAN JAN FRANCIS
IPC: F24D18/00
Filed: 2008-02-11
Abstract: A water heating system comprises a thermal storage boiler or a thermal storage combination boiler, where the boiler's thermal store 1 acts as a heat source and thermal reservoir for providing heated water to a heating system and/or to provide domestic hot water. Preferably, the thermal store comprises at least one mains powered immersion heater or boiler. The thermal store may also incorporate other heat sources such as a heat pump, a combined heat and power (CHP) unit, or solar panels. One or more immersion heaters 2, 3 are provided within the thermal store, or within a hydraulic circuit connected to the thermal store, which are supplied with electricity by a micro generation alternative energy source. Preferably, the alternative energy source includes a wind turbine 4 and/or a photovoltaic (PV) array 5.
Patent GB-2458633-A (GB)
Title: Signalling sheet assembly
Inventor: REEVELL TONY
IPC: A63F9/00
Filed: 2008-03-25
Abstract: A signalling sheet assembly such as a greetings card 10 has a holder 14 that holds a conducting form such as a wire form 22 and a conducting element such as a wire element 24. The holder 14 is attached to a front part 18 of the greetings card. A holdable conductor 26 is also provided which can be held in the hand and moved. The holdable conductor 26 has a wire loop 30 that can be placed around the wire form to trace the path of the wire form. If the wire loop makes contact with the wire form, an electrical circuit is completed and a sound or light signal is produced. If the wire loop makes contact with the wire element 24 ie when the form has been successfully traversed, an electrical circuit is completed and a different signal is produced.
Patent GB-2445713-A (GB)
Title: Arbitration method reordering transactions to ensure quality of service specified by each transaction
Inventor: ALDWORTH PETER JAMES
IPC: G06F13/16
Filed: 2005-12-22
Abstract: A method, an interconnect and a system for processing data is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: a) receiving a request to perform a data transaction between a master unit and a slave unit, b) receiving an indication of a quality of service requirement associated with said data transaction; c) determining an interconnect quality of service level achievable when transmitting said data transaction over the interconnect logic having regard to any other pending data transactions which are yet to be issued; d) determining a slave quality of service level achievable when responding to said data transaction once received by said slave unit from said interconnect logic; and e) determining whether the combined interconnect quality of service level and the slave quality of service level fails to achieve the quality of service requirement and, if so, reordering the pending data transactions to enable the quality of service requirement of each data transaction to be achieved. Hence, arbitration between data transactions occurs prior to those transactions being provided to the interconnect. It will be appreciated that this enables pending data transactions to be systematically reordered and the quality of service level for each of these reordered data transactions to be accurately calculated to ensure that the quality of service requirement for each of those data transactions is achieved. Accordingly, this enables all aspects of quality of service to be budgeted together and true end-to-end quality of service may be determined for each data transaction.
Patent GB-2447373-A (GB)
Title: Compounds inducing differentiation of myoblasts or muscle fibers into neuron cells,pharmaceutical composition including said compounds.
Inventor: LEE MYUNG-RYUL
IPC: A61K31/4164
Filed: 2005-12-29
Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds inducing differentiation of myoblasts or muscle fibers into neuron cells, pharmaceutical composition including said compounds, a method for inducing neuron differentiation and a screening method for identifying additional compounds useful for inducing neuron differentiation. More specifically, it relates to compounds that induce neuron differentiation from myoblasts or muscle fibers, all pharmaceutically acceptable isomers, salts, hydrates, solvates and prodrugs thereof, the method of inducing differentiation of myoblasts or muscle fibers into neuron cells by treating myoblasts and muscle fibers with a compound of the present invention, whereby the myoblasts and muscle fibers differentiate into neuron cells, and the screening method for identifying additional compounds useful for inducing neuron differentiation, wherein myoblasts and muscle fibers are incubated with a compound of the present invention and detected.
Patent GB-2460260-A (GB)
Title: Image sensor
Inventor: COLLINS STEVE
IPC: H04N3/15
Filed: 2008-05-22
Abstract: An image sensor for an electronic imaging device includes an array of pixels. Each pixel 2 includes a switch device 8 having a first switch input, a second switch input and a switch output that is switchably connected to the first switch input. The switch device is constructed and arranged to disconnect the switch output from the first switch input at a capture moment determined by comparing a first input signal VIn1and a second input signal VIn2. A photosensor device 4 has an output that is connected to the first switch input. A first signal generator 18 generates alternately a reference signal Vrefand a reference calibration signal Vrefcal and is connected to the second switch input. A second signal generator 30 generates photosensor reference signal Vpcal, and is switchably connected to the first switch input. A readout circuit 10 is arranged to capture the switch output signal Vs at the capture moment and provide an output signal that is related to the switch output signal. The transistor switch 8 isolates the readout circuit from the photodiode at a time dependent on the photocurrent and reference voltage Vref. The second signal generator may also generate a variable reset voltage Vres, which may be used to reduce fixed pattern noise (FPN). Vrefmay be a variable signal which allows different mapping algorithms to be applied to the sensor and so give a higher dynamic range. Common MOSFET switches may be used to reduce the transistor count to allow reduced pixel size and increased sensitivity.
Patent GB-2447002-A (GB)
Title: System for parking management
Inventor: KHIM KEY-CHANG
IPC: G08G1/065
Filed: 2006-09-08
Abstract: The present invention relates to a parking management system. The parking management system includes an entrance camera (100) installed at an entrance of a parking lot to photograph vehicle that enters the parking lot. An exit camera (200) photographs a vehicle that departs from the parking lot. A plurality of region cameras (300) is installed in respective parking regions to photograph a vehicle. A management server (400) includes a vehicle license number recognition unit (450) for recognizing a vehicle license number, a registration unit (460) for registering a last photographed parking region on a parking ticket, a control unit (440) for calculating a number of available parking spaces for each parking region, and determining a total number of available parking spaces, and a guidance unit (470) for guiding an entering vehicle to an available parking region. A display unit (350) displays the number of available parking spaces.
Patent GB-2451933-A (GB)
Title: A method for operating an emission control system in a vehicle exhaust system.
Inventor: PATTERSON JOSEPH
IPC: B01D53/92
Filed: 2008-07-30
Abstract: The method comprises determining an amount of reductant required (for example urea/ammonia) 310, and applying the reductant in a mist to treat the exhaust gasses in a vehicle emission control system. In an embodiment the mist is formed by applying an ultrasonic field to a reductant-containing liquid 320 in a reductant storage device to generate a mist of the reductant-containing liquid; and selectively introducing an amount of mist to the exhaust system 330 coupled to the emission control system based upon an engine operating condition. The mist may be introduced with a low pressure gas stream. The ultrasonic film may be applied without direct heating. The amount of mist injected may be based on the ammonia or urea content. The ultrasonic device may be a harshly resonant diaphragm. The ultra sonic device may further be partially submerged in the stored reductant containing liquid.
Patent GB-2448648-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus for the separation of particles contained in exhaust gases of internal combustion engines
Inventor: SABERI SHADI
IPC: F01N13/02
Filed: 2008-08-20
Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the separation of particles contained in exhaust gases of internal combustion engines in which the exhaust gas flow is guided through a filter medium in which particles can be absorbed and held back (4). The invention should improve the separation in a cost effective manner with respect to conventional particle filters. In accordance with the invention, the filter medium (1) is made from a metal open-pore foam having at least two layers (11, 12, 13) which each have a thickness, porosity and/or pore size in the flowthrough direction through the filter medium which differ from one another.
Patent GB-2468304-A (GB)
Title: Video image processing method that smooths the jagged diagonal edges created by epsilon filtering
Inventor: JONES GRAHAM
IPC: G06T5/00
Filed: 2009-03-03
Abstract: A method of processing a video image 500 to determine an edge strength 502 in a region associated with each image pixel to be processed, wherein for large edge strengths, the pixel is filtered by an edge-preserving filter 504, which may be an epsilon filter, and for small edge strengths, the edge-preserving filter is replaced by a smoothing filter 505,506. For very large edge strengths 502, which may be within 20% of a maximum value, no filter may be applied. A directional filter may also be applied when the edge-preserving filter 504 is applied. The smoothing filter may comprise an image blurring filter 505 followed by an image sharpening filter 506. A weighted combination of edge-preserving filter 504 and smoothing filter 505,506 may be applied in a blend mode 507 according to the size of the edge strength 502. The edge strength 502 may be determined as a function of variations in pixel values in a plurality of pixel blocks, which may be in a single pixel row, in the neighbourhood of the pixel to be processed. Epsilon edge-preserving filtering performs well at reducing mosquito noise near edges, but it tends to create jaggy edges, especially on diagonal edges. This image processing method is used to improve the quality of digital TV and video by smoothing the jagged diagonal edges.
Patent GB-2458374-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for the transfer of substances into a detection instrument
Inventor: DOERING HANS-RUEDIGER
IPC: G01N1/02
Filed: 2009-03-16
Abstract: Methods and devices for the transfer of target substances 1 (drugs, pollutants, explosives and chemical warfare agents) from a surface to be investigated 3 into a detection instrument (7), the target substances 1 being present in the form of condensations of vapours on the surface itself or on particles 2 adhering to it, or as particles sticking to the surface. The invention presents a method comprising the steps of (a) moving a sampler 10, either a fibre bundle 12 or a fastener strip with fibre loops, over the surface to be investigated 3, thus transferring substances 1 to the fibres or the fibre loops 12 or embedding particles into the gaps between the fibres or the fibre loops 12 of the sampler 10, (b) transferring the sampler 10 into a desorption device (4) of the detection device (7), and (c) heating the sampler 10 to evaporate the target substances 1. The target substances 1 may be evaporated at a temperature above 100 {C in a stream of hot gas. Detection may be by ion mobility spectrometry. The fiber bundle may comprise elastic fibres with a density of greater than 50 fibres per square millimeter, and a length of more than 0.5 mm.
Patent GB-2468913-A (GB)
Title: Fully Hydraulic Edger for Plate Mills
Inventor: CLARK MICHAEL TREVOR
IPC: B21B31/18
Filed: 2009-03-27
Abstract: A fully hydraulic edging system suitable for use in wide plate mills is disclosed. The need for electro-mechanical screws to effect large movements of the side rollers is avoided by employing a pull-back hydraulic cylinder 10 for this purpose. The main hydraulic cylinders 12 are switched to a non-operational mode during large movements thus avoiding the need for large volumes of hydraulic fluid to be transferred under high pressure.
Patent GB-2470599-A (GB)
Title: Charged particle analysers and methods of separating charged particles
Inventor: MAKAROV ALEXANDER ALEKSEEVICH
IPC: H01J49/06
Filed: 2009-05-29
Abstract: A method of separating charged particles is described including the provision of an analyser 10 comprising two opposing mirrors 40, 50 wherein each mirror comprises inner 20 and outer 30 field-defining electrode systems elongated along an axis z. The outer system 30 surrounding the inner system 20 and defining there between an analyser volume 60. The mirrors 40, 50 create an electric field within the analyser volume 60 comprising opposing electric fields along z wherein the strength along z The electric field is at a minimum at a plane z=0. A beam of charged particles (120, Fig. 3a) are caused to fly through the analyser 10, orbiting around the z axis within the analyser volume 60 and reflecting from one mirror to the other at least once. This defines a maximum turning point within each mirror where the electric field strength X along z is at its maximum. The absolute electric field strength along z is less than IXI/2 for not more than 2/3 of the distance along z between the plane z=0 and the maximum turning point in each mirror. The charged particles are separated according to their flight times and at least some, having a plurality of m/z, are ejected from the analyser or detected. The ejecting or detecting being performed after particles have undergone the same number of orbits around the z axis.
Patent GB-2461631-A (GB)
Title: A latch device in a vehicle
Inventor: KAMATA KIYOHIKO
IPC: B60N2/015
Filed: 2009-07-03
Abstract: A latch device comprises a latch plate 5 mounted on pivot 9 for movement between a disengaged position in which it is disengaged from a striker 3 to an engaged position in which the latch engages the striker; a torsion spring 10 biases the latch to the disengaged position. A locking plate 6 is pivotally mounted on shaft 11 for engaging the latch plate to retain the latch plate in a engaged position. In a first aspect the latch plate is a bifurcate latch and a second torsion spring 12 biases a cam plate 7 into engagement with the latch plate 5 to further pivot the latch plate to an overrunning position beyond the engagement position with the lock plate to eliminate rattling noise. The lock plate is biased into the locking position by spring 10. Preferably cam portion 71 of the cam plate 7 comes into contact with the latch plate prior to or simultaneously with the locking plate 6 and retraction of the locking plate 6 retracts the cam plate by engaging protrusion 73. In a second aspect the latch plate 5 includes a limiting protrusion 57 which contacts portion 63 of the locking plate to prevent the locking plate from rotating toward the latch plate until the latch plate has been rotated toward the engaged position at which point the limiting protrusion 57 is disengaged from the locking plate allowing the locking plate to rotate into engagement with the latch plate.
Patent GB-2461403-A (GB)
Title: Barbecue with folding A frame arrangement
Inventor: GAZE MARTIN ROBERT
IPC: A47J37/07
Filed: 2009-07-03
Abstract: A portable barbecue with an A-frame form adapted to stand upright on a supporting surface. Front 2 and rear 1 panels are coupled together at or adjacent their first ends 3 and 4 so that respective second ends 5 and 6 may stand on the supporting surface at positions spaced from each other. A basket 10 adapted to support heating elements selected from solid fuel, gas burners and electric elements is supported between the panels at a first height. A grill 18 is supported in use at least by the rear panel 1 at a second height above the first height. The panels 1 and 2 may be hingedly coupled, there may be an opening 7 in the front panel 2 to access the food, the basket 10 may rest on a cross piece 9 and have a section that is wider than the opening for it, there may be an ash tray and fire box arrangement and the second height may be chosen from a plurality of heights.
Patent GB-2460583-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle masking cover
Inventor: BUSH STEVEN DEREK
IPC: B05B5/14
Filed: 2007-09-05
Abstract: A vehicle masking cover (10) for protecting external areas of a vehicle (100) from overspray during a refinishing process, comprising a plurality of panel sections (20), each panel section being provided with a fastening means (96, 98) which detachably interconnects with the fastening means (96, 98) of an adjacent panel section to form a sealed seam. The arrangement is such that a portion of a panel section (20) is folded back from the vehicle masking cover (10) to expose an external area of the vehicle (100) to be refinished while the external area of the vehicle (100) underneath the interconnected panel sections (20) of the vehicle masking cover (10) is protected from overspray, the folded panel section (20) remaining attached to the vehicle masking cover (10) at a portion of the folded panel section (20).
Patent GB-689009-A (GB)
Title: Parachute pack
IPC: B64D17/52
Filed: 1951-04-30
Abstract: 689,009. Parachutes. FRIEDER, L. P. April 30, 1951. [March 9, 1951] No. 10021/51. Class 4. In a parachute pack, a folded parachute, its shroud lines, and a load support attached to said lines, are housed within a container closed by a sealed cover, and a static cord, attached at one end to the parachute by a rupturable connection extends around the cover adjacent the cover periphery and then transversely and externally of the cover, a bight thereof re-entering the container through the cover and being connected to a rupturable holder retaining the parachute in position, leaving the opposite end of the cord ready for attachment to any suitable anchorage on an aircraft the container having external connections for securing it to a load and the load support being partially withdrawable through a side of the container for direct connection to the load. The pack comprises a container 20 having a false bottom 54. External and internal straps 24 and 34, 36, 38, 40 are attached to the walls of the container the straps 24 carrying tapes 22 attached to the load 100 and interconnected by a further retaining tape 102. The straps 34 and 40, 36 and 38 are respectively interconnected by frangible cords 42, 44 in turn attached to a static line 52 by straps 46, 48 and a loop 50. Shroud lines 58 of the parachute 68 are releasably secured in tape pockets 56 attached to the bottom 54 and the parachute is folded with its hem surrounded by a frangible cord 70 and retained within the container 20 by the straps 46, 48. The shroud lines are divided iuto two groups attached to straps 64, each of which carries at its other end a load attaching shackle 32, so positioned within the container that it may be withdrawn for use through a normally sealed opening 28. The crown of the parachute carries an anchorage 72 connected to one end of the static line of which the other end 90 is attached to a part 104 of the aircraft. The line passes through the upper edge of the box and is taped to the outer edge of the lid 76 and is then looped inside the lid through an aperture 84. In operation, when the combined load and container are dropped the static line 52 is drawn through the aperture 84 to release the lid 76 and break the connections 42, 44. It then draws out the parachute 68 and the shroud lines 58. The line 70 is broken as the parachute commences to open and the straps 64 break through the container 20 above the apertures 28 so that the load is suspended directly by the parachute.
Patent GB-418353-A (GB)
Title: Cloth or fabric laying or piling machine
IPC: A41H43/00
Filed: 1934-04-04
Abstract: 418,353. Folding fabrics ; rollers. CHATWIN, J., 253, Gray's Inn Road, London. -(Durkoppwerke Akt.-Ges. ; 2, Nikolaus- Durkoppstrasse, Bielefeld, Germany.) April 4, 1934, No. 10181. [Class 42 (ii).] Cuttling and folding transversely.-In a fabric piling machine the fabric carriage 2 is pulled to and fro over the table 4 by means of a handle 17 which is connected with the pivoted fabric laying and tensioning means 5 which is thereby tipped over at the end of each traverse of the carriage 2. The table 4 is gradually lowered by means of levers 29, 30 and cams 27, 28 on a shaft 26 operated by variable link and ratchet mechanism 19 and the carriage 2. The tensioning rollers 6-10 and 11<1>, 11<11> may be covered with cloth wound up in the form of a helix.
Patent GB-1333331-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for separating dust or other impurities from gaseous fluids
IPC: B01D46/04
Filed: 1971-04-20
Abstract: 1333331 Gas filter PRAT DANIEL POELMAN 20 April 1971 [20 April 1970] 10207/71 Heading BIT Outflow filter bags or sleeves 13 located in a filter housing between lower inlet 11 and upper outlet 12 are cleaned by at least one reverse flow pulse of gas created by raising valve 17 to release pressurised gas from reservoir 16, the gas expanding through nozzle 18 and passing downwards through pipe 19 which acts as an inductor, drawing additional gas back through outlet 12. The sleeves are cleaned by combined reverse flow and shaking induced by the gas pulse(s), without any need to cut off the housing from the supply of unfiltered gas or from the filtered gas extraction fan. Sleeves 13 are arranged around a central space 25, their lower open ends being secured to partition 20 (Fig. 4, not shown) and their upper ends to support frame 31 (Figs. 6, 7, not shown). Nozzle 18 and/or pipe 19 may be formed as venturi nozzles (Figs. 8, 9, not shown). The valve 17 comprises a flexible ball raised by jack 27 or by a diaphragm (Fig. 10, not shown), and may be repeatedly opened and closed under control of a high speed time switch. The cleaning cycle may be initiated by a timer or pressure switch. Fig. 11 (not shown) illustrates a flexible pipe 19 whose lower end is oscillated by means (35) to spread the emerging gas jet over the whole cross-section of the housing. Heavy dust entering an inlet 11 falls directly into hopper 14 and. thence into removable bin 33.