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Patent GB-2445372-A (GB)
Title: Touch screen input detection of simultaneous touches
Inventor: SHMAYA SHULI
IPC: G06F3/041
Filed: 2007-01-03
Abstract: A touch screen detects an initial touch followed by a further touch while the initial touch is maintained. The location of the further touch may be determined relative to the position of the initial touch. The touch screen may distinguish between a further touch and a movement of the initial touch by calculating the speed at which the initial touch would have traveled to the position of the further touch and determining that it is a second touch if the speed is above a threshold. The touch screen may detect the position of touches by applying a first voltage to a first plate and detecting the voltage in a second plate to detect the displacement along a first axis and then applying a second voltage to the second plate and detecting the voltage in the first plate to detect the displacement along a second perpendicular axis.
Patent GB-2450369-A (GB)
Title: Resuscitation bag with variable flow valve
Inventor: MYKLEBUST HELGE
IPC: A61M16/00
Filed: 2007-06-21
Abstract: A self inflating ventilation bag 11 with and inlet 12 and/or outlet 13 and a valve V1 connected to the inlet 12 and or outlet 13 wherein the valve V1 variably limits the amount of flow. The valve maybe controlled by a CO2 sensor or ventilation sensor.
Patent GB-2444850-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus for assisting measurement of the resistances of LV ring main circuits
Inventor: GABROVSEK PETER
IPC: G01R27/18
Filed: 2007-12-12
Abstract: A remotely controlled switch box 102 reconfigures the connections of the live, neutral and earth terminals 101 in a ring main distribution board 102 so that an electrician using a resistance meter 103 can conduct different resistance tests at sockets 115 on the ring main without returning to the distribution board. In particular the live terminals may be coupled to the neutral terminals and then to the earth terminals so that R1+RN and R1+R2 tests may be made. Reference values for these tests are derived from resistance measurements made on the earth, live and neutral loops (figure 3). The switches in the box 102 (figure 5) are controlled reliably in dependence on coded low frequency signals sent from the meter 103.
Patent GB-2445089-A (GB)
Title: Conveying A Gate Assignment To An Air Crew
Inventor: SMITH ROBERT P
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 2007-12-17
Abstract: A system for conveying a gate assignment at an airfield to an air crew in an aircraft includes: (a) a ground station; (b) a mobile station carried with the aircraft and configured for communicative coupling with the ground station; and (c) a display unit carried with the aircraft and coupled with the mobile station. The ground station transmits the gate assignment to the mobile station. The display unit receives the gate assignment from the mobile station and presents a graphic representation of the gate assignment to the air crew.
Patent GB-2446710-A (GB)
Title: Security device for a roller-shutter
Inventor: DOOTSON ANDREW GORDON
IPC: E06B9/58
Filed: 2008-02-13
Abstract: A security device 10 for a roller shutter door of the type having a plurality of elongate slats comprises an engaging member 12 secured to a slat and adapted to locate in a receiver 14 to prevent lateral movement of the slat when the door is closed. The receiver may comprise a slot or channel and is located in the guide channel of the door such that it is retained in place by inwardly turned sidewall of the guide channel, The engaging member may comprise a flange on a stem 16 secured to a slat via screws or bolts received in apertures 22 from the back of the slat for security. The receiver channel has a narrow opening receiving stem 16 and widens to receive flange 15 such that the engaging member cannot be removed horizontally from the receiver. The receiver may have a base 24with an aperture 30 for securing it to the floor. Alternatively, the engaging member comprises an L-shaped member, one leg of which is secured to a slat and the other of which locates in the receiver. In this instance the receiver may comprise a box-section (figure 6) or a sleeved hole in the ground (figure 7).
Patent GB-2457737-A (GB)
Title: Portable flexible compression chamber
Inventor: GORDON PETER CRONIN
IPC: A61G10/02
Filed: 2008-02-25
Abstract: A compression chamber is formed by two end walls 10 and a flexible tubular member 11 extending between the end walls. The flexible tubular member is formed from an inner tube (12, Fig 2) of air impermeable material and an outer tube (13, Fig 2) of a seamless woven material. The inner tube is unstressed when the chamber is filled with oxygen or air and the outer tube bears the pressure load. The tubular member may have first and second ends, each end being held be respective first and second clamping means (24, 25, 26, Fig 2). The end walls may be annular and rigid. At least one of the first and second clamping means may have a normal diameter that is less than the diameter of the end walls and may be expandable to allow an end wall to be inserted into an end of the tubular member before reverting to said normal diameter.
Patent GB-2447767-A (GB)
Title: Ablation instrument using isolated electrode pairs to reduced unwanted nerve stimulation
Inventor: MARION DUANE W
IPC: A61B18/12
Filed: 2008-03-18
Abstract: A first 86,88 and second 92,94 pair of electrodes are electrically isolated and produce two opposing currents which have are out-of-phase so that they effectively cancel one another such that a net current flow is inhibited from developing within surrounding tissue structures to mitigate or eliminate undesired electrical stimulation of the tissue. Preferably the currents fed to the two pairs of electrodes are produced from a transformer 80 via two separate secondary windings. The electrodes may be variously arranged at the end of a probe (figures 4,5,8,9).
Patent GB-2451766-A (GB)
Title: Support stand for a detachable peripheral device
Inventor: MCRIGHT WILLIAM C
IPC: H04L12/28
Filed: 2005-03-31
Abstract: A support stand 46 for a detachable peripheral device such as a liquid crystal display screen 30 includes an attachment plate (40) operably connected to the support stand 46 and a releasable connector 32 affixed to the peripheral device. The connector comprises a movable latch 36 for releasably engaging with the attachment plate 40 and an actuator 38 for disengaging the movable latch from the attachment plate. The movable latch 36 is moved up and down by the actuation of the actuator 38.
Patent GB-2464117-A (GB)
Title: A touch sensitive device
Inventor: HARRIS NEIL
IPC: G06F3/041
Filed: 2008-10-03
Abstract: A touch sensitive device comprising a panel capable of supporting bending waves, a user-accessible touch sensitive screen on or forming part of a face of the panel, the touch sensitive screen having a plurality of different sensing areas, a plurality of vibration exciters coupled to the panel to apply bending waves to the panel to provide tactile feedback at the plurality of sensing areas in response to the user touching a sensing area, and signal processing means arranged to apply signals to the vibration exciters so as to steer bending waves applied to the panel by the plurality of vibration exciters whereby the amplitude of the applied bending waves is maximised at the sensing area touched by the user and reduced or minimised at each other sensing area.
Patent GB-2464503-A (GB)
Title: Device for forming a hole in soil
Inventor: BEAR JONATHAN
IPC: A01C5/02
Filed: 2008-10-17
Abstract: A device for forming a hole in soil has a tubular head 11 open at one end and an elongate handle 10 projecting from the other end. The head 11 is in the form of a sleeve 16 having outer and inner walls 20, 21, the cross-sectional shape and size of the sleeve 16 being substantially uniform for the greater part of the sleeve. The open one end of the sleeve is defined by a rounded end wall 23 which interconnects the outer and inner walls 20, 21 and the internal cross-section of the sleeve 16 in the region of the rounded end wall 23 is smaller than the internal cross-section of the greater part of the sleeve defined by the inner wall. The head may be connected to the handle by means of a left-handed threaded connection. The handle may have disc at one end with threads on the external surface with fits into a boss, having internal threads 15, at the other end of the head.
Patent GB-2466846-A (GB)
Title: Sensor system and method for detecting a property of light emitted from at least one display area of a display device
Inventor: WOESTENBORGHS WOUTER
IPC: G02B6/00
Filed: 2009-01-13
Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor system (6) comprising at least one sensor (9) for detecting the intensity or colour of light emitted from at least one display area (5) of a display device (1) into the viewing angle of the display device (1). The sensor system (6) further comprises at least one optical device (10) for guiding or directing, e.g. deflecting, reflecting, bending, scattering, diffracting, at least one part of the light emitted from the display area (5) to the corresponding sensor (9), wherein said sensor (9) is located outside or at least partially outside the viewing angle of the display device (1) so as not to constrain the view of the display. The invention further relates to a corresponding display device (1) and a corresponding method for detecting the property of light emitted from at least one display area. The property of light may be intensity or colour, for example.
Patent GB-2467134-A (GB)
Title: Electronic test equipment having a flat panel display
Inventor: LOVERIDGE ADAM DAVID
IPC: G01R13/40
Filed: 2009-01-22
Abstract: Electronic test equipment in the form of a flat panel display requires minimal lab bench surface area. Preferably the display is of a touch-screen type with signal interface connections 20 on the display housing. Alternatively, signal interface connections may be in a separate module (figure 2, not shown). In a further embodiment, the flat panel display is used for multiple electronic test equipment functions. The display may then show different measurements simultaneously or alternately. Individual test equipment interfaces may be attached to the display in a daisy chain fashion.
Patent GB-2468126-A (GB)
Title: Remotely-controllable object
Inventor: SLOYAN KIERAN
IPC: A63H30/04
Filed: 2009-02-25
Abstract: A motorised toy car (10) has an electric motor (14) powered by a battery (16). The electric motor (14) is under the control of an electronic control unit (20) which has a Bluetoothkenabled chip (22) which allows it to communicate with a Bluetoote-enabled computer (12). The car is controlled by means of the computer mouse (30) or by depressing predetermined buttons (U, D, L, R). Upon initialisation of the control of the toy (10) from the computer (12) a predetermined website is accessed and displayed on the computer screen (42). A data program on a machine-readable medium instructs the method of operating the remote control (20) and toy car (10).
Patent GB-2457386-A (GB)
Title: Process for reducing the restart pressure of streams
Inventor: ANTONA PAOLO D
IPC: F17D1/16
Filed: 2005-07-18
Abstract: A process is described for reducing the restart pressure of streams selected from waxy crude oils, water-in-crude emulsions and dispersions of hydrocarbon hydrates, at least partially structured, characterized in that a mechanic disturbance is applied, in flow-stop conditions, on said streams, having: - temperatures lower than the WAT (Wax Appearance Temperature) for the waxy crude oils and water-in-crude emulsions; - temperatures lower than the forming temperatures of said hydrates and pressures higher than the forming pressure of said hydrates, for the dispersions of hydrocarbon hydrates. Furthermore, a method is described for measuring the inner diameter of a pipeline and the instant viscosity of the fluid contained therein.
Patent GB-2461397-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for deterring unauthorised parking
Inventor: FLEMING JAMES
IPC: G07B15/02
Filed: 2009-07-02
Abstract: An apparatus for deterring unauthorised parking comprising a detector for detecting the presence of a vehicle in a parking bay, a verifier for determining if the detected vehicle is authorised to use the parking bay and an alarm for providing a warning to deter unauthorised use of the parking bay unless the verification means determines that the detected vehicle is authorised to use the parking bay. The verifier can include a detector or interrogator that identifies an identifier associated with the vehicle, the authorisation based on whether a valid identifier is detected. The identifier may be a document such as a token or card and the detector or interrogator may be a card reader. Alternatively, the identifier may be a passive or active remote identification device such as a RFID tag. The verifier could also comprise a keypad to receive a PIN or other code to give authorisation. The vehicle detector may comprise an inductive loop or an ultrasonic detector. The system and method can be used to deter parking in spaces reserved for disabled or handicapped drivers by non-disabled drivers.
Patent GB-2462179-A (GB)
Title: Updating variable size small screen areas in thin-client system
Inventor: MIYAMOTO RYO
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2009-07-21
Abstract: A server apparatus (100, fig. 2) for a thin-client system includes: a receiver unit that receives an input event from a client terminal device (100, fig. 2); an input event processing unit that applies the received input event, such as a key entry or mouse click, to a particular program; a region determiner unit that dynamically determines a partial image region from a resultant display picture, such that the partial image region is that part of the whole display picture affected by the particular processing; a region image generator unit that generates image and position data of the partial image region; and a transmitter unit that transmits the generated partial image information, possibly in compressed form, to the terminal device. The system may be used to refresh the changed parts of a display prior to the sending the whole image and may be used for predicting text from input characters.
Patent GB-2463964-A (GB)
Title: A composite filter medium
Inventor: SMITHIES ALAN
IPC: B01D39/16
Filed: 2009-07-30
Abstract: A composite filter media structure 10 comprises a base substrate 12 including a nonwoven synthetic fabric 36 formed from a plurality of fibers with a spunbond process, the base substrate having a minimum filtration efficiency of about 50%, measured in accordance with (ASHRAE 52.2-1999) test procedures, and a nanofiber layer 20 deposited on one side 14 of the base substrate, the composite filter media structure having a minimum filtration efficiency of about 75%, measured in accordance with (ASHRAE 52.2-1999) test procedures. The nanofiber layer may be formed by electro-blown spinning, electro spinning, centrifugal spinning or melt blowing and the layer may be deposited on both sides of the base substrate. Preferably a filter element (50, Fig 5) comprises end caps (54, 56, Fig 5) and the composite filter media structure. Advantageously filter elements formed from the composite filter media structure 10 may be used for filtering air in such applications as filtering gas turbine inlet air.
Patent GB-331499-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to motor vehicle chassis
IPC: B60G21/05
Filed: 1929-03-28
Abstract: 331,499. Soc. Anon. des Anciens Etablissements L. Laisne. Nov. 26, 1928, [Convention, date]. Springs, arrangement of.-The wheels of a motor vehicle are mounted on the ends of arms provided with transverse spindles which oscillate in bearings lined with compressed rubber and carried on the frame, the movement of the wheels and the arms relatively to the frame being restrained and the weights supported by rubber springs. In the construction shown in Fig. 1, the wheel (not shown) is mounted on the end of the arm 1 which is formed with a spindle 3 mounted in bearings 4 carried by the main frame: compressed rubber linings are interposed between the two so as to avoid friction, the elasticity of the rubber allowing the necessary angular movement. The weight of the vehicle is supported by rubber blocks 2e enclosed in a flanged plate 2<c> having an extension 2<g> engaging a transverse frame member by which it is held stationary. Four rubber blocks of sector shape are arranged between two tapered ribs 2<d> in the plate 2<c> and two similar ribs 2<b> carried by a plate 2<a> keyed to the end of the spindle 3. The plate 2<c> may be adjusted endwise to compress the rubber blocks by means of a nut 2f carried on the screwed end of the spindle 3. The compressed rubber bearings may be replaced by roller bearings or one of the rubber bearings may be dispensed with and the end of the spindle maintained in position as shown in Fig. 3 by the rubber blocks enclosed in the plate 2<c> which in this case is held non-rotatably in a band 4 secured to the main frame. Each of the wheels of a rigid six-wheel vehicle may be mounted in this way, the four rear wheels being driven. Equalizing load on wheels.-The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) comprises also means for connecting two wheels on opposite sides of the vehicle by fluid pressure equalizing gear or by the mechanical equalizing gear shown in Fig. 10 (Cancelled) in which the spindles 3 of the two arms 1 are connected at their inner adjacent ends by toothed bevel gearing in such a way that the two wheels move up and down alternately. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-481335-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electrical heating apparatus of the storage type
IPC: F24H7/02
Filed: 1937-04-08
Abstract: 481,335. Heat storing apparatus. MOUTON, A., and HUET, A. April 8, 1937, No. 10070. Convention date, April 8, 1936. [Class 64 (ii)] [Also in Group XI] In a heat-storage cooker, a heating element is partly immersed in a mass of sodium or potassium nitrate. In Fig. 1, an electric heating resistance is placed in a cast - iron block 2 partly immersed in a mass 4 of the salt surrounded by heat-insulation 8. Transfer of heat from the block 2 is facilitated by making it of star section, Fig. 2, or by providing a network of conducting wires or sheets in contact with it. Forces due to expansion of the salt in melting are avoided by arranging that the salt does not completely cover the mass 2. In a modification, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown), the mass 2 may carry two hot plates and the heating resistance is inserted from the top to avoid piercing the bottom of the salt container. In Figs. 5 and 6 (not shown), a heating block such as 1, 2 is provided, and also other hot plates carrying masses depending into the salt but otherwise unheated. Such hot plates provide a lower cooking temperature. In a heating stove, Figs. 7 and 8, the container 1 for the salt is corrugated and may also be provided with fins to increase the contact surface with the air in space 7. The heating elements 5 are place in tubes 3 welded to the base of the container but free to expand through the cover 6. The tubes 3 may be provided with fins, or their number or diameter may be increased to prevent excessive temperature. Tubes of large diameter may be filled with refractory material. The temperature of the salt bath may be controlled by a thermostat. The electric heating element may be outside the salt container, or within it but outside the mass 2.
Patent GB-540269-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to driving mechanisms for potters' jiggers and the like
IPC: B28B1/02
Filed: 1940-06-11
Abstract: 540,269. Potters' jiggers. BOULTON, Ltd., W., and FARR, C. June 11, 1940, No. 10132. Addition to 521,631. [Class 87 (i)] [Also in Group XXIV] A friction wheel drive for a potter's jigger described in the parent Specification is replaced by a belt and pulley drive. The jigger head 16 is mounted on a vertical spindle 14 which carries a pulley 30 coupled by a belt 32 to a second pulley 33 on a shaft 34 carried by a slotted arm 36 fixed to another vertical shaft 19, to which are secured brackets 20 carrying the driving motor 22. A second slotted arm 23 secured to the shaft 19 is engaged by a pin 24 on a push rod 26, which, when operated, rocks the shaft 19 and brings a driving pulley 29 on the motor shaft into contact with the belt 32 which takes up the drive.
Patent GB-850621-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotary duplicating machines
IPC: B41L11/00
Filed: 1958-03-31
Abstract: 850,621. Copying documents. RITZERFELD, W., and RITZERFELD, G. March 31, 1958 [April 18, 1957], No. 10227/58 Class 100(2) A rotary duplicating machine for printing lines on sections of a text, which lie more than one line space apart on a master sheet, on to a copy sheet in closer succession, comprises a rotatable printing element carrying the master sheet, and a counterpressure element movable into and out of cooperating position therewith by an electromagnet controlled by a switching contact on a member rotatable in timed relation with the printing element, the contact being operable on rotation of said member by a plurality of switching means which do not revolve with the member, are allocated to individual lines or sections of the master sheet, and are movable in the direction of the axis of rotation of said member into the path of rotation of the switching contact by a corresponding plurality of setting means. The printing drum 1, Fig. 1, rotates a shaft 59, Figs. 1 and 2, to which is secured a flange 57 carrying a contact switch 55. A contact switch 56 is carried by a second flange 58 rotatable on the shaft and carried round by the flange 57 by means of a ratchet wheel 64 on the flange 58 and a locking pawl 62 on the flange 57. At the end of each revolution, if a roller 69 is in operative position, it engages a switching pawl 63 to release the pawl 62, whereupon the flange 58 is rotated by a torsion spring 70 oppositely to the rotation of the shaft 59, through a distance corresponding to one line, whereafter the pawl 63 runs off the roller 69 and the pawl 62 engages the ratchet wheel 70. A stationary disc 52 accommodates a series of keys 51 each corresponding to a line and carrying switching rollers 51a, which can be moved into the path of the contact 55 by fully depressing the keys and into the path of both contacts 55, 56 or only the contact 56 by partially depressing the keys. Ball and spring detents hold the keys in any position. Closing of contacts 55, 56 by contact with a switching roller makes contact between slip rings 65, 66 and 67, 68 respectively. The ring pairs are each contacted by a pair of brushes completing circuit from a rectifier supplied by a transformer to the magnets 28 controlling the counterpressure roller 10, which is thereby moved against the drum 1 whenever either contact 55 or 56 is closed. There is also a manual switch in each of the circuits of contacts 55, 56, whereby either can be immobilised. Contact 55 and full key depression is used for printing part of the text (e.g. heading) repeatedly, while contact 56 and partial depression is used for printing lines progressively.