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Patent GB-2317302-A (GB)
Title: A distributed information system
Inventor: KEARNEY PAUL JOSEPH
IPC: H04L29/08
Filed: 1996-09-12
Abstract: A distributed information system comprises information containing sites (8) connected to a network (2). A network user software agent (4) has means (24, 26, 28) for determining the value of the system in response to a proposed modification of the distribution of the information in the system. For instance, such a modification may comprise moving the information from one site (8) to another, storing a copy in a cache (30) or deleting a copy from the cache (30). The user (4) institutes the proposed modification if the value exceeds a threshold.
Patent GB-2305744-A (GB)
Title: Valve controller
Inventor: HONGO ICHIRO
IPC: F24F11/00
Filed: 1996-09-27
Abstract: In an air conditioner having a refrigerating cycle including a closable motor-operated expansion valve 5, the air conditioner control unit limits a variation quantity of the valve opening to a predetermined value or under when the current valve opening is less than a predetermined opening. Preferably the variation in opening of the valve is only limited when the valve is being closed.
Patent GB-2307493-A (GB)
Title: Fencing
Inventor: ATTWOOD PETER
IPC: E04H17/14
Filed: 1996-11-18
Abstract: Each pale (10) of palisade fencing has a concave cross-section to face the rails (11) and clamp-plates (13) each have hooked ends (14) to engage slots (12) in the sides of a pale from within, the ends (14) hooking over towards the intersected rail, which has a hole (16) for a security fastener (17, 18) which is capable of pulling the respective clamp-plate (13) towards the rail and causing the hooked ends (14) acting on the slots (12) to pull the edges (19) of the pale tight against the rail. Thus sideways removal of the pales (10) from the clamp-plates (13) is prevented, and the cross-sectional shape of the pales affords them great strength against levering attack as well as concealing the security fasteners (17, 18).
Patent GB-2307673-A (GB)
Title: Film wrapping with weakened closure seam
Inventor: ICHIMURA YUJI
IPC: B65D85/575
Filed: 1996-11-27
Abstract: A rectangular product 40 is wrapped with a heat-shrinkable plastic film 42 in intimate contact therewith, the upper and under edge portions of the film being overlapped and sealed together along the body of the wrap to form a seal 44. A part of the seal on one side of the article is formed as a weakly-joined zone 50 whose adhesion strength increases by continuous or stepwise gradations from an opening zone 52 where the adhesion strength is the lowest toward the both ends of the article. The weakly-joined zone is made up of joined and unjoined regions extending along the interface between the upper and under edge portions, in a repetitive pattern of the regions varying in adhesion strength with changes in the area ratio of the joined and unjoined regions. The wrap has a cut 54 for unwrapping use made in the opening or neighboring zone of the upper edge portion, and extending from its free edge 46. The weakly-joined zone 50 may extend the full length of one side of the product 40.
Patent GB-2320432-A (GB)
Title: Cosmetic compositions
Inventor: SANG CHUNE
IPC: A61K8/60
Filed: 1996-12-20
Abstract: Cosmetic composition for topical application to the skin comprising an acidic skin care active, a phenolic ester of a polyol carboxylic acid having  the general formula (I): wherein n is an integer from 1 to 4 and X is a polyol carboxylate containing at least four hydroxyl groups, and a cosmetically-acceptable carrier. The compositions of the invention provide improved skin appearance and reduced redness, together with anti-acne and/or anti-inflammatory benefits.
Patent GB-2311103-A (GB)
Title: Bevel-gear differential gearing
Inventor: SHOWALTER DAN J
IPC: F16H63/30
Filed: 1997-02-05
Abstract: A differential assembly for a transfer case or other motor vehicle application comprehends a pair of side gears which flank a centrally disposed spider driven by an input member and having a plurality of spokes or shafts and bevel pinion gears disposed thereon. An annular member retains the bevel gears on the spider. In a first embodiment, the annular member is retained on the spider by cooperating elongate slots in the member which receive the shafts of the spider and a snap ring which extends about the circumference of the annular member. In an alternate embodiment, the pinion gears include projecting spherical surfaces which are complementary to and seat within spherical recesses on the inner surface of the annular member.
Patent GB-2315662-A (GB)
Title: Antifreeze peptides in frozen foods
Inventor: FENN RICHARD ANTHONY
IPC: A23G9/48
Filed: 1997-07-08
Abstract: A process for the production of a frozen food product comprising AFP, wherein the conditions are chosen such that the ice-crystals in the product have an aspect ratio of from 1.1 to 1.9 (i.e. the crystals are rounded).
Patent GB-2327542-A (GB)
Title: Battery deep discharge alert
Inventor: WITHYCOMBE IAN
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 1997-07-17
Abstract: A battery powered portable electronic apparatus, particularly a cellular radio telephone, alerts a user when a battery is due for deep discharging. The deep discharge alert may be given when the battery has been charged a predetermined number of times , or may be dependent on the duration of time that the battery is charged for, or may be dependent on a function of the duration and the number of charges. The deep discharge alert may alternatively be triggered by detecting a characteristic associated with the discharge curve of the battery. The alert may be given audibly by a buzzer or visually by an LCD (5, Fig.1). The deep discharge function, which is controlled by a microprocessor (4) in the telephone, may be activated automatically following automatic power down of the telephone and involves drawing a small current over a period of about 30 minutes.
Patent GB-2316995-A (GB)
Title: Boat fender
Inventor: KYLE TIMOTHY CRAIG
IPC: B63B59/02
Filed: 1997-09-08
Abstract: A boat fender comprises a series of fenders joined by pivoted male/female connections, as shown. The fenders may be inflatable.
Patent GB-2318351-A (GB)
Title: Method for producing L-ribose
Inventor: ICHIKAWA SHUJI
IPC: C07H3/02
Filed: 1997-10-03
Abstract: A method for the production of L-ribose by epimerization of L-arabinose has a high material conversion ratio and forms little impurity by-products. The method comprises carrying out epimerization of L-arabinose using (a) a compound of a metal selected from nickel, cobalt, strontium and calcium and (b) a diamine compound. A multidentate compound (c), e.g. oxalic acid, anthranilic acid or dimethylglyoxime, may also be present.
Patent GB-2335539-A (GB)
Title: Manufacturing self-aligned borderless contacts and local interconnections
Inventor: SUN SHIH-WEI
IPC: H01L21/60
Filed: 1998-03-17
Abstract: Self-aligned, borderless contacts and local interconnections of semiconductor devices are manufactured in an integral process which is compatible with the LOGIC self-aligned titanium silicide (SALICIDE) and N+/P+ poly dual gate process modules. Active and local interconnect areas 9' and 9" are formed on a semiconductor substrate between isolation trenches 31, and gates are formed above each area. The gates consist of layers of oxide 32, polysilicon 33a,b, silicide 34a,b and nitride 35a,b and have side wall spacers 37a,b,c,d. Ions are implanted to from source/drain regions 36, before part of the gate above the interconnect area 9' is etched away. Silicide layers 42a,b,c are then formed in the source/drain regions before a nitride layer 44 and an inter-layer dielectric layer 43a are deposited. Openings are then etched in the layers 44,43a, and barrier layers 45 and tungsten plugs 46 are formed in the openings to connect the active and local interconnect areas with a conductive layer 47 to provide contacts and interconnections to and within the device.
Patent GB-2337639-A (GB)
Title: Electrical connector
Inventor: DAVIS RONALD ALFRED
IPC: H01R33/94
Filed: 1998-03-25
Abstract: An electrical connector (10) comprises a first connector (11) electrically connected to an electricity supply, and via flex (13) to a second connector (12), which is connectable to an electrical device (30), such that with the connector (10) being locatable on, or within, a floor, wall or ceiling, a person connecting the electrical device (30) to an electricity supply, only has to effect an electrical connection to the second connector (12).
Patent GB-2327613-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for automatically testing an autoclave
Inventor: HANNANT KEITH
IPC: B01J3/04
Filed: 1998-07-03
Abstract: An autoclave has a chamber 1, a control unit 4 and a timer means 20 wherein the control unit is arranged automatically to run a test procedure for the autoclave in response to a signal from the timer means. A method of running the procedure comprises closing the autoclave door 2 and leaving the autoclave automatically to perform the test procedure at a pre-programmed time. The tests include running a leak test, testing whether an air detector 23 functions properly and testing for sufficient steam penetration into a porous load test pack 40.
Patent GB-2332866-A (GB)
Title: Extracting plant, animal or mineral material
Inventor: KUBOYAMA NOBUYOSHI
IPC: F26B21/08
Filed: 1998-07-02
Abstract: Device for extracting a constitiuent from plant, animal or mineral material has a heated housing 1 for a liquid, an extractor 2 containing the material and a condenser 3. The condenser comprises inner 5 and outer 4 containers with the outer container containing a coolant 6 and the inner container having an air flow regulator 36. A blower 8 circulates air through the housing, extractor and condenser. The air flow regulator is typically sloping plates 37. Further claimed is a condensing apparatus comprising cylindrical containers and a method of drying air circulating in a drier using the condenser.
Patent GB-2328293-A (GB)
Title: Optic fibre array soldered in holes in substrate
Inventor: JANG WOO-HYUK
IPC: G02B6/30
Filed: 1998-08-14
Abstract: A fiber array module using soldering includes forming holes 160 into which optical fibers can be inserted, in a silicon wafer or a ceramic substrate 150 at predetermined intervals, forming a metal layer on the walls of the holes and the entire surface of the substrate, to allow the walls of the holes and the entire surface of the substrate to be plated with a solder alloy material 170, plating the walls of the boles 160 and the entire surface of the substrate 150 with the solder alloy material, inserting metal-coated optical fibers into the boles plated with the solder alloy material 170, positioning the optical fibers at the centers of the holes using the surface tension of the solder alloy material 170, by heating the resultant structure, fixing 190 the optical fibers, inserted into the holes 160 of the substrate 150, to the substrate by pouring epoxy curable by heat or ultraviolet, to fabricate a fiber array module capable of being accurately attached to an optical waveguide device, and polishing the end of the optical fiber module formed of optical fibers protruding through the holes, to give optical luminance. Alternatively, the substrate may be metal.
Patent GB-2329971-A (GB)
Title: Diagnostic method and device for an ignition system of an internal combustion engine
Inventor: HANNOYER GILLES
IPC: F02P17/12
Filed: 1998-08-24
Abstract: Diagnosis of an open circuit or short-circuit fault in an ignition system is achieved by the asynchronous periodic taking of samples of current flowing through circuit breakers Q1,Q2 associated with one or more ignition coils B1,B2. The samples are stored in a memory MEM along with sample time and an indication of which breaker Q1,Q2 is closed at that time from this stored data control computer mC verifies that a sample was taken at an appropriate time for a short-circuit or open-circuit test. Accordingly the sample value is compared to a threshold value to determine whether a fault is present.
Patent GB-2345769-A (GB)
Title: Failure recovery in a multi-computer system
Inventor: ASHCROFT DEREK WILLIAM
IPC: G06F11/00
Filed: 1999-01-12
Abstract: A multi-node computer system includes N + 1 nodes 10, comprising, e.g., N active nodes and one standby node. Each node hosts a server installation 11. Each server has a system disk 16, holding the operating system and configuration files for the server, and being mirrored for resilience. Each server also has a recovery disk 17, which holds a synchronised recovery copy of data held on the respective system disk 16, from which it is normally disconnected. In the event of failure of a node 10, a recovery process (Fig. 2), initiated on system administration workstation 12, reconfigures the system, by connecting the recovery disk 17 corresponding to the failed node to the system disk 16 of the standby node, and copying the contents of this recovery disk to the system disk. This causes the server in the failed node to migrate to the standby node, which thus becomes an active node. The server that was running on the standby node is similarly relocated to the failed node (Fig. 3).
Patent GB-2345951-A (GB)
Title: Sound-absorbing structure
Inventor: COHEN OLIVIER
IPC: G10K11/172
Filed: 1999-01-19
Abstract: A sound-absorbing structure (5) comprising a thin flexible film (12) supported on a support (6) in the form of an array of walls (8) forming a grid of cells (10) closed off by the film (12). The film (12) may be secured continuously to the upper surface of all the walls or may be only intermittently secured to the walls, but in each case to define a plurality of elemental parts of the surface of the film (12) which are independently vibratable at respective resonant frequencies in response to incident sound waves to cause loss of energy thereof. The support (6) is made of thin flexible material, such as foamed thermoplastic or rubber material, and preferably it is made from recycled low density, low cost materials. Because sound absorption occurs by a surface-resonance phenomenon, the structure 6 can be only a few millimeters thick. The underside of the structure (6) can be mounted on a sheet-like support member, advantageously flexible, this member in turn being mounted on the wall of a space in which occurs the sound to be absorbed, such as, for example, the engine compartment of a motor vehicle. Instead, the underside of the support (6) can be directly mounted on a wall of the engine compartment.
Patent GB-2346229-A (GB)
Title: Website usage monitoring
Inventor: BARCLAY IAIN STUART
IPC: G06F11/34
Filed: 1999-01-29
Abstract: A website is monitored to determine for each of the current web clients currently visiting the site, whether the client is currently located at one of a set of monitored entities (99) of the site. This set of monitored entities may simply be every page of the site. The determination of whether a client is currently located at a monitored entity is done, for example, by maintaining (54 - 56) a database (53) listing all current clients and holding, for each client, a list of the last preceding files requested by the client and the time of the last file request. The database is then periodically interrogated (59) to ascertain for each client whether it is currently at a monitored entity, this information then being used to generate an output indicative of the current distribution of clients across the monitored entities.
Patent GB-2335831-A (GB)
Title: Transmission of signalling information in a radio communications system
Inventor: FAERBER MICHAEL
IPC: H04L1/00
Filed: 1999-03-12
Abstract: A radio communications system provides a user data channel for the transmission of user data symbols provided with redundancy by a channel coding in at least one data block according to a known transmission protocol. The user data symbols are replaced by signalling information and are transmitted together with the remaining user data symbols in the user data block according to the transmission protocol.
Patent GB-2349585-A (GB)
Title: Dartboard
Inventor: PARTON DENIS
IPC: F41J3/00
Filed: 1999-03-17
Abstract: A substantially square shaped dartboard 22, has hanging means 53 and 54 and a playing area comprising a number of equally sized square target areas arranged in a square configuration. A number of alternative arrangements are disclosed. The target areas are defined by a wire grid 21, which rests in grooves (26) and (27). Interlocking joints (42) and (43) provide support for the grid and allow the wires to be adjusted. The grid may be embedded within the grooves such that the grid is flush with the surface of the dartboard, in which case one set of grooves is cut deeper than the other, or alternatively the grid may stand slightly proud of the board surface. Also disclosed is a moulded plastic grid which may be pressed into the surface of the board, or permanently adhered to the surface. The reticulations in this latter grid are characterised by sloping sides, to present a minimal obstruction to an incoming dart.
Patent GB-990856-A (GB)
Abstract: 990,856. Web coating apparatus. TELEFONBAU UND NORMALZEIT G.m.b.H. April 13, 1964 [April 20, 1963], No. 15235/64. Heading D1L. [Also in Division B6] A postal franking machine 1 is associated with a moistening device comprising a brush 11 supplied with water by a sponge 12 from a trough 39. When an adhesive strip 10 is franked by the machine 1, it is fed by a conveyer 14 to a pivotally mounted guide shoot 7. The lower part of the sheet 7 comprises a deflector 17 which guides the strip into the shoot 7 and up and over the moistening device, when the shoot is lowered into the position shown in Fig. 1. The nose of the deflector 17 cooperates with a depression 16 in the surface of the conveyer roller 3, Fig. 2. A push button 23, Fig. 4 is provided to latch the shoot 7 in the lowered position. One depression of the button 23 lowers the shoot 7, and a second depression of the button releases the shoot. A feeler arm 32 is provided, Fig. 4, which detects the passage of a postal package, such as a letter, which has been franked. The parcel passes under the nose of the feeler and lifts it so that a release mechanism 31 pivots about 38. In so pivoting, the mechanism will release the latching mechanism if the shoot is lowered, so that the package will pass beneath the moistening device.
Patent GB-2349044-A (GB)
Title: Transfer of data to a PDA
Inventor: MACKLIN NEAL
IPC: H04Q7/32
Filed: 1999-04-16
Abstract: Software stored in a memory of a PDA 6A, 6B, 6C is updated via a text data transmission, for example short message service or e-mail, from a remote server 4. The transmission includes an identifier which is unique to the module which is being transmitted. When received by the PDA, this identifier is compared with identifiers of modules already present in the PDA and if a match is found the received module replaces the module already in memory. Electronic messages may be directed towards a user according to data held on the user's record in a database, for example messages may be directed to a user by e-mail at certain time of the day. The PDA may intercept e-mail messages containing an identifier to prevent them from being seen by the user. Transmitted data may be divided into blocks, the blocks containing data such that the blocks may be reconstructed in the PDA.
Patent GB-2336668-A (GB)
Title: Determing the oil concentration in water by means of fluoresence excitation with an excimer lamp
Inventor: BYATT JOHN ANTHONY
IPC: G01N21/15
Filed: 1999-04-23
Abstract: A method and device for fluorescence measurement of oil residues in water use a powerful, narrow-band excimer lamp (2) to excite intensive fluorescence radiation 27b and a photodiode (10) to detect the fluorescence in order to determine the oil concentration. The excimer lamp can be designed as a flat radiator, a hollow cylindrical inner radiator or a tubular radiator, and can be combined with a through-flow or free fall measuring cell (6). The excimer lamp (2) is advantageously operated in a pulsed or modulated fashion, the fluorescence radiation (27b) may be measured at a right angle to the exciting radiation (27a), and the emitted (27b) and transmitted exciting light (27a) monitored with detectors (14) and (12).A redundant measuring arrangement with a plurality of excimer lamps and fluorescence detectors may be provided. The sensor (1) is reliable, stable and free from maintenance with a long service life when used for in-situ fluorescence measurements at locations which are difficult to access, for example in oil production.
Patent GB-2334332-A (GB)
Title: In-situ monitoring of electrical properties by ellipsometry
Inventor: PICKERING CHRISTOPHER
IPC: G01N21/21
Filed: 1997-12-18
Abstract: A method of monitoring material parameters of a sample (4) (for example electrical properties of a semiconductor) during processing (for example during manufacture) which uses ellipsometric techniques to study the changes induced in the ellipsometric spectra of the material, by modulation of the internal electric field of the material, and determining from these changes the material parameters of interest. The means of modulation can be a source of electromagnetic radiation, for example a laser (8). The ellipsometer used may include an array of photodetectors. The process allows the real time monitoring of the process under examination.
Patent GB-2351060-A (GB)
Title: Shock load absorber for cables
Inventor: CRISFIELD JOHN
IPC: F16F7/14
Filed: 1999-06-17
Abstract: A shock absorber device 1 for absorbing longitudinal tensile loads applied to a cable comprises means such as tube or (13, figure 3) to guide a length of cable into a curved path, the device being resilient or including resilient means responsive to resist said tensile shock loads tending to straighten said cable from said curved path. Preferably, said device is threaded on to the cable. In an alternative embodiment (figure 2), the resilient means comprises a plurality of hydraulic ram and cylinder devices (5) with pulleys (6), which constrain the cable to a serpentine path. The cylinders may be pressurised by nitrogen. The device may comprise a metal bellows or brittle plastics designed to deform and fail when subjected to excessive loads to indicate that such have occurred. An electronic load cell(s) may be provided to monitor the loads.
Patent GB-2355149-A (GB)
Title: Portable device with access to display functions when cover is closed
Inventor: SHARP JONATHAN ANTHONY
IPC: H04M1/72436
Filed: 1999-10-08
Abstract: A portable device 2 comprises a body 4, a cover 6, a multi-functional key 36, an antenna 16 and a speaker 38. The cover has a closed position for at least partially covering the body, and the key is accessible when the cover is in this position. The functionality of the key changes depending upon the state of the device. One such function is the control of the provision of information on a portion 26a of the device's display (26, fig.2a) which is visible through an aperture 42 in the cover. This may occur, for example, if the key is actuated when the device is a phone and has received a message, or missed a call.
Patent GB-2358307-A (GB)
Title: Method of determining camera projections in 3D imaging having minimal error
Inventor: LYONS ALEXANDER RALPH
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 1999-11-25
Abstract: A method of processing an input sequence of images to determine the positions and orientations at which the images were recorded. A subset of the input images are selected as keyframes. The error for the camera projections of images in the subset is calculated by projecting the selected features points into the images in the subset and determining the distance between positions of projected points and corresponding features in the images and changed positions for at least some of the selected points are calculated to determine the change in camera projection for the subset which reduces the calculated error. The subsets are selected sequentially from the sequence such that each image in the sequence is processed at least once. The error may be reduced using a non-linear least squares minimisation procedure.