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Patent GB-2287378-A (GB)
Title: A base station control unit
Inventor: HAASE UWE
IPC: H04W88/08
Filed: 1994-03-04
Abstract: A radio system has a plurality of base stations 10 - 13 with coverage areas 20 - 23 for communicating with mobiles 30. The base stations are sequentially operated, so that only one is operating at a time. If a base station is being used e.g. 10 then adjacent base stations 11 are placed in a "busy" mode. In channel busy mode, the base station transmits a predetermined signal at reduced power indicating that the channel is busy. This signal can be used to prevent mobiles attempting to gain access to a channel in situations where that channel is in use in another coverage area. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275922-A (GB)
Title: Bifilm process and plant
Inventor: DENTON RODNEY STUWART
IPC: C02F1/24
Filed: 1994-03-11
Abstract: A waste water treatment plant comprising a plurality of treatment sections. Each said section is alternatively operable as the primary inlet section. The treatment sections are adapted to receive the waste water and incorporate a filter. The filter incorporates a fixed biomass support medium and biological growth develops on this medium to aid in the waste water treatment. The treatment section(s) is/are tall so as to minimise land area requirements and maximise efficiency. Both aerobic and anaerobic treatment can be carried out by the plant and various combinations are envisaged. A process is provided utilising the abovementioned plant.
Patent GB-2290696-A (GB)
Title: Headgear having audio facility
Inventor: GARDNER ANDREW
IPC: B63C11/06
Filed: 1994-06-29
Abstract: An article of headgear, for use by swimmers comprises a helmet 10 or headband (Figs. 2 and 3) with at least one recess, sealed against water, for a stereo cassette player 12 or the like, and with earpieces containing loudspeakers. There are no external wires. External control knobs 16 or switches are provided on the helmet or headband. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290983-A (GB)
Title: Bull's-eye ring
Inventor: KICKS IAN JAMES
IPC: F41J3/00
Filed: 1994-07-05
Abstract: A bull's-eye ring for a dartboard comprises a right circular hollow cylindrical section 1 of which one end is adapted to protrude into or beyond the dartboard surface to define the inner bull playing area and the other end is provided with a central wedge member 3 which is suitable for being driven into the dartboard to hold the ring in place. The section 1 and wedge member 3 are preferably made in one piece and interconnected by two struts 6. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280049-A (GB)
Title: Display dial
Inventor: IWAMA KAZUHIRO
IPC: G04B19/10
Filed: 1994-07-11
Abstract: The display, for example a timepiece, can be viewed in the dark by using a photophorescent ink. The phosphorescent ink 11 is coated on the rear surface of a transparent plate 10 and indices 12 such as figures, symbols or gradations are formed on the transparent plate 10 with a shading ink having a color different from that of the phosphorescent ink. In a bright environment, the phosphorescent ink 11 receives and stores light therein so that the dark-colored indices 12 shows up on the white surface of the plate from the front side and the user can read time through the indices 12 indicated by the hands. Further, in a dark environment, the phosphorescent ink 11 emits light due to the energy stored therein whereby the indices 12 shows up on the bright surface of the plate as they throw their shades on the plate surface. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284253-A (GB)
Title: A game beam gun
Inventor: YAMADA SATOSHI
IPC: F41A33/02
Filed: 1994-11-25
Abstract: A game beam gun which allows a player to change the intensity of a shooting beam comprises the power source 6, a trigger switch 11, a shooting beam control means 23 connected to the trigger switch 11 for causing the emission of a shooting beam used as a bullet and light emission intensity setting means 22 connected to the shooting beam control means 23. The setting means causes the light emitter 33 to be driven by either the first or second light emitter driver 31, 32 according to whether trigger 11 is depressed or not when the power is switched on, the two drivers providing different intensities. The gun also features a reverberation circuit in conjunction with a simple round control means to generate a true shooting sound. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284522-A (GB)
Title: Computer connector including correct polarity detection of data synchronizing sequence
Inventor: JAEGER DONALD
IPC: H04L7/04
Filed: 1994-11-25
Abstract: If no valid synchronizing sequence is detected in a data signal within a predetermined amount of time 52, the polarity of the data signal is inverted 40. Polarity of the data signal is latched 48 when a valid synchronizing sequence is detected. In another aspect a computer interface which comprises a header block 60 that receives a cable connector 69 in a connector column 64, also includes a first wire bus 66 and a second wire bus 62. Jumpers 70, 72 are employed to connect the first pin of the connector column 64 to the first wire bus 66 and the second pin of the connector column 64 to the second wire bus 62. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285950-A (GB)
Title: Moulding bricks in moulds with movable bottoms
Inventor: HOFS BERNARDUS THEODORUS
IPC: B28B5/04
Filed: 1994-12-23
Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing bricks from clay comprises a conveyor for moulds 4, a filling device 5, 6, 7 for carrying clay into the moulds, a device 10 for trimming filled moulds and a device 14 for turning over filled moulds. The moulds 4 have a movable bottom under bias (preferably of a spring 23, figure 2) to a closing position. A device (27) is provided for moving the bottom of a mould container out of the closing position to eject the green brick from the mould. The mould is lifted away from the conveyor by guide tracks 17 which engage pins 15, 16 on the moulds before ejection of the bricks. Also, cover plates 12 are preferably located on the mould following trimming and before turning over such that following turning and ejection the bricks are left on the cover plates. Following brick ejection the moulds are lifted and returned to the beginning of the moulding process by conveyors 19, 20. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289244-A (GB)
Title: Cages and dividers for use in transporting animals in vehicles
Inventor: SHARPE STANLEY RAYMOND
IPC: A01K1/02
Filed: 1995-04-10
Abstract: A cage for use behind a seat in a vehicle has a top 16 to be positioned adjacent the roof 17 of the vehicle 12. The cage has a vision path 22 adjacent the top which extends in use, longitudinally of the vehicle so as to be substantially aligned with the line of sight L of the driver D through a rear view mirror 25 of the vehicle to provide a substantially uninterrupted rear view for the driver. A divider 19 for a vehicle may be formed with a vision depression or opening 34 for improved rear view vision. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2301849-A (GB)
Title: Roofing system
Inventor: MOORE BARRIE PETER
IPC: E04D13/18
Filed: 1995-06-06
Abstract: A system of elements capable of transferring thermal energy from outside to inside a building or vice versa, has abutting waterproof trays (a) enclosing tubes (d) at their junction. Correspondingly long slotted profiles (b) enclosing the joints and held captive by them may be rotated to allow the insertion of rigid elements (c) sequentially so that adjacent pairs of profiles (b) are restrained from further rotational movement and provide a planar surface. Rigid elements (c) of sufficient density may provide a flat roof which is self-ballasting against wind uplift without penetrative fixings to the sub-surface.
Patent GB-2307278-A (GB)
Title: Seal arrangement for pressurised dispensing containers
Inventor: THOMAS JONATHAN
IPC: B65D83/14
Filed: 1995-11-16
Abstract: A pressurised dispensing apparatus comprising a container for product to be dispensed and valve means for controlling outflow of product from the container. The valve including a valve body 12 located within the container, the container comprising an open-ended container body and a cap 15 fixedly attached to the container body for closing the open end thereof. The cap having an annular side wall extending around at least an upper end of the container body. The apparatus further comprises a first seal 20 located in sealing engagement between the container body and the cap and a second seal 25 located in sealing engagement between the valve body and the container. The valve body contains a stem 10 that slides in an annular measuring chamber 11. The first and second seals may be spaced apart, as shown, or adjacent and in sealing engagement, Fig.3.
Patent GB-2295954-A (GB)
Title: Method for lowering viscosity of food compositions by use of gum acacia
Inventor: CHANCELLOR CINDY L
IPC: A23L29/25
Filed: 1995-12-15
Abstract: Method for lowering viscosity in tube-fed nutritional compositions containing soy fiber by addition of gum acacia. The composition is preferably nutritionally complete and optionally contains protein, non-fiber carbohydrate, and other nutrients.
Patent GB-2302779-A (GB)
Title: Decoding punctured convolutionally encoded data
Inventor: CLAYDON ANTHONY PETER JOHN
IPC: H04N7/24
Filed: 1996-03-12
Abstract: The system provides a decoder of symbols of received data, the data being encoded according to a convolutional encoding scheme and transmitted through a communications channel. The data is punctuated according to a puncturing matrix, and has a plurality of state values which describe a sequence of state transitions. The decoder has a generation unit that accepts the received data for calculating metrics of the transitions thereof. A selector responsive to the generation unit selects a path of transitions corresponding to the path produced by a transmitter of the data stream. A traceback unit maintains historical information representative of sequential decision operations of the selector. A counter is provided for counting illegal state transitions of the path selected by the selector, and a control unit, responsive to the counter, determines a puncture rate and adjusts a puncture phase of the received data. The decoder can be used in a VLSI receiver circuit which is adapted to the reception of QPSK modulated data.
Patent GB-2304977-A (GB)
Title: Production of electrodes
Inventor: HEILMANN PETER
IPC: H01M4/139
Filed: 1996-08-30
Abstract: Electrodes suitable for use in electrochemical cells are produced by a) applying to an electrically conductive support a mixture comprising  * small Greek alpha *) a solid which can reversibly take up or release lithium ions in an electrochemical reaction, and * small Greek beta *) a binder, or a compound which can be converted into a binder, by means of a coating apparatus in such a way that an uncoated zone remains on the support at each of the two margins of the coating apparatus running parallel to the direction of the relative motion, and b) cutting the support at an angle of from 5 to 85 degrees to the normal to the direction of the relative motion to give essentially parallel strips.
Patent GB-2307327-A (GB)
Title: Correcting for disc eccentricity in a disc drive
Inventor: JON-WAN LEE
IPC: G11B7/095
Filed: 1996-10-10
Abstract: An optical disc drive has an eccentricity correction device for correcting the eccentricity of a disc 1 loaded on a turntable. A central ring 26 supports the disc and is installed on the turntable to move the disc 1 loaded on the turntable by a predetermined distance from the center of rotation of the turntable when the central ring 26 is moved by a moving means 40. The central ring 26 also includes means (30, fig 5) to raise the disc clamp before the disc is moved. Therefore, the eccentricity of the disc can be precisely corrected, and, when a pickup records or reproduces information, the time for tracking can be sharply reduced and tracking errors can be prevented.
Patent GB-2319979-A (GB)
Title: Utility knife
Inventor: GILBERT RICHARD
IPC: B26B5/00
Filed: 1996-12-04
Abstract: A hand held utility knife 20 is provided internally with a rectilinear guidance track 42 for the cutting blade 28, while the operating button 38 for advancing and retracting the blade 28 is guided in a curved slot 40. The mechanism 36 for advancing and retracting the blade 28 comprises a member 44 with a spigot 46 at the front end of member 44 and the operating button 38 at the rear end of member 44, which pivots on the spigot 46 relative to the blade 28. The spigot 46 is rectilinearly guided by internal ribs 64, 66 within the handle 22, independently of the rectilinear track 42 for guiding the blade 28.
Patent GB-2316601-A (GB)
Title: Vented cover for cooking vessel
Inventor: LIM AMELIA CHOW LAN
IPC: A47J37/10
Filed: 1996-12-16
Abstract: A vented cover for a wok or frying pan is arc or dome shape and has at least two or three, can be up to five or six vent holes 1 in either rectangular, square or round shapes. All the vent holes have a pair of runners 5 on the opposite and parallel sides, which allow a vent plate 2, 4 to slide on or off easily. The vent plates are also in either rectangular, square or round shapes which fit exactly into the pair of runners of a vent hole. The vent plates can either be thin solid sheets 2 or fine mesh sheets 4 and they can be in any combination to suit an individual cooking requirement. This invention will allow food steam to escape yet minimises the hot oil or fat spurting onto the cook's hands or body and the surrounding. However, if required, all the vent holes can be sealed up completely with the solid vent plates to prevent the steam from escaping. Vent holes may be provided with a fixed fine meshed or holed sheet covered by a slidable solid vent plate. Vent plates may be interchangeable. Each vent hole may occupy 15-25% of the area of the cover.
Patent GB-2314079-A (GB)
Title: Decomposing dioxins with supercritical water
Inventor: SAKO TAKESHI
IPC: A62D101/28
Filed: 1997-03-24
Abstract: A method of decomposing dioxin compounds, such as polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorodibenzofurans, contained in a waste material into unharmful substances, wherein the waste material is treated with a supercritical water at a temperature higher than the critical temperature of water and a pressure higher than the critical pressure of water.
Patent GB-2325438-A (GB)
Title: An ink jet printing method involving analysis of individual printing elements of a printhead and production of a modified printhead control signal
Inventor: BUCKBY STEVEN JOHN
IPC: B41J2/045
Filed: 1997-05-21
Abstract: The method comprises analysing the performance of individually actuated printing elements (12,Fig. 1) of a printhead 11 to determine a printing characteristic of the printhead such as the ink jet velocity or the amount of ink emitted in an ink jet and to produce control data, feeding the data to a controller 14 which uses it to compensate for variations in the performance of the printing elements whereby the controller produces modified control signals for the printing elements so as to adjust the printing characteristic of the printhead. A test print 22 may be produced and electronically examined by a camera 30 to produce a control data input to the controller. The method may also be applied to a thermal transfer printer.
Patent GB-2327374-A (GB)
Title: Melting thermoplastic material for application to surfaces
Inventor: BOURKE NOEL JAMES
IPC: B29C48/875
Filed: 1997-07-17
Abstract: Equipment for rapidly melting thermoplastic materials in powder or granular form without degradation, for use in white-lining and surfacing, comprises a heated rotating cylinder inside a heated outer chamber. The cylinder is fitted with vanes to move the product along the chamber to create turbulence and better thermal mixing. Heating is by indirect hot oil transfer.
Patent GB-2329096-A (GB)
Title: Creating sub-keys from hashed cryptographic master key
Inventor: HARVEY IAN NIGEL
IPC: H04L9/08
Filed: 1997-08-29
Abstract: A facitity for enhancing data security comprises a plurality of encryption modules, an interface and a data processing machine (10). The encryption modules are each responsible to a sub-key for encrypting data. The interface is operative to receive a master key, and the data processing machine (10) is operative to create a series of sub-keys for use with the modules. The machine (10) is operative to create each of the sub-keys by means of a hash function of the master key.
Patent GB-2318017-A (GB)
Title: Error correction in image transformation
Inventor: OYAMADA OUICHI
IPC: H04N19/89
Filed: 1994-11-28
Abstract: At the transmitter section the image data is subject to a source image encoding by the JPEG method and picture elements(MCU) are compressed. One or more of such MCUs are taken as one transmission block and the transmission blocks thus obtained are transmitted in each HDLC frame via the modulator 4 to the demodulator 6 over the transmission line 5. The output signal e from the demodulator 6 is supplied to the HDLC frame disassembler 33 in which the signal e having been received and demodulated in FCS sequence is partitioned into HDLC frames and each frame is checked for any error based on the error correction data thereof. If no error is detected, the transmission block in the HDLC frame is disassembled into individual MCUs and delivered. If an error is detected in any HDLC frame, data in the transmission block in that frame is discarded and a signal t indicative of the error is delivered to the block substitution unit 32. The discarded data is replaced by data u from the substitution block extracted from memory 34 by the block substitution unit 32, disassembled into individual MCUs and delivered.
Patent GB-977682-A (GB)
IPC: D21H19/54
Abstract: 977,682. Laminates. W. A. SCHOLTEN'S CHEMISCHE FABRIEKEN N.V. Jan. 29, 1962 [Jan. 31, 1961], No. 3352/62. Heading B5N. [Also in Divisions B2, C3, C4, D1, D2 and G2] A carrier material is provided with a deposit of a reaction product of an aldehyde with a starch derivative obtained by hydrolysing starch at a temperature between 60‹ and 300‹ C. with an inorganic acid in the presence of urea and less than 50% of water, calculated on the weight of the mixture. The carrier material may be paper, or textile materials, e.g. cotton, or the process may be used to bind pulverulent, granular or fibrous materials. The hydrolysis is to such an extent that a 25% by weight aqueous solution of the product has an apparent viscosity of at least 10 centipoise at 25‹ C. and at a rate of shear of 480 reciprocal seconds. The hydrolysed starch may be applied in solution. The aldehyde may be present in the same solution or may be subsequently applied as solution or vapour. The aldehyde may be formaldehyde, glyoxal, methyl-glyoxal, butyraldehyde, glutaraldehyde or alpha - hydroxyadip - aldehyde. When the carrier material is not paper, the aldehyde may be replaced by a substance capable of forming an aldehyde under the reaction conditions, e.g. paraformaldehyde or hexamethylenetetramine, or methylol compounds, e.g. monomethyloldimethylhydantoin or water-soluble aldehyde precondensates. Inorganic acids referred to are sulphamic, phosphoric, sulphuric, hydrochloric and nitric acids and mixtures thereof. The treated carrier material may be finally wetstrength paper is coated with an aqueous dispersion of starch conversion product and glyoxal, and a second strip of wet-strength paper laid on it; after drying, a firm water-resistant bond is formed. Specification 823,073 and German Specification 851,180 are referred to.
Patent GB-2317180-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems for biological reagent placement
Inventor: MARACAS RICHARD
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 1997-01-30
Abstract: An apparatus for placing at least one biological reagent at a plurality of locations on a substrate includes a stamp member onto which the at least one biological reagent is applied. The stamp member defines a plurality of transfer elements patterned to correspond to the plurality of locations. The stamp member contacts the substrate to transfer the at least one biological reagent from the plurality of transfer elements to the plurality of locations. The transfer elements can be defined by reservoirs or projected portions of the stamp member.
Patent GB-2322922-A (GB)
Title: Common rail branch fitting
Inventor: ASADA KIKUO
IPC: F02M55/02
Filed: 1998-03-02
Abstract: The fitting, comprising one or more branch holes in its wall which open into an axial communicating passage 1-1, has a pressing force applied to its wall during its manufacture to generate a residual compression stress at at least a portion of the wall adjacent the junction of the/each branch opening to improve internal pressure fatigue strength and reduce/prevent crack generation. The force can be applied by a diametrically movable external punch 5, the punch end or wall surface engaged by it having various configurations. Alternatively, internal force can be applied by liquid, by an axially movable oversize sphere in the passage 1-1, or by a radially outwardly movable punch, spherical, part-spherical or conical 14. The fitting has a connection nipple 3 welded or brazed to it to accept a branch connector nut.
Patent GB-2328916-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle power train
Inventor: NESBITT DAVID CHARLES
IPC: B60K17/08
Filed: 1997-06-05
Abstract: A motor vehicle power train includes an engine (26) mounted longitudinally in the vehicle adjacent one end, a change speed transmission (28) spaced from and drivably connected to the engine through an input propshaft (31) and a transfer transmission (29) mounted on the change speed transmission and drivably connected to a front differential through a front propshaft (34) and to a rear differential through a rear propshaft (35). The change speed transmission has an input shaft (39) to receive drive at one end from the engine and an output shaft (41) axially offset from the input shaft and having a drive output at the opposite end. The transfer transmission is arranged at the opposite end of the change speed transmission and includes a centre differential (56) having differential output shafts (57, 58) drivably connected to the front and rear propshafts and axially offset from the input shaft and the change speed transmission output shaft.
Patent GB-2345148-A (GB)
Title: Electric current sensors
Inventor: EKBERG MATS
IPC: G01R15/20
Filed: 1998-12-21
Abstract: A magnetic conductor in the form of a ring 1 surrounds a current-carrying conductor 2. A magneto-optic Faraday effect sensor 5 is positioned within a gap 4 within the ring and senses the magnetic field generated by the current flowing in the conductor 2. In an alternative arrangement, the magnetic conductor comprises two ring segments, and the distance between the segments and the current-carrying conductor 2 is measured by an optical time-of-flight sensor. The ends of the magnetic conductor 1 which define the gap may be flat or concave, and the magnetic conductor 1 may be tapered in the vicinity of the gap 4. Suitable materials for the magnetic conductor include iron, ferrite, dielectrics, metal glasses, and a polymer, such as silicon rubber, in which is dispersed powdered dielectric material, such as ferrite. The magnetic material of the magnetic conductor may be retained within a tube of non-magnetic material.