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Patent GB-2350074-A (GB)
Title: Chuck with locking body
Inventor: MIDDLETON IAN
IPC: B23B31/12
Filed: 1999-03-03
Abstract: A chuck (10) for use with a manual or powered driver having a housing (32) and a drive shaft rotatable with respect to the housing (32) is provided. The chuck (10) includes a cylindrical body (16) having a forward (24) and a rearward section (26). The rearward section (26) has axial bore (28) which mates with drive shaft of driver. A cylindrical sleeve (12) is received over the body (16) so that the sleeve (12) is rotatable relative to the body (16). A gripping mechanism (18) is actuatable to a closed position in which the gripping mechanism (18) axially and rotationally retains a tool with respect to the body (16) and to an open position in which the gripping mechanism (18) does not retain the tool. A locking mechanism (62) is configured to rotationally fix body (16) to the housing (32).
Patent GB-2366777-A (GB)
Title: Wheelie inhibitor device
Inventor: BURNETT ANDREW
IPC: B62J27/00
Filed: 2000-11-28
Abstract: A wheelie inhibitor device comprises a switch housing adapted to be secured to the rear of a vehicle and containing an electric switch, a switch actuating rod 8 extending from the switch housing substantially behind the trailing part of the or a rear wheel of the vehicle and being adapted to touch the ground when the front end of the vehicle is tilted upwards relative to the ground by a pre-determined amount the switch being electrically connected to one or more engine cut out or rear brake actuating regions of the vehicle, the arrangement being such that upon tilting upwards of the front of the vehicle by the pre-determined amount the free end of the actuating rod 8 touches the ground and thereby actuates the switch to, in turn, temporarily deactivate the engine or apply the rear brake, to thereby inhibit the wheelie.
Patent GB-2367200-A (GB)
Title: Determining angular position of mobile phone handset and directing radiation f rom base station towards it
Inventor: HAMADA HAJIME
IPC: H01Q3/26
Filed: 2000-12-20
Abstract: Two antennas (AT<SB>1</SB>, AT<SB>2</SB>), or different parts of a phased array, of a base station that are at different positions (P<SB>1</SB>, P<SB>2</SB>) and transmit first and second signals (S<SB>1</SB>, S<SB>2</SB>) that have been spread by mutually orthogonal spreading codes. A mobile station has a phase detector for receiving the first and second signals (S<SB>1</SB>, S<SB>2</SB>), transmitted from respective ones of the antennas (AT<SB>1</SB>, AT<SB>2</SB>) and obtainng a phase difference between these signals (S<SB>1</SB>, S<SB>2</SB>). A direction estimator for calculates the direction of the mobile station, as seen from the base station, based upon the phase difference and feeds back a signal representing the calculated direction from the mobile station to the base station. The transmitter of the base station transmits data toward the receiver in the calculated direction using a directional antenna. Alternatively, the mobile can transmit back the phase difference which the base station applies directly to the phased array.
Patent GB-2363405-A (GB)
Title: Device and method for connecting concrete plies in pre-cast concrete wall and ceiling panels
Inventor: ANDROS CHRIS
IPC: E04C2/04
Filed: 1999-08-27
Abstract: A connector is disclosed for connecting together plies, or wythes, of pre-cast concrete wall or ceiling panels which have the necessity of being cast in several plies or layers. The connector joins together first and second concrete layers with an intervening insulation layer. Also disclosed is a method for creating these concrete panels using the connector and an insert tool for use in inserting the connector.
Patent GB-2359521-A (GB)
Title: Inkjet printer having an ink cartridge docking station stackable with another cartridge docking station via a plurality of interlocking members thereon
Inventor: LEE TED TUERN
IPC: B41J29/02
Filed: 2001-02-26
Abstract: A printer ink supply system includes a docking station 10 (Fig.2) having separated T-shaped keying members 35,37,45 and another docking station having complementary shaped separated keying members (39,41,43,Fig.1). The docking stations can be arranged in a top to bottom stacked relationship 30 (Fig.4) when one of the keying members 45 on the docking station is interlocked with a keying member 43 on the other docking station. The keying members are distributed on the top, bottom and side walls of both docking stations which enable the two to be interlocked in top to bottom or side to side relationships. The docking stations are interchangeable and any number can be joined in vertical or horizontal relationships, or in combinations of vertical and horizontal relationships (20,40,Figs.3,5).
Patent GB-2375033-A (GB)
Title: Button hook
Inventor: SULLMAN RUSSELL
IPC: A47G25/92
Filed: 2001-05-02
Abstract: A device for doing up buttons has a forked hook H for placing behind a button B and located at one end of an elongate member X, the other end of which carries a head P which is passed through the buttonhole. The device may have a second integral or detachable head which provides a larger grip. It is stated there may be a power source to assist usage.
Patent GB-2368963-A (GB)
Title: Liquid crystal display device array substrate and method of manufacturing the same
Inventor: MOON HONG-MAN
IPC: H01L27/12
Filed: 2001-06-01
Abstract: An array substrate for use in a liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor as a switching element, having a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein the gate electrode 115 is a portion of a gate line 113 near the crossing of the gate and data lines 113, 125, and has an inverted "T"-shaped opening or a rectangularly-shaped opening. The drain electrode 117 is shaped like the inverted "T"-shape and corresponds to the opening of the gate electrode 115. The source electrode 119 surrounds the drain electrode 117 along the steps of the semiconductor layer. Accordingly, in the thin film transistor having this structure, the gate electrode 115 is only overlapped by the edges of the drain electrode 117. And thus, the gate-drain parasitic capacitance is reduced and minimized. Also, variations in the gate-drain parasitic capacitance are prevented. As a result, a high resolution is achieved and the picture quality is improved in the liquid crystal display device.
Patent GB-2376934-A (GB)
Title: Conveying apparatus with an inclinable platform on which goods may slide
Inventor: HOLDEN MARK
IPC: B65B35/44
Filed: 2001-06-29
Abstract: A conveying apparatus comprises a platform 2 and a platform inclination means 10. Also disclosed is a method of using the aforementioned conveying apparatus comprising loading goods 20 onto the platform 2, and inclining the platform 2 so that the goods can slide from the platform 2, as can be seen in the transition from fig.2 to fig.3. The apparatus/method may further comprise the use of a retractor arm 6. Withdrawal of the arm 6 may be synchronous with the tipping of the platform 2. The apparatus may transfer items from a first conveyor 18 to a second conveyor 22 which crosses the path of the first conveyor 18 at a right angle.
Patent GB-2365400-A (GB)
Title: Door structure for aircraft and marine craft
Inventor: BLUM WERNER
IPC: B64C1/14
Filed: 2001-07-20
Abstract: A door 1 for an aircraft or marine craft has a stiffening frame 30 of beams 31, 32 to which is connected a skin 20 which is subject to pressure loads. A main extent of the skin 20 is offset inwardly relative to the contour of the craft body 5, forming at least part of a trough shape, and an outer covering 21 such as cladding, planking or sheeting conforming to the surface contour of the body 5 extends over the trough. Any displacement to the skin 20 caused by a pressure load gradient is less likely to have an adverse effect on the aerodynamics of the outer profile of the door. The outer covering 21 need not be sealed to the skin 20 and provides ventilation of the trough shaped space to the outer atmosphere, for example by channels, pipe conduits or covered gaps.
Patent GB-2363639-A (GB)
Title: A sealed fibre optic gyroscope assembly
Inventor: WEBB RICHARD
IPC: G01C19/72
Filed: 2000-03-23
Abstract: An hermetically sealed fibre optic gyroscope assembly has loops of optic fibre on a support ring in a sealed casing comprising a base plate, a perimeter wall upstanding from the base plate and a cover secured to the perimeter of the wall, together with optical circuitry located within the casing for directing light around the optic fibre loops together with electrical connecting circuitry passing from the optical circuitry to external terminals in sealed engagement with the casing.
Patent GB-2367783-A (GB)
Title: Moulding a door skin using a press
Inventor: MOYES HARTLEY
IPC: B27N7/00
Filed: 1997-04-10
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a door skin includes the steps of providing a wood composite flat blank 10. The blank 10 is placed between the platens 46,48 of a heated press 44, the platens 46,48 being heated to a temperature sufficient to soften the resins in the blank 10 and to thereby soften the blank 10. Sufficient pressure is applied to close the platens 46,48 and thereafter the pressure is applied to increased pressure levels for thereby causing the blank to be deformed into a molded shape determined by the configuration of the platens 46,48. The press 44 is degassed and the molded blank is then removed from between the platens 46,48.
Patent GB-2386921-A (GB)
Title: Securing straps and tethers
Inventor: VANHINSBERGH GREG
IPC: A44C5/20
Filed: 2002-03-22
Abstract: A releasable strap (1) comprises a releasable fastener arrangement including a pin member (4) releasably retainable in a fastened position, in which it extends through respective inter-fitting retaining opening loops of connection portions (3) of the strap to releasably hold the connection portions together.
Patent GB-2377224-A (GB)
Title: Water based polyurethane paint
Inventor: IIZUKA TAKANOBU
IPC: C08G18/10
Filed: 2002-05-24
Abstract: A water based paint composition comprises a polyurethane resin obtained by: <SL> <LI>(i) performing an urethanation reaction between a polyisocyanate and polyalkylene glycol; <LI>(ii) reacting the isocyanate-containing prepolymer formed in step (i) with a monohydric alcohol having at least 5 carbon atoms; and a water-soluble organic solvent having a boiling point which is not higher than 150{C. The polyalkylene glycol is preferably polyethylene glycol, polypropylene glycol, polyethylene-propylene (block or random) glycol, polytetramethylene ether glycol, polyhexamethylene ether glycol or polyoctamethylene ether glycol. The monohydric alcohol is preferably amyl alcohol, hexyl alcohol, ethylbutyl alcohol, heptanol, octyl alcohol, 2-ethylhexyl alcohol, nonyl alcohol, or decanol. Also claimed is a process for producing a multi-layered coating which process comprises applying onto a metallic object: </SL> <SL> <LI>(i) a cationic electropaint; <LI>(ii) a water based paint according to the invention; <LI>(iii) a water based intermediate coating; and <LI>(iv) a top coating. </SL>
Patent GB-2389457-A (GB)
Title: Microengineered optical scanner
Inventor: SYMS RICHARD
IPC: G02B6/35
Filed: 2002-06-07
Abstract: An optical scanner, suitable for a portable bar code reader, is fabricated using silicon-based MEMS technology, and based on a moving cantilevered dielectric waveguide 630. The waveguide, supported either over its whole length, or only near the root, is excited into resonant motion by a drive 640, for example an electrothermal shape bimorph actuator, located at its root. Stress sensors detect waveguide bending, allowing closed loop control of its motion. Light back-scattered from a rough surface in the image plane is collected by the waveguide by confocal imaging. The back-scattered light, having higher numerical aperture than that delivered by the waveguide, is guided in the waveguide cladding. A mode-stripping detector 635 is used to detect light. Both the detector and the driver are integrally formed in a substrate 605. Techniques for combining cantilevered waveguide, a drive, motion sensors and mode-stripping detector using MEMS technology are described. The option of an external waveguide is given (fig 7b).
Patent GB-2389337-A (GB)
Title: Book with presenter and audience display
Inventor: MATHIESON JENNIFER
IPC: B42D1/00
Filed: 2002-06-08
Abstract: An information display device which comprises a book with a plurality of sheets, having visual information E, A for the presenter and audience on adjacent facing pages. The sheets are hingedly fastened on the upper margin and the book has a rigid support D enabling the presenter to read whilst simultaneously displaying corresponding information to the audience. Preferably the rigid support is hingedly fastened on the upper margin. The fastener may be a spiral binding C, and the book may be opened to an angle of at least 270 degrees. A front cover B may also be provided with information on the rear face for the audience. Allows the reader and audience to follow the presentation whilst facing each other.
Patent GB-2381058-A (GB)
Title: Micro-valve
Inventor: WANG TAK KUI
IPC: F16K7/17
Filed: 2002-07-12
Abstract: Micro-valves (7) that include a diaphragm (10) capable of being positioned on a valve seat (20) or removed from the valve seat (20). The micro-valves (7) also include supports (100, 120, 200) and a cover (90) that restrict the motion of the diaphragm (10), thereby reducing the possibility of cracking. Micro-valves (7) made by anodically bonding the diaphragm (10) to a seat substrate (20) and anodically bonding the cover (90) to the diaphragm (10). Micro-injectors (400) that include micro-valves (7). Also, methods of making the micro-valves (7) and micro-injectors (400). The diaphragm may comprise a different material, eg. silicon, than the seat substrate, eg. a glass.
Patent GB-2378967-A (GB)
Title: Fixing bracket having a wide flexible tongue
Inventor: NAUTH WILHELM
IPC: E04F13/08
Filed: 2002-08-22
Abstract: Fixing bracket 10 for aligning and mounting of facade elements 1 secured at profile rods 3 to a building wall 7, having a wall leg 20 and a cantilever leg 30, whereby the cantilever leg 30 includes at least a positioning element and a flexible tongue in a tongs region for tong-like clamping of the profile rods 3. For this, the fixing bracket 10 has a double s-shaped profile with a central inner section which does not abut the building wall 7 and parallel offset outer sections on both sides, whereby form-stiffening sections are arranged between the inner section and the outer sections. The flexible tongue comprises a surface which amounts to at least 60% of the surface of the tongs region. The flexible tongue has a base width which amounts to at least 70% of the fixing bracket width. It receives all bores, recesses and/or breakouts for the at least two-dimensional attachment of the profile rods 3 at the cantilever leg 30.
Patent GB-2394528-A (GB)
Title: Cryogenic pressure building device
Inventor: ROBBIE MARK JOHN
IPC: F17C9/02
Filed: 2002-10-22
Abstract: Disclosed are a number of pressure building devices which all feature an inner chamber 9 or tube 9 carrying cryogenic fluid and leaching gaseous cryogen into a second outer chamber 15 which is impermeable to the gaseous cryogen. A first device additionally features second chamber 15 gas removal means. A second device additionally features second chamber 15 gas feedback 22 to a cryogen reservoir 1. A third device additionally features second chamber 15 gas sensor means. A fourth device additionally features second chamber 15 gas driving a pressure or flow activated device. The most significant device appears to be the second one with the gas feedback 22. This may be used to build pressure in a cryogenic fluid, such a liquid nitrogen, in a reservoir 1. A natural balance between leaching of the gas out of the tube 9 and feedback pressure to the reservoir 1 may be established so that over-pressure in the reservoir 1 is avoided. The device may permit the portable dispensing of cryogenic fluids, without the need for pumps or compressors and their related systems.
Patent GB-2391414-A (GB)
Title: System for displaying image on board boat.
Inventor: ALI IBRAHIM GHULAM MURAD
IPC: B63B35/44
Filed: 2002-11-06
Abstract: A computer 1 in a control office 15 communicates with a computer 11 on a boat, ship, yacht or other maritime vessel 16. Computer 11 serves to control the projection 13 of an image onto a sail 14 of the boat, or the display of an image on an advertising board or hoarding. The projector may be wired or wireless. The respective computers may communicate via modems using the Internet, or satellite telephone networks may be used. The advertisement or image displayed may be still, moving, live, 'picture in picture' or recorded. In an embodiment, the projector or other means of image display may be controlled by a single computer in a control room located on the boat or other vessel, and the film or image may be provided on cd or floppy disc.
Patent GB-2382354-A (GB)
Title: Diverting yarn ends in double cylinder circular knitting machines
Inventor: SANGIACOMO FULVIO
IPC: D04B15/60
Filed: 2002-11-07
Abstract: The invention relates to a double cylinder circular knitting machine which comprises at least one nozzle (18) providing a blast of air close to a yarn cutting-and-locking unit (13) to divert the ends of yarns cut and held by the said unit towards the interior of the cylinder, that is towards the reverse side of the item being manufactured. At the same time each cam (14, 21) for moving the needles where the yarns are picked up from the yarn guides is located and configured to move the needles at a predetermined distance from the yarn cuffing-and-locking unit so as to leave a space for diverting the end of the cut yarn towards the interior of the cylinder.
Patent GB-2385387-A (GB)
Title: Fuel injection pump
Inventor: MORI KATSUMI
IPC: F04B1/02
Filed: 2002-11-19
Abstract: A fuel injection pump comprising a housing 10, having a cylinder 31 and a piston 41 reciprocating within the cylinder, the cylinder and piston forming a pressure chamber 34; a drive shaft 2, having a cam 51 in contact with the piston and a casing 70 fixed to an outer surface of the housing and having a fist room 81 and a second room 82. A rotary feed pump 60 is accommodated in the first room and is driven by the drive shaft. A filter element is accommodated in the second room, the first and second rooms communicate with each other. A casing cover 74 attached to the casing covers the second room and has a fuel inlet 75. The fuel passes through the filter into the feed pump and on to the pressure chamber foreign material being filtered out of the fuel before it reaches the feed pump.
Patent GB-2395563-A (GB)
Title: Electromagnetic surveying for hydrocarbon reservoirs
Inventor: MACGREGOR LUCY M
IPC: G01V3/12
Filed: 2002-11-25
Abstract: An electromagnetic survey method for surveying an area that potentially contains a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir. The method comprises detecting a detector signal in response to a source electromagnetic signal, resolving the detector signal along at least two orthogonal directions, and comparing phase measurements of the detector signal resolved along these directions to look for a phase separation anomaly indicative of the presence of a buried hydrocarbon layer. The invention also relates to planning a survey using this method, and to analysis of survey data taken using this survey method. The first and second data sets may be obtained concurrently with a single horizontal electric dipole source antenna. The method is also largely independent of a source-detector pair's relative orientation and so provides for good spatial coverage and easy-to-perform surveying.
Patent GB-2395893-A (GB)
Title: Food item cutting apparatus
Inventor: DONNELLY EDWARD JOSEPH
IPC: A21C15/04
Filed: 2002-12-05
Abstract: A food item cutting apparatus (10) comprises a blade member (30) provided at a cutting station (92); an enclosure for at least partially enclosing the cutting station such that the blade member is inaccessible to an operator during normal use; a plurality of cutting tables, each table adapted to receive a food item and rotating conveyance means (70) adapted to convey the cutting tables from a start station (90) to the cutting station (92) and then to return to the start station (90). The blade member may comprise a plurality of planar cutting blades connected to each other at one lateral edge for portioning food such as cakes, pizzas and pies. Each cutting table may be provided with an upper surface and slots in the upper surface for receiving blade segments.
Patent GB-2397666-A (GB)
Title: Logical data grouping in digital storage system
Inventor: HANA ANDREW
IPC: G11B5/09
Filed: 2003-01-27
Abstract: A method of formatting a block of user data comprising: arranging the block of user data into rows and columns of bytes, i.e. array 500, and applying an error correction code to individual rows of bytes, such that the rows each comprise four code words. The code words may be C2 code words and may be interleaved along the length of the row. Each column may comprise two C1 code words which may also be interleaved. Additionally, a metal particle type tape storage device, having a width of 3.81mm plus or minus 0.01mm and a length of 170m plus or minus 5m, is claimed.
Patent GB-2387804-A (GB)
Title: Component structure
Inventor: HUMPSTON GILES
IPC: G02B6/12
Filed: 2003-02-26
Abstract: A solder joint or seal 240 attaching components 230, 250 having dissimilar coefficients of thermal expansion is made thin (e.g., less than 20 m and preferably about 5 m) And of a solder such as an indium-based solder that has a tendency to creep. The solder 240 is toroidal or otherwise shaped to avoid tensile stress in the solder 240. Axial shearing stress causes reversible creep without causing failure of the joint or seal 240. In one embodiment, a toroidal solder seal 240 has a diameter (D), a footprint (d), and a thickness (T) in approximate proportions of 5000:200:1. The solder 240 is used to join an optical plate 250 to an integrated circuit 230 in a preferred embodiment.
Patent GB-2387235-A (GB)
Title: Battery charge level measuring in an appliance
Inventor: SCHINNER CHARLES E
IPC: G01R31/36
Filed: 2003-03-31
Abstract: A battery-operated appliance contains a battery charge level measuring circuit for determining the status of the battery. The appliance has several operating modes, each requiring a different power level from the battery. To obtain an accurate measurement of battery charge level in a given operating mode, a battery characteristic such as terminal voltage is allowed to stabilise for a recovery time before a measurement is taken. The recovery time is dependent on the operating mode of the appliance. The battery charge level measurement may be used to disable certain modes of the appliance, if it is determined that there is insufficient power to perform that mode.
Patent GB-2401542-A (GB)
Title: Wheel assembly for a stroller
Inventor: RED LAN
IPC: B62B5/04
Filed: 2003-05-16
Abstract: A wheel assembly (20) for a stroller includes a wheel (31) with a rim (311) that has two vertical side surfaces and a vertical central plane (317). A vertical pivot shaft (5) is disposed within amounting space (313) in the wheel (31), is located in the central plane (317), and extends through a fixed seat (4) that is mounted fixedly to a stroller frame (21) and that is attached to a rotatable seat (61). A wheel seat (64) is connected to the wheel (31) and the rotatable seat (61) so as to permit rotation of the wheel (31) and the wheel seat (64) about the vertical pivot shaft (5).