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Patent GB-2225108-A (GB)
Title: Sensor in IC formation
Inventor: ARAKAWA MASAO
IPC: G08B13/181
Filed: 1989-10-18
Abstract: The sensor has a light emitting means 16, and a light receiving means 18 disposed for receiving a faint pulsed light generated by scattering of light emitted from the light emitting means, eg by smoke in which a switching means 12 capable of short-circuiting between sensor circuit lines I1, I2 is provided for being triggered by a counter means 15 operated in response to an output from the light receiving means. Constituent elements of respective components of the sensor including the said means and capable of being formed in the IC are formed as integrated circuits on an insulating isolation substrate, whereby electric isolation of the respective elements can be made complete irrespective of light irradiation to realize effective interelement junction and isolation. 
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Patent GB-2227873-A (GB)
Title: Duet sound generation in an electronic musical instrument
Inventor: JEON IK-BOM
IPC: G10H7/00
Filed: 1990-01-02
Abstract: A circuit arrangement which in use allows a double-tone duet-sound generating method, by allowing an electronic musical instrument with duet-sound capability to simultaneously output a harmonious chord of a different tone from that of the current melody, each of said duet sounds being respectively output in the tone of a different instrument. An electronic musical instrument which implements the circuit arrangement includes a microcomputer 11 for overall control, a sound-generator integrated circuit 21 for generating a duet-sound, a plurality of tone filters 45, 47, 49, a plurality of buffers 23,25,27,29,... connected between the sound-generator and the tone filters and a switch 15 for selecting the duet-sound. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2231488-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for cleaning pachinko balls
Inventor: TAKEMOTO TAKATOSHI
IPC: A63F7/34
Filed: 1990-03-13
Abstract: A method of cleaning dirty pachinko balls comprises mixing them with granular, synthetic resin material to remove the dirt, and separating the cleaned pachinko balls from the granular material to which the dirt has been transferred. The method may be carried out in cleaning equipment 10 comprising a tube 100 provided with a rotatable, spiral, conveying member 16 and sieve assembly 20. The dirty pachinko balls are supplied to the lower end of the tube from a feed chamber 13 together with the granular, synthetic resin material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2243584-A (GB)
Title: Tread depth indicator
Inventor: ANTONIO PETER
IPC: B60C11/24
Filed: 1990-05-04
Abstract: A tread depth indicator 10 is arranged to be held in a groove 21 in the tread of a tyre and comprises a plurality of layers (11-13 Fig 2), arranged parallel to the surface of the tread, each layer having a different visual appearance, for example a different colour. Layers 12 and/or 13 may be fluorescent ultraviolet light. The indicator 10 may be held in place by the elasticity of the walls of the groove 21 or by adhesive or heat sealing. A warning message can be incorporated in the middle and inner layers 12, 13. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2233389-A (GB)
Title: Fuel injector output characteristic measuring device.
Inventor: SCHAFFITZ WOLFGANG
IPC: F02M65/00
Filed: 1990-06-25
Abstract: To limit cavitation effects in a fuel filled chamber 2 with a displacement piston 4 when the injector 5 discharges, a baffle plate 6 adjacent its tip 8 provides a jot impingement surface 12, 13 extending substantially perpendicular to the axis of the or each jet. The plate 6 may take various forms (Figs. 2 and 3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246549-A (GB)
Title: Opening cassette cases; inserting inlays
Inventor: SMITH PERCY GEORGE
IPC: B65B61/20
Filed: 1990-07-20
Abstract: A method of opening book-like video cassette cases comprises moving such a case and a member 28 affording a cam surface in relation to each other such that the cam surface engages a flange on one of the walls of the case and forces the wall away from the rest of the case, thus opening it. Member 28 is wedge-shaped so that the cam surface and the other surface of the wedge engage flanges of respective major walls of the case. If the case has a plastic inlay pocket around it, then this may be opened using suction means, and an in lay inserted in a convoluted form, arranged such that when the case 13 restored to a flat position the inlay likewise returns to a flat position. Subsequently the case may have a cassette inserted into it by gravity, and be closed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2236843-A (GB)
Title: Heat exchanger in an engine cooling circuit of a motor vehicle
Inventor: FRECH STEFAN
IPC: F01P7/14
Filed: 1990-07-23
Abstract: In a heat exchanger, especially a heating heat exchanger in the engine cooling circuit of a motor vehicle, the forward-flow pipe 2 opens at the top into a water tank 1 and a vent line 3 of small cross-section is assigned to the forward-flow pipe 2 and is guided to a compensating tank 9 and there terminates below the liquid level. In order to obtain a simply constructed and at the same time highly effective venting facility, the vent line 3 is brought into the operative position together with the fastening of the forward-flow pipe 2 and is guided away from the highest point of the forward-flow water tank 1 to the compensating tank 9 located at a distance. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2248510-A (GB)
Title: Clock
Inventor: TUNG HUANG CHANG
IPC: G04B19/08
Filed: 1990-10-01
Abstract: A clock has hour 331 and minute 341 hands which each extend bilaterally outward from respective mounting shafts 22, 23 and are driven to rotate at half speed relative to the hour and minute hands of the conventional clock. A cover plate 4 which has a thermometer 46, a hygrometor 47 and a digital display timepiece 48 thereon covers part of a dial plate 3 permitting parts of the hour and minute hands to show on the upper part of the dial plate 3 for indication of time. A seconds hand 41 is provided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2239844-A (GB)
Title: Air bag
Inventor: IGAWA TADAHIRO
IPC: B60R21/20
Filed: 1990-11-29
Abstract: In an air bag system comprising a retainer or housing 10 having a plate member 14 to which an air bag 12 is attached and a cover member 18 connected to a depending peripheral flange portion 16 of the plate member 14, the depending portion 16 is formed with regions or zones 30 of reduced structural rigidity to facilitate deformation and opening of the retainer housing upon inflation of the air bag. The zones of reduced structural rigidity may be formed by one or more slits 30, by the formation of a groove (38, Fig 5), by the application of thermal treatment (Fig 4B), or by the provision of beads (36, Fig 4A). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-909305-A (GB)
IPC: A61K31/59
Abstract: 909,305. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising Vitamin A and triamcinolone. NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. July 5, 1960 [July 17, 1959], No. 24643/59. Class 81 (1). Compositions suitable for local application to the human skin and useful in the treatment of psoriatic lesions comprise triamcinolone and a water-solubilized Vitamin A, e.g. "Aquasol"  Vitamin A. The preferred form is an oil-inwater emulsion in the form of a cream comprising 0.1 % by weight triamcinolone and from about 1000 to 5000 I.U. per gram of Vitamin A.
Patent GB-2244254-A (GB)
Title: Metal container with sealable shaped rim
Inventor: SIEFERT FRIEDRICH
IPC: B65D17/50
Filed: 1991-03-19
Abstract: A metal container 1; 16, formed for example as a can, comprising a body 2 and a shaped rim 4, which extends inwardly transversely to the longitudinal axis of the body 2 and which is tightly sealed by a tear-off foil 5, is characterised in that the rim 4 is encompassed by a body wall fold 7 extending out beyond the rim 4 lengthwise of the container. By this means the foil 5 is protected and the metal containers 1; 16 can be stacked. The double fold 3 formed at the base of the metal container 16 can rest within the body fold (7) of the metal container (1) and a secure stacking of the metal containers (1; 16) is ensured. In modifications, the base is integral with the body (Figs. 6, 7) and raw edge of the rim may be folded in (Fig 2) or disposed on the outside. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2243796-A (GB)
Title: Method of manufacture of piston
Inventor: LEITES JOSE MANOEL MARTINS
IPC: F02F3/00
Filed: 1991-04-17
Abstract: A method of manufacturing an articulated piston head wherein the two portions comprising the head portion 10 and a pin boss portion 20, are obtained separately from blanks of forged or cast chromium-molybdenium steel or a low alloy stool, comprises subjecting the blanks to preliminary machining operations, joining the portions together by friction welding, and then machining the piston to final dimensions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2244038-A (GB)
Title: Conveying plant having an integrated buffer store
Inventor: WEGSCHEIDER HANS-JURGEN
IPC: B65G47/51
Filed: 1991-04-23
Abstract: A conveying plant for items (9) to be packaged comprises an integrated buffer store, wherein items are fed to a packaging machine by means of a supply system (2, 3, 23, 24) and are withdrawn from a buffer store when gaps occur in the conveying flow. To reduce production costs and ensure compactness and an optimum number of buffer locations in the conveying system, the buffer store comprises at least one vertically displaceable lift magazine (12, 32) in the supply system, which incorporates shelves arranged vertically one above the other, each shelf base being appropriate for reception and discharge of an item for packaging. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2244417-A (GB)
Title: Automatic milking apparatus
Inventor: GRIFFIN TONY KENNETH
IPC: A01J5/08
Filed: 1991-05-31
Abstract: An automatic milking apparatus includes regulating means e.g. valve 42 to automatically maintain the uppermost region 46 of the liner core 44 at substantially atmospheric pressure throughout the milking process. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250662-A (GB)
Title: A digital signal send Circuit
Inventor: BRADY PETER MARTIN
IPC: H04Q1/30
Filed: 1991-10-22
Abstract: A send circuit (12) in a PABX (1) delivers an attenuated non-speech digital signal to a telephone (2) on the c wire of a telephone line (3). The send circuit modulates the DC voltage on the c wire and comprises a resistor R3 connected to a negatively biasing voltage of -46 volts through a switching transistor TR1, the base of which receives the digital signal from a microprocessor (8) of the PABX through a resister R4. The resister R3 is sized so that when the transistor TR1 connects the resister R3 to the negative biasing voltage, the negative voltage on the c wire is pulled down by 50 millivolts from approximately -6 volts to approximately -6.050 volts. The non-speech digital output signal on the pin (10) of the microprocessor (8) operates between a low of -46 volts and a high of -41 volts. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2257047-A (GB)
Title: A golf tee.
Inventor: DAVIDSON PAUL ANTHONY
IPC: A63B57/00
Filed: 1991-12-18
Abstract: A golf tee comprising a head (1) having an upper swivelling part (2) pivotal about the vertical axis of the head (1) and carrying an arm (7) pivotable about a horizontal axis through the upper part (2) of the head and carrying a ball supporting member (9). The head (1) is removably attached to a ground engaging stabilising base plate (19) which carries a number of spacers (24, 25, 26) which may be interposed between the base plate (19) and the head (1) to determine the height of the ball (10), and a ground anchoring shank (18) which in use may be attached beneath the plate (19) and pressed into the ground to provide additional anchorage. The arm (7) is angled to prevent contact with a club head when the ball is struck and is resiliently supported by a rubber pad inside the head (1) to permit downward deflection of the arm when the ball is struck. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2263511-A (GB)
Title: A driven free wheel change speed planetary gearing for bicycles
Inventor: CHANG DIANLIN
IPC: B62M11/16
Filed: 1992-01-02
Abstract: Disclosed is a driven free wheel gearing, for example a two-way-driven three speed free wheel gearing, which provides a multi-gear-changing mechanism for use with various kinds of pedal cycles. This disclosed device has four kinds of catches; pawl (10), hook-pawl (11), backward pawl (12) and forward pawl (13). The backward and forward pawls (12, 13) respectively are hinged on the opposed sides of a sprocket wheel by small spindles (15) mounted on the opposed sides of the sprocket wheel. On one side of the sprocket wheel are the backwards pawls (12) and an outer ring 2, and on the other side are forward paws (13), a ratchet cone (6) and a bearing collar (3). Between the outer ring 2 and a central gear (4) are two or more planet pinions (7). In other embodiments the forward pawl (13) and/or the pawl (10) and/or the hook pawl (11) may be omitted giving a two speed gearing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2253059-A (GB)
Title: Resistive linear displacement transducer
Inventor: MULLER PETER
IPC: G01D5/165
Filed: 1992-02-19
Abstract: The transducer comprises a tubular housing 1 containing an axially movable slider 4 with contacts 5 which cooperate with a resistive track and a conductive track 3, 3'. A traction belt 8 is coupled to both ends of slider 4 and passes over rollers 9, 9' located at the end of housing 1 before connection to slide 13 located on the outside of the housing. Seals 11, 11' separate the resistive track from the outside of the housing. in alternative embodiments the slide 13 is mounted in dovetail grooves (17) on the housing or has internal grooves guided on a rod along the outside of the housing. The transducer may be used for determining the position of the piston rod or slide of a working cylinder which can be operated by pressure medium. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266938-A (GB)
Title: Telescopically collapsible gear lever is removable from vehicle
Inventor: COLVIN ROBERT PETER
IPC: B60R25/00
Filed: 1992-02-26
Abstract: A gear lever comes away from the car so the car cannot be stolen. The gear lever retracts telescopically and may be removed by means of a screwed coupling.
Patent GB-2253995-A (GB)
Title: Carrier bag grip
Inventor: EADON CHRISTOPHER JOHN
IPC: A45F5/10
Filed: 1992-03-23
Abstract: One or more carrier bags (10, Fig. 4) having loop handles (9, Fig. 4) associated with an elongate grip of substantially U-shaped cross section, comprising a basewall 4 and upstanding side walls 1 which provides opposed side projections, e.g. ears 2, extending longitudinally beyond the end of the basewall 54, with open ends. The grips can be carried by a person's hand with the loop handle of the carrier bag or bag being bundled together and extending along and downward outward, under tension in the grip, over the edge of the basewall so that the grip is retained on the handles. The projections or ears 2 are inclined downwardly and towards one another. the downwardly extended edge of the ear closer to the end of the basewall is also inclined in the longitudinal direction downwardly and away from the basewall. In order to locate the bag handles against sliding past the ears a gap is provided between the end of the basewall and the adjacent downwardly extending edge of each ear. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255577-A (GB)
Title: Access cover for lamp-post
Inventor: WELCH STUART JOHN
IPC: E04H12/00
Filed: 1992-04-24
Abstract: An access cover (1) for a lamp-post is provided with captive elements (7) threaded into sleeves (5, 6), and operable from outside the cover to move the elements into contact with abutments (10, 11) fixed inside the lamp-post and thus to wedge the cover aginst the inside of an opening in the lamp-post, the cover having first been inserted through the opening. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266399-A (GB)
Title: Coin testing
Inventor: FURNEAUX DAVID MICHAEL
IPC: G07D5/08
Filed: 1992-05-06
Abstract: A method of testing a coin comprises subjecting the coin to an oscillating field generated by an inductor, measuring the reactance X and the loss R of the inductor when the coin is in the field. and determining whether the direction in the impedance plane of a displacement line, representing the displacement of a coin-present point (b, c, or d,) which is defined by the measurements, relative to a coin-absent point (a) representing the inductor reactance and loss in the absence of a coin, corresponds to a reference direction in the impedance plane. The reactance and loss measurements may be taken by a phase discrimination method. Techniques are disclosed for compensating for phase error, for avoiding measurement errors being a consequence of any phase discrimination phase error, for applying offsets to achieve advantages in signal handling, for making the measurements thickness-sensitive, and for using the change in reactance a measure of coin diameter. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270015-A (GB)
Title: Protective care for lightswitches
Inventor: BOWLES PETER RICHARD
IPC: B05B12/24
Filed: 1992-08-26
Abstract: A simple protective cover for lightswitches, electrical power outlet sockets, television outlet sockets and telecommunications outlet sockets, comprises an elasticated Vinyl jacket with a rolled ring 10 on the mouth which slips over and clips around the back edge of a loosened wallplate of a lightswitch or electrical outlet socket etc. When fitted it will provide complete protection from water splashes and paint soiling by decorators. It has a loose front nose section 12 which facilitates normal use of the switch/socket while it is fitted. The nose can be slit open to allow entry of a screwdriver through the front to retighten the wallplate and compress the rolled ring 10 on the backedge of the wallplate. This will then provide a water protective seal. It can be fitted and removed in seconds to leave the switch/socket in original condition. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259522-A (GB)
Title: Compositions for control of induction system deposits
Inventor: CUNNINGHAM LAWRENCE JOSEPH
IPC: C10L1/14
Filed: 1992-09-11
Abstract: Distillate fuels and additive concentrates comprising (a) a detergent/dispersant prepared by reacting (i) a polyamine, eg triethylene tetramine or a combination of ethylene polyamines, which approximate triethylene tetramine, with (ii) at least one acyclic hydrocarbyl-substituted succinic acylating agent characterized by having an acid number in the range of 0.7 to 1.1. and by having a substituent containing an average of 50 to 100 carbon atoms; and (b) a mineral oil, eg napthenic or asphaltic oils, having a viscosity index of less than about 90 and a volatility of less than 50% as determined by a method disclosed, are particularly effective in reducing the amount of induction system deposits formed in an engine under normal service conditions. The detergent/dispersant contains in its molecular structure in chemically combined form an average of from 1.5 to 2.2 moles of (ii) per mole of (i).
Patent GB-2261096-A (GB)
Title: Waste receptacle
Inventor: ROSE JOHN
IPC: G07F7/06
Filed: 1992-10-14
Abstract: A waste bin comprising a base (10) and an inlet hood assembly (12) detects waste articles deposited therein, by means of detector means (22) including a sensor (30) and intermittently issues tickets, tokens or the like to persons depositing articles, which are redeemable for some form of prize, so as to encourage use of the bin. An inlet throat (20) inside the hood (12) is so configured and the sensor (30) so located therein that the sensor (30) cannot be triggered unless an article is released to fall into the base (10). The bin preferably includes a counter (24) incremented by the detector (22) and adapted to issue tickets in accordance with predetermined rules; eg when a randomly generated number is reached. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262975-A (GB)
Title: Cable tensioning system for removing slack from a parking brake cable.
Inventor: WORTMANN MARTIN J
IPC: B60T7/04
Filed: 1993-01-07
Abstract: The system includes an improved resettable holdout arrangement for retaining an adjuster ratchet in a spring-biased caged condition during transport and installation of the system in a vehicle. Three embodiments of the invention are characterized, respectively, by the use of an axially displaceable lockout pin (200) that defines an abutment in the path of the adjuster ratchet (210) as in Fig. 5; a lockout spring (300) having an arm portion (300a) adapted to extend into a corresponding notch in the periphery of the adjuster ratchet (310) as in Fig. 19 or a lockout pawl arrangement (424) biased by the lockout spring for cooperation with the teeth of the ratchet (410). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262173-A (GB)
Title: Reconfigurable signal processor
Inventor: GORIN ALLEN LOUIS
IPC: G06F15/80
Filed: 1993-01-28
Abstract: An interconnection scheme among the processing elements ("PEs") of a multiprocessor computing architecture realizes, through PE reconfiguration, both fault tolerance and a wide variety of different processing topologies including binary trees and linear systolic arrays. By using a novel variant on a tree expansion scheme, the invention also allows for arbitrary up-sizing of the PE count to build virtually any size of tree network, with each size exhibiting same high degree of fault tolerance and reconfigurability. The invention may be practiced with 4-port PEs arrayed in a module comprising a 4x4 board-mounted PE lattice. Each PE has four physical ports, which connect to the similar ports of its lattice neighbors. Each PE has an internal capability to be configured to route signals to or from any of its neighbors. Thus, for tree topologies, any of the four neighbors of a given PE may be selected as the parent of the given PE; and any or all of the remaining three neighboring PEs may be selected as the child(ren) PEs. The PE ports are configured under the control of a remote host, which establishes an initial desired PE topology. The operability of the PEs is tested, and information on faulty PEs or communications paths is used to enable or disable nodes as necessary by revising the PE port configurations. The nodes thus are reorganized and can run or continue running, on a degraded basis.
Patent GB-2265262-A (GB)
Title: Electrical screening fitment and assembly
Inventor: GODLEY BRIAN ALBERT
IPC: H01R9/03
Filed: 1993-02-19
Abstract: A fitment 1 for securing a screened conduit or cable 2 in a hole 3 through a bulkhead 4 has a brass body 10 that embraces the conduit, with a metal flange 11 that contacts the bulkhead. Screening 21, 22 is exposed in a region 25 along the conduit or cable about which extends a contact ring 200 that is forced against the screening by a sleeve 121 so that electrical connection between the screening and the bulkhead 4 is established via the contact ring, the body 10 and its flange 11. The contact ring 200 comprises a split 201 ring of soft copper. Two annular edges 111 and 112 on one face of the flange cut 11 through any coating on the bulkhead 4 and an O-ring 114 between them provides a seal. Screw rings 17, 217 clamp the conduit or cable 2 via clawed plastics rings 15, 215. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265124-A (GB)
Title: Four-wheel-drive vehicle.
Inventor: HAMADA TETSUROU
IPC: B60K17/35
Filed: 1993-03-17
Abstract: The engine E drives the front wheels Wf directly and the rear wheels Wr via a drive shaft 6 and hydraulic pressure clutches CL, CR which are located in the roar wheel axles 9L, 9R. A pump F, eg a trochoidal or gear pump, is driven by the shaft 6 and has its discharge port connected to the intake ports of further pumps RL, RR which are associated with the rear wheels so that if there is a difference between the amounts of oil discharged from the pump F compared to that from the pumps RL, RR, a hydraulic pressure is applied to the clutches CL, CR which then transmit drive to the rear wheels. The three hydraulic pumps and hydraulic circuit are thus arranged such that the vehicle operates in a four-wheel drive mode only when the vehicle is first starting to travel and when the speed of the vehicle is increased. The vehicle operates in a main driven wheel drive mode when the vehicle is travelling at a constant speed and when the speed of the vehicle is reduced. <IMAGE>