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Patent GB-2277206-A (GB)
Title: Cable sealing and locking device
Inventor: FOSS VICTORIA ANN
IPC: G02B6/38
Filed: 1994-01-13
Abstract: A cable 26 is sealed and locked in position within an entry port 24, e.g. of a cable splice enclosure, by a device 11 which comprises an elongate tubular body of elastomeric material for receiving the cable 26 therethrough. Once the cable has been passed through the device 11, the cable 26 and its device 11 are pulled into the entry port 24, for the device 11 to become radially 13 compressed between the port 24 and the cable 26. Annular projections 13,15 abut the opposite ends of the port 24 to prevent subsequent axial movement of the device 11 or the cable 26. The device 11 comprises an outer layer of EPR and an inner layer of liquid silicone, or has a single layer. The internal or external surfaces are tapered and/or grooved and the device has a pair of separate or interconnected through passages. A tool (32) (Figure 8), closed at one end, can be used to feed the cable through 23 device 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278272-A (GB)
Title: Display member
Inventor: REILLY MICHAEL ALAN
IPC: A47G25/00
Filed: 1992-12-23
Abstract: A display member (1) for displaying a pair of footwear articles (18) comprises first and second stirrups (3, 4) extending in opposed directions laterally of a supporting spine (2). First and second tongues (5, 6) are arranged remote from the stirrups, and in use engage heel portions (18a, 18b) of the uppers of respective footwear articles. The stirrups (3, 4) support the underside of the footwear articles and the display member is provided with a suspension means such as a hook (10) such that the display member may be hung from a support surface such as a rail (12). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2291289-A (GB)
Title: Non-contact incandescent lamp switching and dimming device
Inventor: MURRELLS ROBERT IAN
IPC: H05B39/08
Filed: 1994-07-06
Abstract: A two-terminal circuit is connectable to an AC supply in series with an incandescent lamp and comprises sensor means which produces a control signal when a user's finger interrupts a path between an infrared emitter 4 and a receiver, or when vibrations from a piezo-electric emitter (30, Fig. 3) are reflected by the finger to an ultrasonic detector (31), control means which changes the amount of electrical power supplied to the lamp in response to the control signal, and a power supply for the sensor and control means, the power supply storing electrical power during part of each AC cycle which is sufficiently small to avoid discernible illumination of the lamp. The power supply may store power within about 18 degrees phase angle at the start of each AC cycle. To prevent spurious response, the emitter may give a coded output. Momentary application of the user's finger switches the lamp from OFF to ON, or vice versa, whereas continued application causes the lamp to cycle between maximum and minimum levels for brightening or dimming the lamp. An additional infrared receiver may be provided for remote control of the circuit by a hand-held device. The circuit may be mounted on a face plate which can be secured in a standard wall box, and the plate may have an LED indicator light to aid location in the dark. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283022-A (GB)
Title: Purification of indigo
Inventor: BERGMANN UDO
IPC: C09B7/02
Filed: 1994-10-21
Abstract: A process for purifying indigo comprises extracting an aqueous leuco indigo alkali metal salt solution with an inert solvent, eg toluene under oxygen-excluding conditions and conventionally regenerating the indigo by oxidation. The solution may be made by dissolving the as-synthesized indigo in water by reduction in the form of the alkali metal salt of its leuco form.
Patent GB-2296565-A (GB)
Title: Ultrasound imaging
Inventor: BARLOW CHRISTOPHER JOHN
IPC: G01S7/295
Filed: 1994-12-23
Abstract: An intravascular ultrasound imaging system in which data from an ultrasonic transducer array is digitised and processed in a multi-stage pipeline. The pipeline has means to divert/extract data from one position and reintroduce it into the pipeline to enable images to be displayed retrospectively. The commands for playback are similar to those on a VCR and are shown in Figure 6. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-948535-A (GB)
Abstract: 948,535. Two-way transmissions. TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L. M. ERICSSON. Nov. 27, 1961 [Nov. 25, 1960], No. 42399/61. Heading H4R. In a two-way system having separate go and return paths including amplifiers F11, F21 and F12, F22, each path includes an attenuator D1, D2 controlled by a closed circuit 1, 2, 3, 4 fed with current taken across a high resistance R5 and associated with each attenuator is another attenuator D3, D4, the latter attenuators being operative through amplifiers F13, F23 and rectifiers L1, L2 to control a bridge K which in turn regulates the current in a circuit 6, 7 controlling the attenuators D3, D4 as well as the closed circuit 1, 2, 3, 4. The associated attenuators D1, D3 and D2, D4, bridge K and rectifiers L1, L2 take the forms shown in Figs. 2, 3, 4. In the normal condition, D1, D2 are moderately attenuating while D3, D4 are weakly attenuating since no regulating current flows. When speech passes from M1 to H2, speech energy fed into D3 produces a rectified voltage which drives point 40 of the bridge to negative and point 41 positive. As a result a regulating current flows which makes D1 weakly attenuating and both D2, D4 strongly attenuating, since the control voltage is reduced by the regulating voltage. On the other hand when speech passes from M2 to H1, point 40 becomes positive and point 41 negative, D2 is rendered weakly attenuating and D1, D3 strongly attenuating. Specification 852,276 is referred to.
Patent GB-2297529-A (GB)
Title: Roller blind sun visor for vehicle side window
Inventor: ROONEY PHILIP
IPC: E06B9/40
Filed: 1995-02-01
Abstract: A retractable shield for a vehicle comprises a sun blind 21 in the form of flexible strip 21 having a plurality of holes, which is normally wound onto a shaft 1, but can be extended horizontally across the upper region of a side window of the vehicle to reduce the glare of the sun and still permit the driver to see through the blind 21. One end of the blind 21 is provided with means 27 for removably securing the extended blind to a part of the vehicle, whilst the other end is secured to the shaft 1 having spring biasing means 19 which tends to rotate the shaft 1 to rewind the blind 21 back onto the shaft 1 when not in use.
Patent GB-2287820-A (GB)
Title: Neural network
Inventor: SHIGEMATSU YUKIFUMI
IPC: G06F15/18
Filed: 1995-03-22
Abstract: A temporal associative learning neural processing element 100 and a temporal learning neural network comprised of many of these processing elements. The processing element 100 is provided with a calculation circuit 2 and a learning processing circuit 4 and can self-organize the temporal associative memory, and can also be implemented as integrated circuits. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290573-A (GB)
Title: Template sub-frame for door or window installation
Inventor: GAMBLE ROGER
IPC: E06B3/988
Filed: 1995-05-16
Abstract: The invention provides a template sub-frame for use in defining a door or window aperture during the construction of a wall or similar structure. The sub-frame comprises two or more lengths (2, 3, 4, 8) of strip material joined together at at least one of the corners of the sub-frame by means of a separate corner piece (11, 12, 15, 16) which corner piece is securable to the lengths of strip material. Flaps 6 and 10 can be provided for retaining a door frame, window frame or sill. The corner piece can comprise two separate components which can each be separately secured together to form the complete corner piece. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2301051-A (GB)
Title: A mobile mineral separator
Inventor: MORE RAYMOND ANTHONY
IPC: B07B1/22
Filed: 1995-05-26
Abstract: The separator comprises a hopper 4 for containing a load of mineral material and a rotatable barrel 5 for reducing and separating the mineral, both the hopper and barrel being mounted on a towable chassis 1. Transverse conveyors 12-14 and longitudinal conveyor 15 transport the graded mineral to individual piles. The barrel 5 has spaced apart annular rings 50-53, the spacing between which performs the grading of the mineral.
Patent GB-2292801-A (GB)
Title: Processing seismic data having multiple reflection noise
Inventor: LAU YIU-WA AUGUST
IPC: G01V1/36
Filed: 1995-08-24
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of processing seismic data containing multiples, which method generally includes as a step, determining the two-way travel time to a suspected multiple generating event. This method includes the application of a normal moveout operation to the recorded seismic trace utilizing the primary event velocities. Once the normal moveout has been applied to the data, all of the events in the trace are shifted downward in time by an amount of time equal to the two-way travel time to the suspected multiple generating event as previously determined. Then, a reverse normal moveout operation is applied to the trace utilizing an extended velocity function, which is a function of the original primary velocity function and the velocity within the suspected multiple generating layer. The resulting trace is now a trace containing only multiples. Finally, the multiple noise is subtracted from the original data utilizing an amplitude scaling factor and a residual time shift.
Patent GB-2297668-A (GB)
Title: Relieving radio transmission lines installed between optical transmission lines in a SDH network
Inventor: MIZUNO SHINGO
IPC: H04B10/032
Filed: 1995-09-21
Abstract: Radio working lines 14 1W... are provided to correspond to optical lines 13 1W... and a single radio standby line 14 p is provided. An optical-line failure detecting unit 22 monitors occurrence of failure in each of the optical lines, and a radio-line failure detecting unit 24 monitors the occurrence of failure in each of the radio working lines. When occurrence of failure in an optical line 13 1W... has been detected, a relief-rank management unit 25 reduces the relief priority level of the radio working line corresponding to this optical line below the priority levels of radio working lines corresponding to optical lines that have not failed. When a failure has occurred in two or more radio working lines, a line changeover controller 26 transmits data, which is to be sent to a radio working line that failed, via the radio standby line 14 p . Alternatively, or additionally, priority levels are varied in accordance with line condition (unit 21) and/or redundancy configuration.
Patent GB-2294453-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible Flatrack
Inventor: CLIVE-SMITH MARTIN
IPC: B65D88/12
Filed: 1995-10-03
Abstract: A flatrack is of the type having end post(s) 2 or wall(s) 4 which can be folded down onto the platform or erected and locked in a vertical position and in which the end post(s)/wall(s) can be removed by removing a hinge pin 10. To assist insertion or removal, the hinge pin can be tapered, have a threaded hole (27, Fig 4B) or an end shoulder. The pin can be held in position by a cover plate of catch (Figs 3 or 4D). The post(s)/wall(s) can be held in the erect position by a latch such as a tapered pin (20, Fig 3). Preferably the erection is spring assisted. The spring can be leaf, coil or a torsion bar and may be releasable e.g. by unhooking (Fig 6) or releasing a clamped mount (Figs 7A and B). Preferably the post(s)/wall(s) are provided with an abutment (43, Figs 5 to 7B) which help to position or keep them in position whilst attaching or removing the hinge pin. Preferably the end wall(s) are pivoted outwardly to provide a ramp portion or a separate part of the deck 15 may be provided for this purpose. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2306736-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus to provide security for a movable article
Inventor: PULLEN TREVOR JOHN
IPC: G08B13/14
Filed: 1995-11-03
Abstract: A security device (15) is associated with the movable article (12), and enabled to provide protection for the movable article (12). The security device (15) determines relative distance information corresponding to the difference between an initial position of the article when security is enabled, and the current position of the article (51, 52). This relative distance information is compared with range limit information designated for the movable article, such as by configuration of the security device (53). When the comparison indicates that the relative distance information exceeds a designated range limit, the security device initiates a particular response (54). Distance information is obtained from a satellite positioning system or from an internal accelerometer.
Patent GB-2307624-A (GB)
Title: Data transmission for channel hopping communication
Inventor: SCOP SHLOMO
IPC: H04B1/713
Filed: 1995-11-23
Abstract: A communication link is established in a system (100) having a channel hopping protocol for operating on a set of communication channels. The channel hopping protocol provides for communication slots on successive communication channels, each communication slot having a slot duration corresponding to a time requirement for channel hopping. The data is packaged into frames, such that each frame has a transmission time less than the slot duration. Data is transferred across the communication link such that transmission of any particular frame, does not span across multiple communication slots.
Patent GB-2307837-A (GB)
Title: Fishing lure
Inventor: WEBSTER BARRY
IPC: A01K85/16
Filed: 1995-12-05
Abstract: A fishing lure comprises a body formed to represent a fish, the body containing an electric motor 14 adapted to drive a propeller 10 mounted on an output shaft of the motor and located at one end of the body and externally thereof, the body having attached thereto or formed integrally therewith a fin (16),(Fig.1) which, when the lure is tethered to a line and placed in water, and when the electric motor is actuated, acts in conjunction with said propeller to cause said lure to describe a circular motion. The body is generally cigar-shaped and is decorated or marked so as to simulate a fish.
Patent GB-2302478-A (GB)
Title: Executing conversion into automatic mode in communications systems by measuring background noise
Inventor: LEE CHANG-BOK
IPC: B41J29/38
Filed: 1995-12-29
Abstract: A detector 11 detects peripheral noise and outputs a noise detection signal. A switch 12 is used to form an output path of the detector 11 when an automatic control signal is received. The switch 12 is connected to an output terminal of the detector 11. A convertor 13, 14 converts the detected noise signal into digital noise level data. The convertor 13, 14 is connected to the switch 12. A controller 16 outputs the automatic control signal when an an automatic mode key is depressed, compares the noise data received with a preset value and activates an automatic mode if the noise level data received is below the preset value. This enables an answering machine, or facsimile machine, to be automatically activated during an user's absence.
Patent GB-956899-A (GB)
Abstract: 956,899. Gas burner igniters. RADIATION Ltd. Jan. 7, 1963 [Feb. 21, 1962], No. 6803/62. Heading F4F. A gas taper 1 comprises a tube 2 having at one end a flame orifice 4 and at the other end a conical valve member 6 urged by a spring 11 to engage a conical seat 10b in a connector 10 to cut-off the supply of combustible gas when an operating collar 5 fixed to the tube 2 and axially movable relative to a sleeve 9 and connector 10 is manually released. Gas is supplied to the connector 10 through a flexible tube 15 and passes to a transverse bore 8 and an axial bore 7 in the member 6 into the tube 2. The sleeve 9 has a shoulder 9a abutted by a soft rubber sealing ring 13 and a brass washer 12. When not in use the tip of the taper is inserted in a slot 17 in a rotary valve 18 and is released by rotating it about the axis of the valve 18 thereby opening the valve and connecting the flexible tube 15 to a gas inlet 21. The connector 10 may be provided with a screw-threaded portion 10c adapted to receive a restricted orifice, and a rubber O-ring may be disposed in an annular cavity provided at the bottom of the conical seat 10b. Specifications 486, 686, 493,110 and 802,913 are referred to.
Patent GB-2298965-A (GB)
Title: A winding support for a rotary electric component
Inventor: COOPER JOHN
IPC: H02K3/24
Filed: 1996-02-29
Abstract: The winding support has axially extending poles (P) and a plurality of windings (27) which are wound on the poles (P) so as to project beyond axial ends of the poles (P) spaced apart in the direction of an axis of rotation (A) of the rotary electrical component (23). The winding support comprises a first part (31,57) formed from insulative material having spaced apart fingers (30,58) to be positioned in the respective spaces (27a) between the windings projecting beyond an axial end of one said pole (P) and a second part (40) arranged to be fastened to the first part (31) for holding the windings (27) in place relative to the first part (31). The first part (31) preferably comprises a separator member (32) having the spaced apart fingers (30) thereon and a support member (36) for the separator member (32) arranged outboard of and formed of a different material from the separator member (32).
Patent GB-2298914-A (GB)
Title: Heated floor/wall panel
Inventor: INGRAM REX ANTHONY
IPC: F24D3/16
Filed: 1993-09-29
Abstract: A solid panel 10 comprises a channel within which a heat exchange element 12 is a close fit. The panel is sufficiently rigid to be laid over joists to form a floor. The channel is spaced from an upper surface of the panel and the heat exchange element is of a thickness substantially less than the distance between the upper and lower surfaces of the panel (preferably 70% or less). The heat exchange element can be a plastic fluid conducting tube or an electric cable. The heat exchange elements of like panels can be connected together or to supply/return wires or pipes. The channel may be formed in the lower surface of the panel (figure 4) or may be located within the panel (figure 3). The panel is preferably made of chipboard or fibreboard.
Patent GB-2300507-A (GB)
Title: Register protection for programmable logic
Inventor: KEAN THOMAS A
IPC: G06F12/14
Filed: 1996-05-01
Abstract: In an FPGA having registers 111 which are part of a user's logic functions and a configuration memory which is read and written through an addressing structure, a register protect circuit controllably protects RP, 104 the contents of these user logic registers 111 from being modified by signals X1, X2, X3 from the user's logic, allows these registers to be written by a microprocessor through the configuration memory addressing structure WORD, BIT0....BIT2, and allows both the user's registers and lines which provide combinational signals to be read by a microprocessor through the configuration memory addressing structure.
Patent GB-2316777-A (GB)
Title: Operating a transaction manager with a non-compliant resource manager
Inventor: FREUND THOMAS
IPC: G06F15/00
Filed: 1996-08-31
Abstract: The invention allows the participation of a resource manager 120 in a transaction which is coordinated by a transaction manager 145 with which the resource manager's protocols are not compatible. More particularly, a mapper 248 records a connection reference which the application program 190 obtains from the resource manager 120 and a transaction reference which the application program 190 obtains from the transaction manager 145. The resource manager 120 stores recovery information in an associated log file.
Patent GB-2321692-A (GB)
Title: Cursor control mechanism for three dimensions
Inventor: TSENG HSIN-TE
IPC: G06F3/0354
Filed: 1997-01-29
Abstract: A mouse for controlling a cursor in three dimensions includes a housing 2 containing a ball (not shown) for X-axis and Y-axis control, and an independent device for Z-axis control. The device comprises a driving wheel 6 partially projecting out of the housing for turning by hand. The direction and extent of rotation of the driving wheel is detected electro-mechanically by conductive strips and elements 12, 111 and metal spring strips 3-5, or optically by a transparent grid wheel (151, figure 5), a light source (7) eg. a LED, and a photo-sensor (8) eg. a photo transister.
Patent GB-2326066-A (GB)
Title: A communication network using correlation of two signals arriving at a node
Inventor: KIRKBY PAUL ANTHONY
IPC: H04L12/721
Filed: 1997-06-04
Abstract: A communications network has a plurality of nodes each arranged to extract signals received on orthogonal input paths when there is a predetermined correlation between them. The network retransmits the signals on orthogonal output paths when the predetermined correlation does not exist. Each node is arranged to launch signals intended for a particular other node, on orthogonal paths and with a phase difference such that the signals arrive at the node for which they are intended with the predetermined correlation.
Patent GB-2329162-A (GB)
Title: Bicycle wheel inner tube system
Inventor: CHUKS HENRY
IPC: B60C5/02
Filed: 1997-09-15
Abstract: A one-piece inner tube 1 is composed of a plastics polymer e.g. polyurethane and is inflated to a pressure of one hundred pounds per square inch and rests in a separate light foam rubber outer bed 2. The two components act to absorb shock and return energy. The outer bed also adds increased durability. The two components are placed in a conventional tyre.
Patent GB-2314625-A (GB)
Title: Device for the collection, testing and shipment of body fluid samples
Inventor: CIPKOWSKI STAN
IPC: B01L3/00
Filed: 1997-03-11
Abstract: A drug abuse test kit has a transparent cup-like container (1) for retaining a fluid sample to be tested and the open top end (14) of the container (11) is closed by a closure cap (22) seated upon the open end (14). There is a slit (19) in the closure cap (22) to receive a multiple drug test card (25) having a plurality of immunoassay test strips thereon with visual endpoints to indicate presence or absence of a particular drug. The container (11) is provided with a second cover (15) which is solid and unslit to close and seal the container (11) when a sample therein is to be transported.
Patent GB-977105-A (GB)
IPC: C21C7/10
Abstract: Steel is refined by treating the molten steel with a reactive gas, which is free from nitrogen and atomic hydrogen and is capable of reacting with the steel to reduce its impurity content, and a carrier gas, such as CO, N2 or A, simultaneously or successively in either order, the gas or gases above the melt surface being maintained at a pressure below atmospheric. The reactive gas may comprise one or more of a gaseous or vaporized halogen, e.g. Cl2 (as oxidizing agent) or inorganic or organic halogen-containing compounds, e.g. AlCl3, and other volatile chlorides, CCl4, C6Cl6, and H2 (as reducing agent). Both gases may be applied to the melt with the aid of lances or nozzle plates.  U.S.A.  Specification 1,921,060 is referred to.