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Patent GB-2273388-A (GB)
Title: Educational aid.
Inventor: SZMIDLA ANDREW
IPC: G06K19/06
Filed: 1993-11-15
Abstract: In an Educational Aid, representations of objects are contained in a document along with codes adjacent each object (Fig. 1 not shown). The aid includes a code reader connected to a transducer for converting the read code into humanly detectable signals such as audio or visual signals. The user can read the code to learn the name of the object whose code he is reading. The code can be a bar code, and may be invisible, formed for example as a magnetic pattern. A special type of bar code is disclosed, comprising a plurality of non-intersecting closed curves surrounding one another. Suitably, the code follows the outline of the object. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285001-A (GB)
Title: Carpet grip or nail-strip quard for use in painting skirting boards
Inventor: BUNTING JAMES STANLEY
IPC: B05B12/28
Filed: 1993-12-23
Abstract: Skirting boards 2 are rubbed down and painted, after detaching the edge of the carpet 5 from the carpet grip or nail-strip 3, using a guard 9 which covers the nail-strip to prevent injury to the hand. The guard includes a front edge 6, contacting the floor between the skirting board and nail-strip, and a rear edge 7 seating on the floor adjacent the rolled back carpet 5 so that the guard does not exert any pressure on the protruding nails. The guard includes a handle 10.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2287635-A (GB)
Title: Bird Feeder
Inventor: WHITTLES FRANKLYN BRIAN
IPC: A01K39/012
Filed: 1994-03-26
Abstract: A bird feeder comprises a tubular container 10 for food, having a number of access ports 14 so that birds may reach the food, which settles under gravity onto a base 22. In order to make even the last few particles available to the birds the base has sloping faces 24/26 which shed the food to the outer periphery of the base and into concave recesses 28 which are aligned with the access ports 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277105-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus and process for the continuous dyeing of mesh material using a steamer
Inventor: OSCHATZ CHRISTIAN
IPC: D06B3/10
Filed: 1994-03-30
Abstract: A modified steamer (D) comprising a heatable conduit (5), through which a substrate (S) can be introduced into the steamer (D) so that the substrate (S) can be preheated directly prior to contact with the steam. The conduit may have a rectangular or irregular polygonal cross-section. The steamer D is part of a dyeing apparatus comprising trough 1 for applying a dyestuff to substrate S, foulard 3 for removing excess liquid, rollers 4 for introducing substrates into steamer D, a trough 7 for applying a levelling agent and rollers 11a, 11a for fixing the dyestuff on substrate S in fixing area D3. The substrate may be polyester, synthetic polyamide material or polyacrylonitrile fibres, or mixture of such fibres. If cellulosic material, e.g. cotton, is used then fluorotriazinyl group containing dyestuff or fluorochloropyrimidyl group containing dyestuff, vinyl sulphone group containing dyestuff or double anchor reactive dyestuff may be used. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283273-A (GB)
Title: An alignment device
Inventor: GODWIN DAMION PAUL
IPC: E04G21/18
Filed: 1994-10-21
Abstract: An alignment device (30) comprises a body (32) which is mountable to a reference point member (52) such as a builders profile post. The body (32) extends around the reference point member whereby portions of the body are arranged adjacent opposite faces portions of the reference point member. The body (32) defines at least one line receiving means (40, 50) in the form of a channel or notch arranged to receive a line. The line receiving means (40, 50) is located such that, when the body (32) is attached to a reference point member (52), the line receiving means (40, 50) is spaced from the reference point member (52) by a predetermined transverse distance in order to align the bricks at an offset location from the bricks at the corners. The body (32) is resiliently engageable with the post (52). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282599-A (GB)
Title: Epoxy modified polyamines and their dithiocarbamic salts useful as water clarifiers
Inventor: RIVERS GORDON T
IPC: C07C217/32
Filed: 1993-05-12
Abstract: Dithiocarbamic salts made from the reaction products of certain polyamines and epoxides have been found to be useful to clarify water, particularly the oil-in-water emulsions which accompany crude oil production. The water clarification may be accomplished by demulsification or flocculation. The polyamine reaction products themselves are novel and may have structure (II) where R" is selected from the group consisting of the structure: -R-NH2 and ( alpha ), where R is selected from the group consisting of straight, branched or cyclic alkylene moieties; arylene moieties; substituted straight, branched or cyclic alkylene moieties; substituted arylene moieties or mixtures thereof; and where R' is: -(CH2)m-O-R-O-(CH2)m- where n and m independently range from 1 to 5 and q is 0 or 1. The dithiocarbamic salts made from these polyamines also find use as corrosion inhibitors. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289527-A (GB)
Title: Ventilation system for vehicular lamps
Inventor: OHTSUKA YASUSHI
IPC: F21V31/03
Filed: 1995-05-02
Abstract: A ventilation system for a vehicular lamp including a communication hole formed in the vehicular lamp; a first peripheral wall projecting from a rear surface of the lamp at a position where said first peripheral wall surrounds said communication hole; an upper and lower water preventive walls projecting from said first peripheral wall downwardly of said communication hole; a second peripheral wall surrounding said first peripheral wall, said second peripheral wall projecting from the rear surface of the lamp; a lid member engaging with said second peripheral wall for covering said first and second peripheral walls; a first space defined between the lamp, said lid member and said first peripheral wall, said first space communicating through said communication hole with the lamp chamber; a second space defined between the lamp, said lid member and said upper and lower water preventive walls, said second space communicating with said first space through a first communication passage formed at a first position in the lateral direction; and a third space defined between the lamp, said lid member, said lower water preventive wall and said second peripheral wall, said third space communicating with said second space through a second communication passage formed at a second position opposite to said first position, said third space communicating with atmosphere. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2291192-A (GB)
Title: Leakage detection
Inventor: BOWLING MICHAEL
IPC: F28D7/00
Filed: 1994-12-14
Abstract: A vessel such as a dairy pasteuriser having a path (B) for product and a separate path (A) for coolant in intimate relationship is tested for leaks by circulating a donor fluid under pressure in path (A) whilst a recipient fluid such as clean tap water is circulated in path (E). If the donor fluid is an electolyte, a probe (12) is placed in path (B) to measure the conductivity of the recipient fluid. A rise in conductivity over a period indicates leakage between the two paths, the rate of change indicating the size of the leak. Alternatively, the donor fluid can be a gas, and leakage detected using an ultrasound probe. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295677-A (GB)
Title: Measuring the concentration of ions in a solution
Inventor: BELFORD RONA ELIZABETH
IPC: G01N27/02
Filed: 1995-11-16
Abstract: The concentration of ions in a solution is measured by applying an a. c. signal across an ion-sensitive material immersed in the solution and measuring at least one of the real and imaginary components of the impedance of the material. The frequency is selected to be one at which the out-of-phase component of the impedance is sensitive to changes in the ion concentration. The ions may be solvated H+ ions with the measurement indicating the pH. A probe for use in the method comprises two metal electrodes encased in pH sensitive glass, or two electrodes coated independently with ion-sensitive glass, then fritted together.
Patent GB-2298399-A (GB)
Title: Fifth wheel type clasps latching an adjustable bogie in fore and aft movement.
Inventor: RAVEN KEVIN WILLIAM
IPC: B62D53/06
Filed: 1996-02-16
Abstract: A trailer 1 comprises a chassis section 2 and a wheeled bogie section 3 which is slidably connected to the chassis section 2 and relatively movable between forwards and rearwards positions. The bogie section 3 has a striker pin 9 and the chassis section 2 has two fifth wheel clasp mechanisms 10,11 which automatically receive and retain the striker pin 9 to lock the sections 2,3 in place when the sections are moved fore and aft. The clasp mechanisms 10,11 may each be manually or pneumatically unlocked to allow the sections to be moved to another of the positions. One embodiment allows for the clasp supports 100 to be adjusted fore and aft by a pneumatically moved pin in hole arrangement 106.
Patent GB-2297181-A (GB)
Title: Data replication
Inventor: JAIN SANDEEP
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1994-09-09
Abstract: The present invention provides the ability to replicate modifications to a data item made at a local site to multiple remote sites in a peer-to-peer environment. Information regarding these replicated modifications (e.g., insert, delete or update) and associated exceptional occurances are contained in a set of replication tables which include transaction table, transaction nodes tables, calls table, call tables and an exceptions table as shown in fig. 3. The present invention provides both value-oriented row-level and logic-oriented procedure-level replications. The row-level replication uses the new and old values of a data item at an originating site to modify the remote site and the procedure-level replication modifies the remote sites based on the logical operation used to modify data at an originating site. The present invention further provides a trigger, a procedure that is executed every time a modification is made to a data item, which queues the entries in the replication tables. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2300713-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic cylinder piston position sensing with compensation for piston velocity
Inventor: CRAYTON JOHN W
IPC: G01B15/00
Filed: 1996-04-01
Abstract: An electromagnetic wave piston position sensing system 13, 16, 17 in which tabulated resonance width related information is stored in a form correlated with piston travel so that measured resonance width information can be compared with the stored information in determining piston position, and compensation for the velocity of the piston is provided by correction for a time difference in serial sensing between the initial and the following extremes of a resonance signal as the piston moves. The compensation is developed from velocity information identified through previous and current processing cycles.
Patent GB-2298979-A (GB)
Title: Pipeline ADC with scaled elements
Inventor: DEDIC IAN JUSO
IPC: H03M1/02
Filed: 1993-09-06
Abstract: A pipeline ADC includes a series of similar voltage conversion stages ST1, ST2, ST3, in which the capacitors 2, buffer input transistors sizes 31, and the operating current of the transistors 31 are reduced in succeeding stages, for example by a factor of 2, to achieve an improved trade-off between overall noise and power consumption. Scaling may be terminated after the first 5 or 6 stages. The switches 1, the drains of the transistors 31, and the wells in which the devices 1 and 31 are integrated, may be bootstrapped to reduce charge injection variation.
Patent GB-2305915-A (GB)
Title: 2-Chloro-4-methylphenol preparation
Inventor: MAIS FRANZ-JOSEF
IPC: C07C37/62
Filed: 1996-09-27
Abstract: 2-Chloro-4-methylphenol is prepared by reacting 4-methylphenol with a chlorinating agent in the presence of a catalyst system of one or more Lewis acids in a total amount of 0.1-10 % by weight and one or more diaryl sulphides in a total amount of 0.1-10 % by weight, all based on the amount of 4-methylphenol. The reaction temperature is 0-100{C. The chlorinating agent is used in an amount of 0.5-1.5 mole per mole of 4-methylphenol. The reaction can be carried out until virtually complete consumption of the 4-methylphenol, high isomeric selectivity and high stage selectivity being observed.
Patent GB-2307834-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for controlling data transfer
Inventor: ONO HIROSHI
IPC: H04L69/40
Filed: 1996-11-29
Abstract: A method and data transfer control unit for controlling a data transfer between a calling device and a called device, includes a first device for sending, from the calling device to the called device, a control signal for informing the called device of a data transfer format. A second device sends, from the called device to the calling device, a response signal for defining whether the data transfer format defined by the control signal has a predetermined state.
Patent GB-2316624-A (GB)
Title: Golf ball
Inventor: YABUKI YOSHIKAZU
IPC: A63B37/00
Filed: 1997-06-27
Abstract: The present invention provides a golf ball having a good shot feel, good controllability, high rebound characteristics and a good flight performance. The golf ball of the present invention is composed of a core and a cover covering the core, wherein the cover contains an ionomer prepared by neutralizing a terpolymer of ethylene, acrylic or methacrylic acid and an acrylic ester with magnesium ion, in an amount of from 5 to 100% by weight based on the total resin amount of the cover.
Patent GB-2327423-A (GB)
Title: Ligands, including antibodies, showing reactivity against anti-T-cell receptor (anti-TCR) antibodies for use in therapy and diagnosis
Inventor: MATOSSIAN-ROGERS ARPI
IPC: G01N33/564
Filed: 1997-07-21
Abstract: Ligands, including monoclonal antibodies and polyclonal antibodies, having reactivity against anti-TCR Vbeta antibodies, or glycosyl phosphatidyl inositol (GPI)-linked TCR Vbeta chains or fragments thereof (including linkage epitopes), are of use in the diagnosis and therapy of insulin-dependant diabetes mellitus (IDDM), non-IDDM, and organ and non-organ specific diseases in general.
Patent GB-2315905-A (GB)
Title: Simulation system
Inventor: HARRIS PETER LYON
IPC: G09B23/30
Filed: 1997-07-25
Abstract: A simulation system suitable for practising endovascular repair surgery involving insertion of a graft, comprises a model (10) of a repair site, the model having an inlet (16) and one or more outlets (20, 22), means (26) for transporting fluid through the model via the inlet and the outlet and means for inserting the graft. The model may be formed of clear, elastomeric material and may represent an aortic aneurysm provided with supra renal inlets and outlets. The inlet may be connected to a fluid reservoir (24) via a pump (26) to provide pulsatile flow of fluid through the model. The fluid may be an aqueous solution of glycerol. An outlet line may include a connection through which a graft may be introduced into the model. The insertion is monitored, suitably by means of a video camera which may be connected to a computer programmed to provide fixed frame images.
Patent GB-2316448-A (GB)
Title: An intake manifold with single point fuel injection
Inventor: OTANI ASAHIKO
IPC: F02M69/04
Filed: 1997-08-18
Abstract: An fuel injector 3 with a plurality of linearly aligned nozzle ports (figures 2 and 3) is placed in an intake manifold 2 downstream of a throttle valve 4 but immediately upstream of a branch section 2a, 2b, 2c in the manifold 2. Each nozzle port directs a spray of fuel at a branch opening and the injector 3 is arranged within the manifold 2 so the air flowing from throttle to the branch section has minimal disturbance on the distribution of the fuel spray. Such an arrangement may involve the stem of the throttle valve 4 being parallel with the linearly aligned nozzle ports of fuel injector 3 and an auxiliary intake tube 8 introducing air with a flow direction overlapping a direction of the central nozzle port 2dj.
Patent GB-2323942-A (GB)
Title: Control of a humidifier with an ultrasonic vibrator and a water heater
Inventor: JUNG WOONG
IPC: F24F11/00
Filed: 1997-12-05
Abstract: A combination type humidifier with a heater and an ultrasonic vibrator has a system for preventing the ultrasonic vibrator from being thermally damaged due to a heat produced by the heater. First, a current humidity of a space, a water temperature of a humidifying chamber and a target humidity set by a user are detected. When the current humidity is higher than the target humidity, a fan motor begins to operate for a rapid heat loss. Otherwise, when the target humidity is higher than the current humidity, an error message concerning the setting of the target humidity is displayed and the fan motor is driven for a predetermined time (figure 3a). The heater is controlled so that the water temperature of the humidifying chamber is kept below a limit temperature that is set for protecting the ultrasonic vibrator, while the ultrasonic vibrator and the heater are simultaneously operated by a user's selection. Under these conditions, when a user selects a high vapour-producing "turbo" mode, the turbo mode is changed to a mode in which the quantity of produced vapour is less than in the turbo mode, and then the ultrasonic vibrator is operated (figures 3b and 3c). Alternatively, when the heater is not operated, and a low mode of vapour production is selected by the user, the mode is switched up to a higher vapour-producing mode (figure 3b).
Patent GB-2323759-A (GB)
Title: Audio coding and decoding with compression
Inventor: YIN LIN
IPC: H04N7/50
Filed: 1998-03-12
Abstract: A method of coding an audio signal comprises receiving an audio signal x to be coded and transforming the received signal from the time to the frequency domain. A quantised audio signal is generated from the transformed audio signal # together with a set of long-term prediction coefficients A which can be used to predict a current time frame of the received audio signal directly from one or more previous time frames of the quantised audio signal #. A predicted audio signal # is generated using the prediction coefficients A. The predicted audio signal # is then transformed from the time to the frequency domain and the resulting frequency domain signal compared with that of the received audio signal x to generate an error signal E(k) for each of a plurality of frequency sub-bands. The error signals E(k) are then quantised to generate a set of quantised error signals # (k) which are combined with the prediction coefficients A to generate a coded audio signal.
Patent GB-2330433-A (GB)
Title: Data caching in a client/server database system
Inventor: IKUTA MASANAO
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1998-03-18
Abstract: Disclosed is a caching system for use in a distributed client-server driven database system. The system comprises a database administered by a server which receives requests for access to the database from the client(s). A device (which may be memory) for retaining a duplicate of reference request data sent from the server is provided. This cache preferentially transmits data should a repeat request be made to the server, saving the server from having to re-access the database. The cache is updated when the server is idle, i.e. as a background task, and updates whenever either an access request is made to the database or the database data is modified. The advantages are: that access to the database is speeded up, the information in the cache remains current, regular periodic updating of the cache is avoided, and the ability to check user authorisation permissions with respect to the cached data returned to the client. Disclosed in detail is a system for remote conferencing using such a cached database access management system.
Patent GB-2331196-A (GB)
Title: Gamma correction method and apparatus
Inventor: TAKAYAMA AKINOLI
IPC: G09G5/10
Filed: 1998-05-08
Abstract: The present invention provides an image conversion apparatus 2 capable of matching the luminance variation ratio in the display unit of a television receiver 3 with a video signal outputted from a computer 1. The first γ correction circuit 21 receives the video signal outputted from the computer. This video signal intends to be inputted to a CRT display unit, therefore, the video signal is provided with an inverse γ property corresponding to the luminance property of the CRT display unit. The first correction circuit 21 applies they γ correction operation to the video signal so as to remove the inverse γ property in the video signal. The linear arithmetic circuit 22 applies the linear operation to the output from the first y correction circuit. The second γ correction circuit 23 applies the y operation to the output from the linear arithmetic circuit so as to provide an inverse y property counteracting the y property of a cathode-ray tube of the television receiver 3.
Patent GB-2327650-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle suspension system
Inventor: KARMIOS LOUIS
IPC: F16F9/096
Filed: 1995-05-18
Abstract: A rocker unit for a vehicle suspension system comprises a first site 9 for pivotable connection to an upper suspension element 1, a second site to receive a lower suspension element 2, the first and second sites being spaced apart from one another, and a third site 11 for pivotal connection to a suspension element comprising or connected to a damping unit 7 of a suspension system, the third site 11 being spaced apart from the first and second sites and located below the second site, a portion of the rocker unit between the second and third sites defining a moment arm such that a force or a component of a force acting on the third site creates a moment about the second site. The suspension elements may be wishbones, and the damper connected as shown, or alternatively inboard on chassis 3 (Fig 4, not shown). The upper wishbones on either side may be connected by a damper whose movement is subject to a torsion member (Fig 6, not shown). Constructions of dampers are described (Figs 7 and 8, not shown).
Patent GB-2346984-A (GB)
Title: System for co-ordinating reservations of meeting rooms
Inventor: BAIRD GEOFFREY
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 1999-02-17
Abstract: A system for co-ordinating the reservation of a number of facilities such as meeting rooms comprises reservation devices at each room in the system. The devices are in communication with a central reservation system and display information relating to the reservation status of the rooms. Optionally, the devices may be able to communicate for instance reservation requests or cancellations to said central system.
Patent GB-2349269-A (GB)
Title: Ion implanter
Inventor: MITCHELL ROBERT JOHN CLIFFORD
IPC: C23C14/48
Filed: 1999-04-19
Abstract: In an ion implanter, a substrate to be implanted is held on a unit 24a,b comprising a substrate holder 40a,b which is rotatable about an axis C at the end of an arm 38a,b which is mounted on a hub 32a,b to be pivotable about an axis B, the hub 32a,b in turn being pivotable about an axis A. Such an arrangement allows the substrate to be scanned through the ion beam I and for the angle of ion implantation to be adjusted. The substrate holder can also be moved into a horizontal position above the ion beam to enable the substrate to be loaded and unloaded. As shown, two such units 24a,b are provided, with the movements being coordinated such that one substrate may be moved from a position in the ion beam to a loading/unloading position while another substrate is moved from the loading/unloading position into the beam.