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Patent GB-2374958-A (GB)
Title: Method for the management of printer consumables
Inventor: HAINES ROBERT E
IPC: G06K15/00
Filed: 2001-12-05
Abstract: A method (P1) of notifying an operator of an event with respect to a hard copy output engine (14) includes detecting (S1, S4) a status of a portion of the hard copy output engine (14) from a sensor (17) incorporated in the hard copy output engine (14) and displaying, in response to detecting (S1), a graphical user interface (70). The graphical user interface (70) includes information describing the portion and the status, and includes a set of user-selectable options. The set of user-selectable options includes dismissal (72) of the graphical user interface (70), assistance (74) in ordering consumables or services identified by the graphical user interface 70), deferment (76) of action with respect to the consumables or services identified by the graphical user interface (70) for a user-selectable interval and inhibiting (72) further displaying of the graphical user interface (70).
Patent GB-2371001-A (GB)
Title: Pre-separator for a cascade impactor
Inventor: MARPLE VIRGIL A
IPC: B01D45/08
Filed: 2001-12-06
Abstract: A pre-separator for separating out large particles from a fluid flow prior to entry into a cascade impactor (16) comprises a housing (24) which forms a chamber (22) with an inlet (26) and an outlet (14), and a separator plate (28) between the inlet (26)and outlet (14). The separator plate (28) has a series of openings (34) around its periphery. The openings (34) overlap a surface (36) of the housing (24) adjacent the outlet (14) such that fluid flow will flow from the inlet (26), through the openings (34) in the separator plate (28) and strike the surface (36) of the housing (24) adjacent the outlet (14).
Patent GB-2388100-A (GB)
Title: A pallet leg and attachment means
Inventor: GARROD PHILIP
IPC: B65D19/40
Filed: 2002-04-30
Abstract: A leg <B>11</B> for a pallet top <B>10</B> is in the form of a cup with a central column <B>14</B> which has a bore containing an internal formation <B>16</B> which engages with a formation <B>21</B> on a locking pin <B>18</B>. The formations <B>16, 21</B> can be around half or less of the bore and shank <B>20</B> of the pin. Markings <B>31</B> can be included on the pin <B>18</B> and leg <B>11</B> to show the positions of the formations <B>16, 21</B>. The formations <B>16, 21</B> can be parallel serrations lying in planes perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the bore and shank <B>20</B>. The column <B>14</B> can be of a frusto-conical shape with a step <B>30</B> on the interior of the column below the formations <B>16</B> to abut with another leg when stacked.
Patent GB-2372812-A (GB)
Title: Method and tool for imaging a borehole wall
Inventor: WINKLER KENNETH W
IPC: G01V1/52
Filed: 2000-11-03
Abstract: Methods and tools are provided for real time imaging of a borehole wall with sufficiently high resolution to identify vugs, worm holes, thin beds, dip angles, fractures and breakouts, for both open hole logging and logging while drilling in the presence of OBM's. A method is provided which includes transmitting a microsonic pulse into the borehole wall, receiving at first and second spaced-apart receivers a microsonic pulse refracted from the borehole wall, and producing a borehole image data value indicative of difference of arrival times at first and second spaced-apart receivers. This is repeated at a plurality of azimuths and depths to produce an image data set. The method uses compressional pulses and/or pseudo-Raleigh pulses.
Patent GB-2391459-A (GB)
Title: A surface treating appliance with increased manoeuverability
Inventor: COURTNEY STEPHEN BENJAMIN
IPC: A47L9/02
Filed: 2002-08-09
Abstract: A surface treating appliance/suction cleaner comprises a main body 210 and a rolling support assembly 220 rotatably attached thereto. The support assembly 220 may be in the shape of a ball and includes a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and means for acting on the fluid flow received through the inlet. The means for acting on the fluid flow maybe a motor, a suction generating means, a filter, or some other form of separating apparatus. The surface treating appliance maybe generally upright having a longitudinal axis 211 with a support assembly 220 comprising one or more rotatable members which have an outer surface that defines a continuous support surface in the direction parallel to the longitudinal axis 211 of the main body 210. A linkage 235 between the main body 210 and the surface treating head 230 maybe arranged such that rotating the main body 210 about its longitudinal axis 211 causes the surface treating head 230 to turn in a new direction, or such that it allows the surface treating head 230 to remain in contact with the surface as the main body 210 is rotated about its longitudinal axis 211.
Patent GB-2394354-A (GB)
Title: Vibrato device for stringed instruments
Inventor: HINCHLIFFE ROBERT WILLIAM
IPC: G10D3/14
Filed: 2002-09-20
Abstract: The invention provides a vibrato device for use with stringed, preferably guitar-type, instruments having separate bridge and tailpiece assemblies. The invention comprises operating means and attachment means 20, which facilitates removable attachment of the device to the instrument solely by gripping and retaining a length of each string 10 of the instrument at a point between the existing bridge 21 and tailpiece 22 of the instrument, so that rotational forces can be applied to the retained lengths via a hand-operated lever 7. These forces allow the tensions of the strings, and thereby their pitches when notes are sounded, to be varied simultaneously, thus facilitating the creation of a vibrato type effect. As it is attached to the instrument without diectly contacting any part of the instrument other than the strings, the device is simple to attach to, and remove from, an existing instrument without the necessity for modification or removal of parts. The invention discloses a stringed instrument and a guitar comprising a vibrato device.
Patent GB-2394200-A (GB)
Title: A tool for installing and removing pop-up and plugged waste systems
Inventor: SPENCER DELANO
IPC: B25B13/48
Filed: 2002-10-16
Abstract: A plumbing installation and removal tool comprises a rod 1 with a metal handle 3 and cushioned sleeve 2 at one end of the rod 1 and an integrated key device on the other end. The tool aids the installation and removal of pop-up and plugged waste systems for baths, basins and bidets. Preferably the key device comprises a curved section 4 that curves towards the rod 1 from which two lugs 5 protrude that may be attached to the rod 1 by two bars 7 that protrude at fight angles from the side of the rod 1. The lugs 5 may fit recesses in the male section of a pop-up waste system. A peg 6 may protrude from the each of the bars 7 and the base of the rod 1, the pegs protruding away from the handle 3 of the rod 1. The three pegs 6 may fit between the drain spaces in the strainer of a plugged waste system. The handle 3 may be in the form of a 'T bar'.
Patent GB-2400508-A (GB)
Title: An automatic recording device for use with set-top boxes
Inventor: SKELTON CHRIS
IPC: H04N5/761
Filed: 2002-12-18
Abstract: A device 4 that includes or is attached to a connector or adaptor 3 that can be fitted to a video source 2 or recording device 1 or both, or integrated within either, that is able to respond to signals from said video source 1 and on the basis of these signals is able to control a recording device by means of infra red control signals 5.
Patent GB-2385122-A (GB)
Title: Sensitivity of iterative spectrally smooth temperature/emissivity separation to instrument noise
Inventor: INGRAM JR PAUL M
IPC: G01J5/60
Filed: 2001-07-27
Abstract: A method for estimating the error statistic for retrieved temperature and emissivity of a surface material includes determining the second order analytical error propagation from a measured radiance that differs from the true radiance by additive gaussian noise, which is independent in each band. The radiance error is translated into a diagonal covariance matrix and an analytical estimate results in a determination of the standard deviation and bias of surface temperature. Further, the method for estimating the error statistic utilizes Monte Carlo simulation from a sufficiently large ensemble of radiance spectra for the retrieved surface temperature and emissivity. Temperature and emissivity of the surface material were retrieved using ISSTES algorithm.
Patent GB-2381428-A (GB)
Title: System and method for fault tolerant stream splitting
Inventor: SLOSS REED
IPC: H04N21/222
Filed: 2001-06-14
Abstract: A system is described comprising: a primary root splitter to split a data stream transmitted from an upstream server into a plurality of leaf splitter streams; a plurality of leaf splitters to split each of the leaf splitter streams into a plurality of end user streams, wherein one or more of the plurality of leaf splitters is a backup root splitter; and root splitter reassignment logic for reassigning one of the backup root splitters as a new primary root splitter responsive to detecting a problem wiht the primary root splitter. Also described is a method comprising: monitoring a primary root splitter to ensure that the primary root splitter is operating within predefined parameters, the primary root splitter to split a single data stream into multiple data streams transmitted to multiple leaf splitters; and reassigning one of the leaf splitters as a new primary root splitter responsive to detecting that the primary root splitter is not operating within the predefined parameters.
Patent GB-2385141-A (GB)
Title: Network analyzer for measuring antenna properties
Inventor: NOE TERRENCE R
IPC: G01R29/10
Filed: 2003-02-03
Abstract: A network analyzer capable of measuring the antenna return loss in a live cellular network, receives and analyzes (500, 510) the base station transmitted signal to determine which transmit frequencies are active. Based on information relating to the correlation between the transmit frequency and the associated receive frequency, the network analyzer determines (520) the active receive frequencies. An unmodulated source that avoids inclusion of the active receive frequencies is generated by the network analyzer. To fill in the antenna sweep with the previously avoided frequencies, the network analyzer generates (540) another source containing only those avoided frequencies when no calls are active on the avoided frequencies. Alternatively, the antenna return loss on the avoided frequencies is interpolated from the measured frequencies. As a further alternative, the network analyzer receiver determines a nearby frequency to an active frequency, and adaptively measures the nearby frequency as the avoided (active) frequency.
Patent GB-2400784-A (GB)
Title: Rotating cup mechanism
Inventor: YUE SHUNG-HSIUNG
IPC: A47J43/27
Filed: 2003-04-22
Abstract: Aiming to eliminate the need to use an external stirrer in most hot beverage cups, the present rotating cup mechanism includes: an inner cup 20 normally inset in an outer cup 10 and interlocked with a driving module which leads to a push button 37 exposed on the side. When the push button is repeatedly pressed, a rack 371 attached thereto moves its gear wheel 36 to drive axle 35 causing relative rotating motion between the outer and inner cups, generating liquid flows in the cup to achieve a more equilibrium mix of the liquid content. The inner cup 20 is easily removed for cleaning and then reassembled. The cup 20 has inward protrusions 21 to aid mixing and is supported by a ball bearing 31, 32, 33, 34. It may have a lid through which a straw protrudes.
Patent GB-2388090-A (GB)
Title: Steering pump motor phase control
Inventor: ESKRITT JAMES B
IPC: B62D5/065
Filed: 2003-04-30
Abstract: A steering device comprises an electric motor 27 driving a hydraulic pump (26 see fig7). The motor's speed is determined via phase angle control, and involves determining a motor drive target value, taking into account the motor's rotary angle and the output of a steering angular speed sensor 11. The rotary angle is detected by Hall sensors 15 and is monitored in relation to the target value. The motor 27 is typically a triple phase brushless motor, controlled by an electronic control unit 30 through a drive circuit 28. The motor 27 may be controlled via pulse width modulation at low rotational speeds and by phase angle advance control at high speeds with pulse width modulation duty being at 100%. The controller 30 is preferably capable of selecting control via pulse width modulation when a current drawn by the motor 27 exceeds a pretermined limit with 120 { conduction angle and 100% duty cycle.
Patent GB-2401707-A (GB)
Title: Preventing banknotes from being pulled out of a currency storage cabinet
Inventor: CHIEN TIEN-YUAN
IPC: G07D11/00
Filed: 2003-07-10
Abstract: Apparatus for validating and storing banknotes has notes transported from an insertion slot through an angled passageway 30 of a detector unit 3 into a banknote storage cabinet 2. At the entrance to the storage cabinet a spring member 23 having plural fingers 232 extending at an angle into the path of the notes prevents notes being pulled from the cabinet. Further security is provided by a pivoted member 321 which is pivoted into the passageway 30 when a banknote is verified as authentic by the detector unit, preventing then note from being pulled back out of the apparatus, e.g. by string or tape attached to the currency in an attempt to commit fraud.
Patent GB-2404487-A (GB)
Title: Access control for digital storage medium content
Inventor: PELLY JASON CHARLES
IPC: G06F21/10
Filed: 2003-07-31
Abstract: Incorporating the media identifier into the encryption of access data prevents decryption of content data from an unauthorised copy of a medium and thus controls access to that data. Digital data stored on a medium 140 is encrypted 920 using keys of an access bundle 910 which are then encrypted 930 with a session key Ka and stored on the medium 140 to form access data, DATA 1. Session key Ka is combined with a read-only medium identifier DISC ID and encrypted using public keys Kw1 - Kwn and recorded on the medium as DATA 2. Medium 140 maybe an optical disc such as a DVD. Encryption may be symmetric or asymmetric, use a private key and public key pair and incorporate a second encryption scheme such as water marking. Encryption and decryption keys may be held on a removable memory device such as a smart card, and which may itself have a data processing ability to perform encryption.
Patent GB-2404857-A (GB)
Title: Toothbrush holder for disinfecting toothbrushes
Inventor: FRETWELL JASON ALEXANDER
IPC: A46B17/06
Filed: 2003-08-11
Abstract: A container 1 is provided having a base 2 and a liquid receiving chamber. The container is open at the top end and arranged to include a sterilising, disinfecting, antibacterial or sterile liquid 4. The toothbrush is positioned within the container 1 so that the head 12 is received within the liquid 4. A closing member 6 is received within the open end of the container 1 which holds the closing member 6 around the handle 10 of the toothbrush. In this way, the open end of the container is closed retaining the head of the toothbrush in the liquid within the container. The closing member may be integrally formed with the handle of the toothbrush, permanently attached, by e.g. glue or welding, to the toothbrush handle or it may be in the form a collar with can be removably attached to the toothbrush handle. The collar may include two portions that are hingably connected together. The two hinged apart parts are positioned around the handle of the toothbrush (Fig. 2b) and may include a seal 8 which seals against the toothbrush handle as the two parts of the closing member are closed around the handle of the toothbrush. (Fig. 2a). The closing member may be arranged to engage the rim of the open end of the container and be held in place by a clip, or it may be received within the open end and arranged so that the inside wall of the container acts to hold it around the handle of the toothbrush.
Patent GB-2395386-A (GB)
Title: Optical WDM system with chromatic dispersion compensation
Inventor: OKUNO TOSHIAKI
IPC: H04B10/2507
Filed: 2003-08-18
Abstract: This invention relates to an optical transmission system which allows high quality transmission of signal light where a plurality of signal channels are multiplexed, and has a configuration that is particularly suitable for CWDM optical transmission. In the optical transmission system, the plurality of signal channels propagating through the optical fiber transmission line are demultiplexed into a signal channel group in the first wavelength band   G  1 and a signal channel group in the second wavelength band   G  2. Then, each signal channel in the second wavelength band   G  2 where the absolute value of chromatic dispersion is large is dispersion-compensated. When the bit rate is B (Gb/s) at a specific wavelength in the second wavelength band   G  2 where the total chromatic dispersion in the optical fiber transmission line and the dispersion compensator is highest, the chromatic dispersion value at this specific wavelength is set to be grater than 0 (ps/nm) but 7500/B<2> (ps/nm) or less, and is set such that the loss in the second wavelength band   G  2 is lower than the highest loss in the first wavelength band   G  1.
Patent GB-2396950-A (GB)
Title: Active matrix organic electroluminescent display device and method of fabricating the same
Inventor: PARK HAE-YONG
IPC: G09G3/32
Filed: 2003-12-22
Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a substrate (100), a gate line (101) on the substrate (100), a data line (115) crossing the gate line (101) over the substrate (100), a switching thin film transistor (Ts) near the crossing of the gate line (101) and data line (115), a driving thin film transistor system including a plurality of sub-TFTs connected in parallel to the switching thin film transistor (Ts) via a gate base (104), a power line (128) crossing the gate line (101) over the substrate (100) and electrically connected with the plurality of sub-TFTs, a first electrode (134) over the driving thin film transistor system in contact with the plurality of sub-TFTs, an organic electroluminescent layer (136) on the first electrode (134), and a second electrode (138) of transparent material on the organic electroluminescent layer (136). To form a top emission OLED, in an alternative embodiment the organic electroluminescent layer is disposed on an opposite substrate to the substrate on which the TFTs are formed. The OLED is electrically connected to the TFTs via a connection pattern.
Patent GB-2410661-A (GB)
Title: Narrow band tone detection in echo cancelling system
Inventor: JOHNSTON RENEE
IPC: H04B3/23
Filed: 2004-01-30
Abstract: The present invention relates generally to tone detection in echo canceling systems, and more particularly to a method of monitoring oscillations of adaptive filter coefficients for narrow band tone detection in echo cancellation systems. The invention is directed at improving communication in a telephone communication network having one or more hybrid connections. A method for detecting continuous tones in an echo canceling system having an adaptive filter is provided. Continuous tones have a deleterious effect on the performance of adaptive filters. In the present invention, the adaptive filter coefficients are monitored. Oscillation of those coefficients indicates continuous tone presence. The tones may be those used in DTMF dialing.
Patent GB-2399636-A (GB)
Title: Determining formation strength by obtaining formation property measurements at different wellbore pressures
Inventor: BRATTON TOM R
IPC: G01V1/50
Filed: 2004-03-02
Abstract: An in-situ method for evaluating formation strength (eg yield strength, failure strength) comprises obtaining radial formation property measurements at different wellbore pressures and comparing these measurements with a radial stress function which is based on a formation model (eg linear or non-linear elastic, elasto-plastic, plastic or explicit constitutive models) and estimates of far-field stresses (vertical, maximum and minimum horizontal stresses) and wellbore radial stress. The measurements may be acoustic measurements of shear, compressional or Stoneley slowness, or any other measurements (eg resistivity or spontaneous potential) that respond to changes in the wellbore pressure. The changes in wellbore pressure may be encountered during normal drilling activity (eg turning pumps on and off, changing mud weights), or may be actively instigated by the driller.
Patent GB-2397988-A (GB)
Title: A flexible Rake receiver with a plurality of scramble code generators
Inventor: DOLWIN ANTHONY CRAIG
IPC: H04B1/707
Filed: 2001-11-02
Abstract: A flexible rake receiver architecture provides a rake receiver processing system 200 including at least two programmable spreading sequence blocks 224, 226 connected via a multiplexer 232 to one input of a partial correlator module 236. A second input of the partial correlator module is connected to a second multiplexer 234 to allow selection of one of a plurality of delayed IQ samples. A plurality of scrambled code generators 202 is connected to a scramble code bus 208 and each spreading sequence block 224, 226 is provided with a corresponding multiplexer 220, 222 to allow selection of an input from one of the scramble code generators. A plurality of registers 242 allows adaptive configuration of the rake receiver under control of a processor 260. The system allows hardware resources to be time multiplexed and/or reallocated according to received channel conditions and required data rates.
Patent GB-2399505-A (GB)
Title: An external high-power focusing ultrasonic treatment
Inventor: HE SHENXU
IPC: A61B17/22
Filed: 2002-03-15
Abstract: A high-power focusing ultrasonic treatment includes a high-power focusing ultrasonic source and the drive circuit; a location device for seeking the target and moving it to the focus of the ultrasonic transducer. Said location device includes a therapeutic image means, a holding means for holding the patient, and a displacing means for the spatially relatively displacement between the holding means and the wave source; in front of the emitter place of the high-power focusing ultrasonic source, there are a vessel for containing the conductive medium and a means for adding, draining or processing said medium. Thereunto said high-power focusing source is mounted on the source holding device, and is in front of the patient, so that it is an upwardly placed wave source. With the treatment, patient can be treated when he is lying, and it widens the applications of the high-power focusing ultrasonic treatment.
Patent GB-2402334-A (GB)
Title: Coenzyme-Q10 containing pharmaceutical composition with improved bioavailability
Inventor: PARKHIDEH DARYOUSH
IPC: A23L33/15
Filed: 2004-05-28
Abstract: Bioavailability of Coenzyme-Q 10 ("Co-Q10"), an oil-soluble substance, can be enhanced in a subject by modifying, e.g. nanonizing or charging, the form of Co-Q10. Co-Q10 bioavailability also can be enhanced by administering Co-Q10 to the subject as an oil (lipid)-based and water (hydro)-based mixed composition, along with other optional components, such as oils, resins and other carriers. Accordingly, we describe various Co-Q10 compositions, e.g. compositions comprised of (i) Co-Q10 dissolved in one or more Co-Q10-soluble oils and (ii) Co-Q10 in admixture with at least one water-dispersible agent. A Co-Q10 complex therefore yields an increased cell absorption rate, as well as an enhanced percentage of Co-Q10 peak absorption, compared to previously known compounds. Methods for making and using the aforementioned compositions also are provided.