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Patent GB-2409168-A (GB)
Title: Device and method for dosing respiration gas
Inventor: KRUEGER THOMAS
IPC: A61M16/00
Filed: 2004-12-15
Abstract: A respiration device with a respiration volume measuring device (6) between a respiration bag (8) and a patient adapter (2) is to be improved so that precise dosing of the respiration volume is possible. The device includes a first pressure measuring device (4) and a respiration gas shutoff valve (5) in serial sequence between the patient adapter (2) and the respiration volume measuring device (6), a second pressure measuring device (7) between the respiration volume measuring device (6) and the respiration bag (8), a control unit (20), which is connected to the respiration volume measuring device (6) and the pressure measuring devices (4, 7), and emits control signals so that when a predetermined respiration volume is reached, the respiration gas shutoff valve (5) is switched to the closing position, and so that the closing position is cancelled when the pressure p2 measured with the second pressure measuring device (7) has dropped below the pressure p1 recorded with the first pressure measuring device (4).
Patent GB-2422233-A (GB)
Title: Detecting disassembly of a multi-component casing
Inventor: MARINI LAWRENCE GERALD
IPC: F04D27/02
Filed: 2005-01-17
Abstract: Apparatus for detecting disassembly of a multi-component casing has a data storage unit 11 permanently attached to the casing such that the data storage unit is damaged when the casing is disassembled. A data reader 13 reads data stored by the data storage unit and a controller generates a control signal dependent thereon. The data storage unit 11 may be a smart chip or an RFID chip.
Patent GB-2424198-A (GB)
Title: Cryogenic support
Inventor: HASELWIMMER ROBERT KURT WILLIA
IPC: F25B21/00
Filed: 2005-03-16
Abstract: A cryogenic support for an adiabatic demagnetisation fridge or an electron microscope comprises a platform 104 supported by a direct connection to a piezoelectric motor 102 at one end and an axle support member 110 at the other end. The piezoelectric motor is arranged to enable rotation about the x axis, as shown in the figures. The platform comprises a continuous metallic thermal connection with a coldstage (not shown) via base 100. The device may further comprise a second piezoelectric motor 504 to enable rotation about the z axis shown. The device may further comprise a remote measurement arm 600 and a third platform 608 which is configured to rotate about a z axis via a coupling 606 to a spindle 604 mounted on the second rotator 504.
Patent GB-2415267-A (GB)
Title: Elecronically controlled back pressure regulator
Inventor: HENDERSON ROBERT CLARK
IPC: B01D15/08
Filed: 2005-05-20
Abstract: An electronically controlled back pressure regulator (150) comprises an analysis device (116) having a vent (118) coupled to the analysis device (116) through a vent path (166), a pressure sensor (152) coupled to the vent path (166), a proportional valve (164) coupled to the vent path (166), the proportional valve (164) configured to controllably alter pressure in the analysis device (116), and an electronically controlled closed-loop controller (158) configured to control a flow through the vent (168) based on a signal from the pressure sensor (152) and an electronically controlled pressure setpoint. Preferably the back pressure regulator is used to control back pressure in a gas chromatograph. Preferably the pressure sensor could be one of gauge or absolute pressure sensors with the addition of ambient pressure 174 feedback to the controller.
Patent GB-2429009-A (GB)
Title: Venting drinks can for effervescent liquids
Inventor: TITTON JASON ANDREW
IPC: B65D51/16
Filed: 2005-08-09
Abstract: The invention provides a container 2 for storing effervescent liquids comprising a gas permeable, liquid impermeable membrane 12. Preferably the membrane does not cover the means by which liquid is to be removed from the container, and is arranged so that it can be exposed to the atmosphere before the means of dispensing the liquid from the container is opened. A removable cover 14 may be provided, along with a ring pull 16.
Patent GB-2418776-A (GB)
Title: Colour conversion filter substrate and a multicolour light emitting device employing the substrate
Inventor: KOBAYASHI MAKOTO
IPC: G02B5/22
Filed: 2005-08-24
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a color conversion filter substrate with satisfactory durability that allows the light after color conversion to be extracted with high efficiency and prevents the decay of intensity of fluorescent light accompanied by light illumination by suppressing, with high probability, the reaction between the dye in an excited state and the matrix. A color conversion filter substrate of the invention comprises a transparent support substrate 1, at least two types of color filters 2,4,6 and at least one type of color conversion filter 3,5. The color conversion filter includes a dye dispersed in a matrix, the dye absorbing light with a wavelength and emitting light containing a wavelength different from the absorbed wavelength. The color conversion filter has a refractive index in a range of 1.30 to 1.48. The matrix of the color conversion filter contains a straight type silicone polymer or a resin-modified type silicone polymer.
Patent GB-2418305-A (GB)
Title: A battery charger with battery temperature measuring sensor
Inventor: NAKASHO TOSHIKI
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 2005-08-26
Abstract: A charger comprises a temperature detection portion that comes in contact with a battery detachably mounted to a battery pocket and detects its battery temperature, and a charge circuit that controls charge of the battery based on the battery temperature detected by the temperature detection portion. The temperature detection portion includes a heat conduction plate and a temperature sensor. The heat conduction plate includes a pair of upper and lower sandwich plates that sandwich the temperature sensor, and an elastic connection arm that connects the upper and lower sandwich plates at a first end side, and an interlock portion that couples the upper and lower sandwich plates at a second end side opposite to the first end side. The elastic connection arm connects first ends of the upper and lower sandwich plates, and the interlock portion couples second ends of the upper and lower sandwich plates, thus, the upper and lower sandwich plates sandwich and fasten the temperature sensor.
Patent GB-2425266-A (GB)
Title: Medal tray of game machine and medal game machine
Inventor: KIRIYAMA SEIJI
IPC: G07F17/32
Filed: 2005-02-09
Abstract: A medal tray capable of appropriating the stacked state of medals. The medal tray (50) installed in a medal game machine (1) as a destination for delivery of medals (M) comprises a bottom wall (51) on which the medals (M) are stacked, side walls (53) and (54) and a rear wall (55) surrounding the three sides of the bottom wall (51), and a front wall (52) disposed oppositely to the rear wall (55) and set lower than the rear wall (55). A projected part (57) limiting the stacking of the medals along the rear wall (55) is installed on the rear wall (55) so as to be projected toward the front wall (52).
Patent GB-2432136-A (GB)
Title: Printing method
Inventor: WILSON JOHN ALEXANDER
IPC: B41M3/00
Filed: 2005-09-21
Abstract: A method of generating a printed metallic colour comprising printing a special colour using at most six colour selected from the three base colours, such as cyan, magenta and yellow, black, red or orange and blue or green using stochastic screening and applying a pearlescent varnish over the printed special colour.
Patent GB-2430350-A (GB)
Title: Dish formed from foldable blank
Inventor: CLARKE ANGELO
IPC: A47G19/03
Filed: 2005-09-23
Abstract: A blank 2 of paperboard, cardboard, sheet plastics, or other foldable sheet material comprises a first outwardly extending edge 8, a second outwardly extending edge 10 and a crease line 22 extending in a curved path from said first edge 8 to said second edge 10. The crease line 22 allows said first and second edges 8, 10 to be moved towards one another so as to create a dished body 40 with an upwardly projecting inner region 44 bounded by said crease line 22, said crease line forming an edge on which said article 40 may rest. An edge 10 may be stepped, including a circumferentially-extending section 20 following the crease line 22 between two radially-extending sections 16,18. The crease line 22 may be smoothly arcuate or may be a series of segments (62, Figure 7). The dish may be held in erected condition by a hook-like tab 14 engaging a slot 26.
Patent GB-2420927-A (GB)
Title: Integral hermetically sealed image sensor and optical assembly with tilt angle adjustment
Inventor: NOMURA HIROSHI
IPC: G03B17/02
Filed: 2005-12-01
Abstract: An imaging device includes an image sensor (13g) provided at an imaging position of a photographing optical system, at least one optical element, such as low pass filter (13f), provided in front of the image sensor, a hermetically sealing holding member (30) which hermetically seals and integrally holds the image sensor and the optical element, a support member (32) which supports the hermetically sealing holding member and is prevented from tilting relative to an optical axis of the photographing optical system, and an angle adjusting device, such as screws 33 which allows the hermetically sealing holding member to tilt relative to the support member, against a biasing force, upon assembly.
Patent GB-2423508-A (GB)
Title: Mooring system with mooring points attached to a buoyant member
Inventor: BURLEY IAN
IPC: E02C1/10
Filed: 2006-02-23
Abstract: A mooring for a vessel on a body of water, the mooring comprises at least one mooring point 32 connected to a buoyant member 24. The buoyant member is movably connected to a fixed member 12 such that movement of the buoyant member caused by fluctuations in the water level during use causes a corresponding movement of the one or more mooring points relative to the fixed member. The mooring points are therefore maintained at a constant height above the water's level.
Patent GB-2439972-A (GB)
Title: Conductive structure for an electrode assembly of a lithium secondary battery
Inventor: WU DONALD PI HSIANG
IPC: H01M50/538
Filed: 2006-07-08
Abstract: An electrode assembly of a lithium secondary battery is specially designed such that the positive and negative layers are formed at a side thereof with a large uncoated negative lead area and a large uncoated positive lead area. In addition, the collecting area is located correspondingly to the negative lead area or the positive lead area. And then the clasping assemblies are fixed outside the positive lead area or the negative lead area. In this way, the two pressing pieces are firmly pressed against the positive lead area or the negative lead area. On the one hand, the respective layers of the positive lead area or the negative lead area are pressed closely against one another, and on the other hand, the innermost layer of the positive lead area or the negative lead area is allowed to be maintained in a tight electrical contact with the collecting area.
Patent GB-2432082-A (GB)
Title: Self-configuring cellular base station
Inventor: KEEVILL PETER
IPC: H04L45/85
Filed: 2005-08-01
Abstract: A base station 110 for a cellular wireless communications network is able to configure itself for operation in the network, by selecting appropriate operating frequencies (in the case of a GSM network) or scrambling codes (in the case of a UMTS network), and appropriate transmit powers. This makes it practical for a large number of such base stations to be deployed in a pre-existing network 150, within customers' premises, without requiring network intervention in each case. The base station has an interface for a SIM card, allowing the base station to be identified to the core network 130 of the cellular network and to the radio network 150.
Patent GB-2439007-A (GB)
Title: Device and method for setting a bottom packer
Inventor: FREYER RUNE
IPC: E21B33/128
Filed: 2006-03-13
Abstract: The invention refers to a device for sealing an annular space formed between an outer cylindrical element (4) having an end closure (16) and an inner pipe (1) extending within the outer element and having a free end. The invention incorporates a packer element (2) being slidably disposed around said pipe (1), an actuation element (6) adapted for telescopic assembly around the outer surface of the pipe (1) and slidable from a first position to a second position, a conical ring (12) adapted for installation on the pipe (1), where the actuation element (6) comprises an abutment element (10) designed for abutment against said packer (2) , and an actuation pipe (8) extending beyond the pipe (1) first end when the actuation element (6) is in said first position. The invention also refers to a method for sealing the annular space.
Patent GB-2440088-A (GB)
Title: Automatic vessel position holding control method and controller
Inventor: IGARASHI KAZUYUKI
IPC: B63H25/42
Filed: 2006-04-14
Abstract: An automatic vessel position holding control method for holding the position of a hull on the ocean and the bow orientation thereof in order to reduce deviations in position and orientation sharply as compared with conventional automatic vessel position holding control by performing feed forward control for estimating and then compensating at least one of wave drifting power and wave drifting moment that act on a hull, wherein a vessel position holding control is performed that includes such controls as estimating a wave entering the hull from motion thereof, calculating at least one of wave drifting power and wave drifting moment from the wave thus estimated and performing feed forward control on at least one of the wave drifting power and the wave drifting moment thus calculated.
Patent GB-2454526-A (GB)
Title: Pipe clamp with radially movable cams
Inventor: PATTERSON ROWAN WARRICK
IPC: F16B2/14
Filed: 2007-11-09
Abstract: A connector 5 for connecting a component 18, 20 to a tubular member 10 comprises a collar 16 with a number of equally spaced dogs 24 mounted in the collar which can be moved radially to make clamping contact with the tubular member 10. A clamp ring 28 surrounds the collar and has an inclined cam face 38 which contacts the outward faces 36 of the dogs 24. The lamp ring 28 is pulled axially onto the collar using bolts 32 and nuts 34, which causes the cam faces 36, 38 to engage and force the dogs 24 inwards to clamp on the tubular member 10. The connector may be used underwater to connect structural beams to vertical columns underwater, to brace the columns against each other. The use of clamps, instead of welding, does not affect the structural integrity of the columns.
Patent GB-2462677-A (GB)
Title: Preventing unauthorised battery charging of electric vehicle
Inventor: KNIGHT MARK
IPC: B60L11/18
Filed: 2008-08-20
Abstract: A method of charging a vehicle 170 having a battery comprises the step of stopping power supply to a connector 160 in response to an interruption in the power supplied to the battery via said connector, wherein said interruption occurs while said connector is connected to a power supply means such as a charging station 100. Also disclosed is a method comprising the steps of detecting an interruption in an authorised power supply and requiring successful completion of a reauthorisation step prior to any further power being supplied to the vehicle. Both methods prevent the theft of a power supply by an unauthorised user. Also disclosed are systems comprising means for implementing the various methods.
Patent GB-2454058-A (GB)
Title: Still image compression using moving image techniques
Inventor: JANG SUNG-KYU
IPC: H04N1/41
Filed: 2008-09-10
Abstract: The application relates to a digital image processing apparatus for significantly reducing a still image file size in order to store a large number of image files. The digital image processing apparatus comprises a sub-image generator for generating a plurality of sub-images from a still image, and a moving image compressor for considering the still image as a moving image by using each of the sub-images as a frame image and compressing the moving image having the frame images. The sub-images may be rearranged so that sub-images having a certain degree of correlation are arranged adjacent to each other. Also included may be a correlation coefficient calculator for a calculating a correlation coefficient Costn,m between an nth sub- image and a mth sub-image, before being rearranged. The invention may use either MPEG or H.264 compression processes.
Patent GB-2450033-A (GB)
Title: Flooding then analysing a core sample
Inventor: REID LENNOX
IPC: E21B25/00
Filed: 2007-09-14
Abstract: A method for evaluating an underground formation comprises conveying a coring tool 224 to the formation, obtaining a core 302 sample from the formation, and placing at least a portion of the core sample 302 into a processing chamber 300. The core sample 302 is then at least partially flooded, fluid is extracted from it, and at least a portion of the core 302 is analyzed. The extracted fluid can also be analysed and the viscosity of hydrocarbons in the core 302 can be lowered by heating the core by means of heater 241. The core 302 may be a core 302 sampled from a sidewall of a borehole.
Patent GB-2459549-A (GB)
Title: Coupled resonator device
Inventor: HANDTMANN MARTIN
IPC: H03H3/02
Filed: 2009-02-27
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coupled resonator device includes forming a first Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) device (110a, fig.5a) on a first substrate (220a , fig.5b), forming a second BAW-device 110b on a second substrate (220b, fig.5b), and bonding the BAW-devices such that the first and second BAW-devices are sandwiched between the first and second substrates. The resonators may be trimmed independently of each other prior to bonding. A further advantage is that an acoustic mirror for each BAW-device may be formed on each substrate. Standard methods from semiconductor technology may then be used in the packaging of the stacked, bonded BAW device as no cavity or air interface is required. Keywords: coupled resonator filter, CRF; piezoelectric resonator structure; solidly mounted resonator, SMR; stacked crystal filter, SCF.
Patent GB-2456456-A (GB)
Title: Timber framed buildings
Inventor: MCINERNEY KEVIN
IPC: E04B1/10
Filed: 2009-05-18
Abstract: A modular frame structure having a perimeter frame comprising a plurality of framed modules arranged to extend horizontally, the perimeter frame incorporating a support structure for a floor or roof stage, wherein the perimeter frame is deeper than the support structure and extends below the support structure into a wall zone for attaching a wall structure.
Patent GB-2471071-A (GB)
Title: System for producing virtual or digital interactive material swatches.
Inventor: CHANTLER MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: G06T13/00
Filed: 2009-06-12
Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for producing a digital swatch of a sample of a material or other such item. The system has a control unit 25, a number of lights 22, a number of image devices or cameras 24, and a device for moving, rotating and deforming the swatch 30. The images captured by the cameras is used by a software component in a connected computer to produce the interactive digital swatch. The system may move the swatch with the lights and cameras fixed or fix the swatch and hove the lights and cameras. The system may move in three dimensions and rotate about three axis. The swatch may be placed on different bases to deform the swatch in different ways.
Patent GB-2458049-A (GB)
Title: Biometric access sensitivity
Inventor: ALDERUCCI DEAN P
IPC: G07F17/32
Filed: 2007-11-14
Abstract: The present application provides methods and corresponding systems for accessing services on a gaming device which, in certain embodiments, include the step or steps of receiving at least one item of identity verification data from a user of a gaming device; enabling at least one service, such as a wager-type game, on the gaming device based on a match between the at least one item of identity verification data received and at least one item of identity verification data obtained previously; displaying an interface screen comprising graphic objects associated with the wager-type game and at least one selectable element for the user to submit a gaming command and a wagering command during game play; obtaining at least one item of user change data from a user during game play; and prompting the user for identity verification data when a user change is suspected based on the at least one item of user change data.
Patent GB-2461644-A (GB)
Title: Circuitry for monitoring accesses to addressable locations in data processing apparatus that occur between start and end events
Inventor: REID ALASTAIR DAVID
IPC: G06F11/34
Filed: 2009-07-08
Abstract: Disclosed is monitoring circuitry for data processing apparatus. The circuitry monitors accesses to addressable locations within the data processing apparatus that occur between start and end events. The circuitry has an address location store that stores the address to be monitored and a monitoring data store. When it detects the start event, the circuitry detects the accesses to the locations and stores monitoring data relating to the accesses in the data store. When the end event is detected the monitoring circuitry stops. When a flush event is detected the circuitry outputs the stored monitoring data and flushes the data store. The same event may comprise one or more of a start event, an end event and a flush event. The start, end and flush events may be the start of a task, an end of the task, a memory barrier instruction, a preset time interval, a counter overflowing, a counter reaching a threshold value, writing to a control register, accessing a particular region, an interrupt, a breakpoint, a send event, a wait for event, a load exclusive instruction, a store exclusive instruction or an atomic memory operation.
Patent GB-2472016-A (GB)
Title: A gear train for contra-rotating propeller gas turbine engine
Inventor: EASTMENT BEN JOHN
IPC: B64D35/06
Filed: 2009-07-21
Abstract: A gear train, for contra-rotating propeller gas turbine engine, comprises a drive shaft 26 which extends within a static structure 28, such as a nacelle 21, and is supported by a bearing 30. The drive shaft 26 is coupled to a rear propeller 24 which has a hub 34 having bevel teeth that mesh with a plurality of bevel gears 38 mounted on members 36 that are mounted on, for example, the nacelle 21 via bearings 30. A front propeller 23 is fixed to a hub 42 that is rotatably mounted on the static structure via bearings 40 and has bevel teeth that mesh with the bevel gears 38. Thus, as the rear propeller 24 is driven the bevel gears 38 drives the front propeller 23 in an opposite direction. The front propeller 23 may be constrained either by further bevel gears 48 or by bearings. A speed probe or control mechanism can be simply mounted and control calculations are easily formulated. The propellers may be used in marine applications.