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Patent EE-9400217-A (EE)
Inventor: UDO SCHUETZ
IPC: B65D77/06
Filed: 1994-11-22
Abstract: The container (1), which can be used as a disposable and as a reusable container, for transporting and storing liquids has as its main components an inner container (2) which is made of plastic as a blow-moulded item of rectangular contour and rounded corners and is fitted with a filling nozzle (3), which can be closed by a screw cap (4), and a removal tap connected to an outlet nozzle (5) in the bottom region, a casing (8) of zinc-coated sheet metal with an operating opening (9) for the removal tap, and a pallet (10) designed as a flat bottom tray (11) of sheet metal with length and width dimensions complying to European standards for the positive-locking receiving of the plastic inner container (2). The sheet-metal casing (8) has a peripheral constriction in the lower region for supporting the bottom region of the inner container (2) together with the bottom tray (11) of the pallet (10). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2345793-A (GB)
Title: Capacitor for an integrated circuit with protective electrode layer
Inventor: FRITZINGER LARRY BRUCE
IPC: H01L21/02
Filed: 2000-01-13
Abstract: A capacitor for an integrated circuit, eg a DRAM comprises a conductive plug 7 with sidewalls formed form layers of TiN and or Ti, 3, 5. An electrode material 9 which does not comprise Ti or TiN is coated over the conductive plug 7, prior to the formation of the dielectric layer 11 and the upper electrode 13. Preferably, the electrode material 9 comprises tungsten, and the dielectric layer 11 is tantalum pentoxide. The arrangement eliminates contact between the dielectric 11 and the titanium containing layers 5, 3 resulting in a lower leakage current for the device.
Patent GB-2351467-A (GB)
Title: Printer conveyor system
Inventor: GRAUSHAR WILLIAM T
IPC: B41F17/02
Filed: 2000-03-08
Abstract: A method of printing on books comprises selectively printing on the first and second covers in directions both perpendicular to and horizontally to the spine in a conveyor system which maintains custody of the books and has a provision for rotating the books through 90{.
Patent GB-2348492-A (GB)
Title: Surface inspection device
Inventor: WATANABE MASAO
IPC: G01B11/30
Filed: 1999-04-06
Abstract: A surface inspection device for determining contamination of a surface independent of surface roughness or for determining surface roughness. The surface 2 is irradiated by a focused laser beam and scanned two dimensionally. The reflected beam passes through Glan-Thompson prism 10 to detectors 13a and 13b which detect the intensities of the s- and p-polarized components. At least one of the s- and p-components, in comparison with the values for a smooth sample, may be used to determine surface roughness. The surface may be divided into regions. Alternatively, the ratio of the components for each location on the surface is found. The half-width of the distribution of the ratios compared with that for a clean sample is then used to determine the presence of contaminants. Alternatively, comparison may be made between the central value of the distribution and a theoretical Fresnel value. The thickness of the contaminant may be determined. Single or multiple contaminants may be distinguished, as may organic and inorganic contaminants. The surface may be divided into regions, and frequencies of the ratios determined for each region, and the results displayed on two- or three-dimensional graphs. Regions with extraneous matter may be excluded from the calculations.
Patent GB-2351649-A (GB)
Title: Sock
Inventor: TETLOW PATRICIA
IPC: A41B11/00
Filed: 2000-06-14
Abstract: A sock (20), particularly for wearing in conjunction with a walking boot by an individual having combination-type feet, the sock, when worn, having a profile corresponding to the natural contours of a foot and having a heel part (26) comprised of a thicker material than at least a proportion of the remainder of the sock.
Patent GB-2354865-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor memory
Inventor: SUH JUNG WON
IPC: G11C11/4096
Filed: 2000-06-28
Abstract: A semiconductor memory comprises global data bus lines GDB1-GDBn and a single data strobe line DQS and reference comparing voltage line Vref with the number being identical to the number of data being coupled between a bank and an input, output interface, clamping circuits 50 connected to each line for clamping the global data bus, data strobe and reference comparing voltage lines to a voltage level, first to third driving circuits 10, 30 and 40 connected to the ends of both sides of the global data bus, data strobe and the reference comparing voltage lines, for controlling a drive of each of the lines by a combination of an input, output enable signal and data output strobe signal and each data signal, a first receiving circuit 25 connected to the ends of both sides of the data strobe lines, for receiving a strobe signal carried on the data strobe lines and comparing it with a reference comparing voltage and thereby outputting the data strobe signal DSTR, and a second receiving circuit 20 connected to respective ends of both sides of the global data bus lines, for comparing each data signal with a reference comparing voltage signal and outputting each data value under a control of a data strobe signal DSTR being outputted from the first receiving circuit 25. Instead of the clamping resistor Rc, a PMOS transistor (Mc, Fig 3) may be used for each clamping circuit.
Patent GB-2364801-A (GB)
Title: Electronic design information storage system
Inventor: AIKEN TIMOTHY MARK
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 2000-07-14
Abstract: An electronic design information storage system comprising means for storing a design such as a CAD drawing, the design comprising a plurality of component parts, and a database 13 of detailed information relating to each component part, wherein each component part has an associated tag which links the component part to a specific record in the database 13 such that electronic access is available from the design to the detailed information. The system is particularly applicable to projects, such as building projects, where a large number of personnel at separate locations are involved, and wherein a project design develops overtime. Component parts may be defined in a hierarchical manner, with attributes and behaviour inherited from parent to child components. The system may be connected to the Web, and an Internet search engine may assist in finding appropriate component parts for the design.
Patent GB-2365038-A (GB)
Title: Pressure relief seal for a drill bit
Inventor: PAGE NIGEL M
IPC: E21B10/25
Filed: 2000-07-27
Abstract: A sealing structure for a rock drill bit includes an elastomeric diaphragm (12) for installation in the drill bit (fig 3) to separate grease from drilling mud. The diaphragm (12) has an aperture (24) extending though it and a plug (14) disposed in the aperture (24) so as to form a mechanical seal with a wall (25) of the aperture (24). The plug (14) has a channel (36) therethrough which is normally sealed by a face (25) of the aperture (24) in the diaphragm (12). If the pressure of the grease exceeds the pressure of mud on the other side of the diaphragm (12) by more than a critical value, the diaphragm aperture (24) deforms and allows grease to move though the plug channel (36) and escape. The critical value can be varied by using, with the same diaphragm, plugs having different numbers, sizes and axial positions of plug channels.
Patent GB-2369852-A (GB)
Title: Loft joist
Inventor: KELLY THOMAS
IPC: E04C3/04
Filed: 2000-11-18
Abstract: The loft joist is a steel joist 1 shaped to fit over an existing ceiling joist 2 and fixed to the ceiling joist by means of nails or screws into the side of the existing joist 3. This enables the upgraded floor construction to support domestic floor loading. The construction is completed by the provision of standard floor boards 4 nailed or screwed into the existing timber ceiling joist through pre-formed holes or slots in the upper horizontal flange of the loft joist.
Patent GB-2353779-A (GB)
Title: Device for handling objects in sheet form
Inventor: STING MARTIN
IPC: B43M5/04
Filed: 2000-03-27
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for handling objects in sheet form, in particular for handling inserts at an enveloping station of mail processing machines. In the inventive device, a carrier (9) which is provided with insertion fingers (11) is moved back and forth by an actuating device, (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32), in order to remove objects which have been transported using a conveyor belt (2) from said conveyor belt and manipulate them in the direction of conveyance. The inventive device improves the adaptation of the handling speed of the insertion fingers (11) to the conveying speed of the conveyor belt (2) by a drive mechanism (21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32) on the actuating device which contains a crank drive. An elliptical crown gear (29) is fixed to the crankshaft (28) of said crank drive. The crown gear is coupled to a continuously driven circular pulley (32) using a synchronous belt (31).
Patent GB-2374446-A (GB)
Title: Secure telephone polling
Inventor: CRABBE PETER
IPC: G07C13/00
Filed: 2000-11-28
Abstract: A secure telephone polling system enables users to vote anonymously from poll organisers and eavesdroppers, whilst still allowing authorised investigators to check that only legitimate voters have participated in the poll. a voter submits to the organisers only parts of his existing personal identification codes, such as his National Insurance number. A poll organiser requires two or more partial codes related to a single personal detail, such as a home postal code. When the organiser successfully matches two or more code entries to a single personal detail, this gives a very high probability that the person entering the codes is the same person fully recorded on the third party's original databases.
Patent GB-2359371-A (GB)
Title: Photographic base with oriented polyolefin and opacifying layers
Inventor: BOURDELAIS ROBERT PAUL
IPC: G03C1/795
Filed: 2000-12-12
Abstract: A photographic element comprises a laminated base wherein the base comprises a voided polyester sheet having laminated thereto a biaxially oriented polyolefin sheet on the bottom of the polyester sheet and a biaxially oriented polyolefin sheet laminated to the top of the polyester sheet. The photographic element has an opacifying layer below the voided polymer sheet.
Patent GB-2360566-A (GB)
Title: Undersea valved hydraulic coupling
Inventor: SMITH III ROBERT E
IPC: F16L37/30
Filed: 2001-03-01
Abstract: An undersea hydraulic coupling comprises a combined shut-off and pressure relief (bleeding) valve having a sleeve 39 biassed in a first direction by a spring 44. The sleeve carries poppet 54 biassed into engagement with an internal shoulder 31 of the sleeve. Fluid flow in a first direction occurs when the pressure differential across poppet 54 is sufficient to overcome bias of spring 50 allowing pressure relief when the coupling is disconnected. Fluid flow in the opposite direction can occur when pressure differential across sleeve 39 is sufficient to overcome spring 44 and cause the sleeve to move so that poppet 54 is abuts actuator 25 and lifts clear of the internal shoulder allowing fluid passage through the coupling. The pressure differential required to move the sleeve is greater than that to move the poppet. A radial seal 32 may be provided between the sleeve 39 and the housing. The shoulder 31 and end of the sleeve 41 are preferably inclined. The actuating member preferably comprises an elongate pin mounted on a passaged spring collar 28.
Patent GB-2373130-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for processing e-mail to detect unsolicited bulk and/or commercial e-mail.
Inventor: SHIPP ALEX
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2001-03-05
Abstract: A method for processing e-mail to detect unsolicited bulk and/or commercial e-mail ('spam') and a system therefor, the method comprising the steps of monitoring one or more nodes of a network for patterns of e-mail traffic indicative of a mailshot of unsolicited e-mail and upon detecting such patterns initiating automatic remedial action and/or alerting an operator. The method may comprise the step of decomposing each e-mail received 21 into its constituent parts to search for content indicative of a mailshot and logging data 22 of the decomposed e-mail to a database 23. This logging may be done only in respect of e-mail which meets at least one criterion belonging to a mailshot, e-mail which is not considered part of a mailshot being forwarded for delivery. The method may comprise the step of continually or continuously executing an algorithm 24 against entries in a database to identify patterns of e-mail traffic indicative of a mailshot, the database comprising only recent entries added less than a predetermined time ago. The corrective action may comprise any or all of the steps of at least temporarily stopping the passage of a suspect e-mail, notifying the intended recipient and generating an alarm to alert a human operator.
Patent GB-2361014-A (GB)
Title: Polydispersities
Inventor: STANO DANA ELIZABETH
IPC: D06M15/657
Filed: 1999-12-08
Abstract: A nonwoven web treated with a hydrophilic surfactant having high polydispersity results in a fabric having fast wetting which is durable to multiple fluid insults and to fabric aging during storage. The treated nonwoven fabric can be used in a wide variety of applications including, without limitation, absorbent applications.
Patent GB-2378009-A (GB)
Title: A method of establishing a secure data connexion between a client computer and a destination computer via an intermediate firewall stage
Inventor: WRAY MICHAEL
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2001-07-27
Abstract: In a method of establishing a secure data connection, a corporate computer network 2 comprises a LAN 3 to which is connected a first, second and third client computer 5, 7, 9. At the boundary 1 of the corporate computer network 2 is a firewall computer 11 (hereinafter simply referred to as 'the firewall'). The firewall 11 is configured to prevent incoming data connections being made to the LAN 3 from outside of the corporate computer network 2. As well as preventing incoming communications with the LAN 3, the firewall 11 is also configured to control connections requested from within the corporate computer network 2 to external computers. Indeed, for security purposes, the firewall 11 is configured to require authentication of such requests for an external connection (i.e. to verify who is actually making the request) prior to establishing the external connection. This authentication is performed using the SSL protocol. In this case, the Java Secure Sockets Extension (JSSE) version of SSL is used. Multiple SSL sessions are used, firstly to obtain the necessary authentication of the relevant client computer 5 to the firewall 11, and then to obtain a secure connection between the client computer 5 and a destination computer 13. These multiple SSL sessions are set-up in a nested manner, the general method being applicable to situations where a larger number of SSL sessions are required.
Patent GB-2381109-A (GB)
Title: Electrical protection of vehicles
Inventor: BARNES CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B60R25/00
Filed: 2001-08-02
Abstract: A method of protecting police, security or other vehicles and their occupants from attack, tampering or theft, where there is direct bodily contact with the vehicle, uses a generator 4 which provides electric or electromagnetic potentials to deter attackers. Corona effects, non-lethal electric shock, and/or RF burns may be inflicted. A proximity detector 1 actuates generator 4 which is connected to the vehicle frame, chassis or dedicated covering 7. Generator 4 may be controlled by a feedback path 5. Earth connection 6 may be improved by a ground spike, conductive fluid, or a conductive skirt. Different parts of the vehicle, such as door handles, may be electrified at different potentials.
Patent GB-2369760-A (GB)
Title: Multimedia display for a mobile terminal
Inventor: KWON DAE-HEON
IPC: H04M1/72427
Filed: 2001-09-26
Abstract: Displaying a multimedia screen in a mobile terminal using a first memory which selectively stores multimedia image data received at a service request of the mobile terminal or text data and background screen image data provided for a display service of the mobile terminal and a second memory which stores the text data and the background screen image data, an image output processor reads data from the first memory and the second memory, and provides the read data to a display unit of the mobile terminal. The storage within the memories can be controlled by the use of selectors.
Patent GB-2373502-A (GB)
Title: Suppressor of cytokine signalling 4 (SOCS4)
Inventor: GALLAGHER KATHLEEN THERESA
IPC: A61P37/00
Filed: 2001-11-06
Abstract: SOCS4 polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing SOCS4 polypeptides and polynucleotides in diagnostic assays. Such peptides may be of use in the treatment and diagnosis of diseases such as cancer, infections, autoimmune disorders and atherosclerosis.
Patent GB-2383295-A (GB)
Title: Repairable solid surface laminate
Inventor: GHAHARI MICHAEL
IPC: A47B77/02
Filed: 2001-12-19
Abstract: A repairable solid surface laminate for kitchen work surfaces and wall panelling comprises a solid surface material which is of a thickness suitable for its application to chipboard or other substrate 3 either as a material storable in a roll on a supply roller or as a rigid tile. It may comprise a solid surface layer 1 comprising a mixture of aluminium tri-hydrate mineral filler, a hardening filler for example aluminium oxide, polymerised coloured particles and a thermosetting resin carrier and a layer 2 consisting of a consolidated glass fibre matting, a pigmented resin and a thermosetting resin carrier. The laminate has the advantages of repairability and seamless joints. Contrasting patterns may be created in the surface of the laminate to individualise it.
Patent GB-2370735-A (GB)
Title: Converting data frames which use an external user address system to frames which use an internal network address system
Inventor: FURUKAWA HISAO
IPC: H04L29/12
Filed: 1997-10-17
Abstract: An integrated communications system (ICS) 1 has access control apparatuses 2-7, which serve as access points for LANs. ICS user frames 80, 82, having different unique ICS user address systems ADX, ADY, can be converted into ICS network frames 81, 83 with address system ADS, using conversion tables in the access control apparatuses 2-7. The network frames are transmitted via value added networks (VANs), following the rules of the internal address system ADS, to reach destination addresses in networks with user address systems ADX or ADY.
Patent GB-2380917-A (GB)
Title: An audio player with personalised audio profiles
Inventor: CHRISTODOULOU ATHENA
IPC: H04R5/04
Filed: 2002-06-28
Abstract: An audio player device, e.g. a portable CD or MP3 player, comprises an area of memory 22 in which one or more audio data files are stored, the memory also containing at least one personalised audio profile comprising for each ear a map of amplitude-frequency profile over a range of audible frequencies. The device also contains a file selection means adapted to permit a user to select one or more of the stored audio data files and at least one of the personalised profiles. A data processor 21 is adapted to access the one or more selected files and profiles from the memory and process the selected files with the profile to generate for each ear a processed audio signal. For each ear of the user an actuator, e.g. a headphone, adapted to reproduce as sound the audio information stored in the processed audio signal for that ear. The personalised audio profiles may be audiograms derived from hearing tests run on a computer 30 connected to the audio player device.
Patent GB-2390779-A (GB)
Title: Packet scheduling
Inventor: SAIED ABEDI
IPC: H04L12/54
Filed: 2002-07-12
Abstract: Packet scheduling apparatus 10 schedules packets of data for transmission from a transmitter via at least one channel to a plurality of receivers. Using conventional scheduling methods, the performance aspects of a scheduling solution, i.e. data throughput, delay, fairness of packet delivery and quality of service, are generally unbalanced, e.g. round-robin solutions are fair but with poor throughput while maximum carrier-to-interference (max C/I) solutions have good throughput but at the expense of fairness. The invention provides a packet scheduler which selects a scheduling solution whose performance aspects are best in relation to a balance of performance aspects set by an operator. A plurality of candidate scheduling solutions   h  1-  h  n are generated by a candidate solution generating unit 12 (fig. 4). The solutions may include round-robin and max C/I solutions. At least one candidate solution is generated randomly and each candidate solution specifies at least the receiver(s) to which packets are to be transmitted in a scheduling instant under consideration. A best solution selecting unit 14 compares the generated candidate solutions, e.g. by comparing preselected fitness measures of each solution, and based on the comparison results, selects a best one of the candidate solutions   h  best to use to transmit packets in the scheduling instant. Applications in WWW browsing, W-CDMA, IS95, TDMA, WDMA, FDMA, SDMA.
Patent GB-2381410-A (GB)
Title: Soft switch using distributed firewalls for load sharing voice-over-ip traffic in an ip network
Inventor: D SOUZA MAURICE G
IPC: H04Q3/00
Filed: 2002-08-15
Abstract: A switch, 105, capable of handling voice-over-IP (VoIP) traffic between calling devices and called devices. The switch comprises: 1) call application nodes, 115A-115C, for executing call process server applications, wherein a first call process sever application, CP1(P)-CP3(P), and a similar second call process server application, CP1(B)-CP3(B), form a first load sharing group server application, LSG1; and 2) network address translation nodes, 110A-110E, for executing firewall server applications. A first firewall server application, FWP1(P)-FWP5(P), on a first network address translation node, NATP1(P)-NATP5(P), is associated with a similar second firewall server application, FWP1(B)-FWP5(B), on a second network address translation node, NATP1(B)-NATP5(B), separate from the first network address translation node. The first and second firewall server applications form a second load sharing group server application, LSG3. The second load sharing group server application receives VoIP traffic and selects one of the first and second firewall server applications to verify that the VoIP traffic is authorised to access at least one of the call process server applications in the call application nodes according to a load distribution algorithm.
Patent GB-2392477-A (GB)
Title: Turbocharger
Inventor: HEYES FRANCIS JOSEPH GEOFFREY
IPC: F01D5/02
Filed: 2002-08-24
Abstract: A turbocharger has an impeller 1 formed from of a first material e.g. aluminium mounted on a turbocharger shaft 2 by means of an internally threaded insert 3 of a higher strength material than the first material interference fitted into the impeller, and a constraining ring 14 of a material having a lower thermal coefficient of expansion than the first material and surrounding a part of that axial length of the impeller which overlies the insert. The ring 14 prevents the tendency of the impeller 1 to walk along the insert 3 during the operating cycle.