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Patent GB-2454632-A (GB)
Title: Device and method
Inventor: JARCZYK ALEXANDER
IPC: G06F3/0362
Filed: 2007-09-07
Abstract: The invention relates to an input device for entering characters or control instructions comprising a cylindrical body (4) with an axis (X), a selection element (5) which is rotatable about the cylindrical body and/or is adjustable in parallel with the axis, a plurality of measuring elements (6, 6*, 6o) which capacitively detect at least two charges on the cylindrical body (4) or the selection element (5) and at least one capacitively acting counter element (7, 7*, 7o) on conversely the selection element (5) or the cylindrical body, wherein, during an adjustment of the selection element relative to the cylindrical body, the at least one counter element is adjustable relative to the measuring elements and capacitance values (C1, C2, C3) which can be measured on the measuring elements change, and wherein the measuring elements and the counter elements are dimensioned in such a way and arranged relative to one another on the cylindrical body (or on the selection element in such a way that mutually differing capacitance values can be picked off at least one of the measuring elements as a function of the relative position. In other words, a plurality of measuring elements and counter elements which are arranged adjustably relative to one another are dimensioned and arranged in such a way that both a rotational movement of the selection element about the cylindrical body and a lateral axially parallel movement of the selection element or of a finger operating the selection element and sliding on the selection element can be unequivocally allocated a quite specific position on the circumference of the cylindrical body. In another embodiment there is an input device for entering characters or control instructions into a communication-unit with an input device (23) extending along an axis (X) with a cylindrical surface for entering characters or control instructions and with the control unit (C) for detecting the input of such characters or control instructions via input device (23) and for triggering at least a first function (f1) and/or a second function (f2) which is different to the first function depending on the entered characters or control instructions, with input device (23) along the axis (X) being subdivided into at least a first and a second input segment (23a, 23b) and with the control unit (C) being designed or controlled for triggering the first function (f1) in conjunction with input via the first input segment (23a) and for triggering the second function (f2) in conjunction with input via the second input segment (23b). The communication-unit input device therefore allows the user to make a selection for entering at least two different functions via at least two corresponding input interfaces in the form at least two input segments. This therefore involves the triggering of different functions.
Patent GB-2459361-A (GB)
Title: A floor cleaning appliance for use by a wheelchair user
Inventor: SCOTT TIMOTHY M
IPC: A47L5/28
Filed: 2009-04-16
Abstract: A floor cleaning appliance, such as an upright vacuum cleaner, for use by a wheelchair user comprises a body having a nozzle assembly 12 and a handle assembly 14. A dirt collection vessel 22 and suction generator 24 are carried on the body. The handle assembly 14 is pivotally connected to the nozzle assembly 12 and is selectively displaceable into and out of an upright home or storage position. A latch (figs 5 and 6) locks the handle assembly 14 in the home position and an actuator (56, fig 6) carried on the handle assembly 14, remote from the latch (fig 5 and 6), releases the latch (fig 5 and 6), when actuated by the user, to allow the handle assembly 14 to be moved from the home position into the tilted, in-use position. The handle 14 may include a grip 28 which preferably rotates on the handle assembly 14 and the handle 14 may take the form of an arcuate rack (70, fig 7) on which the grip (72, fig 7) is adjustably received. A linkage may connect the actuator (56, fig 6) with the latch assembly (fig 5 and 6), with the linkage either being a mechanical linkage which includes a cable (58, fig 5) or an electrical linkage which includes a solenoid (62, fig 7). An electric power cable 42, if present, is also positioned so that it does not interfere with the wheels of the wheelchair.
Patent GB-2469803-A (GB)
Title: Electrochemical sensor
Inventor: WALTON DAVID JOHN
IPC: G01N27/30
Filed: 2009-04-27
Abstract: An electrochemical sensor comprises an electrode assembly 1' including at least two electrodes, one of which comprises a metal species capable of catalysing the oxidation of hydrogen or methane. The electrode assembly can be disposable and may comprise a plurality of working electrodes 3' adapted to detect the same analyte or to detect a plurality of different target species. A counter electrode 4' and a reference electrode 5' may also be included in the assembly. The electrode material may be a transition metal such as platinum or palladium or an oxide of these metals and may be formed of nano or micron sized particulates embedded within an electrically conductive sheet of fibres. The invention can be applied to detecting or monitoring hydrogen or methane in exhaled breath in order to diagnose lactose intolerance or malabsorption in a patient. It can also be adapted to monitoring methane in exhaled breath to diagnose the presence of H. pylori bacteria in the digestive system.
Patent GB-2464781-A (GB)
Title: Electronic shelf label using a wake-up function
Inventor: KIM HYUN HAK
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2009-05-18
Abstract: A plurality of electronic labels (13) display product information in a store, the labels being grouped into a plurality of groups. A plurality of sync devices (12), each being disposed in one of the groups wirelessly communicates with the labels belonging to the same group to send data containing the product information to the labels. A management server (11) storing the product information sends the data to the labels via the sync devices. The labels are periodically turned ON and OFF, and the sync devices, when having data to transfer to the labels of the respective label groups, send a wake-up signal at a turned-on period of the labels. The labels having received the wake-up signal maintain a turned-on state until data is received from the sync devices. The labels may be woken up in the preset order of the groups and the wake-up and data signals may be sent via different channels.
Patent GB-2471849-A (GB)
Title: Swimming goggles with regions of bendable flexibility
Inventor: CHIANG HERMAN
IPC: A63B33/00
Filed: 2009-07-14
Abstract: Swimming goggles 1 are provided that include a hard combined frame (2, figure 1), soft left and right frames 30, 31 that receive lenses (32), and hard buckles (4). The hard combined frame includes first and second assembling frames 20, 21, each defining an opening (201, 211), and a connecting member 26 forming a nose bridge. The soft frames, which are formed with pads 36 for contacting the wearer's face in use, are assembled in the openings provided in the assembling frames. The buckles, each defining a strap slot (40) for accommodating a head strap, are assembled on the assembling frames. The connecting member has at least one region of bendable flexibility 50, 51, and the assembling frames each have a region of bendable flexibility 52, 53 located in the vicinity of a wearer's temples. The regions of bendable flexibility may comprise joint portions, and are preferably made of thermoplastic rubber.
Patent GB-2472239-A (GB)
Title: Commode pan with slider mounts
Inventor: PITT JOHN
IPC: A47K11/04
Filed: 2009-07-30
Abstract: An integrally moulded commode pan 1 comprising a recessed contoured receptacle zone 2 for receiving a contoured liner, and a marginal perimeter flange 4 extending about the recessed contoured receptacle zone 2. First and second slider mount formations 5 are provided at opposed sides of the pan, extending outwardly of the perimeter flange 4, enabling the pan to be slidably mounted to the underside of a commode seat with the perimeter flange held adjacent the underside of the commode seat. A handle portion 6 is provided at a rearward end of the commode pan. The pan may include a stop arrangement 8 to locate the pan in position.
Patent GB-2461650-A (GB)
Title: Probe seal having pressure-energized sealing elements for female hydraulic coupling member
Inventor: SMITH ROBERT E
IPC: F16L37/32
Filed: 2009-04-30
Abstract: A crown-type probe seal for a female hydraulic coupling member has one or more pressure-energized seals for sealing between the probe seal and the body of the coupling member which retains the probe seal. The generally ring-shaped probe seal has one or more annular fluid chambers in the wall of the seal's body. Each annular fluid chamber is open to the outer circumference of the probe seal. Hydraulic fluid under pressure may enter an annular thud chamber through its opening an exert a generally radial force as a result of a pressure differential. This radial force can act to increase the sealing effectiveness of the probe seal both to the body of the coupling member retaining the probe seal and to the probe of a male coupling member inserted in the receiving chamber of the female member.
Patent GB-2461199-A (GB)
Title: Lesion extent determination in a CT scan image
Inventor: DEHMESHKI JAMSHID
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 2004-06-23
Abstract: A method of identifying the extent of a lesion (figure 15: N) attached to a wall P in a computed tomography scan (CT or CAT scan) image of a lung comprises identifying a junction j1, j2 between the lesion and the wall and performing a fine segmentation to separate the image around the lesion into foreground F and background B, using a threshold based on the local contrast. The foreground region representing the lesion is grown, limited by the junction, to include background points while excluding foreground points not included within the foreground region, to create a mask M. The mask is used to derive a fuzzy connectivity map, from which the extent of the lesion is determined. Also disclosed is a method for determining the junction between a lesion and a wall.
Patent GB-2474438-A (GB)
Title: Seat device
Inventor: BURNS GARY JOHN
IPC: B60N2/75
Filed: 2009-10-13
Abstract: A vehicle seat device 10 comprising: a seat portion 20; and a seat belt guide provided at at least one lateral side of the seat portion, wherein the seat belt guide comprises: a first longitudinal member 100 pivotably connected to the seat portion such that it is rotatable from a first retracted position to a second position in which it extends upwards from the seat portion; and a second longitudinal member 110 pivotably connected to the first longitudinal member 100 such that it is rotatable from a first position in which it is substantially collinear with the first longitudinal member 100 to a second position in which it extends forwards from the first longitudinal member 100. The first and second longitudinal members may be adapted to rotate simultaneously. The vehicle seat may optionally be configured to provide a suitcase.
Patent GB-2475052-A (GB)
Title: Double clutch actuator, having first and second levers
Inventor: RENARD NICOLAS DAVID
IPC: F16D21/06
Filed: 2009-11-03
Abstract: A double clutch assembly 1 has a pivot axis 17 of a first lever 3 and a pivot axis 14 of a second lever 2 located at the same side of a first actuating element 18 and of a second actuating element 16, namely at the same side of the tubular element 18 and of the annular element 16. Furthermore, the first lever 3 is provided with a first lever actuation area 23 in form of the toe end area of the inner lever 3 for a first actuator device, for example a piston. The first actuating element in form of the tubular element 18 is situated in an area between the first lever actuation area 23 and the pivot axis of the first lever 17.
Patent GB-2461669-A (GB)
Title: Spectroscopic method and system for multi-factor biometric authentication
Inventor: PISHVA DAVAR
IPC: G06T1/00
Filed: 2007-05-08
Abstract: A multi-factor biometrics authentication method including the steps of: acquiring a non-spectrometric biometric signature (e.g. fingerprint, iris pattern, etc.) of a biometric signature source (e.g. fingertip, iris, etc.) of a subject to be authenticated (e.g. person); acquiring spectral information (e.g. diffuse reflectance spectrum, reflectance spectrum, etc.) of the biometric signature source; using the non-spectrometric biometric signature to determine the unique identity of the biometric signature source; and using the spectral information to verify that the subject to be authenticated belongs to a predetermined class of objects (e.g. living persons). A biometrics system (e.g. fingerprint authentication device, iris pattern authentication device) is augmented with spectral biometrics capability in a practical manner without introducing much overhead to the base biometrics technology or inconvenience to users.
Patent GB-2475907-A (GB)
Title: Composition comprising a mixture of clopidogrel and droloxifene
Inventor: GRAINGER DAVID JOHN
IPC: A61K31/138
Filed: 2009-12-04
Abstract: Composition comprising a mixture of clopidogrel and droloxifeneA composition comprising a mixture of droloifene, preferably droloxifene citrate, and clopidogrel, preferably clopidogrel bisulphate, for use in the treatment or prevention of a disorder associated with the loss of normal adult tissue architecture including autoimmune diseases, vascular disorders, asthma, allergic rhinitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), osteoporosis, tumour growth, organ transplant rejection, psoriasis, allergies, Alzheimer's disease Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and traumatic brain injury. Preferably the molar ratio of the two components within the composition is between 10:1 and 1:10. A composition comprising a compound formed by chemically linking droloifene and clopidogrel, in particular a compound of formula (I), for use in treating an inflammatory disorder is also provided.
Patent GB-477971-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to television and like systems
IPC: H04N5/06
Filed: 1936-04-04
Abstract: 477,971. Television. FERNSEH AKT.- GES. April 4, 1936, No. 10011. Void. Convention date, April 10, 1935. [Class 40 (iii)] Synchronizing impulses are produced as variations of current in a photoelectric device from which picture signals are derived, the impulses differing in amplitude and sense from the mean value of the picture signals, by (a) applying an additional steady illumination to the traverse area of the scanning device, or an adjacent area, and interrupting the additional illumination for the duration of each synchronizing impulse, or (b) producing an additional constant illumination of a portion of the traverse area. The invention may be applied to a spotlight transmitter, or to a transmitter in which a cathode-ray scans a photo-electric mosaic screen, or, as shown in the drawing, to apparatus in which a film is scanned by an apertured disc. In the device shown, a slit 7 close to the film 6 is illuminated by a lamp 5, part of the light from which 'is deflected by mirrors 9, 10, 11 and a lens system 12 to re-unite in a lens system 14 with the light passing through the film and lenses 13, so as to produce on a scanning disc 15 an image of the slit with an additional illumination superposed thereon. To extinguish the latter at the appropriate instants, there is provided a rotating shutter 17 geared to the scanning disc 15. The shutter has a transparent annular portion 18, the rest being opaque. The breadth of the portion 18 is slightly less than the distance 20 between adjacent scanning apertures in the disc 15, so that a line synchronizing signal is given during the transference from each aperture to the next. The shutter is geared so that it makes one revolution per frame, and the size of the opaque sector 21 is such that it produces a framing impulse of the required duration as it passes across the path of the scanning apertures. In modifications of this construction, an oscillating or intermittently moving screen may be used to mask the additional illumination; a separate auxiliary light source may be provided, and this may be intermittent, being extinguished for the duration of each synchronizing impulse.
Patent GB-351563-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to machines suitable for operating upon seams of boot or shoe uppers
IPC: A43D55/00
Filed: 1930-03-29
Abstract: 351,563. Applying tape to sheet materials. BRITISH UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CO., Ltd. and HAZELTON, G., Union Works, Belgrave Road, Leicester. March 29, 1930, No. 10047. [Class 73.] In a machine for taping a seam ridge projecting from a concave surface of a shoe upper, the ridge passes between portions of a guiding device which may render it ready to be operated on by pressing and taping means. As applied to the machine described in Specification 330,730, [Class 73, Labels &c.], for rubbing and taping the back seam of an upper, the feed roll 1 is shrouded by a cover 3 formed with a groove 4 along which the adhesive tape 5 passes. On one side of the cover is a wing 7 and on the other side a wing 8, both wings being springy and the latter adjustable away from the first to provide a slot 17 of variable width to guide the seam ridge. The wing 8 is carried by a springy arm 9 secured to the cover-plate 11 at 10 and biased inwardly, adjusting means comprising a thumb-screw 15 having a pin engaging a slot in a sleeve screwing into a boss in the plate 11. The corners 18 are rounded to plough up the margins of the material, and the parallel sides of the gap guide the ridge, in a straight line, to the tape and rubbing tool 2.
Patent GB-1241648-A (GB)
Title: Heterocyclically substituted thiadiazole derivatives, a process for their preparation and their use as herbicides
Inventor: RUECKER DIETRICH
IPC: C07D417/04
Filed: 1970-03-03
Abstract: 1,241,648. Substituted thiadiazole derivatives. FARBENFABRIKEN BAYER A.G. 3 March, 1970 [4 March, 1969], No. 10129/70. Heading C2C. [Also in Division A5] Novel substituted thiadiazole derivatives of the general formula wherein R is an alkyl, haloalkyl, haloalkoxyalkyl, alkylmercapto, alkenylmercapto, alkinylmercapto, alkylsulphoxide or alkylsulphone radical, R<SP>1</SP> is a C 1-4  alkyl radical and X is a carbonyl radical or sulphur atom, are prepared by reacting a compound of the general formula with an acid chloride of the formula in the presence of a diluent, preferably at a temperature of from 50 to 140 C. The starting materials of formula may be prepared by reacting a 5-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazole with an alkylisocyanate in the presence of an inert solvent such as benzene or tetrahydrofuran, at 10 to 100 C. Examples describe the preparation of compounds wherein R<SP>1</SP> is CH 3 , X is Co or S, and R is CF 3 , CH 3 So 2 , CH 3 S or (CH 3 ) 2 CH. The compounds of the invention may be used as herbicides.
Patent GB-260863-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in ash-pans for gas-producer furnaces
IPC: F23J1/00
Filed: 1926-01-15
Abstract: 260,863. Rainchon, L. Jan. 15, 1926. Ashpits. - The open lower end of a grateless gas-producer furnace forms an hydraulic joint with an ash-tank 10 containing water and carried on rollers 11. The tank is reciprocated by an eccentric 13 and rod 12, the position of the rollers causing the tank to move obliquely and to rise and fall relatively to the lower end off the furnace.
Patent GB-1304788-A (GB)
IPC: H04L13/18
Filed: 1971-04-21
Abstract: 1304788 Selective printing SIEMENS AG 21 April 1971 [21 April 1970] 10338/71 Heading B6F Variable line spacing.-A platen roller (1, Fig. 1) has a gear-wheel 2 fastened to the drive shaft thereof. The gear-wheel is driven by one or other of two internally-toothed prongs 3v (for forward drive) 3r (for reverse drive) of a feed fork 3. The fork 3 is reciprocated by a cam 5 which pivots a single arm lever 8 carrying a bell-crank lever 14 on a pivot 13. One arm of the bell-crank lever has a plurality of notches 14a, 14b, 14c defining single, one and a half and double spacing respectively. A connecting rod 15 pivoted to the drive fork 3 has a pin biassed into engagement with one of the notches by a spring 16. When an electromagnet 11 attracts its armature 10 against the bias of spring 9, the lever 8 is allowed to pivot about 7 as the cam 5 rotates. This provides a feed stroke of the fork 3 via bell-crank lever 14 and connecting rod 15. When the magnet is energized, an extension (20, Figs. 1 and 3) of the armature 10 allows a lever (22) to pivot about as a second cam (6) rotates. This has the effect of allowing an additional lever (24) pivoted at (25) to lever (22) to pivot under the influence of a spring (23), so that a rod (24a) attached to the lever (24) moves the drive fork 3 upwards, since the rod (24a) is engaged in a slot 26 in the fork 3. For reverse feed, an electromagnet (27) is energized to attract its armature (29) which engages a pin (28) fastened to the lever (24) between the pivot (25) and rod (24a). This has the effect of reversing the motion of rod (24a) as cam (6) rotates, so that drive fork 3 is moved downwards for its feed stroke. To accomodate occasional half-spacing, a control magnet 31 is provided, whose armature 32 is normally held in a position situated outside the range of movement of the bell-crank lever 14. However, when magnet 31 is energized, a roller 14d carried by lever 14 comes into contact with the rounded end of armature 32. Instead of lever 14 pivoting when lever 8 is pivoted by cam 5 it undergoes a parallel displacement along a small circular arc, corresponding to that of pivot pin 13. The connecting rod 15 therefore only moves the drive fork 3 a distance equivalent to a half-space.
Patent GB-181178-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to suspensions for perambulators and other vehicles
IPC: B62B9/18
Filed: 1921-04-09
Abstract: 181,178. Baker, H. V. April 9, 1921. Springs, arrangement of; frame construction.-In a spring suspension for perambulators and other vehicles and of the type comprising a lever pivoted to the body and coupled to the chassis or wheel frame and controlled by a resilient medium, the lever is coupled to the chassis &c. by straps of the kind in general use on perambulators. As shown, U-shaped levers b, c are pivoted at e to the body a of a perambulator and are connected by a spring d. Straps f are used to couple the upper ends of the levers to upward extensions of the wheel frame g<1>, which is composed of tubes coupled together at the horizontal portions and extended to support the body and to constitute a handle g.
Patent GB-401580-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in mechanism for driving a fin propeller
IPC: B63H1/08
Filed: 1933-04-07
Abstract: 401,580. Rotary propellers. MEINDERSMA, W., 167, Buurtweg, Wassenaar, The Hague. April 7, 1933, No. 10485. [Classes 4 and 114.] A rotary feathering fin propeller used as a propelling or power unit of the kind in which the axis of the fin describes a conical path and is feathered to the extent of half a revolution on its own axis for each complete revolution of the blade, is constructed with a driving mechanism comprising one member rotatable about an axis asymmetrical with regard to the oscillation centre and with another member which is slidably mounted on the propeller arm and with respect to the first member in a direction perpendicular to the driving axis. The driving shaft 1 carries an open frame 2 in which a rod 4 is journalled. This rod carries a part 5 having a keyed slidable connection 8 with an extension arm 6 of a paddle 12. The paddle is mounted on a spherical boss 7 supported by ball races 11 in a bracket 9. By adjusting the position of the spherical support in respect to the axis 14 of the shaft 1, the degree of feathering can be adjusted from a maximum ahead through a neutral position to a maximum astern. It may be used as a propeller for ships and aeroplanes, and also may act as a power unit such as a wind motor. The apparatus is also stated to be applicable for agitating fluids.