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Patent GB-2453512-A (GB)
Title: Composite laminated articles having foam cores
Inventor: JONES DANIEL THOMAS
IPC: B29C44/44
Filed: 2007-10-08
Abstract: A composite laminated article comprising: a first layer 4 of a closed cell foam of a thermoplastic material, a second layer 6 of a fibre-reinforced resin, the resin adhering a surface of the second layer to a surface of the first layer, wherein the closed cell foam has an average cell size less than 100 microns. The closed cell foam may comprise a plurality of expanded beads having an average size of 2 to 4 mm mutually bonded together. It may comprise a blend of polystyrene and polyphenylene oxide (PS/PPO). The fibre reinforced resin may comprise epoxy resin. Channels 20 or conduits 22 may be present along which resin may flow. The resin required for bonding a foam core to a fibre reinforced layer is thus minimized as also weight and material whilst still achieving a given structural performance providing particular mechanical properties. The laminated article may be used for manufacturing wind turbine blades, boat hulls, decks and bulkheads.
Patent GB-2440467-A (GB)
Title: A semiconductor device having a gate dielectric of different blocking characteristics
Inventor: WIECZOREK KARSTEN
IPC: H01L21/8234
Filed: 2006-04-19
Abstract: By locally adapting the blocking capability of gate insulation layers 205A, 205B for N-channel transistors, and P-channel transistors, the reliability and threshold stability of the P-channel transistor may be enhanced, while nevertheless electron mobility of the N-channel transistor may be kept at a high level. This may be accomplished by incorporating a different amount of a dielectric dopant into respective gate insulation layer portions 205A, 205B.
Patent GB-2439699-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for providing a dynamic on-demand routing protocol
Inventor: RANGARAJAN ANAND
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 2006-04-28
Abstract: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a dynamic on-demand routing protocol are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
Patent GB-2457017-A (GB)
Title: Camera head mount
Inventor: BRAITHWAITE SARAH LOUISE
IPC: A41D20/00
Filed: 2008-01-29
Abstract: A camera head mount 10 comprises: a strap 12 for encircling the head and means for securing the strap around the head to prevent or hinder slippage of the camera head mount once secured in its mounted position; a camera holding pocket 14 provided on the strap and situated such that when the camera head mount is secured in its mounted position the camera holding pocket is adapted to hold a camera in a forward-facing position against the forehead of the user, the lens of a mounted camera pointing forwards and through a lens aperture provided in the camera holding pocket at the front thereof, the camera holding pocket otherwise being adapted substantially to enclose a camera therein in a mounted and supported position on the forehead of the user.
Patent GB-2445121-A (GB)
Title: Deep Water Completions Fracturing Fluid Compositions
Inventor: CREWS JAMES B
IPC: C09K8/68
Filed: 2006-09-06
Abstract: It has been discovered that fracturing fluid compositions can be designed for successful deep water completion fracturing fluid operations. These fluids must be pumped relatively long distances from offshore platforms to the reservoir, and they are often subjected to a wide temperature range. Under these conditions, it is necessary to inhibit the formation of gas hydrates in the fracturing fluid compositions, as well as to delay the crosslinking of the gels that are formed to increase the viscosity of the fluids prior to fracturing the formation. Preferably, two different gas hydrate inhibitors are used to ensure placement of a gas hydrate inhibitor in most parts of the operation. In addition, as with all offshore or deep water hydrocarbon recovery operations, it is important that the components of the fracturing fluid compositions be environmentally benign and biodegradable.
Patent GB-2452154-A (GB)
Title: Press-fit rapid release medicament and method and apparatus of manufacturing
Inventor: PERRY RONALD L
IPC: A61K9/20
Filed: 2007-02-09
Abstract: A caplet having press-fit gelatin capsule shell halves includes one or more dimples formed in one or both ends of the caplet shells, which significantly reduces the thickness of the gelatin which thereby dissolves more quickly, allowing the medicament to be rapidly released into the body's digestive system. In one embodiment of the invention, the closing pins used to press the conventional capsule shell halves onto a core include a raised projection for debossing the dimples. As holding blocks of a press-fit machine move to encapsulate a caplet, closing pins form compressed dimples in at least one or preferably both ends of the gelatin capsule shell as the shells are applied to the core.
Patent GB-2455854-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus and method for dissipating explosive shock/stress waves
Inventor: HENDERSON STEPHEN W
IPC: E21B43/119
Filed: 2008-10-24
Abstract: An apparatus 10 and method for dampening stress waves propagated from the detonation of an explosive device 18 in a wellbore 16 to protect a device 22 positioned downhole. The method includes the steps of: positioning a shock dissipater 20 between an explosive device 18 and a package 22; detonating the explosive device 18 propagating a stress wave 36 toward the shock dissipater 20 and the package 22, the shock dissipater 20 reflecting a portion of the stress wave 36. The shock dissipater 20 may have two interfaces 32, 32ab, 32bc arranged between materials 30a, 30b, 30c of dissimilar acoustic impedances selected to reflect a compressive portion 36r of the stress wave at one interface 32ab and a tensile portion 36t of the stress wave at another interface 32bc.
Patent GB-2465401-A (GB)
Title: An inflatable sofa set
Inventor: LIN MARTIN
IPC: A47C4/54
Filed: 2008-11-18
Abstract: An inflatable sofa set comprises a receiving body 10, which has a receiving space 11 containing a pump 20 with a power supply device; which performs inflation and deflation operations, controlled by a control hob 22 located on the outer surface of the receiving body 10. At least one airbag 30, which becomes a seat after inflation, is connected to the pump 20 and received in the receiving space 11. Preferably the airbag is connected to the pump by connecting portion 31 and the receiving body has an opening for the receiving space with a cover. Preferably both lateral edges of the receiving body have concave portions 13 which the connecting portion of the airbag extends from. An indicator lamp 23 indicating pump overload, a chessboard, an audio device (50, fig 5) and wheels (40) all located on the receiving body are preferred features.
Patent GB-2465805-A (GB)
Title: Whole fish products formed from pre-rigor fish flesh
Inventor: ATTECK LOUIS AUGUSTUS GEORGE
IPC: A23L17/00
Filed: 2008-12-01
Abstract: A fish product is produced from fish flesh that has not been subject to rigor mortis. Live fish are gutted and the meat separated from the bones as soon as possible thereafter. The fish flesh is separated from the de-gutted fish to form a flesh fraction and a residue compriing mainly skin and bones. The fish flesh is solubilised immediately by communition in a sodium chloride solution while in the early pre-rigor state. The solubilised fish flesh is then dried to form a powder. The residue fraction is dried separately. The dry meat powder and the residue powder are reconstituted with water and mixed in various combinations to make fish products comprising whole fish. This process minimises the formation of acto-myosin during rigor mortis that reduces binding properties of the fish materials when they are used in downstream fish products. A factory vessel may be used to transport live fish from the sea and onto the boat within a flow of sea water during trawling or seining. This keeps the fish in their natural environment with minimal stress and takes them directly to the processing equipment.
Patent GB-2456371-A (GB)
Title: Handheld electronic device having multiple-axis input device and selectable language indicator for language selection and associated method
Inventor: SCOTT SHERRYL LEE LORRAINE
IPC: H04M1/72436
Filed: 2007-11-09
Abstract: A method of enabling input into a handheld electronic device comprises detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or more input members, employing an operative input method language to output a number of objects that are selectable and that each comprise at least a portion of a language object that corresponds with the ambiguous input, outputting at a location adjacent the number of objects an indicator representative of an operative input method language, detecting an input from a multiple-axis input device as being a selection input with respect to the indicator and, responsive thereto, enabling a selection of an alternate input method language as the operative input method language.
Patent GB-2456860-A (GB)
Title: Pump magnetic drive adjustment
Inventor: SHEPHERD PAUL DAVID
IPC: F04D13/02
Filed: 2008-12-05
Abstract: A pump 10 comprises a pump rotor 12, in a pumping chamber 13, and a drive shaft 16 coupled together by a first coupling half 20 connected to the pump rotor 12 and a second coupling half 22 connected to the drive shaft 16, one of the coupling halves 20, 22 being provided with an element capable of generating a magnetic field and the other coupling half 20, 22 being provided with an electrically conductive material. The position of at least one of the coupling halves 20, 22 is adjustable relative to the other coupling half to vary the degree of interaction between the magnetic field and the electrically conductive material in accordance with fluid pressure acting on the moveable half 20, 22 or halves, of the coupling. The fluid pressure in an annular chamber 44, between the first and second coupling halves 20, 22, is controlled by a valve, this preferably controlling the size of a gap G and therefore the amount of slip between the first and second coupling halves 20, 22, which determines the speed of rotation of the pump rotor 12. The pump 10 may be part of an automobile engine cooling system, the pump speed being controlled in response to a measured engine temperature.
Patent GB-2453898-A (GB)
Title: Device for a shark jaw
Inventor: OVER ARILD
IPC: B63B21/18
Filed: 2007-08-16
Abstract: A device for a shark jaw (10) onboard a vessel is described, where the shark jaw is arranged to secure an anchor line, a cable, a chain or the like, characterised in that the shark jaw comprises measuring equipment in the form of one or more load readers (16) arranged to one or more sides of the shark jaw to read strains which arise during load effects in said anchor line, cable, chain or the like.
Patent GB-2468323-A (GB)
Title: Fan assembly
Inventor: HELPS DANIEL FRANCIS
IPC: F04D25/08
Filed: 2009-03-04
Abstract: A nozzle 14 for a fan assembly comprises an interior passage for receiving an airflow and a mouth for emitting an airflow, and a plurality of guide vanes 120 located within the interior passage, each directing a portion of the airflow towards the mouth, the nozzle 14 defining an opening through which air from outside the fan assembly is drawn by the airflow emitted from the mouth. A bladeless fan assembly may comprise the nozzle 14 and a means for creating the airflow. The vanes 120 may be shaped to change the direction of the airflow by around 90°, and the mouth may be shaped so as to substantially reverse the flow direction of each portion of airflow. The vanes 120 may be located on an internal surface of an inner casing section of the nozzle 14.
Patent GB-2460506-A (GB)
Title: Optimising electron transfer dissociation and/or charge reduction processes
Inventor: BROWN JEFFERY MARK
IPC: H01J49/00
Filed: 2009-04-03
Abstract: A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising an electron transfer dissociation (ETD) and/or a proton transfer reaction (PTR) device, said device preferably comprising a stacked ring ion guide (see Figures 1 to 3). A control system estimates or determines the degree of fragmentation and/or charge reduction of precursor/product ions within the ion guide and in response thereto varies one or more parameters which affect the degree of fragmentation and/or degree of charge reduction of ions within the device. Preferably, the control system varies the speed at which multiply charged analyte cations and/or reagent anions ions are transmitted through the ion guide by travelling wave DC voltages in order to optimise the fragmentation and/or charge reduction processes.
Patent GB-2469473-A (GB)
Title: Digital phase locked loop
Inventor: SORNIN NICOLAS
IPC: H03L7/07
Filed: 2009-04-14
Abstract: A phase-locked loop circuit comprises an oscillator 20 for generating an output signal 21, an input 25 for receiving a reference clock signal, a delay cell 26 for delaying the reference clock signal, a phase comparator 27 for generating a quantised signal indicative of the phase difference between the output signal 21 and the delayed reference clock signal, and an integrator 28 for integrating the quantised signal. The circuit has two feedback paths: a first feedback path 22 which controls the phase and/or frequency of the oscillator 20 in dependence on the integrated signal, and a second feedback path 23 which adjusts the delay applied by the delay cell 26 in dependence on the integrated signal. It is also disclosed that phase modulation can be applied via input 60. A fractional input signal may be applied an integrated in an integrator 30. The output of integrator 30 is added to a phase control signal 60 and the sum is added to the signal in the second feedback path. Much of the PLL can be implemented in the digital domain. Keywords: digital PLL, DPLL, noise, RMS VC4 phase error, sigma delta, metastable.
Patent GB-2470054-A (GB)
Title: Magnetising assembly
Inventor: MUNDELL PAUL ARTHUR
IPC: G01N27/83
Filed: 2009-05-07
Abstract: A magnetiser 20, suitable for an in-line pipe inspection tool, comprises a ferromagnetic base member 21, a pair of driving magnets 22 mounted at spatially separate locations on the base member 21 and where the polarisation direction 31, 32 of the drive magnets 22 are opposite to one another and are direct towards or away from the base member 21, respectively. The magnetiser 20 further includes a flux enhancing magnet 27 which is mounted on the base member 21, adjacent to one or both of the drive magnets 22, and arranged with its polarisation 33 substantially aligned with the flux path passing through the base member 21 and extending between the drive magnets 22. The flux enhancing magnet 27 is coupled to the drive magnets 22 such that the external magnetic field generated by the magnetiser 20 assembly is enhanced. The assembly 20 may include flux couplers 23 and a plurality of flux enhancing magnets. The magnets 22, 27 and base member 21 may be shaped to further enhance the magnetic field generated.
Patent GB-2470563-A (GB)
Title: Populating a database
Inventor: ROBINSON JOHN
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2009-05-26
Abstract: A search system comprising a database having a plurality of records, each record being provided for an entity, such as a company, and comprising a plurality of fields for information relating to the respective entity. The system further comprises a web crawler and a database manager for associating crawled web pages with respective records. A search engine is adapted to receive one or more search terms from a client, search at least one field and the associated web pages of each record in the database, determine a record as relevant based on a correspondence between a said search tern and data in the at least one field and the associated web pages and return to the client information on the entity for which the determined record is provided.
Patent GB-2470617-A (GB)
Title: Content presentation formed using weighted selection of media channels
Inventor: ABRAM DAVID ANTHONY SHAW
IPC: G11B27/031
Filed: 2009-09-02
Abstract: A method of forming a content presentation for a user at a device of the user, the device being arranged to receive a plurality of media channels, each media channel comprising respective media content and metadata associated with the media content, the method comprising: (a) for each of the media channels, determining an associated weight-value S808 based on one or more parameters for the presentation and the metadata S804, wherein the one or more parameters are adjustable S818 by the user via the device; (b) performing a weighted selection S810, S812 of one of the media channels, the selection being weighted in accordance with the determined weight-values; (c) outputting an amount of the media content of the selected media channel S814; and (d) repeating steps (a), (b) and (c) until the end of the presentation S816. Content items may be randomly selected based on the weights. Channels may be transmitted over a broadcast network and the user devices may be digital televisions. Parameters for the presentation may include subject matter, theme, people, characters and amount of the content.
Patent GB-1537251-A (GB)
Title: Door and window fittings
IPC: E05B3/06
Filed: 1976-03-02
Abstract: 1537251 Securing rotatable bandles to rose plates NORCROS INVESTMENTS Ltd 2 March 1976 [11 March 1975] 10059/75 Heading E2A A fastening lever 26, 40 for securing a door or window, is pivotally mounted on a cover plate 30, 34, 36 to form a sub-assembly, and this is fixed to an L-shaped mounting plate 2 at its ears 10, 12 by means of a hooking part 34 and a grub-screw 32.
Patent GB-229900-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in motor-driven sewing machines
IPC: F16H7/14
Filed: 1924-04-23
Abstract: 229,900. Singer Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and Birch, R. R. April 23, 1924. Drawings to Specification. Sewing-machines; driving. - In a sewing- machine driven by an electric motor secured to the machine head, as described, for example, in Specification 182,033, the motor is insulated from the machine head at the connection of the motorsupporting bracket and the machine head, or, of the motor and the supporting bracket, or, between the field core and the end housing of the motor.
Patent GB-918154-A (GB)
Title: Free machining steel
IPC: C22C38/60
Filed: 1959-03-24
Abstract: A free-cutting non-stainless steel includes the following elements in percentages by weight:-  .Pb.0.02-0.5 .Te.0.01-0.5 .S.0.02-0.5 The steel may include Mn up to 1 and P up to 0.12 and residual amounts of Cu, Mo, Co or Cr.  The Pb and Te are preferably added to the molten steel as lead telluride.
Patent GB-904465-A (GB)
Title: Method of, and apparatus for, finishing the surfaces of articles
IPC: B24B31/02
Filed: 1959-03-24
Abstract: 904,465. Polishing. CANNING & CO. Ltd., W. March 24, 1959 [March 26, 1958], No. 10116/59. Class 60. An article W is polished by placing it, together with a mass of abrasive material, in a cylindrical drum 15 having a resilient lining 28, rotating the drum about a first axis so that the contents of the drum are compacted against the outermost part of the surface of the drum and simultaneously rotating the drum about its own axis at a speed not greater than the speed of rotation about the first axis. The coefficient of friction of the lining relative to the abrasive material is sufficient to ensure that the effect of rotating the drum about its axis will be to move the contents of the drum around the wall of the drum without slipping and without substantial change of shape. As shown, two drums 15 are rotatably mounted at the opposite ends of an arm 14 which is centrally carried by a rotatablymounted shaft 12; rotation of the shaft 12 to rotate the arm 14 results in rotation of the drums 15 about their own axes through sprocket gearing 19. The linings 28 are of rubber &c. and the abrasive material may include neutral media such as felt, fibre, rubber, plastics, flour, sawdust and beef tallow. If desired, the drums may be sub-divided into separate compartments by partitions which have holes for the passage of the abrasive material but not for the articles. The linings 28 are anchored inside the drums by integral lugs and may be of continuous or discontinuous form.
Patent GB-581797-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to helicopter rotors
IPC: B64C27/51
Filed: 1945-04-23
Abstract: 581,797. Helicopters. UNITED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION. April 23, 1945, No. 10162. Convention date, Sept. 26, 1944. [Class 4] In helicopters, having rotor blades 26 hinged to a disc 12 for flapping movements and having drag hinges 22, mechanism is provided for maintaining a symmetrical arrangement of the blades about their drag hinges. A hydraulic cylinder 34 is pivoted to each blade shank 24, the piston-rod 32 with piston 40 being pivoted at 30 to the link 20 between the flapping axle 18 and drag hinge 22 ; each cylinder has its outer end connected by flexible pipes 52, 54 to the inner end of the preceding cylinder and the movement of any blade about its drag axis causes movement of the piston 40 so as to force liquid into or out of the preceding cylinder and hence its adjustment to keep pace with the first cylinder. The pistons 40 have restricted orifices 45 allowing communication between the two parts of the cylinder to admit of return after disturbance of the blades. A central reservoir 58 is provided to supply through a spring valve any additional liquid required ; there may be a small orifice in the valve to allow for expansion of liquid.
Patent GB-513660-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical wave filters
IPC: H01P1/201
Filed: 1938-04-04
Abstract: 513,660. Impedance networks. MARCONI'S WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO.; Ltd. (Radio Corporation of America). April 4, 1938. No. 10181. [Class 40 (iii)] In a coaxial or like transmission line shortcircuited at one end, one conductor is capacitively coupled to earth throughout its length, so that the line functions as a low-pass filter and is particularly suitable for excluding highfrequency oscillations from the supply circuits of radio transmitters and receivers using a common source of power. The outer conductor 2, Fig. 2, of a coaxial pair may be connected to earth 5 through capacity 4, and directly connected at the end 3 with the inner conductor 1, which may be expanded at the other end 9 to form a condenser, the output terminals 7 being bridged by a condenser 6. The equivalent circuit is shown in Fig. 2a. Alternatively an ordinary coaxial resonator without the expanded part 9 may be used, Figs. 1, 1a (not shown), and Fig. 5. The former arrangement may be regarded as m-derived from the constant-k prototype formed by the latter arrangement. The outer conductor 2 may be of circular, square or other cross section. Design formulae are given in the Specification, and it is pointed out that the reactance of the resonator 1, 2 passes from an inductive to a capacitive value at each frequency for which the length of the resonator is an odd number of quarter-wavelengths. In a modification, Fig. 3, the connection 3 between the inner and outer inductors 1, 2 is centrally located, and the capacity 4 is that between a plate 11 forming part of the outer conductor 2 and an earth plate 12. The equivalent diagram is shown in Fig. 3a. The effect of capacity shunting the inductances may be produced, Figs. 4, 4a (not shown), by expanded ends similar to the part 9, Fig. 2. The low-pass effect may be enhanced by mismatching. Fig. 5 shows a practical embodiment in which one terminal 8 of the power supply is connected to the coaxial conductors 1, 2 by the end plate 3, and the outer conductor 2 is mounted on a metallic plate 11 separated by insulating material from an earthed plate 5. At the output end the inner conductor 1 is connected to one of the powerinput terminals 7 through an insulated metal plate 15. Shunt capacity is provided by a parallel insulated plate 18 which is connected to the earthed shield 20 by screws with insulating hushings.