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Patent GB-2259839-A (GB)
Title: Plough body position control device
Inventor: ELIASSEN ODDBJORN
IPC: A01B61/04
Filed: 1992-09-24
Abstract: There is disclosed a plough body position control device which comprises a plough frame (not shown), a plough beam (1) pivotally mounted on the plough frame and carrying a plough body (1') and in which the plough beam is capable of pivoting relative to the plough frame in response to variation in ploughing load applied to the plough body during ploughing e.g. when encountering a buried stone or other obstacle, hold-down means (3, 4) for exerting a hold-down force on the plough body (1') during ploughing and which includes a hydraulic piston/cylinder arrangement (5) to control the hold-down force exerted on the plough body: in which the overload control device comprises a pressure source (8) connected to the piston/cylinder arrangement (5) via a pressure controller (9), a sensor (10) arranged to monitor the position taken-up by the plough beam (1) relative to the plough frame and to respond to movement of the plough beam (1) with the sensor being arranged to issue corresponding sensor signals, and a processor unit (12) arranged to receive signals from the sensor (10) so as to vary the hold-down force exerted on the plough body (1') in response to variation in ploughing load applied to the plough body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262765-A (GB)
Title: Mounting bracket for display apparatus
Inventor: FAIRFIELD GEOFFREY DAVID
IPC: A47F5/08
Filed: 1992-10-21
Abstract: The invention concerns brackets for display apparatus of the kind in which display elements (eg 12) are mounted between parallel reds or cables 11. Brackets 10 and 20 are used, having cable slots 14, 24 for the cable and display element slots 16, 26 for the display element, and with screws 15, 25A, 25B to grip the cable and 17, 27A, 27B to grip the display element. These brackets have substantially rectangular sections viewed along the cable, and are made by cutting off suitable lengths from an extruded rod having the cable and display element slots formed during the extrusion process. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259751-A (GB)
Title: Proportioning valve assembly for mixing valve
Inventor: PULLEN ERIC V
IPC: F16K31/64
Filed: 1992-11-12
Abstract: A mixing valve has a proportioning valve assembly (66) having an inner spool piston (82) slidably mounted in an outer spool (68) which is located in a housing section (42) of the valve. The housing section carries a valve plate (48) which is adjacent hot and cold in lets (14, 16) and rotates with the housing section so that the total inflow to the proportioning valve assembly can be adjusted. The outer spool in conjunction with the housing section defines inlet passages (58, 60) for the flow of hot and cold water from the valve plate, the inner spool being displaceable in response to the inlet fluid pressure to even the flow rates to the downstream part of the housing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261725-A (GB)
Title: A door for a heating appliance
Inventor: EMMERSON GEOFFREY LESLIE
IPC: F24B13/00
Filed: 1992-11-23
Abstract: A door for a heating appliance is hingedly mounted about a vertical axis and comprises at least two sections 9A, 9B hingedly interconnected about a further axis parallel to the mounting axis. The sections are hingedly interconnected such that they may be moved between a first position in which they are aligned with one another and a second position in which they are disposed alongside and parallel to one another. Each section may comprise a glass or glass/ceramic panel surrounded on three sides by a metal frame, the unframed edges 15 of the sections being adjacent one another. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265489-A (GB)
Title: Auditory playing device .
Inventor: YOROZU HIROMU
IPC: G06K19/06
Filed: 1993-03-22
Abstract: An auditory playing device has a plurality of circular or polygonal tone plates 2 marked with respective identification codes 21. Each of the tone plates comprises concentric dark and bright stripes that are placed. one at a time, in a recess 11 defined in a casing 1 substantially in any direction with respect to the recess. The casing houses an array of detectors 12 disposed in the recess for detecting the identification code on the tone plate that is placed in the recess. A microcomputer determines whether a tone plate is placed in the recess based on signals from the detectors. When one of the tone plates is placed in the recess, the microcomputer controls a loudspeaker to produce a sound represented by the identification code on the tone plate placed in the recess. The auditory playing device can easily be handled by children and is effective to train them for sharpening their auditory senses. The detector is suitably an optical detector. The sound produced, may be that associated with e.g, an animal or a piece of music, and each tone plate may carry on its surface a picture of the animal etc (see Figures 11A to 12F). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267153-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for determining the proportion of paramagnetic substance in a mixture
Inventor: SAUERBAUM THOMAS
IPC: G01N27/74
Filed: 1993-05-06
Abstract: An apparatus for determining the proportion of paramagnetic substance, in particular of oxygen, having a magnetic field source (3) and an even-numbered multiple arrangement of magnetic field cores (5) with, in each case, a measuring field coil (7) surrounding the latter for the purpose of detecting the magnetic alternating field generated by a rotatable chamber arrangement (2), is improved such that the formation of stray magnetic fields is reduced and the proportion of the magnetic flux which passes through the chamber arrangement (2) and is effective for measuring is increased. The magnetic polarity of adjacent measuring field coils are aligned in opposite directions. The chamber arrangement (2) is arranged in the housing (1) of the apparatus such that its plane of rotation forms two partial zones (A, B) within the housing (1), the magnetic field source (3) being arranged in one partial zone (A) and the magnetic field cores (5) with the measuring field coils (7) associated with them being arranged in the other partial zone (B). The paramagnetic substance is supplied via inlet 9 and outlet 11. The disc 2 has cutaway portions 8 and is rotated by drive motor 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278745-A (GB)
Title: Power supply for transportation refrigeration system
Inventor: TUBB RONALD
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 1993-06-03
Abstract: An inverter or other device is used to convert a vehicle's generated low voltage, or battery voltage in the case of a battery powered vehicle, into a higher voltage A.C. supply for all or part of a transportation refrigeration unit. The refrigeration unit may be responsive to a low battery voltage and may also be capable of multi-temperature control. The refrigeration unit may be mains powered when the vehicle is stationary.
Patent GB-2278412-A (GB)
Title: Pipe joint
Inventor: STANIFORTH GRAEME
IPC: F16L49/02
Filed: 1993-06-22
Abstract: A plastics pipe joint has internal seal rings 21 and end caps 11 retaining these. Each end cap has an outwardly extending guide sleeve or skirt 31 for guiding pipe ends into the coupling sleeve, particularly in the case of pipes of larger diameter. A flexible rib 33 within the guide 31 wipes contaminants from inserted pipe ends, and a body of lubricant 35 is provided on the inner side of the wiper 33, so that the pipe end need not be lubricated before being inserted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268990-A (GB)
Title: Tieback connector,locking device and running tool
Inventor: NELSON JOHN E
IPC: E21B33/038
Filed: 1993-07-02
Abstract: An internal tieback connector 11 for a subsea wellhead housing 13 has body 19 which lands on wellhead housing 13. A funnel 25 extends overwellhead housing 19. An internal connector element 33 carried by body 19 will engage a profile 17 in wellhead housing 13. A connector actuator 35 when moved axially downward will actuate connector element 33. A tube 43 extends downward from connector actuator 35 and engages the bore 47 of a casing hanger 49. A locking device 57 employs slips (65, Figure 2) to allow downward movement of actuator 35 but prevent upward movement. The locking devices 57 can be released. A running tool (85, Figure 3A) is hydraulically actuated for moving actuator 35 downward and releasing actuator 35 to disconnect tieback connector 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279611-A (GB)
Title: An integrated circuit or smart card.
Inventor: JARVIS CHARLES RICHARD
IPC: G06K19/077
Filed: 1993-07-02
Abstract: A smart card comprises a flexible printed circuit 12 on which components are mounted by means of flexible adhesive 27. The adhesive is the same compound as the encapsulant material and is applied to the printed circuit 12 by screen printing to areas where there are no conductive tracks 13. The electrical connections are made by wire bonding. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269017-A (GB)
Title: A misfire discriminating method for an engine
Inventor: FUJIKI HARUO
IPC: F02P17/12
Filed: 1993-07-19
Abstract: In an i.c. engine management system controlling fuel injection quantity and ignition timing etc. and using plural sensors including crank- and cam-shaft angle sensors comprising discs attached to the respective shafts, misfires are descriminated by measuring engine r.p.m. for a combustion stroke of one cylinder and subtracting this from the corresponding valve for the next cylinder in the firing sequence, and comparing the resultant speed difference with a value corresponding to the preceding pair of cylinders in the sequence or with a weighted average valve, and corrections are made to the speed difference values on the basis of stored data to allow for errors in the form and mounting of the shaft angle sensor discs.
Patent GB-2280745-A (GB)
Title: Electric storage heaters
Inventor: ELLIS GORDON
IPC: F24H7/00
Filed: 1993-08-06
Abstract: A panel 11 is mounted in a vertical plane in a container which is thin in a direction normal to the panel and contains a phase change material as heat storage medium for an electric storage heater. To avoid the stresses on the container which would flow from cyclic expansion/contraction of the phase change material in response to heating/cooling, the heating capacity of electric heating means in the form of a conductor 10 is greater over an upper region of the panel than over lower regions, in order that the phase change material melts from the top down, not from the bottom or the centre up. This may be accomplished by utilising a conductor arranged in rows of undulations with the pitch of the undulations increasing from each row to the next row below. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-933589-A (GB)
Abstract: 933,589. Producing rovings and yarns. SDRUZENI PODNIKU TEXTILNIHO STROJIRENSTVI. April 25, 1960 [April 24, 1959], No. 14345/60. Classes 120 (1) and 120 (2). Rovings and yarns are continuously produced from staple fibres by apparatus comprising groups of converging needles attached to a ring and a guide needle that passes through the points at which the groups of needles converge. In one form, Fig. 2, two groups of needles 2, 3 are attached to the periphery of ring 1 and a further group of needles 4<SP>1</SP> are pivoted to the ring and so weighted that, when the ring 1 is rotated, the needle points are pressed firmly together. The guide needle 5 passes through the apices of all the groups of needles. Fibres are fed through a tube 7 by an air, water or other fluid stream and are caught up by the needles and, it is stated, drawn out into rovings. One embodiment described has all the needles fixed to the ring. Fibres may be taken from a card cylinder by suction tubes and carried directly to feed tubes, such as 7. In one application, particularly for worsted yarn production, fibres pass through rollers 30, 31, over a sawtooth roller 30 to a suction device 35 feeding to a rotary needle device 36. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 880,963.
Patent GB-2287421-A (GB)
Title: Process of preparing lenses
Inventor: TOMNEY JOHN
IPC: B29D11/00
Filed: 1994-03-04
Abstract: A process of preparing a lens 1 uses a de-blocking step to remove the lens 1 from a wax mount 7. In the de-blocking step the wax 7 is only partially dissolved so that the lens remains associated with the wax but can be easily removed therefrom. For the de-blocking step, the wax is treated with a terpene under conditions of agitation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279424-A (GB)
Title: Piston rod guide for a vibration damper
Inventor: FOERSTER ANDREAS
IPC: F16F9/36
Filed: 1994-03-31
Abstract: A vibration damper 1 has a casing tube 3, a pressure tube 5 filled with a damping medium and in which works a piston carried by a piston rod 13 located by a piston rod guide 17, a compensating chamber 7 being formed between the casing tube and the pressure tube, and a piston rod seal (11) closing off the damper from atmosphere. The guide 17 comprises a one-piece sheet metal stepped annular member defining guide or abutment surfaces for a bearing bush 15 for the piston rod, the casing tube 3, the pressure tube 5 and the piston rod seal 11, and also defines a reservoir 25 connected by return flow openings to the compensating chamber. The guide 17 has radially small restrictor passages (29) leading from the return flow openings (27) to the compensating chamber (7) to avoid frothing of the damping medium. The guide is arranged for inexpensive manufacture. In an alternative embodiment (Fig. 3) an extension stop buffer (16) is provided, and return flow openings (27) are formed in a radissued portion of the stepped guide. In a still further embodiment (Figure 4) a venting ring (51) is located adjacent the return flow openings (27). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285609-A (GB)
Title: Clipless pedal with two-part sprung cleat
Inventor: CHENG WEN-HENG
IPC: B62M3/08
Filed: 1994-05-18
Abstract: A pedal device includes a combined cleat 10 which is composed of two parts 3, 4 connected to one another by a pair of spring-biased cylinders 39, 45 and a compression spring 37 so as to be spaced apart resiliently at a predetermined gap. The front part 3 of the cleat has a protrusion 33 that engages in a front claw 52 of the pedal member, and the sprung rear part has protrusions 42 that releasably engage projections 535 on the rear of the pedal body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281430-A (GB)
Title: Artificial neural circuit
Inventor: SHIN JONG-HAN
IPC: G06F15/18
Filed: 1994-08-26
Abstract: An artificial neural circuit uses pulse coding such as stochastic pulse coding or noise feedback pulse coding. The circuit has a synapse circuit section 10 for producing a current proportional to a weight voltage signal Wij and an externally applied current signal Sj(t) a neuron body circuit section 20 for spacio-temporally integrating the output signal of the synapse circuit section 10, and an axon hillock circuit 30 for converting the analog voltage signal from the neuron body circuit section 20 into a pulse train using a predetermined reference signal r(t). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2306654-A (GB)
Title: Surface measuring apparatus
Inventor: ONYON PETER DEAN
IPC: G01B21/20
Filed: 1995-10-31
Abstract: A stylus 8 is carried at one end 7a of a support arm 7 mounted so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis to allow the stylus 8 to follow a surface 10a during relative movement between the stylus 8a and the surface 10a. A drive arrangement is responsive to pivotal movement of the support arm 7 to drive the support arm 7 to maintain the support arm at a substantially constant attitude. A measuring arrangement is provided for measuring the displacement of the stylus 8. The measuring arrangement uses a measuring element 91 mounted to the one end of the support arm 7 adjacent the stylus. The measuring arrangement may be an interferometer and the measuring element a corner cube 91 mounted so as to be aligned with the tip 8a of the stylus 8. Another arrangement may include a plurality of support members each carrying a stylus at one end.
Patent GB-2308330-A (GB)
Title: Saw guard arrangement
Inventor: GARUGLIERI ANDREA
IPC: B27G19/02
Filed: 1995-12-22
Abstract: A saw 1 comprises a frame 3, a table 5 mounted in the frame 3 and adapted to adopt two positions, a saw assembly 17 pivoted with respect to the table whose blade 19 protrudes through a slot 21 in the table, in a first of said two positions of the table 5 the saw assembly 17 being above the table, the saw 1 thereby forming a chop saw, and, in a second of said two positions of the table, the saw assembly 17 being below the table 5 and the saw 1 thereby forming a bench saw, the saw 1 further comprising a guard 27 which, when the table 5 is in the second of the two positions, protects a user from the blade 19 protruding through the slot 21, the guard 27 being supported by a linkage which, if a force greater than a predetermined force is applied to the guard 27, releases the guard 27 to prevent damage to the linkage or the guard 27. Such linkage may comprise a spring 79 loaded latch pin 81 holding the guard 27 in its operating position by engaging in a recess 87. This mechanism is located at the pivot joint 59.
Patent GB-959457-A (GB)
IPC: H05B3/60
Abstract: 959,457. Electric salt bath furnace electrode assemblies. AJAX ELECTRIC CO. Dec. 30, 1960 [May 27, 1960], No. 44777/60. Heading H5H. An electrode assembly for use in an electric salt bath furnace includes a solid metal bar intended to dip into the molten salt; a plurality of spaced parallel laminµ, connected to busbars, arranged side by side and attached to the bar near one of its ends, such that the end of the bar projects above the side of, and thereby forms a guard portion for, the laminµ in the neighbourhood of their attachment to the bar; and passages for the circulation of coolant through the bar and the laminµ. The laminµ 101, 102, 103, Fig. 16, are welded at one end to the bar 100, which may be of square cross-section of 4-inch edge, and can be held in position, with the bar dipping into the molten salt, by the insulator 106 and components 105 and 107. The bar near its point of attachment to the laminµ and the laminµ near their connection at their other end with bus-bars, e.g. 104, are cooled by circulation of coolant round the path 108, 129, 131, 145. When installed in a salt bath, with one face of the bar 100 flat against the pot wall, that portion of the bar in the vicinity of the molten salt surface is protected from corrosion by ceramic blocks in contact with the bar, and of L or T-shape. The latter are supported by the horizontal arm of the L, or by the ends of the cross-arm of the T, resting on either the top of the pot wall, or on piers of ceramic blocks built out from the pot wall below the molten salt level (Figs. 1, 8 and 9 to 14, not shown). Arrangements of two, three and more electrodes are described (Figs. 5, 9 and 20, not shown). In a modification (Figs. 1, 2 and 3, not shown), the coolant passages in the laminae do not pass into the bar 100. Specifications 835,123 and 835,126 are referred to.
Patent GB-960981-A (GB)
IPC: B60Q1/42
Abstract: 960,981. Vehicle switch arrangements. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION. Sept. 28, 1962 [Nov. 6, 1961(2)], No. 36870/62. Heading G4Q. [Also in Division H2] An automobile switch arrangement comprises a direction indicator switch, a headlight dimmer switch and a single manual control member connected to actuate both switches. Both switches are mounted on the steering column, and an actuator ring mounted on the steering column is angularly movable about a first axis parallel to the steering column to actuate the direction indicator switch, the angular movement being effected by the manual control member, which is attached to the actuator ring. The control member is also movable about a second axis at right angles to the first axis to actuate the dimmer switch. Two embodiments are described. In the first of these (Fig. 1) the manual control member 18 is rigidly attached to the actuator ring 20 so that this is angularly movable about the second axis as well. Attached to the actuator ring is a pin 30 which actuates a crank arm 34 when it is rotated, thus rotating a shaft 36. Also attached to the actuator ring is a finger 40 which acts so as to pull the shaft 36 when the member 18 is pulled against a spring 52. At the other end of the shaft 36 are the dimmer switch 66 operated by the outward movement of the arm 72 (see Fig. 4) and the direction indicator switch 64, operated by the arm 68, fixed to the shaft 36. A self cancelling mechanism is contained in the actuator housing 14. In the second embodiment (Fig. 5) the manual control marker 134 is pivoted at 132 to the actuator ring 118 so that when moved about the second axis the actuator ring is not moved. Angular movement of the lever 134 about the steering column rotates the actuator ring and causes finger 192 to operate the crank arm 194 and hence the wire 196 and the direction indicator switch 198. If the operating lever is pulled against the spring 138, the wire link 146 is moved axially downward to operate the dimmer switch 140.
Patent GB-2313688-A (GB)
Title: Character input apparatus and method
Inventor: WU SHUI KWONG
IPC: G06F3/00
Filed: 1996-05-29
Abstract: Apparatus (100) for inputting ideographical characters, comprises a plurality of stroke keys (112) representing respective predetermined character strokes (A1/2/3, B1/2/3, C1/2/3 & DI/2/3), a memory storing a set of characters or character parts, a display (120) for displaying the stored characters or character parts, and a central processing unit which is programmed to search for characters or character parts from the set that match with a sequential order in which the stroke keys are depressed and to display such characters or character parts on the display (120) upon each depression of the stroke keys (112). The stroke keys (112) are arranged in groups (A, B, C & D) according to geometrical configuration of the strokes, with the stroke keys of each group positioned together, for easy and quick access by users.
Patent GB-2307728-A (GB)
Title: Snap mount throttle position sensor
Inventor: FEDISON JR WALTER WILLIAM
IPC: F16K27/02
Filed: 1996-11-12
Abstract: A Throttle body assembly for use in the air intake system of an internal combustion engine. The throttle body assembly includes a plastic throttle body housing 12 and a throttle position sensor 260 mounted thereto. The housing 120 and throttle position sensor 200 each have a mounting flange 120, 130, with one flange telescopically insertable into a pocket in the other flange. A snap fit mechanism will securely hold the two mounting flanges together in the proper orientation.
Patent GB-2307571-A (GB)
Title: Automatically generating a document type definition
Inventor: TAKASAWA TORU
IPC: G06F40/143
Filed: 1996-11-13
Abstract: A document type definition (hereafter referred to as DTD) of SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language) is automatically generated. A user prepares a plurality of sample documents provided with tags in accordance with the syntax of SGML about a document type for which the user wants to create a DTD. These sample documents are input from a sample inputting unit 10 and a structure information extracting unit 12 extracts logical structure information from the tags of the sample documents. A structure list processing unit 14 creates a structure list in accordance with the extracted information. When processing of all prepared sample documents is completed, a DTD creating unit 16 generates a DTD by analyzing the structure list.
Patent GB-2311258-A (GB)
Title: Hydrodynamic apparatus such as a fin stabiliser or rudder blade
Inventor: EHLUSS HEINZ-GUNTER
IPC: F15D1/12
Filed: 1997-03-06
Abstract: Hydrodynamic apparatus, such as a fin stabiliser or rudder blade for connection to the hull of a watercraft, comprises a main body 1 which is made blunter in the region of an upstream head end than in the region of a downstream end and a secondary body 2 coupled to the main body 1 and arranged behind the downstream end in the flow direction and provided with a through-flow passage 9. The secondary body 2 is adjustably rotatable about a transverse axis 10 with respect to the main body 1. As shown the secondary body has a circular cross-section outline and the passage 9 may diverge (Figs 9 and 10). Alternatively the secondary body may comprise two diverging members (17,18,Figs 11 and 12).