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Patent GB-2284400-A (GB)
Title: Automotive storage net
Inventor: MOORE DONAL
IPC: B60R5/04
Filed: 1993-04-26
Abstract: A storage net (10) useful in the stowage area (12) of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The storage net (10) comprises a storage area (18) having a front (20), a back (22) and two sides (24), the front (20) and back (22) being pivotally connected at one end (26). A mechanism (30) is included for providing a predetermined amount of longitudinal elasticity to the storage area (18). Further, the storage net (10) comprises a mechanism (56) for removably attaching the storage area (18) to a desired surface or to the storage area. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295118-A (GB)
Title: PCMCIA Card manufacturing process
Inventor: WU MICHAEL
IPC: H05K5/02
Filed: 1994-11-18
Abstract: In a PCMCIA (memory) card manufacturing process identical first and second cover members 110, 210 of metal, each having lateral edge flanges formed with a plurality of inward facing hooks, are placed in first and second molds in order to injection mold first and second U-shaped frame members 120, 220 onto the the hooks of the cover member being embedded within the legs of the frame member, to define first and second frame/cover sub-assemblies. A circuit board and associated electronic elements are disposed between the two sub-assemblies such that at least one connector is received within at least one notch formed in the sub-assemblies, and the sub-assemblies are secured together to form the PCMCIA card. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295486-A (GB)
Title: Piezo-electric switch
Inventor: HAYWARD GILBERT OSBORNE
IPC: H01L41/113
Filed: 1995-02-23
Abstract: A piezo-electric switch comprising a piezo-electric element 22 mounted in a housing (Fig. 1, not shown) so that mechanical force applied to an operating surface of the housing causes the piezo-electric element to generate an electrical signal, and circuitry connected to the piezo-electric element to receive the signal generated by the piezo-electric element and produce a change of state at output terminals (50, 52) of the switch, in which the circuitry is adapted to produce the change of state at the output terminals for a predetermined period following a first application of force to the operating surface of the housing and, if a second application of force to the operating surface occurs within the said period, to maintain the change of state at the output terminals until a third application of force to the operating surface. Also disclosed is a hand-held instrument for rapidly applying the second force after the first force, by striking the surface with the instrument (Fig. 3, not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290350-A (GB)
Title: Balancing in i.c.engines
Inventor: WESTPHAL CHRISTIAN
IPC: F16F15/20
Filed: 1995-05-25
Abstract: A secondary shaft 13 driven at a higher speed from the crankshaft 8 carries the flywheel 21 and the gearbox clutch 22 and provides balancing of the engine out of balance forces. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2304385-A (GB)
Title: Distributor pump for fuel
Inventor: COLLINGBORN PETER ALBAN GEORGE
IPC: F02M59/08
Filed: 1995-08-19
Abstract: A rotary distributor pump for delivering fuel to an internal combustion engine includes an accumulator (50) and a distributor member (40) which delivers fuel from the accumulator, in turn, to injectors (70) feeding the engine combustion spaces. The accumulator is charged by a plurality of pumping plungers (32) which are actuated by a face cam having cam lobes (28). The face cam and the distributor member are driven by a drive shaft (20). Three-way valves (56,58) are located between the accumulator and the distributor. Each valve is associated with a group of four injectors and controls the delivery of fuel to each of its injectors. During the period when fuel is passing from the accumulator to an injector via the distributor, the associated valve is switched to break the communication between the accumulator and the injector, and instead connect the injector to low pressure so terminating the delivery.
Patent GB-2295790-A (GB)
Title: Finishing trowel
Inventor: KELSAY CURTIS DWIGHT
IPC: B25G1/10
Filed: 1995-11-28
Abstract: A finishing trowel 11 comprised of a blade 13, a mounting 15 and a handle 19, wherein the handle is hollow and has a square mounting hole (39, Fig 3) for receiving a square mounting surface. A plastic handle is comprised of a durable inner core material 31 and a grippable outer member 33. The handle's inner core includes deformable ribs (41, Fig 3) which axially line the mounting hole and provide a secure, lash-free fit onto the mounting surface over a broader range of manufacturing tolerances for the parts. The handle also includes an endcap 47 which cuts into and seals the endcap against an outer grippable material upon tightening of a flanged nut 65 onto the mounting. A lip 35 extends from the handle and encompasses a portion of the mounting 17 to facilitate increased torque transfer from the handle to the mounting and blade. The replaceable handle can also be formed of other grippable materials such as wood. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296571-A (GB)
Title: System and method for monitoring substances and reactions
Inventor: SCOTT BENTLEY N
IPC: G01N22/00
Filed: 1994-07-26
Abstract: Systems, methods, and probe devices for electronic monitoring and characterization using single-ended coupling of a load-pulled oscillator to a system under test. For example, a planar, tapered probe (13) could be implemented. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299640-A (GB)
Title: Shearable fastener
Inventor: HOLLICK DAVID JOHN
IPC: H01R4/36
Filed: 1996-04-02
Abstract: A shearable fastener has a threaded shank (10) adapted for engagement with a threaded bore and a head (12) formed for engagement with a drive tool. The shank (10) is formed with a series of axially separated weakenings (14) such that the applied torque necessary to cause the shank (10) to shear increases progressively from the weakening (14) furthest from the head (12) to the weakening (14) nearest the head (12). The diameter of the shank (10) may increase from tip (11) to the head (12). The depth of thread may decrease towards the head (12).
Patent GB-2298279-A (GB)
Title: Method of detecting residual quantity of gas in cassette type gas cylinder and apparatus therefor
Inventor: MIFUNE HIDEO
IPC: F23K5/14
Filed: 1995-08-01
Abstract: A gas cylinder is set on a gas appliance on the basis of the knowledge that a resonance frequency of a cassette type gas cylinder does not vary with a residual quantity of a gas therein, and a transmitter and a receiver are set in positions, which are determined on the basis of a position opposed to a weld zone of a trunk portion of the gas cylinder, and which permit an output voltage of the receiver with respect to a residual quantity of the gas to be detected at a specific resonance frequency of the gas cylinder to become not lower than a predetermined level, the residual quantity of a liquified gas in the cylinder being detected by transmitting the specific resonance frequency signal from the transmitter and detecting a reception output of not lower than a predetermined level by the receiver. This enables a residual quantity of the gas in the liquified gas-containing cassette type gas cylinder to be detected reliably from the outside.
Patent GB-2301037-A (GB)
Title: A device for detecting stimulated working currents of the heart.
Inventor: RAHN NORBERT
IPC: A61N1/362
Filed: 1996-05-20
Abstract: A device for detecting stimulated working currents of the heart has a stimulating catheter 8 that delivers stimulation signals to the heart. An ECG system 6 and electrodes 4 measure surface potentials corresponding to natural working currents and stimulated currents. These measured values are supplied to a processing unit 24 in accordance with a trigger signal which also activates the stimulation catheter. Thus measured values corresponding to the stimulus can be identified and evaluated. In Body Surface Potential Mapping a potential map is calculated and supplied to a visual display device. A physician can compare this map with one created from an anomalous working current of the heart. If the two maps are the same then the catheter is situated at the location of the anomaly. Catheter ablation can then proceed.
Patent GB-2306229-A (GB)
Title: Diffusely reflective display cell
Inventor: LOWE ANTHONY C
IPC: G02F1/1335
Filed: 1996-09-09
Abstract: To produce a paper like display a diffuser 28 is mounted on on the front substrate 12 of a display cell which is also provided with a reflective pixel electrode on the other substrate 14. The diffuser is preferably a volume or surface relief hologram and provides a low backscatter. The display includes an electrooptic medium which may be liquid crystal, electrochromic or electrophoretic and is specularly reflective or weakly scattering..
Patent GB-2305804-A (GB)
Title: Interpolating pixels for video signal scanning format conversion
Inventor: SEUNG SUNG JAE
IPC: H04N7/01
Filed: 1996-09-26
Abstract: A bi linear interpolation method for pixels in video format conversion prevents deterioration of the picture quality by using more pixels than the conventional interpolation method. When a horizontal ratio is * capital Greek delta *1, a vertical ratio is * capital Greek delta *2, and eight pixels on two adjacent lines at an interpolation position are used, a final interpolation signal is given by the following equations:  ```I1=(1-* capital Greek delta *1)(1-* capital Greek delta *2)A1+(1-* capital Greek delta *1)* capital Greek delta *2A2+* capital Greek delta *1(1-* capital Greek delta *2)A3+* capital Greek delta *1* capital Greek delta *2A4; ```I2=(1-* capital Greek delta *1)(1-* capital Greek delta *2)B1+(1-* capital Greek delta *1)* capital Greek delta *2B2+* capital Greek delta *1(1-* capital Greek delta *2)B3+* capital Greek delta *1* capital Greek delta *2B4; and ```I=* small Greek alpha *I1+(1-* small Greek alpha *)(I2+I3)/2 or using twelve pixels:- ```I1=(1-* capital Greek delta *1)(1-* capital Greek delta *2)A1+(1-* capital Greek delta *1)* capital Greek delta *2A2+* capital Greek delta *1(1-* capital Greek delta *2)A3+* capital Greek delta *1* capital Greek delta *2A4; ```I2=(1-* capital Greek delta *1)(1-* capital Greek delta *2)B1+(1-* capital Greek delta *1)* capital Greek delta *2B2+* capital Greek delta *1(1-* capital Greek delta *2)B3+* capital Greek delta *1* capital Greek delta *2B4; ```I3=(1-* capital Greek delta *1)(1-* capital Greek delta *2)C1+(1-* capital Greek delta *1)* capital Greek delta *2C2+* capital Greek delta *1(1-* capital Greek delta *2)C3+* capital Greek delta *1* capital Greek delta *2C4; and ```I=* small Greek alpha *I1+(1-* small Greek alpha *)(I2+I3)/2 where d is an experimentally determined coupling coefficient.
Patent GB-2302556-A (GB)
Title: A device for oil production at great depths at sea
Inventor: GULBRANDSEN H VARD
IPC: E21B43/01
Filed: 1995-04-11
Abstract: In a device for oil production at great depths at sea, production/drilling equipment is provided on a floating structure (2) at the surface of the sea, such as a platform structure or a vessel structure, for instance a ship, which is connected to a flotation unit (5) under water, which is anchored with a tension mooring (4) to the sea floor and with a riser system (6) which extends upwardly to the deck (9) of the structure. The structure (2) is equipped with an open vertical frame construction (8), such as a trusswork projecting downwardly in the water, the lower part of which forms a guide (17) and protection for the flotation unit (5). The rigid risers (4) from the sea bed continue up with the system (6) through the flotation unit (5) and further, enclosed by the frame (8) up to the level of the deck (9) above the water surface, where they are terminated in a Christmas tree device (7), or a manifold. A flexible riser system (11) extends from the valve arrangement (7), e.g. in a pendulous arc to the deck (9), the pipes (11) being dimensioned to permit a maximum height displacement between deck and flotation unit.
Patent GB-2312081-A (GB)
Title: Text-based video editing system
Inventor: MILLER ROBERT E
IPC: G11B19/02
Filed: 1997-04-01
Abstract: A video editing system provides dynamic synchronization of recorded video elements with a script text to be read by an announcer or displayed while the video element is played. The script text may be created and edited in a text window 72. Raw video clips may be selected and previewed in a video window 150. Video clips are linked to the script text by embedding control sequences into the text at selected points. The control sequences are linked through a link table to edits in an edit decision list (EDL) that defines the video clips to be synchronized to the script text. A text scanning routine scans the script text and updates the EDL to reflect changes to the script text to maintain synchronization between the script text and linked video clip segments. The editing system may be used to prepare news stories for broadcast, wherein the EDL is used to generate the video portion of the broadcast with the synchronized text displayed for reading by a news announcer.
Patent GB-2312100-A (GB)
Title: Method for designing E-plane bandpass filter with conductive strip
Inventor: YUN EUN-CHUL
IPC: H01P1/207
Filed: 1997-03-27
Abstract: A method of designing an E-plane bandpass filter having a conductive strip and a resonator is described. Firstly, design parameters of the E-plane bandpass filter are designed by way of network synthesis. Next the frequency response of the E-plane bandpass filter is optimized by evaluating an error function corresponding to the difference between the desired frequency response and a transfer function of the E-plane bandpass filter and varying the input parameters of the transfer function. Thus, the lengths of the conductive strip and the resonator which optimize the frequency response are determined.
Patent GB-2311732-A (GB)
Title: Golf ball
Inventor: KATO AKIRA
IPC: C08L77/00
Filed: 1997-04-04
Abstract: The golf ball comprises a solid center, a thread rubber layer formed by winding a thread rubber around the solid center and a cover formed on the thread rubber layer, the solid center having a diameter of 30 to 38 mm and a surface hardness, measured by a JIS-C hardness tester, of 40 to 80, a difference in hardness between the center and surface of the solid center being within 5, the cover being formed of a base resin containing an ionomer resin as a main component the cover having a flexural modulus of 300 to 600 MPa and a hardness, measured by a Shore D-scale hardness tester, of 60 to 80.
Patent GB-2312561-A (GB)
Title: A resonant antenna
Inventor: AOKI KOUTA
IPC: H01Q1/24
Filed: 1997-04-11
Abstract: The antenna comprises an antenna element 1 having a first electrical length and a feeding point 2. A coaxial cable 8 has a second electrical length and couples the feeding point 2 to a radio wave circuit 6. The first and second electrical lengths are determined so that the combination of antenna element and coaxial cable resonates at the frequency of interest. A resonant condition provides a standing wave along the antenna element and the outer conductor 4 (see fig. 2). Preferably both the first and the second electrical lengths are substantially one quarter of the wavelength in use (* small Greek lambda */4), and the coaxial cable may be flexible. The outer conductor 4 acts as an emission element, so that an unbalanced current can be prevented and so a balun is not necessary. As the coaxial cable is flexible, the antenna element 1 and the radio wave circuit 6 can be brought together, so that the antenna apparatus can be miniaturized.
Patent GB-2327135-A (GB)
Title: Dynamic presentation of frequently changing values
Inventor: CLARK DAVID
IPC: G06F3/0484
Filed: 1997-07-18
Abstract: A user interface component, eg a gauge, adapted to present a changing value according to a predetermined behavioural and presentational characteristic comprises a kernel adapted to display a presentation value, a control interface through which an external system communicates the changing value to the kernel and a behaviour interface through which the behavioural characteristic of the component is controlled. The behaviour interface may be a Java interface with a method which calculates the next value for the presentation value. This may be an "immediate" behaviour, which simply returns the current changing value, a "linear" behaviour where the presentation moves towards the changing value by up to a maximum amount each time or an "inertial" behaviour modelling damped simple harmonic motion. The component may give some form of indication when the presentation value is curtently equal to the changing value.
Patent GB-2315782-A (GB)
Title: Clothes washer having a pulsator apparatus
Inventor: NA JAE-HYUN
IPC: D06F17/08
Filed: 1997-07-31
Abstract: A clothes basket having a pulsator apparatus comprising a first pulsator 20 disposed above a bottom portion of a clothes basket 2 and rotated by a motor 4, A driving gear wheel 42 is provided rotatably in the first pulsator 20. Rotation of the driving gear wheel 42 causes a second pulsator 30 meshed with it to rotate. A ring shape idle gear 46 guides the rotation of the driving gear wheel and is positioned on the bottom portion of the clothes basket 2. Rotation of the pulsator 20 moves the gear wheel axis so that the near wheel is caused to rotate. The wheel 42 may have a rubber rim, in which case it engages rubber parts. In an alternative embodiment (Fig 3) the second pulsators are driven via a turbine (140) that is driven by the swirl of the washing liquid.
Patent GB-2316492-A (GB)
Title: Method for selectively testing for leakage of combustion chambers of internal combustion engines
Inventor: MAGIERA RALF
IPC: G01M3/02
Filed: 1997-08-15
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for selectively testing leakage of combustion chambers in cylinders of internal combustion chambers when the engine is operated with the combustion process suppressed. The internal combustion engine is provided with means for measuring the crankshaft rotation angle and for measuring the instantaneous rotational speed of the crankshaft and wherein the leakage of the combustion chambers is tested during expansion of the gas mixture during the combustion stroke and/or during compression of the gas mixture during the compression stroke of the cylinders of the internal combustion engine. The leakage is detected by observing the reduced value of the instantaneous RPM for a leaky cylinder from a plot of the curve of RPM as a function of the angle of rotation of the crankshaft.
Patent GB-2320605-A (GB)
Title: Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same
Inventor: ITOH NOBUYUKI
IPC: G02F1/1343
Filed: 1997-11-28
Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of transparent substrates disposed oppositely to each other and a liquid crystal layer composed of ferroelectric liquid crystal and formed between the transparent substrates. A plurality of transparent electrodes (5,10) are disposed on the transparent substrates, so as to mutually cross between the transparent substrates, for applying voltage across the liquid crystal layer in the crossing portions. Colour filters of R, G, and B colours (19) are disposed on one of the transparent substrates, for forming single-colour pixels in a matrix form in the crossing portions of the transparent electrodes. A light blocking film (20) is further disposed on the transparent substrate having the colour filters, wherein the single-colour pixels are divided in area into a plurality of subpixel areas in order to carry out half-tone display, and the light blocking film (20) blocks light between the single-colour pixels and between the subpixel areas. The invention also comprises a method of manufacturing the liquid crystal display device.
Patent GB-2317615-A (GB)
Title: Antifungal agent compound therefor process for producing the same
Inventor: KODAMA HIROKI
IPC: A61P31/10
Filed: 1996-07-05
Abstract: R-(+)-(E)- 4-(2-Chlorophenyl)-1,3-dithiolan-2-ylidene-1-imidazolylacetonitrile, R-(-)-(E)- 4-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,3-dithiolan-2-ylidene-1-imidazolylacetonitrile, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which can be used as a pharmaceutical agent are disclosed. A process for producing them and a method for treating mycoses using them are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2321666-A (GB)
Title: Fabric connecting device and garment incorporating such a device
Inventor: STEVENSON ELIZABETH GERALDINE
IPC: A44B6/00
Filed: 1998-01-29
Abstract: A device for temporarily connecting together two ends of a piece of fabric comprises first and second attachment means, for example loops (11) through which the fabric is passed, for releasably holding a respective gathered end portion of the fabric and weighted linking means (10) for connecting the first and second attachment means together.
Patent GB-2321865-A (GB)
Title: Adjustment of the gearing of a hand machine tool
Inventor: BERNER GERD
IPC: B25F5/00
Filed: 1998-01-30
Abstract: A hand machine tool, such as hand band sander 10, has a housing 112 and 212 containing a ring gear 115 and pinion 215 gearing, the ring gear 115 being non-rotatably attached to an output shaft 91 towards an end thereof supported in a rolling-contact bearing 95. The clearance between the pinion 215 and ring gear 115 being adjusted to accommodate unavoidable manufacturing variations in the tool by axial movement of the output shaft 91 through rotation of an adjusting disc 94 on which the bearing 95 is supported. The adjusting disc 94 and the adjacent wall of the housing 112 preferably have means 96, 196 (and Figs. 3-6, 100 and 1100) to secure the disc 94 in its rotary position. The ring gear 115 is supported in a grease cup 98 that also serves as a spring, pressing the output shaft 91 and the bearing 95 towards the adjusting disc 94.
Patent GB-2322406-A (GB)
Title: Clamp
Inventor: MARTIN ROBERT GEORGE
IPC: F16L3/10
Filed: 1998-02-04
Abstract: A clamp for attachment to the external surface of offshore conduits or pipes comprises beams 16 connected by bolts 20 and acting via inner beams 14 on bearing shoes 10. Either or both sets of beams may be flexible; or there may be a flexible connection therebetween. In an alternative embodiment (figures 10, 11) flexion is provided by longitudinal beams (134) clamping the jaws of a part-circular clamp. In the embodiment of figures 12 - 14 torsion bars provide the flexure.
Patent GB-2326185-A (GB)
Title: Sealing tape, particularly a glazing tape, with a non-perpendicular edge
Inventor: STERN GERALD WILLIAM
IPC: E06B3/62
Filed: 1998-03-19
Abstract: A sealing tape, particularly a glazing tape 26, 27, comprises a continuous strip of cellular compressible resilient material, such as rubber or plastics, particularly polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene or EPDM rubber, and having substantially flat cross-section and which may be attached by adhesive. At least one of the shorter edges 17 (and 13-16, figures 1-4) of that section is inclined to the substantially flat faces of the strip. The inclined surface may be straight 17, (13), arcuate (14, 15), or corrugated (16) and is modified, either mechanically or by a separate film or fabric finishing material, so as to present a generally smooth finish. A lip 18 may be provided which assists in the location of the tape during assembly. Any of the tape, finishing material, or adhesive may include material to inhibit degradation by ultra-violet light.