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Patent CH-365231-A (CH)
Inventor: MAURICE KOULICOVITCH
IPC: G01D5/347
Filed: 1959-03-06
Abstract: 933,013. Electric selective signalling systems. SOC. GENEVOISE D'INSTRUMENTS DE PHYSIQUE. Feb. 24, 1960 [March 6, 1959], No. 6449/60. Class 40 (1). In a device for converting a physical displacement into corresponding electric signals the tracks of a coded scale are scanned transversely and a pulse is produced each time a " mark " is passed. As described, resiliently mounted photo-electric cells are oscillated across the tracks of a coded scale. The coded scale, Fig. 8, comprises three concentric groups 6, 7, 8, each of nine tracks. The first group of tracks 6 (the hundreds) are marked, as shown, so that each of the ten segments into which the disc is divided contain a different number of marks and thus radial scanning of this group of tracks will produce a group of pulses corresponding in number to the particular sector scanned. The second 7 and third 8 groups of tracks are similarly marked to give units and tens respectively. Each group of tracks is scanned by a single photo-electric cell 20, Fig. 2, the three cells being mounted side-by-side on a resiliently mounted member 18. This member 18 is caused to oscillate by a coil 21 carrying 50 c/s. mains current and a permanent magnet 22, and is so constrained by stops that each cell only scans its associated group of tracks. Two methods of preventing ambiguity errors are described. In the first the scale is resiliently coupled to the shaft and is caused to progress step-by-step by teeth on its rim which cooperate magnetically with a fixed toothed permanent magnet and in the second an additional track on the scale is used to control the position of a scanning slot.
Patent GB-2360900-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for reducing noise using a laser and interferometer
Inventor: JOYNES GEORGE MALCOLM SWIFT
IPC: G10K11/178
Filed: 2000-03-30
Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, an apparatus and method is provided for reducing noise in a vehicle is provided. In one embodiment an interferometer 15 is disposed in the headrest 14 to measure the sound proximate to the drivers ears 18. The transducers used can be the ears of the driver, which can be painted with pressure sensitive paint or some kind of sensor attached to the ear. An equal and opposite sound is generated and transmitted to the ear 18 by loudspeakers 16 which are also disposed in the headrest, hence reducing the noise audible to the driver. A microphone 24 may be provided to make a separate measurement of the background noise to facilitate in noise reduction. Also provided for is the use of a tracking device for monitoring the movement of the drivers head and track the location of the drivers ears.
Patent GB-2345651-A (GB)
Title: Mixing device
Inventor: BACHELLIER CARL ROY
IPC: B01F7/00
Filed: 1998-10-27
Abstract: The invention provides a mixing impeller for full immersion in a liquid to mix the liquid. The impeller has a central, longitudinally-extending axis of rotation, and includes a unitary body having a circular area disposed radially about the axis of rotation. A plurality of similar coplanar radial extensions extend from the circular area and are spaced equally about the area defining similar radial discharge slots between adjacent pairs of the extensions. A plurality of blades are cantilevered from the extension and extend axially and outwardly from the extensions, such that the body expands generally conically from the circular area along the lengths of the blades. Each blade has a leading edge, a trailing edge and an end edge remote from the associated radial extensions with the leading edge positioned radially inside the trailing edge such that as the impeller rotates in the liquid reservoir, liquid will be inspired to flow upwardly into the body towards the circular area before discharging through gaps between the blades and through the radial slots. A coupling is attached to the circular area of the impeller for connecting the impeller to a drive shaft.
Patent GB-2365239-A (GB)
Title: Near-vertical incidence skywave HF radar
Inventor: PERRY KENNETH HUTCHESON
IPC: G01S13/02
Filed: 2000-07-26
Abstract: An HF radar system comprises a transmitting system, a receiving system, a signal processing system and a frequency management/ionospheric sounding system. The transmitting system comprises a transmitting antenna array 11 configured to transmit a beam in a near vertical direction and a transmitting device 13 arranged to drive the transmitting antenna array at frequencies suitable for downward refraction by the ionosphere 12. The receiving system comprises a receiving antenna array 21 configured to receive returning signals from a target area 22 returning to the receiving antenna array via refraction at the ionosphere The signal processing system 31 comprises a digital data processing system. The frequency management/sounding system comprises cooperating transmitting and receiving systems 41, 42 sending HF signals to the ionosphere and analysing the returning signals to control and optimise the transmission frequencies. Alternatively, the system may have a duplexed antenna array (figure 4). The receiving system includes means to discriminate the returning signal produced by a helicopter, other aircraft or surface vessels.
Patent GB-2364956-A (GB)
Title: Ballistic protection shield
Inventor: ADIE DAVID
IPC: F41H5/04
Filed: 2000-07-28
Abstract: A ballistic protection shield 1 is made up of a first-section ceramic material 2 which breaks up an oncoming projectile and a second-section polymer fibre material 3 which arrests fragments of the projectile and the ceramic produced on impact. The first section ceramic material 2 has a surface coating of adhesive and a layer of a high performance polymer fibre 4 which has tough, elastic properties and which upon projectile impact prevents the ceramic from cracking extensively. The second section polymer fibre material 3 comprises a compacted form of multiple sheet layers. Holes 7 or cavities 8 (figure 7) are introduced to the first section ceramic layer 2 or sub-layers 5 as required to allow an increase in the depth of ceramic material for performance purposes without significantly increasing the product weight. A thin intermediate layer 9 of aramid stiffened by epoxy resin may be bonded between the first and second sections for higher levels of protection. Applications include vehicle bodywork and bulletproof vests.
Patent GB-2356540-A (GB)
Title: Display means capable of displaying input signals that exceed a monitor's maximum resolution
Inventor: KIM WOONG GYU
IPC: G09G3/20
Filed: 2000-07-31
Abstract: An image display device and method for a monitor is provided, which can provide a normal display even when the resolution of input signals exceeds that supported by the monitor. The device includes an A/D converter (11) to produce signals according to a sampling clock; a delayer (12); a switch (13) to generate the sampling clock according to a switching signal; a memory; a video scaler (16) for storing the signals in the memory to build one frame and to transmit the stored output to match a signal input timing of a display module; and a microcomputer (17) to output a switching signal to switch the switch, if the input image resolution exceeds that supported by the monitor, and to output a control signal to set the sampling clock to half a normal sampling clock.
Patent GB-2358545-A (GB)
Title: Partially hollow loudspeaker components
Inventor: POCOCK NICHOLAS
IPC: H04R7/02
Filed: 2000-10-27
Abstract: A loudspeaker component such as a diaphragm, surround, suspension or chassis, formed as a one piece moulding in a single material. At least one portion of the component is of a hollow material and at least one other portion is of a solid material (a hollow material includes one with an internal void as well as a material with an internal cellular structure e.g. a foam). The hollow portions are positioned in an acoustically active component to control the acoustic performance of the component e.g. to suppress bell-mode resonance. In the case of a speaker diaphragm, the hollow portions can take the form of annular or radially extending ribs, or can be positioned around the periphery of the diaphragm.
Patent GB-2369032-A (GB)
Title: Lid for a pet food dish
Inventor: CLARK PAUL
IPC: A01K5/01
Filed: 2000-11-21
Abstract: The lid (12) is removable from the dish (2) for feeding and is provided with means (40) for absorbing odours emanating from foodstuffs contained in the dish (2) when fitted to the dish between feeds. The odour adsorbing means may be formed from odour absorbent carbon. The lid may have ventilation apertures (34).
Patent GB-2369562-A (GB)
Title: Shower cover for a rotary clothes airer/dryer
Inventor: ROOKE PETER MICHAEL
IPC: D06F57/04
Filed: 2000-12-01
Abstract: The cover includes a supporting frame which is 3 or 4 sided depending upon the type of airer. The frame comprises elongate members h which are preferably in two pans screwed together. At the apices of the frame are 'posts' k having clamps 1 which clamp around the arms of the dryer by means of a screw. The frame members have holes j near the corners through which ties can pass to attach the cover itself to the frame. The cover has a top part which in the case of the three armed airer shown, is triangular, with three side panels which can almost reach the ground. The sides of the adjacent panes can be joined together by press studs g, or by hook and loop type fastenings. There is a hollow seam at the bottom of each panel into which a rod is passed. Attached to this are draw strings q which pass up through a series of holes e in the side panel and though a guide o on the frame. Pulling on the top end of the draw strings allows the sides to be neatly rolled up. Once rolled up they can be fixed in that state by a hook and loop strap and corresponding part c.
Patent GB-2363471-A (GB)
Title: Liquid crystal display device
Inventor: KAYAMORI MANABU
IPC: G09G3/20
Filed: 2001-02-28
Abstract: Temperature measuring unit (4) measures an ambient temperature and outputs a measurement result to control unit (3). The control unit (3) outputs information for optimally setting the number of boosting stages of boosting unit (22) as a control signal to driving circuit (2). Upon receipt of the control signal, the driving circuit (2) stores the information in storage unit (23), sets the number of boosting stages of the boosting unit (22) according to the information stored in the storage unit (23), and supplies a driving voltage to liquid crystal display unit (1). If the ambient temperature is changed, the number of boosting stages of the boosting unit (22) is reset in the procedure so that the consumed current of the whole liquid crystal display device (1) can be optimized.
Patent GB-2368252-A (GB)
Title: Character information receiving apparatus with voice output
Inventor: KURIHARA KAZUHIRO
IPC: G10L21/10
Filed: 2001-06-11
Abstract: When received character data is decoded by a decoder (10) a word division circuit (21) divides the data into word units, a voice storage circuit (22) outputs a voice data corresponding to the divided character data, and a D/A converter (30) converts it into an analog signal, and it is output from a speaker (40) as voice. Thereby, the character data is output as voice. An output from the decoder (10) is also stored in a memory (50), and is displayed on an LCD (60) as a character. The LCD (60) receives a byte number of a word for every word from the word division circuit (21), and highlights it for every byte number. The highlighting is synchronised with the voice output.
Patent GB-2376997-A (GB)
Title: Clutch biting point monitoring system
Inventor: BENNETT PETER JOHN
IPC: F16D48/06
Filed: 2001-06-28
Abstract: A clutch biting point (CBP) monitoring system comprises an engine management electronic control unit which measures and/or estimates vehicle engine torque and acceleration. When the clutch is fully disengaged there is a direct relationship between the torque produced by the engine and its rotational acceleration, hence the clutch biting point is monitored by detecting, in a predetermined time period, a significant loss in the proportionality between measured engine torque and measured engine rotational acceleration. A clutch pedal sensor has means to determined the velocity of the clutch pedal as it moves towards the clutch biting point and is used to compensate for any delays between the clutch reaching the biting point and the time taken for the monitoring system to detect biting point.
Patent GB-2371808-A (GB)
Title: Planting of polyploid trees and plants
Inventor: NIWA KOZO
IPC: A01G7/06
Filed: 2001-10-05
Abstract: A method of planting trees to form an artificial, UV-resistant forest comprises selecting seedlings which are polyploid, i.e. at least triploid, and planting such. The seedlings may be of a conifer such as Japanese cedar or Japanese cypress and may particularly be triploid or tetraploid. The chromosome number of the seedlings may be increased by breeding or mutation. Also claimed is a method of growing plants by artificially forming vegetation which is significantly resistant to UV rays, as compared with diploid plants, by selectively growing plants whose chromosome number exceeds the basic number of the species.
Patent GB-2371868-A (GB)
Title: Flexible measurement device
Inventor: WHITE PATRICK
IPC: G01B3/28
Filed: 2002-01-30
Abstract: A flexible measurement device, a depth gauge, comprises a flexible shaft 35 having a tip 30 and, extending through the flexible shaft, a probe 15 made of superelastic alloy and attached to a graduated scale member 25. In use the tip 30 may be placed against a hole, e.g. a hole drilled through a hemispherical cup in a surgical procedure in the acetabular region of the human body, and the probe used to measure the depth of the hole. The probe is made from a superelastic nickel titanium, "nitinol" alloy.
Patent GB-2369054-A (GB)
Title: Treatment of IL deficiencies
Inventor: SAUDER DANIEL
IPC: A61K41/00
Filed: 2001-05-11
Abstract: Mammalian disorders associated with a deficiency in the cytokine interleukin-10 (IL-10) can be alleviated by stimulating <I>in vivo</I> secretion and/or activity of IL-10 in the patient's blood or tissues by application of external stimulus.
Patent GB-2391235-A (GB)
Title: Producing a mark in soap
Inventor: ORAL EMRE
IPC: C11D13/28
Filed: 2002-07-30
Abstract: A system for providing a mark or pattern throughout a solid soap includes the addition of a thermally activated chemical capable of producing a pigment when treated with a radiant energy beam of selected wavelength. The radiant energy beam required to promote pigment change may be provided by a laser.
Patent GB-2376938-A (GB)
Title: Processing station mounted wafer container loading apparatus
Inventor: KIM KI-SANG
IPC: H01L21/677
Filed: 2001-04-06
Abstract: An apparatus 300 for transferring a container stored with a workpiece 400 (for example, a semiconductor wafer container or FOUP) between manufacturing stations includes: a manufacturing station 200 that includes a generally horizontal support platform 502, one or more guides for guiding a vehicle, a vehicle configured to travel on one or more guides to a position below the support platform, and a vertical translation unit 500 attached to the manufacturing station that vertically translates the container from a lowered position beneath the support platform to a raised position above the support platform and back again. In this configuration, the apparatus can provide a relatively narrow work bay while still allowing sufficient room for a worker. Also, because the vehicle operates below the level of the manufacturing stations, there is no need for special mountings on the ceiling of the factory. The translation unit may grip the FOUP with lifting arms (504, fig. 16) or use a suction head (544, fig. 19), and the motion may be generated by use of a screw thread (510, fig. 16) or a hydraulic piston.
Patent GB-2380632-A (GB)
Title: Processing of digital cinema image for projection
Inventor: GILLESPIE JAMES
IPC: H04N5/44
Filed: 2000-12-14
Abstract: A method of preparing a digital cinema image for the purpose of digital projection comprising: obtaining a digital viewable image 9; enhancing or otherwise manipulating the viewable image 9; altering the outline of the viewable image 9 to a predetermined value; placing a black border 10, 11, 12 along at least one edge portion of the formatted viewable image 9 to produce the composite image; recording the composite image on a transportable storage medium e.g. CD; and recovering the composite image from the transportable storage medium, for projection. The method avoids light spill of the image on the projection screen. (See figure 2).
Patent GB-2396887-A (GB)
Title: Extended cycle reciprocating Stirling engine
Inventor: MA THOMAS TSOI HEI
IPC: F02G1/043
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: The modified Stirling cycle engine comprises an extended cycle gas compressor 100,120, having a heat regenerator 140, supplying compressed gas working fluid by near-isothermal compression via a transfer pipe 30 including an heat-addition heat exchanger 34 to an extended cycle gas expander 10,12 also having a heat regenerator 14. A separate return connection containing a recuperative heat regenerator 78 is provided for the expanded gas from the expander 10,12 to be returned to the compressor 100,120 and for more gas used as heat transfer fluid to be exchanged during the extra strokes of the extended cycles of the compressor and expander, such that the recuperative heat regenerator 78 absorbs heat from the working fluid and heat transfer fluid when the fluids flow through it in the direction from the expander 10,12 to the compressor 100,120 and releases heat to the heat transfer fluid when the fluid flows in the other direction. The extended cycle reciprocating Stirling engine has thermodynamic features approaching very closely to the ideal Stirling cycle.
Patent GB-2400081-A (GB)
Title: Wallpaper roll holder
Inventor: MCELWEE JOSEPH
IPC: B44C7/02
Filed: 2003-03-08
Abstract: A table or platform has legs 2 which are extendable and removable, and are also adjustable to facilitate the stable positioning of the device on a staircase. The table is provided with two arms 5 which support a rod 1 which may be passed through a roll of wallpaper. The arms may be folded when not in use. The rod 1 is retained on the arms by clips 4, through which it is prevented from moving axially by caps 3. These caps may be removed from the rod to enable it to be passed through the wallpaper roll.
Patent GB-2385709-A (GB)
Title: Etching a substrate using an inductively coupled plasma
Inventor: BREITSCHWERDT KLAUS
IPC: H01J37/32
Filed: 2001-08-23
Abstract: Etching a substrate 10, in particular a silicon body, by means of an inductively coupled plasma 14. A high-frequency electromagnetic alternating field is generated by an ICP source 13, which generates in a reactor 15 an inductively coupled plasma 14. A static or temporally varying magnetic field is generated between the substrate 10 and the ICP source 13, by at least two magnetic field coils 21, 21' arranged above one another, the direction of the magnetic field produced being approximately parallel to the direction defined by the line connecting the substrate 10 and the plasma 14. A first partial magnetic field <EMI ID=2.1 HE=6 WI=4 LX=1002 LY=1138 TI=UI> <PC>is generated by a first magnetic field coil 21' and a second, equally strong, partial magnetic field <EMI ID=2.2 HE=6 WI=7 LX=1287 LY=1209 TI=UI> <PC>is generated by a second magnetic field coil 21, the fields being opposed to each other. At least one of the partial magnetic fields generated is temporally variable, and preferably pulsable.
Patent GB-2399940-A (GB)
Title: Vertical cavity surface emitting laser
Inventor: HOOPER STEWART EDWARD
IPC: H01S5/20
Filed: 2003-03-25
Abstract: A semiconductor laser device 15 comprises a substrate 16. A first minor structure 17, an active region 18 and a second minor structure 19 are disposed in this order over the substrate 16. The second minor structure has a first portion 28 having a first width W1 and a second portion 29 having a second width W2 less than the first width W1. The first portion 28 of the second minor structure 19 is disposed between the second portion 29 of the second minor structure 19 and the active region 18. A contact 24 is disposed on the surface of the first portion of the second minor structure, where it is not covered by the second portion of the second minor structure. The contact 24 is thus provided at an intermediate location, in the thickness direction, of the second minor structure 19. Current injected into the laser device via the contact 24 does not need to pass through the entire thickness of the second minor structure, but has to pass only through the first portion of the second minor structure. The resistance of the current path through the laser device is therefore reduced. Contact 24 is formed on the etch stop layer 23.
Patent GB-2393287-A (GB)
Title: A parallel processing arrangement with a loop of processors in which calculations determine clockwise and anticlockwise transfers of load to achieve balance
Inventor: BEAUMONT MARK
IPC: G06F9/315
Filed: 2003-04-23
Abstract: A method for balancing the load of a parallel processing system having a plurality of parallel processing elements arranged in a loop, each processing element (PEr) having a local number of tasks associated therewith, wherein r represents the number for a selected processing element and each of the processing elements is operable to communicate with a clockwise and an anti-clockwise adjacent processing element, the method comprises determining a total number of tasks present within the loop, calculating a local mean number of tasks for each processing element, calculating a local deviation for each processing element, determining a running partial deviation sum for each processing element, determining a clockwise transfer parameter and an anti-clockwise transfer parameter for each processing element, and redistributing tasks among the processing elements in response to the clockwise transfer parameter and the anti-clockwise parameter for each of the processing elements.
Patent GB-2396986-A (GB)
Title: Image resolution enhancement
Inventor: LARSON BRAD R
IPC: H04N1/58
Filed: 2003-10-28
Abstract: An apparatus (464) and system include means to identify (466) first and second pixel toner densities associated with selected pixels included in a color plane window, and means to generate (470) at least one modified color plane window (474) having identifications assigned to the pixel toner densities for transmission to a monochrome enhancement module (480). An article (450) contains instructions causing a machine to execute a method including selecting a plurality of original color plane windows, each having a number of pixels, associating each pixel in each of the windows with an identification of VALID or INVALID, generating a plurality of modified windows to correspond to the plurality of original windows, wherein each one of the plurality of modified windows, includes the associated identifications, and transmitting the modified windows to a monochrome enhancement module (480).
Patent GB-2409625-A (GB)
Title: Knee pads for babies
Inventor: MCLEOD LINDSAY
IPC: A41B13/00
Filed: 2003-12-31
Abstract: A pair of knee pads 1 for a baby includes a padded area with a non-slip surface attached to an elasticated material 4 that holds the padded area to the knee of the wearer. The knee pads are worn by toddlers/babies to held protect their knees and to provide grip when crawling on a hard floor. Preferably the padded area is made from foam and the non-slip surface is made from rubber grips 2. The padded area may be surrounded by elasticated material 4 that wraps around the knee of the wearer, with an open area behind the knee 5 for added comfort.