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Patent GB-2390911-A (GB)
Title: Optic fibre semiconductor module package
Inventor: MIYOKAWA JUN
IPC: G02B6/42
Filed: 2003-06-13
Abstract: An optical semiconductor module includes an optical semiconductor element 1,4, an optical fiber 7 optically coupled with the semiconductor element; a base 11 having an upper surface and a lower surface; and a package 208. The package has a bottom plate 208e on which the base is mounted, a front wall 208c, having a hole through which the optical fiber is inserted, and a rear wall 208d opposite to the front wall. The optical fiber and the optical semiconductor element are mounted on the upper surface. The base has a rear face formed on an end portion opposite to the front wall 208c, and the rear face is positioned above the lower surface of the base e.g. caused by taper 11b. In another module, plate 709a may be integrated with lid 709. Snout 208b may be internally tapered at 208a, longitudinally hole 708a may have different internal diameter 708a1 and 708a2.
Patent GB-2404840-A (GB)
Title: Garment for controlling body temperature
Inventor: OLIVER PAUL
IPC: A41D13/002
Filed: 2003-08-12
Abstract: A vest type garment for controlling body temperature has a first set of tubes 12 extending over the front 10 of the garment and a second set of tubes (13, fig 2) extending over the back 11 of the garment. A single manifold with a central chamber supplies heated/cooled liquid to first ends of the first tubes 12 and the first ends of the second tubes. A second manifold receives a liquid from second ends of the first and second sets of tubes. The manifolds sit under respective arms of the wearer. The first and second sets of tubes are located relative to the front and back portions 10, 11 of the garment by locating tubes between spaced layers of fusible breathable moisture transfer material and then fusing the two layers together at intervals.
Patent GB-2394575-A (GB)
Title: System for a distributed shell in a distributed computer environment
Inventor: VOLKOV ALEXEI
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 2003-09-01
Abstract: An invention is disclosed for a distributed shell for use in a distributed computer environment. The distributed shell includes a shell server, which is located on a server computer system. The shell server processes commands for distribution to particular client computer systems of the distributed computer system. In addition, the distributed shell includes a plurality of shell clients. Each shell client is executed on a separate client computer system and is in communication with the shell server. In operation, the shell server selects a particular shell client to perform a task or tasks in response to receiving a command. The tasks are then sent to the selected shell client and the shell client executes the task.
Patent GB-2394285-A (GB)
Title: Calibrating an optical channel for microtitration plates for retaining homogenous emission in different intensity levels
Inventor: FINA ANDREAS
IPC: G01N21/27
Filed: 2003-09-19
Abstract: A device for calibrating an optical detection channel for a two dimensional measurement of a multi-specimen carrier (e.g. micro-titration plates). It measures radiation of a plurality of specimens photometrically. It has a plate-shaped housing 1 in the shape and size of the multi-specimen carrier. The housing has a rectangular window 11, on its side facing the detection channel. The size of window is adapted to the surface of the multi-specimen carrier under examination, which surface is provided with wells. The housing 1 has a luminescent foil (2, fig 1) inside, parallel to the window 11, so as to cover its surface. A power source such as a battery 4 is provided inside the housing. A control unit inside the housing controls the luminescent foil to provide homogenous emission of luminescent light through the window in different intensity levels. A changeable filter layer (5 , figure 1) may cover luminescent foil, and a pattern mask 6 may cover the foil to simulate a pattern of wells of the multi-specimen carrier.
Patent GB-2406997-A (GB)
Title: Inhibiting monitoring of broadcast service channel to save power
Inventor: ROBERTS MICHAEL
IPC: H04W52/02
Filed: 2003-10-02
Abstract: A mobile radio communications device subscribed to a broadcast service such as Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), typically cannot save power via discontinuous reception (DRX) as it needs to continuously monitor a notification channel employed by the broadcast service. The invention allows such a mobile to operate without needing to monitor the notification channel until a time just before the broadcast service is about to commence. The mobile radio communications device 14 arranged for receiving a broadcast service includes: reception means for reading a channel to be employed by the broadcast service, means for receiving other than via said channel, scheduling information related to the broadcast service, means for determining from the scheduling information, a start time of the broadcast service 18 and a preparation time 20 for the broadcast service, and means for inhibiting monitoring of the said channel until a time 22 being the start time less the preparation time 20. The preparation time 20 may include time required by the network 12 for counting the number of mobile devices requiring the broadcast service and the commencement of channel monitoring may trigger the mobile device 14 to transmit an uplink signal for counting. The scheduling information may be provided in a service announcement 16 phase or over signalling levels different from the service announcement phase.
Patent GB-2406918-A (GB)
Title: Arrayed waveguide grating
Inventor: ZOOROB MAJD
IPC: G02B6/12
Filed: 2003-10-09
Abstract: The present invention relates to arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs). The present invention provides AWGs with reduced physical dimensions. This is achieved by introducing different materials (23) into the waveguides (22) of the AWG in order to provide an optical path difference between each of the waveguides. The overall length and shape of each of the waveguides can be chosen according to design requirements whilst the optical path length difference between each of the waveguides can be achieved by having a different length of material (23) having a particular effective refractive index or a different material in each of the waveguides (22).
Patent GB-2391006-A (GB)
Title: Patient transfer apparatus
Inventor: FRENCH EDWARD
IPC: A61G7/10
Filed: 2002-04-02
Abstract: The patient transfer apparatus comprises a frame (10) having a base (20). The frame comprising two elongate frame members (11,12) coupled at one end to form a column suspension point (30) and each coupled at the other end thereof to a respective base portion (21, 22). In use, the apparatus is arranged to support a patient suspended from the suspension point (30) and is provided with a sling (41) supported by one or more straps (42). The sling (41) is arranged position to support a patient in a generally upright sitting position. The support means (40) comprises lifting means (43) to adjust the height of the sling (41). The centre of gravity of the patient in the sling (41) lies suspended below the suspension point (30). The base member (21) comprises a first rest portion (211), a second rest portion (212) and a transfer portion (213) arranged therebetween. In use, the apparatus rests in a stable position and the patient is loaded or unloaded from the sling (41) and made ready for transfer. In use, the apparatus is moved from the first rest position to the second rest position (or vice versa) to accomplish the transfer of movement. The transfer surface (213) is preferably curved such that the apparatus is unstable in this position and therefore easily moved.
Patent GB-2396124-A (GB)
Title: Coating of a foamed ionomer layer on substrate with particular application to fuel cells
Inventor: EBBRELL GUY
IPC: H01M8/24
Filed: 2003-12-04
Abstract: A method for coating a substrate with an ionomer, applies the ionomer as a component of a stable foam, then dries the applied foam layer. The substrate to be so coated may be an electrode substrate, with or without a catalyst layer applied thereon. In another embodiment, the substrate is an ion-exchange membrane. The substrate may be used in an electrochemical fuel cell. The foam layer may also comprise catalyst powder to form a catalyst layer. The substrate may be used in membrane electrode assemblies, fuel cells, fuel cell stacks, motor vehicles, and stationary and portable electrical power-generating plants that incorporate the fuel cell stacks.
Patent GB-2396349-A (GB)
Title: Compounds obtained from a fungal microorganism and derivatives thereof
Inventor: BOEHLENDORF BETTINA
IPC: A01N43/90
Filed: 2003-12-05
Abstract: The present invention relates to novel fungicidal compounds of the general formula I based on the recently isolated natural fungicidal products and chemically generated derivatives thereof and to the microorganisms producing said fungicidal products and compounds. The inventon encompasses the compound of formula I <EMI ID=1.1 HE=34 WI=120 LX=474 LY=809 TI=CF> <PC>and to the tautomers, optical isomers and enantiomers and to the mixtures thereof, wherein X and Z independently of each other stand for a ring member selected from -CH2- ; -CO-, and R1 to R8 are standard substituents. It further encompasses the microorganisms capable of producing the above natural fungicidal products. The compounds of formula I possess useful plant protecting properties and may advantageously be employed in agricultural practice for controlling or preventing the infestation of plants by phytopathogenic microorganisms, especially fungi.
Patent GB-2396220-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for sensing vehicle seat position
Inventor: MILLS AARON M
IPC: B60R21/01
Filed: 2003-12-09
Abstract: An apparatus (10) for sensing the position of a vehicle seat (12) movable between a forward position and a rearward position includes a Hall effect device (80) and a magnet (82) that produces a magnetic field that acts on the Hall effect device. A member (100) is constructed of a ferromagnetic material and has a portion positioned adjacent the magnet (82). The portion has a size that is unique for every different position of the vehicle seat (12) between the forward and rearward positions. The portion of the member (100) alters the flux path of the magnetic field which varies the portion of the magnetic field acting on the Hall effect device (80) to a degree that depends of the size of the portion of the member adjacent the magnet. The Hall effect device (80) provides a signal functionally related to the magnitude of the magnetic field acting on the Hall effect device.
Patent GB-2410151-A (GB)
Title: A radio frequency identification tag with means sensitive to light for controlling communication between rfid tag and reader
Inventor: FOGG MARTIN
IPC: G06K19/07
Filed: 2004-01-15
Abstract: A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag has an electronic identification circuit coupled to an antenna, wherein the RFID tag is arranged to communicate with a RFID tag reader via the antenna, using RF energy. The tag comprises means sensitive to light (such as a photodiode, phototransistor, photocell or a solar cell) for controlling (in particular inhibiting) communication between the RFID tag reader and the RFID tag. The tag can for example be embedded in or on a high-value object such as a banknote. The existence of the banknote cannot be detected e.g. by criminals in the absence of light (e.g. while the banknote is located in a wallet), but the authenticity of the banknote can be verified in legitimate use.
Patent GB-2403739-A (GB)
Title: Manufacturing building blocks with a coloured surface
Inventor: PALING CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B28B15/00
Filed: 2004-05-05
Abstract: Building blocks are formed using a process in which during the forming process an external surface of the block is coated with pigment. A wall built from such blocks does not require plastering or painting. The blocks may be formed by a three step process. In the first step ordinary cement is dispensed into a container plate at a first machine station. In the second step coloured cement is dispensed into the container plate at a second machine station. In the third step the cement is vibrated and pressed in a mould at a third machine station. The block is then cured. The coloured cement may be composed of cleaned and sifted white sand and quartz, cement and water based pigment or pigment and water.
Patent GB-2403458-A (GB)
Title: A shopping trolley for attachment to a stroller or like vehicle
Inventor: HUGHES KAY
IPC: B62B3/14
Filed: 2004-06-30
Abstract: A trolley attachable to a push-chair by means of a pair of attachment elements 15, one at each side, attachable to the upper regions of the side frame elements 16 of the pram or push-chair adjacent to or on the handle. Each attachment element comprises a strap with a pair of clasps formed thereon. The trolley has four fully castor-mounted wheels 12 such that it can remain in fixed relationship to the pram or push-chair as the latter is moved. The trolley has a tray which can preferably hold substantially more than a standard supermarket basket. The trolley may have handle means by which it and the pram or push-chair attached to it can be moved, and is designed so that several such trolleys can be stacked horizontally together like standard supermarket trolleys. The trolley may also be used on its own.
Patent GB-2400373-A (GB)
Title: Method for making resin bonded abrasive tools
Inventor: SIMON MARK W
IPC: C09K3/14
Filed: 2002-12-18
Abstract: A method for producing organically bonded abrasive article includes combining an abrasive grain component and a phenol-based resin component. The combined components are molded and thermally cured in an atmosphere that comprises humidity, wherein the atmosphere contacts the molded components, thereby producing the organically bonded abrasive grain. The abrasive grain optionally can first be combined with an organosilicon compound, to form organosilicon-treated abrasive grain, and then with the phenol-based resin component. In one example, the phenol-based resin is thermally cured in the presence of steam. Abrasive articles produced by the method of the invention generally have improved properties under wet grinding conditions. In one example, an abrasive article produced by the method of the invention includes ammonia in an amount less than about 50 ppm. In another example, an abarasive grinding wheel produced by the method of the invention has a strength retention greater than about 57 percent.
Patent GB-2422794-A (GB)
Title: Filtration device for biological samples
Inventor: HICKS RICHARD
IPC: B01L3/00
Filed: 2005-02-05
Abstract: An open-topped container 10 is sealed by a cap 12 to the underside of which is fixed a sealed enclosure 13 containing a fixative solution. At the end of the enclosure 13 remote from the cap is a receptacle 14 for a faecal specimen and this is surrounded by protrusions 15 of the enclosure which are ruptured by teeth 22 surrounding an uppermost filter 19 as the cap is screwed on. The fixative solution thus escapes from the enclosure, mixes with the faecal matter and passes through the filters 19 and 20 so that parasitic eggs are collected in the conical false bottom 23 of the container. During the final travel of the cap skirts 16 and 17 engage the non-perforated periphery 21 of the upper filter 19 to prevent the fixative solution flowing back into the enclosure 13 when the container 10 is inverted. The filtrate can be poured or pippetted out of the container 10 through its spout 24.
Patent GB-2418877-A (GB)
Title: Air guide for cyclone discharge pipe
Inventor: OH JANG-KEUN
IPC: B04C5/26
Filed: 2005-04-05
Abstract: Cyclonic dust collecting apparatus (100), for a vacuum cleaner comprises a first cyclone unit (111) and at least one second cyclone unit (112) having an air passage for guiding air discharged via the first cyclone unit, and a discharge pipe (131) wherein the discharge pipe comprises a passage guide member (210) for guiding air discharged from the second cyclone unit. Since the passage guide member is mounted in the discharge pipe of the second cyclone part, the load on the suction source of the cleaner is reduced, leading to a saving in power consumption. The second cyclone unit may comprise a plurality of cyclones in parallel situated around the circumference of the first cyclone.
Patent GB-2425744-A (GB)
Title: Internal coatings for pipes
Inventor: COLLIE GRAEME JOHN
IPC: B05C7/00
Filed: 2005-05-03
Abstract: A pipe 10 is lined by introducing an applicator body 20 into the pipe interior; spacing the applicator body away from the pipe interior wall to define an annular gap 32; supplying a molten thermoplastic material 42 which enters the annular gap, and moving the applicator body and the pipe relative to each other so that the applicator body passes along the pipe interior. The thermoplastic material exited or exiting from the annular gap is solidified to form the lining 40. Pipes such as christmas tree flowloops having a complex bent geometry may be lined in this way. The melt 32 may be formed from a charge 34 of pulverulent thermoplastic material by a heater 34 that moves with the applicator body 20. Cooling jets 36, 38 may also be provided. Alternatively the melt 42 can be supplied from an extruder, along a flexible conduit passing through the pipe 10 (Fig. 4).
Patent GB-2427554-A (GB)
Title: Device for aneurysm repair
Inventor: NERI EUGENIO
IPC: A61F2/06
Filed: 2005-06-23
Abstract: A graft for aneurysm repair typically a thoracic aneurysm or repair of the aortic arch. The graft is an "elephant trunk" graft and is characterised by a series of radiopaque markers 8 on a distal portion of the graft, as seen in the figure they may be diametrically opposed. If the graft is trimmed to fit during surgery, some of the raqdiopaque markers will still be visible fluoroscopically. The graft may be a so called "Dumbo" variant having a sewing ring to facilitate implantation even if the graft and the distal anastomosis are of different diameters.
Patent GB-2429931-A (GB)
Title: Exercise device
Inventor: JAMES JEFFREY
IPC: A61H1/02
Filed: 2005-09-13
Abstract: An exercise device comprises an elongate member 20 and an engagement member 30 having an engagement region 40, the engagement member 20 defining an aperture 35 therethrough, the elongate member 20 extending through the aperture, such that when the engagement region 40 is under substantially no load, the engagement member 30 is slideable along the elongate member 20 and when the engagement region 40 is placed under load, the engagement member 30 is substantially non-slideable along the elongate member 20. Also provided is a method of pelvic realignment involving use of said exercise device.
Patent GB-2422415-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic tensioner having a friction ring
Inventor: YOSHIDA OSAMU
IPC: F16H7/08
Filed: 2005-12-06
Abstract: In a hydraulic chain tensioner for an engine timing drive, an annular groove 3b is formed on an outer circumferential surface of a plunger 3, and a friction ring 7 is disposed in the groove. The friction ring 7 is composed of an external resin ring (9, Fig 6) and an internal steel ring (8, Fig 6) incorporated into the inside of the resin ring. The friction ring 7 is fitted into the annular groove of the plunger with a predetermined axial clearance. It allows the tensioner to operate with good responsiveness during normal engine operation, but resists excessive slack in the chain, and prevents backlash and fluttering, during engine start-up.
Patent GB-2420286-A (GB)
Title: Impregnated charcoal cloth as wound dressing
Inventor: SILCOCK DEREK
IPC: A61L15/18
Filed: 2004-08-27
Abstract: A wound dressing material comprising a charcoal cloth wherein the charcoal is coated with a substantially water-in-soluble polymer. Also provided are wound dressings comprising such materials, and methods of preparing such materials comprising the steps of impregnating a charcoal cloth with a dispersion of a polymer precursor in a solvent, followed by drying the charcoal cloth to leave a coating of the water-insoluble polymer on the charcoal cloth.
Patent GB-2435724-A (GB)
Title: TRIAC dimming of LED lighting units
Inventor: SUMMERLAND DAVID THOMAS
IPC: H05B44/00
Filed: 2006-03-04
Abstract: Conventional TRIAC dimmers are not effective with LED lighting units. A lighting circuit of the invention provides a dummy load 33 in parallel with the lighting units 34a,b. The dummy load 33 presents a sufficient impedance when the dimmer unit 31 is operating at low levels to ensure that the TRIAC continues to operate properly. At higher dim levels the impedance may vary with a positive relationship with the voltage until it is no longer required and therefore does not waste power unnecessarily.
Patent GB-2435974-A (GB)
Title: Imaging system including detectors using plural sensitivity levels
Inventor: HUMPOLETZ CHARLES JAMES PETER
IPC: H01L27/146
Filed: 2006-03-07
Abstract: An imaging system for example a thermal imager, has a detector 2 operating in at least two sensitivity modes. The detector is read on a pixel-by-pixel basis in each of at least two modes and output there from is simultaneously displayed. This way a wide range of thermal sensitivities are simultaneously displayed. The detector is, preferably, read out at maximum and minimum sensitivity levels at least half the field rate and, advantageously, at the field rate of a display 4. In a preferred embodiment, colour is added to the normally provided grey state scale output from the detector ranging from black for the coolest object through white and yellow to red for the hottest object. The sensitivity levels can be adjusted interactively by controlling integration and timing with a processor. The imaging system can be a thermal imaging camera using a two-dimensional planar bolometric array as the detector.
Patent GB-2421969-A (GB)
Title: A horizontal spool tree
Inventor: MILBERGER LIONEL J
IPC: E21B43/01
Filed: 2003-12-10
Abstract: The horizontal spool tree assembly (10) controls the fluid flow through a production tubing string (18) within a well. The horizontal spool tree assembly is adapted for use with a workover string for fluid communication with the tree assembly. The spool body (12) has a central bore (14) for receiving a tubing hanger (22) therein, with a production passageway extending laterally through the spool body to a production line (36). The spool body also includes an annulus passageway extending laterally through the spool body for fluid communication between the tubing annulus (16) and the annulus line (52). The spool tree assembly has improved porting for the production line and the annulus line, and also for both workover and crossover operations.
Patent GB-2426888-A (GB)
Title: Partitioning network analysis
Inventor: BLOMQUIST SCOTT A
IPC: H04L12/26
Filed: 2006-04-07
Abstract: A system includes a plurality of distributed network analyzers, each of the distributed network analyzers configured to receive and filter network traffic from a single network link under test so that the network traffic is distributed across the plurality of distributed network analyzers and to capture data from the filtered network traffic. The system also includes a processing device receiving the captured data from the each of the plurality of distributed network analyzers, wherein the processing device includes software configured to interleave the received data to form a single stream of data from network traffic on the network link under test.