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Patent GB-2258391-A (GB)
Title: "condiment shaker"
Inventor: ZIMMERMAN LARRY G
IPC: A47G19/12
Filed: 1992-07-14
Abstract: A condiment shaker includes a hollow body 12 with an enlarged opening 16, therethrough receiving a pivotally mounted lid 14 for rocking between a closed position and a dispensing position. In the dispensing position, slots 56 through the lid flange 38 are open and provide transverse dispensing passages. Lugs (58 fig. 4) on the container body align with the slots 56 and move through the length thereof as the lid is closed. The lid is positively positioned and releasably retained in each of the two positions by cooperating abutment areas and a complementary protuberance (54 fig. 4) and recess (52 fig. 4) respectively, on the container body and the lid. Thus, in the closed position, the slots 56 and the container interior are effectively sealed, whilst the movement of the lugs (58 fig. 4) through the slots 56 during movement of the lid between its closed and dispensing position keeps the slots 56 free from clogging. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2366603-A (GB)
Title: Interface
Inventor: JOHNSON FREDERICK ALISTAIR
IPC: B64C21/00
Filed: 1992-07-15
Abstract: A marine vessel (1, Fig 1) has on its surface a plurality of tiles 2 applied to it. Each tile has, integral therewith, an integrated circuit 8 which is programmed so as to cause piezo-electric elements 5, 10, at the surface of the tile to modify the dynamic properties of the surface of the vessel. This facility enables turbulence to be reduced, acoustic reflections to be cancelled, escape of noise from the vessel to be eliminated, and acoustic signals to be transmitted as and when necessary. Selected elements act as sensors and others as drivers. The elements may be used on submarines or aircraft.
Patent GB-2259384-A (GB)
Title: Data transmission circuits for memory devices
Inventor: CHIN DAE-JE
IPC: H01L27/10
Filed: 1992-08-14
Abstract: A data transmission circuit capable of a high-speed data input/output operation and a large-scale integration for use in a semiconductor memory device has at least one memory cell 51, a pair of bit lines 65, 66 and a sense amplifier 55. Further, the circuit includes a pair of common input/output lines 67, 68 for transmitting input or output data with a complementary logic operation, a discharging transistor 56 receiving a control signal at its gate and having a channel connected with a ground voltage node, for transferring an electric potential applied to one end of the channel into the ground voltage level. and a pair of transmission transistors 59, 60 receiving the control signal at their respective gates and having each channel connected with the common input1output lines. input transistors 61, 62 and 63, 64 are connected with the bit lines, their channels each being connected between the bit lines 65, 66 and the transmission transistors 59, 60, their gates each being connected with the input/output lines. A pair of output transistors 57, 58 each have a gate electrode connected to one of the bit lines 65, 66, and have a channel connected to the channel of the discharging transistor 56. To control electrodes of the discharging transistor 56 and the first and second transmission transistor 59, 60 there is applied a column selection line (CSL) signal. In a further aspect of the invention (Fig 6) the transmission transistors are excluded. In a still further aspect of the invention the discharging transistor is excluded. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259785-A (GB)
Title: Power meters
Inventor: PAYNE KENNETH
IPC: G01R21/133
Filed: 1992-09-11
Abstract: In a power meter, voltage and current pulse signals V/Fv and V/Fi (Figure 2) obtained (4, 5 Figure 1) by frequency modulating two carrier frequency signals are used to latch (14, 15) the output of a clock counter (12, 40) to respective subtractors (20, 23); each subtractor subtracts a previous count value from a freshly counted value; the differences, representing the periods, are inverted (21, 24) and from each output is subtracted (22, 25) a reference value corresponding to zero voltage and zero current; and the new differences (38, 39) representing the supply voltage and load current are then multiplied in a four-quadrant multiplier (26). The reference values for the subtractors are obtained by averaging the incoming frequency modulated voltage and current signals over a relatively long period e.g. 40 seconds using a counter (18, 34). a latch (19, 35) and a timer (17, 36). A calibration arrangement is described with reference to Figure 5 (not shown), and the meter may include a card-reading facility as in Figures 6-10 (not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260497-A (GB)
Title: Resuscitator with carbon dioxide detector
Inventor: KIRK GILBERT M
IPC: A61M16/12
Filed: 1992-10-14
Abstract: A resuscitator comprises a bag 12, a housing 36 fixed to the bag and having an inlet port to receive gas from the bag, an inhalation port 40, and an exhalation port 40, a one-way valve 34 located at the inlet port, and a carbon dioxide detector 56 located in the housing between the inhalation and exhalation ports so that it lies directly in the breathing circuit. The detector comprises a conventional pH sensitive chromogenic compound and is supported by a frame 54. In other embodiments (Figs 3 and 9), a removable plug 90 is provided for sealing the indicator from atmosphere during storage. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277855-A (GB)
Title: Audio signal reproducing apparatus
Inventor: SLATER SPENCER DAVID
IPC: H04R3/12
Filed: 1993-05-06
Abstract: Audio signal reproducing apparatus comprising a source of audio signals, a plurality of transducers for generating sound from audio signals applied thereto, and transducers being spaced apart within an area, and a switching means to apply audio signals from said source to one or more of the transducers, the particular transducer or combination of transducers to which said signals are applied being varied automatically with time. Switching may involve pre-determined patterns of transducers as in one embodiment, or any mathematically possible combination of patterns of transducers as in another embodiment. Switching may be controlled by manual input 36 or automatic selection 28 of sequences of combinations of transducers with time. Said sequences of combinations may be programmed into a retrieval system such as a microcomputer. The above arrangements provide a switched, moving sound image which may be enhanced by a stable, background stereo arrangement. The output stages OC1 may include an attenuator which may be ramped up or down for smooth transition. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266971-A (GB)
Title: Kinematic mount especially for optical element(s) in an interferometer
Inventor: DOWNS MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: G12B9/08
Filed: 1993-05-14
Abstract: A substantially kinematic mount for a rigid object 1, 11, comprising planar, linear and point contact constraining means is claimed. At least one of the constraining means comprises a rigid body 5, 6 and a resilient body 7, 17 which together are adapted to urge said rigid object into contact with the other two of the constraining means. 2 is a rigid pin and 8 is a support surface. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267147-A (GB)
Title: Classifying objects, E.G. Diamonds, by radiation transmission
Inventor: SMITH MARTIN PHILLIP
IPC: G01N21/33
Filed: 1993-05-19
Abstract: In order to measure the intensity of radiation used to illuminate the object 33, radiation is directed onto a rotatable wavelength-selective mirror 31. In a first position, the mirror 31 reflects the illuminating radiation to a beam splitter 30 which passes the radiation to a detector 34. In a second position the mirror 31 directs the radiation to the object 33, radiation of the selected wavelength emanating from the object being reflected by the mirror via beam splitter 30 to the detector 34. Intensity measurements can thereby be compensated for variations in source 1. In order to classify a diamond as natural or synthetic, the intensity of ultra-violet radiation transmitted by the diamond at 254nm is compared with the intensity of radiation transmitted by the diamond at 365nm and the diamond is classified as being definitely natural if the former is substantially greater than the latter. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267956-A (GB)
Title: Closing and opening a shaft furnace taphole
Inventor: KREMER VICTOR
IPC: C21B7/12
Filed: 1993-05-25
Abstract: A machine by which a rod (54) is driven into taphole clay, before it has fully hardened, and is later extracted to open the taphole, comprises a mounting, a carriage (32) which can be displaced along this mounting and a drive means for the carriage (32). Guide means (68, 70) define a guide channel (64) for the rod and have a longitudinal opening (78) giving access to inside the guide channel (64), perpendicularly to its axis. A finger (42) penetrates through the said longitudinal opening (78) to inside the said guide channel (64) to exert an axial thrust on one end of the piercing rod (54). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267542-A (GB)
Title: Vapour emission control
Inventor: DE LANGE JACOBUS ANTON MARTINU
IPC: F04B49/10
Filed: 1993-07-17
Abstract: A vapour emission control system for preventing the emission to the atmosphere of vapour leaking from a seal (15) of a rotating machine (10). A containment vessel (34) defines a chamber into which any vapour leaking from the seal (15) must flow. An emission control device (37) is connected to an outlet (35) from the chamber (34), the emission control device (37) being arranged to render innocuous any vapour delivered thereto through the outlet (35). Any vapour within the chamber (37) is pumped through the outlet (35) to the emission control device (37). Thus any vapour leaking into the chamber (34) can only leave the chamber via the emission control device (37). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269267-A (GB)
Title: Focusing means for cathode ray tubes
Inventor: BANBURY JOHN RANDOLPH
IPC: H01J29/48
Filed: 1992-02-27
Abstract: A cathode ray tube comprising a cathode (K) for emitting a beam of electrons; a grid (G) for controlling the intensity of the beam; three or more anodes (A1, A3, A4); means for varying the potential of at least one of the anodes (A3) for focusing the beam to form a spot on a screen; and an additional, dynamic focus electrode (A2) maintained generally at a potential close to the cathode/grid potential. Suitable means may be included for applying to said dynamic focus electrode a high frequency signal to provide a rapid focus control means. Said dynamic focus means may comprise a plurality of circumferentially disposed segments and include means for applying a separate high voltage to each segment thus allowing the possibility of creating a quadrupole action in conjunction with at least one adjacent electrode, said segments covered with a deposited high-resistance conducting film to prevent charging effects. Preferably the potential of the first anode (A1) is substancially greater than the controlling voltage range of the grid (G), the potential of the static focus electrode (A3), interposed between the first and final anodes, is substantially equal to or lower than that of the first anode; and the potential of the final anode (A4) is substantially higher than that of the first anode (A1).
Patent GB-2281729-A (GB)
Title: Pivotable arm for eletric or other power supply
Inventor: GOODSON MARK
IPC: H02G11/00
Filed: 1993-09-14
Abstract: A pivotable arm arrangement comprising: a bridge member 12 for attachment to a handle 22, 23 of a mobile machine M; an arm (27) pivotably attached at its inner end to the bridge member for rotation about a vertical pivot axis (32) over an arc extending between first and second outboard end positions 34, 35 and a lead support (29) mounted on the arm at or near the outboard end with an axis (36) parallel to the inner end axis (32) and adapted to support a lead providing a source of power to the mobile machine. Typically the mobile machine is a mower having an electrically powered motor to which electrical power is supplied by the a lead attached to the lead support. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271635-A (GB)
Title: Sampling/analysing gas or liquid taken from a patient
Inventor: RANTALA BORJE TOR
IPC: G01N33/483
Filed: 1993-10-06
Abstract: Apparatus has a sampling element (1) with a wall (16) through which gas or liquid to be analyzed is capable of penetrating and is thus transmitted e.g. from the stomach into a sample chamber (15) in the sampling element. A pressure-difference producing element (5) delivers the sample along a tube (3) extending from sampling element (1), to an analyzer (7). Co2 in the sample is particularly measured and the wall (16) is of silicone. Pressure difference producing element (5) is typically a piston arrangement which aspirates the sample to the analyzer or may be a pump. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282645-A (GB)
Title: Fan blade.
Inventor: HUANG YUNG-CHUNG
IPC: F04D29/38
Filed: 1993-10-11
Abstract: A fan blade A' has an elongated plate 10 which has an air confronting front face f and a back face b and which includes a longitudinal leading section 101, a longitudinal lagging section 103 with respect to a rotating direction of the elongated plate 10 and a longitudinal intermediate section 102 located between the leading and lagging sections 101, 103. The plane of the leading section 101 and the plane of the intermediate section 102 form an obtuse angle ( alpha ) therebetween, while the plane of the intermediate section 102 and the plane of the lagging section 103 similarly form an obtuse angle ( beta ) therebetween. The sections may define a stepped cross-section or may be curred (Fig 5) to form a wavy cross-section. The blade shape enables less driving power to be used. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276085-A (GB)
Title: Enhancing wool production and quality in breeding ewes
Inventor: JOHNSON RAY
IPC: A23K1/00
Filed: 1994-03-02
Abstract: Wool production in breeding ewes, in terms of both quality and quantity, is improved by administration of a protected amino acid, especially methionine or lysine. The amino acid is preferably protected (coated) by a polymer based composition and may be administered as a medicated grain feed supplement.
Patent GB-2275560-A (GB)
Title: Alarm control
Inventor: SCAROLA KENNETH
IPC: G21D3/00
Filed: 1990-10-31
Abstract: An alarm system for use by an operator of a plant is controlled by activating at least two of a multiplicity of alarm tiles on an alarm tile array such that each activated tile presents an activated descriptor 120 of the source of an abnormal condition in the plant so that the operator can respond to each activated alarm tile so each tile is in one of four statuses consisting of a new alarm associated with an abnormal condition and unacknowledged tile, an existing alarm associated with an abnormal condition and acknowledged tile, a cleared alarm associated with a normal condition and unacknowledged tile, and a reset alarm condition associated with a normal condition of an acknowledged alarm (not shown). A first, momentary audible tone is generated upon the activation of a new alarm; a second, momentary audible tone is generated upon the occurrence of a cleared alarm; and a third, periodically repeating audible tone is generated during a new alarm and a cleared alarm. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290487-A (GB)
Title: Dual fuel fluidised bed gasification/combustion system
Inventor: HUNTER JOHN
IPC: F23C10/00
Filed: 1994-06-23
Abstract: A dual fuel gasification/combustion system with high carbon conversion is provided for non-gaseous fuels. Single or combined oxidants are used, and also a sulphur sorbent in order to produce a clean fuel or combustion gas for use, at any pressure, with appliances such as boilers, furnaces or turbines. A housing 26 is divided into a series of fluidised beds by walls 28. Under these conveyors 29 are located to move solid from one bed to the next in sequence. Solid fuel is supplied to each bed, except the last, by screws in tubes 1, liquid is supplied by conduit 10. Parallel conduit 27 can be used to supply an ignition mixture to sparking plug 18 to start the process, or an inert gas to purge the beds at the end of it, or steam to mix with the fuel if required. Oxidant is provided through wind-box 25 to individual distributors 20 and coolant via pipes 6, 7. The last bed completes the gasification, and the spent material is ejected into lockseal hopper 9. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283873-A (GB)
Title: Railway communication and positioning system
Inventor: WICHTEL ERIC
IPC: B61L25/02
Filed: 1994-11-03
Abstract: A possibly driverless railway vehicle 1 comprises a GPS receiver 5 and a communications terminal 4. Along the side of the track are regularly spaced communications base stations 6, 7 etc. A fixed GPS receiver 10 determines DGPS corrections and transmits these via telephone network 8 and a base station 6 or 7 to the train 1. When the train is underground (eg in a subway (12, fig 2)) an inertial guidance system 3 and/or a laser transmitter/receiver system (17, 18, 19 fig 3) using reflectors (20, 21, 22) mounted on the subway wall provides the positional information. Telephonic communication is also possible. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282446-A (GB)
Title: Use of genetic markers to diagnose familial dysautonomia
Inventor: BLUMENFELD ANAT
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 1993-05-25
Abstract: Familial dysautonomia (FD), the Riley-Day syndrome, is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by developmental loss of neurons from the sensory and autonomic nervous system. It is limited to the Ashkenazi Jewish population, where the carrier frequency is 1 in 30. We have mapped the FD gene to the chromosome region 9q31-q33 by linkage with ten DNA markers in twenty-six families. The maximum lod score of 21.1 with no recombinants was achieved with D9S58. This marker also showed strong linkage disequilibrium with FD, with one allele present on 73 % of all affected chromosomes compared to 5.4 % of control chromosomes (X<2>=3142, 15 d.f. p<0.0001). The other nine markers, distributed within 23 cM proximal or distal to D9S58, also yielded significant linkage to FD. D9S53 and D9S105 represent the closest flanking markers for the disease gene. This localization will permit prenatal diagnosis of FD in affected families. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285983-A (GB)
Title: Inhibiting polymerization of vinyl compounds
Inventor: YASUDA MINORU
IPC: C07C51/50
Filed: 1995-01-19
Abstract: The present invention provides a method of inhibiting polymerization of a vinyl compound during distillation, which comprises adding to the vinyl compound to be distilled:   (1) phenothiazine, hydroquinone, p-methoxyphenol, cresol, phenol, tert-butyl catechol, diphenylamine, or methylene blue;   (2) a copper dithiocarbamate compound; and (3) a metal, an alloy containing the metal (at least 90% by weight), an acetate of the metal, or an oxide of the metal, wherein the metal is chromium, magnesium, titanium, and cobalt. The present invention also provides a polymerization inhibitor comprising components (1), (2) and (3).
Patent GB-2285773-A (GB)
Title: Floating platform with buoyant raft
Inventor: CHRISTIANSEN POUL-ERIC
IPC: B63B9/06
Filed: 1995-01-20
Abstract: A floating platform comprising in combination a semisubmersible vessel having two or more pontoons 10, buoyant columns 11 upstanding from those pontoons and a deck 12 supported on the columns (the semisubmersible vessel being of a kind known per se); and a raft 21 comprising a hull portion 22 and two or more buoyant caissons 23 arranged so that the raft is capable of floating in a stable configuration with the hull portion of the raft submerged to such a depth that the semi submersible vessel can float over the hull portion and with only the buoyant caissons piercing the water surface, in which the pontoons of the semisubmersible vessel are secured to upper surfaces of the hull of the raft. Two of the caissons may be extended well above the water line to supply an additional deck area (45, Fig. 3). The hull 22 of the raft may be slightly dome shaped (shown in dashed lines) to improve wave riding characteristics. The arrangement is intended to improve stability and fatigue life of the semisubmersible. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289832-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum chamber for sample irradiation by x-ray lithography
Inventor: SEHER BERND
IPC: G03F7/20
Filed: 1995-04-20
Abstract: An irradiation apparatus for x-ray lithography, of e.g. resist layers by synchrotron radiation via a mask, comprises a vacuum chamber 1 containing an adjustable sample carrier 2, 3 mechanically decoupled therefrom by a first sealing flexible membrane 9, and a compensation chamber between a wall 11 of the sample carrier and an outer wall 12, the compensation chamber being linked by a hose 15 to the vacuum chamber 1 for pressure equalisation and being sealed by a second flexible membrane 10 of the same area as the first membrane 9. There are then no resultant forces on the sample carrier. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288910-A (GB)
Title: Solid electrolytic capacitor chip
Inventor: HASEGAWA MIKI
IPC: H01G9/012
Filed: 1995-04-28
Abstract: A chip-type solid electrolytic capacitor is provided which comprises a capacitor element (9), an insulating package body (1) having a housing recess (2) with an upward opening for receiving the capacitor element (9), and an insulating closure such as a lid (12) or a cast filling, for closing the opening of the housing recess (2). The capacitor element (9) has an anode layer (9b) formed on one end and a cathode layer (9c) formed at least on the other end. The housing recess (2) is formed with two internal electrodes (3, 4) in electrical conduction with the anode and cathode layers (9b 9c), respectively, of the capacitor element (9). The package body (1) is externally formed with two terminal electrodes (5, 7) in electrical conduction with the respective internal electrodes (3, 4). These electrodes and throughs are plated or preformed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290040-A (GB)
Title: Making armatures for electrodynamic machines
Inventor: BRADTMUELLER LYNN ED
IPC: H02K15/06
Filed: 1993-01-29
Abstract: An operator sequentially inserts magazines containing a required number of hairpin conductors HC for an armature to be made, an armature core comprising a plurality of substantially aligned laminations preassembled to form the core and a commutator, and removes armatures completed by assembling these components. The use of a hairpin magazine M, including the hairpin conductors required for an armature, permits simultaneous transfer of all the hairpin conductors into upper twist tooling 110 wherein upper ends of the hairpin conductors adjacent end turn portions of the conductors are moved apart relative to one another. The frog leg conductors thus formed are removed from the upper twist tooling 110 and inserted into slots of an armature core which has been earlier inserted into the system. The frog leg conductors are fully pressed through the armature core into lower twist tooling 124 which then is operated to move the ends of the conductors extending beyond the armature core away from one another and into alignment with other conductors for insertion into a commutator for the armature, which commutator was earlier placed into the system. The commutator is properly positioned by tolling 130 beneath the armture core which is then pressed onto the commutator. The operator removes the completed armature and replaces it with a commutator for the next armature. <IMAGE>