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Patent GB-2315077-A (GB)
Title: Monoazo dyes based on 2-(2-hydroxy-4-(optionally substituted amino)-phenylazo)-thiophene derivatives for the printing and dyeing of hydrophobic fibres
Inventor: MURO SEIJI
IPC: C09B29/26
Filed: 1997-06-27
Abstract: A monoazo compound is disclosed which gives a clear blue dyed-product superior in various fastnesses (such as wet fastness and light fastness) and which is represented by the following formula (1): [wherein X, Y and Z respectively represent hydrogen, halogen, cyano or nitro, etc. (see claim 1); R represents alkoxy, hydrogen or halogen; and R 1  and R 2  represent hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl, cyclohexyl, optionally substituted alkenyl, or a tetrahydrofurfuryl group, or R 1  and R 2 , together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, is a morpholino group]. A method for dyeing or printing a hydrophobic fiber material, comprising using the compound, is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2315155-A (GB)
Title: Ion mobility spectrometer
Inventor: BUDOVICH VITALI LVOVICH
IPC: G01N27/64
Filed: 1997-07-04
Abstract: An ion mobility spectrometer has a non-radioactive electron source 7 to generate ions inside a reaction chamber 1. The reaction chamber 1 consists of two partial chambers 3,4 one of which 3 is evacuated and comprises the electron source 7, and the other one 4 is connected to the drift chamber 2 of the IMS via a shutter grid 17. The partition wall 5 between both partial chambers is transparent to electrons but impermeable for gas molecules. It may be made of mica for example. The electron source may comprise a thermoemitter,as shown, or a photocathode, which is illuminated from outside through a window. In this way, any contact between analyte and electron source is avoided, thereby improving the measuring stability and enabling operation in positive and negative mode.
Patent GB-2327697-A (GB)
Title: Flood barrier
Inventor: JONES MEURIG RAYMOND
IPC: E06B9/00
Filed: 1997-07-25
Abstract: A flood barrier includes two brackets (3) which are permanently screw-fixed to the styles of an external door-frame (2) at ground level. When in use a plywood board (4) slides in a downward direction between the two brackets to block the doorway. The board has ribbed, rubber sealing strips (figures C and D) which are fitted to the bottom edge and to both sides of the inner edge by means of self-adhesion and/or staples. The barrier is fitted between the two brackets with the sealing strips facing the door and held in place by means of three bolts (figure D). The bolts are tightened to compress the sealing strips at the sides of the barrier and downward pressure compresses the seal on the base so that the joints are watertight.
Patent GB-2315868-A (GB)
Title: Method for checking the efficiency of a catalytic converter.
Inventor: ZHANG HONG
IPC: F01N11/00
Filed: 1997-07-31
Abstract: The oxygen concentration downstream of the converter is measured, a mean value ASM is determined from the measured signal, and the cumulative difference between the measured and mean value is determined over a predetermined period which is preferably one control period of the lambda control. The difference is compared with a predetermined comparison value, and low conversion capacity of the converter is recognised if the difference is greater then the comparison value. The cumulative difference may be divided by the predetermined period to provide an average difference value for comparison.
Patent GB-2318910-A (GB)
Title: Forming field oxide regions for semiconductor devices
Inventor: JANG SE AUG
IPC: H01L21/76
Filed: 1997-10-23
Abstract: A method of forming a field oxide region 5 comprises depositing a pad oxide layer 2 and a first nitride layer 3 on a semi conductor substrate 1, etching a trench through the layers and into the substrate, depositing a second nitride layer, etching the second nitride layer to form side wall spacers 4', dry etching the exposed substrate at the base of the trench, and forming the field oxide region by a combined wet and dry oxidation process. The field oxidation process is carried out at 110{C. An initial wet oxidation process using hydrogen and oxygen is carried out for 2 minutes followed by a dry oxidation process using oxygen for 280 minutes.
Patent GB-2319892-A (GB)
Title: Optical interconnect
Inventor: ARNONE DONALD DOMINIC
IPC: H01L31/0352
Filed: 1996-08-29
Abstract: An optical interconnect 115 which is a single continuous crystal. The crystal having a transmission section 117 and a cladding section 115. The transmission section 117 is partially surrounded by the cladding section and provides an interconnect between a laser (or led) structure and a detector.
Patent GB-2323201-A (GB)
Title: Fruit machine with limited hold and spin options
Inventor: MIDDLETON DAVID WILLIAM
IPC: G07F17/34
Filed: 1998-02-19
Abstract: A fruit machine having rotatable members has a hold feature where the maximum number of holds is variable. The machine may have a button 23 which the player with the exercise of some skill, selects either a HOLD or a SPIN facility. If the HOLD facility is selected the player may use buttons 18, 19 and 20 to hold reels A, B or C of his choice up to a maximum number indicated by a display 22, which can vary from game to game. If the SPIN facility is selected the player can spin selected individual reels A, B or C up to a maximum number of spins indicated by display 22, which again varies from game to game. On each spin, the selected reel rotates for at least one complete revolution and stops in a position determined at random by the machine.
Patent GB-2337865-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic machine
Inventor: EARLE ANTHONY
IPC: H02K53/00
Filed: 1998-05-29
Abstract: A machine comprises a motor 2 which drives central disk 3 which carries magnets 9 (fig 4), which interact with electromagnet coils 10 (fig 2) on the fixed outer disks 4. Generated current is then fed back to the motor 2. Permanent magnets 8 are mounted to the disks 4 in magnetic opposition to those on disk 3.
Patent GB-2323771-A (GB)
Title: Improvemnts in or relating to helmets
Inventor: FORREST JACQUES WILLIAM
IPC: A42B3/22
Filed: 1997-01-03
Abstract: A visor mounting for a helmet (1) comprising support means (2) for providing a visor support (25) at each side of the helmet and a four-bar linkage (25-27) at each side of the helmet for movably mounting a visor (20) to the visor supports (25) to enable the visor to be moved between lowered and raised positions. The invention also relates to a helmet provided with a visor mounting.
Patent GB-2329309-A (GB)
Title: Content Modification of Internet Web pages for a Television Class Monitor Display
Inventor: BERANEK MICHAEL
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1998-07-20
Abstract: A method of controlling how a Web document is presented for display on a browser of a Web appliance. The Web appliance typically includes a television class monitor associated therewith. The Web document typically is formatted according to a markup language such as HTML. The method uses a client side HTTP caching proxy to intercept the Web document and then dynamically rewrite the document before it is displayed on the browser of the Web appliance. In particular, as the Web document is received from the server, the HTML is parsed to identify the format of the document and the information therein. A filter mechanism is then used to reformat the Web document according to some given protocol, and the re-formatted Web document is then passed to the browser for display on the monitor. Dynamic alteration of the HTML in this manner enables control of the "look and feel" of the browser display irrespective of the monitor resolution and/or quality.
Patent GB-2342063-A (GB)
Title: A press tool and a wear block therefor
Inventor: SMITH PAUL
IPC: B30B15/04
Filed: 1998-09-30
Abstract: The press tool has a number of wear blocks 10b, each comprised of two tapered plates 11, 12 and a double-sided wedge 13. Movement of the double-sided wedge 13 relative to the wear plates 11, 12 changes the thickness 't' of the wear block 10b and is used to adjust the running clearance between two dies 4, 5 of the press tool (3, see Fig. 1). This avoids the expense of replacing wear blocks.
Patent GB-2343700-A (GB)
Title: Padlock with two-part body
Inventor: HOUGHTON LARRY EDWARD
IPC: E05B67/24
Filed: 1998-11-11
Abstract: A padlock has two body parts <B>1, 2</B> held together by a key-operated lock mechanism <B>3</B>, and a pin <B>8</B> extending between the parts. When the lock mechanism is released the parts can move apart and pivot to free the upper part from engagement with the pin <B>8</B>.
Patent GB-2347097-A (GB)
Title: Nozzle for spraying inside a hollow member
Inventor: GILLIBRAND CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B05B13/06
Filed: 1998-12-17
Abstract: A nozzle 1 is caused to rotate by motor 6 <I>via</I> splined drive 7 so that liquid or particulate solids are ejected from within the nozzle body <I>via</I> outlets 2. Sleeve 3 has a lip 4 against which lever 5 acts causing the sleeve to close some or all the outlets as desired. Nozzle 1 is closed at its lower end. In the exemplifying embodiment powdered nylon is ejected from outlets 2 to coat the inside of a nut 8, the nylon being fused at 170-180{C to provide a uniform coating. Sleeve 3 is raised only when the nozzle 1 is inside the nut 8, so that none of the sprayed material is wasted.
Patent GB-2334041-A (GB)
Title: Loosening baled fibre
Inventor: PAYNE TREVOR
IPC: D01G9/06
Filed: 1999-01-29
Abstract: Fibre from a bale is loosened by passing it through a chamber where pins 51 rotate with plate 46 to carry the fibre past stationary pins 50 to an outlet. Air is fed in through coupling 45. Debris is discharged through a foraminous wall. Alternatively, both sets of pins may extend radially to a hub carrying the movable pins (e.g. Fig. 1, not shown).
Patent GB-2334668-A (GB)
Title: Wet extraction cleaner with heated cleaning liquid
Inventor: KASPER GARY A
IPC: B01F3/08
Filed: 1999-02-19
Abstract: A wet extraction cleaner has a base module for moving along a surface and an upright handle pivotally attached to the base, i.e. in the form of a conventional upright vacuum cleaner. Liquid supply and recovery tanks are mounted on the handle or the base module and the base module has a suction nozzle, which communicates via a suction path through the recovery tank to a vacuum source. The device is characterised in that a heater e.g. 54, fig. 17, is associated with the liquid dispensing system ie is located somewhere in the liquid supply path as opposed to the supply tank, and heats the cleaning liquid to a temperature less than boiling. Preferably the heater is mounted in or near the nozzle 930, e.g. as at 924, fig.23. Also claimed is a cleaner of the type without an upright handle i.e. a canister type, where the heater is mounted in the canister body. Further claimed is a method of cleaning a surface in which a cleaning solution is stored in a liquid supply tank and the solution is recovered from the surface by suction and is returned to a recovery tank, where an oxidising agent such as a per salt is mixed with the cleaning solution and the solution is heated prior to application to the surface to be cleaned.
Patent GB-2347871-A (GB)
Title: A vertically arranged treadmill
Inventor: RAINEY HOWARD
IPC: A63B22/02
Filed: 1999-03-16
Abstract: Exercise apparatus comprises a vertically arranged treadmill which has a running surface positioned at 90{ to the ground, and a horizontal bench to support the upper body and hips of a user as their feet contact the moving surface of the treadmill. A head and neck support may be provided on the horizontal bench, and the bench may be adjusted in height and in distance from the treadmill. Elastic or rubber bands are attached at a fixed point behind the treadmill and pass over rollers arranged above the treadmill before being attached to the feet of the user (see figure 2). These allow for gentle resistance to movement of the legs. The surface of the treadmill may have various degrees of friction, which varies the drag force between the foot and the running surface. An alternative exercise may be performed without using the vertical treadmill, as shown in figure 3. Here, the elastic or rubber bands are passed around a roller at the foot of the bench before being attached to the feet.
Patent GB-2351628-A (GB)
Title: Image and sound processing apparatus
Inventor: TAYLOR MICHAEL JAMES
IPC: G10L17/00
Filed: 1999-04-14
Abstract: Image data from a plurality of cameras 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 showing the movements of a number of people, for example in a meeting, and sound data from a directional microphone array 4 is processed by a computer processing apparatus 24 to archive the data in a meeting archive database 60. The image data is processed to determine the three-dimensional position and orientation of each person's head and to determine at whom each person is looking. The sound data is processed to determine the direction from which the sound came. Processing is carried out to determine who is speaking by determining which person has his head in a position corresponding to the direction from which the sound came. Having determined which person is speaking, the personal speech recognition parameters for that person are selected and used to convert the sound data to text data. Image data to be archived is chosen by selecting the camera which best shows the speaking participant and the participant to whom he is speaking. Image data, sound data, text data and data defining at whom each person is looking is stored in the meeting archive database 60.
Patent GB-2350563-A (GB)
Title: Easy-to-unravel hair braids
Inventor: MBUYAZI PHIWAYINKOSI GIFT
IPC: A41G5/00
Filed: 1999-05-10
Abstract: Natural hair or hair extensions attached to it are formed into three strands which are then braided by chain stitching, possibly with the aid of an additional yarn or thread, whereby the braids may be easily unbraided. One hair strand may be used to form the chain stitches, the other two strands being alternately crossed from side to side over the first strand as each new stitch is formed (Figs 1-4).
Patent GB-2337798-A (GB)
Title: Rotary sliding ring seal
Inventor: ZUTZ HANS-HENNING
IPC: F16J15/36
Filed: 1999-05-25
Abstract: The invention relates to a sliding ring seal 1 with a sliding-ring 2 and a counter-ring 3. The counter-ring 3 is held in a machine part 8 by means of a trapezoidal sealing ring 6. The sealing ring 6 has an axial extension member 7, on the end region of which there is arranged a secondary seal 9. In this manner, a closed space 12 is formed which can be filled with lubricant.
Patent GB-2338771-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulically damped engine mounting
Inventor: BUNGART ERNST
IPC: F16F13/10
Filed: 1999-06-23
Abstract: An hydraulically damped engine mounting has two fluid chambers 2, 3 bounded at least partially by resilient walls forming a suspension spring 11 and separated by a diaphragm 14, with at least one passage 15 connecting the chambers, and means for adjusting the characteristic of the mounting. The adjusting means comprises an auxiliary fluid chamber 4 defined by an additional suspension spring 1 and a component 7 including a fluid flow connection 5 adapted to control fluid flow between the auxiliary chamber 4 and one of the two fluid chambers 2, 3.
Patent GB-2336034-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor wafer fabrication of die-bottom contacts for electronic devices
Inventor: CHEN CHANGSHENG
IPC: H01L23/532
Filed: 1998-01-26
Abstract: A packaging technique for electronic devices includes wafer fabrication of contacts on the bottom surface of the substrate underneath the active circuit. Inherently reliable contacts suitable for a variety of devices can be formed, via a simple fabrication process, with good wafer packaging density. In one embodiment, a trench (303) is formed in the top surface of a substrate (300) parallel to the edge of its electronic circuit. A gold wire (305) extends from a connection point within the circuit into the trench (303). The gold wire (305) may run over an insulating layer that ends part way through the trench (303). After epoxy encapsulating (306) the top of the substrate (300), it is back thinned to expose the bottom surface of the gold wire (305). Either the back thinning is selective so as to form a substrate standoff, or an epoxy standoff (320) is applied to the bottom of the substrate (300). A solderable wire (307) runs onto the standoff (320) from the gold wire (305) exposed on the protrusion, possibly over another insulation layer. If an insulative substrate is used, the insulation layers may be optional. Sawing separates the electronic devices and completes their fabrication, without a subsequent assembly step. In another embodiment, the trench (303) in which the gold wires (305) and the solderable wires (307) connect is formed from the bottom of the substrate (300) after it has been epoxy (306) encapsulated. Optionally, the bottom surface of the substrate of the finished device drops down to be co-planar with the contact bottom surfaces, so as to conduct heat out of the device.
Patent GB-2352413-A (GB)
Title: Coating apparatus
Inventor: DAVIDSON FIONA ELIZABETH
IPC: G03C1/74
Filed: 1999-08-20
Abstract: An improved coating apparatus comprises at least one slot 2 in an inclined slide surface 4 from which liquid flows to form a bridge or falling curtain between the coating lip and a travelling web driven by a backing roller, wherein the top surface 9 of the back plate 8 to the slot has been treated to form a hydrophobic surface. Preferably the back plate is elevated, and it is most preferred that the step height 10 is substantially equal to the equilibrium thickness of the upper layer of the coating composition as it flows down the first part of the slide. Preferably the hydrophobic surface is formed by polymerising 1H,1H,2H,2H - Perfluorodecyl triethoxysilane on the surface of the coating block by heating to 160{C for 30 minutes.
Patent GB-2355412-A (GB)
Title: Snap on rake head for golf club
Inventor: MERCER RICHARD
IPC: A63B57/00
Filed: 1999-10-19
Abstract: A rake head has connection means 18 suitable for connecting the rake head to a golf club, and a plurality of spaced apart tines (14 fig 2). The rake head can be engaged with the head end of the golf club shaft using a snap fit connector 18, the connector 18 having two resilient engagement surfaces acting as a funnel (22 fig 2) to direct a shaft therein. In use, the club with the rake head attached thereto can be pulled towards the user such that the club head rests on an area F and abuts an abutment 26 of the rake head to prevent the rake head from being dragged from the club. The rake head may be moulded from plastics, eg polypropylene, having a split line (34 fig 4) in line with ovular tines and hook and eye (30, 32 fig 2) bag connectors.
Patent GB-2344479-A (GB)
Title: Resistor-type D/A convertor having a highly linear transconductor
Inventor: HADIDI KHAYROLLAH
IPC: H03M1/76
Filed: 1999-12-03
Abstract: A current mode D/A converter comprising a resistor-type D/A converter circuit 2 having a digital decoder circuit 3, a plurality of resistors 5, and a plurality of switches turned on and off by the digital decoder circuit 3 and a highly linear transconductor 4 for receiving voltage output from the resistor-type D/A converter circuit 2 and providing current output. Also disclosed a transconductor comprising a first transistor differential pair and a second transistor differential pair connected to each other with their polarities reverse and having different transconductance values and current sources connected to the first and second transistor differential pairs respectively, wherein different signal voltages being proportional to input signal voltages input to the transconductor are applied to the first and second transistor differential pairs.
Patent GB-2357329-A (GB)
Title: Motor assembly
Inventor: SHU-SHIEN LI
IPC: B60B19/00
Filed: 1999-12-14
Abstract: A motor assembly adapted to be mounted to a bicycle for driving a wheel of the bicycle comprising: an electric motor 2 and a speed reduction device 4. The speed reduction device 4 is a high reduction cycloidal reduction device and its method of operation can be seen in figures 8a-e. Balancing means such as a counterweight 425 or an additional cycloidal disc (42' figs 9 and 10) 180{ out of phase with respect to the other disc 42 may also be provided.
Patent HU-T62013-A (HU)
Title: Process for producing phosphoinositol glycan peptides having insulin-like activity
Inventor: MUELLER GUENTER
IPC: C12P19/26
Filed: 1992-08-19
Abstract: Phosphoinositolglycan peptides, obtainable by cleavage of adenosine-3%,5%-cyclic monophosphate binding protein, which contain glucosamine, galactose, mannose, inositol, phosphoric acid, ethanolamine and a peptide containing the sequence Asn-Cys-Tyr, their preparation and use for the treatment of diabetes mellitus and non-insulin-dependent diabetes are described.
Patent HU-T66882-A (HU)
Title: Tooth-brush with flexibile connection part for the indication of over pressure
Inventor: DIRKSING ROBERT STANLEY
IPC: A46B5/00
Filed: 1992-01-30
Abstract: A toothbrush employing a force indicator which visually and tactually signals the user that a predetermined brushing force has been exceeded. The force indicator is comprised of a resilient twin beam structure located between the toothbrush handle and the toothbrush head which includes a scrubbing or polishing medium, typically bristles. The twin beam structure is itself comprised of a back side beam and a face side beam. During normal use, the back side beam is subjected to compressive stress whereas the face side beam is subjected to tensile stress. The at rest configuration of the back side beam permits it to behave as an upwardly convex arch upon initial application of compressive force resulting from a user gripping the handle and bringing the bristles or other cleansing or scrubbing medium in contact with the teeth and gums. When a predetermined force is exceeded, the back side beam resiliently buckles and inverts to a downwardly convex arch configuration. In a preferred embodiment, the back side and face side beams are nonparallel with a convergent taper from the brush handle in the direction of the brush head. The disclosed twin beam structures resist deflection up to a predetermined force which is determined primarily by their material properties and their precise geometric configuration. Attempting to exceed the predetermined force which the toothbrush is capable of transmitting by applying additional manual force to the brush handle results in resilient buckling of the back side beam in the twin beam structure, followed by substantial deflection of the brush head relative to the brush handle without a corresponding increase in the force applied to the teeth and gum tissue via the bristles on the brush head.
Patent HU-T74052-A (HU)
Title: Method and device for processing plastc articles, and installation for the selective recovery of plastics
Inventor: BERHAUT-STREEL JACQUES
IPC: B02C18/02
Filed: 1994-08-30
Abstract: Apparatus and method for processing articles made from plastic, comprising a side-acting press followed by a shear cutter. The apparatus and the method may advantageously be applied to articles of elongate shape, such as pipes, which are firstly crushed by the press and then cut up by the shear cutter, this leading to the formation of fragments whose morphology and geometry depend on their nature, thereby making it easier subsequently to sort them. <IMAGE>