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Patent GB-2321962-A (GB)
Title: Cooking apparatus
Inventor: BENNETT PETER
IPC: F24C15/16
Filed: 1997-02-05
Abstract: An oven is arranged so that at least one insulating cavity divider (3) can be introduced into the oven cavity to separate the cavities into two smaller cavities (21, 22). The heating arrangement is such that only one of the two smaller cavities is heated and controllable. When only a small amount of food is to be cooked, heat is not wasted heating the lower cavity and the surrounding chassis. More than one divider (3) may be used. The divider (3) may be vertical.
Patent GB-2308415-A (GB)
Title: A wheeled vehicle
Inventor: BEEVER PAUL
IPC: B60T8/00
Filed: 1995-09-28
Abstract: A wheeled vehicle has brakes (14, 16, 17) controlled by an electronic control unit (22) and a hydraulic control system (20). A switch (32) can be used to cause the control unit to enter a hill descent control mode. In this mode the control unit controls the speed of the vehicle by keeping it at or below a threshold level to achieve controlled descent of a hill without the need for the driver to apply the brakes.
Patent GB-2314232-A (GB)
Title: Telephone transaction system
Inventor: SHIMADA TAKASHI
IPC: H04M3/51
Filed: 1997-03-19
Abstract: A telephone transaction support system includes a customer information registration unit for registering information regarding a customer in a database, the information being obtained in a conversation with the customer over a telephone, a feature analyzing unit for analyzing a feature of a voice corresponding to a predetermined word obtained in the conversation with the customer over the telephone, and a password information registration unit for registering information obtained by the feature analyzing unit as password information in the database, the password information corresponding to the customer in the database. The information regarding the customer for which a transaction over the telephone should be allowed and the password information for the customer can be registered over the telephone.
Patent GB-2311883-A (GB)
Title: A column address strobe signal generator for a synchronous DRAM
Inventor: OH JONG HOON
IPC: G11C7/22
Filed: 1997-04-03
Abstract: A column address strobe signal generator for a synchronous dynamic random access memory with at least two internal banks, comprising a column address strobe signal active input stage for allowing a column address strobe signal to enter an active state, a column address strobe signal precharge input stage for allowing the column address strobe signal to enter a precharge state, and a bank select address input stage for selecting an external bank select address signal when a test mode signal is at an inactive state and an internal bank select address signal from a refresh counter when the test mode signal is at an active state, to allow a bank specified by the column address strobe signal to be the same as that specified by a row address strobe signal in a test mode where the refresh counter is tested, the internal bank select address signal being one of row addresses from the refresh counter. According to the present invention, the column address strobe signal generator can solve discordance between bank select addresses when the row address strobe signal and column address strobe signal are generated in the test mode operation of the SDRAM.
Patent GB-2324197-A (GB)
Title: Photodetector arrangements
Inventor: POOL PETER JAMES
IPC: H01L27/148
Filed: 1997-04-11
Abstract: A photodetector arrangement includes a detector area 1 at which charge is developed which is representative of incident radiation to which the detector area is sensitive. The detector area includes a plurality of transfer electrodes 2 arranged in a non-uniform array e.g. in a diagonal direction across the square detector area 1. Other detector area shapes are possible. Clock pulses are applied at 5 to transfer charge across the detector area 1 in the direction shown by the arrow to a single output 3 from which it is applied to a voltage sensing diode 4. The photodetector arrangement may be designed to have a large detector area with a small capacitance and is particularly suitable for detecting single X-ray photons. Supplementary channels or notches may be included in the detector area substrate to improve charge transfer efficiency across the device. In a modification charge may be transferred to either of two outputs located at opposite corners of the detector area.
Patent GB-2324244-A (GB)
Title: Absorbent pad for use with surgical drapes
Inventor: SLOOTJES KARIN THERESA MARIA
IPC: A61B19/08
Filed: 1997-04-15
Abstract: The pad (1) has an upper layer (3) of fluid absorbent material and a backing layer (2) of fluid impervious material. An adhesive strip (4) protected by a release liner (5) extends along one edge of the backing layer. In use, the release liner is removed and the pad is attached, by the adhesive, to the upper surface of a surgical drape in any desired location when increased fluid absorptive capacity is required during a surgical procedure. The pad can be removed or repositioned on the drape when desired.
Patent GB-2329972-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for measuring torque between two shafts and including means to compensate for radial misalignment of the shafts
Inventor: FERRIS JOHN
IPC: F16D3/04
Filed: 1997-04-22
Abstract: A torque measuring apparatus for measuring the torque required to rotate a drive shaft of a mechanism the apparatus including a torque transducer assembly 12 having a torque sensor means which includes an input shaft 14 and an output shaft 16, the input shaft 14 being drivingly connected to a motive rotary drive means 6 via a first drive coupling 30 and the output shaft 16 being drivingly connected to a drive connection shaft 40 via a second drive coupling 130, the first and second drive couplings being adapted to isolate the input shaft 14 and output shaft 16 from radial misalignments with the drive shaft 21 and drive connection shaft 40 respectively. The torque sensor means may be housed in an axially movable casing 18 to further accommodate for misalignments of the various shafts. The apparatus is particularly suited for testing vehicle seat reclining hinge mechanisms, where the measured torque is low.
Patent GB-2321360-A (GB)
Title: Coding multiple contours within a frame
Inventor: KIM JIN-HUN
IPC: H04N19/00
Filed: 1997-06-13
Abstract: An input image including more than one object is encoded if the number of contours in an image frame is less than a predetermined number, all the absolute addresses of the initial vertices of the contours are encoded. However, if the number of the contours greater than or equal to the predetermined number, the contours are divided into a plurality of groups, A, B, C wherein if a position of an initial vertex in a group is known, relative displacements of all the other vertices in the group can be represented by dynamic ranges determined by the number of the contours. Thereafter, absolute position information of a first initial vertex in each group is encoded using an escape code which is followed by the horizontal and the vertical absolute addresses of the initial vertex. All the remaining initial vertices are encoded based on their displacements from the previously encoded initial vertex and the dynamic ranges. The escape-coded data and the displacement coded data are provided as the encoded initial vertex data.
Patent GB-2324107-A (GB)
Title: Crib system and block therefor
Inventor: BEDFORD ANDREW STUART
IPC: E21D15/48
Filed: 1997-08-21
Abstract: A crib system for use in supporting a mine roof comprises columns (15) of layered blocks (12), one block to a layer. The blocks are formed of fibre-reinforced concrete and include substantially flat parallel upper and lower surfaces, with a hole (13) therethrough. A rod (18) may be inserted through the aligned holes, for reinforcement. Layers of compressible board (17) may be placed between adjacent blocks to improve the compression and failure characteristics of the column.
Patent GB-2318735-A (GB)
Title: Laryngeal mask airway and manufacture thereof
Inventor: NEAME SIMON
IPC: A61M16/04
Filed: 1997-10-24
Abstract: A laryngeal mask assembly has a mask portion 13 of elliptical shape formed by a mount 15 and an inflatable member 16 attached to the mount. The inflatable member 16 is formed by heat bonding together opposite walls (31) and (32) of a flat balloon (30) and at the same time cutting an aperture 26 through the walls, so as to form a central web 25 within an outer inflatable ring 24. The central web 25 is attached to a concave surface 19 on the forward surface of the mount 15 with the aperture 26 in the web aligned with an opening 22 in the mount.
Patent GB-2332552-A (GB)
Title: Coin mechanism for vending machine
Inventor: AURELIUS KAREN
IPC: G07F9/10
Filed: 1997-12-18
Abstract: A coin mechanism 1 has a cashbox 60 (40, fig.1) located above a coin dispensing section 14. A coin inserted at inlet 6 passes through a coin validator 4 and a coin separator 8 to a coin storage section (10, fig. 1), which may be in the form of a removable cassette 48. The cassette contains interchangeable storage tubes 56, 58 (for single denomination coins) and a cashbox 60 which is also interchangeable. The cashbox accepts coins if the other storage tubes are full and as such is multi-denominational. The cash box attached to the cassette is emptied on removal but in another embodiment (Figure 1) the cashbox can be emptied by way of the reject coin path and/or a coin return tray 16, the cash box can also have a door.
Patent GB-978392-A (GB)
Abstract: 978,392. Fire grates; heating air; hot-water boilers. Y. COLLARD. July 12, 1963 [July 13, 19621, No. 27659/63. Headings F4A, F4S and F4W. A fire grate enabling a double heating effect to be obtained comprises two tubular transverse members 1, 2 connected by shaped tubular elements 3, 4, 5 &c., an air intake 10 with a suction motor 8 situated remote from the grate and connected to the interior of tube 1 by a pipe 9, and a supply conduit connected to tube 2 and having its outlet in a room to be heated. The air intake 10 may be provided with a filter 11. Either tubes 1 and 2, or elements 3, 4, 5 &c. may have constrictions to regulate the flow of air through the grate. In another embodiment, the air intake and suction means are connected to tube 2 while tube 1 supplies heated air to the room. In another embodiment, Fig. 5 (not shown), the grate is provided with three tubular transverse members interconnected by shaped tubular elements. A further embodiment, Fig. 4 (not shown), comprises a box-shaped grate of downwardly narrowing cross-section. A water flow circuit may also be incorporated in (any of) the (above) grate structures.
Patent GB-2322392-A (GB)
Title: Coiled tubing system
Inventor: HEAD PHILIP
IPC: E21B17/20
Filed: 1998-01-21
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of providing a conduit/cable 2 internally inside a coiled tubing system 1 for deployment in a well, wherein the conduit/cable 2 is connected at one end to a power supply at the surface and connected at the opposite end to a powered device, and wherein the space between the conduit/cable 2 and the inside wall of the coiled tubing 1 is filled with a filling material 13 in a low viscosity fluid state, and wherein the filling material 13 subsequently sets to a higher viscosity, more solid state, in which state the filling material 13 serves to transfer the weight of the conduit/cable 2 to the wall of the coiled tubing 1 thereby providing support for the conduit/cable. Preferably the filling material is pumped into the space between the conduit/cable and the intemal wall of the coiled tubing, either with the tube on a reel or laid out flat. During filling the coiled tubing may be cooled by a coolant to delay curing.
Patent GB-2319005-A (GB)
Title: Offshore apparatus and method for oil operations
Inventor: HORTON EDWARD E
IPC: B63B9/06
Filed: 1996-08-09
Abstract: An offshore apparatus and method for oil operations at a deep water well site wherein a lower hull (26) includes a pontoon portion (40) providing a large water plane area and also includes an upwardly facing body opening (32), an upper hull (28) is fabricated within said body opening (32) in full telescoped relation therewith, said upper hull (28) and lower hull (26) being vertically relatively movable, and a deck (30) carried by the upper hull (28). The pontoon portion (40) has sufficient displacement to support the apparatus in towing draft mode. The lower hull (26) and upper hull (28) include floodable compartments (46) for selective ballasting and deballasting to raise and lower the hulls relative to each other in order to submerge the apparatus under stable conditions and to change the draft from towing mode to operating mode in which the hulls are in extended non-telescopic relation at a selected draft.
Patent GB-2335904-A (GB)
Title: End effector assembly for a robot
Inventor: REIMER KURT
IPC: B25J15/04
Filed: 1998-03-30
Abstract: An end effector assembly for an industrial robot is disclosed, wherein a tool attachment plate 11 is secured to an end face of a robot turn disc 3 provided on an end of a robot arm 1, using a locking ring 13. The locking ring 13 has two chamfered faces 21,25 on its inner periphery which cooperate with a chamfered rim 19 on the plate 11 and a tapered wall 9 of a circumferential groove 7 formed in an end portion of the robot arm 1. The locking ring 13 is preferably formed of two parts held together by studs (not shown). Keying means are preferably provided to prevent relative rotation between the plate 11 and disc 3. These keying means may comprise slots in the end face of the disc 3 engaging with projections on the underside of the plate 11, or alternatively may comprise slots in both the disc 3 and plate 11 which are arranged to face each other, with wedges engaging these slots and thus holding the plate 11 and disc 3 together.
Patent GB-2338144-A (GB)
Title: Predictive capacity management
Inventor: RAI SUMAN
IPC: H04L49/111
Filed: 1998-04-22
Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus and method for managing resources in a communications network in which a private corporate network links a plurality of customer premises networks at different corporate sites, the links being provided by a public backbone network in accordance with a traffic contract between customer equipment at the corporate sites and switches of the public backbone network. At the customer equipment, there is provided a management apparatus operating to predict required bitrate capacity over a plurality of virtual paths across the backbone network; a routing means operating to find an optimized route for end to end connections across said backbone network; and a resource management means operating to generate a capacity envelope limit data for each virtual path, and re-negotiate a traffic contact between the customer equipment and the public backbone network depending upon the generating capacity limit data of each virtual path. Traffic contract negotiation is made according to predetermined negotiating criteria data, which takes into account a confidence level of actual bitrate capacity across a virtual path staying within the predicted capacity envelope limit data predicted for that virtual path.
Patent GB-980865-A (GB)
IPC: C09D13/00
Abstract: 980,865. Rubber compositions. R. O. LEON. Feb. 3, 1961, No. 4225/61. Headings C3P and C3Q. A composition comprises 16 to 20% of a rubber material, 0À5 to 0À8% of a primary plasticizer, 3 to 4% of a second plasticizer, 1À6 to 2% of a third plasticizer, 1À5 to 2% of a vulcanizing agent, 0À7 to 0À90o of a vulcanizing activator, 0À5 to 0À8% of an accelerator and 69À5 to 76À2% of colouring matter. Exemplified is a composition of synthetic rubber, stearic acid, coumarone resin and asphalt cured by sulphur, zinc oxide and litharge. Other rubbers may be used. Other softeners mentioned are (1) paraffin or vegetable oil, (2) pine tar or colophony, (3) wax. The colourant may be graphite, lampblack, ultramarine or an organic pigment. Specification 980,866 is referred to.
Patent GB-2338150-A (GB)
Title: Voice / video conferencing using packet data links
Inventor: STUBBS MARTIN
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 1998-06-03
Abstract: Voice and/or video image data packets are transferred by a packet handler 48 between user stations in a GSM-type mobile communications system using a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) data link. Control data for controlling a call is stored in a data store accessible by the packet handler. The control data identifies call participants and the identity of a participant who has currently seized the call and is used to control the transfer of data packets between user stations 8. A mobile station capable of video conferencing is operable in a half duplex video conferencing mode, in which intermittent transmission of video data is controlled by depression of a transmit button.
Patent GB-2327772-A (GB)
Title: Stabilized sighting system
Inventor: JOFFRE JACQUES
IPC: G02B27/64
Filed: 1998-06-12
Abstract: A stabilized sighting system comprises an optical system for receiving an incoming beam, and a sight stabilization mirror (25) which is angularly steerable about two mutually orthogonal axes (L, I). A first means is provided for steering the stabilization mirror (25) about a first axis (L) on internal equipment (18), and a second means is provided for steering the internal equipment (18) about a second axis (I) which is orthogonal to the first axis (L). Third means are also provided for steering the assembly (14) on a support (10) about a third axis (C), and each of these steering means are provided with motor means (26, 28, 34). The motors (26, 28, 34) are controlled by a servocontrol system which includes a gyroscopic sensor (24) associated with the optical system. A stabilized and purely catoptric optical system (22) is provided upstream from the stabilization mirror (25), on the path of the incoming beam, in order to reduce the size of the incoming beam before it becomes incident upon the stabilization mirror (25). The advantage of this is that a smaller stabilization mirror (25) can be used for a given pupil diameter, which in turn reduces the inertia of the stabilization mirror (25), making it easier to implement a servo system capable of compensating for vibratory disturbances at high frequency. The catoptric system (22) may comprise a primary concave mirror (40, fig. 2A) of large diameter and a secondary convex mirror (42, fig. 2A) of smaller diameter. Such a system is suitable for use in numerous application, but particularly on mobile platforms such as aircraft, ships or land vehicles.
Patent GB-2328961-A (GB)
Title: Pick box and tooth sleeve arrangement
Inventor: WARREN JOHN JOSEPH
IPC: E21C35/197
Filed: 1998-08-14
Abstract: A pick box 1 of a tooling system for mineral winning etc., has an elongated aperture 4 to receive a removable liner sleeve 6 which holds a cutting tooth. The pick box 1 provides a seating surface 7 for abutment with a surface 17 of an enlarged head 16 of the sleeve 6 which extends orthogonally with respect to the axis 5 of the aperture 4. The internal periphery 8 of the pick box aperture 4 and the external periphery of the sleeve 6 are profiled, e.g. oval, D-shaped, or with a plurality of flats, so as to prevent relative rotation. The internal periphery 8 of the pick box aperture 4 is interrupted at 11 to provide at least one surface for engagement with a retainer device 12 of the inserted sleeve 6, whilst the sleeve has an external circumferential groove to receive the retainer device 12. The sleeve 6 also has a longitudinal circular bore and the enlarged head 16 has a frusto-conical flank 19. The invention further includes the pick box 1 and sleeve 6 in combination with a drum.
Patent GB-2331720-A (GB)
Title: Improved grinding machine.
Inventor: BENT RUSSELL GRAHAM
IPC: B24B49/16
Filed: 1998-11-02
Abstract: A grinding machine, in particular a face grinder for grinding the faces of silicon wafers, has a grinding wheel spindle 20 and a work spindle 22 which are mounted so as to be pivotal about axes A and B respectively, each axis being perpendicular to the rotational axis of its respective spindle and being orthogonal to the rotation axis of the other spindle. Three sensors or probes 1 to 3 are provided to measure the position of one spindle relative to the other and to generate signals for controlling servo motors 26, 28 for adjusting the angular orientation of each spindle about its pivotal axis.
Patent GB-2330217-A (GB)
Title: Polarisng panel and method for making same
Inventor: STEPHENSON JOHN RICHARD
IPC: B32B3/12
Filed: 1996-06-14
Abstract: A light polarising panel comprises a plurality of layers of translucent material. At least one gap (14, 16) is provided between a pair of adjacent layers and at least one of the layers is a polarising layer (13) formed of cellular material with layered elliptical cells. The polarising layer (13) is formed firstly by a hot roll calendering process such that the cells become substantially elliptical. The material is then placed under tension and heated and passed to a pair of heated laminating rolls. The effect is to produce material which is glassified on its outer surfaces.
Patent GB-2345157-A (GB)
Title: Publish and subscribe data processing with declaration of a unique publisher broker
Inventor: BOLAM STEVEN WILLIAM
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1998-12-23
Abstract: In a publish/subscribe data processing broker network having a plurality of broker data processing apparatuses each of which has an input for receiving published messages directly from a publisher application and/or receiving subscription data from a subscriber application, a first broker data processing apparatus 12 has:a unit for receiving a data message published on a first topic by a first publisher application 201 and a unit for forwarding the received published data message to a subscriber application 203 which has requested, by entering subscription data, to receive a message on the first topic; wherein the first broker data processing apparatus sends a declaration to at least one other of the broker data processing apparatuses declaring that the first broker data processing apparatus is the only broker data processing apparatus that is directly communicating with a publisher application that is publishing on the first topic.