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Patent GB-2363728-A (GB)
Title: Golf ball with multiple shell layers
Inventor: MOLITOR ROBERT P
IPC: A63B37/12
Filed: 1999-03-29
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a golf ball comprising a spherical shell (88, 102) which includes at least an inner first layer (94, 108), a second layer (90, 104), and a third layer (92, 106), the second layer being sandwiched between the first layer (94, 108) and the third layer (92, 106), and a core which substantially fills the spherical shell (88, 102), the core comprising at least one of a liquid, a gel and a melt. The sum of the thickness of the first layer (94, 108), second layer (90, 104) and third layer (92, 106) is 0.10-0.30 inches. The spherical shell (88, 102) as opposed to the core, is primarily responsible for the high initial velocity obtained when the golf ball is struck by a golf club so as to allow the golf ball to be driven long distances both in the air and on the ground when it lands. A method of making the golf ball also is disclosed. The golf ball is particularly well-suited for use by players seeking a long distance ball with a low spin rate.
Patent GB-2380731-A (GB)
Title: Hot water bottle opener
Inventor: CARPENTER RANDHER
IPC: B67B7/18
Filed: 2001-10-12
Abstract: A hot water bottle opener made out of plastics material comprises a shaft fitted with a handle at one end, joined in a perpendicular arrangement, and a socket-like housing at the other end. The socket slots over a stopper of the hot water bottle, when turned it tightens or loosens/opens the stopper.
Patent GB-2381088-A (GB)
Title: State recovery and counter increments and decrements
Inventor: STERLING KEITH
IPC: G06F11/00
Filed: 2001-10-15
Abstract: A method of recovering the state of a system, which system comprises at least one counter, which counter represents an instantaneous state of an entity in a system. The counter will increase in value in response to an increment request and decrease in value in response to a decrement request, wherein each increment request is paired with a decrement request. When a system failure occurs, and the counter is reset, the system can distinguish between known decrement requests, i.e. those corresponding to increment requests, and unknown decrement requests, i.e. those corresponding to increment requests received in the initial state so that the counters converge to the true state of the system.
Patent GB-2363539-A (GB)
Title: Improved data structure and methods for providing an interactive program guide
Inventor: GORDAN DONALD F
IPC: H04N5/445
Filed: 2000-04-14
Abstract: A data structure (fig. 1) suited to efficiently representing a plurality (fig. 8) of image streams (A, B) including common and non-common portions (fig. 5, items 532, 536). Specifically, a plurality of similar group of picture (GOP) data structures representing the corresponding plurality of image streams including common and non-common portions (fig. 5, items 532, 536) is adapted to provide first and seccond stream comprising only P-picture, and B-picture access units of one of the similar GOP data structures (fig. 5, items 526, 520). In this manner, the redundant P-picture and B-picture access units within the encoded streams are eliminated, thereby greatly reducing the bandwidth or memory resources (fig. 4, item 470) needed to transmit or store the plurality of image streams (A, B).
Patent GB-2383575-A (GB)
Title: A lifting apparatus with load sensing means
Inventor: FINCH STEVEN CAFFALL
IPC: B60P1/44
Filed: 2001-12-28
Abstract: A lifting apparatus such as a hydraulic tail lift 1 of a vehicle 2, is equipped with load sensing means such as a hydraulic fluid pressure sensor 10. As an object is raised or lowered by the apparatus, the initial sensed load is stored as a reference value, and this value is continuously compared with the sensed load during the lifting/lowering cycle using an electronic processor 11. If the lifting apparatus encounters an obstruction, such as a trapped object between the tail gate and the vehicle, the sensed load will vary. When the sensed load departs from the reference value by more than a predetermined threshold amount, the operation of the lift is interrupted using stop means.
Patent GB-2375244-A (GB)
Title: Arc fault detection system
Inventor: BICKERTON IAN
IPC: H02H1/04
Filed: 2002-01-29
Abstract: A source of electrical power 1 is connected to a load 2 via a transmission line 3. Electrical signals, current or voltage, are derived from a circuit via transduce 5 or line 11 respectively and subsequently processed by digital processing unit 15 and compared to a temporal model representative of arc faults and events which are not associated with arc faults stored in unit 16. The arc detection apparatus has an output 12 to control the operation of circuit breaker 4. The models be stochastic or templates. Alternatively a neural network may be employed to <PC>distinguish between the arc and non-arc faults.
Patent GB-2384873-A (GB)
Title: Pilot poppet type pressure control valve
Inventor: KIM JIN WOOK
IPC: F16K17/04
Filed: 2002-01-31
Abstract: A pilot 6A poppet type pressure control valve capable of discharging a part of a fluid for thereby constantly maintaining a pressure of a high pressure chamber when the pressure of the high pressure chamber exceeds a certain level. A discharging port, 120 capable of discharging fluid from the high pressure chamber includes an inner diameter which gradually increases in a downstream direction for preventing an instant pressure decrease based on the opening by a pilot poppet when the pressure of a high pressure chamber exceeds a certain level. Therefore, it is possible to decrease vibration and noise caused by the discharge of the high pressure fluid. In addition, it is possible to process the discharging port at a given time using a programmed NC lathe.
Patent GB-2375077-A (GB)
Title: Compression brace structure and material
Inventor: CHIANG JACKSON
IPC: B32B5/04
Filed: 2002-02-13
Abstract: A composite elastic material comprises outer layers 120, 130 of woven fabric, laminated to centre layer 110 of closed cell foam material. A plurality of slits 150 extend through the centre to provide air passages through the foam when the material is stretched. The slits may be arcuate in extent, thereby defining semi-circular tabs attached along one edge to the main body of the foam. The foam layer may also have a grid pattern of channels impressed into one surface to promote heat and moisture dissipation through the material. The composite material is used to construct compression braces for sprained limbs and the like, and may be provided with zones of silicone texturing to keep the brace in place on the limb.
Patent GB-2376803-A (GB)
Title: Jig for assembling electrical circuit boards and components
Inventor: RUF CHRISTOPH
IPC: H01L21/00
Filed: 2002-04-09
Abstract: A jig for holding first and second circuit boards 31,32 and an interposed component 30 during assembly comprises a lower shell which receives and locates the first board 31, e.g. by means of pins 12,13,14, and an upper shell 20 which locates the second board 32, e.g. by means of pins 22 engaging in holes 33 in the board. The upper shell also has means 21 which assist in holding the first board 31 in its vertical position.
Patent GB-2374393-A (GB)
Title: An assembly of furniture components
Inventor: HEADEN-JAMES NEIL
IPC: F16B12/10
Filed: 2002-04-12
Abstract: An assembly of furniture components comprises two elongate components which are joined through an intermediate member (26). The two elongate components have either longitudinal tongues (27) or grooves which engage with corresponding tongues or grooves in the intermediate member (26). Threaded fasteners secure the components and intermediate member (26) together.
Patent GB-2374445-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for performing single-cycle addition or subtraction and comparison in redundant form arithmetic
Inventor: GROCHOWSKI EDWARD T
IPC: G06F7/50
Filed: 2000-11-13
Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed that uses an arithmetic circuit for adding numbers represented in a redundant form to also subtract numbers received in redundant form, including numbers received from a bypass circuit. A non-propagative comparator circuit is then used to compare a given value with a result from the arithmetic circuit to determine if the result is equal to the given value. All of the operations described above can be accomplished without propagating carry signals throughout the circuitry. The method includes generating a complemented redundant form of at least one number to supplied to the arithmetic circuit in redundant form. It also includes providing adjustment input to the arithmetic circuit to augment a result produced through the arithmetic circuit. This adjustment causes the arithmetic circuit to generate a valid outcome in redundant form as a result of a subtraction operation if the arithmetic oepration is subtraction. Then the result is compared to a given value using a non-propagative comparator to determine equality or inequality of the result to the given value.
Patent GB-2392704-A (GB)
Title: Panel support structure
Inventor: BOARDMAN SUSAN MARY
IPC: E04B1/00
Filed: 2002-09-06
Abstract: A panel support structure comprises first frame members <B>16</B> and second frame members <B>14</B>, each having a plurality of panel support projections <B>18</B> on which to receive panels <B>12</B>. Each of first frame members <B>16</B> and second frame members <B>14</B> has a free span between frame member supports. At least one panel support projection <B>18</B> carries at least one spacing element <B>26</B>, <B>34</B> adapted to fill a space between said at least one panel support projection <B>18</B> on a frame member <B>14</B>, <B>16</B> and a panel <B>12</B> due to flexure of the frame member <B>14</B>, <B>16</B> under load from the panel <B>12</B> or due to a difference in orientation angle between adjacent panels <B>12</B> supported by the frame member <B>14</B>, <B>16</B>. A plurality of spacing elements <B>26</B>, <B>34</B> may be carried by one of the panel support projections <B>18</B>. The spacing elements <B>26</B>, <B>34</B> may be wedge shaped.
Patent GB-2395153-A (GB)
Title: Hand tool handle with rotary cap
Inventor: HSIEH CHIH-CHING
IPC: B25G1/04
Filed: 2002-11-18
Abstract: Hand tool handle with a rotary cap, including : a handle 20 having a seat section 24 at rear end; a rotary cap 30 having a cavity 32 and being rotatably disposed on the seat section 24 with the seat section 24 accommodated in the cavity 32; and at least one projection 26, 36 having a cross-sectional area smaller than that of the rotary cap 30 or the rear end of the handle 20. The projection 26, 36 is positioned between a top wall of the cavity 32 and an end face of the seat section 24 The top wall of the cavity 32 via the projection 36 contacts with the end face of the seat section 24. When the rotary cap 30 rotates on the handle 20, the projection 26, 36 serves as a support point for the rotary cap 30 so as to facilitate rotation of the rotary cap 30. There may be two projections which are two convex faces respectively formed on the end face of the seat section and the top wall of the cavity, the two convex faces contacting with each other. The projection may be a pad or it maybe a ball body.
Patent GB-2396807-A (GB)
Title: A telescopic umbrella retractable into a shaped container
Inventor: JONES CHRISTOPHER
IPC: A45B25/24
Filed: 2003-01-03
Abstract: A telescopic umbrella 9 is fixed inside a shaped container 1 by a fixing plate 6 which fixes the end of the shaft to the base of the container. The container or casing has a handle 2 which is fitted with adjustable clamps which may be used to fix the unit to the frame of a pushchair or pram. The shaft of the umbrella has a flexible portion to allow for the adjustment of the angle of the canopy when open.
Patent GB-2397154-A (GB)
Title: Wireless wall switch
Inventor: EXLEY CRAIG
IPC: H05B37/02
Filed: 2003-01-13
Abstract: The 'wireless' wall switch uses infra red and/or radio (depending on transmission distances) to activate a normally hard wired mains device such as an electric light. The technology comprises a battery powered 'sender' switch (typically the wireless wall switch) and a receiver' switch (typically a mains powered light). The sender and receiver are calibrated to the same identity number, by the installer, using two small wheels within the 'sender' (wall switch) and 'receiver' (the light/lamp/electrical devices) to enable multiple devices to be operated in the same transmission field without conflict. The technology can be applied to any electrical device running on standard voltage supplies, such as 3 Phase, AC or DC current, 220v or 110v AC domestic mains or 24v or 12v DC. The technology may also be applied to vehicles, boats and camping equipment as well as 'hostile' environments such as manufacturing and military applications.
Patent GB-2386860-A (GB)
Title: Insert moulding a reflecting and polarizing member with resin to form a combiner of a vehicle display unit
Inventor: FURUYA YOSHIYUKI
IPC: G02B27/00
Filed: 2003-01-21
Abstract: The combiner 1 of an on-vehicle display unit has a resin base 11 and a reflecting and polarizing member 12. The member 12 is unitarily molded with the resin base 11 as an insert and has a polarizer plate 12A covered by a reflector film 12B. At a border B of member 12 with base 11, a gradation printed layer(13a) (figure 2B - notshown) is provided. Preferably, the reflector film has an undercoat layer 12d, a reflecting coat layer 12e, an overcoat layer 12f, and a top coat layer 12g. The undercoat layer prevents the reflector film 12B from being stripped out of the polarizer plate 12A, and the reflector film 12B has a predetermined reflectance. The reflecting coat layer is protected by the overcoat layer, and the top coat layer has a water repellency. The polarizer plate 12A may consist of three layers including a PC (polycarbonate) layer 12a, a PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) layer 12b and a PC layer 12c. The display unit includes a prism assembly. The plate 12A may be masked during manufacture of the combiner 1.
Patent GB-2399124-A (GB)
Title: Rail damper assembly
Inventor: FARRINGTON DAVID
IPC: E01B19/00
Filed: 2003-03-05
Abstract: The assembly comprises an elongate damper 28 and a clip 18 for supporting the damper, the clip having a retention aperture 20 for receiving part of the rail 10 and, further, a recess adapted to receive the damper. This is particularly (although not exclusively) suited to dampers in which an elongate hollow rigid section 30 encloses a deformable material 32 in which is suspended one or more resonant members 34,36. The clip 18 can be adapted to fit around the foot 16 of the rail. It can include one or more tongues 22 extending alongside the web 14 of the rail. This will assist in separating the damper 28 from the web 14 while still allowing vibrations to be conducted from one to the other. The tongues 22 can be any suitable height, for example the full height of the web 14, or the full height of one or more dampers 28, or less than one or other such heights. The resonant members 34,36 of the or each damper 28 are sized to exhibit a resonant frequency in the range of vibration frequencies of the rail 10. It is preferred that the deformable material 32 fills the space within the rigid hollow section 30.
Patent GB-2385266-A (GB)
Title: A hair clip with pivoting jaws and cover portions
Inventor: SALISBURY SHELLEY-ANNE
IPC: A45D8/20
Filed: 2002-11-18
Abstract: A hair clip comprises a two part body portion 1a, 1b, where 1a is a removable cover portion and 1b is a base portion, and jaws 2 and 3 are mounted on the body portion. A jaw opening arrangement allows the jaws to be opened single handed, where the jaws have tines 2c and 3c, hingedly and resiliently connected to the body portion at laterally spaced axes (6a and 6b figure 4). Cover portions 2d,e and 3d,e extend from the jaw portions, and cover at least a portion of the gap between the body portion and the jaw portion, such that the cover portions are arranged to move under or over the body portion, when the jaws are in an open position.
Patent GB-2402820-A (GB)
Title: Multiway switch controller
Inventor: HAMPDEN-SMITH DAVID ERIC
IPC: H05B39/08
Filed: 2003-06-12
Abstract: A multi-way controller switching potentially dangerous or high voltages by first switching a low and therefore safer dc voltage. Additionally the Multi-way controller will allow this low voltage switching to be operated from one or more locations.
Patent GB-2404243-A (GB)
Title: Burner including fan and silencer arrangement
Inventor: RENNISON RAYMOND
IPC: F23C7/00
Filed: 2003-07-23
Abstract: A pressure jet burner 14 within a boiler unit 10 has a housing 16 including an air intake opening, an oil or gas burner positioned in the housing, and a fan 20. The fan is arranged to draw air in through the air intake opening in order to provide an air supply to the burner, and the air intake also includes a silencer 22 fitted to the housing which is used to reduce noise generated by the fan. The silencer may include a tuned cylindrical tube 26 comprising a pipe 28 of a length between 20 and 200 mm and diameter between 20 and 50mm, and may further include a chamber 24 positioned between the tuned tube and the air intake. The tube may extend along or adjacent to the burner housing exterior, and the chamber may be used to direct the air flow into the housing air intake, the direction of flow into the housing changing by 180 degrees. The silencer may include acoustic insulation 30 positioned inside the pipe 28, which may be in the shape of a tube and formed from foam material. Ambient air may enter the pipe at an inlet 34 and flow into the silencer 22 which is in fluid communication with the chamber 24, the air intake, and the burner housing.
Patent GB-2389448-A (GB)
Title: GMR magnetic transducer with nano-oxide exchange coupled free layers
Inventor: HARDAYAL SINGH GILL
IPC: H01F10/16
Filed: 2002-07-17
Abstract: A magnetic transducer (head) according to the invention includes a free layer structure comprising two free layers exchange coupled across a thin spacer structure of comprising two spacer layers of nonmagnetic material separated by a ferromagnetic nano-oxide layer (NOL). The spacer layers prevent the NOL from unnecessarily hardening the free layer(s). The spacer layers are preferably copper or copper oxide. The spacer layers preserve the NOL's property of specular scattering of conduction electrons which tends to increase the magnetoresistive response. A free layer structure including the exchange coupling spacer structure of the invention can be used in a dual spin valve configuration, but is also useful in a single spin valve configuration. The free layer of the invention is useful in conduction in-plane (CIP), as well as, conduction perpendicular to the plane (CPP) devices.
Patent GB-2408400-A (GB)
Title: A varactor circuit with a linearised capacitance vs. control voltage characteristic
Inventor: PERRY COLIN LESLIE
IPC: H03J3/18
Filed: 2003-11-24
Abstract: A circuit 100 (fig.2) includes varactor diodes 110, 112, 114 selected such that the sum of their maximum capacitances is equal to the required total capacitance of the circuit 100. One electrode of each of the varactors 110, 112, 114 is respectively connected to a dc offset voltage source V1, V2, V3. The other electrodes of the varactors are connected via resistor 118 to a common control voltage input 116. The offset voltages are arranged so that V3 > V2 > V1, and are chosen so that there is an overlap between the high capacitance range of one varactor and the low capacitance range of another of the varactors. As the control voltage at 116 is increased, each of the varactors is sequentially operated. The resulting C/V curve is more linear than that of a single varactor (fig.4), i.e. the dC/dV curve is flatter (fig.5). Applications are described in voltage controlled oscillators, filters, tuned amplifiers and modulators. The capacitance may also be made to follow a square law, e.g. to linearise tuning of an LC circuit in an RF VCO.
Patent GB-2410876-A (GB)
Title: Matching surface features to render 3d models
Inventor: RODRIGUES MARCOS A
IPC: G06K9/00
Filed: 2004-02-04
Abstract: A method for matching surface features to aid 3-dimensional model rendering comprises the initial characterisation of features identified in a first image by creation of a feature vector template which is configured to represent a number of feature vectors defining features on a first surface. Notably, the template is configured to comprise a hinge part from which extend a plurality of feature vectors. An image of a second surface is subsequently searched in order to attempt to match a corresponding set of features to those found on the first surface. When a suitable match is found, the data points may be processed in order to derive a 3-dimensional model of the surface.
Patent GB-2395325-A (GB)
Title: Reducing skew in signal distribution using balanced wire widths
Inventor: BLAIR GERARD M
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 2001-01-31
Abstract: What is described is a method and an apparatus to reduce variations in signal delays along paths in a design of an integrated circuit by balancing wire widths. The method operates by performing a circuit simulation to determine simulated signal delays along the circuit paths based on first wire widths for a given circuit, then running a delay model analysis to calculate predicted signal delays along the circuit paths based on first wire widths for the given circuit The method then calculates a correction difference between the predicted signal delays and the simulated signal delays, and derives delay targets from the correction difference. Finally, the method calculates second wire widths using the delay model analysis to meet the delay targets. Preferably, the signal delays are clock signal delays, the circuit simulation is a SPICE circuit simulation, and the delay model is an Elmore delay model. Also described is a system which includes a CPU and certain memory components for accomplishing the method.
Patent GB-2395643-A (GB)
Title: Fibre channel interface controller
Inventor: STEINMETZ JOSEPH HAROLD
IPC: H04L47/32
Filed: 2000-12-21
Abstract: A fibre interface controller includes an inbound data frame buffer (713); an inbound acknowledgement frame buffer (1102); and outbound frame buffer (719); an inbound frame router (1106) that directs inbound data frames to the inbound data frame buffer and routes inbound acknowledgement frames to the inbound acknowledgement frame buffer; an inbound data manager component that processes inbound data frames stored in the inbound data frame buffer; and an outbound sequence manager component that processes acknowledgement frames stored in the inbound acknowledgement frame buffer and that creates data frames for transmission to remote nodes and stores the created data frames in the outbound frame buffer (719).
Patent GB-2403038-A (GB)
Title: Wireless stylus with memory for inputting hand written data to a computer or storing data internally with a finger print reader for user identification
Inventor: POO TENG PIN
IPC: G06F3/041
Filed: 2003-06-20
Abstract: A stylus with at least an 8Mbyte internal non-volatile memory has a wireless transceiver and a control processor for controlling the flow of data into and out of the memory. The pen may have a biometric sensor eg, fingerprint scanner, that verifiers the user by comparing the biometric data with reference data held inside the pen. The pen may be arranged to only transmit the data stored inside it when the verification process inside the pen matches the biometric data. The stylus may be part of a system for inputting hand written data. This is done by a device that tracks the position of the stylus; the device also has means for wireless commutation with the stylus. The pen may have a camera inside arranged to generate an image which is stored in the pen's memory. The position sensing device may include a surface which may be touch-sensitive such as a PDA. The system may be adapted such that the storage device can transmit/receive in several formats and act to interpret between the other devices. The commutation protocols may be Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11 or irDA.