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Patent GB-2356976-A (GB)
Title: Button retention feature
Inventor: KAUFMAN DENNIS D
IPC: H01H9/02
Filed: 2000-11-29
Abstract: A pivot switch assembly includes a button 20 and a housing 30. The housing includes a trunnion 34 and a retaining wall 36. The trunnion opposes the retaining wall and forms a receiving gap 38 between the two features. The button has a rib 24 with an aperture 26 (Fig. 3). The rib 24 of the button is positioned into the receiving gap 38 of the housing. The trunnion 34 of the housing then engages the aperture 26 so as to provide a pivoting function for the switch assembly. The geometry of the button and housing prevents the button from becoming dislodged during periods of high acceleration, such as during deployment of an airbag.
Patent GB-2367666-A (GB)
Title: A communication terminal device which discriminates content type and uses a relevant parser dependent on the markup language in use
Inventor: SHIBATA NAOYA
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2001-04-09
Abstract: A communication terminal device 30 can achieve browsing contents described in different information description languages, e.g. HTML, WML, without installing corresponding browsers. A content obtainer 33 obtains content data from a desired content server (12) via a network (11). A content-type discriminator 34 discriminates the content type of the obtained content data from a plurality of predetermined content types. A plurality of parsers 35,36 corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of predetermined content types are provided, and the obtained content data is parsed by a corresponding parser depending on the discriminated content type thereof to produce displaying information. Based on the displaying information, the obtained content is passed to a displaying section 37. Also disclosed is use of a magic number (i.e. the first few characters indicate content type) or MIME type data (of a HTTP header) or filename extension (e.g. .html, .wml, etc.) for content type discrimination.
Patent GB-2362353-A (GB)
Title: Variable-format rotary offset printing cylinders
Inventor: DILLING PEER
IPC: B29C44/12
Filed: 2001-05-16
Abstract: Printing cylinders for variable-format rotary offset printing machines consist of core cylinders 1 to which compressed air can be supplied, intermediate sleeves 3, 20, 30, consisting of a carrier layer 5, 5', the inner surface of which rests on the core cylinder 1, an adjoining compressible intermediate layer 6, 6' and a transition layer 7, 7' between the compressible intermediate layer 6, 6' and a variable-thickness bridging layer 8, 8', and a cover layer 9 on which a function surface such as a printing forme or a rubber blanket can be mounted. The intermediate sleeve can be axially slid on to the core and radially shrunk on by way of compressed-air channels 2. The forme or blanket is applied first to the intermediate sleeve 3 of appropriate diameter, by way of channels 10 in the sleeve or in a fixed fashion by a foaming process (Fig. 3), and this sleeve assembly is then fitted to the core in the printing machine.
Patent GB-2360992-A (GB)
Title: Self-adhesive labels and manufacture thereof
Inventor: BARRY DAVID ROBERT
IPC: C09J7/02
Filed: 1999-10-19
Abstract: A self-adhesive (2) label carried on a backing of release material (16), the label comprising: a self-adhesive support piece (y) which is releasably adhered to the backing; a multilaminar label portion adhered to a first portion of an upper surface of the support piece, a second portion (28) of the upper surface of the support piece adjacent the first portion being left uncovered by the multilaminar label portion; and a self-adhesive overlaminate (16) adhered to an upper surface of the multilaminar label portion so as substantially to cover the multilaminar label portion and to cover a portion of the backing of release material adjacent to the multilaminar label portion thereby to retain the multilaminar label portion in a closed configuration, and wherein the second (28) portion of the upper surface of the support piece is left substantially uncovered by the overlaminate. A method of producing a succession of self-adhesive labels carried on a backing of release material.
Patent GB-2377203-A (GB)
Title: A guided power tool assembly
Inventor: BRUNT BRIAN
IPC: B23D47/02
Filed: 2001-06-20
Abstract: A guide assembly for power hand-tools, such as circular saws 2, has a track 3 securable by use of various clamps to a work piece. It has a carriage 4, slideably mounted on the track, and drive means 5 and 7 for propelling the carriage along the rack 10 attached to the track. The carriage comprises mounting means for removably mounting the tool, so that as the carriage moves along it guides the tool which in turn works on the workpiece. An accurate, straight and even cut along a large sheet of material can thus be achieved when the tool is a circular saw.
Patent GB-2378360-A (GB)
Title: Using SSL protocol to establish a secure connection between a client and a host, via a number of secure relays, the number being unknown to the client
Inventor: WRAY MICHAEL
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2001-07-31
Abstract: In a method of establishing a data connection between a client computer and a destination computer over a computer network, a first computer network 1 comprises a local area network (LAN) 3 to which is connected a first, second and third client computer 5, 7, 9. At the boundary of the first computer network 1 is provided a first firewall computer 11 which is connected to the LAN 3. The first firewall computer 11 is a secure relay computer. A second computer network 43 comprises a web-site server 47 and a second firewall computer 45 which acts in much the same way as the first firewall computer 11. The second firewall computer 45 only permits incoming data connections if a secure socket layer (SSL) data connection is used. The second computer network 43 is connected to the first computer network 1 by means of a public network, in this case the Internet. Each of the first, second and third client computers 5, 7, 9 is able to access a web-site stored on the web-site server 47. This is achieved by specifying the URL of the web-site, whereafter a protocol is used to establish the connection with the web-site server 47. By using the protocol, no prior knowledge of the number of secure relays between the client computers 5, 7, 9 and the web-site server 47 is required.
Patent GB-2371916-A (GB)
Title: Copy-protected digital audio compact disc, and method and system for producing same
Inventor: BRODY MOSHE
IPC: G10L25/51
Filed: 2000-11-27
Abstract: A copy-protected digital audio compact disc and method for producing same, such that neither the proper playing of the original nor the enforcement of the copy-protection depends on the use of any special equipment. A pattern of latent noise is incorporated into a digital audio CD by overwriting some of the original audio signal data symbols with grossly-erroneous values, and then overwriting the corresponding error-correction parity symbols in such a way as to create an uncorrectable error in the codewords containing the erroneous values. An ordinary CD player of such a disc will therefore detect each occurrence of a latent noise value as an uncorrectable error and will apply interpolative error-concealment to prevent the output of the error. By appropriately choosing the locations for the overwriting of the erroneous values in such a way that the interpolated value will be substantially identical to the original value, the resulting sound output from the CD player will match that of the original audio signal, so that an ordinary CD audio player will properly reproduce the original audio signal from the protected disc without any superimposed noise. Most commercially -available CD-ROM drives for computers, however, do not employ error-concealment when reading a compact disc as a data source. Depending on the copying software employed with such CD-ROM drives, when an uncorrectable error is detected, either no data is read from the disc, or only the raw uncorrected data is read from the disc. Thus, either substantial portions of the original disc will be uncopyable because of the uncorrectable errors, or the uncorrected raw data of the original will be copied, which will place audible noise on the unauthorized copy. To inhibit unauthorized copying via CD-ROM drives that employ error-concealment, alterations are made to the channel Q mode and/or CRC to disable the ability of the CD-ROM drive to seek to the desired data position.
Patent GB-2369443-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for arterial blood pressure measurement
Inventor: NITZAN MEIR
IPC: A61B5/0225
Filed: 2000-06-08
Abstract: A method of measurement of arterial diastolic blood pressure includes generating first and second signals indicative, respectively, of cardiac induced pulsatile variations in tissue blood volume in a first region and a second region of the subject's body. These signals are then processed to derive values of a delay between pulses in the first signal and corresponding pulses in second signal. A baseline value of the delay is evaluated, preferably in the absence of externally applied pressure. A variable pressure is applied to a third region of the subject's body so as to affect blood flow through at least one artery in the third region, the variable pressure being varied as a function of time. The first, second and third regions of the subject's body are chosen such that the delay varies as a function of the variable pressure. The diastolic pressure is then identified as a value of the variable pressure corresponding to a predefined non-zero value of the delay measured relative to the baseline value.
Patent GB-2369444-A (GB)
Title: A method and apparatus for measuring forces in the presence of external pressure
Inventor: DEMIA LAURENT
IPC: E21B47/00
Filed: 2000-09-01
Abstract: In order to measure forces F exerted on a part in a given direction and in the presence of an external pressure p, the part has integrated therein a sensor (10) which delivers an output signal of the form <F>S =   a  .F +   b  .p +   q  </F>, and said sensor is dimensioned in such a manner as to cause the coefficient   b   to be zero. To this end, a sensor (10) is used that includes a tube (12) formed by a thinner walled portion (12a) and a thicker walled portion (12b), together with strain gauges (16a, 16b, 18a, 20) mounted in the tube (12) and interconnected to form a Wheatstone bridge.
Patent GB-2385284-A (GB)
Title: Rotary Filter
Inventor: ELLIS EDWARD PETER
IPC: B01D33/073
Filed: 2002-02-18
Abstract: A rotary filter where fluids and solids are separated by means of a rotating inclined perforated roller comprising internal baffles dividing the roller into sections. In operation fluid flows in through an inlet pipe and an entry spoke end plate (1) into the perforated roller, where the fluid filters through the wall of the roller and is collected in a tank (8) below. As the roller rotates slowly the solids move down the roller through the baffle plates (12, 13, 14, 15) into the next sections (b, c, d, e). Remaining fluid will transfer out of the solids and they will continue to move down through the rest of the sections drying as they progress. When they reach the end, the solids pass through spoke end plates (4) and go down a chute (7) into a container. Preferably the tank for collecting the fluid is inclined and to avoid contamination there is a minimum clearance between the spoke end plates and the tank wall. The roller may be made of stainless steel mounted on a stainless steel supporting frame.
Patent GB-2369483-A (GB)
Title: Sync byte padding
Inventor: TAN EWE CHYE
IPC: G11B20/10
Filed: 2000-06-30
Abstract: A method and system are disclosed that map defects on the storage media of a disc drive. The method and system calculate the position of the defect and from that position determine the sector that must be flagged as unusable. The method and system also detect the distance the defect lies from from an adjacent sector and flags the adjacent sector as unusable if the defect is too close because the defect may grow over time and eventually invade the adjacent sector. Also disclosed is a method and system that efficiently utilize the space between all of the servo bursts by filling the space with sectors during the defect mapping process and marking the sectors with defects and those too close to the defect as unusable rather than shifting the sectors within the track area to avoid the defect.
Patent GB-2380379-A (GB)
Title: Speech system barge in control
Inventor: BRITTAN PAUL ST JOHN
IPC: G10L13/04
Filed: 2002-05-13
Abstract: A speech system has a speech input channel (11) including a speech recogniser, and a speech output channel (12) including a text-to-speech converter (6). Associated with the input channel is a barge-in control (29) for setting barge-in behaviour parameters determining how the apparatus handles barge-in by a user during speech output by the apparatus. In order to make the barge-in control more responsive to the actual speech output from the output channel, a barge-in prediction arrangement (56; 41,43) is provided that is responsive to feature values produced during the operation of the text-to-speech converter (6) to produce indications as to the most likely barge-in points. The barge-in control (29) is responsive to these indications to adjust at least one of the barge-in behaviour parameters for periods corresponding to the most likely barge-in points.
Patent GB-2380432-A (GB)
Title: A emission control system for an engine and method therefor.
Inventor: FARMER DAVID GEORGE
IPC: F01N13/02
Filed: 2002-06-11
Abstract: A method for controlling an engine which exhausts through an emission control device and which is operable in a plurality of operating conditions including a sulphur purging condition, the method comprises determining a first value representing an amount of SO x  accumulated in the emission control device, determining a second value representing an amount of a selected component of the engine exhaust gas stored in the emission control device as a function of the first value and selecting an operating condition as a function of this second value. A third value, representing the remaining storage capacity of the emission control device may be calculated as a function of the first value. The sulphur purge may be initiated when a threshold value for either the accumulated SO x  or remaining NO x  storage capacity is reached. Determining the first value may include factoring in the air/fuel ratio and the temperature of the emission control device at a given instant. The value representing the amount of SO x  accumulated in the emission control device may be reset to zero upon completion of the sulphur purge.
Patent GB-2374215-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for multifrequency power distribution
Inventor: DROBNIK JOSEF
IPC: H02J3/02
Filed: 2000-09-05
Abstract: A method for distributing power in an electronic system, comprising receiving power in a first domain at a system power supply converting the power to a second domain having alternating current (AC) signal components at a plurality of frequencies, and transmitting the converted power in the second domain with AC signal components at multiple frequencies to a plurality of AC voltage regulator modules (VRM) of the electronic system. The method further comprises receiving a feed-back signal from the plurality of AC VRM's and adjusting the AC signal components being transmitted to the plurality of VRM based at least in part of the feedback signal. The method further comprises receiving a control signal from a central processing unit (CPU and adjusting the AC signal components being transmitted to the plurality of VRM based at least in psart on the control signal.
Patent GB-2374112-A (GB)
Title: Bonding of glazing panels
Inventor: DAVIES CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B60J10/02
Filed: 2001-01-25
Abstract: A glazing panel is fitted in a frame by placing the glazing panel in register with the frame with soft state bonding material interposed. An energy field is then set up to act upon the bonding material the energy field acting to promote curing of the bonding material. Preferably a microwave energy field is set up and the energy is applied for a predetermined period, typically less than 60 seconds.
Patent GB-2382695-A (GB)
Title: Mobile telephone system providing a web site created using a mobile phone
Inventor: NAKANAGA ISAO
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2002-10-14
Abstract: A mobile telephone system provides a dedicated web area to a mobile telephone set 10 with a browsing function. The mobile telephone system has a web server 42 which includes the web area, and a homepage (HP) - forming auxiliary server 41 which builds a HP directory file based on information input from the mobile telephone set, and uploads the HP directory file to the web area of the web server. The system may include a mail server which accepts mail having data for building or updating the homepage. The system may include a database of homepage material and phone type such that homepage material is transmitted to the server depending on phone type. A URL searching server may provide the URL of a homepage corresponding to an ID (telephone number). When a user purchases a new browser phone, an HP information conversion server converts a HP directory file into a format compatible with the new phone.
Patent GB-2382786-A (GB)
Title: Slurry phase apparatus having a sparger with a backflow prevention system
Inventor: STEYNBERG ANDRE PETER
IPC: B01F33/40
Filed: 2002-12-03
Abstract: Slurry phase apparatus 10 is provided which includes a slurry vessel 12 for holding a slurry comprising a liquid and solid particles such as catalyst particles and gas distribution means 14 for injecting a gas into the slurry. The gas distribution means 14 includes a sparger device 20 which includes an apertured sparger portion 24 inside the slurry vessel 12, an inlet portion 22 leading into the slurry vessel 12 and an outlet portion 26 leading from the slurry vessel 12. The gas distribution means 14 also includes closure means such as valve32, external of the slurry vessel 12 and being operable to allow or deny flow from the sparger portion 24 out through the outlet portion 26 of the sparger device 20. When the gas flow to the sparger 24 is interrupted, slurry can be cleared from sparger pipe 20 by establishing a lower pressure in collection vessel 30 and opening valve 32 so that slurry and settled solids are flushed into collection vessel 30. A purge fluid may also be introduced through purge fluid line 50 with shut-off valve 48 closed. Catalyst particles may lodge on apertured support 60 if the gas flow is interrupted and this gives rise to high temperatures. Quench liquid may be introduced through quench liquid line 56 to combat this.
Patent GB-2383729-A (GB)
Title: Data routing without using an address
Inventor: LEVETT DAVID LAWRENCE
IPC: H04L29/08
Filed: 2002-12-09
Abstract: A method of routing data from a source to one or more clients over a network, where the data conforms to a structured meta-language such as XML; in which the routing is performed by a server applying rules to the data itself, and not any address accompanying the data, to determine where to route that data to. The present invention is predicated on the counter-intuitive insight that data does <I>not</I> need to be concealed within a data envelope and given an address label in order to be routed effectively and efficiently. Instead, routing can be performed on the <I>actual content</I> of a message by applying simple routing rules to the data itself by intelligent 'routing' servers within the network which can unpack data from their message envelopes and intelligently filter/combine them with data unpacked from other messages to achieve a routing function.
Patent GB-2385968-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for converting address information between pci bus protocol and a message passing queue-oriented bus protocol
Inventor: AVERY JAMES M
IPC: G06F13/40
Filed: 2001-11-14
Abstract: PCI load/store operations and DMA operations are implemented via work queue pairs in a message-passing, queue-oriented bus architecture. PCI address space is divided into segments and, each segment, in turn, is divided into regions. A separate work queue is assigned to each segment. A first portion of a PCI address is matched against the address ranges represented by the segments and used to select a memory segment and its corresponding work queue. An entry in the work queue holds a second portion of the PCI address which specifies a region within the selected segment that is assigned to a specific PCI device. In one embodiment, PIO load/store operations are implemented by selecting a work queue assigned to PIO operations and creating a work queue entry with the PCI address of a register on a PCI device and a pointer to the PIO data. The work queue entry is sent to a PCI bridge where the PCI address is extracted and used to program the appropriate device register with the data using the data pointer. DMA transfers are also implemented by selecting a work queue by means comparing a portion of the PCI address generated by the PCI device to an address range table and selecting a work queue that services the address range. A work queue entry is created with the remainder of the PCI address and a pointer to the DMA data. An RMDA operation is used to perform the DMA transfer. The page and region data is used in connection with a translation protection table in the host channel adapter to access physical memory and perform the DMA transfer.
Patent GB-2402720-A (GB)
Title: A lubrication system responsive to the condition of the lubricant
Inventor: BLACK DAVID THOMAS
IPC: F16N39/04
Filed: 2003-06-14
Abstract: A lubrication system 10 comprises a lubricant pump 12, a filter 14, a heater 16 for heating the lubricant, and a controller 18 which is adapted to control operation of the heater 16 and pump 12 according to lubricant pressure upstream of the filter 14. Both the heater 16 and the pump 12 may be upstream of the filter 14, with the pump 12 being located between the filter 14 and the heater 16. The controller 18 is preferably adapted to divert electrical power from the heater 16 to the pump 12 as the pressure of the lubricant upstream of the filter 14 decreases. A temperature sensor may also be present for sensing the temperature of the lubricant. The controller can also be responsive to the temperature of the lubricant, so that as the temperature of the lubricant increases, the amount of electrical power supplied to the heater 16 is decreased and the amount of electrical power supplied to the pump 12 is increased. The system is also of use when determining the state of blockage of the filter 14. This can be done by measuring the lubricant pressure upstream of the filter 14, using the measured pressure to obtain an indication of the theoretical lubricant temperature for a clean filter, and comparing the theoretical lubricant temperature with the measured lubricant temperature.
Patent GB-2398939-A (GB)
Title: Flashing light system with two voltage sources
Inventor: WONG WAI KAI
IPC: H05B33/08
Filed: 2003-07-01
Abstract: Illuminating devices may be added to footwear or other objects worn by persons. The illuminating devices are necessarily compact in nature, consisting primarily of flashing lights (18) and a power-and-control circuit (11) that controls and enables the flashing of the lights (18). The lights (18) may be illuminated by differing voltage levels, so that lights (18) will flash brighter or dimmer, in sequence, depending on whether the light (18) receives a higher voltage or a lower voltage. The voltages may be achieved by using batteries (23) in series. A unique flashing effect is achieved by the use of differing voltages in sequence on the same lamps or LEDs (18). A battery charger may also be included to restore battery life.