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Patent GB-2273517-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for installing vehicle windows
Inventor: BRANNAN PETER
IPC: B25B5/00
Filed: 1992-12-21
Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus and method for installing window glass in a window aperture of a motor vehicle. Preferably the window glass is a replacement windscreen. The apparatus comprises a support bar 3 attached to the motor vehicle and a window glass holder 14 that can be supported movably on the support bar to permit accurate positioning of the window glass while most of the weight of the window glass is supported on the support bar. Preferably the support bar is a rigid pole of circular cross-section and the window glass holder is movably supported thereon by means of a resilient roller (20, figure 2) fixed to the window glass holder and configured to roll along the top of the supporting bar without slipping. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274068-A (GB)
Title: Video game machine.
Inventor: TSAI JIN-YI
IPC: A63F13/02
Filed: 1993-01-12
Abstract: The video game machine comprises a housing (1, 2), game playing control means (12 to 19), circuit means (3), memory means storing a game program, a game cartridge connector (27), display means (11) for displaying the game retrieved from the memory means, and an internal power supply for providing power for playing a game. The machine may be used for playing the built-in game on the display means (11) or playing the game of the cartridge on a remote v.d.u. via a connector (26). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275420-A (GB)
Title: Organ access system and trocar assembly
Inventor: GAUNT DAVID RAMON
IPC: A61B19/00
Filed: 1993-02-22
Abstract: A medico-surgical system for access to a hollow viscus 4 includes a member (2, Fig. 1) adapted to extend through an opening in the skin into the viscus of the patient so that one end of the member is located within the viscus and the other end terminates adjacent the skin. Balloons 28 and 30 are provided for retaining the one end of the member within the viscus. The balloons 28 and 30 also act as sealing means, adapted to seal the opening whilst allowing intermittent access to the viscus 4, e.g. by means of a catheter 6. Alternatively, the system comprises a tubular sleeve (92, Fig. 10), an inflatable cuff (94, Fig. 10) and a diaphragm (96, Fig. 10) having a self-sealing aperture. A trocar assembly 70 has an inclined cutting surface 74 and a channel (78, Fig. 6) into which is slid a catheter 86. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273087-A (GB)
Title: Mooring systems
Inventor: EAGLES GEOFFREY JAMES
IPC: B63B22/02
Filed: 1993-10-12
Abstract: In a mooring system for tanker vessels at offshore oil fields of the kind in which a flexible riser pipe 4 connected to an underwater well head 1 is supported by an anchored mooring buoy 3 and is connectable to a tanker vessel, the buoy 3 comprises a body member 14 non-rotationally moored at sea bed below the surface of the sea, and supports a surrounding ring member caring a mooring hawser 11 and rotatable about a vertical axis, the riser pipe 4 passing through an opening 21 in the body member 14. Such an arrangement allows substantial rotation of the tanker around the subsea buoy to permit it to weathervane in dependence upon wind and tide conditions. The ring member is formed from a number of blocks 17 and intervening links 18. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271610-A (GB)
Title: Stud and socket type attachment for building components
Inventor: PRIESTLEY GRAHAM
IPC: E04F19/02
Filed: 1993-10-18
Abstract: The fixing means comprises a pin or stud 2, a cup or socket and a support plate 4. In the example the pins are mounted on the wall by screws passing through bore 12. The pins have a necked portion 18 which locates in an aperture in plate 4, thus preventing relative movement therebetween. The sockets are mounted on the guard rail (also via a plate 4). The opposite arrangement could be used. The plate 4 is provided with a circumferential flange to stand the rail further off the wall than would normally be the case. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273214-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for modifying a decision-directed clock recovery system
Inventor: LAROSA CHRISTOPHER P
IPC: H04W72/04
Filed: 1993-01-25
Abstract: The present disclosure includes a discussion of a decision-directed clock recovery system which includes circuitry to prevent false-locking and accelerate acquisition on a known symbol patterns. The clock recovery system has at least two control circuits. Each control circuit has an effective bandwidth and also generates a clock signal. The clock recovery system samples the received data signal using at least two clock signals (573, 575), forming a corresponding first and second sampled signal. The sampled signals are used to generate corresponding symbol decisions (581, 583). The symbol decision signals are processed to detect a known symbol pattern in the received data signal (513). Upon detection of the known bit sequence, the characteristics of the clock recovery system are modified, namely, the effective bandwidth of the control circuits are modified <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284929-A (GB)
Title: High electron mobility transistors
Inventor: PATEL NALIN KUMAR
IPC: H01L29/772
Filed: 1994-03-23
Abstract: The transistor 1 comprises a first active layer and a second active layer separated by a barrier layer. A source region 5 and a drain region 7 are mutually separated and each contact the first and second active layers. A gate electrode 11 is arranged above the active layers in a region between the source and drain regions 5, 7. The barrier layer is sufficiently thin that in use, when a voltage applied to the gate electrode 11 is of a magnitude substantially to equalise carrier densities in the active layers, the electrical resistance between the source and drain regions 5, 7 is reduced. In one embodiment constituting a high speed switch, one of the active layers is divided into two branches in one of which a current flows constantly and in the other, the current is switched on or off by the gate voltage. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277264-A (GB)
Title: Analgesic anaesthetic compositions
Inventor: ROSS JOHN ALEXANDER STRACHAN
IPC: A61M16/18
Filed: 1994-04-21
Abstract: An analgesic anaesthetic composition comprising up to 50% v\v nitrous oxide, the balance being oxygen and another respirable gas is characterised by the addition of an analgesically effective amount of an ether-based analgesic anaesthetic disposed in a single container above its pseudo-critical temperature at a pressure of up to 2000 psi, thereby to form and maintain a homogenous analgesic composition. Ether based analgesic anaesthetic may be iso-, en-, sevo- or desflurane. Also claimed is a method of filling a pressure cylinder with a medical gas mixture.
Patent GB-2278340-A (GB)
Title: Liquid dispensing system
Inventor: IDLE CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B67D1/06
Filed: 1994-05-20
Abstract: There is disclosed a liquid dispensing system comprising a plurality of liquid dispensing units each connected by pump means to a reservoir of liquid to be dispensed, a switch at each dispensing unit operable to actuate the pump associated with that unit, electronic means which repeatedly scans through a common line, the state of each of said switches in turn and which actuates the associated pump means whenever an operated switch is detected.
Patent GB-2292062-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable saddle
Inventor: CONNOLLY JAMES LAWRENCE
IPC: B68C1/00
Filed: 1994-08-10
Abstract: A saddle comprises a tree 10 and two load bearing members 14 pivotally attached so as to lay one on either side of the animal's spine in use and capable of moving in such a way as to compensate for changes in shape of the animal's back which may occur when it is ridden and to assist the equal distribution of weight under the bearing members 14. The frame 10 connects to the bearing members 14 by ball and socket joints or a pivot pin arrangement 15. The bearing members are perforated (16) to provide ventilation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284938-A (GB)
Title: Current-limiting device
Inventor: BOY DIERK
IPC: H01C1/08
Filed: 1994-11-23
Abstract: A current limiting device which is supplied with energy from a voltage source is proposed for electrical loads. The current limiting device has a series-connected resistor (bias resistor) (7) which is arranged between the electrical load (8) and the voltage source (6). The series-connected resistor (7) is fitted on a film (foil), and the film itself is fitted to the housing wall (4, 5) of a housing which encloses the electrical load (8). This results in it being possible to emit the heat from the series-connected resistor to the environment over a large area in the event of an excessively high current. … <IMAGE> …
Patent GB-2285636-A (GB)
Title: Locating wound textile bobbin after doffing
Inventor: BARTKOWIAK KLAUS
IPC: B65H67/04
Filed: 1994-11-25
Abstract: Wound textile bobbins 4, 13 roll successively from a winding device down inclined path 1 comprising rails 2, 3 to a collecting position at stops 6.2, 6.3. Bobbin 4 pivots lever arms 20 about pins 7 so that lever arms 21 stop next bobbin 13 to prevent collision. Levers 20, 21 may be spring biased to move lever arms 21 apart. The free ends of arms 21 may be bevelled to center bobbins. An arm 20 may be relieved to allow a collector to enter spool 5. Removal of bobbin 4 allows bobbin 13 to roll to the stops. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2297849-A (GB)
Title: Portable soil strength testing device
Inventor: STONE KEVIN JOHN LINDSAY
IPC: G01N3/42
Filed: 1995-02-10
Abstract: A portable device for determining the strength of soil samples, comprises a mechanical drive 3 for driving a penetration rod 1 with a conical tip 2 at a selected speed into a soil sample 6, means 5 for measuring penetration load of the conical tip into a soil sample 6, means 4 for measuring the penetration depth of the conical tip into the soil, means enabling a continuous recording of the penetration load and depth to be made, and a mechanism 7 for releasing the penetration rod to fall under its own weight. The conical tip 2 may be replaced by conical tips of other shapes and sizes.
Patent GB-2298364-A (GB)
Title: Hair roller
Inventor: LEE HSI TE
IPC: A45D2/14
Filed: 1995-03-03
Abstract: A hair roller including a cylindrical roller body (1), an end cap (2) fixed to one end of the roller body (1), and an elastic band (3) having a fixed end (303) secured to the end cap (2) and a free end (301) received inside the roller body (1), wherein the free end (301) of the elastic band (3) can be pulled out of the roller body (1) and turned backwards over the roller body (1) and then fastened to a back pin (205) on the end cap (2) to fasten the roller body (1) to the hair.
Patent GB-2300544-A (GB)
Title: Bridge/repeater device for LANs
Inventor: SANTAMAS PETROS
IPC: H04L12/46
Filed: 1995-04-10
Abstract: The invention provides a communication device for a Local Area Network (LAN) which can be switched 16 to operate in at least two modes of operation. In the preferred embodiment the device can be switched to operate either as a repeater 12 or as a bridge 14. Switching between the modes of operation is done based on the volume of data traffic on the LAN to provide, when possible, the more or most efficient data communication. Typically, when traffic on the LAN is light the device operates as a repeater and when traffic is heavy the device operates as a bridge.
Patent GB-2292284-A (GB)
Title: Screen filtering boundary detection for image compositing
Inventor: DADOURIAN ARPAG
IPC: H04N9/75
Filed: 1994-04-04
Abstract: An apparatus for filtering a foreground image to minimize visible noise in the backing area and to preserve fine detail information of the foreground objects comprising a means (1) for generating a control signal having a level proportional to the brightness and visibility of the colored backing; a means (3) for adjusting the level of the control signal; a means (4) for subtracting the level matched control signal from the foreground video color signals; means (5, 6, 8, 9, 10) for processing foreground video color signals; a means (7, 11) for storing a video image defining boundary information determined by the processing means; a means (12) for storing the foreground color signals; a means (13) for applying a predetermined amount of filtering to the video signals stored in storing means (12); a means (14) for storing the video image after the predetermined amount of filtering has been applied for subsequent processing by the compositing video signals. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295526-A (GB)
Title: Transceiver
Inventor: MITAMA MASATAKA
IPC: H04B1/40
Filed: 1995-11-22
Abstract: A transceiver in which mutual interference between the transmitting and receiving circuits is minimised without the need for a shielding plate therebetween is disclosed. The transceiver has first and second printed circuit boards 1, 2, which are positioned face to face when the interconnceting flexible printed circuit board 3 is bent into a U-shape. The front surfaces of the first and second boards are respectively divided into transmitting and receiving regions A and B, on which corresponding components are respectively mounted. The aforementioned regions on the first circuit board 1 are respectively positioned face to face with corresponding regions on the second circuit board 2. An optional shield strip may be inserted between boards 1, 2 to separate components of regions A, B. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2311290-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of steroids
Inventor: O'KEEFFE SEAN
IPC: C07J31/00
Filed: 1996-03-22
Abstract: Tixocortol pivalate is manufactured on an industrial scale by forming a salt eg sodium of thiopivalic acid in a closed reaction vessel 1. The salt is then reacted with an appropriate hydrocortisone derivative to form the pivalate. The thiopivalic acid is charged through an inlet line 4 into a container 2 which is housed in an enclosed fume tent 15 with a sealable entry door flap 14 and an outlet 16 to a scrubber. The inlet line 4 is then closed and a vacuum is drawn on the line 5 and a delivery line 20 from the reaction vessel 1. A valve 8 is then opened and the acid is drawn into the vessel 1. When the container 2 is emptied, acetone is used to wash any residual acid and the wash is also drawn into the vessel 1, cleaning the delivery line 20.
Patent GB-2299628-A (GB)
Title: Medical infusion pumps
Inventor: HILBORNE DAVID GRAHAM
IPC: A61M5/142
Filed: 1994-12-23
Abstract: A medical infusion pump comprises a first part (10) incorporating a pump mechanism and control systems, and a second part (12) containing a fluid cassette and a flexible delivery tube (14). A latching mechanism is provided which locks the two parts together, and positions the delivery tube (14) in a position where it can be acted upon by the pump. The second portion (12) incorporating the fluid cassette and the delivery tube may be a disposable item.
Patent GB-2302386-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for arresting the propagation of a buckle in a pipeline
Inventor: ROCHE JOSEPH R
IPC: F16L15/06
Filed: 1996-06-17
Abstract: To arrest the propagation of a collapse or buckle the pipeline comprises a plurality of joints of pipe connected end-to-end by threaded connections. Each connection includes external cylindrical threads 14, 16 of opposite hand on adjacent ends of the pipe joints 10, 12 and a coupling 18 having complementary threads 20, 22 for moving the ends of the pipe joints into abutting position in sealing engagement with a seal ring 32 to seal the connection. Each connection provides a physical discontinuity in the pipeline to stop the propagation of a buckle. The thread profile may be dovetailed or hooked provide radial support to the pipe members to resist collapse.
Patent GB-2300640-A (GB)
Title: Thermosetting polyester resin
Inventor: BINNS MALCOLM ROSS
IPC: B32B15/09
Filed: 1994-12-21
Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyester resin for use in a thermosetting coating composition, said polyester comprising an acid component, an alcohol component and a trifunctional branching agent; wherein the acid component consists of from 90 to 100 mole % of an aromatic acid or aromatic anhydride or mixture thereof and from 0 to 10 mole % of a polycarboxylic acid or polycarboxylic anydride or mixture thereof; and wherein the alcohol component consists of at least 60 mole % of one or more glycols selected from the group consisting of CH 3 -CH 2 -C(CH 2 OH) 2 -R 1 wherein R 1 is an alkyl and derivatives of said glycols, from 0 to 20 mole % of neopentylglycol, and of up to 20 mole % of a trifunctional branching agent.
Patent GB-2315095-A (GB)
Title: Hook and loop surface fastener
Inventor: HERDMAN KENNETH
IPC: A44B18/00
Filed: 1996-07-10
Abstract: A surface fastener 2,8 comprises base strips 4,8 having separate regions 6,12 of fastener elements 7, 14 spaced apart at regular intervals along their lengths. The regions 6,12 may have hooks and loops respectively, or both. The fastener elements 7,14 may be produced by knitting so that the base remains flexible. The hooks 7 are of high density and made of fine yarn so as to be weak, to avoid catching on a garment.
Patent GB-2316026-A (GB)
Title: Drilling rod with a connecting adapter
Inventor: DETERDING WERNER
IPC: E21D21/00
Filed: 1996-08-19
Abstract: A drilling rod 1 is releasably connectable with a connecting adapter 26 mountable on a drilling machine 4. Coupling end 11 of the rod has a central longitudinal duct 2 which extends into an enlarged-diameter zone 7 for receiving a cutting tool 8. A transverse bore 17 is provided in the coupling end 11 adjacent a cylindrical section 12, the transverse bore having therein a snap bolt 20 radially movable against the return force of a compression spring 21. The adaptor 26 has a cylindrical sealing zone 32 and a hexagonal driver zone 30, a transversely directed receiving bore 34 being provided for the snap bolt 20.
Patent GB-2318276-A (GB)
Title: Security cabinet assembly
Inventor: ALDRIDGE VIVIENNE OLIVE
IPC: E05G1/00
Filed: 1996-10-15
Abstract: A security cabinet assembly comprises an outer cabinet 10 housing an inner cabinet 20 which can be slid outwards, pivoted on a vertical axis when withdrawn whereby its open end faces either outwardly or inwardly relative to the inner cabinet, and then slid back in. The mechanism includes bearing plates 24 on the inner cabinet and extension plates (14, Fig 3) which slide in corresponding grooves (12, Fig 2) in the top and bottom walls of the outer cabinet, and pins (26, Fig 3) which are received in elongated slots in the extension plates and allow both sliding and pivoting of the inner cabinet. Both cabinets may have lockable doors.
Patent GB-2307277-A (GB)
Title: Combined cycle powerplant with gas turbine cooling
Inventor: STANKOVIC BRANKO
IPC: F01K23/02
Filed: 1996-10-28
Abstract: A furnace 1, is supplied with air via a fan 6, and a preheater 7, and heats air from a compressor 12, the air then being supplied to a turbine 13, that exhausts through a heat recovery steam generator. The HRSG has an economizer 17, evaporator 19, steam drum 18, superheater 20, and reheater 21, and supplies an HP turbine 22, IP turbine 23, and LP turbine 24. A condenser 25, feedwater tank with deaerator 26, and pumps 27,28 are provided. Air from the compressor 12 is supplied to the turbine, for cooling purposes, via a heat exchanger 30 supplying steam via a steam drum 32 to a reheater 31. In alternative arrangements, one or more additional gas turbines may be incorporated (figs. 2 and 3), water cooling may be substituted for the gas cooling (figs. 4 and 5), the heat source may be a nuclear reactor rather than a furnace, and the gas turbine cycle may be open rather than closed, in which case the furnace is replaced by one or more combustors.
Patent GB-2320609-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor laser device
Inventor: DUGGAN GEOFFREY
IPC: H01S5/00
Filed: 1996-12-21
Abstract: A separate confinement heterostructure laser device has an optical guiding region 2, an active region 1 in the optical guiding region 2, and p-type and n-type cladding regions 3 and 5 on opposite sides of the optical guiding region 2. At least one barrier layer 6 is present within the p-type cladding region 3. The composition of the barrier layer 6 is such that it has an X conduction band minimum higher than that of adjacent parts of the p-type cladding region 3. The composition and/or thickness of the barrier layer is also such that it has a r-minimum which is higher than the X-minima of the adjacent parts of the p-type cladding region. The thickness of the barrier layer 6 is such as to prevent electron tunnelling between the X-bands of the adjacent parts of said p-type cladding region 3 on opposite sides of the barrier layer 6, and/or the compositions of the adjacent parts of the p-type cladding region 3 on opposite sides of the barrier layer 6 are sufficiently different from one another to prevent such tunnelling. Consequently, electron leakage from the active region 10 is reduced.
Patent GB-2320900-A (GB)
Title: Inhalers
Inventor: HIGENBOTTAM TIMOTHY WILLIAM
IPC: A61M16/00
Filed: 1997-01-07
Abstract: The invention proposes treatment apparatus, and in particular small (pocket-sized) hand-held apparatus. It suggests apparatus for the delivery of a medicament into the Patient's lungs in the form of a bolus, pulse, or spike of the medicament entrained in and driven by the normal respiration air, which apparatus comprises a conventional nebuliser 11 (in the reservoir of which is stored the medicament to be administered) driven by some suitable pressurised gas from a valved cylinder 18 thereof to deliver an aerosol cloud of medicament into a tube 105 through which the Patient is breathing (by mouth) normal air, the gas cylinder valve being controlled by a suitably programmed computing device 101 that is fed data describing the pressure within the breathing tube and so is able to open and close the valve at and for a time such as to drive the nebuliser to deliver a required pulse of medicament at any selected point within the Patient's respiratory cycle.
Patent GB-2310731-A (GB)
Title: Control of the approach of a vehicle to an obstruction
Inventor: WIEDER GERHARD
IPC: G01S13/931
Filed: 1997-02-04
Abstract: A device 30b measures the distance of the vehicle to an obstruction and when the control unit 30a determines this to be within a first range, an engine controller 12 acts upon an engine function 18, eg A/F ratio or ignition angle (Fig 3c not shown) , according to the measured positions of accelerator pedal, gear, engine temperature and speed, so as to limit the vehicle speed to a predetermined maximum speed (Figure 3b). This control is preferably only engaged in reverse gear and the accelerator 58 and brake 34 pedals otherwise remain under the control of the driver. When the distance falls within a second range (T1), nearer the obstruction than the first, a brake control unit 24 causes brake 20,22 actuation (Fig 3d), according to other parameters such as vehicle speed or axle load, to bring the vehicle safely to a halt. A feeler device 38 may also be actuated (at a distance T11, Fig 3e) to further reduce the distance to the obstruction at low speed by release of the brake and increase of engine output.
Patent GB-2322152-A (GB)
Title: Assembly for carrying a louvre in a vertical louvre blind
Inventor: ALLSOPP REGINALD CHARLES
IPC: E06B9/36
Filed: 1997-02-14
Abstract: The carrier assembly comprises a body adapted to be slidably mounted by a supporting member, and a connecting assembly comprising a first component 30 disposed within the body and a second component 80 at least part of which projects from the body and which has a connection formation 82 from which a louvre may be suspended. Each of the first and second components have mutually interengageable formations by means of which they may be releasably interconnected, such that the second component is retained in connection with the first component for use, and such that the second component is separable from the first component, and replaceable with a substitute component while the body is slidably mounted by a supporting member.