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Patent GB-2263887-A (GB)
Title: A cover for an air-bag installation.
Inventor: PERSSON DAN
IPC: B60R21/2165
Filed: 1992-01-23
Abstract: A cover for an air-bag installation comprises two superimposed layers of polymer material 3, 4. Each layer carries complementary flanges or fingers 6, the flanges or fingers 6 of the layers 3, 4 being inter-digitated, leaving no air space between the flanges or fingers 6. The base layer 3 is relatively hard and stiff while the outer layer 4 is relatively soft. Both layers 3, 4 can be formed by moulding. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265235-A (GB)
Title: Sound signal generator
Inventor: PRICE SIMON DAVID
IPC: G08B3/10
Filed: 1992-03-03
Abstract: An electronic generator, especially for boats, includes a sound signal control unit (10) having a key pad (31) for selection of a signal, a chip (32) having the signals programmed thereon, an address generator (33) for reading the selected signal and an audio generator (13) for generating a sound signal as read, and a speaker. The system allows for the electronic generation of sound signals especially in fog without high electrical consumption. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254720-A (GB)
Title: Security enclosure
Inventor: MACPHERSON HUGH
IPC: B60R25/10
Filed: 1992-05-11
Abstract: A security enclosure is formed from layers of flexible material. Two layers 17 of semiconductive fibres cover the whole area of the enclosure and are separated by an insulating layer 16. The length of the fibres is greater than the thickness of the insulating layer so that if the enclosure is pierced, fibres from one layer will be forced into contact with fibres from the other layer. This will change the combined resistance of the layers and can be detected by a monitoring circuit. A further layer 18 may be provided which carries a semiconductive line. Any interruption of the line by unauthorised opening of the enclosure changes the resistance of the line and this may also be detected by a monitoring circuit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2256188-A (GB)
Title: Turning bar for turning over fed webs.
Inventor: HAMBRECHT DIETER
IPC: B41F13/06
Filed: 1992-05-14
Abstract: A compressed-air-fed turning bar 10 for turning over a printed web 23 is displaceably disposed on cross-members (not shown). The circumference of the turning bar is provided with axial rows of air-outlet openings 11. Pistons 14 are moved by rotary, hollow actuating spindles (not shown) which provide air ducts for delivering compressed air to the central part of the bar between the pistons. Air-outlet openings 22 are provided on the outer cylindrical surface of the pistons in axial rows (19, 20 and 21) of different length. By adjusting the position of the pistons, the openings 11 supplied with air can be matched with the extent of the web on the bar. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2257361-A (GB)
Title: Anti-tumour substituted dihydroimidazoquinoxalines
Inventor: ADAMS GERALD EDWARD
IPC: A61K31/495
Filed: 1992-07-03
Abstract: 1,2-Dihydro-8-piperazinyl-4-phenylimadazo pyridopyrazine oxides and 1,2-dihydro-8-piperazinyl-4-phenylimidazo quinoxaline oxides of general formula (I) are useful in the treatment of cancer, in particular hypoxic tumours:-   <IMAGE>  where R<1> is alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, benzyl, phenyl,      R<4>SO<2>-where R<4> is C1-6 alkyl, NH2COCH2-, R<5>-CO-where R<5> is alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, aminomethyl, pyridinyl, phenyl, halophenyl or   <IMAGE>      -where R<6> is alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R<2> is phenyl unsubstituted or substituted by 1 or 2 substituents selected from halogen and alkoxy of 1 to 6 carbon atoms;      R<3> is hydrogen or halogen; and      X is-CH=or-N=;or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.d 1,2
Patent GB-2271207-A (GB)
Title: Alarm device
Inventor: SANDERSON JOHN
IPC: G08B15/00
Filed: 1992-10-03
Abstract: An alarm device (10) comprises a portable unit (11) and is operable when actuated to issue an alarm signal, the unit (11) having means to issue both an audible alarm signal and a visual signal. Activation may be by a manual switch and/or a pull out pin 12. The electro-sonic transducer 15 and strobe light 26 may be individually activated if necessary and the alarm may be adapted to respond to sensor outputs e.g. movement detectors. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259983-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for determining the velocity of a flowing liquid
Inventor: WILSON LAURENCE SYDNEY
IPC: G01P13/00
Filed: 1992-10-15
Abstract: Calculation of the two-dimensional velocity vector (17) of liquid flowing through a region (3, 16) which is imaged in a B-mode ultrasonic echoscopy display involves dividing the region into a number of small, preferably rectangular, cells (4). One of the cells is scanned rapidly, at least twice, by a beam of ultrasonic energy which is transmitted sequentially along a number of lines of sight (2) which intersect the cell. An image of the cell is formed from the signals reflected from scatterers within the liquid in the cell during each scan of the cell. The two-dimensional brightness functions, S(x,y), of each image of the cell form of a data set S(x,y,t) after the repeated scanning. The data set S(x,y,t) is integrated separately with respect to x and y by projection onto the (x,t) and (y,t) planes. Using the projected functions of S(x,y,t), the average velocity of the scatterers in the cell (and hence of the liquid flowing through the cell) is obtained in the x-direction and in the y-direction. From these two average velocities, the magnitude and direction of the two-dimensional velocity vector is obtained, and displayed on the echogram. The scanning, imaging and computational procedures are then repeated for another of the cells. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261570-A (GB)
Title: Video scrambling system
Inventor: HASHIMOTO TAKASHI
IPC: H04N21/2347
Filed: 1992-11-13
Abstract: The horizontal blanking interval A and the video signal interval B in at least one specified horizontal scanning line are shifted with respect to the time axis thereof to be transmitted in combination with other horizontal scanning lines in which no shifting operation is conducted. In at least one line the horizontal blanking interval may be deleted and the remaining video signal interval shifted within the time interval equal to the thus deleted horizontal blanking interval (Fig 16). In a further scramble system (Fig 27) a pedestal part of a specified horizontal scanning line within a vertical blanking interval is compressed with respect to the time axis thereof, whereas a pedestal part of another desired horizontal scanning line within the same field is expanded for a time interval corresponding to the thus compressed pedestal part. The audio signal as well as the video signal may also be scrambled (Fig 44). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272630-A (GB)
Title: A turntable equipped with a gas pipeline
Inventor: SUI HUANG LI
IPC: F24C3/08
Filed: 1992-11-24
Abstract: A turntable (5) equipped with gas pipeline (2) includes a hopper (1) having a passage along its axis adapted to receive one end of a gas pipeline (2) and gas supply pipeline (16). The other end of the gas pipeline (2) is connected to a gas stove (22) through a turntable (5). Such a construction ensures that, when the turntable (5) is being rotated, the gas pipeline (2) will rotate simultaneously. Three O-rings (21) located on the end of the gas pipeline (2) extend into the hopper (1) so as to prevent gas leaking therefrom. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273873-A (GB)
Title: Treatment of psoriasis
Inventor: MACNEIL SHEILA
IPC: A61K31/415
Filed: 1992-12-23
Abstract: The use in the preparation of a pharmaceutical formulation for the treatment of psoriasis of N-desmethyl tamoxifen, 4-hydroxy tamoxifen, N-desmethyl droloxifene, 4-hydroxy droloxifene, miconazole, bromocriptine, flunarizine, dequalinium, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
Patent GB-2266272-A (GB)
Title: Doctor blade bar for rotary printing press
Inventor: REDER WOLFGANG OTTO
IPC: B41F31/02
Filed: 1993-04-21
Abstract: A doctor blade bar 1 for a short inking unit of a web-fed rotating printing press has doctor blades 8, 9 with a negative contact angle to the screened ink roller 2. Bending of the doctoring edge of the doctor blades is avoided and the endurance of the same is increased by simultaneous throwing-on of the doctor blades to the periphery of the roller on a straight line, extending in the direction of the cross axis 14, 16 of the doctor blades, and by spring-mounting 53, 54 the doctor blades. The blades are moved in the cross axis direction B by means of feet, on the blade bar body 3, having inclined surfaces 6, 7 which contact the inclined faces of ribs 22, 24. Movement of body 3 is effected by manually-actuated eccentric 47. The closing plates 12 are fixedly-mounted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277769-A (GB)
Title: Glass buffers
Inventor: KELCHER ROBERT WILLIAM
IPC: E06B3/66
Filed: 1993-04-23
Abstract: A glass buffer, for use in a double glazing panel to prevent the glass panes contacting decorative profiles between the panes due to vibration, is injection moulded of a resilient thermoplastic material such as a thermoplastic elastomer or thermoplastic rubber. The two components may be physically blended, e.g. a thermoplastic olefins (TPO), or reactively combined to form polymer alloys as in the thermoplastic vulcanisates and melt-processable rubbers. Thermoplastic urethanes (TPUs) can also be used. In a preferred form the buffer comprises two heads 1 and 2 joined by a narrower waist 3 and having a tail 6 joined to one of the heads. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266058-A (GB)
Title: An article
Inventor: GAMBLES CHRISTOPHER
IPC: A63F9/00
Filed: 1993-06-10
Abstract: An article comprising at least two compartments, wherein each compartment includes a number of variables; and selection means for randomly selecting at least one of those variables, the selection of one or more variables providing a constraint for creation of a solution to a problem.
Patent GB-2285342-A (GB)
Title: Integrated circuit arrangements
Inventor: SHEN MING-TUNG
IPC: H01L23/498
Filed: 1993-12-30
Abstract: An integrated circuit chip includes a printed circuit board unit, a die (80) and a plurality of conductive wires (90). The printed circuit board unit has a top surface, a plurality of conductive strips (62) provided on the top surface, and a die-receiving cavity that is formed therewith. The cavity is accessible via the top surface. The die (80) has an upper surface and a plurality of solder pads (81) formed on the upper surface. The die (80) is received in the die-receiving cavity of the printed circuit board unit such that the solder pads (81) are exposed at the top surface of the printed circuit board unit. The conductive wires (90) interconnect the solder pads (81) of the die (80) and the conductive strips (62) of the printed circuit board unit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274247-A (GB)
Title: Oral antiplaque compositions
Inventor: GAFFAR ABDUL
IPC: A61Q11/00
Filed: 1994-01-06
Abstract: An antiplaque composition comprising a bacteriocin such as nisin and a polyhosphonate which is an inhibitor of the crystallisation of hydroxyapatite e.g. an azacycloalkane-2,2-diphosphonate ion. The formulation may be a toothpaste or mouthrinse.
Patent GB-2287568-A (GB)
Title: Counter display device
Inventor: COOPER PAUL STEVEN
IPC: G09F19/00
Filed: 1994-03-10
Abstract: The retail counter display device for counterfeit note checking and advertising purposes has a standard body shown at Figure 1a so that other features may be attached namely; illuminated lightboxes, product trays, product hanging bars, magazine rack, dump bin or deep tray. A fundamental part of the design is that an ultra violet tube for the purpose of assisting in the detection of counterfeit bank notes is built in at the inside top of the unit Figure 1b. The unit is designed to stand on a counter either in front or at the side of a till or at any other position suitable. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288479-A (GB)
Title: Communication apparatus
Inventor: DALE JEREMY NEVILLE
IPC: H04B11/00
Filed: 1994-04-15
Abstract: The invention relates to diver-to-diver communication apparatus (2). The apparatus comprises a waterproof casing (4), power supply means (52), ultra acoustic transmission means (72), ultra acoustic reception means (72, 74), control means (56) for the ultra acoustic transmissions, monitoring means (56) for the ultra acoustic reception, and means (16) to actuate the transmission means (72); whereby upon actuation of the transmission means (72) a predetermined signal is transmitted by the transmission means (72) suitable for reception by the reception means (72, 74) of another diver using similar apparatus (2). Signals transmitted may include a general alert, emergency call or location signal. Messages may be sent to all divers in the vicinity or addressed to particular receivers. The apparatus has its address set by switches on the underside (Fig. 2 not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281471-A (GB)
Title: Off-hook detector for automatic meter reading equipment
Inventor: THORNBOROUGH RAYMOND J
IPC: H04M1/82
Filed: 1994-05-31
Abstract: An off-hook detection circuit (10) utilizes a low-level current loop when an automatic meter reading unit is operating over a telephone line to detect a phone receiver being taken off-hook. Lifting the phone receiver changes the loop current (IL) which is detected and converted to a suitable voltage input (Vout) to a microprocessor, which then disables the meter reading operation until the phone receiver is returned to its hook. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278626-A (GB)
Title: Spring-balanced, tiltable, sliding sash window
Inventor: BRAID HAROLD KEITH
IPC: E05F1/16
Filed: 1994-06-03
Abstract: A tilt sash window system has a counterbalance spring 16 mounted for movement with the sliding sash 12. A releasable securing catch projects into a jamb channel containing the spring and its end hanger and clears the latter. A tilt-action shoe 44 is connectible to the spring by an endwise snap action and by laterally outward movement therebetween. A movable lock member provides security against disconnection. In the tilted position of the sash, a stay counterbalances the overhung weight. In a vertical tilt axis embodiment the moving spring body locates below the upper pivot shoe. The spring end is connected to the vertical jamb channel by a screwless self-fixing hanger having a tilt action under spring tension forces. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279406-A (GB)
Title: I.C.engine fuel injection by air under pressure
Inventor: SCHECHTER MICHAEL MOSES
IPC: F02M67/12
Filed: 1994-06-06
Abstract: Air compressed in the engine cylinder is supplied to a respective fuel and air injector (24, Figs. 1 and 2) or a common rail (42, Fig. 2a), supplying a plurality of injectors, through a unit 22 including a valve 58 admitting air from the cylinder and preventing reverse flow. A plunger 62 closes the valve 58 when the air pressure acting on plunger surfaces is sufficient to move the plunger against the force of the springs 68 and 70. The injector has solenoid-operated valves (106, 108, Figs. 7 and 8) controlling the admission of fuel and air to the injector. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284903-A (GB)
Title: Optical system
Inventor: DUMBRECK ANDREW ALEXANDER
IPC: G02B30/25
Filed: 1994-12-07
Abstract: An optical system is provided for creating stereoscopic images from a monocular optical viewing instrument, such as an endoscope (10), which has a real exit pupil. Mirrors (14) are arranged to split the light at the exit pupil into two separate beams (15, 16), and these beams are used to form two stereo images. Shutters (42) with curved edges (44) are movable so as partially to block the beams (15, 16), to adjust the effective separation of the two stereoscopic views. The mirrors (14) are adjustable using screws (40) so the optical axes of the separated beams (15, 16), if extended back, converge. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284130-A (GB)
Title: Adaptive audio systems and sound reproduction systems
Inventor: NELSON PHILIP ARTHUR
IPC: H04S1/00
Filed: 1993-07-05
Abstract: An algorithm is described for sparsely updating the filter coefficients of an adaptive filter of an adaptive audio system to facilitate a high sampling rate without excessive processing capacity. Computer simulations are used to illustrate the potential for using an inverse filter matrix to manipulate the position of stereophonic images. The possibilities suggested could be used in conjunction with existing stereophonic recordings in order to improve stereophonic imaging in situations where the relative locations of loudspeakers and listener are constrained to be non-ideal. In one arrangement, real sound sources (S1, S2) provide to the listener the impression that the sources are at more widely-spaced positions (V1, V2). In another arrangement, employing four sound sources (S1, S2, S3, S4) the impression is created at two listener locations (M1, M2; M3, M4) that the sound is coming from a pair of sound sources positioned symmetrically of those listener locations. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296712-A (GB)
Title: Ion-exchanged clinoptilolite adsorbent
Inventor: MORRIS MICHAEL
IPC: B01D53/04
Filed: 1995-01-05
Abstract: An adsorbent for separating nitrogen from a feed gas containing at least one other gas having molecular dimensions equal to or larger than methane, the adsorbent comprising clinoptilolite having a sodium ion content of at least 17 equivalent percent of the total ion exchangeable cations and optionally one or more non-univalent cations, which if present comprise in total less than 12 equivalent percent of the total ion-exchangeable cations, the balance, if any, being one or more non-sodium univalent cations.
Patent GB-2285811-A (GB)
Title: Nematoda cultivating method
Inventor: TACHIBANA MINEO
IPC: A01K67/033
Filed: 1994-07-21
Abstract: A method of culturing a nematode, Steinernema kushidai, in a medium. It has a potent insecticidal effect on larvae of beetles and requires culturing conditions different from those for other nematodes parasitic in insects in order to culture it in a large quantity. S. kushidai acquires an enhanced activity of killing insects injurious to plants such as field crops by culturing it in a steroid-containing medium. It can be cultured at a high efficiency by using a laminate made by holding the steroid-containing medium on a support through adsorption and stacking a plurality of such supports one on another with a gap provided therebetween. Furthermore, S. kushidai having a high rate of proliferation and a potent insecticidal effect can be produced by culturing it in a steroid-containing liquid medium by supplying oxygen under agitation. The obtained S. kushidai is used as a biological pesticide to reduce insect damages to field crops such as potato. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289790-A (GB)
Title: Planar lamps for displays
Inventor: FOX NEIL ANTHONY
IPC: H01J61/92
Filed: 1995-04-20
Abstract: A lamp 3 for backlighting a display panel 2 has two planar discharge cavities 31 and 32 separated from one another by a common wall 34 transparent to infra-red radiation. One cavity 32 has a phosphor that fluoresces at visible wavelengths; the other cavity 31 has a phosphor that fluoresces at infra-red wavelengths. By selecting which cavity is energised, the panel 2 can be illuminated with visible light for normal viewing or by infra-red radiation for viewing by night-vision goggles 70. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290014-A (GB)
Title: Device for fixing reels on rods
Inventor: OHMURA RYUICHI
IPC: A01K87/06
Filed: 1995-06-07
Abstract: A reel seat structure in which a lining piece 2 is internally mounted in a fishing reel seat hood. In an assembling step for mounting the assembly to the seat, there is no removal of the lining piece. In addition, the assembling work is easily carried out. Front and back engaging portions 5, 6 of the lining piece are rendered to be laid on an upper surface of the corresponding engaging portion of the hood and is further engaged with the inside of the hood thereby prevent the removal of the lining piece. The back engaging portion is inserted at one position of the top portion of the hood to thereby facilitate the assembling work. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2302024-A (GB)
Title: Obstetric vacuum extractor
Inventor: CAVANAGH ALEXANDER JOHN MCMURR
IPC: A61B17/44
Filed: 1995-06-09
Abstract: The extractor, which is for assistance in the delivery of a baby, comprises a suction cup 31 of flexible polymeric material for attachment to a portion of the baby's head, the cup having a flexible, integrally formed, hollow extension 32, connectable to a vacuum source and to a handle 33, and an internal integral skirt 38 extending from its inner surface adjacent to the rim 39 of the cup. The internal skirt enables good sealing contact to be maintained with the baby's head while the outer rim of the cup acts as a protective shield. The inside of the cup may have a series of channels spreading from a central vacuum entry port. The hollow extension may be shorter and may be angled radially to the surface of the cup.
Patent GB-2291603-A (GB)
Title: Transfer paper for electrophotography
Inventor: MATSUDA TSUKASA
IPC: G03G7/00
Filed: 1995-07-04
Abstract: Transfer paper for electrophotography of the present invention includes base paper; and a coating layer provided on at least one side of the base paper. The coating layer includes a pigment and a binder, has a solides content in the range of 2 to 10 g/m<2>, and has void-free areas containing no voids having a circle-equivalent diameter of equal to or more than 1  mu m and void area containing voids whose circle-equivalent diameter is equal to or more than 1  mu m. A proportion of void areas whose circle-equivalent diameter is more than 20  mu m is not more than 2%, and the average circle-equivalent diameter of the void areas and that of the void-free areas as observed on the surface of the coating layer satisfy at least one of the following conditions: (1) the average circle-equivalent diameter of the void areas and that of the void-free areas are each from 1.5 to 10  mu m; (2) the average circle-equivalent diameter of the void areas and that of the void-free areas are each 0.2 to 1.5 times the volume average particle size of the toner used for image formation; and (3) the average circle-equivalent diameter of the void areas is from 1.0 to 10.0  mu m and that of the void-free area is from 1.5 to 10  mu m.
Patent GB-2293079-A (GB)
Title: Computer graphics system having high performance multiple layer z-buffer
Inventor: WINNER STEPHANIE L
IPC: G06T15/40
Filed: 1994-05-06
Abstract: A computer graphics system having a processor for generating objects for display, a multi-layered Z-buffer for storing data according to their relative depths, the processor also compositing the data stored in the Z-buffer, a frame buffer for storing composited data, a display for displaying an image as a number of pixels responsive to the composited data in the frame buffer, and two registers for facilitating the Z-buffering process is disclosed. One of the registers stores a number indicating how many of the layers in the Z-buffer contain visible data dependent on opacity of existing objects. In the other register, a number of addresses corresponding to each of the layers of the Z-buffer are stored. Each address specifies a location where data of one of the layers is stored. A determination is made as to which layer data associated with an incoming object is to be inserted. This determination depends on the contents of the first register as well as the value of the incoming object relative to those of objects already stored in the Z-buffer. The addresses of the second register are arranged to correspond to the appropriate layers in response to insertion of the incoming data.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2311067-A (GB)
Title: Proline-rich peptides
Inventor: FINAN PETER
IPC: A61K38/00
Filed: 1996-01-08
Abstract: There is disclosed proline-rich peptides derived from a protein (p68 or SAM68) extracted from cells of an Epstein Barr virus-transformed B cell line (Namalwa cells). This 68 kDa protein cross-reacts with an antibody to the RASGAP-associated protein p62 and associates with SH3 (src homology 3) domains of various proteins. The proline-rich peptides prevent the protein SAM68 from associating with the SH3 domains. The peptides may be used in a medicament for treatment of chronic and acute inflammatory diseases and conditions.