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Patent GB-2259504-A (GB)
Title: Applying a fleece band to an endlessly circulating support web
Inventor: MINICHSHOFER KLAUS
IPC: D04H18/00
Filed: 1992-09-14
Abstract: A fleece band 1 unwound from a roll 11 is applied as contiguous coils to an endless support web 2. Each coil extends at a slight angle of inclination to the longitudinal direction of web 2. This is achieved by fleece band feed device 3, including edge trimmers 12, being moved by carriage 4 on rails 5 transversely of the web 2 as the band 1 is applied. To ensure that adjacent coils are precisely contiguous, the feed device 3 is pivotally mounted by bearing 17 on carriage 4 and the angular position of the feed device is adjusted as carriage 4 moves on rails 5. The angular adjustment is made in dependence upon the sensing at 24 of the position of the last applied coil, the sensing at 25 of the position of the fleece band 1 approaching web 2, and the sensing at 23 of the current angular position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260878-A (GB)
Title: Hands-free call answering system
Inventor: HENRY JR RAYMOND C
IPC: H04M1/60
Filed: 1992-10-13
Abstract: A hands-free call answering system without voice recognition includes a radio receiver 10 for receiving an incoming call, an alert generator 60 for generating an alert tone, a microphone 20 responsive for receiving the call recipient's voice input and an audio detector 25 for detecting whether there is a change in audio signal strength, wherein if a change is detected the call is answered and two way communication is enabled. The audio detector includes a bandpass filter and a comparison circuit for detecting whether the call has been answered. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261931-A (GB)
Title: Valve timing control system for internal combustion engine
Inventor: SUGA SEIJI
IPC: F01L1/344
Filed: 1992-11-27
Abstract: A ring gear assembly 3 is disposed between a sprocket assembly 1 connected to the crankshaft and a camshaft 2 for operating intake and/or exhaust valves. A source 20 provides fluid pressure to a chamber 17 to axially displace the ring gear assembly 3 to vary the phase angle second phase angles through helical teeth (3a, 3b). A fluid pressure supply line (21-25) and drain line (25, 24, 27) communicate between the source 20 and the pressure chamber 17 and between the pressure chamber 17 and a drain port 26, respectively. A solenoid operated directional control valve 31 is responsive to a control signal from a controller 40 to selectively block the fluid pressure supply or drain line according to variation in engine operating conditions, for varying the valve timing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266676-A (GB)
Title: Tool-holder with coolant groove
Inventor: MATSUMOTO MASAKAZU
IPC: B23Q11/10
Filed: 1993-02-10
Abstract: The tool holder (1) has a tip portion (2) and a mounting portion (3) integral with the tip portion. A tool holding bore (4) is formed along the centre of the holder (1) and clamping bolts (5) are screwed into the tip portion (2). An injection groove (6) for injecting a cooling fluid is formed in the inner wall of the holding bore which has an injection port (6a) in its tip open to the distal end face of the tip (2). A fluid passageway (7) is formed within the mounting portion (3) which connects to the groove (6) at one end and open at the other end to the base end face of the mounting portion (3). The holder is particularly useful for tools such as boring tools and drills. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277694-A (GB)
Title: A programmed lighting display system
Inventor: FOLEY PATRICK GRATTAN
IPC: A63J5/00
Filed: 1993-04-21
Abstract: A light projection apparatus 10 which produces a lighting display for the additional entertainment of a person as listener or viewer is under the control of a microprocessor and is used in conjunction with programmed aroma dispensers 16, 17, 18. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278786-A (GB)
Title: Cyclonic vapor flow condenser
Inventor: FAY JOHN MICHAEL
IPC: F26B5/06
Filed: 1993-06-09
Abstract: A condenser for removing vapor from freeze dryers and other vessels, comprises an elongated hollow chamber defined by an outer wall having on inner surface,     a vapor inlet at one end of the chamber, a plurality of elongated, hollow condenser members mounted there about the axial center a circumferentially spaced apart and radially offset relation, such that radial lines or planes extending outwardly from the axial center of the chamber between adjacent condenser members intercept a condenser member before reaching the inner surface of the chamber, the interior of the hollow condenser members being arranged for the circulation of coolant and a vent opening in the chamber for removing non-condensible vapors from the chamber. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274720-A (GB)
Title: Wheel examining apparatus
Inventor: FUKUDA YUTAKA
IPC: G01M17/06
Filed: 1991-07-04
Abstract: A wheel examining apparatus for examining the alignment of a wheel of a two or three axle vehicle includes a roller clamp unit which includes left-hand contact rollers (11) and right-hand contact rollers (11) which may be brought into the opposite sides of a wheel. A pair of left-hand and right-hand angle detectors (30) are provided in association with the left-hand and right-hand contact rollers to thereby detect the orientations of the opposite sides of a wheel independently. The wheel examining apparatus also includes a floating support apparatus constructed by using a plurality of linear motion guide units and a support roller assembly (40) in a floating state. Each linear motion guide unit includes guide rails (46, 45a) and slider units (45b, 44b). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281451-A (GB)
Title: Electrical connecting arrangement for printed circuit boards detachably mounted in cabinet
Inventor: KUROTORI FUMIO
IPC: H05K7/14
Filed: 1994-04-22
Abstract: An electrical connecting arrangement is provided for a printed-circuit board (12) detachably mounted in a cabinet of an electronic installation (10) at a front side thereof. At least one connector 22 - 28 is used, and a connector support member (18) is adjustably attached to a rear side of the cabinet. The connector includes two connector halves (22, 24, 26, 28) to be coupled to each other. One of the connector halves (22, 26) is detachably attached to and supported by the support member, and is joined to an end of an electrical cable. The other connector half (24, 28) is securely attached to and by a rear side of the printed-circuit board. The connector halves are aligned with each other, upon mounting the printed-circuit board in the cabinet, by a pin 72 of a circuit board cover 30 and a support member aperture 38. The arrangement preferably includes two multi-terminal connectors 22, 24 and two coaxial connectors 26, 28. The connector halves 22 are mounted to the support member 18 by flexible arms; the halves 26 are mounted by a split spring collar (59, figure 9) engaging a pair of shoulders on the connector and support, and freed from the connector shoulder by a sleeve (48, figure 9) slidable along the connector half to allow dismounting of the half. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278158-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle immobilizer
Inventor: HART GEOFFREY FRANCIS
IPC: B60R25/21
Filed: 1993-01-07
Abstract: In order to provide a device for immobilizing a vehicle in which it is not obvious to a thief that the vehicle has been immobilized and which immobilizer can only be operated by a person in possession of an electrically coded key, the immobilizer comprises a processor (7) and means (10) for immobilizing the engine (9) in response to an immobilizing signal driven by the processor (7) a set period of time after the engine is started. The key (1) having coded information stored therein is engageable with a receiver (4) which is electrically connected to the processor (7), the processor giving an override signal if the information stored in the key (1) matches information stored in the processor (7), whereby the immobilizing means does not immobilize the engine (4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280740-A (GB)
Title: A vehicular headlight reflector
Inventor: NINO NAOHI
IPC: F21V7/00
Filed: 1991-12-19
Abstract: A vehicular headlight reflector for forming a low beam light-distribution pattern by effectively utilizing the entire reflecting surface, and providing a light-distribution control function so that a pattern image generated substantially by a lower half surface of the reflector is located below the horizontal line and as close to the horizontal line as possible. A filament is arranged between a focus F of a reference parabola and a reference point D offset from the focus F so that its central axis extends in parallel with an axis passing through the parabola vertex O and the reference point D. A virtual paraboloid is assumed for each arbitrary point P on the reference parabola, the virtual paraboloid having an optical axis that extends in parallel with a light ray vector of a reflected light ray obtained when a light ray assumed to have been emitted from the reference point D and reflected at the point P, passing through the point P, and having the point D as its focus. A reflecting surface is formed as a collection of intersecting lines obtained when the virtual paraboloid is cut by a plane including the light ray vector and being parallel with the vertical axis (z-axis). Projected images of the light source are located so as to move around a rotation center on the horizontal line with a movement of representative points on an intersecting line in the reflecting surface. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296567-A (GB)
Title: Source signature determination and multiple reflection reduction
Inventor: IKELLE LUC THOMAS
IPC: G10K11/178
Filed: 1994-12-24
Abstract: The signature of an energy source is determined from an inverse scattering Born series representing multiple reflected energy. The series comprises a polynomial in the inverse of the signature and has recorded data as the first term. The series is truncated, preferably to the first two terms to permit an analytical determination of the signature to be found. The value of the inverse signature which minimises the energy represented by the sub-series is found and this corresponds to the desired source signature. An iterative scheme may be adopted to improve the match to the actual signature so as to take into account the errors caused by truncating the scattering series. The determined source signature is then used to reduce the effects of multiple reflected energy in recorded data. The method has applications to marine seismic exploration, borehole surveying, ground penetrating radar and medical imaging using X-rays or ultrasound.
Patent GB-2297666-A (GB)
Title: Signalling to a vehicle inside a pipeline
Inventor: HOPKINS JOSEPH
IPC: F16L55/48
Filed: 1995-01-31
Abstract: A pig 10 inside a pipeline 12 has permanent magnets 62 coupled to the wall 50 of the pipeline 12 by bristle pads 64. The field from the permanent magnets saturate that part of the pipewall engaged by the bristles so as to enable two way communication by way of a transmit/receive coil 18 on the surface 14 of the seabed 16 and transmit/receive coils 70 on the pig 10 through the wall of the pipeline 12. For example, an alternating electro-magnetic field is generated by the coil 18 as a transmit coil and is received by one of the coils 70 as a receive coil in order to control the pig's movements and to set and lock a seal and a brake to hold the pig at a given position. Then an alternating electro-magnetic field is generated by one of the coils 70 and received by the coil 18 to transmit information concerning the status of the pig 10.
Patent GB-2299858-A (GB)
Title: Sterilisation indicator
Inventor: FRASER TIMOTHY JAMES CAMERON
IPC: A61L2/28
Filed: 1995-04-08
Abstract: A sterilisation indicator, which may be in the form of a dental appointment card (10), comprises a heat resistant substrate including a heat sensitive marking (18) which undergoes a visible colour change on the substrate being exposed to a predetermined minimum temperature and time associated with proper heat sterilisation of medical or dental instruments. The card (10) is placed together with instruments to be sterilised, such that the card (10) is heated together with instruments. The card is in two separable parts.
Patent GB-2290794-A (GB)
Title: Storage stable heat-curable polyurethane compositions
Inventor: SQUILLER EDWARD P
IPC: C08G18/10
Filed: 1995-05-30
Abstract: Storage-stable, one-component polyurethane compositions which cure at elevated temperature are made up of (a) an isocyanate which has been blocked with a phenol or an oxime, (b) at least one compound selected from polyketimines, polyenamines and oxazolidines, and (c) a compound which generates water at elevated temperature. Components (a), (b) and (c) are used in amounts such that the equivalent ratio of a:b:c is from about 1.0:0.1:0.5 to about 1:2:2.
Patent GB-2303079-A (GB)
Title: A pig feed production process
Inventor: RONAN JACK
IPC: A23K1/18
Filed: 1995-07-08
Abstract: Barley and wheat are stored in bulk storage silos (4,5) and are drawn as required into a hammermill (6) having a fine mesh to produce a very fine powder output, in turn delivered to batch supply containers (10, 11). Various other solids are received in a pre-milled condition and are also stored in various containers (12, 13, 14). Water is heated to 70{C. Citric acid production yeast by-product is pumped into a storage tank 31 where it is continuously agitated. Meat and bone meal stick water having an oil content of less than 3% is stored and heated with a continuous agitation in a tank 32. Glass-lined tanks (31, 32) are used for yeast and stick water storage and agitation. The liquid raw material delivery order to a mixing tank (17, 18) is stick water, yeast by-product and water. This provides an homogenous mix in which the oil in the stick water is dispersed and the various contents are thoroughly mixed before addition of the solids. Both input and output of the raw materials and feed respectively is controlled by use of load cells on the mixing tanks. This helps to provide for re-circulation of the output feed to detect leaks and for control of delay times between different raw material delivery stages.
Patent GB-2294522-A (GB)
Title: An easily mounted chain/belt tensioning device for assembly line production
Inventor: SCHNUPKE HUBERT
IPC: F16H7/08
Filed: 1995-09-25
Abstract: The device comprises a curved tensioning lever (11) which is mounted on one of the bearing points (5,6) of a slide bar (4), by which at least one further chain (1) is guided. The additional chain is the control chain which is mounted in the crankcase (8) of the engine by one of its bearing points (5,6). The curved lever and the slide bar have a common bearing bolt (5). The curved lever has a bearing sleeve (6) manufactured as one piece with the lever.
Patent GB-2296177-A (GB)
Title: Insole
Inventor: MULLIGAN RON
IPC: A43B13/40
Filed: 1995-12-19
Abstract: An insole assembly comprises an insole having a pad of microcellular resilient material on at least one surface thereof. The pad is formed by a hot-forming process, and is heated-bonded to the insole by heat produced during that process. In embodiment, the pad 16 has two parts which are disposed respectively on opposite sides of the insole 10, and the insole has an aperture 15 through which these parts are integrally connected with one another. The parts of the pad overlap an edge of the aperture, so that an area of the insole adjacent to that edge is sandwiched between those parts. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296623-A (GB)
Title: FAX apparatus
Inventor: OGIYAMA TETSUYA
IPC: H04N1/44
Filed: 1995-12-28
Abstract: A facsimile apparatus system in which a facsimile transmitter transmits a document and a corresponding facsimile receiver receives the document. Before the received document is put in such a state that an operator of the facsimile receiver cannot confirm the contents of the received document, an operator at the side of the facsimile transmitter can retrieve or delete the corresponding document as necessary. The facsimile receiver includes a storage unit 29 for storing therein an image. The facsimile transmitter can inform the facsimile receiver of its own ID and a document management number of the document being stored in the storage unit of the facsimile receiver but not put in a state readable by the facsimile receiver operator to request the retrieval or deletion of the document. At this time, a communication capability discriminating unit 26 judges whether or not the receiver side has a document deleting capability, and a document control/processing unit controls a document management unit to carry out the retrieval or deletion of the corresponding document stored in the storage unit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295563-A (GB)
Title: Coating method
Inventor: ODA HIROAKI
IPC: B05D1/00
Filed: 1995-06-01
Abstract: A coating method using an amine-neutralized water-base intercoating material and an amine-neutralized water-base topcoating material, wherein the intercoating material comprises a coating composition based on (A) an amine-neutralized base resin having a hydroxyl value of 30-150 KOHmg/g and an acid value of 15-50 KOHmg/g, (B) an amino resin and (C) an amine salt of an organic sulfonic acid. This method can improve interlaminar adhesion and chipping resistance of a multilayer coating formed by the water-base coating materials.
Patent GB-2312015-A (GB)
Title: Bolt
Inventor: BATES LAURENCE HAROLD JOHN
IPC: E05C1/04
Filed: 1996-04-11
Abstract: A bolt (10) for use in association with a moveable wing comprises a support member (11) supporting a moveable element (16) which is moveable relative to the support member (11) from a retracted position in which the wing may be moved and an extended position in which the element (16) is adapted to cooperate with a keeper to retain the wing in a fixed position, there being a sprung element (30) mounted so as resiliently to urge the moveable element (16) in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of the moveable element (16), and the moveable element (16) and the support member (11) having formations (19, 35; 19, 38) which are engagable as the element (16) is moved relative to the support member (11) to prevent further movement of the moveable element (16) relative to the support member (11) and the sprung element (30) retaining the formations (19, 35; 19, 38) in engagement until the moveable element (16) is manually urged against the force of the sprung element (30) so as to disengage the formations.
Patent GB-2315669-A (GB)
Title: Bag carrying handgrip
Inventor: MCADAM ROBERT
IPC: A45F5/10
Filed: 1996-07-31
Abstract: A bag carrying handgrip comprises a generally elongate body A having a longitudinal channel to receive the handles of carrier bags to be supported by the handgrip and a hole D extending through the body transversely of its length. The hole enables the handgrip to be mounted on a hook or to be secured to a vertical surface by means of a screw.
Patent GB-2318011-A (GB)
Title: Simulator for radar returns
Inventor: FRAY ADRIAN FORREST
IPC: G01S13/75
Filed: 1996-10-07
Abstract: A pulse radar simulator (1) comprises an aircraft (2) carrying a passive transponder incorporating a control unit (8), a delay line unit (6) and a dipole antenna (4). The delay line unit (6) comprises an acoustic delay line (18), a switch element (14) comprising a field-effect transistor for enabling or disabling the acoustic delay line (18), and an interface element (16) comprising a photodiode which is receptive to optical signals for controlling the switch element (14). The delay line unit (6) associated with the dipole antenna (4) imposes time delay between the incidence of investigative radiation on the dipole antenna (4) and the emission of corresponding reflected radiation from the dipole antenna (4). Multiple variable delays allow fuller simulation of targets. The transponder is controlled optically.
Patent GB-2307564-A (GB)
Title: Back-scattered light free optical fibre device
Inventor: KIM YEONG-JU
IPC: G02B6/38
Filed: 1996-11-06
Abstract: An optical device has a signal transmission optical fibre 20 for transmitting an input signal 10 to a lens 24. A second optical fibre 16 is positioned such that it absorbs the multiply reflected light rays 22 which are back-scattered from the input signal 10 between the first optical fibre 20 and the lens 24. Therefore the reflected light is prevented from being fed back to the first optical fibre 20 and causing noise and transmission reflective loss. The optical fibres may be held in position by a ferrule 18 which may be coated in an anti-reflective coating. The second optical fibre may have a light absorber at its distal end. The two optical fibres may also be used in conjunction with each other in a laser diode module (figure 6), an optical signal connector (figure 7) or an optical signal connector with a filter (36, figure 5).
Patent GB-2320048-A (GB)
Title: Hollow extruded plastics frame filled with settable foam
Inventor: TOMLIN TREVOR VELLA
IPC: E06B3/22
Filed: 1996-12-04
Abstract: A frame comprising lengths of hollow plastics extrusion 2 joined at their ends defining an internal chamber filled with a settable foam material 4. The foam material 4 may be of plastics material and is injected at an injection hole 3 drilled in the frame while another hole 3 is provided to let air escape from the frame as it is filled. Other particles may be added to the foam 4 to improve its strength and/or rigidifying effect. Some extrusions 2 may include internal strengthening webs 5 partitioning the hollow interior into separate chambers which may be selectively filled by drilling suitable holes 3 as described.
Patent GB-2319394-A (GB)
Title: Bump-bonded semiconductor imaging device
Inventor: SPARTIOTIS KONSTANTINOS EVANGE
IPC: H01L25/16
Filed: 1996-12-27
Abstract: A semiconductor imaging device, for use for example in medical diagnosis and, non-destructive testing, includes a radiation detector semiconductor substrate 30 and a readout substrate 32 connected to the detector substrate by means of low temperature solder bumps 34, the bumps correspond to cells of the two substrates. A low temperature solder should have a melting point under about 180{C. Good examples of such low temperature solder are provided by bismuth based alloys, for instance the eutectic (52wt-%Bi, 32wt-%Pb, 16wt-%Sn) alloy which has a melting point under 100{C, enabling its use with CdZnTe and CdTe detector substances.
Patent GB-2322679-A (GB)
Title: A marine steering cable transmission system
Inventor: WHITLOCK JULIAN HENRY LEE
IPC: B63H25/10
Filed: 1997-02-28
Abstract: A marine steering cable transmission system 10 comprises a rotatable member 41, such as a helm wheel drum, drivably connected to the input of a gearbox 6 whose output 5 is connected or connectable to an element 2, such as a rudder stock, operable in response to rotation of the member 41, wherein the connection between the rotatable member 41 and the input of the gearbox 6 is provided by an elongate flexible member 14, for example, a steering cable.