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Patent GB-2281943-A (GB)
Title: Sea wave-power generating device
Inventor: YIM MYUNG-SHIK
IPC: F03B13/16
Filed: 1993-05-21
Abstract: A sea wave-power generating device comprising a frame work A including buoyancy base members (1, 1a) filled with sea water, and upright buoyancy columns (2) mounted on opposite sides of each of the base members (1, 1a), a plurality of pairs of cylinders (4) having inlet openings (5) in the bottom faces thereof and movably mounted on cross members (3) connecting the opposite upright buoyancy columns (2), a hollow piston member (6) having a foldable pressure member (7) and openings (8) at the lower end thereof and received in one of the corresponding cylinders (4) a buoyancy plate (9) having elongated openings (10) at corners thereof through which support bars (12) are received, each support bar (12) being movably connected to cross member (11), the upper end of each of the hollow piston members (6) being movably connected to the underside of the buoyancy plate (9) and then connected to a hose (13), the hose (13) being connected to a main water pipe (14) of a pressure control water collecting hose (15) having a large and a small capacity generators (16, 16a) mounted at one side thereof. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295452-A (GB)
Title: Solar energy collectors
Inventor: BOARDMAN JONATHAN MAXWELL
IPC: F24J2/50
Filed: 1994-11-26
Abstract: An evacuated solar collector comprising a transparent cover (1) in the form of a dome, and mounted with a gap (2) over the collector plate (3) which is also made domed. The attachment between transparent cover and collector plate is a hermetic seal (4) that is capable of withstanding the required compressive, radial and thermal stresses. The gap between transparent cover and collector plate is evacuated to form a vacuum. The purpose of the doming is for the materials used to be capable of withstanding the atmospheric pressure upon them. The plan form of the collector may be either round or polygonal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284447-A (GB)
Title: Mounting fuel injection pumps on V-engines
Inventor: MOSER FRANZ XAVER
IPC: F02M39/02
Filed: 1994-12-01
Abstract: Injection pump elements 16 are operated by a camshaft 17 in the crankcase 20. The pump tappets 18 may be guided by sleeves 21 inserted in the crankcase or bores in the crankcase (Fig. 2). A body (26, Fig. 2) with bores (27a, 27b) for supply and discharge of fuel may mount the elements 16 of each bank of cylinders on the crankcase. A threaded pipe 14 provides a connection between the injection valve 9 and the injection pipe 15 of the respective element 16 and defines an annular space 13 with its receiving bore in the cylinder head. Fuel leaking from the valve 9 passes through the space 13 to a collecting pipe. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282733-A (GB)
Title: Service platform
Inventor: WATTS MARTIN OWEN
IPC: H04M/
Filed: 1993-06-15
Abstract: A service platform for the provision of automated speech based services over a telephone network comprises a speech processor including associated memory, to provide at least one of speech recognition, speaker recognition, speaker verification, speech synthesis; line interface means for terminating a number of telephony channels of the network; a speech bus to carry speech signals between the line interface means and the speech processor; a control processor to control the routing of speech signals over the speech bus; a control bus connecting the control means with the speech processor and the line interface; a separate memory holding speech processing software; and a data link connecting the memory means with the speech processing means and operable to load programs into the speech processor during run time in the event that the appropriate software does not exist on the speech processor in a free state. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2287528-A (GB)
Title: Boiling and separating a liquefied gas mixture
Inventor: LAVIN JOHN TERENCE
IPC: B01D3/14
Filed: 1995-03-14
Abstract: A liquefied gas mixture comprising at last two components of which one is more volatile than the other or others is boiled in an apparatus including stripping passages 4 which have at least one heated surface such that the liquid flows in countercurrent mass exchange with the evolved vapour. The more volatile component is thereby progressively stripped from the liquefied gas mixture so that the vapour flow is enriched in its direction of flow towards vapour outlet header 30 and the liquid is depleted in its direction of flow from liquid inlet header 14 to the liquid outlet header. The stripping passages 4 are arranged alternately with condensing passages 6 where vapour to be condensed is passed from vapour inlet 20 to condensate outlet 22. The boiling passages preferably have an irregular porous surface providing nucleation sites for vapour bubbles. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2309435-A (GB)
Title: A lockable ring binder
Inventor: LAW CHUN CHEUNG
IPC: B42F13/26
Filed: 1996-01-24
Abstract: The binder comprises a pair of plates 12 pivotable about an outer edge, each mounting ring halves 14. Opening and closing of the binder is controlled by means of longitudinally-slidable member 16. The outer ends of the plates 12 include downwardly-sloping ramps 18. The rings are closed by moving the control member 16 inwardly so that the underside of the control member abuts against the ramps and pivots the plates downwardly. The rings are opened by moving the control member 16 outwardly so that the crossbar 38 of the control member rides up a sloping surface or a pair of hemi-spherical protrusions 42 (Fig 9) on the underside of the plates.
Patent GB-2297838-A (GB)
Title: Interferometer
Inventor: DORSEL ANDREAS
IPC: A61B3/10
Filed: 1996-02-05
Abstract: An interferometer with adjustable optical path length difference comprises a light source 4, an interferometer arm adjustable in length eg by movement of prism 3, and a photoelectric receiver 17 to detect the interference signals. An incremental sensor is coupled to a device 18 for adjusting the arm length and produces a reference signal which, in dependence upon the speed of the change of the optical path length difference, changes its frequency in the same manner as that of the interference signal. An interference pattern is projected by the interferometer onto the back of an eye 12 via polarising beam splitter 10 and quarter wave plate 11 for measuring the distance between different layers. Reflected light passes through the plate 11, splitter 10 and further splitter 15 to the receiver 17 and an observer 16. The incremental sensor may comprise fixed and movable optical gratings producing two signals 90{ out of phase.
Patent GB-2298202-A (GB)
Title: Chiral polymerizable binaphthol derivatives
Inventor: GOULDING JOHN MARK
IPC: C09K19/38
Filed: 1996-02-23
Abstract: Chiral polymerizable binaphthol derivatives have one or two side chains that contain functional groups at the end thereof, wherein the binapthol group and said functional groups are separated by at least one mesogen ring group and optionally a spacer group. Liquid crystalline materials in the form of a cholesteric polymer network are obtained by copolymerizing an achiral compound having one or two polymerizable functional groups and the binaphthol derivative.
Patent GB-2312041-A (GB)
Title: Improved intercepting safety sear
Inventor: T R WHITE CO
IPC: F41A17/82
Filed: 1996-04-10
Abstract: Intercepting Safety Sear to improve the safety of shotguns and rifles. The Sear B is integral to the trigger housing construction and can be incorporated in a wide range of shotguns and rifles including those of round body configuration. It prevents the hammer falling if accidentally jarred free by engaging the hammer at F and only permits the gun to be discharged when the trigger has been pulled with the safety in the 'off' position.
Patent GB-2298087-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for producing compound semiconductor devices.
Inventor: MOTODA TAKASHI
IPC: C23C16/455
Filed: 1993-11-08
Abstract: An apparatus for producing a compound semiconductor device wherein gases each including a component element of a compound semiconductor crystal are introduced into a reaction tube 3 and crystal growth of a compound is carried out on wafers 2 disposed in said reaction tube 3 including: ```gas supply pipes 12a, 12b which include a separate pipe for each component element, and ```flow rate adjusting means 29 for adjusting the flow rates of the gases flowing through the gas supply pipes 12a, 12b.
Patent GB-2301191-A (GB)
Title: Tool for measuring decay in wood
Inventor: LEWIS DAVID ANTHONY
IPC: G01N3/00
Filed: 1996-05-24
Abstract: The tool comprises an elongate probe 12 adapted to be inserted in an inspection hole drilled in the wooden object, and having at least one barb 14 protruding therefrom adjacent to one end of the probe. The at least one barb is designed to engage a side wall of the inspection hole so as to shear wood fibres in the side wall as the probe is withdrawn and indicating means 20 is mechanically coupled to the probe for measuring the amount of pull-force required to shear the wood fibres in the inspection hole. When the pull-force exceeds a predetermined value, the indicating means provides an indication of a transition within the wooden object from decaying wood to sound wood (46, Fig. 4).
Patent GB-2303099-A (GB)
Title: Plant and integrated cellulose foil and fibre manufacturing works
Inventor: ZIKELI STEFAN
IPC: C08L1/02
Filed: 1996-04-02
Abstract: The invention concerns an integrated cellulose foil and fibre manufacturing works according to the amine oxide process. The works substantially comprise a cellulose production plant, a mixer (B, B') for producing a low-consistency cellulose suspension in an aqueous amine oxide solution, and a device (C) for concentrating the low-consistency cellulose suspension. In device (C), the cellulose suspension is mechanically spread into a layer on a heating surface, is heated and conveyed on said heating surface while being intensively mixed and evaporated, until a predetermined amount of water evaporates and a concentrated cellulose suspension is obtained. In a device (D), the concentrated cellulose suspension obtained in device (C) is converted into a mouldable cellulose solution and in a moulding device connected to device (D), the moulding cellulose solution is transformed into cellulose foils or fibres.
Patent GB-2310706-A (GB)
Title: Webbed yoke for universal joint
Inventor: SCHELLABERGER JAMES C
IPC: F16D3/38
Filed: 1997-02-20
Abstract: A slip yoke (42) includes a generally cylindrical body (43) rotatable about an axis. The slip yoke (42) further includes an axially extending spline (57) for engagement with a mating spline of an associated apparatus. Two generally axially extending arms (60) are symmetrically positioned about the axis. Each of the arms (60) has a generally cylindrical opening (61) formed therethrough transversely to the axis. The openings (61) are aligned with one another. Each of the arms (60) includes an outer surface (74) having recessed areas (76) formed therein. The recessed areas (76) define webs (79) extending between the cylindrical body (43) and the opening (61).
Patent GB-2324192-A (GB)
Title: A fast assemble 555 timer kit
Inventor: LYNCH MAURICE MARTIN
IPC: G09B23/18
Filed: 1997-04-12
Abstract: A fast assemble 555 timer kit is a manufactured PCB to allow the easy construction of various timing circuits. Both are insulated on the underside and screen printed on top so as to allow the user easy and error free construction of simple resistor and capacitor circuits using discrete components. This is achieved by the use of three spring loaded mounting blocks across which various components are placed. The use of the spring loaded terminal block allows for simple yet effective circuit construction which bears much similarity and format to those experienced in electronic and science books. The PCB has the added advantage of being able to interface to a standard computer port thus allowing graphical illustration of what is happening on the board.
Patent GB-2325054-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for the measurement of microwave radiation
Inventor: BUDD CHRISTOPHER
IPC: G01R21/02
Filed: 1997-05-09
Abstract: A microwave radiation measuring device comprises: a resistive element 3 and means for coupling microwave radiation emanating form a source 10 to the said resistive element. The resistive element 3 may be a conductive track formed on an insulating substrate and said means of coupling may comprise an antenna 7 and microstrip transmission line 6. A constant current source 8 and voltmeter 9 may be used to measure the resistance of the resistive element 3. A further resistive device may be employed to sense fluctuations in the ambient temperature conditions. A frequency selective filter 14 comprising an array of electrically conductive elements formed on a dielectric substrate may be used to select the radiation frequencies received by the resistive element. The device may be used to measure brief intense microwave radiation pulses.
Patent GB-2315199-A (GB)
Title: Broadband and narrowband communication channels between repository and display systems
Inventor: ZAVREL ROBERT JOSEPH
IPC: H04W72/04
Filed: 1997-06-26
Abstract: A bidirectional or unidirectional information handling system for data exchange and distribution includes a data repository system (20, 21) and a data display system (10) . The systems are linked for data exchange by a broadband channel for unidirectional high data flow rates and, in some embodiments, by a narrowband channel for bidirectional lower data flow rates. The display system (10) may take a number of forms, including personal communications assistants, desktop personal computers, and set top boxes. The data communication channels may be defined by a number of different protocols and bandwidth segments and may be wireline or wireless.
Patent GB-2319291-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle door lock system
Inventor: HAGEN FRIEDRICH
IPC: B60R25/30
Filed: 1997-10-16
Abstract: A motor vehicle door lock having a lock system, a closing system and a device which acts on an evaluation electronics unit for enquiring the operating positions of the closing cylinder and which employs Hall sensor chips, in which the Hall chips are selected from batches based on their functional tolerances. The door lock system has a closing system (1) which acts on the lock system, in which the closing system (1) comprises a mechanical closing cylinder (2) with which a mechanical key is associated. A device (3) is provided which acts on an evaluation electronics unit (4) and which is associated with the closing cylinder (2) for enquiring the operating positions of the closing cylinder (2), which device (3) comprises at least two fixedly mounted Hall sensor chips (5) comprising a Hall sensor and chip electronics and also comprises a ferromagnetic actuating element (6) which can be adjusted by the closing cylinder (2). The evaluation electronics unit (4) has a lower electrical current switching threshold A 1 and an upper electrical current switching threshold A 2 . The two Hall sensor chips (5) are products which in the sense of industrial mass production are identical and are taken from a batch of identical Hall sensor chips, which products have functional tolerances determined by their manufacture as regards their magnetic actuation field strength and have magnetic switching thresholds M 1 and M 2 . They also have electrical switching thresholds E 1 and E 2 of their chip electronics.
Patent GB-2330670-A (GB)
Title: User interface for data processing apparatus
Inventor: EASTTY PETER CHARLES
IPC: G06F3/033
Filed: 1997-10-24
Abstract: Data processing apparatus, in particular an audio mixing console, has a fader panel (30, fig. 1) comprising an array of touch-sensitive controls 350, adjustable by movement of the user's hand while touching a control. Each control corresponds to a channel strip (300, fig. 4) on a display screen (10, fig. 1), which shows the processing controls and devices for that channel, and the current control settings (fig. 6). When a touch-sensor is touched, and so open to adjustment, the fader display on the corresponding channel strip is coloured in a contrasting colour, 400. Proximity sensors also enable contrasting colours to be displayed, 410, as the user's hand approaches one or more of the controls. Thus the user can track his hands across the fader panel (30, fig 1) from the display screen (10, fig. 1) rather than having to look at the fader panel itself.
Patent GB-2322258-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for scheduling cells based on pre-synchronized frames
Inventor: KIM DEOG-NYOUN
IPC: H04L12/28
Filed: 1997-11-12
Abstract: A method for scheduling a plurality of cells of a call via a connection linking a multiplicity of nodes which include a source node and a destination node is provided. A frame counter which counts down the time slots of each frame and is reset to a frame size is assigned to each node of each connection. All the frame counters at all the nodes are pre-synchronized on a connection basis based on propagation delays and delay bounds so that each upstream count of the frame counter in the upstream node is previously correlated to a downstream count of the frame counter in the downstream node. Thus the eligible time of a cell at each node can be determined without delivering scheduling information from an upstream node to a downstream node. The synchronized queue for each connection includes two logically separated FIFO queues so that one FIFO queue stores an eligible cell ready to be scheduled for transmission while the other FIFO queue stores non-eligible cell that must be jitter-controlled.
Patent GB-2319211-A (GB)
Title: Laminate for use as or in a solar insert, solar blind or window film
Inventor: ANDERSON DAVID JOHN
IPC: E06B9/24
Filed: 1997-11-13
Abstract: A laminate for use as a solar insert, solar blind or window film, is made up of two layers joined together by a light transmissive adhesive, one layer being metallised polypropylene film.
Patent GB-2316984-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle driving device
Inventor: KOBAYASHI TOSHIO
IPC: B60K17/346
Filed: 1997-04-02
Abstract: A driving device for a four-wheel drive vehicle can commonly use main portions of a driving device for a two-wheel drive vehicle including not only a torque converter, a belt-type continuously by variable transmission, a front differential gear and a transmission case encasing them but also a transfer unit components such as a front drive axle, a double pinion type planetary gear, a fixed shaft and first and second friction engagement elements. Moreover, it is possible to easily construct a main portion of the driving device for the four-wheel drive vehicle based on the driving device for the two-wheel drive vehicle by additionally disposing third, fourth and fifth friction engagement elements and a power transmission mechanism for transmitting power to a rear differential gear, thereby making it possible to remarkably reduce the production costs.
Patent GB-2333885-A (GB)
Title: Optical data storage carrier protection apparatus
Inventor: BURROUGHS TREVOR
IPC: G11B7/24097
Filed: 1998-01-30
Abstract: Protection apparatus comprising a protective sheet or film (1) dimensioned to overlie a region comprising at least part of a surface of the optical data storage carrier (e.g. CD, CD-ROM etc.), the protective sheet being fastenable to the optical data storage carrier by way of at least one adhesive track (5) provided with one or more apertures (6) extending through the adhesive and permitting air to escape from said region. When the CD has a first annular area surrounding the centre hole and a second annular area surrounding the first annular area and when the surface of one of these areas is raised relative to the other a first and a second annular protective film are placed over the first and second annular areas respectively. The annular protective films do not overlap and each have means of attachment to their respective surfaces.
Patent GB-2338018-A (GB)
Title: A wheeled top guide for a sliding door having a spring loaded wheel
Inventor: JACOBS KENNETH
IPC: E05D15/06
Filed: 1998-06-04
Abstract: A wheeled top-guide for rolling movement of a door along a track having a first roller on a first axle 50 in rolling engagement with one wall of a track; and a vertically oriented torsion member 58 connected via a horizontal arm 60 to a second axle 62 and second roller. When the guide is inserted into a track (see fig 6) a torque is induced in the torsion rod, said torque maintaining said rollers in firm rolling contact with the side walls of said track. In a preferred embodiment the same principle is applied to three rollers (see figs 8-10).
Patent GB-2328973-A (GB)
Title: An escape ladder
Inventor: SLACK ALFRED GERALD HAROLD
IPC: E06C9/14
Filed: 1998-08-28
Abstract: A personnel escape ladder comprising a removable outer casing behind which a back plate (11) is bolted to a wall to provide a supporting structure. The ladder consists of an upper platform (14) pivotable between a vertical condition when stowed and a horizontal condition to provide a step on which a person may stand after leaving the building and prior to descending a series of rungs (22) suspended from the platform (14) by four flexible straps (20). Each rung (22) includes a step (23) at its front edge, and the rungs are arranged at a slightly upwardly inclined attitude from the wall thus to bear against the latter to provide rigidity during descent. The whole structure may be re-stowed after use.
Patent GB-2331190-A (GB)
Title: Control circuit power supply circuit for dc-ac-dc converter
Inventor: MATSUMOTO TADAHIKO
IPC: H02M3/28
Filed: 1998-11-03
Abstract: A control circuit power supply circuit for a dc-ac-dc converter including a transformer 2 and a control circuit 4, comprises a start up circuit 6-8 providing power from an input power source 1 to the control circuit 4, a main power supply circuit 11-14 in which power from an auxiliary winding N3 of the transformer is rectified and supplied to the control circuit 4, an auxiliary power supply circuit 18 in which power provided from the auxiliary winding is rectified and supplied to the control circuit 4, and a power supply change-over circuit 8, 16 which allows the main power supply circuit to supply power to the control circuit when a voltage level of the power supplied to the control circuit is stable, the auxiliary power supply circuit to supply the auxiliary power supply voltage to the control circuit when the main power supply voltage to the control circuit becomes lower than a predetermined voltage, and the start-up circuit to supply the start-up voltage to the control circuit when power is not provided from the auxiliary winding. The circuit provides overcurrent protection and overvoltage protection. Other forms of auxiliary power supply circuit are described (Figs 6-8).
Patent GB-2345447-A (GB)
Title: Retaining a golf tee on a retractable cord
Inventor: ORGILL NICHOLAS CURZON
IPC: A63B57/00
Filed: 1999-01-05
Abstract: A length of cord 13 has means for attaching one end to a golf tee, and the other end is wound onto a rotatable spool 11 within a housing 1 which has an aperture for the cord 13 to extend through. There is also a tensioning means 17 for applying a biassing force to the spool 11 to rotate it in order to retract the cord 13 into the housing 1. The tensioning means may comprise a spiral spring 17 of which the radially inner end can be secured centrally 19 of the housing and the outer end to the spool periphery, and the spring may have a circular cover over it. Retraction of the cord might be controlled using a rachet or a pin engaging with the spool. The housing 1 may be formed from two (3, 5) or more portions, and may be cylindrical. There may be means (7) on the housing 1 to attach the apparatus to a golfer's shoe or the like, such as a clip, cord or hook-and-loop material. The cord 13 may pass through a grommet 9 in the aperture, and it may be coloured to contrast with a golf playing surface. The means for attaching the tee may be a resilient ring 15, and the tee can be permanently attached to the means. The shaft part of the tee might be aluminium or steel; the cup part might be rubber or elastomer.