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Patent GB-2436296-A (GB)
Title: Connecting means for connecting parts of a ball or like hitting appliance
Inventor: TSENG YI SHENG
IPC: A63B49/02
Filed: 2006-03-24
Abstract: Connecting means for connecting parts of a ball or like hitting appliance, comprises two parts 18A, 18B to be connected having ends 20, the two ends 20 defining a gap 19 therebetween; tube means 22 having a bore means 23A, 23B therein to receive the ends 20 of the parts 18A, 18B to be connected while bridging the gap 19 between them and means for adhering the tube means 22 to the two parts 18a, 18B to be connected. The invention also includes methods of making the connecting means.
Patent GB-2437496-A (GB)
Title: A laser shaping arrangement
Inventor: ANDERSON BEN
IPC: B23K26/06
Filed: 2006-04-28
Abstract: Shaping using laser beams (2) is known and has previously incorporated use of a mask with beam shaping aperture. Such apertures mean that parts of the beam (2) are shaded and therefore there is power loss with respect to shaping function. By use of an optical pathway which generates a projected shaping image the whole of the beam power is utilised for shaping.
Patent GB-2426268-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic control and actuation system for downhole tools
Inventor: SCHULTZ ROGER LYNN
IPC: E21B23/04
Filed: 2004-05-13
Abstract: A hydraulic control and actuation system 10 includes an internal chamber serving as a low pressure region 18 and a well annulus serving as an energy source 16. A valve assembly 12 provides selective fluid communication between alternating opposite sides 22,24 of a piston 20 and each of the energy source and low pressure region. Displacement of the piston operates a well tool 26. Operation of the valve assembly is controlled via telemetry between a remote location and an electronic circuit of the system. The valve may have multiple ports and seals carried on the valve member which are not exposed to pressure from the energy source while crossing a port in fluid communication with the low pressure region. Also disclosed, the piston 20 has an effective piston area which changes during displacement of the piston.
Patent GB-2427268-A (GB)
Title: Multi-layer overlay measurement and correction technique for ic manufacturing
Inventor: PHAN KHOI A
IPC: H01L21/66
Filed: 2005-02-26
Abstract: A system facilitating measurement and correction of overlay between multiple layers of a wafer (402) is disclosed. The system comprises an overlay target (406) that represents overlay between three or more layers of a wafer (402) and a measurement component (408) that determines overlay error existent in the overlay target (406), thereby determining overlay error between the three or more layers of the wafer (402). A control component (410) can be provided to correct overlay error between adjacent and non-adjacent layers, wherein the correction is based at least in part on measurements obtained by the measurement component (408).
Patent GB-2434651-A (GB)
Title: A method and apparatus for aligning or superposing microscope images
Inventor: MADDISON JOHN
IPC: G02B21/18
Filed: 2007-01-19
Abstract: The microscope images of the same or very similar subjects provided by different microscopes or the same microscope at different magnifications are aligned or superposed. The images from two types of microscope, such as, a Virtual Microscope (VM) and a Light Microscope (LM) are used. An image produced by the virtual microscope is easily read by a viewer, as it represents a scan of a whole slide rather than individual high power fields of view. An area of the image can be selected for further examination or objective analysis by the Light Microscope. The qualitative or quantitative information obtained from the Light Microscope using the method described may then be located back into the Virtual Microscope image to provide understandable context.
Patent GB-2446211-A (GB)
Title: Using a mobile device to read a code on a computer screen, transferring the interpreted data back to the computer to enable access to a website.
Inventor: KINDBERG TIMOTHY PAUL JAMES
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2007-01-31
Abstract: A user acquires a data item 36 in a mobile device 2, the data item representing, for example, the right to a digital asset. A web page 34 including bar code symbol 40 is displayed on the display 26 of a further device such as a PC 14. The bar code symbol codes a location of a resource. The mobile device 2 reads the bar code symbol 40 and sends data from the data item to the resource at the location coded by the bar code symbol. The further device 14 subsequently carries out an action using the data-item data received at the resource, or associated data; for example, the further device uses the data to fetch a related digital asset. In one embodiment the location coded by the bar code symbol is that of a database record uniquely associated with the symbol. In another embodiment, the location coded by the bar code symbol is the address on a local network of the further device 14.
Patent GB-2451795-A (GB)
Title: Soundproofing IT hardware and electronic equipment enclosures
Inventor: GOODMAN JEREMY SINCLAIR
IPC: B32B5/14
Filed: 2007-08-13
Abstract: A layered material for soundproofing material for IT hardware or other electronic equipment enclosures comprises (1) an acoustic foam layer 120, (2) an acoustic barrier layer 115 and (3) a self-adhesive layer 105, the foam layer being physically bonded (i.e. mechanically bonded without adhesive) to the barrier layer and the self-adhesive layer being attached to a face of one of the barrier layer and the foam layer, the overall thickness of the layered material being no more than 12.7mm. A second foam layer may be physically bonded to the barrier layer such that the barrier layer is between foam layers. The foam layer(s) may be dense open celled polyurethane foam. The acoustic barrier layer may be made from polyvinylchloride-based mass-loaded plastisol.
Patent GB-2452769-A (GB)
Title: Rotational electrical contact mechanism
Inventor: ASTANOVSKY MICHAEL
IPC: H01R12/00
Filed: 2007-09-17
Abstract: A device is arranged to provide an electrical connection between a first device component 210 and a second device component 220. The electrical contact mechanism comprises a rotational component 230 arranged to establish contact with, and provide an electrical connection with, the second device component. The rotational component is arranged to rotate about at least one axis in response to movement of the second device component relative to the electrical contact mechanism, and may be spherical so that it can respond to movement in two orthogonal directions. The rotational component may be supported by a resilient S-shaped support, with three straight sections 241, 242, 243 joined by two curved sections 245, 246, and may be held between two of the flat sections, protruding through an aperture 250 in one. The contact may be used to connect two PCBs.
Patent GB-2453344-A (GB)
Title: Stop and Wait ARQ scheme with infinite wait for receipt of either ACK or NACK before transmitting again
Inventor: OMENI OKUNDU
IPC: H04L1/18
Filed: 2007-10-04
Abstract: A medical/physiological measuring/monitoring device can be embedded into a plaster or similar and communicate with external systems using a radio link. Due to the small size power and battery capacity are often low. The external system is typically a bag/pocket mountable recording device. The medical monitor may be an electrocardiogram (ECG). The invention proposes a stop and wait (SAW or SW) automatic repeat request (ARQ) scheme in which the transmitter will not send another frame until either an ACK or a NAK has been received. If neither arrives within a time out period the session is terminated. This means that the medical sensor does not waste energy attempting communication over an unreliable link, unlike systems which attempt re-transmission after a time out period. The receiver will attempt to resend an ACK/NACK a number of times before similarly abandoning the session if no frame is received [See Fig. 5].
Patent GB-2446903-A (GB)
Title: Balanced epicyclic sickle drive
Inventor: REGIER BERNARD D
IPC: A01D34/00
Filed: 2006-01-31
Abstract: A counterbalancing epicyclic sickle drive has a pair of oppositely rotating weights that offset the inertial forces of the sickle during its abrupt acceleration and deceleration at opposite ends of its path of travel. One of the weights rotates with the main shaft of the drive about its longitudinal axis, while the second weight is fixed to an oppositely rotating crankshaft that orbits about the axis of the main shaft in eccentric relationship thereto. The weight on the main shaft is heavier than the weight on the crankshaft so as to offset changes in inertial forces produced by the crankshaft weight during increased acceleration of its center of gravity at opposite ends of its elliptical path of travel about the axis of the main shaft.
Patent GB-2447755-A (GB)
Title: A clutch drive assembly for an upright vacuum cleaner
Inventor: SMITH SHAWN M
IPC: A47L9/04
Filed: 2008-03-17
Abstract: An upright vacuum cleaner comprises a nozzle assembly having a suction inlet and a rotary agitator. A canister assembly is pivotally connected to the nozzle assembly. The vacuum cleaner also includes a suction generator and a dirt collection vessel. Still further, the vacuum cleaner includes a clutch assembly for controlling power transmission from a drive motor of the suction generator to the rotary agitator. The clutch assembly includes a pulley 64 driven by the drive motor, a first clutch element 72 connected to the pulley 64, a second clutch element 74 connected to the rotary agitator 52 and an actuator 80 for displacing the second clutch element 74 between a first, engaged position (figure 3) and a second, disengaged position (figure 4). The first and second clutch elements 72, 74 are preferably frustoconical in shape and the actuator 80 can move the rotary brush 52 in a longitudinal direction to engage and disengage the second 74 and first 72 clutch elements.
Patent GB-2448602-A (GB)
Title: Thermostatic valve
Inventor: NEMBER OSCAR
IPC: G05D23/13
Filed: 2008-04-17
Abstract: A thermostatic valve to control the temperature of mixed water comprises a thermostat 20 in connection with a mixer control device 19, which is biased by opposing springs 22, 23. One of the springs 22 rests on a cap 28 to ensure a uniform action of the spring on the device 19. The control device 19 may be provided with radial holes (194, Fig. 6) to convey the water towards the thermostat 20 more efficiently.
Patent GB-2448445-A (GB)
Title: A method for pseudo-planarization of an electromechanical device
Inventor: CHOU CHIA-SHING
IPC: H01L31/00
Filed: 2005-02-17
Abstract: A method for pseudo-planarization of an electromechanical device and for forming a durable metal contact on the electromechanical device and devices formed by the method are presented. The method comprises acts of depositing various layers forming a semiconductor device. Two principal aspects of the method include the formation of a planarized dielectric/conductor layer on a substrate and the formation of an electrode in an armature of a microelectromechanical switch, with the electrode formed such that it interlocks a structural layer of the armature to ensure it remains fixed to the armature over a large number of cycles. The present invention also relates to a system and method for making MEM switches having a common ground plane. One method for making MEM switches includes: patterning a common ground plane layer on a substrate; forming a dielectric layer on the common ground plane layer; depositing a DC electrode region through the dielectric layer to contact the common ground plane layer; and depositing a conducting layer on the DC electrode region so that regions of the conducting layer contact the DC electrode region, so that the common ground plane layer provides a common ground for the regions of the conducting layer.
Patent GB-2456650-A (GB)
Title: Screen printing apparatus and screen printing method
Inventor: MIYAHARA SEIICHI
IPC: B41F15/08
Filed: 2007-12-26
Abstract: A screen printing apparatus and a screen printing method facilitating to adjust a state of filling a paste. By adjusting a pneumatic pressure of pressing a squeezee 9a formed with a flexible region at at least a portion thereof to a surface of a mask 2, the squeezee 9a is moved up and down to follow recesses and projections of a surface of the mask 2 substantially in real time and an attack angle   r  in sliding is maintained substantially constant. Thereby, a state of filling a paste can be stabilized without being influenced by recesses and projections of the surface of the mask 2 and promotion of a print quality can be expected. Further, bending is produced at the squeezee 9a by only adjusting the pneumatic pressure, and therefore, an attack angle   r  in correspondence with a change in a print condition of a kind or a property of the paste, a thickness of the mask and the like can easily be changed.
Patent GB-2464474-A (GB)
Title: Roll stand for garment pattern makers
Inventor: SILVER ARTHUR FRANKLIN DE
IPC: B65H75/40
Filed: 2008-10-15
Abstract: A stand for a roll of paper or like material for garment pattern makers comprises a vertical spindle 1,2 mounted upon a turntable 3, the stand having wheels, castors or the like 5 allowing it to be moved from place to place and being adapted so as to prevent the stand tipping over.
Patent GB-2465152-A (GB)
Title: Resilient coupling ring holds shafts in alignment
Inventor: WRIGHT CHRISTOPHER
IPC: F16D1/02
Filed: 2008-11-05
Abstract: Two components such as turbine shafts 2, 4 are maintained coaxial with each other by a coupling ring 6. The coupling ring 6 comprises a body 12 which is cylindrical when unstressed, and which has two arrays of circumferentially spaced radial projections 14, 16, each array engaging a respective cylindrical surface 24, 2-6 of recesses 8, 10 in the components 2, 4. The body 12 is flexible, and so is resiliently deformed by contact between the projections 14, 16 and the respective cylindrical surface 24. The projections 14, 16 of the two arrays are angularly out of phase with each other.
Patent GB-2468333-A (GB)
Title: Pepper mill
Inventor: FANG MING-HUEI
IPC: A47J42/04
Filed: 2009-03-04
Abstract: A pepper mill includes a receiving unit 1, a grinding unit 2, a coupling unit 5 and a closure unit 3. The receiving unit includes a container body 11 defining a receiving space 10 for peppercorns, and a driving member 12 disposed movably in the receiving space. The coupling unit is disposed in the receiving space and is driven rotatably by the driving member. The grinding unit is disposed in the receiving space and is coupled co-rotatably to the coupling unit for grinding the peppercorns to result in ground pepper. The closure unit includes a closure member 33 movable relative to the grinding unit between a closed position so as to block discharge of the ground pepper through a discharge end 110 of the container body, and an opened position so as to permit discharge of the ground pepper through the discharge end.
Patent GB-2469826-A (GB)
Title: Method for estimating intake manifold pressure in an internal combustion engine
Inventor: TUGNOLO MANUEL
IPC: F02D35/02
Filed: 2009-04-29
Abstract: A method for estimating the pressure prevailing in an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine and a method of controlling an internal combustion engine in which the pressure of the intake manifold is estimated by measuring the pressure in a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine as a function of the angular position of the engine crankshaft. The combustion chamber pressure is measured at positions of the crankshaft other than the angle IVC corresponding to the intake valve closure point.
Patent GB-2470221-A (GB)
Title: Securing apparatus for memorial comprising rod and height adjusting engagement member
Inventor: ASH IVAN ROBERT GEORGE
IPC: E04H13/00
Filed: 2009-05-15
Abstract: Apparatus 10 for securing a gravestone 12 to the ground 14 is disclosed. The apparatus 10 includes a stainless steel bar 24 with a circular section lower part 26 and an upper part 30 with a part of reduced diameter formed by a flat surface 32. Three spaced grooves 34 are provided around the upper part 30. A washer 36 with a D-shaped opening 40 can be located when aligned therewith on the upper part 30 in a required one of the 10 grooves 34, and rotated such that the flat part of the D locks the washer 36 in the respective groove 34. The bar 24 can be inserted through aligned holes 22 in the gravestone 12, with the washer 36 engaging on top of a foundation 20 of the gravestone 12. The washer 36 can be slid along the upper part 30 of the bar 24 to a required position and aligned with a selected one of the grooves 34 in order to retain the bar 24 at a required height.
Patent GB-2456979-A (GB)
Title: Warming container for wipes
Inventor: GRADZEWICZ LISA M
IPC: F24V30/00
Filed: 2007-10-17
Abstract: A container for supplying warm wipes having a compartment for holding a plurality of wipes and at least one pocket for holding a chemical heat pack. The pocket has a first surface in thermal contact with the compartment holding the wipes and a second surface having at least one opening in direct contact with the atmospheric air. The opening is of sufficient size to permit atmospheric air to circulate to the chemical heat pack in the pocket and cause an exothermic heat reaction to occur within the chemical heat pack and warm the wipes by transmitting heat through the pocket first surface. In place of having an opening, the second surface of the pocket may be a flexible, porous surface to permit atmospheric air to circulate to the chemical heat pack in the pocket through the pores in the second surface.
Patent GB-2459065-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for selectively transmitting voice bursts and regenerated header bursts
Inventor: WIATROWSKI DAVID G
IPC: H04L1/00
Filed: 2008-01-18
Abstract: A computer-readable storage element has code stored thereon that programs a processing device within a communication device to implement a method (200). The method (200) includes: receiving (202) a plurality of bursts and detecting a failure to receive a preceding header burst; extracting (204) embedded data from the plurality of bursts; determining (206) from the embedded data whether the plurality of bursts comprises valid voice bursts; and when the plurality of bursts comprises valid voice bursts, generating (208) at least one header burst using the embedded data, and transmitting (210) the at least one header burst and the voice bursts.
Patent GB-2474876-A (GB)
Title: Fitting for a hot water cylinder
Inventor: SEPPINGS TOM
IPC: F24D11/00
Filed: 2009-10-30
Abstract: A fitting 10 for an opening in a domestic hot water cylinder includes a first channel 18 for receiving an immersion heater and a second channel 20 for the inflow of liquid to the cylinder. The opening includes a 1¾ inch British Standard Pipe (BSP) thread. Optionally, a third channel 22 is provided for the outflow of liquid from the cylinder. The fitting may be connected to an external solar heating system. Preferably, the first channel 102 is non-circular and has a cross-section which is substantially annular, where the first channel may be fitted around concentric second 104 and third 106 channels to make efficient use of space.
Patent GB-1536052-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for securing buttons in padded articles
IPC: D05B3/16
Filed: 1977-04-19
Abstract: 1536052 Securing buttons in padded articles B N SHEADER (S Ayrteknik Olof Nestemus G B) 19 April 1977 [12 March 1976] 10010/76 Heading DIG Apparatus for securing buttons in padded articles comprises knotting means rotatable about an axis and having means for holding a button with its eye projecting from the knotting means, means for passing a doubled length of thread through the eye, a shoulder rotatable with the knotting means to engage one of the doubled lengths to form a loop about the shoulder providing means, guide means to guide a portion of the doubled length through the loop, and means for drawing the portion through the loop to form the knot. To secure a button 17, Fig. 3, held in the rotatable knotter, and button 18 held with presser foot 15, on either side of padded article 16, needle 19 carries thread through the buttons, and hook 20 is rotated to secure button 18 as shown in Fig. 6. The rotatable knotter comprises pivotable button holding jaws 12, Fig. 1, arcuate wall 10 having shoulder 11 and open-ended slot 12, cam 13 and ejector 14. When the knotting means is rotated clockwise, Fig. 9, shoulder 11 forms thread loop 22 about wall 10 which thread portions 23 pass along slot 12 and are projected partially through loop 22 by cam 13. Hook 24, Fig. 10, then hooks the projecting part and draws portions 23 through the loop. The thread is then severed between the knotting means and needle, and the free end drawn through the loop to form the knot. Ejector 14 is moved to disengage the loop from shoulder 11.
Patent GB-1223754-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for the production of different concentrations of liquid animal feed concentrates
IPC: A23K50/60
Filed: 1968-03-01
Abstract: 1,223,754. Animal feeding appliances. F. WEYHAUSEN & CO. MASCHINENFABRIK G.m.b.H. 1 March, 1968 [2 March, 1967], No. 10013/68. Heading A1M. [Also in Division B1] A regulated milk supply to teats 23a, 23b may be produced from apparatus which comprises a storage container 13 for milk powder and a liquid container 4 for water which communicate with a mixing vessel 20. As liquid is sucked through the nipple 23a, the balance 11, on which the mixing vessel and a weight 26 are counterbalanced, is altered, and a micro-switch 12 operates a solenoid-controlled valve 8 to cause thermostatically controlled water from vessel 4 to flow through the regulating valve 9 to the mixing vessel and simultaneously activates a stirrer motor 24 and a conveyer motor 25 to cause the spring stirrer 14 and spiral conveyer 15 to convey milk powder on to a scatter plate from where it is fed by a stripper 17 and a second conveyer 18 to the mixing vessel 20. As shown in Fig. 1 water is also fed through pipe 27 to a supplementary container 31 from where a valve 32 regulates the supply which mixes with the milk from the outlet 22 of the mixing vessel to the second nipple 23b. A heater or cooler in the supplementary container 31 may be provided such that the temperature of the milk at the nipple may be regulated to differ from that of the milk during the mixing process. In further embodiments a second source of liquid 37 (not shown) may be provided to feed liquid into the outlet 22 (Fig. 2) or directly into the mixing vessel (Fig. 3) such that, for example, synthetic milk may be mixed with natural milk.
Patent GB-985601-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in titanium alloy articles
IPC: C22C14/00
Filed: 1961-03-20
Abstract: Titanium alloys resistant to embrittlement by hydrogen contain in percentage by weight: <TABS:0985601/C6-C7/1> Use of the alloys for components of hydrogen-cooled electrical generators is particularly referred to. Reduction of hydrogen absorption is minimized by vacuum annealing components and exposing them to air before placing them in surface. Further improvement is obtained by maintaining in the hydrogen atmosphere 0.1 - 1% by volume of oxygen and/or water vapour. Specification 985,602 is referred to.
Patent GB-1036856-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to clothes washing machines
Inventor: DOW ALEXANDER BRIAN RODERICK
IPC: D06F13/08
Filed: 1964-03-10
Abstract: A washing machine has a swash plate agitator mounted on a straight drive shaft which has a coaxial extension and an apertured hollow member disposed around the extension.  The drive to the agitator and drum is by means of two concentric shafts the outer one of which drives the drum and is braked during the actuation of the agitator. A water heater is provided.