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Patent GB-2278654-A (GB)
Title: Shift control system for automatic transmission inhibits shift on failure dete ction
Inventor: OBA HIDEHIRO
IPC: F16H61/12
Filed: 1994-05-31
Abstract: A shift control system of an automatic transmission for setting a predetermined gear stage by applying first frictional engagement means and releasing second frictional engagement means, comprising: a pressure regulating mechanism for regulating an oil pressure to be fed to or drained from the first frictional engagement means; a failure detector for detecting a failure of an apparatus to participate in the regulation and control of the oil pressure which is to be fed to or drained from at least one of the first and second frictional engagement means; and a gear stage inhibitor for inhibiting the setting of the predetermined gear stage if the failure is detected by the failure detector. The system preferably detects apparatus failure and/or abnormal lockup clutch operation and inhibits change from 1st to 2nd ratio, enforcing change from 1st to 3rd instead. The system preferably also increases a reduction of engine torque during shift if failure detection occurs. A system preventing "tie-up" (simultaneous engagement of the clutches/brakes for two ratios at once) is also claimed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2292696-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for water treatment
Inventor: GOODSON MALCOLM GRAHAM
IPC: B01D35/147
Filed: 1994-09-01
Abstract: Apparatus for water treatment comprising a container and filter medium inserted within the container. An inlet and outlet is also provided for receiving and despatching water to and from the container. An indicating means is provided for indicating when the filter is fully, or partially blocked. The indicating means may be provided by movement of the filter medium itself or by movement of a tray positioned above said filter medium. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284319-A (GB)
Title: Copier/printer with improved productivity
Inventor: TOMPKINS MICHAEL P
IPC: G03B27/00
Filed: 1994-11-25
Abstract: An electrophotographic copier/printer reproduction apparatus includes a marking engine that has a job image buffer (JIB) that queues jobs from a scanner and a raster image processor (RIP). The scanner supports the copier function of the apparatus and processes original documents by scanning the images thereon to form copier image data that is processed and stored in the JIB. The RIP processes printer data from a computer and transmits this data also to the JIB for further processing and storage. The RIP operates in two printer modes. In a first printer mode, data is sent to the JIB as it is RIPed and no provision is made for an interrupt for a copier job nor can a copy job be scanned in. This provides maximum efficiency for printer operation. In a second, less efficient, printer mode the JIB stores only a few and preferably one-print job at a time to leave room in the JIB for scanning in a copy job via an interrupt operation. A criterion for switching between the two printer modes is time of day, print job backlog or coding of a print job. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295625-A (GB)
Title: Bleaching composition for machine dishwashing
Inventor: CARAVAJAL GREGROY STEPHEN
IPC: C11D3/08
Filed: 1994-11-29
Abstract: A bleaching composition adapted for use in machine dishwashing having reduced silver-tarnishing and enhanced glassware pattern protection properties, as well as good cleaning performance contains a silicate-based alkalinity system containing a minor proportion of sodium metasilicate and has a pH measured as a 1% solution of said composition at 20 DEG C of from 9.0 to 11.5.
Patent GB-2287708-A (GB)
Title: Functionalisation and structural modification of triphenylene-based discotic liquid crystals (mesogens) through electrophilic substitution at alpha-position
Inventor: BUSHBY RICHARD JAMES
IPC: C07C69/157
Filed: 1995-03-23
Abstract: Triphenylenes are electrophilically substituted in the alpha-position by dissolving the triphenylene in a mixture of semipolar and polar solvents (eg an ether and a carboxylic acid) and adding an electrophile or precursor thereof (eg HNO3, BR2, R-Z, RCO-Z, or Aryl-CO-Z; where Z is halogen). The alpha-substituted triphenylenes are claimed per se. Thus hexa- beta -substituted hexyloxytriphenylene is  alpha -substituted by an electrophile in mixed polar cosolvents according to the reaction scheme:-   <IMAGE>   Such compounds are or may be used to prepare discotic liquid crystals.
Patent GB-2288512-A (GB)
Title: Image processing apparatus
Inventor: KOJIMA AKIO
IPC: H04N1/387
Filed: 1995-04-12
Abstract: Picture images being joined without connection gaps can be produced with high quality by adjusting a position error, even if an error is included in a scanning position being detected, and by preventing a map missing area from arising which is caused by the adjustment of position error. A position error detection circuit 7 detects a position error from picture information consisting of image data 400 inside a scanning area being read overlapped by a line image sensor 1 and storage data being stored in an image memory 6. Next, the position error detection circuit 7 adjusts a scanning position coordinate 300 for cancelling this position error, which is then output to a mapping circuit 5 as an adjustment position coordinate 710. The mapping circuit 5 stores the image data 400 to the image memory 6 according to the adjustment position coordinate 710. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289062-A (GB)
Title: Multipurpose controlled atmosphere heat treatment system.
Inventor: HISADA HIDEO
IPC: F27D99/00
Filed: 1993-12-01
Abstract: A multipurpose atmosphere heat treatment apparatus capable of treating small quantities of multiple kinds of articles flexibly, and also capable of being used for the mass-production of articles. A transfer passage is provided so as to pass through a processing shop and a heat treatment apparatus, and unmanned transfer carriages so that they can travel along this transfer passage. These unmanned transfer carriages are shut off from the outside air, and have retention chamber capable of forming an inert gas atmosphere therein, the carriages being adapted to hand over workpieces, which they have received from an elevator for a multi-story warehouse, to each treatment cell. Each treatment cell has a sealing door on the side thereof which faces the unmanned transfer carriages, and pipes and various kinds of equipment on the rear, ceiling and front surfaces thereof. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2291090-A (GB)
Title: Installation of an oil storage tank.
Inventor: DIESEN MORTEN
IPC: E02D23/08
Filed: 1995-07-06
Abstract: A subsea construction with ballast tanks, typically a storage tank (1) for oil, is installed on the seabed by connecting the construction (1) to a buoy (5) and two or more tugboats (3) by means of wires (8) which are attached to the buoy and run from there to pulleys on the construction and on to the tugs. The construction is ballasted until it has a suitable weight, typically 50 tons, and is lowered to a depth at a suitable height above the seabed by paying out wires (8) from winches on the tugs. The construction is lowered the final distance to the seabed by ballasting the construction. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2292419-A (GB)
Title: Reducing the flow resistance of curved passages
Inventor: FISHER PETER
IPC: F02M35/104
Filed: 1995-08-15
Abstract: A flow passage 10, particularly the fuel/air inlet passage of an internal combustion engine, has a flow affecting member 1 located within its bore with an elongate vane 4 which directs the flow towards the inside 11 of a flow passage bend. The vane 4 is carried from a base 2 by a transverse web 3 and is shaped and dimensioned to increase the flow capacity of the passage for a given pressure drop. The width of the vane 4 is between 15 and 30% of the passage width. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2303019-A (GB)
Title: A loudspeaker arrangement with controllable directivity
Inventor: CAUSSE RENE
IPC: H04R1/32
Filed: 1996-07-02
Abstract: The directivity patterns of several different loudspeakers may be combined algebraically to obtain a desired directivity pattern representing the directivity of an original or virtual sound source e.g. a musical instrument. To take account of the variation of the directivity patterns of the loudspeakers with frequency, the signals applied to these loudspeakers are filtered 24, 25 so that the composite directivity function represents the expected directivity pattern throughout the spectrum. The gain of amplifiers 15, 16 may also be adjusted. The coefficients of the filters are determined by a method of optimization both in modulus and in phase. The loudspeaker arrangement may take the form of a polyhedral array, preferably a dodecahedral array (fig 4).
Patent GB-2303631-A (GB)
Title: Composition for lamp reflectors
Inventor: DAICHOU HISAYOSHI
IPC: F21V7/22
Filed: 1996-07-11
Abstract: A molding composition for a lamp reflector comprises an unsaturated polyester resin, glass fiber, inorganic filler and a thermoplastic resin in an amount effective for preventing shrinkage of the molding composition during curing of the composition to form the lamp reflector. A process for producing the lamp reflector and a lamp reflector produced by molding the molding composition are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2316537-A (GB)
Title: Pressure sensitive mat switch
Inventor: COCKER JOHN
IPC: H01H3/14
Filed: 1996-08-16
Abstract: A pressure mat comprises a pair of electrically conductive layers 10, 11, separated by an insulating layer 12 of foamed plastics material, and an upper covering layer 14 of an elastomeric material. One of the electrically conductive layers 10 is provided with an array of conductive pyramid-shaped projections 13 on its rear surface. The layers 10, 11, 12, 14 are retained together at their edges by a channel-section frame member 15, which extends around the periphery of the mat. In use, when pressure is applied to the mat, the projections 13 penetrate the insulating layer and short-circuit the electrically conductive layers 10,11, thereby allowing current to flow between the layers.
Patent GB-2317239-A (GB)
Title: Spectacles holder with chain
Inventor: WOODS THELMA EILEEN
IPC: A45C11/04
Filed: 1996-09-17
Abstract: Spectacles 5 are held in a wallet 1 which is hung around the neck by means of a chain 4. The chain 4 is secured to the wallet 1 by split rings 3 threaded through holes 2 punched at the top of the wallet.
Patent GB-2307812-A (GB)
Title: GPS Receiver
Inventor: MINETT PETER JOHN
IPC: G01S1/00
Filed: 1996-11-20
Abstract: A GPS receiver calculates its position by generating replicas of time signals transmitted from satellites, by measuring the propagation delays of signals from four satellites in known positions. The local frequency reference is derived from broadcast information, in order to permit the replacement of components such as the oscillator 1 by a cheaper, lower stability component which is continuously corrected by the frequency reference 5 from the radio receiver, which could be a radio data receiver. The broadcast information is used to facilitate, and hence speed up, acquisition of the signals broadcast by the first satellite.
Patent GB-962846-A (GB)
Abstract: 962,846. Engine starter drives. ROBERT BOSCH G.m.b.H. June 28, 1962 [June 29, 1961], No. 24801/62. Heading F1K. A starter drive comprises a pinion 13 which is rotatable and displaceable relative to a starter motor output shaft and which is coupled by a free wheel clutch 16 to a hollow shaft 17 which has a screw connection with a coarse screw threaded portion of the starting shaft such hollow shaft being secured against longitudinal displacement relative to the starting motor shaft when the pinion is in its disengaged position by a locking member 21 which engages in both a depression in the starting motor shaft and a recess in the hollow shaft and further comprises a pivoted shift lever 37 for longitudinally displacing the hollow shaft to displace the pinion between its engaged and disengaged positions and a retaining member 23 displaceable by the shift lever and biased by a control spring such retaining member maintaining the locking member in its locking position and at the same time serving to apply a braking force of a brake 30, 31, 35 for the armature of the starting motor when the pinion is in its disengaged position. In Fig. 5 a member 46 of synthetic plastic material replaces the discs 30 31 and the sleeve 23.
Patent GB-2323014-A (GB)
Title: Tractor-implement weight transfer
Inventor: SEILING NICOLAAS LAURISSE
IPC: A01B63/11
Filed: 1997-03-12
Abstract: A paddock roller is disclosed comprising a roller drum 12 rotatably mounted on a cross member 18 and a mechanism for connecting the cross member to the three point hitch of a tractor. The mechanism comprises a jacking device 28 mounted between the cross member and the upper link 30 of the three point hitch and a pair of links 24 which link the cross member to the lower links of the three point hitch so that actuation of the jacking device 28 causes some of the weight of the tractor to be applied to the roller drum through the cross member. The cross member also carries a leaf spring assembly 32 which projects forwardly, cantilever fashion, from the cross member and is connected at its forward end by a chain 38 to the drawbar 36 of the tractor. The leaf spring assembly limits the upward movement of the cross member relative to the tractor.
Patent GB-2323320-A (GB)
Title: Multiple injection moulded insole structure
Inventor: WANG WAYNE
IPC: A43B13/38
Filed: 1997-03-21
Abstract: There is disclosed a multiple injection molded insole structure in which, with the exception of the main body 10 of the insole, all other injected parts of insole structure, including side wall 20/21 and outsole 30 of shoe, can be molded in advance according to respectively demanded functions, hardness and color of various shoes. They are then disposed in molds, then the main body of the injection molded insole, the transparent bottom layer, middle transparent shock-absorbing layer 11 and transparent side wall layer will be connected respectively with the previously mentioned side wall layer and bottom layer of the shoe as one body. Various changes of respective injected body, melt connecting injected multiple insole structure with various changes in order to raise the whole structure for adjusting different needs, and increase the quality and ability of use and with more multiple changes of one body.
Patent GB-2311075-A (GB)
Title: Ester or amide containing xanthene dyes for use in ink jet or hot melt inks
Inventor: GREGORY PETER
IPC: C09B11/28
Filed: 1997-04-26
Abstract: A compound of Formula (1): wherein:  X 1 is an ester group or an amide group (eg of a carboxylic or sulphonic acid) or a fatty amine salt of a sulphonic acid; each X 2 independently is a substituent; m has a value of from 0 to 2; Y 1 and Y 2 are each independently H, alkyl or halo; each Z independently is an ester or amide group; and A - is an anion.  The compound is useful as a colorant for toners, D2T2 printing, plastics, polyesters, nylons and inks, especially inkjet or hot melt inks.
Patent GB-2312629-A (GB)
Title: Golf club shaft
Inventor: MIYAJI TOSHIHIRO
IPC: A63B53/10
Filed: 1997-04-30
Abstract: A golf club shaft (10) comprises at least three interconnected tubular members (Sb, Sm, St) whose diameters, flexional rigidities, lengths, materials, etc. are selected to make the golf club shaft (10) more flexible near a club head or a club grip or at a middle portion. The shafts are made of fibre-reinforced plastic.
Patent GB-2319069-A (GB)
Title: Lockable fastener assembly
Inventor: DURAN JOHN A
IPC: F16B31/02
Filed: 1997-09-26
Abstract: A fastener assembly in Figure 4 includes a bolt (13) having an enlarged head (14), a threaded shaft potion (15) and a connecting body portion (16), a split bushing (22) encircling the bolt portion (16), a first nut (25) threaded onto the bolt and having deformable protrusions (35) thereon and a second nut (24) threaded onto first nut (25) and having deformable protrusions (28) thereon, both sets of protrusions (35, 28) being deformable at a predetermined load thereon into the threads of the bolt and the first nut respectively to effect locking, the first nut (25) being forced against the bushing (22) and the second nut (24) abutting against a panel (12). In a second embodiment (Figure 12) a first nut (127) is mounted inside of a second nut (128), and is press-fitted, or bonded, or screwthreaded to the second nut (128) so as to break off from it when a predetermined torque is exceeded. The first nut (127) may be internally threaded. The second nut (128) is connected by a breakneck to a driver portion (139).
Patent GB-2329984-A (GB)
Title: Multi-processor computer uses PCI bridge for memory access
Inventor: BALL ALAN EDWARD
IPC: G06F13/40
Filed: 1997-10-01
Abstract: A multi-processor computer system comprises one or more CPUs (1, Figure 1) connected to a host computer (2) via a common PCI bus system backplane (3). The host computer comprises a host microprocessor and associated memory unit and each CPU comprises a local microprocessor 5 having a local bus (15), an associated local memory unit 6, and a PCI connector 9 connected to the PCI backplane. Each CPU further comprises a bridge 7 having at least two decoders, installed between the CPU local bus and the PCI connector and providing an interface between the local microprocessor and the associated local memory unit. A first decoder of each bridge is programmed to a first address range for access to the respective local memory unit by the associated local processor, and a second decoder of each bridge is programmed to a second address range for access to the same physical memory of the memory unit by another microprocessor of the system. The same first address range and different second address ranges are allocated to each associated memory. Each microprocessor of the computer system can access the entire PCI memory space comprising the memory units associated with all microprocessors of the system.
Patent GB-2324539-A (GB)
Title: Aluminium nitride coating of cylinder running surface
Inventor: STEINWANDEL JURGEN
IPC: C23C8/36
Filed: 1998-04-16
Abstract: A method for the aluminium nitride coating of the cylinder running surface (ZL) of a crankcase (KG) made of an Al base alloy, wherein the aluminium nitride coating is carried out by surface nitriding the Al base alloy, and the activated nitrogen needed for this is preferably produced by means of a high-pressure plasma process in the atmospheric range from molecular nitrogen, and the high-pressure plasma is preferably produced by static or pulsed corona or barrier discharge or by coupling microwaves in by means of an antenna (AT). An additional AIN layer may be deposited on the surface of the aluminium nitride coating by means of a reactive high-pressure plasma process with the use of nitrogen and gaseous compounds of Al, eg aluminium chloride or trimethyl aluminium.
Patent GB-2322377-A (GB)
Title: Liquid crystal polymers
Inventor: HALL ALAN WILLIAM
IPC: C09K19/42
Filed: 1996-10-31
Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are provided which may be used in a variety of devices including liquid crystal devices, piezoelectric devices, pyroelectric devices and in optical recording media, wherein X 1  and X 2  are independently selected from H, CN, COCH 3 , CO 2 CH 3 , m = at least 5; X 3  and X 4  are independently selected from formula (IA), wherein Y is selected from COO, OCO, O, S, CHOH, CHF, CH 2 ; Q = (CH 2 ) n  wherein one or more non-adjacent methylenes may be replaced by O and n = 1-20; Z is selected from O, S, single covalent bond, COO, OCO; when Y is CH 2  then n may also be 0; formula (A) represents any mesogenic group; X 3  and X 4  are also independently selected from H, OH, OCOR<SP>1</SP>, COOH, CO 2 R<SP>1</SP>. (CH 2 ) p OH, (CH 2 ) p CO 2 H, -(CH 2 ) p OR<SP>1</SP> or -(CH 2 ) p CO 2 R<SP>1</SP> and p = 1-20, R<SP>1</SP> = H or C 1-16 alkyl, when R<SP>1</SP> = C 2-16 alkyl the terminal CH 3  group may be replaced by Br or Cl; provided that at least one of X 3  and X 4  is selected from formula (IA).
Patent GB-2322524-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring link quality in a TDMA radio communication system during silent periods
Inventor: SATO OSAMU
IPC: H04W24/06
Filed: 1995-06-06
Abstract: When a detector 44 senses a silent period due to the absence of speech signals from a microphone 38, a mobile station 30 is caused to transmit back to the base station the last sync signal which was received from the base station and stored in a memory 43 of the mobile, whereby the base station can still monitor link quality during silent periods. During a silent period, each TDMA transmission time slot from the mobile includes the returned sync signal as a second sync signal, preceded by a first sync signal added by the mobile (Fig.1c). The base station judges link quality from both the bit error rate of the returned, second sync signal and from the field intensity or bit error rate of the first sync signal. Depending on the judged link quality, the base station may change the allocated radio channel or may cause the radio link to be cut off.
Patent GB-2338029-A (GB)
Title: Restraining device for the arms and legs of a handcuffed prisoner
Inventor: DAVIES DONALD
IPC: A61F5/37
Filed: 1998-06-05
Abstract: The device is made from three lengths of a flexible material, the first length 12 having loops 15 at each end which are secured to the arms by means of adjustable buckles 13,14. A similar piece, 21 is used to secure the legs. The third length 22 includes a central adjustable portion 27 and connects the first two lengths together.
Patent GB-2327800-A (GB)
Title: Head drum with thermal deformable member
Inventor: OH SE-WOOG
IPC: G11B5/56
Filed: 1998-06-18
Abstract: A head drum assembly for use in a video cassette recorder includes a rotary drum having a through hole and a threaded hole, a video head composed of a head chip for recording/reproducing signals on a magnetic tape, and a base plate divided into a fixed portion and a mounting portion for mounting the head chip, wherein the fixed portion of the base plate is formed with an aperture corresponding to the threaded hole of the rotary drum in such a way that the video head is installed on a lower surface of the rotary drum by engaging a fastening screw therethrough, and is formed with a slot, and a deformable member inserted into the slot in such a way that, when the deformable member is impinged by a laser beam, the head chip mounting portion of the base plate moves downwardly by a volume expansion of the deformable member.
Patent GB-2341478-A (GB)
Title: Three dimensional maps incorporating navigational aids
Inventor: KACZMARYK JOHN JAMES
IPC: G09B29/12
Filed: 1998-09-01
Abstract: A procedure for producing three dimensional maps based on information gained from 4cm to 1km ordnance survey maps. The information is transcribed to a computer data base and used to control a laser to cut a three dimensional mould of the landscape. The mould can then be used to produce three dimensional replica maps made of a flexible material and able to retain the precise detail of the mould. The maps would have fixed around their edge a small plotting compass and a series of lines at 15{ intervals, indicating the approximate azimuth of the sun, each hour. Maps could be made of individual mountains or hill walking areas. Using data from ocean depth charts, maps could also be produced of dangerous water channels for use by sailors and divers. The maps would be particularly useful for teachers of physical geography.
Patent GB-2341154-A (GB)
Title: Motorcycle front end
Inventor: REA NICHOLAS JOHN
IPC: B62K21/20
Filed: 1998-09-07
Abstract: The front end has a double headrace/pivot both sharing the same axis to allow separation of steering and suspension. The lower headrace/pivot, 3, is about which the front forks pivot as in a conventional motorcycle. Instead of the handlebars being connected to the top of the front forks as in a conventional motorcycle the handlebars have a separate pivot point, 2, and are connected via an articulated system to some point below the suspension movement to accommodate shock absorber and vertical wheel movement. This allows direct feedback from the front wheel to the rider without loss through the fork springs and oil.