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Patent GB-2403337-A (GB)
Title: Method of manufacturing display unit
Inventor: TAMASHIRO HITOSHI
IPC: G09G3/32
Filed: 2004-06-21
Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a display unit capable of manufacturing a large-screen display unit with high display quality without upsizing manufacturing facilities. Device substrates (10A, 10B) on which a pixel 12 including organic light-emitting device 12R, 12G, 12B is formed are aligned on the same plane so as to face a sealing substrate 20. While the device substrates and the sealing substrate are bonded together with an adhesive resin 30 for sealing in between, the adhesive resin for sealing is extruded from a seam portion 11 to the backside of the seam portion so as to fill the seam portion with the adhesive resin for sealing. The backside of the seam portion can be securely sealed through a simple step. The method is suitable for a large-scale display unit using top-emitting organic light-emitting devices. A back sealing member may be disposed on the backside of the seam portion with the extruded adhesive resin for sealing in between. After that, the adhesive resin for sealing is cured.
Patent GB-2403857-A (GB)
Title: Interlocking charging stands
Inventor: FREAS JON
IPC: H01M50/262
Filed: 2004-07-05
Abstract: An interlocking stand 10 for storing and charging a rechargeable appliance such as a hair trimmer or hair clipper 12, 14 having a rechargeable battery includes a structure 34, 36 for supporting the appliance for storage. The supporting structure has at least one electrical contact 64 for connecting to the appliance and a structure for providing power to the contact 64. The interlocking stand 10 is also provided with structure that interlocks the stand 16 with at least one other stand 18.
Patent GB-2418087-A (GB)
Title: An iterative clipper for a broadcast transmitter
Inventor: ARCHER NICHOLAS D
IPC: H04B1/707
Filed: 2004-09-08
Abstract: A conditioner for limiting the amplitude of signals input to an RF amplifier comprises a set of serially connected clipping stages 21. Each clipping stage (figure 3) has a limiter 30, a subtracter 32, a filter 34, a delay 35 and a subtracter 36. The reference input 33 for each stage is the input 31 to the conditioner, and is not simply the output from the previous stage. The passbands of the filters 34 are chosen to optimise the output signal with respect to the in-band and out-of-band specifications. Adaptive clipping may be provided, wherein the clipping limit depends on the amplitude of the input signal, thereby ensuring that the output signal falls below the level where the RF amplifier becomes highly nonlinear. The conditioner may be implemented in a DSP and the signal may be of WCDMA type.
Patent GB-2402656-A (GB)
Title: Convertible wheelchair and separate lift module for connecting to and elevating the wheelchair
Inventor: MARTIN WILLIS
IPC: A61G5/10
Filed: 2003-04-07
Abstract: A convertible wheelchair (12) is provided along with a separable lift module (14) for engaging and elevating the convertible wheelchair (12) to a selected elevation. A coupling assembly (18) is operative associated with the lift module (14) and adapted to extend therefrom to where the coupling assembly (18) attaches to the convertible wheelchair (12).
Patent GB-2419765-A (GB)
Title: Image watermarking by forming weighted code word coefficients in a down-sampled transform domain
Inventor: TAPSON DANIEL WARREN
IPC: H04N1/32
Filed: 2004-11-01
Abstract: An encoding data processor generates a watermarked copy of an image by embedding a code word into a copy of the image. A generated code word comprises a plurality of code word coefficients and is formed into a transform domain representation corresponding to spatially and/or temporally down-sampling the image with respect to a sampling rate of the base band image. An image perception analyser 14.1 forms a down-sampled version of the image and generates weighting factors for scaling the code word coefficients. A strength adapter 24 combines the weighting factors with the code word coefficients, and an inverse transform processor 26 comprising an up-sampler is operable to convert the weighted transform domain code word coefficients into the base band domain. The inverse transformed code word is combined with the image in the base band domain. The encoder can be used for digital cinema applications. Payload data is extracted from the watermarked copy of the image W by comparing it with the original image I to recover an estimate of the code word and correlating the estimated code word with re-generated code words from the code word generator 4.
Patent GB-2406197-A (GB)
Title: Noise reduction system for a dynamic random access memory device
Inventor: LU SHIH-LIEN
IPC: G11C/
Filed: 2001-10-03
Abstract: A DRAM device comprises a memory cell 70 coupled to a first bit line 66 and a first word line 72, a reference cell 76 coupled to a second bit line 68 and a second word line 80, a differential sense amplifier 64 coupled to the first and second bit lines 66, 68, a controller to change a signal level, which could be a voltage, on the first and second word lines 72, 80, during a read operation, which results in activation of the memory cell 70 and the reference cell 76 and also results in noise being induced on the bit lines 66, 68 which appears as common mode noise to the differential sense amplifier 64. This noise could be at least partially rejected by the differential sense amplifier 64.
Patent GB-2423019-A (GB)
Title: Wound dressing and wound treatment system including the wound dressing
Inventor: GREEN ALLEN
IPC: A61F13/02
Filed: 2005-02-09
Abstract: A wound suction dressing (10) including a continuous surface provided with a plurality of suction apertures. The wound dressing (10) may be of coiled whole or part tubular form. The dressing (10) can be sized to the wound area by uncoiling part of the dressing (10) and cutting the uncoiled portion. This is a simple procedure which does not impair the effectiveness of the dressing (10). A plurality of apertures (18) is provided in the dressing (10) and suction means is connectable to the dressing (10) to provide a suction force at a contact surface of the dressing (10) and thus to a wound bed for the purposes of removing exudate from the wound. The dressing structure provides a more reliable and controllable suction force at the wound area. A wound treatment system including the wound suction dressing (10), a suction overlay and connections to vacuum source.
Patent GB-2412703-A (GB)
Title: Transmission with gear moved axially by threaded portions on shaft
Inventor: HSIEH PAN-CHUNG
IPC: B23Q5/12
Filed: 2005-03-07
Abstract: A transmission mechanism comprises an input gear 11 driven by a reversible motor 10, a driven gear 21 meshed with the input gear 11 and a shaft 26. The shaft 26 has a threaded portion 261 which engages with an internal thread in slide gear 23 so that as the shaft 21 is driven forward and backwards by the motor 10 the slide gear 23 moves axially, via threads 261, along shaft 21 to selectively engage driven wheels 24, 25. Slide gear 23 is meshed with gear 221 which is mounted on shaft 22 that is rotated by driven gear 21. Driven wheel 24 is engaged with subsidiary wheel 27 and driven wheel 25 is engaged with toothed wheel section 28 so that when slide gear 23 is engaged via faces 241, 234 with the driven wheels 24, 25 either subsidiary wheel 27 or toothed wheel section 28 drives linking gear 29, thereby rotating output shaft 30 and outputting power to a drill bit. The mechanism provides high or low speeds in forward or backward travel of the drill bit.
Patent GB-2409553-A (GB)
Title: System and method for optimizing storage operations
Inventor: LU JUN
IPC: G06F12/00
Filed: 2003-09-16
Abstract: A system and method for transferring data in a library storage system (200). The library storage system (200) comprises a management server (23) including a storage policy (19). A media agent (27) is connected to the management server (23). A plurality of storage media (58-68) and a data source (25) are connected to the media agent (27). The data source (25) is divided into at least a first and a second portion of data. The portions of data are transferred from the data source (25) to a first (58) and second (62) primary storage medium using a first (54) and a second (56) data stream respectively. The media agent (27) then causes the first and second portion of data to be transferred from the first (58) and second (62) storage medium to a third auxiliary storage medium (70) using a third combined data stream (54a, 56a).
Patent GB-2415522-A (GB)
Title: Joystick control with wireless signal transmission and wireless energy supply
Inventor: MATHIASEN KEN ALLAN
IPC: H02J17/00
Filed: 2005-05-25
Abstract: A joystick arrangement 1 includes a base unit 3 and a moveable handle 2. The handle 2 may be detachably fixed to the base unit 3 with a bayonet connection. In order to simplify mounting of the handle 2, there are no electrical connections in the coupling. The handle includes an electrical circuit 15, which is able to send and receive data wirelessly. The energy supply for the circuit 15 comes from a power receiver 16, which receives energy via a wireless transmission path 20 (fig.2). A high frequency between 100 kHz and 20 MHz may be used. A 'Bluetooth' technology may also be used. The handle 2 may be operated while not connected to the base 3. The joystick may be used to control a work machine such as a digger or a fork lift.
Patent GB-2416338-A (GB)
Title: Movable vehicular accessory control panel
Inventor: HEIN DAVID A
IPC: B60K37/06
Filed: 2005-07-18
Abstract: A vehicle instrument panel having first and second juxtaposed accessory control units 18, 20 has a switch arrangement on a panel 28 which is movable to cover part of one or the other accessory control. The switch panel may be pivoted on a hinge 32 to move between the positions and have switches on (or operable from ) both sides of the panel, the functions of at least some switches and possibly their appearance changing with the change in switch panel position as detected by sensors 15, 17. The switches may be non-contact switches. An alternative construction has a switch panel which slides between the two positions on guide rails (Fig. 5). The switch panel may have a widow to allow viewing of the display of the underlying accessory control unit. The accessory control 18 may be a multimedia control, the unit 20 may be primarily a navigation display and switches may also be included for other functions such as climate control.
Patent GB-2417150-A (GB)
Title: Optical receiver with splitter, filter and intensity adjustment
Inventor: WEBB STEPHEN MICHAEL
IPC: H04B10/2537
Filed: 2005-08-09
Abstract: An optical data receiver comprises an optical input for receiving optical data signals, an optical splitter for splitting the optical signals into first and second receiver arms, an optical filter in the first receiver arm, means for increasing an intensity ratio of optical signal strength in the first receiver arm to optical signal strength in the second receiver arm, means for adjusting a phase difference between the first and second receiver arms, and an optical coupler for coupling outputs of the first and second receiver arms to a photodetector. The receiver of the present invention selectively filters a carrier component of received optical data signals, adjusts the relative strength of the carrier component and the received signal and then recombines them. In this way efficient optical transmission can be achieved with direct detection at the receiver, without the need for a complex receiver design including a local oscillator.
Patent GB-2418121-A (GB)
Title: Fishing weight
Inventor: FORREST NIGEL JOHN
IPC: A01K95/02
Filed: 2005-08-24
Abstract: An anchor weight for anglers comprises a body 1 of die-cast material such as zinc having a nose portion 2 with an external step 3. The nose portion 2 has two longitudinal slots 4 mutually at right angles. Located in each slot is the transverse portion 5a of an anchor wire 5. Each wire has a part 5b generally at a right angle to the part 5a with an elbow 5c which engages a channel 6 in the outer surface of the weight and which continues with an extending anchor limb 5d. The wires are retained against longitudinal displacement in the slots by a nose closure sleeve member 7 which is of ogival shape to overlie the nose portion 2 and complete the smooth external contour of the weight by closing the stepped part 3. The member 7 includes recesses 7a which accommodate the wire parts 5a where they project from the slots 4. The tail portion has a slot 31 with a pivot 32 which accomodates a wire (33, fig 5) with a line retaining eye (35 and a bait hook retaining means (36)).
Patent GB-2417137-A (GB)
Title: A method of forming a metal gate structure with tuning of work function by silicon incorporation
Inventor: WOO CHRISTY MEI-CHU
IPC: H01L21/324
Filed: 2004-04-19
Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor structure having a metal gate (30) with a controlled work function includes the step of forming a precursor having a substrate (10) with active regions (12) separated by a channel, a temporary gate (16) over the channel and within a dielectric layer (20). The temporary gate (16) is removed to form a recess (22) with a bottom and sidewalls in the dielectric layer (20). A non-silicon containing metal layer (26) is deposited in the recess (22). Silicon is incorporated into the metal layer (26) and a metal (28) is deposited on the metal layer (26). The incorporation of the silicon is achieved by silane treatments that are performed before, after or both before and after the depositing of the metal layer (26). The amount of silicon incorporated into the metal layer (26) controls the work function of the metal gate (30) that is formed.
Patent GB-2432169-A (GB)
Title: Underground chamber and wall member therefor
Inventor: BELL HAROLD NEVILLE STEPHEN
IPC: H02G9/10
Filed: 2005-11-09
Abstract: A wall member (20'') for constructing an underground chamber (10'') comprises at least two wall elements (20a',b') joined end to end. The wall elements comprise a plastics moulding that is hollow having spaced inner and outer walls (12,14) separated by strengthening ribs or webs (16). A top nose (18) of the element is closed, and a base (26) is open to provide a channel (28), bounded by flanges of the inner and outer walls and the bases of the ribs. The channel is dimensioned to receive a nose of a corresponding wall element. The channel is deepened (52) and receives a metal strengthening square section bracing tube (54) that spans the joint wall elements. It forms roof of the channel (28).
Patent GB-2435957-A (GB)
Title: Luminescent real estate display board
Inventor: ORDEVER DAVID PAUL
IPC: G09F13/20
Filed: 2006-03-09
Abstract: A property agent's board for placing outside a property comprises a base board 10 and a photoluminescent flexible plastics sheet material 18 adhered to at least part of the surface of the base board to draw attention to the board in low light conditions.
Patent GB-2424601-A (GB)
Title: Release film
Inventor: TAKAHASHI RYO
IPC: C08J7/044
Filed: 2006-03-29
Abstract: A release film that can be used as a carrier film for a green sheet used in laminated ceramic capacitor is provided. The release film includes a base material having two major surfaces, a releasing agent layer 11 provided on one major surface of the base material and an antistatic layer 12 provided on the other major surface of the base material. The releasing agent layer and the antistatic layer are mainly made of the same material such as silicone-based resins, long-chain alkyl-based resins, fluorine-based resins, fluorsilicone resin and alkyd-based resins. The surface roughness of the outer surface of the releasing agent layer defined as Ra1 (nm) and the surface roughness of the outer surface of the antistatic layer defined as Ra2 (nm) meet the conditions Ra1  &  15 and Ra1<RA2. The base material may be made of a polyester such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) or polycarbonate and polyolefin such as polypropylene or polymethylpentene. The base material may be made of a laminated body having a plurality of layers 131, 132, one of the plurality of layers which is in contact with the antistatic layer containing filler. The release film is capable of preventing blocking when being wound in a rolled form for storage and generation of static electricity when being unwound.
Patent GB-2426402-A (GB)
Title: Subtracting scaled dark noise signal from sensing array image
Inventor: ZHANG XUEMEI
IPC: G06T5/00
Filed: 2006-05-05
Abstract: An image processing system 10 subtracts dark noise out of images based on a dark noise scale factor. The image processing system includes an image sensor (20, Fig 1) for capturing a current image and producing current image data representing the current image. The current image data includes both a dark noise signal and an image signal. The dark noise scale factor for the current image is estimated 430 from the current image data and reference image data representing a reference dark noise signal. The reference dark noise signal is scaled 440 by the dark noise scale factor to produce a scaled dark noise signal from which the current image data is subtracted to produce 450 the image signal. Regression coefficients, representing linear relations between the current and reference images, may be used. Selected raw sensor values of the current and reference images may be from a dark image portion, randomly selected, or uniformly sample the images.
Patent GB-2440770-A (GB)
Title: Switched capacitor DAC
Inventor: ZEBEDEE PATRICK
IPC: H03M1/80
Filed: 2006-08-11
Abstract: A digital/analogue converter for converting an input n-bit digital code comprises a switched capacitor digital/analogue converter. The upper plates of the capacitors (CI...Cn_1) of the switched capacitor digital/analogue converter may be connected, in the zeroing phase, to one of a plurality of reference voltages (V11, V12). The choice of which reference voltage is connected to the upper plates of the capacitors of the switched capacitor digital/analogue converter in the zeroing phase is independent of the input n-bit digital code. The output voltage range from the converter in a decoding phase may be a first range 25 in which output voltages are above and below one reference voltage (V11) or it may be a second range (26) in which output voltages are above and below another reference voltage (V12), depending on which reference voltage was selected in the preceding zeroing phase.
Patent GB-2444523-A (GB)
Title: Personal possessions loss or theft alarm using wireless network
Inventor: NEOPHYTOU NICHOLAS
IPC: G08B13/14
Filed: 2006-12-05
Abstract: The described system is intended to increase security of peoples' possessions by way of a Bluetooth (RTM) piconet comprising paired Bluetooth (RTM) devices whereby a master device alerts by way of vibration or sounding alarm when a signal connection to it's slave device is broken. Broken connection and failure to automatically reconnect devices would occur as a result of the slave device being "out of range" due to theft or accidental loss. The slave devices will be attached to the possessions intended for safe-keeping such as children, handbags, briefcase etc.
Patent GB-2429535-A (GB)
Title: System and method for rheological characterization of granular materials
Inventor: MARCHAL PHILLIPE
IPC: G01N11/00
Filed: 2005-06-20
Abstract: A system for characterizing rheological properties of granular material. A cylindrical measurement cup containing granular material is subject to a uniform vibration induced by a vibration exciter at a user-determined frequency. At the same time, a rotation or an oscillation of a rotating vane tool is performed within the powder and a response measured. Baffles are affixed to the inner wall of the measurement cup to prevent slippage of the granular material during measurement. An energy imparted to the system from the vibration exciter can be measured by an accelerometer coupled to the measurement cup. When sufficient vibrational energy is supplied to the system, a powder contained therein achieves a particle "temperature" sufficient such that the powder behaves as an ergodic system. The visco-elastic properties of the ergodic powder can be reproducibly measured in accordance with known methodology used in molecular fluids, where the powder "temperature" can be varied by changing the vibration frequency or amplitude.
Patent GB-2435238-A (GB)
Title: Inking device for a printing machine, in particular a flexographic printing machine
Inventor: FORNO MARIO
IPC: B41F27/12
Filed: 2007-02-09
Abstract: An inking device 7 for inking the cylinder 2 of a printing machine, in particular a flexographic printing machine, comprises an inking chamber 8, delimited by delimiting doctor blades 9, 10, and coupled to an ink vessel 14 to which ink is continuously supplied through an ink delivery pipe 15 and therefrom a pipe 12 for continuously supplying ink to the inking chamber extends, a further outlet overflow pipe having an open end 16 leading to the ink vessel, the open end of the outlet pipe being arranged at a level A or B approximately corresponding to the top level of the inking chamber 8.
Patent GB-2435363-A (GB)
Title: Linking a VoIP terminal with an IP-PBX
Inventor: LEE SUNG-WOO
IPC: H04M7/00
Filed: 2007-02-16
Abstract: An Internet protocol (IP)-private branch exchange (PBX) system and a method for linking the system with a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) terminal. The IP-PBX system and method allow the VoIP terminal to be registered at an extension of the IP-PBX system, the VoIP terminal supporting a protocol, e.g., H.323 or session initiation protocol (SIP), standardized by a standardization organization, e.g., the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), or the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). A user of a digital phone linked with the IP-PBX system need not input a designated prefix, only the phone number of an external SIP terminal, in order to put a call through the external SIP terminal.
Patent GB-2434036-A (GB)
Title: A semiconductor device including semiconductor regions having differently strained channel regions and a method of manufacturing the same
Inventor: BUCHHOLTZ WOLFGANG
IPC: H01L21/265
Filed: 2007-05-09
Abstract: By locally modifying the intrinsic stress of a dielectric layer laterally enclosing gate electrode structures of a transistor configuration formed in accordance with in-laid gate techniques, the charge carrier mobility of different transistor elements may individually be adjusted. In particular, in in-laid gate structure transistor architecture, NMOS transistors and PMOS transistors may receive a tensile and a compressive stress, respectively.
Patent GB-2449313-A (GB)
Title: Improved use of network capacity
Inventor: HARLE DAVID
IPC: H04B1/69
Filed: 2007-05-18
Abstract: There is provided a method of improving the use of the capacity of an ultra wideband (UWB) network, the network comprising a plurality of channels the network further comprising a plurality of devices, each device forming a respective beacon group on a first one of the channels, each beacon group including at least one other device in the plurality of devices; the method comprising transmitting data from a first device in a beacon group using a channel other than the first channel whilst a second device in the beacon group transmits data using the first channel. The channels are time frequency code (TFC) channels in a multi band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) system. The invention essentially allows device pairs that would be inactive but awaiting a transmission slot, to switch TFC channels within a superframe and to transmit their data in a slot on another channel which would otherwise be unused.