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Patent GB-2327696-A (GB)
Title: A Tyre Deflation Device
Inventor: MARSH HUGH
IPC: E01F13/12
Filed: 1997-06-18
Abstract: A tyre deflation device (10) comprises a cover (11), a plurality of deflators (26), a resilient biasing means (27), and a lock (28). The tyre deflation device (10) has a first mode of operation in which the cover (11) covers the deflators (26) and is locked in place by the lock (28) so that a tyre of a vehicle may be driven over the cover (11) with no resulting damage. In a second mode of operation, actuated by the lock (28), the cover (11) covers the deflators (26) when a load less than a predetermined limit is applied to the cover (11). This limit is determined by the action of the resilient biasing means (27) on the cover. When a load greater than the predetermined limit is applied to the cover (11) by the tyre of a vehicle, the cover (11) is depressed thus exposing the deflators (26) which act to puncture and deflate that tyre.
Patent GB-2327276-A (GB)
Title: Aligning an optical source with an optical fibre in an optical module
Inventor: WIDMAN MICHAEL
IPC: H01S5/00
Filed: 1997-07-14
Abstract: An optical module 12 has an optical source 40, such as a light-emitting diode or a surface-emitting laser, on a carrier 16 with a first alignment means 50 and an optical ferrule 14 with a complementary second alignment means 28 supporting an optical fibre 30, such that, when the two alignment means are aligned, the optical source and the optical fibre are aligned. Power is supplied to the optical source 40 by electrically conducting pads 44,46. The carrier 16 may be a metal lead frame 42 and the alignment means may be a pair of holes and a pair of pins, or two pairs of holes 32,50 connected by a pair of pins 34. More than one optical source may be included on the carrier. The optical source 40 may be attached to the lead frame 42 by flip-chip bonding.
Patent GB-2319362-A (GB)
Title: Device for selecting, displaying and controlling speeds
Inventor: HELLMAN MANFRED
IPC: G09F9/00
Filed: 1997-11-10
Abstract: The device comprises a first control unit 301 which regulates the speed and or acceleration of a vehicle and a second control unit 305 which controls a display which shows at least the instantaneous vehicle speed and a set speed in a form vFA, vsetA, which is modified from the actual speed vF and the actual set speed by a speed deviation * capital Greek delta *v1 and a set speed deviation * capital Greek delta *v2 respectively. The second control unit also includes means 306, 307 with which the next higher and lower selectable speeds vs+, vs-, va+, va- can be defined. The selectable desired speeds are transmitted to the first control unit 310 as control parameters. The system overcomes the so-called speedometer lead problem, in which the set speed and indicated actual speed can be different even when a cruise control system is operating correctly.
Patent GB-2319301-A (GB)
Title: An electromagnetically actuated valve for an i.c. engine having a play compensating device
Inventor: BALLMANN RAINER
IPC: F01L9/20
Filed: 1997-11-12
Abstract: A device for electromagnetically actuating a gas exchange valve 9 for an internal combustion engine is provided with an actuator unit which has an armature plate 6 and switching magnets 1, 2 arranged on either side of the armature plate 6. The actuator unit can slidably move in a floating manner in the cylinder head 7. A play compensating device 8, with a piston 14 acting as a barrier between first pressure space 16 and second pressure space 17, is arranged on or in the actuator unit, preferably coaxial to a valve stem 13. The first and second pressure spaces 16, 17 are connected by a non-return valve 18 and fluid may be discharged from the second pressure space 17 via an annular gap 28 acting as a throttle. By supplying fluid under pressure through hose 21 to first pressure space 16 play between armature 6 and magnet 1 may be corrected allowing the valve to close. By discharging fluid from the second pressure space 17 play between valve stem 13 and guide pin 5 can be eliminated allowing the valve 9 to open fully.
Patent GB-2321494-A (GB)
Title: A motor vehicle door lock
Inventor: BARTEL PETER
IPC: E05B81/54
Filed: 1997-12-12
Abstract: A motor vehicle door lock, particularly for motor vehicles with a central locking and theft protection device, having, amongst other components, a motor/transmission unit (1), a lock plate (2), a closing mechanism (3), a locking mechanism (4), and a lock housing (5) made of plastics, wherein the lock housing comprises a housing baseplate (6) with a housing cover, as well as electrical conductors which are injection-moulded in, has the conductors (8) injection-moulded into the housing cover (7), from which the connection pins (9) of the conductors (8) are led out (for connecting the conductors to the control electronics and/or to a power source), has the housing cover (7) provided with a receiver pocket (10) for the motor/transmission unit (1), which motor/transmission unit is connected to and is in contact with conductor elements (11) protruding from the plastics of the housing cover (7), and the housing cover (7) has receiver formations (12) into which operating or control switches (13) of the control electronics are inserted, which switches interact with components of the locking mechanism (4) disposed on the housing baseplate (6).
Patent GB-2322435-A (GB)
Title: Suspending equipment
Inventor: FACEY HUGH DAVID
IPC: F16G11/10
Filed: 1998-02-04
Abstract: A method of suspending equipment 40 from an overhead structural member 37 comprises providing a first eye 36 on the overhead member 37, providing a suspension strand 20 with a loop 21 at one end, passing the other, free, end 38 of the strand 20 through the eye 36 and through the loop 21, passing the free end 38 of the strand 20 through one bore 24A of a locking device 23 of the type having twin bores at least one of which is associated with wedging means preventing withdrawal in the opposite direction to insertion, providing a second eye 39 on the equipment 40 to be suspended, passing the free end 38 of the strand 20 through the eye 39 on the equipment 40, and passing the free end 38 of the strand 20 through the other bore 24B of the aforesaid device 23.
Patent GB-2322776-A (GB)
Title: Backward adaptive prediction of audio signals
Inventor: YIN LIN
IPC: G10L19/02
Filed: 1998-02-06
Abstract: Consecutive frames of an audio signal are transformed into the frequency domain using a modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) so as to generate a stream of spectral data values for each spectral component. A set of linear prediction coefficients are calculated for each spectral value and are based on a predetermined number of previously determined reconstructed values. The coefficients are recalculated only after receiving several spectral values and thus the same coefficients are used for several consecutive predictions before being updated. A predicted spectral value is generated using the coefficients and the error between the predicted and actual spectral values is calculated. The rate at which the coefficients are updated may be variable. A decoder for receiving and decoding the error values is also disclosed. Application is to a mobile phone system.
Patent GB-2334933-A (GB)
Title: A blind for a vehicle mounted on or within the vehicle's sun visors
Inventor: CLIFT NICOLAS
IPC: B60J1/20
Filed: 1998-03-05
Abstract: The blind which can be secured to the vehicle's sun visors 3, 4 with compressive clips 6, 7 comprises parallel rails 8, 9 that have an opaque sheet 10 there between. The weight of the lower rail 9 acts to retain the blind in an expanded state or alternatively struts may be provided to hold the rails apart or the lower rail may have a sucker to secure it to the vehicle dashboard. The sheet may be stored on a roll held within one of the rails or it may be expanded between the rails either elastically or in a concertinaed fashion. The rails may be hinged to allow easy storage of the blind when it is not in use or alternatively, as shown in Figure 2, the blind may be housed within the sun visors. A thermal sensor may be provided to release the lower rail and expand the sheet automatically.
Patent GB-2340625-A (GB)
Title: Countdown timer unit
Inventor: GRETTON RONALD WESTON
IPC: H01H43/02
Filed: 1998-07-06
Abstract: A timer unit 10 includes input pin connectors in the form of a plug for electrically connecting the unit to a domestic power socket. The unit also includes an electrical outlet switch for electrically connecting the input pins to the outlet. A Count-down timer is activated to countdown for a predetermined time period to operate the switch to disconnect the input pin connectors from the outlet. The unit may countdown to connect the power, or may be incorporated in a different part of the supply line.
Patent GB-2328103-A (GB)
Title: Processing composite image frames comprising computer graphics and video portions
Inventor: ENSOR JAMES ROBERT
IPC: G06T15/10
Filed: 1998-07-28
Abstract: A mix of computer graphics and video is employed to display images, and more particularly, the ratio of computer graphics to video is adjusted as a function of the available processing and transport capacity. The function for adjusting the ratio of computer graphics to video may also be dependent on the motion of the viewer's viewpoint.
Patent GB-2329067-A (GB)
Title: Electromagnetic alignment and scanning apparatus
Inventor: EBIHARA AKIMITSU
IPC: G03F9/00
Filed: 1995-06-21
Abstract: A system for exposing a pattern of a reticle 44 onto an object situated below the mask comprises apparatus capable of high accuracy positioning and motion control which uses one or more linear motors to move a stage 14 in one long linear direction and a small yaw rotation in plane. A carrier/follower 60 holding a single voice coil motor (VCM) 70 is controlled to follow the stage in the linear motion direction. The carrier/follower provides an electromagnetic force to move the stage in a direction perpendicular to the long linear direction, in order to ensure proper alignment. One element of the linear commutated motor is mounted upon a freely suspended drive frame 22, called a balancing portion, which moves in the opposite direction to the stage by a reaction force to maintain the centre of gravity of the apparatus. A laser interfrometry system LBX1, LBX2, LBY, 50X1, 50X2, 50Y detects the exact position and orientation of the stage.
Patent GB-2330381-A (GB)
Title: Hinge for a Foldable Device
Inventor: MURRAY MICHAEL PATRICK
IPC: H04M1/02
Filed: 1998-10-12
Abstract: A foldable device, such as an electronic device, e.g. a radiotelephone, comprises two housings and a hinge (3800) rotatably coupling the housings together, where the hinge comprises a cam (3802) whose profile (317) defines two bearing surfaces (3818,3819), and a follower (3804) with a body (3820), an arm (3822) and a head (3824) comprising two fingers whose tips are non-symmetrical and respectively contact the two bearing surfaces, and a post (See figure 5). The cam (3802) has a male element (3814) received by female socket (3862) and keeps the cam stationary. The follower is movable along the axis (3876) but has ribs (3834,3838,3846,3848) to eliminate rotation about the axis (3876). A spring (3806) biases the follower (3820) against the cam (3910). One of the housings comprises two knuckles (206,208), and the other housing comprises a central knuckle (210) aligned between the two knuckles of the first housing. The central knuckle has a pocket (3858) to retain the hinge parts, and an aperture (3860) to receive the arm (3822).
Patent GB-2331293-A (GB)
Title: Safety spring for a keg valve fitting
Inventor: SKERRA HELMUT WILHELM
IPC: B67D1/08
Filed: 1998-11-13
Abstract: A safety spring 18 for a keg valve fitting 10 has means such as a protruding portion 52 for preventing accidental removal of the spring through an aperture A. The protruding portion may be formed as an outward kink in the spring winding. The spring may also be attached to a seal carrying plate 20 by means such as crimping lugs (44, fig 4), welding or soft soldering to prevent accidental removal of the plate from the spring.
Patent GB-2346645-A (GB)
Title: Roller assembly
Inventor: HARVEY CHARLES JOHN
IPC: E05D15/06
Filed: 1999-02-10
Abstract: A roller assembly 22 has a roller 26 which guides a sliding panel, typically along a rail. To reduce the chance of the roller 26 being damaged on obstructions in its path, rollers mountings 28 project down to a level at least covering the roller 26. The projection of the roller 26 and mountings 28 below the panel can be adjusted by an adjusting means 30, for example screw adjusting mechanism. The adjusting means 30 pushes or pulls the roller 26 and mountings 28 within the assembly 22, which serves to raise and lower the height of the mountings 28 as they are guided by projections 34 within slots 32 set at an acute angle B to the loading of the panel on the roller assembly 22.
Patent GB-2336719-A (GB)
Title: Sidewall insulating films for field effect transistors
Inventor: ITO SHINYA
IPC: H01L29/49
Filed: 1999-04-20
Abstract: The transistor comprises a gate insulating film 2, a gate electrode 3, a source-drain region 7 and a sidewall insulating film formed at a sidewall of the gate electrode, wherein the sidewall insulating film has a double layered structure made up of a TEOS NSG film 5 which is in contact with both the sidewall of the gate electrode and the surface of the semiconductor substrate and a silicon nitride film 6 which is formed on the TEOS NSG film. The transistor provides an improvement in the hot carrier resistance and is highly reliable, with the ON current showing little change over a long period.
Patent GB-2337421-A (GB)
Title: Reflector circuit with frequency selective amplification
Inventor: FORSTER IAN JAMES
IPC: G01S13/78
Filed: 1999-04-23
Abstract: A reflector circuit 1, particularly for use in a pseudo passive transponder (PPT) tag or as radar chaff, receives illuminating radiation 4 and responds by radiating corresponding output radiation 6 of increased magnitude relative to the received radiation 4. The circuit 1 comprises antenna means 2 for receiving and re-radiating radiation and processing means for amplifying and storing for a period of time, a portion of the signal received from the antenna 2 for use as the output radiation 6. The processing means provides frequency selective amplification in response to the magnitude of components present in the illuminating radiation 4 such that amplification is reduced for components of the illuminating radiation 4 that are likely to cause overload, saturation or distortion in the circuit 1. Frequency selective limiting and signal storage may be provided by a delay line 8, preferably a magnetostatic wave delay line (MWDL). Other types of delay line, e.g. optical, SAW, BAW, coaxial cable may be used for signal storage. Amplification may be via reflection amplification means 10 or transmission amplification means (8, figures 4 and 5) and switches may be incorporated to counteract spontaneous oscillation within the circuit.
Patent GB-2336916-A (GB)
Title: Thermosensitive stencil
Inventor: NATORI YUJI
IPC: B41N1/24
Filed: 1999-04-27
Abstract: A thermosensitive stencil has a thermoplastic resin support and a porous resin layer, containing a resin and a needle-like filler with a Mohs hardness of 4.0 or more. The stencil is produced by dissolving a resin in a mixed solvent of a good solvent and a bad solvent with respect to the resin to prepare a resin-dissolved solvent mixture, dispersing a needle-like filler with a Mohs hardness of 4.0 or more in the resin-dissolved solvent mixture to prepare a coating liquid, applying the coating liquid to the thermoplastic resin film, and drying the coating liquid. Preferred fillers are aluminium borate, titanium oxide and potassium titanate and the resin layer may also contain a polymeric dispersant.
Patent GB-2354348-A (GB)
Title: Data storage apparatus with regions for different purposes
Inventor: LEVETT MARTYN ERIC
IPC: G11B23/03
Filed: 1999-09-14
Abstract: A data storage apparatus (10) comprises a portable substrate (12) and a plurality of data storage media associated with respective regions of the substrate, where data for different purposes is recorded in the media. One of the media may comprise an optical medium, and may function as a compact disc for storing audio data, with an aperture (16) for use in a CD player. Alternatively this media could be a CD-ROM or a DVD, and the data could represent pages from a telephone manufacturer's web site. The substrate may be rectangular, in the form of a card. A further media (20) may enable the card to be used as a phone card, and may comprise two numbers, one of which is initially covered by a scratch-off panel.
Patent GB-2337589-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for automatically inoculating culture media with bacterial specimens from clinical specimen containers
Inventor: NACCARATO FRANK
IPC: C12M1/26
Filed: 1998-03-17
Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for automatically positioning specimen containers and culture medium containers, transferring specimen samples from the containers to the culture medium, the samples being positioned at predetermined locations, and automatically streaking a pattern on the culture medium after deposition of the sample.
Patent GB-2344723-A (GB)
Title: Message dissemination in a radio communication network
Inventor: BRIESEMEISTER LINDA
IPC: H04B7/26
Filed: 1999-10-15
Abstract: In a method for dissemination of a message in an incomplete radio communications network (2) with a changing number of subscribers (4 to 12) for the passing-on of the message, wherein each subscriber has transmitting and receiving equipment for messages and a positioning system for ascertaining the global position of that subscriber, subscribers (6 to 12) after reception of the message ascertain their own position and the distance to the sender of the message, who is also a subscriber (4), and send the message with their own position after a predetermined waiting time. The waiting time decreases monotonically with increasing distance to further subscribers (6 to 12). This results in a rapid transmission, which does not unduly load the radio communications network (2), of the message.
Patent GB-2346042-A (GB)
Title: Sound monitoring apparatus
Inventor: RYCROFT CHRISTOPHER
IPC: G08B21/02
Filed: 1999-11-10
Abstract: A monitor system comprising a sound detecting device, a signal transmitting mean for transmitting a signal indicative of the sound heard, receiving device which can be positioned remote from the sound detecting device for receiving the transmitted signal and speaker means and/or visual means for representing the sound to the user. In addition, the system incorporates a synthesiser and microprocessor control system which allows selection of one or a number of a range of frequency values stored in the system to be used to transmit the signal from the signal emitter to the signal receiver. The microprocessor control system also allows the channels to have security codes attached, thereby reducing cross interference from other systems. The signal may be digitally modulated.
Patent GB-2348275-A (GB)
Title: Radiant gas burner
Inventor: POMPE ANTHONY L A
IPC: F23D14/14
Filed: 1999-11-16
Abstract: A surface combustion burner produced from a single box made from gas tight heat resisting material containing a multiplicity of individual compartments 2a running horizontally along its length, each being supplied with its own gas/air mixture via an injector jet 1 and venturi 2 mounted at the inlet end. These injectors are vertically mounted and controlled from a multi-way control tap. A burner "plaque" pierced with a multiplicity of small orifices in straight lines or patterns cover the burner box attached by L shaped brackets 7 fixed with screws. The heat input may vary in accordance with the width and length of the compartment(s).
Patent HU-T62890-A (HU)
Title: Process for producing benzothiazole derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds
Inventor: OKAMATO YASUSHI
IPC: C07D277/82
Filed: 1992-04-03
Abstract: A benzothiazole derivative or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof which is useful as a preventive or therapeutic agent for diseases on which functions of suppressing leukotrienes and thromboxanes production are effective. A benzothiazole derivative represented by the following general formula (I): <CHEM> wherein R<1> and R<3> are either same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a group represented by the formula: <CHEM> (wherein p is an integer of from 1 to 4), or a group represented by the formula: <CHEM>     (wherein R<7> represents a lower alkyl group); R<4> represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a phenyl group, a group represented by the formula: <CHEM> (wherein q is an integer of from 1 to 4), or a group represented by the formula: <CHEM>     (wherein R<7> represents a lower alkyl group); or R<3> and R<4> may form a benzene ring together with the carbon atoms to which they are bound; R<2> represents a hydrogen atom or a protective group of a hydroxyl group; and R<5> and R<6> are either same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a group represented by the formula: <CHEM>     (wherein r is an integer of from 1 to 4), or an acyl group; or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.
Patent HU-T69927-A (HU)
Title: Direct molecular cloning of a modifie eukaryotic cytoplasmic dna virus genome
Inventor: DORNER FRIEDRICH
IPC: C12N7/01
Filed: 1992-08-25
Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing a modified eukaryotic cytoplasmic DNA virus by direct molecular cloning of a modified DNA molecule comprising a modified cytoplasmic DNA virus genome. The inventive method comprises the steps of (I) modifying under extracellular conditions a DNA molecule comprising a first cytoplasmic DNA virus genome to produce a modified DNA molecule comprising the modified cytoplasmic DNA virus genome; (II) introducing the modified DNA molecule into a first host cell which packages the modified DNA molecule into infectious virions; and (III) recovering from the host cell virions comprised of the modified viral genome. The host cell is infected with a helper virus which is expressed to package the modified viral genome into infectious virions. Examples of packaging a modified poxvirus genome by a helper poxvirus of the same or different genus are described. Also disclosed are novel poxvirus vectors for direct molecular cloning of open reading frames into a restriction enzyme cleavage site that is unique in the vector. In one model poxvirus vector, the open reading frame is transcribed by a promoter located in the vector DNA upstream of a multiple cloning site comprised of several unique cleavage sites.
Patent HU-T63891-A (HU)
Title: Safety band bar
Inventor: STORI GASPARETTO LEOPOLDO
IPC: E01D19/10
Filed: 1993-04-09
Abstract: Metallic safety barrier of the type of EP-A-0428097, which comprises a plurality of modular metallic elements (11) and consists of a frontal absorption panel (12), lengthwise reinforcing elements (13), uprights or stiffening ribs (14) and compartments (25) for the fixture of anchorage bolts (29) to the ground (28), means being included for connecting the modular metallic elements (11) together, the frontal absorption panel (12) extending from an upper front position with an upper portion (35) to a lower intermediate base position, lengthwise reinforcing elements (13) being at least one in number and extending along the length of the frontal absorption panel (12), the uprights or stiffening ribs (14) being equidistant from each other and at least two in number per modular metallic element (11) and having their rear substantially vertical and being sconformed as an "L" and their front portion anchored to the rear of the frontal absorption panel (12) and to the lengthwise reinforcing elements (13), the compartments (25) cooperating with a supporting base (19) of the stiffening ribs (14) and with a base segment (26) of the frontal absorption panel (12). <IMAGE>