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Patent GB-2261932-A (GB)
Title: Seal
Inventor: MARSHALL ROBERT GEOFFREY
IPC: F16J15/08
Filed: 1991-11-27
Abstract: An abutment seal comprises a length of channel section 1 from which protrudes a resiliently mounted seal member 8. The seal member has a top hat cross-section the nose, or crown, of which protrudes through the elongate opening of the channel. The lower margins of the seal member are bent outwardly to retain it within the channel housing. Adjacent lengths of seal assembly may be interconnected by spring loaded plungers 12 fitted inside adjacent ends to join them together and to prevent a leakage path. The spring loading is provided by leaf springs integral with the plunger. The seal member, channel section and springs are all preferably of metal. The seal may be used on a butterfly or gate valve in a vectored thrust gas turbine engine. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2263996-A (GB)
Title: Display device
Inventor: BOWTELL EDWARD GEORGE ARTHUR
IPC: G09F3/20
Filed: 1992-01-31
Abstract: A display device is described, suitable for displaying an article for sale. The article may be a handbag, purse, wallet or notecase. The device comprises a display member 26 capable of bearing sales information and a location a bar 6 joined to the display member. The display member 26 and location bar 6 together form a slot 8 for the passage therethrough of a portion of the article to be displayed, eg the flap. The device further comprises a strap 10 for binding the displayed article, one end of the strap being attached to the location bar, and the other end being engageable in a socket 16 in the display member. In preferred embodiments, the end of the strap 10 remote from the location bar is toothed so as to cooperate with pawl means provided in the socket 16. The device may have a hole 28 for suspension from a hook or rail. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2257699-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for dividing flat glass panels
Inventor: JURAS KARL-HEINZ
IPC: C03B33/03
Filed: 1992-06-05
Abstract: A panel (14) which is to be divided and which is raised away from its support is securely held in its part regions by two clamping means (10, 12) which are pivoted in opposite directions about a common pivot axle (4) and thus exert on the panel (14) a bending resulting in breakage along the score line (30). Simultaneously exerted on the clamping means (10), which are displaceable in the direction of their connection line, is a force which urges the clamping means apart and which at the moment of breakage of the glass panel results in the two part panels moving apart, so that the broken edges cannot strike against one another. The part panels can be deposited again on the support after breaking. The invention further provides for marginal strips to be broken off the panel (14) to be divided, in the raised state thereof directly before dividing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260062-A (GB)
Title: Delayed message transmission from payphone
Inventor: LONSDALE DAVID WILLIAM
IPC: H04M3/533
Filed: 1992-07-20
Abstract: A message is transmitted from an initiating payphone telephone to a destination telephone by recording the message and the destination telephone number, and then calling the destination telephone after a predetermined delay and playing back the recorded message thereto. The procedure is started on failure of a call from the initiating payphone to the destination telephone, and a pro-recorded message may instruct the user. The initiating telephone may include a recording/ playback integrated circuit chip.
Patent GB-2270649-A (GB)
Title: Decalcomania having metallic components.
Inventor: BRADSHAW VERNON
IPC: B41M3/12
Filed: 1992-09-16
Abstract: A decalcomanium or transfer comprises a transfer laminate having a metallic layer (e.g. a stamping or blocking foil) wherein at least some of the originally metallised area has been selectively demetallised, such that the remaining metal forms the metallic part of the design. The demetallised areas may be coloured by the post application of colouring material (e.g. ink) after the selective demetallisation step. As described, a foil comprises a base layer on which is deposited (in order) a release layer, a clear (or coloured) laquer, a metallic layer, and an adhesive layer, and is prepared by the printed application of a patterned resist followed by etching and subsequent printing of the applied colour. An adhesive layer may be applied to the surface of the applied colour. Also mentioned as methods of selectively demetallising the foil are dissolution in solvent, adhesive stripping and hot-melt. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261268-A (GB)
Title: Labyrinth seals
Inventor: MARSHALL ROBERT
IPC: F16J15/44
Filed: 1992-11-06
Abstract: A seal 2 is sized and shaped so as to fit about a rotatable member 4 and a pressure differential is created across the seal via air port 3 for the purpose of ensuring that small particles do not by-pass the seal; the seal is formed as a composite seal including an outer most bearing layer 2a and an adjacent flexible layer 5 whereby contact between said member and said seal, due to any eccentric movement, results in a corresponding deflection of said seal, due to compression of layer 5, so as to reduce wear of the seal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272939-A (GB)
Title: Hinge device
Inventor: LU SHENG NAN
IPC: E05D11/08
Filed: 1992-11-26
Abstract: A hinge device for a casing having a body portion and an upper cover includes an L-shaped mount plate 10 adapted to be securely mounted to the body portion of the casing, two washers 12, 13 respectively attached to both sides of the mount plate, a pivotal axle 20 having a mounting portion 22 adapted to be securely mounted to the upper cover of the casing, an extension 24 pivotally received in a hole 11 of the mount plate 10, a spring member 14, and a nut 16 mounted on a threaded end portion 201 of the extension 24. The nut 16 biases the spring 14 and allows the pivotal axle 20 to be freely pivotable relative to the spring. When a desired position of the upper cover relative to the body portion of the casing is reached, the spring member 14 biased by the nut 16 exerts a longitudinal force on the pivotal axle 20 to retain the pivotal axle 20 in position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265006-A (GB)
Title: A knock control system for an internal combustion engine
Inventor: YAMADA HIROHIKO
IPC: G01L23/22
Filed: 1993-03-12
Abstract: The system derives a knock intensity indicative value Vpi from an output of a knock sensor and decides presence or absence of an engine knock by comparing the knock intensity indicative value Vpi and a knock decision level VKDi for controlling a knock control factor such as an ignition timing based on the decision. The system derives a value Si corresponding to a standard deviation of a distribution of a substantially logarithmic conversion value of the knock intensity indicative value Vpi, and value VMi corresponding to a median value of the above-noted distribution. The system derives the knock decision level VKDi based on the value Si and the Value VMi when the value Si is within a predetermined range. On the other hand, when the value Si deviates from the predetermined range, the system derives the knock decision level VKDi based on the value VMi and a corrected value which is set smaller or larger than the value Si so as to prevent divergence of the knock decision level VKDi.
Patent GB-2267403-A (GB)
Title: Switched line phase shifter
Inventor: NAKAHARA KAZUHIKO
IPC: H01P1/185
Filed: 1993-04-28
Abstract: A switched line phase shifter includes three or more transmission lines 6, 7, 8 having different electrical lengths from each other which are disposed between an input terminal i and an output terminal 2 and connected parallel to each other, three or more input side FET switches 4a, 4c, 4e for connecting or disconnecting the input terminal 1 with input ends of the transmission lines 6, 7, 8, and three or more output side FET switches 4b, 4d, 4f for connecting or disconnecting the output terminal (2) with output ends of the transmission lines 6, 7, 8. Signal transmission paths A, B, C as many as the transmission lines 6, 7, 8 are produced between the input terminal 1 and the output terminal 2 by on-off control of the input side FET switches 4a, 4c, 4e and the output side FET switches 4b, 4d, 4f. When one of the signal transmission paths 6, 7, 8 is selected as reference and a signal is transmitted through remaining two or more signal transmission paths, two or more different phase-shift quantities are obtained in the phase shifter. Additional FETs may be provided between the lines to enable serial connection of the line. The phase shifter may be formed on a common substrate and including multilayer interconnection. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265636-A (GB)
Title: Platinum diffusion process
Inventor: GOULD HERBERT J
IPC: H01L21/22
Filed: 1993-05-10
Abstract: Platinum atoms are uniformly dispersed throughout a silicon wafer containing preformed junctions by depositing a layer of platinum on the back surface of a silicon wafer which has a pattern of P-N junctions formed on its opposite surface and thereafter immediately heating the wafer which is free of an intervening oxide layer to form platinum silicide. The wafer is thereafter heated to a temperature higher than about 850 DEG C for a short time which is sufficiently high to cause the platinum atoms to diffuse into the silicon wafer but is too low and lasts for too short a time to cause the movement of the pre-formed junctions within the wafer.
Patent GB-2277890-A (GB)
Title: Acrylic coatings
Inventor: DAVIES STEVEN GREGORY
IPC: C08J7/052
Filed: 1993-05-14
Abstract: Polymeric films consisting of at least one polymeric layer with an acrylic coating thereon, the acrylic coating including a surfactant such that the surface tension of the water-based acrylic dispersion used to form the coating is reduced by at least 5 dynes/cm by a concentration of surfactant in the dispersion of not more than 0.05 percent by weight, have shown good printability with various inks combined with scratch resistance. The surfactant is preferably an ammonium or alkali metal perfluoroalkyl sulfonate or an ammonium or alkali metal alkyl or di-alkyl sulfosuccinate.
Patent GB-2279613-A (GB)
Title: Integrated circuit or smart card
Inventor: JARVIS CHARLES RICHARD
IPC: G06K19/077
Filed: 1993-07-02
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a smart card comprises removing portions of a printed circuit substrate 11 corresponding to peripheral corner regions of a card such that protective layers 24 on either side of the printed circuit are bonded to each other thereby reducing the likelihood of de-lamination of the card. The shape 41 of the printed circuit is cut out by stamping. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272176-A (GB)
Title: Modular constructional system
Inventor: GIRES MICHEL
IPC: B23Q3/10
Filed: 1993-11-05
Abstract: The system is intended for the production of structures for supporting and holding machined parts and comprises connecting bars (85, 86) of quadrangular section which are adapted to be fixed together and/or to a base plate having modular perforations. Each connecting bar has a plurality of smooth traversing bores (87) of substantially the same diameter which each open on two opposing lateral faces and on each end face of the connecting bar. The system further comprises at least one connecting sleeve (93) provided, in its periphery, with grooves or furrows (91) which are engaged by the ends of check screws (89, 90) screwed into tapped bores (88) in the connecting bars (85, 86) to hold the sleeve (93) in position to serve to connect together the two connecting bars. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276509-A (GB)
Title: Video clamp signal generation control circuit discriminates source of sync pulses
Inventor: PARK TAE JIN
IPC: G09G5/00
Filed: 1994-03-10
Abstract: A clamp signal generation-control circuit includes a clamp signal controller 30 for discriminating between a sync on green signal and a separate sync signal supplied from a video card to a monitor and outputs a control signal according to the discrimination. A clamp signal generator 29 automatically changes a generated point of the clamp signal in accordance with the discriminator output. The generated point of the clamp signal supplied to the monitor is controlled to automatically shift the clamping position of a video signal, thereby preventing malfunction caused by a nonprofessional users manipulation, abnormal picture display or the generation of a segment phenomenon. The circuit is suitable for monitors supplied with various kinds of sync signals. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276602-A (GB)
Title: Wiring harness assembly line
Inventor: KITA YOUICHI
IPC: H05K13/06
Filed: 1994-03-28
Abstract: A wiring harness assembly line includes a looped track (20) and hangers (30) movably suspended from the track (20) to supply components to the line. The hangers (30) pass through a work space of an operator M at an assembly position. Details of the track construction are shown in figs 3B and 6. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2291780-A (GB)
Title: Safety collar
Inventor: ASVAKIAT PHANUPONG ROY
IPC: A42B3/04
Filed: 1994-08-02
Abstract: A safety collar 10 has two air bags 13 and 15 for fitting at the sides of the neck to prevent over-tilting of the head. The bags are somewhat separated from an upright neck and are arranged to rest on the shoulders of the wearer. In use, the safety collar prevents nerve root damage in the cervical region which can occur in accidents due to excessive sideways tilting of the head. The collar may be incorporated in a safety helmet 17 and include a third bag 14 at the back. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282555-A (GB)
Title: Installation and removal of a set of rolls of a roll stand
Inventor: MORITZ WERNER
IPC: B21B31/07
Filed: 1994-10-05
Abstract: At least one roll journal 2 is supported by an axially loose bearing in a fitting part which is locked to a roll standard. A housing 12 is secured by screws to the fitting part. Pins 15 can be extended hydraulically by pistons 16 acting against springs 17 so that their ends 31 engage a shoulder 32 to locate the fitting part relative to the roll centre. Clamping jaws 20 are then engaged by wedge action of a pressure piece 26 driven by a hydraulic piston 25 to lock the fitting part to the roll during installation, allowing the positioning pins 15 to be retracted. When the fitting part has been fastened in the roll stand the jaws 20 are disengaged to free the roll for operation. The jaws can be reengaged with the thermally-expanded roll if the roll is to be removed from the roll stand. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281791-A (GB)
Title: A control method for a vehicle
Inventor: SOGAWA YOSHIYUKI
IPC: G05B23/02
Filed: 1992-07-02
Abstract: In a control method for a vehicle having a first computer (2) with a main CPU (8) and a second computer (3) with a sub-CPU (23) it is firstly decided whether or not the sub CPU (23) has been reset due to an abnormality. If the sub CPU (23) has been reset the first computer (2) executes a failsafe program. The first computer (2) may control fuel injection and ignition timing, and the second computer (3) may perform knock detection. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-949905-A (GB)
Abstract: 949,905. Engine starter drives. ROBERT BOSCH G.m.b.H. June 19, 1962 [July 1, 1961], No. 23541/62. Heading F1K. An engine starter drive comprises a pinion 11 which is longitudinally displaceable and rotatable on a starter shaft 10 driven by the starter motor, a hollow shaft 13 coupled with the starter shaft and longitudinally displaceable thereon by means of a collar 16 against a force produced by a return spring, the hollow shaft being connected with the pinion by a freewheel clutch 12, and a shift lever 29 which has at one end a fork engaging the collar, which is rotatably mounted on the hollow shaft and is of a synthetic resinous material, the fork preventing the collar from rotating with the hollow shaft and the force of the return spring acting on the shift lever to urge the end face of the collar remote from the pinion into frictional engagement with a braking member fixed to the starter shaft when the shift lever is in its "piniondisengaged" position. The collar 16 is held between two spring biased conical discs 20, 21.
Patent GB-2287445-A (GB)
Title: Reservoir to pneumatic conveyor transfer apparatus
Inventor: BOSTELMANN RUDOLF
IPC: A24C5/32
Filed: 1995-03-09
Abstract: Apparatus for transferring filter rods 3 from a reservoir 9 to a pneumatic conveyor 12 is shown. The invention relates to the longitudinally axial pneumatic transferring of filter rods 3 from receiving grooves 2, of a rotating grooved drum 1 to a stationary pneumatic conveying line 12. The filter rods 3 are prevented from being shaved off at a transfer point 34 between groove 2 and conveyor 12 by a pre-tensioned wall portion 36 which can be moved by a jammed filter rod 3. In this way the grooved drum can be stopped at the correct time in such a way that shaving off of the filter rod is prevented. Figs 6 and 7 show an alternative embodiment. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288498-A (GB)
Title: Circuit breaker
Inventor: SAILER HANNS P
IPC: H02H3/00
Filed: 1995-03-30
Abstract: A circuit breaker controlled by an electric trip unit (6) (figure 1) is configured to perform overcurrent protection and either ground fault or alternative protection of the fourth conductor, depending upon whether the circuit is in a three phase and earth or three phase and neutral arrangement. The type of protection is user-selectable and is set during the electrical installation process. A selector circuit inputs either ground fault or 4-wire data from current transformers to the circuit breaker and a selection program in the trip unit (6) determines whether ground fault or 4-wire protection is required. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2300116-A (GB)
Title: Window cleaning mechanism
Inventor: WILSON JAMES MUNRO
IPC: A47L1/02
Filed: 1995-04-26
Abstract: A window cleaning mechanism comprises a carrier bar 3 bearing a sponge blade 8 and a wiper blade 9 extending across the window, support means in the form of a rocker mechanism 2 for moving the carrier bar across the window glazing 20, part of the rocker mechanism (14 figure 8) sliding in grooves 5 along opposite sides of the window frame 7, the rocker mechanism having a position in which one blade engages the surface of the window and another position in which the other blade engages the surface of the window and a pull cord 4 extending to the inside of the window operable via a pull bar (10 figure 2) to slide the rocker mechanism along the frame and to change the rocker mechanism between the two positions mentioned above. The mechanism may also include a trough 6 for water or cleaning solution into which the sponge blade 8 may be lowered, said trough may be filled from the interior of the window via a hole 11 and duct 12 within the window frame.
Patent GB-2301627-A (GB)
Title: Air jack
Inventor: MATLUB ABDULLAH N ABDUL
IPC: B66F3/35
Filed: 1995-04-28
Abstract: Air Jack is a pneumatic jacking device for raising motor vehicles mainly to facilitate change of a wheel. It comprises of an an inflatable bag (1) which is positioned under the vehicle and inflated employing the exhaust from the vehicle through a hose (2) connecting the exhaust to the bag. The bag (1) has a built-in filter (4) to arrest polluting gases.
Patent GB-2292379-A (GB)
Title: Preparation of thioamides
Inventor: JACKSON ARTHUR
IPC: C07C327/38
Filed: 1995-08-04
Abstract: A process for preparing an aliphatic thioamide comprises reacting a nitrile compound of the general formula R1R2R3C-CN, wherein R1 denotes a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical containing from 1 to 5 carbon atoms or an aryl radical and R2 and R3 each denotes a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical containing from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, with hydrogen sulphide, in the presence as catalyst of an aliphatic amine of the general formula R4R5R6N, wherein R4 denotes an alkyl radical containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms and R5 and R6 each denotes a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms, in a water-miscible polar solvent.
Patent GB-2304579-A (GB)
Title: Ear splint
Inventor: GAULT DAVID THOMAS
IPC: A61F2/18
Filed: 1995-08-31
Abstract: The splint comprises a wire core (1) enclosed in a dermatologically acceptable cover (2). It is formed into a desired shape and fitted to the auricle of the ear within 3-6 months of birth to assist in holding the ear in a desired position and/or shape. Foam protector means may be provided for fitting around the ear. For older patients, a topical chemotherapeutic agent may also be applied to the ear to reduce its rigidity.
Patent GB-2298370-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic stimulator with increased energy efficiency
Inventor: POLSON MICHAEL JOHN ROSS
IPC: A61N2/02
Filed: 1996-02-22
Abstract: A magnetic stimulator of neuro-muscular tissue, comprises a discharge capacitor (9), switch means (10) for allowing discharge of the discharge capacitor into a stimulating coil (11), and at least one additional capacitor which may be a reservoir capacitor (2) charged by a power supply (1) with means (3,4) for pumping charge from the reservoir capacitor to a transfer capacitor (5) and means (7,8a) for pumping charge from the transfer capacitor to the discharge capacitor. There may also be means for recovering energy from the stimulating coil (11) when current flow from the discharge capacitor to the stimulating coil is diminished, the energy being recovered either by the discharge capacitor or by the additional capacitor. Other embodiments comprise an additional coil for returning unused energy to a storage capacitor and switched inductors for transferring energy from the storage capacitor to the discharge capacitor.
Patent GB-2311381-A (GB)
Title: Equipment modules and backplane with optical connection
Inventor: KIRBY HENRY
IPC: H04B10/00
Filed: 1996-03-22
Abstract: Backplane 100 comprises a support structure 200 which has a plurality of apertures 105 defined along it, the apertures communicating with an optical path 210 extending along the structure. Each of modules 110 has a connector 250 which carries optical devices 300, the connector engaging with one of the apertures so as to provide mechanical support for the module and to put optical devices 300 into communication with the optical path. Preferably the backplane also has electrical conductors 220, 230 which couple with contact lobes (310, 320 fig.3) on connector 250 for powering module 110. Preferably optical devices 300 are movable between shielded and operable positions. Lead termination 120, eg. power cable or copper cable, may couple to the rear of module 110 and by hooks 130 to backplane 100.
Patent GB-2321713-A (GB)
Title: High-voltage transmission line data transfer system
Inventor: ROY ELAN
IPC: H04B10/80
Filed: 1997-02-01
Abstract: An electronic circuit (14) for processing high voltage transmission line (10) information. The electronic circuit (14) includes a signal conversion circuit (20) operating at a line potential (28) and operably coupled to at least one high voltage transmission line (10), for converting information on at least one line parameter of a high voltage transmission line into a processable format. The electronic circuit (14), further includes an opto-coupler (21) operably coupled to the signal conversion circuit (20) for transferring information on the at least one line parameter from the signal conversion circuit (20) to a processing circuit (22) at a ground potential (31) for processing the line parameter information from the signal conversion circuit. Isolating the high voltage lines from the processing circuits with the use of non magnetic components preserves characteristics of the measured high voltage lines such as bandwidth and harmonics.