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Patent GB-2399334-A (GB)
Title: Load spreader
Inventor: GORNER PATRICK JOHN
IPC: B65D90/00
Filed: 2004-02-19
Abstract: A load spreader for use for example on air cargo transport comprises a plank member 10 of rigid polyurethane material. The plank 10 has tubular reinforcing members 11 through which are passed locating cables 15. A locking device 16, 17 is provided to clamp the plank 10 to the cables including a compressible inner member 17 which can clamp on the cable in one rotational position within an outer member 16 which compresses the inner member 17 in one rotational position thereof, and allows release thereof in an alternative position.
Patent GB-2412210-A (GB)
Title: Redemption apparatus for a transaction
Inventor: PRIYASANTHA ARIYA
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 2004-03-17
Abstract: Voucher or ticket redemption apparatus for a transaction, in which authentication of the code embedded in e.g. a PIN or barcode (e.g. stored in a mobile phone 34) can be executed locally at the redemption device 10. The redemption device 10 decrypts and validates the code and stores data relating to the validated code. This data may be transmitted to server 50 as part of a batch process or on an ad-hoc or dynamic basis, which may be tried again later or using a different communication protocol in the event of a failed transmission (a "failover strategy"). The server 50 then transmits details of the validated code to other redemption devices. The codes are single-use codes so that a code is invalid if the voucher has previously been validated at the same or a different validation terminal.
Patent GB-2416301-A (GB)
Title: A bubble maker
Inventor: BAWN ARRAN
IPC: A47K5/14
Filed: 2004-07-22
Abstract: A bubble making device comprises a spherical container that hangs from a tap via an extendable rope, the container has a small lidded filling cap nearest the tap and small perforations on the underside of the device. The device allows foam bath detergent that is placed inside the container to trickle out as water from the tap cascades around the outside of the container; the water has the effect of dragging the foam bath detergent out of the container into the bath thereby producing bubbles. The spherical container may be made in two parts or moulded as one unit and the lid on the filling cap prevents the bath detergent from being diluted.
Patent GB-2407299-A (GB)
Title: Pre-warming portions of an inkjet printhead
Inventor: JUVE RONALD A
IPC: B41J2/05
Filed: 2004-10-13
Abstract: A printing system (100) is provided with an inkjet printhead (124) having plural portions each having an ink-ejecting nozzle (128). The printing system (100) includes plural heater elements (424, Fig 4) each associated with one of the plural portions to pre-warm ink dispensed by the nozzle (128) of the associated portion in response to a pre-warming signal. The printing system also includes a controller (116) configured to generate the pre-warming signal for one or more heater elements (424, Fig 4) based on a selection criteria (228, Fig 2) for generating the pre-warming signal only when the nozzle (128) of said associated portion is required to eject ink during an upcoming print swath. The printing system (100) may also have plural temperature sensors (366, Fig 3) each associated with one of the plural portions to monitor the temperature thereof.
Patent GB-2427618-A (GB)
Title: Protection of reinforced steel in concrete
Inventor: GLASS GARETH KEVIN
IPC: C23F13/00
Filed: 2004-10-20
Abstract: A sacrificial anode assembly 7 for the protection of reinforced steel 6 in concrete 10 is described. The anode assembly 7 comprises a base metal (figure 1a, 1) less noble than steel, a surrounding backfill (figure 1a, 2, 3, 4) and an activating agent in contact with the base metal (figure 1a, 1). The activating agent comprises sulphate or halide ions. The backfill (figure 1a, 2, 3, 4) selectively impedes the movement of sulphate or halide ions away from the base metal (figure 1a, 1) preventing damage to the surrounding mortar or concrete 10. The selective impedance to the movement of the sulphate of halide ions is achieved via a porous ion exchange membrane (figure 1a, 3) that repels negative ions such as halide or sulphate ions from its pore system and attracts positive ions into its pore system. The backfill may be in the form of a number of layers (figure 1a, 2, 3, 4).
Patent GB-2406254-A (GB)
Title: Page Composition
Inventor: LAYZELL PAUL
IPC: H04N1/387
Filed: 2003-08-29
Abstract: A page is composed by establishing an arrangement of objects, such as images, to be fitted on to the page, evaluating a function dependent upon the properties of the layout (e.g. area) and rearranging the objects to minimise the function. Also disclosed is assigning or allocating each of the selected objects to one of a plurality of groups and pages of a document.
Patent GB-2414081-A (GB)
Title: Formation imaging while drilling in non-conductive mud
Inventor: HAYMAN ANDREW
IPC: G01V3/24
Filed: 2005-04-12
Abstract: A resistivity tool for investigating a wall of a borehole drilled with a non-conductive mud includes a tool body adapted to be incorporated in a logging-while-drilling tool assembly 310; a resistivity sensor 300 disposed on the tool body, wherein the resistivity sensor comprises a sensor pad 304 supporting a current injector electrode 301, a current return electrode 302, and an array of measurement electrodes 303; and a circuitry for controlling current injection from the current injector electrode 301 and for measuring voltage difference between electrodes in the array of measurement electrodes 303, wherein the current injector electrode 301 and the current return electrode 302 are disposed near opposite ends of the sensor pad 304 and the array of measurement electrodes 303 is disposed between the current injector electrode 301 and the current return electrode 302 , wherein the sensor pad 304 is constructed of an insulating material and includes a conductive shielding member 305, or wherein the sensor pad is constructed of a conducting material and includes insulating sections around the electrodes.
Patent GB-2427998-A (GB)
Title: Toaster for items of varying thickness
Inventor: LEAMAN KEITH
IPC: A47J37/08
Filed: 2005-07-07
Abstract: A toaster having a variable-width chamber flanked by guarded heating elements has a food-supporting carriage comprising a pair of elongate members extending along the length dimension of said chamber and disposed respectively to one and the other side of said chamber and a plurality of linking members linking said elongate members and pivotally mounted to each. Resilient means, such as a coil spring, acts upon at least one of the linking members to urge the elongate members apart, thereby maintaining contact between the elongate members and the guards covering the heating elements and automatically adapting the width of the carriage to user-selected variations in the width dimension of the chamber. In a preferred embodiment, pivotal mounting points for the linking members are regularly distributed along the elongate members, thereby providing an even distribution of the resilient urging force.
Patent GB-2419637-A (GB)
Title: Fuel fill based spark knock control in i.c. engines
Inventor: KUJAWA DAVID J
IPC: F02D35/02
Filed: 2005-09-30
Abstract: A method for reducing the magnitude of a knock retard angle in a vehicle having a quantity of fuel and a system for determining the quantity of fuel. The method determines a previous fuel quantity and a present fuel quantity, determines from said present fuel quantity and said previous fuel quantity whether the quantity of fuel has increased; and decreases the magnitude of the knock retard angle upon determining the quantity of fuel has increased. The knock retard is reduced on the assumption that the quality of the added fuel is of better quality (eg higher octane) than the fuel that was in the tank before refilling. A fuel level signal may represent the quantity of fuel in the tank. The method may be executed periodically, eg once per minute, or once each time the engine is run. Reduction of knock retard may be delayed for a period of time to allow a new fuel blend to reach the engine.
Patent GB-2430809-A (GB)
Title: Self-cooled rotor for an electrical machine
Inventor: HALL JUSTIN ARTHUR
IPC: H02K1/32
Filed: 2005-10-01
Abstract: An electrical machine has cooling channels centrifugally passing through the rotor and the rotor coils. The hollow rotor is equipped with a plurality of radial first cooling channels which extend towards the rotor coils. The rotor coils are axially formed as two parts where the first cooling channels extend between the two parts. Second ax-ial cooling channels are provided to lead the coolant through the coils and out of the rotor.
Patent GB-2416426-A (GB)
Title: Electro-active device
Inventor: HOOLEY ANTHONY
IPC: H01L41/083
Filed: 2004-04-13
Abstract: A device (20) comprises a plurality of electro-active benders (21), each having two sections arranged to bend, on activation, with opposite curvature in the two sections, in an arrangement in which the displacements of individual benders (21), on activation, contribute to an overall, relative displacement between a proximal end and a distal end of the device (20). The mass of benders (21) in the arrangement decreases from the proximal end to the distal end of said device (20).
Patent GB-2433122-A (GB)
Title: Gas sampling probe
Inventor: KNIGHT JEREMY
IPC: G01N1/22
Filed: 2005-12-10
Abstract: A gas sampling probe 10, for sampling fluid from a gas pipeline for example, comprises an elongate tubular member 12 having an inlet end 14 and an outlet end 16. A narrow sampling tube 32 is housed within the tubular body 12 and extends from the inlet end 14 to the outlet end 16. The cross sectional area of the sampling tube 32 is 0.1 to 30 mm<2>. The narrow sampling bore 32 provides a probe with a small internal volume. The inner surface of the sampling tube 32 may have a surface roughness below 0. 8 roughness average (RA). The outer tube may have helical fins 24 to help reduce vortex shedding and turbulence.
Patent GB-2434552-A (GB)
Title: Games apparatus
Inventor: KISHON DANIEL CHAIM
IPC: A63F3/00
Filed: 2006-01-31
Abstract: An apparatus for playing a game comprising a plurality of playing pieces each having display means controllable to display one of or a sub-set from a set of different identifiers, and a playing board having a plurality of playing locations for receiving the playing pieces and control means associated with the plurality of locations. Each of the locations has orientation means which constrains a playing piece placed thereon to a set of orientations. The control means controls which identifier(s) is/are displayed by the playing pieces when located on the playing board in the playing locations, and which identifier(s) is/are displayed by each playing piece depends on both of the playing locations in which the playing piece is located and also orientation of the playing piece in the playing location.
Patent GB-2438596-A (GB)
Title: Beverage foaming apparatus
Inventor: CLARK STUART
IPC: B01F27/906
Filed: 2006-05-31
Abstract: Beverage foaming apparatus having a paddle 100 rotatably mounted at an axle capable of being suspended from a coffee maker. The paddle and axle are shrouded by a housing 101 the housing having windows covered by a gauze or mesh. The housing is suspended from the coffee maker over and about the rotatable paddle whereby the paddle is capable of rotation within the housing adjacent to the mesh covered windows. In use, as the paddle and housing are submerged within the liquid beverage, the paddle by rotation within the housing, forces liquid through the mesh covered windows creating very fine air bubbles so as to generate a fine beverage foam.
Patent GB-2429245-A (GB)
Title: Augmented gas turbine diffuser
Inventor: GRAZIOSI PAOLO
IPC: F01D25/30
Filed: 2003-11-12
Abstract: A gas turbine 166 has a diffuser augmented with fluidic actuation. The diffuser comprises an inlet and a diverging section having a diffuser wall, the diffuser wall comprising at least one opening 162, 164. The turbine 166 further comprises at least one exit port 168, 170 separate from a main turbine exit, at least one airway 174, 176 extending from the exit port(s) 168, 170 to the opening(s) 162, 164 in the diffuser wall, air being extracted from the turbine 166 and conveyed to the opening(s) 162, 164 along the airway(s) 174, 176. The arrangement is intended to prevent or delay boundary layer separation from the diffuser wall. Other arrangements intended to prevent or delay boundary layer separation from the diffuser wall are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2444938-A (GB)
Title: Reversible impeller arrangement
Inventor: VAGHI FRANCESCO
IPC: F01D1/30
Filed: 2006-12-21
Abstract: An impeller arrangement comprises an impeller 10 with vanes 18 each having a first surface 26 and a second surface 28 orientated such that the application of fluid under pressure thereto applies a torque to the impeller 10 in opposite rotary directions, respectively, and a valve operable to control the supply of fluid to the first and second vane surfaces 26, 28. The valve may be in the form of a rotatable disc-like valve plate 34 having a plurality of peripheral cut-outs 36 that are positioned and dimensioned so as to close off either the first or the second flow channels 30, 32 which include the first or second flow surfaces 26, 28 respectively. The impeller may be supported by bearings 14 for rotation inside a cylindrical housing 12 through which fluid is pumped, eg in a downhole steerable drilling system.
Patent GB-2434229-A (GB)
Title: Redundant controller synchronization for smooth failover during normal and mismatch conditions
Inventor: KEPHART RICHARD W
IPC: G05B9/03
Filed: 2007-01-12
Abstract: A process control system 100 is provided with redundant controllers 104, 106 connected via communication link 146 and both connected to field devices via field bus 112 and network devices via network bus 110. One of the redundant controllers is assigned as a primary controller and the other is assigned as the backup controller. Synchronization of the backup controller with the primary controller ensures smooth failover during normal and mismatch conditions at the redundant controllers. The redundant controllers are configured to transmit state information of the process control areas 150-154 of the primary controller to the backup controller that is necessary for synchronizing the redundant controllers but is not typically transmitted to other devices during the performance of process control functions. The backup controller may then respond with a confirmation message that the update data was received. Synchronization messages are transmitted from the primary controller to the backup controller each time one of the control areas executes to perform process control functions. In other aspects, the redundant controllers are configured to determine state information at the backup controller from other process control network information during a failover of the primary controller where a mismatch condition exists between the control areas of the two controllers during the downloading of reconfigurations, and to initialize the backup controller at startup when the mismatch condition exists.
Patent GB-2444305-A (GB)
Title: Providing connectivity between a mobile device, a desktop computing device and network resources.
Inventor: ANWER JURAID
IPC: H04L12/28
Filed: 2007-01-26
Abstract: The mobile device is provided with loader software that can be installed in the desktop computing device to instruct it to download application software from a network resource; the mobile device can also provide configuration data to the application software. The mobile device detects all desktop computing devices with which it can communicate. It selects one of the desktop computing devices on which the application software is to be installed and transmits the loader software. The desktop computing device runs the loader software and is directed to a network resource to download application software and install it using the mobile device configuration data. The installed application software can then be run to provide functionality and connectivity between the mobile device, the desktop computing device and network resources.
Patent GB-2439467-A (GB)
Title: Track bed structures
Inventor: JAY ANTHONY
IPC: E01B2/00
Filed: 2007-03-02
Abstract: A track bed composite structural element issued in railway track engineering, and has an upper water permeable layer, a lower water permeable layer and a filter material layer provided between the upper and lower water permeable layers. The upper and lower layers may comprise geotextile layers and the filter material may be sand or glass, for example.
Patent GB-2451429-A (GB)
Title: Protective helmet
Inventor: GAVIN ROBERT
IPC: A42B3/04
Filed: 2007-07-26
Abstract: A protective helmet comprises a helmet shell 12a for fitting closely about the top, back, and sides of a user's head; eye protection means 32 for covering the user's eyes; and a protective face mask 58 for covering at least part of the user's face below the eyes. The eye protection means 32 and the protective face mask 58 are separately detachable. The eye protection means 32 and the helmet shell 12a have complimentary geometries and form a seal when fitted together and the protective face mask and the eye protection means also have complimentary geometries which form a seal when they fit together.
Patent GB-2442570-A (GB)
Title: Sharps container with handle connected closure
Inventor: PETTIGREW GARRY
IPC: A61B19/02
Filed: 2007-10-01
Abstract: A container 10 for clinical waste comprises an opening 12 for receiving clinical waste, particularly sharps, a closure member 14, and means for supporting the closure member 14 for movement between an open condition, in which clinical waste can be inserted through the opening 12, and a closed condition. A handle means 24 for facilitating carrying of the container 10 is also provided, the handle means 24 being operatively connected to the closure member 14 and adapted such that selective movement of the handle 24 between a non-operative and operative condition causes a corresponding movement of the closure member 14 between its open and closed conditions respectively. This arrangement ensures that lifting of the container 10 by the handle 24 results in closure of the closure means 14, and unwanted egress of the clinical waste is prevented. A locking means 34 manually operable to permanently lock the closure member 14 in its closed position may also be provided. The closure member 14 may also be cantilevered into its closed position via a cantilever portion 22.
Patent GB-2445638-A (GB)
Title: Granular solid wax particle
Inventor: DIECKMANN GUNTHER H
IPC: B32B9/00
Filed: 2006-03-01
Abstract: A granular solid wax particle comprising a highly paraffinic wax having a low T10 boiling point less than 427 {C and an inorganic powder coating; optionally with a layer of higher boiling wax over the highly paraffinic wax having a low T10 boiling point, and an inorganic powder coating over the layer of higher boiling wax. In separate embodiments, a highly paraffinic wax having a T10 boiling point less than 427 {C or a highly paraffinic wax having a needle penetration greater than 3 mm/10 at 25{C is coated with a powder that adsorbs the wax without being encapsulated by the wax in a hot drop wax test. Also, a process for transporting highly paraffinic wax having a T10 boiling point less than 427 {C as granular solid wax particles. And, a method of making base oil from granular solid wax particles transported from a distant location.
Patent GB-2455060-A (GB)
Title: Channel measurement in a mobile communications system
Inventor: AHLUWALIA JAGDEEP SINGH
IPC: H04W72/08
Filed: 2007-10-29
Abstract: A mobile communications system is proposed in which mobile communications devices are arranged to carry out signal measurements on the signals received from neighbouring cells. The bandwidth over which these signal measurements are carried out is determined in dependence upon the bandwidths of the neighbouring cells and is signalled to the mobile communication device by a serving base station.
Patent GB-2442429-A (GB)
Title: Surgical fasteners and devices for surgical fastening
Inventor: PAZ ADRIAN
IPC: A61B17/064
Filed: 2006-08-09
Abstract: The invention provides fasteners for surgical fastening. The surgical fastener of the invention has a crown from which extend two or more prongs. The prongs are parallel to the axis of the crown and each prong is provided with one or more barbs. The invention also provides a system for surgical fastening including a surgical fastening device configured to deploy one or more surgical fasteners of the invention and one or more surgical fasteners of the invention.
Patent GB-2459865-A (GB)
Title: Audio amplifier with dc offset compensation
Inventor: LESSO JOHN PAUL
IPC: H03F1/30
Filed: 2008-05-07
Abstract: An audio amplifier circuit with dc offset compensation is disclosed. The circuit includes an amplifier 205 and a digital feedback circuit 245 including an ADC 215 and a DAC 235. The feedback loop also includes a low pass filter 220, a comparator 225 and an integrator 230. Once the output from the integrator 230 has reached a stable value to compensate for any dc offset, the output can be latched and continuously combined with the input signal via the ADC 235 and the summing element 240. The components in the digital feedback circuit may be multiplexed to serve more than one audio channel (fig.5). The circuit may be used to reduce 'pop' or 'plop' when an audio amplifier is switched on or off. Such noises are irritating to a user and also represent wasted power, which is important in battery powered portable audio players. The system may also be used to remove do offset from an input signal to an audio integrated circuit, thereby minimising pin count on the integrated circuit as no external do blocking capacitor is required.
Patent GB-2460461-A (GB)
Title: Automatic generation of an alias field in a database
Inventor: DOBO JASON
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2008-05-30
Abstract: A computing device which has stored thereon a contacts database which includes a mechanism for automatically generating an alias field when a user enters a new contact record. The mechanism enables a user to search for records using the alias field. The database also provides a mechanism for automatically generating a plurality of search strings based on characters entered by a user. In addition, the database provides a mechanism for searching fields in a database in accordance with a predefined search string. That search string includes at least one character from one field and at least two characters from another field.
Patent GB-2461555-A (GB)
Title: Multi-redox compound for use as an electrochemical sensor
Inventor: LAFITTE VALERIE
IPC: E21B49/08
Filed: 2008-07-03
Abstract: An electrochemical sensor utilises a chemical compound which is not a macromolecule but rather is a single chemical compound of determinate structure, incorporating two redox systems which differ in their response to a species to be detected. In one form, one redox system displays a voltammetric wave which is pH dependent while another displays a voltammetric wave which is pH independent and acts as an internal reference. The sensor comprises a solid substrate, which may be carbonaceous, on which the compound is immobilized. The sensor may be incorporated into a tool to be suspended in a wellbore to measure characteristic parameters of wellbore fluids or monitoring groundwater. In one embodiment a pH sensor is described with a multi-redox compound 11 immobilized a substrate 10, wherein the multi-redox compound/molecule comprises a reference redox system R and a second redox system I. The second redox system may be used to detect a second species such as hydrogen sulphide (H2S) or carbon monoxide (CO2). Examples of materials suitable to use as the multi-redox compound include anthraquinonyl ferrocene (or ferrocenyl anthraquinone) Aq-Fc, hydroxylaminophenyl ferrocene, p-nitrophenyl t-butylferrocene, p-nitrophenyl diethylferrocene or p-nitrophenylferrocene.