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Patent GB-2307012-A (GB)
Title: Grease pumping assembly
Inventor: CHIH CHEN-KENG
IPC: F16N13/10
Filed: 1995-11-08
Abstract: A grease pumping assembly includes a drum (20) for grease and a pump disposed in a base (10) to receive grease through a central hole (201) in the bottom (200) of the drum. The base (10) has a recess (11) communicating with the central hole (201) of the drum (20) and a further recess for a drive motor (30). A bottom plate disposed on the underside of the base (10) encloses a reduction device (40) driven by a pinion (31) of the motor (30). The reduction device (40) includes a rotary eccentric pin (411) which projects into a hole (12) of the base (10) where it is coupled to a pushing rod (43). The pushing rod (43) is movably disposed in a transverse bore (13) between the hole (12) and the recess (11). Grease drops into the recess (11) via the central hole (201) and enters a pumping chamber via a passage in the pushing rod controlled by a valve and is pumped by the pushing rod (43) to a grease gun.
Patent GB-2296113-A (GB)
Title: Voltage and current mode power regulator
Inventor: BARANOWSKI ROBERT
IPC: H02J1/00
Filed: 1995-12-13
Abstract: A power regulator 220 for a radio telephone includes a power source output 303 for coupling to a power sources 222 or 226. A switching circuit 345 controls the supply of power from the power source to an energy storage circuit 334. An output 305 of the energy storage circuit has a controlled current in a current regulator mode. The output of the energy storage circuit has a substantially constant voltage in a voltage regulator mode. The regulated current is used to charge battery source 222, and the voltage supplies an amplifier 210, under the control of a selection circuit 336. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2298198-A (GB)
Title: Pyrrolo-pyridine derivatives
Inventor: KULAGOWSKI JANUSZ JOZEF
IPC: C07D471/04
Filed: 1996-02-14
Abstract: A class of pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine derivatives, substituted at the 3-position by a substituted piperazinylmethyl moiety and at the 2-position by an alkyl, alkoxy, halogen, cyano or trifluoromethyl substituent, are antagonists of dopamine receptor subtypes in the brain, being potent antagonists of the human dopamine D 4 receptor subtype and having a selective affinity for the D 4 subtype over other dopamine receptor subtypes, and are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of clinical conditions requiring the administration of a selective antagonist of the dopamine D 4 receptor subtype.
Patent GB-2312591-A (GB)
Title: Automatically connecting TV viewers to information services
Inventor: CARRUTHERS JAMES FRANKLIN
IPC: H04H20/33
Filed: 1996-04-22
Abstract: A television viewer is automatically connected over a telephone network 20 to an information service 22 associated with or related to the television program being viewed. A control unit 34 produces a control signal in response to a viewer actuated button. Data encoded in a non-visual part of the television signal is recovered by a decoder 15. The data may relate to the telephone number of the information service 22 or to the identification of the information required from the service 22. An automatic dialer 14 connects to the network 20 and dials a telephone number in response to the viewer actuated button being pressed. The identity of the TV channel being viewed may be sent to the information service 22 so that the service can determine what information the viewer requires. A communication control system relays information between the information service 22 connected to over the telephone network 20 and the viewer. The communication between the information service 22 and the viewer may be voice and/or data communication, with text data being displayed on the viewer's TV screen 28 and the viewer's command inputs being entered from the control unit 34. The viewer may alternatively leave a message at the service 22 instead of retrieving information from it. The invention has application in cable, satellite and broadcast television, the additional information being found on any of a separate data channel, a non-visual part of the signal or a vertical blanking interval.
Patent GB-2302782-A (GB)
Title: Destination address detection apparatus for a packet router
Inventor: KIM JUNE-MAN
IPC: H04L12/66
Filed: 1996-06-27
Abstract: Destination address detection apparatus for a hardware packet router capable of detecting the address of the destination to which the packet data is transmitted, avoids using the central processing unit. The apparatus includes a serial/parallel converter for converting serial packet data into a parallel packet data; a buffer for storing the parallel packet data outputted from the serial/parallel converter and for outputting in a first-in-first-out mode; an address detector for detecting an address of a destination, for the parallel packet data; and a plurality of buffers, which are activated in accordance with an address of the destination detected by the address detector, for storing the packet data and for outputting it in a first-in-first-out mode. The address detector includes a plurality of latches, which are connected in series, for sequentially shifting the output signals from the buffer. A decoding latch stores and decodes the output signal of the latches, generating a chip enable signal in accordance with the address of the destination, when the address of the destination is stored, and selectively enabling the appropriate buffer.
Patent GB-2302834-A (GB)
Title: Rotary slotting device
Inventor: HARDISTY BARRIE
IPC: B31B50/22
Filed: 1996-07-08
Abstract: A slotting device for a linear succession of moving sheets, being part of a creasing and slotting machine, with arcuate knives 10, 11 being mounted separately on a pair of rotating knife gears (9, 8, Fig 3b) each driven independently about a common axis by a pair of gears 15, 14 rotatably mounted on a pair of driveshafts 17, 16 driven by computer-controlled motors. The knives may be accelerated and decelerated independently to assume instantaneous positions relative to each other and to a sheet to be cut, in order to determine the length and spacing of successive cuts. The knives may be mounted on a common axis as illustrated or on separate axes spaced apart along the line of travel of the sheets.
Patent GB-2305462-A (GB)
Title: A snap-in fastener for connecting flush-mounted apertured panels
Inventor: FRAME WILLIAM R
IPC: F16B21/08
Filed: 1996-09-16
Abstract: The fastener includes a pair of connecting members 110,120 which are snap-fit within apertures 152,162 in each of the panels 140,150. The fastener includes flexible legs 113, 123 that extend from axial members 122,132 having an intermediate transverse shoulder 111 that abuts against the edge of one of the panel apertures. Stepped section 130 at the ends of the legs engages the edge of the apertures. The legs (610, Fig 12) may be shaped to be removable from the aperture so that the panels can be disconnected. The panels may comprise a picket fence posts and rails.
Patent GB-2306785-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle switch assembly
Inventor: UCHIYAMA NORIO
IPC: E05B83/00
Filed: 1996-10-09
Abstract: A switch assembly for a vehicle comprises an ignition key switch device 1 for fixing to a steering column 8 and switch units 9,10 secured to an arm 6 provided on the ignition key switch device 1. The construction enables the mounting of switch units 9,10 such as a turn signal switch and a wiper switch to be simplified and the rigidity of the mounting to be increased so as to improve the feeling of operating the switches.
Patent GB-2315649-A (GB)
Title: Remultiplexing apparatus
Inventor: KATO YOSHIAKI
IPC: H04N19/00
Filed: 1997-02-24
Abstract: The remultiplexing apparatus comprises a control information selecting means for selecting a packet containing program control information from the inputted bit stream, a program control information editing means for editing contents of the selected program control information and generating new program control information corresponding to an outputted bit stream, and a remultiplexing means for multiplexing again the packet containing media information in the inputted bit stream and the program control information generated by the program control information editing means.
Patent GB-2313695-A (GB)
Title: A counter for parlour games
Inventor: GRACIA CASAS-SALAT JOAQUIN
IPC: A63F3/02
Filed: 1997-03-07
Abstract: A counter (Fig 5) for parlour games formed from two circular pieces 1 & 2 of different colours which are preferably of equal radius. The first piece 1 contains a recess 3 in a face, of such size that it can firmly accommodate a detachable portion 5 from the second piece 2, preferably by snap or interferance fitting, thus forming the counter (Fig 5). The detachable portion 5 remains visible when it is joined to the first piece 1. Preferably the second piece 2 has a groove (Fig 3, 4) comprising points of weakened material 7 surrounding and connecting its detachable portion 5 to the annular remainder of the second piece 6. The first piece 1 may have an annular depression 8 in its recess 5 into which a circumferential projection 9 of the detachable portion 5 fits. The counter may be propelled by hand using a flat trapezoiadal member (Fig 6, 11).
Patent GB-2322150-A (GB)
Title: Portable roadway panel
Inventor: FOX PAUL
IPC: E01C9/08
Filed: 1997-03-12
Abstract: A portable roadway panel comprises a plurality of elongate strips 20 arranged in parallel, side by side relationship transverse to the direction of travel. The strips can be threaded together into panels with the panels connectable together. The strips may be hollow and formed of plastics. The strips may be reinforced where the threads pass through. The strips may be formed into panels with side and end members 2 and 6. These panels can also be articulated together.
Patent GB-2324805-A (GB)
Title: Electroplating
Inventor: PLATT ROBERT
IPC: C25D7/04
Filed: 1997-04-30
Abstract: An electroplating apparatus comprises a bath 2, for receiving electrolyte and means for receiving and mounting an article 18 to be electroplated in the bath, and at least one anode 16 extending over a substantial portion of the vertical length of the bath in the region of the article to be electroplated. A corresponding method is also disclosed. Means may be provided for driving the electrolyte through the bath past the article to be electroplated. Recirculation means for the electrolyte may also be provided. The electroplating material may be copper.
Patent GB-2327339-A (GB)
Title: Tongue-retained device for cleaning teeth etc.
Inventor: WELFLE PAUL GEORGE
IPC: A46B11/00
Filed: 1997-07-23
Abstract: The device, which facilitates removal of plaque etc. from teeth, gums or oral prostheses, comprises a retentive base 1 for releasable attachment to the tongue and a cleansing component 2 presenting fibres, filaments or protuberances and supported by the base, the action of the device being effected via the tongue musculature. The base may be formed from natural or synthetic rubber, plastics, metal, starch or digestible, cereal-based material and may be retained on the tongue by suction or by means of adhesive. It may include a reservoir compartment for medicaments etc., may have a safety line attached and may have perforations allowing passage of air. The cleansing component may be releasably fixed to the base so as to enable its replacement with a different cleansing surface.
Patent GB-2318149-A (GB)
Title: Window drive : power transmission
Inventor: YANG NAN-SHAN
IPC: F16H9/10
Filed: 1997-08-21
Abstract: A transmission for a powered window of a car has endless chain 12 running on a motor-driven sprocket and on sprocket 18 connectable to rotate a window handle shaft. Sprocket casings 32 have a central hole with a rim surface which supports an external surface of a sprocket shoulder for sprocket rotation. A lip extends radially inwards from the rim surface to resist axial thrust on the sprocket (Figures 8 and 9, not shown). Chain runs between the sprocket casings are enclosed in flexible tubes which are spring biased by tube-length-regulating devices 81 to accommodate chain stretch. The casings are each fixable to a car door by a slotted bracket (Figures 10 - 12, not shown) providing stepless adjustable fixing.
Patent GB-2316627-A (GB)
Title: Tackle indicator
Inventor: LEONARD NICHOLAS
IPC: A63B71/06
Filed: 1997-08-29
Abstract: An apparatus to be worn by a player whilst playing a sport eg, Tag Rugby, generates a signal indicative of when a tackle has been made on the player. The signal may be generated when a tag 18 is removed from the housing 11 or when the housing 11 is removed from the player's clothing. The sensor may be a photodetector or use magnetic reed switches. The signal may be electrical or in the form of light or sound, vibrational or transmitted by a radio transmitter.
Patent GB-2318012-A (GB)
Title: Video cameras
Inventor: SPENCER SIMON HOWARD
IPC: H04N9/07
Filed: 1997-10-02
Abstract: A camera producing colour video outputs may employ an image intensifier 5 and a monochrome CCD sensor 3. The scene is exposed through filters F 3 , F 4  which each contain stripes of subtractive primary colours alternating with clear regions. The video is decoded using waveforms derived from a memory 15 which records the output of the sensor 3 when imaged on, for example, primary colours such as red and blue, producing trains of pulses which identify the spatial regions of each line corresponding to the spatial areas of the pattern on the sensor produced by the colour filters F 3 , F 4 , in order that actual scenes can be decoded using the stored waveforms, for example using sample and hold devices. A colour interference signal is generated in matrix addition circuitry to produce a luminance signal which has stripe visibility removed from it, permitting high resolution video signals to be obtained.
Patent GB-2318210-A (GB)
Title: Source electrode for thin film transistor
Inventor: SONG IN DUK
IPC: G02F1/1368
Filed: 1997-10-06
Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) thin film transistor (TFT) device and a method of fabricating the same with improved on-current characteristic and reduced parasitic capacitance are disclosed. The LCD device includes a plurality of gate lines (21) and data lines (23) formed on a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes (24) formed at regions defined by the gate (21) and data (23) lines, and a plurality of TFTs (25) formed at the cross-over points of the gate (21) and data (23) lines, wherein each of the TFTs (25) includes a gate electrode (21a) extending from the corresponding gate line (21), a drain electrode (22) connected to the corresponding pixel electrode (24), and a source electrode (23a) extending from the corresponding data line (23) and having a width (c,d) greater than the width (b) of the drain electrode (22). The method includes the step of forming a gate electrode (21a) extending from a gate line (21), forming a drain electrode (22) connected to a pixel electrode (24), and forming a source electrode (25a) extending from a data line (23) and having a width greater (c,d) than the width (b) of the drain electrode.
Patent GB-2320627-A (GB)
Title: Arc welder or cutter with DC arc-initiation assisting circuit
Inventor: MORIGUCHI HARUO
IPC: H02M9/00
Filed: 1997-12-18
Abstract: An arc welding or cutting apparatus has a charging/discharging means 146 which assists an HF generator 140 to initiate a DC arc when a workpiece 114 is more positive than a welding or cutting torch 124. The apparatus has a rectifier 104, a high frequency inverter 106 driving a transformer 108, and a rectifier 117, 118 which rectifies the output of transformer 108 so that workpiece 114 is positive relative to torch 124. To start the arc, a switch 150 is closed so that a capacitor 148 in the assisting means 146 is charged via a resistor 147 from rectifier 117, 118. When the HF generator 140 is subsequently started, the capacitor 148 discharges via a diode 152 to supply current from workpiece 114 to torch 124, thereby assisting the generator 140 in initiating the DC arc. The switch 150 may remain closed during the welding or cutting operation, or may be opened after the arc has started. In apparatus which is selectively operable in AC or DC arc mode, rectifier 117, 118 maintains a line 130 negative relative to a line 110. Line 110 is connected to workpiece 114 and to a centre tap of transformer 108, which has another rectifier 115, 116 to maintain a line 120 positive relative to line 110. In AC arc operating mode, switches 128 and 134 in lines 120, 130 are alternately turned on and off out of phase with one another, so that torch 124 is alternately positive and negative relative to workpiece 114; the switch 150 is maintained off so that the capacitor 148 is not used to assist arc initiation in the AC mode. In DC arc mode, switch 128 remains off, and switches 134 and 150 are turned on.
Patent GB-2333198-A (GB)
Title: Threat detection radar
Inventor: LLOYD PETER GREGORY
IPC: G01S13/56
Filed: 1998-01-12
Abstract: The apparatus is a multi-static radar which comprises a transmitter and a plurality of receivers which are mounted on a surface of an aircraft or tank in order to detect the proximity of an incoming threat, eg a missile, detect its position and velocity and generate an appropriate signal for a weapons command system for launching a munition to destroy the threat. When used on an aircraft, the environment is considered as uncluttered and therefore the signal generated consists of a combination of a chirp signal and a pure tone signal (figure 2), whereas in the cluttered environment, i.e. on the ground where trees and other obstructions could interfere, the transmitted signal solely consists of the pure tone signal (figure 3). The apparatus always includes a chirp generator and a pure tone generator. In the uncluttered case, received signals are processed and are passed to a time of flight measuring circuit and a Doppler shift measuring circuit which homodyne them with an output from the chirp generator and the pure tone generator circuit respectively. The resultant signals are passed to a signal processor which determines the position and velocity of the threat. In the cluttered environment, each receiver includes a high pass filter which passes only signals from the pure tone reflected signal that are Doppler shifted above a threshold. This removes all non-threat signals since they are unlikely to be moving fast enough to create a Doppler shift beyond the threshold.
Patent GB-2324857-A (GB)
Title: Suction device for cryostatic microtomes
Inventor: HEID HANS
IPC: A61L9/04
Filed: 1998-02-17
Abstract: The suction device according to the invention for cryostatic microtomes (1) has a filter for the separation of cutting wastes from the suction air stream, and a device arranged following the filter for sterilization or disinfection of the suction air stream. For this purpose the air stream is first heated by a coil (13) and then exposed to a strong UV irradiation in bulb (14). In the subsequent two-stage cooling arrangement, the air stream is cooled down again to about the cryostat temperature and is conducted back into the cryostat. The filter for the separation of the cutting wastes from the air stream is preferably constructed outside the cryostat as a liquid container (6) with a disinfecting liquid (7), so that the cutting wastes are disinfected in the disinfecting liquid. A contamination of the surroundings or of the internal space of the cryostat with disease germs is largely prevented.
Patent GB-2334436-A (GB)
Title: Wheelchair for use with a toilet
Inventor: RATTER GEORGE MALCOLM
IPC: A61G5/10
Filed: 1998-02-19
Abstract: A wheelchair has an upper frame 2 which can pivot at 3 to raise a disabled person, the rear seat section 5 can then be removed and the wheelchair located over and lowered on to a toilet. The wheelchair is also foldable.
Patent GB-2333183-A (GB)
Title: Battery disconnection system
Inventor: ALKSNAT HOLGER
IPC: H01M50/574
Filed: 1998-06-10
Abstract: A battery disconnection system (10) comprises a first electrical conductor (12) electrically connectable to a terminal of a battery; a second electrical conductor (16) electrically connectable to an electrical load (18); a first electrical contact (22) attached to the first electrical conductor; a second electrical contact (24) attached to the second electrical conductor; electrical connecting means (22) movable between a first position in which the connecting means electrically connects the first and second contacts and a second position in which the first and second contacts are disconnected; and electric drive means (26) for moving the connecting means from the first position to the second position on receipt of a predetermined signal. The predetermined signal may be generated by a crash sensor, anti-theft device current overload sensor, high temperature sensor, or other adverse condition sensor, or a manually operable switch.
Patent GB-2338445-A (GB)
Title: Stapler extension device
Inventor: NESTOR ALEXI
IPC: B25C5/02
Filed: 1998-06-15
Abstract: A stapler extension device comprises an upper and a lower plate. The lower plate 1 forms the base of the device and has an upright plate 4 affixed to one end. The upper plate 2 is slidable vertically on plate 4 and a gap 6 in its side is able to accommodate the operating end (8 fig 2) of a hand actuated stapler. Staple receiving means 7 in the base plate 1 cooperate with the stapler to bend the ends of the staples when pressure is applied to the stapler which forces it and the lower plate downwards. The extension device enables documents (9 fig 2) to be stapled which are too wide to be accommodated by an ordinary desk top stapler.
Patent GB-2327213-A (GB)
Title: A vehicle door having an interior panel
Inventor: FUTSCHIK HANS-DIETER
IPC: B60R13/02
Filed: 1998-07-13
Abstract: A vehicle door has a basic body in the form of a bodyshell structure enclosed by an outer panel. An interior panel 1 which is attached to the bodyshell structure includes an opening 2 into which is inserted an insert part 3. The insert part 3 has a region 4 for receiving functional parts which are visible or which can be operated from the vehicle interior. The insert forms a laterally extended region of the front dashboard of the vehicle.
Patent GB-2341308-A (GB)
Title: Sports footwear having directional studs
Inventor: MITCHELL JENNIFER KAREN
IPC: A43C15/16
Filed: 1998-09-14
Abstract: Sports footwear 1 has a sole 2 studded with a plurality of directional studs 3 which are shaped to present a higher resistance to movement through a flowable ground surface in one radial direction of the stud than in the opposite radial direction by means of stud conformation including<BR> ```an abrupt drive face (31, Fig.2b) providing a drive side of the stud directed in one direction along a drive line DL corresponding to the studs' direction of maximum resistance to movement through a flowable medium, and<BR> ```flank regions (33, Fig.2b) diverging from the drive line towards respective shoulder regions (32, Fig.2b) bordering the drive side, thereby providing a compliant side of the stud directed in the opposite direction along the drive line. Preferably, the studs are detachable, wherein the base of each stud may comprise an alignment formation (35, Fig.2f) engageable with an alignment formation (26, Fig.3) of the sole to hold the stud in a predetermined orientation.