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Patent GB-2464558-A (GB)
Title: Window frame with thermal break
Inventor: TAYLOR NIGEL
IPC: E06B3/263
Filed: 2008-10-25
Abstract: A composite window frame member 10 comprises an inner profile 12 extruded from plastics material and two outer profiles 14, 16. The outer profiles are extruded from a metallic material and each is attached to a respective side face 18, 20 of the inner profile. The inner profile may be hollow and divided internally into a number of cells 26 30. A reinforcing or thermal insert 34 may be located within the cells. The inner profile is preferably clipped 36 38 to the outer profiles and double sided adhesive tape may be used. A method of manufacturing a window frame member 10 is also claimed, the method comprising producing an elongate extrusion of a plastics material to form the inner profile; producing first and second elongate extrusions of a metallic material to form the outer profiles; attaching the first and second outer profile extrusions to respective side surfaces of the inner profile extrusion; and cutting the resulting composite to the required length.
Patent GB-2466920-A (GB)
Title: Shower attachment
Inventor: CINNAMON GUY
IPC: B05B1/18
Filed: 2008-11-26
Abstract: A shower attachment comprises a hollow body 10 having a coupling 18 at one end for connection to a water supply and a showerhead 12 at the opposite end. A fluidic amplifier 14 is located within the coupling end of the body 10. The fluidic amplifier 14 has an axial bore 22 which is not uniformly cylindrical and through which water flows from the water supply to the showerhead 12, and a radial bore 24 which at one end communicates with the axial bore 22 at a region where the diameter of the axial bore 22 increases and at its other end communicates with the ambient air. The radial bore 24 serves to introduce air into the water flowing through axial bore 22 when the shower attachment is in use and to allow water to drain from the attachment when the attachment is not in use.
Patent GB-2467150-A (GB)
Title: A digital calliper with extended functionality for measuring the relative positions of the centres of holes
Inventor: DALIDOVICH GEORGY
IPC: G01B3/20
Filed: 2009-01-24
Abstract: A digital caliper with an ability to indicate the relative position of the centre of a hole R explicitly on the display, achieved by using a specialized function: while activated it causes the digital caliper to divide the last measured value indicated on the display by 2 and to use thus found value as a positive offset for the following measurements; while deactivated the digital caliper returns to its initial state with zero offset. The proposed function is to be used as following: first — the diameter of the hole D is measured; second — while keeping the value on the display the specialized function is activated; third measurements of the distances from the edges of the part to the edge of the hole L is carried out; indications on the display would be the sum of the actually measured distance L and the radius of the hole, D divided by two, giving the distance X to the centre of the hole R.
Patent GB-2456634-A (GB)
Title: Cargo transport system and method
Inventor: SANFORD WILLIAM C
IPC: B64D9/00
Filed: 2007-07-18
Abstract: A system for loading cargo containers into a storage hold, and offloading cargo containers from the storage hold, especially of a vehicle, such as an aircraft. The system includes at least one guide rail and a motorized platform, onto which cargo containers are loaded, cooperating mechanically with the guide rail. The guide rail guides the cargo laden motorized platform into the storage hold, and the motorized platform deposits the cargo upon remote command. The motorized platform has a chassis; a power source; a control module controlling drive motors of the wheels of the platform; and means for reciprocating at least a portion of an upper surface of the platform sufficient to elevate a load placed thereon above the guide rail height.
Patent GB-2455227-A (GB)
Title: Valve assembly with blocking member
Inventor: PARR RICHARD S
IPC: A47L5/32
Filed: 2005-11-28
Abstract: A suction cleaner includes a housing, a floor suction nozzle (222) operatively attached to the housing, and a suction source operatively attached to the housing and placed in fluid communication with the floor suction nozzle (222). The assembly further includes a valve assembly 628 operatively associated with the floor suction nozzle (222). The valve assembly (628) is selectively movable between a first position which at least partially blocks suction to the floor suction nozzle and a second position which substantially allows suction to flow through the floor suction nozzle. The apparatus further includes an accessory hose 638 assembly having a proximal end in fluid communication with the valve assembly and a distal end. The apparatus still further including a holder 618 mounted to the housing and adapted to receive the distal end of the accessory hose 638. The apparatus yet further including a blocking member (822) which prevents the distal end from being received in the holder when the valve is in the first position and allows the distal end to be received in the holder 618 when the valve (628) is in the second position.
Patent GB-2458805-A (GB)
Title: Generating a power management policy for components of a system based on data from other components
Inventor: JEYASEELAN JAYA L
IPC: G06F1/32
Filed: 2009-03-31
Abstract: A power management controller 15 receives power management guidelines 30...36 from a first set of components 20...26 and uses them to develop a power management policy 50 for a second set of components 60...66. The guidelines may include latency parameters, such as latency tolerances, for the first set of components. The controller may determine a sleep level for the second set of components. The sleep levels for the second set of components may be selected such that the wake-up times of the sleep levels match the latency tolerances of the first set of components. The power management controller may also use activity or traffic patterns to determine the power management policy.
Patent GB-2469335-A (GB)
Title: Non-round grab rail
Inventor: GRAVE ROBERT CHARLES
IPC: A47K17/02
Filed: 2009-04-09
Abstract: The present invention relates to a grab rail110of the kind commonly mounted on walls or elsewhere in bathrooms where a hand-hold for steadying a user may be desirable, such as near baths and showers. The present invention provides a grab rail110of non circular cross section with improved grip functionality. The cross section of the grab rail may be square or rectangular with rounded, chamfered or angled corners140. The grab rail may have a channel for receiving a strip of material150which may be resilient to allow for improved grip or which may be luminescent. The grab rail or handrail may otherwise incorporate resilient or friction enhancing material and may include one or more luminescent portions. Many cross sectional shapes are disclosed.
Patent GB-2469451-A (GB)
Title: P-Type Semiconductor Devices
Inventor: WALLIS DAVID JOHN
IPC: H01L29/10
Filed: 2009-04-14
Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises an active layer (31) above a first confinement layer (32). The active layer (31) comprises a layer of α-Sn less than 20nm thick. The first confinement layer (32) is formed of material with a wider band gap than a-Sn for example, a ternary III-V semiconductor such as Alxln1-xSb wherein the band gap offset between the α-Sn and the confinement material allows confinement of charge carriers in the active layer so that the active layer acts as a quantum well. A similar second confinement layer (34) may be formed over the active layer (31). This semiconductor device may be a p-FET. A method of fabricating such a semiconductor device is described.
Patent GB-2456721-A (GB)
Title: Refractor and lighting apparatus
Inventor: HAMILTON GERARD FRANCIS
IPC: F21Y103/37
Filed: 2009-05-27
Abstract: A lighting apparatus (1,2) comprising optical elements (3), electrical elements and an attachment device (4). The optical elements (3) comprise a refractor (10) attachable to the attachment device (4). The refractor (10) comprises two planar members (101, 102) and an arcuate member (103) connecting the planar members (101, 102) to define a cavity (104). Each member having an inner and an outer surface. The optical elements (3) further comprising a light source (11) mountable within the cavity (104) of the refractor by means of a lampholder (11a) positioned in the attachment device (4). The refractor (10) further comprises a plurality of prismatic surfaces (101a, 102a, 103a) wherein at least one prismatic surface is the inner surface (101a, 102a) of at least one planar member and at least one prismatic surface is the outer surface (103a) of the arcuate member.
Patent GB-2470768-A (GB)
Title: Receiver for OFDM symbols in a MISO system with Alamouti-type encoding
Inventor: ATUNGSIRI SAMUEL ASANGBENG
IPC: H04L1/06
Filed: 2009-06-03
Abstract: A receiver is arranged to detect and recover data from Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, which are transmitted as first and second versions to form a Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) system and which carry pairs of data symbols encoded to form Alamouti cells. The receiver includes a channel estimator and corrector, which is arranged to form an estimate of the data symbols, by generating an estimate of first and second channels via which the first and second versions of the OFDM symbols are received. It comprises a pilot data extractor 202, a frequency dimension interpolator 220 which is arranged to interpolate between the pilot data received from each of the OFDM symbols in the frequency domain to form sum pilot data and difference pilot data, a sum and difference decoder 223 arranged to combine the sutra and difference pilot data to form for each data symbol of the Alamouti pairs an estimate of a sample of the first channel and an estimate of the sample of the second channel, and an Alamouti decoder 234. The Alamouti decoder receives the data bearing sub-carriers from the OFDM symbols and estimates the data symbols by performing Alamouti decoding using the estimates of the samples for the first and second channels. The arrangement recovers an estimate of the data symbols using frequency dimension interpolation only.
Patent GB-2460766-A (GB)
Title: Code protection using synchronised memory accesses/fetches
Inventor: STEWART NEIL WILLIAM
IPC: G06F21/14
Filed: 2009-06-12
Abstract: Program code is modified to execute correctly only when code and data memory accesses/fetches are synchronised, i.e. data and code accesses/fetches are routed to identical physical addresses in computer memory. This indirectly defeats a MMU (memory management unit) or translation lookaside buffer (TLB) attack, in which code and data memory accesses/fetches to the same logical address are routed to different physical addresses. The program code may be modified such that one or more sections of the code ('repair targets) are deliberately broken so that the program code will not execute correctly, the repair targets being replaced at run time with correct code before the repair targets are executed. Repair probes may be injected into the program code to fix the broken targets at run time before they are executed, such that the repair process is ineffective when an attack attempts to re-route fetches, and write incorrect values into the repair targets after execution.
Patent GB-2461168-A (GB)
Title: External rotor motor with encapsulated stator
Inventor: WANG XIONGCHENG
IPC: H02K5/10
Filed: 2009-06-22
Abstract: An external rotor motor, including a stator, a rotor 12, and a rotating shaft 7, the rotor 12 being disposed outside the stator, the rotor 12 being connected to the rotating shaft 7, and the rotating shaft 7 being mounted to the stator via bearings 6, wherein the stator includes a stator core 1 carrying a coil winding 2 and an insulating housing 3 injection moulded to encapsulate the stator core 1 and the coil winding 2. Threaded mounting apertures 8,9 are provided in an extended portion 14 of the moulded assembly, the portion 14 including a cable clamping structure 11 (fig 2). The invention has good insulation property and is capable of preventing water, dusts, erosion, and oxidation. End insulation of nonferrous metal wires, improves safety and reliability of the motor, reduces weight and cost of the motor, improves heat dissipation effect of the stator, reduces temperature rise of the motor, and makes installation of the motor more convenient and the production efficiency even higher.
Patent GB-2459211-A (GB)
Title: Broadcast data tagging and metadata processing in a portable media device (PMD) and coupled accessory
Inventor: DOROGUSKER JESSE LEE
IPC: H04H60/27
Filed: 2007-12-20
Abstract: A method performed by an accessory 104, e.g. AM/FM or high definition (HDTV) receiver, connected to portable media device (PMD) 102, comprises: determining whether a received broadcast track will be tagged, generating a tag comprising track identifying information, instructing connected PMD to open a tag file in a store, and writing the tag to the file. Also independently claimed is a similar method simply instructing the PMD to save the tag, omitting the 'file open' step. Also, a method including receiving plural tracks, with metadata, tagging a currently playing track, and instructing the PMD to open a tag file for a tag record containing a metadata portion for the current track. In addition, an accessory for a PMD, including a tag extraction engine; a method wherein a handle for a tag file is returned from media device to accessory; a method including communicating a tag identification information portion via a media asset delivery service; and a media asset access method generating an entry in a list of media assets. Further methods acquire a media asset including affiliate identifier requests that identify a referral source from which a client device obtained a unique asset (track) associated identifier.
Patent GB-2462362-A (GB)
Title: Online game communication using voice recognition
Inventor: NAKASHIMA SHOUJI
IPC: A63F13/45
Filed: 2009-08-04
Abstract: A method of providing voice communication between players P2, P3 during an online game comprises recognising a player's voice using voice recognition when speech is inputted at a player computer 1300-3, selecting from predetermined statements 61 a statement corresponding to the inputted speech, transmitting information about the selected statement to a second player computer 1300-2, receiving the information at the second player computer, extracting from stored voice data a speech statement corresponding to the received information, and outputting a sound based on the extracted voice data. The statement may be selected based on the nature and order of keywords identified in the inputted speech, e.g. a sender identification keyword 50, a destination computer identification keyword 52, a statement identification keyword 54, and a statement completion identification keyword 56. The statement may be selected from a subset of candidate statements, the subset being based on the current game state. The outputted sound may comprise voice data extracted from stored voice data of actors associated with player characters. The method is preferably used to provide voice communication between players in shooting games (see figures 3 & 4).
Patent GB-2464588-A (GB)
Title: A communication apparatus comprising an IP converter and connected via a DSL to a terminal accommodation apparatus including a PCM modulator.
Inventor: SUZUKI MUNEYUKI
IPC: H04M3/00
Filed: 2009-09-09
Abstract: The communication system includes a plurality of terminal accommodation apparatuses 200 for accommodating terminals 3c, 3d, a communication apparatus 1 connected to an IP network 4, and digital subscriber lines (DSL) L3 for connecting the plurality of terminal accommodation apparatuses 200 and the communication apparatus 1. The terminal accommodation apparatus 200 includes a PCM (pulse code modulation) modulator and a subscriber line interface. The PCM modulator converts a voice signal received from the terminal 3c to PCM data. The subscriber line interface transmits data including the PCM data to the communication apparatus 1 via the metallic subscriber line L3. The communication apparatus 1 includes an IP converter for converting the PCM data to an IP (Internet protocol) packet. In the communication apparatus of the present invention, all the PCM data sent from the many terminal accommodation apparatuses are collected to the IP converter and the IP converter converts all the PCM data to the IP packets. Thus, compared with a communication system having the VoIP processing unit installed in each of the terminal accomodation apparatus, the number of VoIP processing units and the conversion process of the PCM data to the IP packet can be reduced.
Patent GB-2463399-A (GB)
Title: Eddy current sensor and signal processing
Inventor: CHANA KAMALJIT SINGH
IPC: G01B7/14
Filed: 2008-06-30
Abstract: An eddy current sensor for use as a dynamic proximity sensor, particularly for monitoring of blade tip timing and clearance in turbomachinery, has a common coil (6) for use in both generating a magnetic field in a proximate region and detecting the effect of eddy currents generated by said field in electrically conductive objects passing through that region. The coil is wound on a rectangular or other elongate former so that the coil is itself elongate in section. This can improve the resolution of the device when used for sensing the passage of objects of elongate section (such as a turbine blade tip (11)) when the sensor coil is oriented with its shorter cross-sectional dimension aligned with the shorter cross-sectional dimension of the respective object. Also described is a method of processing a signal wave form from such devices to derive "trigger" points for blade tip timing.
Patent GB-2463199-A (GB)
Title: Atom transfer dispersion polymerization
Inventor: MATYJASZEWSKI KRZYSZTOF
IPC: C08F2/38
Filed: 2008-05-23
Abstract: The present disclosure describes a two-step batch dispersion polymerization process for the preparation of substantially uniformed-sized functional (co)polymer particles. The first step of the process includes polymerizing at least one first radically (co)polymerizable monomer by a free radical polymerization process to form a (co)polymer in a stable colloidal dispersion and the second step includes polymerizing the at first radically (co)polymerizable monomer or an additional radically (co)polymerizable monomer in the stable colloidal dispersion by a living/controlled radical (co)polymerization process.
Patent GB-276914-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to holders for electric lamps
IPC: H01R33/965
Filed: 1927-04-12
Abstract: 276,914. Kirk, A., and Ball, W. G. R. April 12, 1927. Holdes. - A casing 1 opening at its lower end is provided at the top with a bore for admission of the leads and with a sealing- cap 7 adapted to make, a gas and watertight joint therewith, and the terminal block 14 is adapted to slide into the open end up to a shoulder 11, leaving a space in the upper end of the casing to accommodate a length of wire. The cap of the bulb is accommodated in a recess in the terminal block, which is provided with bayonet slots 19 for securing the bulb and with a fillet 18 serving to insulate the terminals 17 and to project into a groove 10 in the casing to prevent rotation of the terminal block therein. A ring 23 adapted to be screwed on the lower end of the casing is formed with an annular disc 21 which serves to compress an indiarubber ring 20 about the cap of the bulb to make a. gas and watertight joint therewith. The cord grip comprises a conical nipple 3 upon which the cap 7 screws, the cap 7 having an internal conical surface 9. The end of the covering 26 of the leads in placed between the conical surfaces and clamped by screwing down the cap. A shadeholder 24 is formed on the ring 23.
Patent GB-436004-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to window regulators
IPC: B65D49/06
Filed: 1934-04-03
Abstract: 436,004. Vehicle-window regulators. ROETHEL, J. H., 269, Marlborough Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. April 3, 1934, No. 10058. Convention date, Sept. 25, 1933. [Class 20 (iii)] A sliding vehicle window of the kind disclosed in Specification 419,409 is adapted to be moved rearwardly and horizontally to give a front ventilation opening, and to be lowered into the well by means of a second regulator lever 41 provided with a cam extension 51 and a stud 43 adapted to engage respectively a stud 47 and projection 63 on the bottom rail. The rear guide 24 is made deep above the well for horizontal movement and, in the well, is shallow to allow vertical movement only. A second cam 50 on the regulator lever provides a third point of support during initial vertical movement. The lever may have a pin, the cam being provided on the bottom rail, or the lever may have a cam slot engaging a pin on the rail giving positive horizontal movement in both directions. The bottom rail has openings 61 for the introduction of the lever studs when mounting and, when slotted, the cam lever has a lateral bend at the end to allow springing past the engaging stud. Resilient stops 81, 82 may be provided for the lowered position of the sash, or a projection on one of the gears may engage the mounting plate for the same purpose.
Patent GB-577420-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to firearms
IPC: F41A3/66
Filed: 1943-06-22
Abstract: 577,420. Smallarms. TRIGGS. W. W., (Western Cartridge Co.). June 22, 1943, No. 10063. [Class 119] Consists of an arrangement of the triggergroup and receiver whereby the former can be removed only when the firing mechanism is uncocked. The trigger-group, shown detached in Fig. 7, is connected with the receiver 15, Fig. 1, by guide-ribs 26, so that it is assembled and removed by longitudinal sliding. The pivoted hammer 33 moves in a slot 21 in the receiver and has a rear extension 34 which, in the cocked position, Fig. 1, lies in front of an abutment 22 formed by the end of the slot 21 whereby it is obstructed if the attempt be made to slide the trigger-group rearwards to disconnect it, with the hammer cocked. The front end 28 of the' trigger-plate 16 slides in a slot 24 in the receiver below the end of the barrel 17, and is notched at 29 to form a wrench or other tool. Specification 571,726 is referred to.
Patent GB-513230-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to collapsible lattice gates
IPC: E06B9/06
Filed: 1938-04-02
Abstract: 513,230. Collapsable gates. POWNER, E. D., and POWNER, W. D. April 2. 1938, No. 10108. [Class 45] The openings between the pickets of a collapsable lattice gate are reduced by means of an auxiliary lattice or openwork gate adapted to be applied to the main gate so that one or more of its vertical members is or are located between adjacent pickets of the main gate. As shown, the auxiliary gate comprises vertical bars 4 interconnected by pivotal links 5. Alternate bars 4 are fastened to the main gate pickets 1 by clips 6 secured by bolts 7 passing between the two channel-section members forming the picket.