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Patent GB-2234706-A (GB)
Title: Metallized bright tape for vehicle window moldings
Inventor: KATO KATSUHISA
IPC: B60R13/04
Filed: 1990-06-28
Abstract: A metallized bright tape comprises in part (Fig. 3a) a polyester film support (2) bearing a layer of reflective metal (e.g. A1) 3 and thereon a film of transparent ionomer polymer 4; the film 2 has low adhesion and is peeled off before use (Fig. 3b) when a layer of adhesive 3 is applied in place thereof; and to this a sheet (6) of polyvinyl chloride is bonded thereon (Figs. 1 and 3c). A transparent ethylene copolymer layer can be included between the layers 3 and 4 or, a protecting film. The finished tape is readily adhered to the exposed portion of a pvc windscreen molding of a vehicle and it adheres firmly without cracks or wrinkles. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246690-A (GB)
Title: Flexible strip electric heater
Inventor: BALZANO ALFIERO
IPC: A43B3/35
Filed: 1990-07-31
Abstract: A flexible heating sheet comprises a conductive strip bent to form a series of loops 18. This concentrates the heat in the loop area which may be the sole of a shoe or the finger and thumb area of a glove and prevents the strip breaking if the sheet is stretched. The strip is embedded in flexible plastics insulating material. It may be powered by batteries 22, 23. The sheet may be bent through 180 DEG  to form a shoe insole. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2249632-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging
Inventor: LEACH MARTIN OSMUND
IPC: G01R33/48
Filed: 1990-08-02
Abstract: In magnetic resonance spectroscopy or imaging, e.g. n.m.r. or e.s.r., a method of localizing the region of a sample from which a resonance signal is obtained by modulating the component Mz of magnetization in the Bo direction according to position in the sample. This is achieved by flipping the spins away from the Bo direction, applying a gradient magnetic field so that they lose or gain phase according to their position, refocussing the effects of any resonance offsets including chemical shifts and subsequently returning them to the Bo direction whereupon Mz depends on the phase lost or gained and thus the position. This may be repeated, possibly with different gradient fields or different phase pulses, to further localize the region before a resonance signal is finally detected. The contribution to the resonance signal varies with Mz and so is localized to regions of greater Mz.
Patent GB-2248473-A (GB)
Title: Wind driven warning device
Inventor: PEPPER ALAN CHARLES
IPC: F03D9/00
Filed: 1990-10-01
Abstract: The warning device comprises a vane 7 to be rotated by the wind to drive a low voltage generator which powers a flashing light 2. When the wind speed reaches a dangerous level to high sided vans and lorries the light will begin to flash. The device can be used on motorways to provide advanced high wind warning to drivers as they emerge from a cutting or an embankment. A portable version can be used by the emergency services to provide warning at accidents or danger spots like beaches. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-906560-A (GB)
IPC: H02P7/298
Abstract: 906,560. Constant current systems; charging and discharging capacitors. BROOKHIRST IGRANIC Ltd. Dec. 1, 1959 [Dec. 8, 1958], No. 40760/59. Class 38 (4). A circuit for charging and discharging a capacitor C1 at constant current comprises a transistor T1 which regulates the charging current by having a substantially constant current passed between emitter and base from a source 1G1. A similar transistor circuit T2, 1G2 which acts as a short circuit in the charging direction regulates the discharging current. The arrangement may be used to control the current through a motor or other load to a constant value through another transistor T3 (Fig. 2, not shown).
Patent GB-909241-A (GB)
IPC: G01S13/34
Abstract: 909,241. Time interval measurements. HERZ, F. June 30, 1959, No. 22419/59. Class 37. [Also in Group XL (c)] In a linearly frequency-modulated radar altimeter in which the frequency difference between the transmitted and received signals is proportional to altitude, a pulse train of recurrence frequency equal to said difference frequency is produced and the time interval between adjacent pulses is determined, said time interval being inversely proportional to altitude. As shown in Fig. 2, the frequency of the transmitter 1 is varied by a motor 2 and the transmitted and received signals are mixed at 5 to give a beat frequency signal which is converted into a pulse train, Fig. 3, of corresponding frequency by means of a pulse generator 8, each pulse being applied through a triode 32 to discharge a capacitor 19 which is charged linearly from a voltage source 17 through a resistor 18 to produce a saw-tooth waveform 27, Fig. 5, whose peak amplitude as determined and indicated by a peak rectifier 21, 22, 24 and meter 23 is proportional to the time interval between adjacent pulses. When triangular frequency modulation is employed the time interval 37<SP>1</SP>, Fig. 3, between adjacent pulses in the periods 34 corresponding to the positive and negative peaks of the triangular modulating waveform, Fig. 8 (not shown), may give an erroneous indication 28, Fig. 5, and such indication is prevented by (1) maintaining the capacitor 19 in a discharged state during each period 34 by a mechanical switch 12 controlled by a cam 33 driven by the motor 2 or by a discharge pulse generated photo-electrically, Fig. 9 (not shown), by a light source and an apertured disc driven by the motor 2; or (2) earthing the connection 6 between the transmitter 1 and mixer 5 during the periods 34 by a cam-operated switch, Fig. 7 (not shown).
Patent GB-1016462-A (GB)
Title: Safety explosive
Inventor: DICK WILLIAM
IPC: H01R11/11
Filed: 1963-12-30
Abstract: A safety blasting explosive free from fibrous cellulosic material comprises 7-12% by weight of a self-explosive sensitizing ingredient, an oxidizing salt, a flame-quenching salt, and a metal formate as the fuel.  The power of the composition is 30-45% by weight Blasting Gelatine.  The sensitizing ingredient may be nitroglycerine, nitroglycol, or a nitrotoluene. Suitable metal formates are those of Na, K, Ca, Mg, Ba, and Pb.  Other specified ingredients are ammonium nitrate, sodium or ammonium chloride, sodium nitrate, nitrocellulose, guar gum, and calcium stearate. When using the composition in cartridges, the risk of deflagration is reduced when two cartridges are separated by a gap filled with coal dust.
Patent GB-2259213-A (GB)
Title: Variable resolution view-tracking display
Inventor: MCGUINESS BARRY
IPC: H04N13/363
Filed: 1991-08-29
Abstract: A panoramic display apparatus 10 mounted, at least in part on a helmet 14 to be worn by an operator, in which apparatus there is a projection means 16 for projecting a high resolution stereo display within a small first field of view containing the foveal line of sight of an operator's eyes and a low resolution display outside said first field of view. The high resolution first field is used to present a detailed image of the object the operator is looking directly at whilst the low resolution field presents a low resolution peripheral image in the areas where the operator's eyes are incapable of perceiving high resolution images. One or other or both displays may be projected onto an eyeshield 24 or displayed via one or more active matrix liquid crystal displays which may be mounted on or form part of the eyeshield 24. The apparatus may be used with flight or other simulators, remote control apparatus e.g. robots, surface or space vehicles. Alternatively the apparatus may be combined with cameras to give an aircraft pilot an "all-round" view (fig 6). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2249518-A (GB)
Title: An extruder-calender combination
Inventor: BAUMGARTEN WILFRIED
IPC: B29C48/08
Filed: 1991-10-11
Abstract: The extrusion head accommodates exchangeable displacer bodies (7), the outlet nozzle (3, 5) of the head being arranged in a plane above the imaginary plane which extends through the roll gap at right angles to the plane containing the roll axes. A lip (10) below the outlet nozzle, sectorially encompasses the upper roll (11) and extends to a location shortly in advance of the roll gap, and is adjustably mounted on the lower part of the head; either the free end of the lip is pivotally displaceable in an arc about an axis of a bearing (8, 9) which is parallel to the roll gap, or the lip is rectilinearly displaceable (Fig 3) towards or away from the upper roll. The parting plane of the nozzle parts (3, 5) is also located above the upper edge of the extruder worm (30), permitting exchange of the extruder screw without disassembly of the upper nozzle part (3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250231-A (GB)
Title: Board structure
Inventor: TANABE KAZUO
IPC: B32B3/28
Filed: 1991-11-11
Abstract: The board structure, used as the base material of a molded ceiling member of an automotive vehicle, comprises a corrugated core board 12 formed of cardboard or paper. Upper and lower surface boards 13A, 13B are bonded respectively to the upper and lower surfaces U, L of the corrugated board 12. The surface boards 13A, B are formed of cork sheet, thereby improving the moldability and the physical properties of the board structure. intermediate boards (23A, 23B) of cardboard may be placed between the upper and lower surfaces of the corrugated core boards and the respective surface boards (13A, 13B). The corrugated core board may also be formed of cork. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2258047-A (GB)
Title: A process for monitoring the coolant level in a cooling system
Inventor: SALZER WERNER
IPC: F04C29/04
Filed: 1992-07-15
Abstract: In a process for monitoring the coolant level in a cooling system, in particular in an air-conditioned motor vehicle, the relative pressure and the temperature of the coolant are measured on the high-pressure side of the coolant circuit, using the measured pressure value a temperature corresponding to the latter is established on the basis of a coolant-specific function (temperature = f (pressure)), and the undercooling of the coolant is then determined by subtracting the measured temperature from the assigned temperature, which undercooling is analysed as a measure for the coolant level. The system shown has a compressor 1.1, condenser 1.2, liquid reservoir and drier 1.3, injection valve 1.4 and evaporator 1.5. Temperature and pressure sensors 2, 3 feed signals to a monitor unit 4 in which the measured temperature TG is subtracted from the temperature T assigned to the measured pressure. A result outside limits is indicative of under or over filling of the system. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2258784-A (GB)
Title: Interpolating digital signal clipping circuit and composite video clipping circ cuit
Inventor: FAIRHURST JON A
IPC: H04N11/02
Filed: 1992-07-22
Abstract: An interpolating digital signal clipping circuit (50 Fig. 8) provides pre-clipping of the luminance component of a video signal. A difference circuit 10 adjusts each sample so that a single bit indicates whether the sample value is closer to a positive or negative clipping limit. Interpolated samples are produced by phase shifting FIR filters 14-18 and are applied, along with the actual current sample, to a minimum or maximum selecting circuit 26 that selects the minimum or maximum sample depending on the state of the indicating bit. The selected sample is compared 30 with the clipping limits to produce an excess signal that indicates how much the selected sample exceeds the relevant clipping limit. A gain control signal is generated 34,36,40 to be a "1" when no clipping is required and less than one when clipping is required. A digital video signal clipping circuit receives a pre-clipped luminance signal, clipped as above, and adjusts (52) each sample as above. Multipliers (64,66) square the chrominance components, and an adder (68) adds the squares and applies the output as addresses to a memory (70) that produces a chrominance magnitude signal. The chrominance magnitude signal is combined (54) with the adjusted luminance signal to obtain a composite magnitude signal. Again, a gain control signal is generated (56,58,60,61) that is a "1" when no clipping is required and less than one when clipping is required, and this signal is used to reduce (72,74,80,81) the video components before they are combined (82) into a clipped composite video output. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270132-A (GB)
Title: Multiple fluid swivel arrangement
Inventor: POLLACK JACK
IPC: B63B22/02
Filed: 1992-08-26
Abstract: A multiple fluid swivel arrangement is described, for connecting stationary undersea pipes to rotatable pipes on a weathervaning ship, which provides ready access to each of the fluid swivels and which minimizes the diameters of the fluid swivels and their seals and other parts. Each of the multiple fluid swivels, except for the uppermost one, includes a largely horizontal arm (40A, Fig. 2) with an inner end (38) that can pivot about a largely vertical axis (32) on a fluid swivel body (33) that is connected to a stationary pipe (12A) extending to a deep underwater location. The outer end (42) of the arm is detachably connected to one of a plurality of couplings (44A, 46A) mounted on the ship. As the ship weathervanes and the arm approaches one of the vertical stationary pipes (12B), the outer end of the arm is disconnected from a coupling (44A), the arm is pivoted until its outer end lies adjacent to a second coupling (46A), and the outer end of the arm is attached to the second coupling. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259490-A (GB)
Title: Automatic course pilot on a ship provided with turnable propeller gears
Inventor: VIRTANEN MARKKU
IPC: B63H25/04
Filed: 1992-09-07
Abstract: An automatic course pilot in a ship is provided with turnable propeller gears for automatic retaining of the course of the ship and for course steering in accordance with a preset course. The propeller gears (1, 2) are arranged as a pair symmetrically in relation to the centre line of the ship, and the propeller gears (1, 2) are connected to the central unit of the automatic steering. When both of the propeller gears (1, 2) in a pair are switched on automatic course steering, the central unit of the automatic steering is arranged to shift the control devices of the propeller gears (1, 2) into an asymmetric state of operation. In such a case, when the automatic steering gives a command to turn, the control systems of the propeller gears (1, 2) are arranged automatically to select the propeller gear (1, 2) in each particular case placed at the side of the inside curve for the propeller gear that turns the ship so as to retain the torque that turns the ship. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270701-A (GB)
Title: Integrated electricity and carbon monoxide production
Inventor: GRIFFITHS JOHN
IPC: F02C3/20
Filed: 1992-09-08
Abstract: In a process for the production of carbon monoxide and electric power in an IGCC with the removal of sulphur compounds, between the outlet of quenched gas from a partial oxidation unit and a fuel inlet to a combined cycle gas turbine there is a permeable membrane unit to separate a non-permeable stream, which is utilised as a source of carbon monoxide, and a permeate stream, which is used as fuel for the gas turbine of the combined cycle unit.
Patent GB-2271331-A (GB)
Title: Door hanger system for mass transit vehicles
Inventor: SADAKA JAK
IPC: B60J5/06
Filed: 1992-10-12
Abstract: A mass transit vehicle such as an underground railway car has sliding door panels 2, 3 attached to the car by hangers 5a sliding on horizontally mounted cylindrical door support rods 5, 6. Each hanger 5a has a hearing 24, lubricant seals 25 and wipers 32 for cleaning the support rod surface. A clearance of 0.3% of the diameter of the support rods 5, 6 is provided between the wipers 32 and the rods 5, 6. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261970-A (GB)
Title: Customer order processing system
Inventor: FUYAMA SEIJI
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 1992-11-20
Abstract: A customer order processing system includes a register terminal 11 for sequentially transmitting customer orders to a kitchen video controller 12, where they are sequentially displayed on a display device 13. Upon completion of preparation of a customer order the display of that order is erased by a person in charge manipulating a control switch 14. The time between reception of the customer order and the erasure is measured and stored as service time data in the kitchen video controller 12. The terminal 11 totalizes the service time data transmitted from the kitchen video controller 12, to issue a management report. With this system, the service times for the customer orders can be managed and speedy transmission of the orders to the kitchen, as well as a reduction in the time taken for the preparation of the orders, can be achieved. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262145-A (GB)
Title: Floating-caliper spot-type disc brake for high-powered vehicles
Inventor: THIEL RUDOLF
IPC: F16D55/224
Filed: 1992-06-09
Abstract: A brake shoe, for a floating caliper spot-type disc brake, comprises a friction lining 40, 41 and a backplate 38, 39 formed with a projection 42 which projects from the plane of the backplate and is widened towards its free end. The backplate may also be provided with a pair of spaced parallel oblong webs 63, 64. The projections may be pressed into (Fig. 11), welded to (Fig. 12) or formed integrally with (Fig. 13), the back plate. In use, the shoe is fixed to a piston or a caliper by a spring biasing projection 42 into engagement with a recess (47, Fig. 6, or 43, Fig. 11-13). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274661-A (GB)
Title: Fluorescent Whitening of paper
Inventor: ROHRINGER PETER
IPC: D06L3/12
Filed: 1993-02-02
Abstract: A method of bleed-free fluorescent whitening of a paper surface comprises contacting the paper surface with a coating composition comprising a coumarin-based fluorescent whitening agent. A dispersing agent or emulsifier may also be included in the composition.
Patent GB-2264468-A (GB)
Title: Goods carrying road trailer
Inventor: ESS COLIN JOHN
IPC: B62D21/14
Filed: 1993-02-16
Abstract: A container-carrying road trailer for carrying containers of long, medium and short sizes, having a relatively movable chassis (10) and bogie (24), wherein the bogie is provided with a rearwardly extensible support (26) able to support a container which overhangs the rear of the chassis. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269789-A (GB)
Title: An air bag system for a motor vehicle
Inventor: KERNER WOLFGANG
IPC: B60R21/2165
Filed: 1993-07-19
Abstract: An air bag system has a housing 3 which accommodates an air bag 1 and a gas generator 2. When activated, the air bag 1 inflates more rapidly in the lateral direction than towards the driver. This is achieved by providing the central region of the folded air bag 1 with tearing seams. Alternatively, the folded layers of the central region of the air bag 1 can be tucked into one another. The air bag cover 3 has thin lateral walls 9 which rupture during the initial stages of the inflation of the air bag 1 and a thicker central part provided with a weakened rupture line. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282264-A (GB)
Title: Auxiliary operating member for an electrical switch
Inventor: JENKINS DAVID RAYNOR
IPC: H01H23/14
Filed: 1993-09-25
Abstract: The device fits over a standard wall switch 1 (single or double) and includes a box case carrying grooved members 2. In the groove runs a spindle 5 carrying a rubber wheel 4. Attached to the spindle is a stirrup 6 fixed to an operating rod 3. Movement of the rod 3 operates the switch rocker as the wheel moves over it. The rod may be luminous 7 and extendable by further screw-in sections. The rod allows children or the disabled to operate light switches easily. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273863-A (GB)
Title: Curtain heading tape
Inventor: WALTON CHARLES DAVID
IPC: A47H13/16
Filed: 1993-12-22
Abstract: A heading tape for producing so called "goblet" pleats. The tape includes a first draw cord in a tube 28 that floats free of the tape at intervals 32 in a series of regions 30. The first draw cord forms a plurality of pinch pleats on one side of the tape. A second draw cord in a tube 22 floats free of the tape in a series of regions 26 which are substantially in register with regions 30. The second draw cord forms a single "goblet" pleat. A barrier in the form of a stiffened tube 36 limits the extent of the pinch pleats. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274879-A (GB)
Title: Assist air supply control for i.c. engine fuel injectors
Inventor: IKUTA KANJI
IPC: F02M69/46
Filed: 1994-02-04
Abstract: The flow of air by-passing the throttle valve (14, Fig. 1) to atomise fuel adjacent the fuel injector outlets (43, Fig. 2) is controlled by a valve 53. The valve 53 controls flow similtaneously to four injectors or alternatively to pairs of injectors (Figs. 21 and 22). The degree of valve opening is determined by the engine temperature and load, reducing with rising temperature and increasing with rising load. A bimetal 61 fixed to a member 65 of the throttle linkage may limit opening of the valve 53 which is positioned by an electromagnetic arrangement 55, 57 responsive to an ECV receiving engine operating condition signals and provides a smaller valve opening and also control of the engine idling speed. Electromagnetic coils (57, Figs. 17 and 21) may provide switching of the valve between closed and fully open for one or a pair of outlets. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273730-A (GB)
Title: Pneumatic waste collection apparatus
Inventor: HAMILTON ROBIN
IPC: A47L9/12
Filed: 1994-02-24
Abstract: A device for use in a pneumatic waste collection apparatus such as that described in GB 2242467A comprises conveying apparatus (62) which receives waste at one end (58) and conveys it to an outlet (64), construction means e.g. spring mounted doors (66), being operable to compress the waste. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275835-A (GB)
Title: Power distribution system; Lighting control system
Inventor: TRIPP DAVID
IPC: H01R25/16
Filed: 1994-02-25
Abstract: Power outlets S1, S2, S3 are interconnected by live L, neutral N, and earth E conductors and by two additional conductors SL, 2W provided for control purposes. Conductor SL incorporates normally-closed switches 7 located, for example, in or adjacent the power outlets. The switches 7 may be opened by insertion of a dummy connector or a flag 110, Fig. 7), or the system may have two types of connector (Figs. 8, 9) for coupling to the outlets, only a first of which types is able to open a switch 7 on coupling to a power outlet. A switch (22, Fig. 1) connected by a cable and a first type of connector to conductors L and SL at outlet S1 can thus control a lamp (39) connected by a cable and the second (non-switch-operating) type of connector to conductors SL and N at outlet S3, for example, Alternatively a lamp 38 connected to outlet S2 can be controlled from two positions D, E by means of a switch 72 at E connected to L and 2W by the first connector type at outlet S3, and by means of a connector of the first type at outlet S1 coupled to a relay F controlled by switch 72 and having contacts 52 - 54 connected with a switch 62 at D in a two-way switching circuit. The system can be implemented as a busbar-based system, or as a plug and socket based system, or a combination of both. A further type of connector may be provided which has a switch-operating member (152, Fig. 10) which can be selectively latched in a position disabling its switch-operating function. <IMAGE>