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Patent GB-2259792-A (GB)
Title: Direction control of a moving vehicle
Inventor: AOYAMA HAZIME
IPC: G05D1/02
Filed: 1992-09-03
Abstract: In a vehicle having rotary encoders 5a, 5b associated with each of its driven wheels and a gyroscope 1 to detect yaw, motor feedback control alone is effected when the displacement angle or yaw rate is below a set level. However, both motor speed feedback control and gyroscope feedback control are employed when yaw angle or yaw rate exceeds the set amount eg. during wheelslip. Thus when the travel eccentric angle is small, the introduction of possible integration errors in the gyroscope integrator 3 or in voltage drift in the control is avoided whilst when wheelslip occurs or when travel eccentric angles become large, motor feedback control problems are avoided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261428-A (GB)
Title: Safety closure
Inventor: RUTHERFORD STEPHEN GRAHAM
IPC: B65D55/02
Filed: 1992-11-16
Abstract: A closure arrangement for a container such as a medicine bottle comprises a cap 3 which is locatable on a bottle neck (1), the neck having ramped recess formations 13 in which lugs 11 on the cap 3 locate. The cap 3 is fitted on the neck by a first downward pressure causing lugs 11 to move over ramp 16 to first lower position 27, a resilient bias, which may be provided by a diaphragm 10, causing the lugs to move upwards over ramp 18 to a trapped position 20 when the pressure is released. The cap 3 is removed by applying a second downward pressure against the resilient bias which moves the lugs 11 out of their trapped position 20 over ramp 22 to a second lower position 23 and permits the cap to be subsequently removed from the neck 11 by an upwards pull. The resilient bias may alternatively be provided by an annular spring ring (29, Figure 4). The lugs may be provided on an inner cap member rotatable within an outer cap to allow the lugs to follow the path of the recess formation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262129-A (GB)
Title: Smoothing tool
Inventor: SCHUMACHER II GUSTAV
IPC: E04F21/06
Filed: 1992-12-01
Abstract: A distributing and smoothing tool, has a grip (2) releasably connected to a trowel blade (1) by a fastening rail (10) which is of top hat section, the outwardly bent flanges (14, 15) of which rest on the upper face (16) of the trowel blade (1) and are connected thereto by rows of welding spots (17, 18) one along each section. The grip (2) is supported by a grip base, which is appropriately formed in a U-shape in cross section, on the fastening rail (10). The end faces (26, 27) of the limbs (6, 7) of the grip base (5) are supported on the faces of the flanges (14, 15) away from the trowel blade 1. An attachment at the end of the fastening rail (10) engages into a recess of the grip base (5), and a knurled screw engages into a threaded borehole of the fastening rail (10) and is itself fixed to the grip base (5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262932-A (GB)
Title: Elevator system and method of control thereof.
Inventor: NAKAMURA ICHIRO
IPC: B60B11/06
Filed: 1992-12-24
Abstract: An elevator system in which a guide apparatus is reduced in size and controlled in simple manner at a saving of power consumption, without adversely affecting the passenger cage guide function even at the time of power failure, achieved by installing in the passenger cage a contact-type guide unit (12) for guiding the passenger cage in contact with at least a guide rail (14) and reducing the lateral vibration transmitted to the passenger cage and a non-contact type guide unit (13) for reducing the offset load acting on the contact-ape guide unit (12). The contact guides (15a-c) comprise adjustable spring pressed rollers and the non contact guides are electromagnets or magnets (23-25). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267362-A (GB)
Title: Express elevator system
Inventor: TOBITA TOSHIMITSU
IPC: B66B1/18
Filed: 1993-05-12
Abstract: An elevator system can operate in two running modes depending upon operating requirements; a group control mode and an express mode where stops are only made at certain floors. The express operation requirements can be times of the day eg lunchtime, number of waiting passengers or if a poor service is judged to have been provided to certain floors. If more than 1 car is provided the cars can be divided between normal and express operation (figures 3 and 9) or a single car can operate alternately in the normal and express modes. A number of ways of selecting and indicating the express mode are disclosed (figures 20, 21, 22 & 25). The express mode operating requirements can be learnt or modified in a simulator. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278740-A (GB)
Title: Electrical plug assembly
Inventor: OBEE J
IPC: H01R13/719
Filed: 1993-06-01
Abstract: A pre-wired three pin plug comprising a base 1 carrying the pins and other components, a first moulding 9 immersing the internal components and a second moulding 10 enveloping the first moulding. Either the first or second moulding may be extended to provide a strain relieving block 11 for the power cable. An interference suppression filter 5 can be included in the plug. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279562-A (GB)
Title: Bed bath
Inventor: COULTON MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: A47K3/022
Filed: 1993-07-02
Abstract: A bed bath comprises a half cylindrical vessel with closed ends. The vessel may have a plugged hole at one end to permit draining.
Patent GB-2267797-A (GB)
Title: Mobile telephones
Inventor: NONAMI TAKAYUKI
IPC: H04W88/02
Filed: 1993-08-10
Abstract: A mobile telephone device comprises a separate paging signal channel in addition to the conventional transceiver channels which process voice signals. The paging signal channel has a lower power consumption level than the transceiver channels. A power supply control device shuts off power to the conventional transceiver channels when in a standby mode, i.e. when waiting for an incoming call, and applies power to the paging signal channel instead. Therefore, power consumption is reduced in the standby mode and consequently, the operating time of the battery is extended. Power is applied to the transceiver channels during voice communication periods. A calling party's telephone number received in the paging signal channel is stored and displayed. A control unit has the capability of immediately returning the calling party's call from the telephone number so stored and displayed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271313-A (GB)
Title: Silicone rubber/unsaturated polyester resin composite materials
Inventor: MEGURIYA NORIYUKI
IPC: B32B27/36
Filed: 1993-09-10
Abstract: By curing either one of an organic peroxide-curable silicone rubber composition and an organic peroxide-curable unsaturated polyester resin composition and then curing the other composition while placing it in close contact with the cured composition, there is obtained a composite material in which an organic peroxide-cured silicone rubber is closely and firmly joined with an organic peroxide-cured unsaturated polyester resin. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271417-A (GB)
Title: Foil thermal transmission wall in containers in an appliance operable with      water
Inventor: STICKEL ERNST
IPC: A47L15/00
Filed: 1993-10-01
Abstract: An appliance operable with water comprises a principal container (1) for heated liquid and a storage container (10) connected in thermally conductive manner by means of a foil wall (11) laid or layable against the principal container. The storage container (10) comprises plastics material. The foil can consist of, for example, three layers, such as a layer of aluminium sandwiched between outer layers of polyester and polypropylene respectively closest to and furthest from the principal container. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273192-A (GB)
Title: Coin discriminating apparatus
Inventor: NAKAJIMA TOHRU
IPC: G07D5/02
Filed: 1993-12-01
Abstract: A coin discriminating apparatus includes a light source (1) for irradiating the surface of a coin (6) with light normal thereto, optical fibre groups (A, B, C) each including a plurality of optical fibres for guiding light reflected by the surface of the coin (6), each of the optical fibres being disposed so that an imaginary extension of the center axis thereof passes through the center of the surface of the coin (6) at a predetermined angle, which is different for different groups (A, B, C), photoelectric convertors (7A, 7B, 7C) each facing an end portion of an associated one of the groups (A, B, C) further from the end portion facing the coin (6) and adapted for receiving the reflected light guided by the associated group (A, BC) and converting it to an electrical signal proportional to the amount of the received light, and a discriminator (8) for discriminating coins based upon the electrical signals generated by the photoelectric convertors(7A, 7B, 7C). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286131-A (GB)
Title: Playing cards
Inventor: WU OTTO
IPC: A63F3/02
Filed: 1994-02-08
Abstract: Each card in a pack of playing cards bears standard suit and denomination information and additionally bears superiority relationship information 20A, for example of the "scissors"-"stone"-"paper" variety. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276628-A (GB)
Title: Golf balls
Inventor: EGASHIRA YOSHINORI
IPC: A63B37/00
Filed: 1994-03-08
Abstract: A solid golf ball includes a solid core enclosed in a cover. The resin component of the cover consists of 30 to 100% by weight of an ethylene-methacrylic acid-acrylate terpolymer ionomer resin having a flexural modulus of 2,500 - 14,000 psi and a Shore D hardness of 20 - 59 and 70 to 0% by weight of an ethylene(meth)acrylic acid copolymer ionomer resin having a flexural modulus of 20,000 - 30,000 psi and a Shore D hardness of 56 - 64. The core is made of a rubber composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a base rubber and 0.2 - 1.5 parts by weight of pentachlorothiophenol and/or metal salt thereof and has a distortion of 2.3 - 3.3 mm under a load of 100 kg. The ball is excellent in spin receptivity, burring resistance, and repulsion.
Patent GB-2287915-A (GB)
Title: Folding collapsible frame for a golf cart
Inventor: WU CHING-CHANG
IPC: B62B1/04
Filed: 1994-03-31
Abstract: The frame has a handle assembly 2 pivotally attached to the two main rods 5 of the bag cradle holder 4 via a connecting frame 3. Two pairs of wheel-carrying side beams 61, 62 are attached to a bracket 6 on the main rods 5 and are connected by links 7 to the connecting frame 3. A hooked lock rod 42 is pivotally mounted on the cradle holder and is urged by a spring 45 into a position in which the hooked end 421 of the lock rod 42 engages with a groove 311 in a projecting block 31 on the connecting frame 3. Two shock-absorbing elements 46 are provided to absorb shocks when the golf cart is moving. The trolley collapses to a compact size and is stable and quiet in use. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277131-A (GB)
Title: Device for use with petroleum products storage tanks
Inventor: LOPEZ DE LAS HERAS GONZOLA
IPC: F04F1/06
Filed: 1994-04-12
Abstract: Losses by evaporation from all types of tanks for storing petroleum products are prevented and a means for discharging said products is provided by a device consisting of a compressor 1 equipped with regulating means for introducing air at specific pressure into the tank above the level of the interior liquid and maintaining said pressure at a value greater than the vapour tension of the liquid in order to prevent the evaporation thereof. Calibrated valves 5 permit the exit of air when the pressure is greater than that required and they close when it is less, the internal pressure thereby being always constant and sufficient for the discharge of the tank without the use of auxiliary pumps of any type. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282241-A (GB)
Title: Device for steering a vehicle with controlled course holding
Inventor: FRANKE UWE
IPC: B62D113/00
Filed: 1994-09-09
Abstract: A device for controlling steering of a motor vehicle contains, in addition to a device 1 for detecting the position of a vehicle and a steering control device 4 which acts on a steering angle adjustment device 9, a preselectable limitation of the steering angle setting requested by the control and the superimposition of a steering angle setting requested by the control on the steering angle setting requested by the driver, the steering angle adjustment device setting the steering angle in accordance with this superimposition. Thus, relatively small steering movements are performed by the control whilst at the same time the driver retains his option of intervention for relatively large steering movements, e.g. for changing lane and avoidance manoeuvres. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294250-A (GB)
Title: Belt conveyor skirt seal arrangement
Inventor: BRINK AREND JACOBUS
IPC: B65G21/20
Filed: 1994-10-22
Abstract: A skirt seal arrangement for a conveyor belt (12) includes an elongate track element (14) and an elongate skirt seal (16) which has a base (52) slidably engageable with the track element and a lower edge (56) which is engageable in sealing contact with an opposing surface of the conveyor belt (12). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296417-A (GB)
Title: Fishing netting
Inventor: MARCHANT VICTOR CHARLES JOHN
IPC: A01K75/00
Filed: 1994-12-30
Abstract: Fishing netting which is made of a plastics material, the plastics material being provided with a metallic material (6) for the purpose of making the fishing netting detectable by sonar or radar, the plastics material being such that it covers the metallic material (6) and thereby protects the metallic material (6) from corrosion and abrasion during use of the fishing netting, and the metallic material (6) being evenly distributed throughout the plastics material so that the fishing netting gives a substantially even sonar or radar response along its length. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290135-A (GB)
Title: A vehicular lamp securing structure
Inventor: IWAMI AKIHISA
IPC: B60Q1/26
Filed: 1995-06-01
Abstract: An engaging member securing structure for a vehicular lamp having a lamp body and a front lens covering a front opening of the lamp body to define a lamp chamber, in which a hollow projecting member having a predetermined length projects from a rear surface of the lamp body for securing the engaging member to a vehicle body. A partition wall 16 is formed inside the hollow projecting member at approximately the mid portion thereof to divide the inside of the hollow projecting member 15. The thickness of the partition wall 16 is less than that of the wall of the hollow projecting member 15. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290465-A (GB)
Title: Baby carrier and perambulator
Inventor: PEREGO GIANLUCA
IPC: B62B7/14
Filed: 1995-06-01
Abstract: A perambulator comprises a frame (12) on wheels and a baby carrier or card cot (11) removably supported by the latter. The bottom (14) of the carry cot is shaped according to convex areas (15) which when the carrier is removed from the frame rest upon a surface in order to allow the carry cot to rock freely with respect to the supporting surface. Extractable legs (16) enable the carry cot to be raised from the convex areas to prevent the rocking action whenever it is not required. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294149-A (GB)
Title: Signboard
Inventor: GREEN FRANK
IPC: G09F7/04
Filed: 1995-09-08
Abstract: A signboard comprises a backboard 1 having a frame 2 which contains a sign member 3 disposed contiguous with the frame so as to fill the area within the frame. The sign member has a rear surface releasably attached to the backboard 1, for example by means of a magnetic strip 5, said rear surface also having a recess 7. The configuration is such that pressure applied to a region of the front surface 4 of the sign member 3 over the area of the recess 7 causes said sign member to lift along its opposite edge sufficiently to facilitate its removal. Alternatively, a plurality of sign members may be provided, disposed contiguous with each other and with the frame, at least one of which sign members is capable of being lifted by applied pressure (Fig. 5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2301614-A (GB)
Title: Stair-ladder platform
Inventor: SANDHAM JOHN MICHAEL
IPC: E06C7/44
Filed: 1995-12-22
Abstract: A portable stair-ladder platform comprising a ladder support platform (1) and a support member (3) pivotally attached to the platform by a pivotal coupling (9), the parts being arranged such that, when assembled and in use with the ladder support platform substantially horizontal and the support member substantially vertical, an upwardly-facing surface area of the support member abuts a downwardly-facing surface area of the ladder support platform, the pivotal coupling and the surface areas being arranged to tend to maintain substantially a right angle between the abutting parts even when weight is applied to the ladder support platform, and the pivotal coupling being such as to prevent pivoting of the support member substantially beyond the vertical in that angular direction which is towards the underside of the ladder support platform but whilst allowing pivoting of the support member in the other direction so as to allow the device to be collapsed for transportation or storage. The support member may be telescopic or have height adjustment by a screw-jacking mechanism and/or be of adjustable width.
Patent GB-2299887-A (GB)
Title: Four sided collapsible floor sign
Inventor: MANDELL JONATHAN N
IPC: G09F19/22
Filed: 1996-03-28
Abstract: A self standing floor sign 10 comprising two end panels 12 and 14, and two side panels 16, the two side panels (16) pivotably secured between the end panels (12 and 14), and the side panels (16) having hinge means oriented within an approximate center of the side panels to allow the side panels to collapse in a generally inwardly direction. The sign is provided with a cross bar 18 to enable the sign to be carried. Aperture 30 is provided to receive and retain barricading tape (Figure 3). Various hinging means are disclosed (Figure 4 and 8) to secure the members 34 and 36 of the side panels 16 together.
Patent GB-2301890-A (GB)
Title: Ultrasonic liquid interface detector
Inventor: NISSINEN MATTI
IPC: G01F23/296
Filed: 1996-05-31
Abstract: An elongated stop 1 reaching across the interfaces is mounted vertically inside tank 2. A transceiver 3 is mounted against the tank body and moved parallel to the stop. Discrete changes in the propagation speed of sound between the transceiver and the stop are used to locate the interfaces. Alternative arrangements include: replacing the movable transceiver with a number of fixed transceivers (fig 2); mounting a stop and a transceiver in the same movable construction (8, fig 2) to be immersed in the tank; and fixing a vertical pipe (10, fig 2) to the outside of the tank with transceiver device placed against the pipe and one wall of the pipe acting as a stop.
Patent GB-2300401-A (GB)
Title: Disposable clasp holder for use in piercing ears
Inventor: DURHAM TONY
IPC: A44C7/00
Filed: 1992-09-22
Abstract: There is described a disposable clasp holder (18) for use with an ear-piercing gun of the type having a pair of jaws between which to dispose an ear lobe to be pierced and plunger means adapted to be loaded with an ear-piercing member for projecting the ear-piercing member from one of the jaws, through the ear lobe and into engagement with a clasp carried by the other jaw, the clasp holder (18) being adapted to be fitted to said other jaw and having a chamfered surface (96) on a face thereof (68) to facilitate the loading of the clasp within the clasp holder. The clasp holder may be gripped by a pair of opposed, laterally-projecting flanges (92, 94) to facilitate the engagement and disengagement of the clasp holder with the other jaw without the clasp, held thereby, coming into human contact.
Patent GB-2306716-A (GB)
Title: Performing bit-serial matrix transposition operations
Inventor: KIM KYEOUN SOO
IPC: G06F7/78
Filed: 1996-11-01
Abstract: A circuit for performing a bit-serial matrix transposition operation comprises an input shift register module 11 for inputting matrix elements of length k bits. The input shift register module 11 outputs the data in units of k/N bits and applies the units to a bit-serial transposition module 12. An output multiplexer module 13 selects k/N-bit data units from the bit-serial transposition module 12 in response to a switching control signal. An output register module 14 receives the data output from the output multiplexer module 13 in the k/N bit units and outputs N data in units of k bits which make up the transposed matrix.
Patent GB-971299-A (GB)
Abstract: 971, 299. Receipts printing. ALMEX A. B. July 16, 1963 [July 16,1962], No. 28199/63. Heading G4T. A machine for printing tickets or receipts has an adjusting means which is engageable with any one of a plurality of sets of adjustable printing means and a selecting means for positioning the adjusting means. As described the machine has a plurality of type wheels 56 mounted on a common shaft 55 and co-operating with a printing pad 59 to print on a ticket strip 60, and a corresponding set of indicator wheels 57 visible through a window 61. A set of selecting wheels 51 is arranged on a shaft 52, and a carriage 32 is arranged to be slid along a pair of parallel bars 17,18 so that a pair of setting pawls 66 mounted on the carriage and slidably keyed to the bars are moved to positions where they can co-operate with a selected one of the wheels 51. In operation the carriage is moved along by a hand operated slider until the desired position is indicated by a pointer seen through the window the exact position being determined by a spring pressed pawl 67 mounted on the carriage and bearing a roller 69 on its free end which engages the ends of teeth 64 on a comb member 15 (Fig. 3) fixed to the machine frame. The bars 17, 18 are rotatably mounted in brackets 16 mounted on the comb and have projecting pins 27, 28. A spring 31 biases the rotation of the bars 17,18 so that the pins 27, 28 normally engage fixed stops 29, 30. Depression of one or other of two push buttons rotates the corresponding one of the two bars 17, 18 and this in turn rotates one or other of the two pawls 66 (Fig. 3) in the direction of the arrows. A spring pressed dog 47 mounted on the pawl causes the selected setting wheel 51 to be rotated in one or other direction with corresponding movements of the type and indicator wheels 58, 54. When the button is released the pawl 66 is returned to its original position by the action of the spring 31 but since the dog 47 is spring mounted (Fig. 4 not shown) it ratchets back past the setting wheel 51 without adjusting it. Thus for each depression of one of the two buttons the selected type wheel is stepped either forwardly or backwardly by one place.
Patent GB-2319639-A (GB)
Title: Fast file system
Inventor: JYH-MIN-LIAW JEFF
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1997-09-08
Abstract: A method of using a DOS file system to access a file in a database is provided. In one embodiment implemented in an on-board vehicle navigation system, the file includes map data for a given geographic area. A file access table (FAT) is associated with the file system and references the file. The FAT has a plurality of locations, each location including a reference to one of the data clusters of the file and to another location in the FAT, forming a linked list of the references. The logical order in which the data clusters occur within the file is determined by following the linked list in the FAT for that file. A cluster table is then constructed, 603 for the file. The references to the data clusters are stored in consecutive locations of the cluster table according to the logical order of the data clusters within the file. The file is then accessed by sequentially accessing the consecutive locations in the cluster table to retrieve the data clusters.