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Patent GB-2464741-A (GB)
Title: Field effect transistor
Inventor: SONG AIMIN
IPC: H01L21/335
Filed: 2008-10-27
Abstract: The FET comprises: a substantially fixed distribution of charge 5 arranged to produce an electric field; and insulative material 6 separating the distribution of charge from the semiconductor channel 3, the arrangement being such that the semiconductor material is exposed to the electric field and the electrical conductivity of the conduction path is determined at least in part by the voltage applied to the gate 4 and by the charge distribution 5. The distribution of charge may be provided by a monolayer in which each molecule has a fixed polarisation, and a method of manufacturing the FET may include controlling a thickness of an insulating layer separating the charge distribution from the semiconductive material to tune the threshold voltage of inorganic and polythiophene organic FETs. The charged layer may be formed between the channel and the gate or on the opposite side of the channel to the gate (see figure 2).
Patent GB-2467002-A (GB)
Title: Handheld electronic device for storing and retrieving website passwords and related information
Inventor: CHEUNG MICHAEL MAN KWONG
IPC: G06F15/02
Filed: 2009-01-20
Abstract: A handheld electronic device for securely storing and retrieving records containing website name, email address, username, password, and other notes. Function keys 4-6 directly access the different types of information within each record and a shortcut key sequence comprising keycode button 9 followed by numeric key press retrieves the n-the digit of a password within a record. The device includes an alphanumeric keypad, LCD screen display 1, master device password, solar power cell 2, and undo button 10. The device is designed to unburden the user from the need to remember password and login details required by credit card and financial companies when using internet websites for online shopping or banking, etc.
Patent GB-2468131-A (GB)
Title: Protective necktie case and rack
Inventor: OJUKWU KELECHI ISAAC
IPC: A45C13/03
Filed: 2009-02-25
Abstract: A protective necktie travel case and storage rack for neckties includes a rigid protective back cover 1 and a semi-rigid transparent front cover 2 attached together by a flexible strip 3, which can be folded and zipped into travel luggage (Fig.4). When unzipped the case can stretch out into a necktie storage rack (Fig.3). In the interior of the case are several flexible transparent sleeve-like jackets 7 designed to protect ties from damage such as wrinkles and to secure the ties on a rigid hang bar 10. The transparent jackets are secured by popper clips 8 and attached to the hang bar on special clip hangers 9, which can be unclipped to switch jackets around. Twin bend-safe rigid bars 4 are fastened together using a fastener 6 to form a soft-faced straight bar over which the case folds preventing the ties from creasing or rumpling.
Patent GB-2458212-A (GB)
Title: Identification of genomic orthologous sequences by cross-species microarray analysis.
Inventor: OKYERE JOHN PAYIN
IPC: G16B10/00
Filed: 2009-03-12
Abstract: A method for the identification of one or more orthologous genes on a microarray comprises the application of genomic DNA from a second animal or distinct variety to a microarray derived from a first animal or distinct variety, measuring a background level of hybridization intensity of the genomic DNA to probes of the microarray and selecting probes on the microarray for which the hybridization intensity is greater than a threshold value based on the background level of hybridization intensity, whereby the selected probes are indicative of orthologous genes. Preferably the selected probes are printed onto a new custom array and mRNA or cDNA or cRNA from the second animal or distinct variety are subjected to microarray analysis using that new custom microarray.
Patent GB-2472995-A (GB)
Title: Half-warm foamed asphalt process
Inventor: ARTAMENDI IGNACIO
IPC: C08L95/00
Filed: 2009-08-26
Abstract: A process for the preparation of a half-warm foamed asphalt mixture comprises mixing aggregates pre-heated to a temperature in a range from 70°C-110°C with foamed bitumen which is formed prior to addition to the aggregates. The aggregates have a moisture content of from 0.5% to 1.5% by weight of aggregates. Typically, the foamed bitumen is produced by injecting water into hot bitumen at a temperature in the range from 120°C to 180°C. The amount of water added to foam the bitumen can be from 1.5% to 3.5% by weight of bitumen. Preferably, the mixture comprises 3% to 8% bitumen by weight of total mixture. A polymer modified binder, such as styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) or styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR), may be used to produce the half-warm foamed mixture. An additive may be added to the half-warm foamed asphalt mixture, wherein the additive can be a plant derived oil.
Patent GB-2473858-A (GB)
Title: Media item gathering and linking system
Inventor: GUARD ANDREW DIGBY
IPC: G11B27/031
Filed: 2009-09-25
Abstract: A media coverage system accepts first and second media input items, which can include message data from sources 10-16 by electronic or direct communication means. The gateway 18 distinguishes between media and message data items and includes a time stamp (28) and a time matching means (32) which compares the times of receipt of the media input and the message data and accepts and associates media input and a related message if the difference there between is less than a predetermined time period. Tracking information is also accepted by the gateway 18 indicating details of the nature, place, players etc of the event or activity given media coverage. The tracking data is linked to stored media material allowing media material to be tracked recalled and viewed under as many different headings of tracker designations as are possible or allowed in the system. The system can be used to generate coverage of a sports or golf event.
Patent GB-2461454-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for identifying broken pins in a test socket
Inventor: RYSKOSKI MATTHEW S
IPC: G01M99/00
Filed: 2009-10-26
Abstract: A method includes scanning a test socket (120) after removal of a device under test (170) to generate scan data. The scan data is compared to reference data. A presence of at least a portion of a pin (210) in the test socket (120) is identified based on the comparison. A test system (100) includes a test socket (120), a scanner (140), and a control unit (150). The test socket (120) is operable to receive devices under test (170). The scanner (140) is operable to scan the test socket (120) after removal of a device under test (170) to generate scan data. The control unit (150) is operable to compare the scan data to reference data and identify a presence of at least a portion of a pin (210) in the test socket (120) based on the comparison.
Patent GB-2475254-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum pump with additional leakage path for back leakage
Inventor: STEPHENS PHILIP JOHN
IPC: F04C27/00
Filed: 2009-11-11
Abstract: The present invention provides a vacuum pump for pumping gas from a process chamber, comprising: a rotor 30 supported for rotation in a pumping chamber by a drive shaft 34, the shaft extending through a bore in a wall 48 of the chamber extending transversely to the drive shaft, and a seal arrangement 16 between the shaft and the wall to resist passage of gas through the bore. On rotation of the rotor, gas is pumped from a low pressure region 1 at an inlet of the chamber to a high pressure region 3 at an outlet of the chamber. The rotor and the wall are spaced apart by an axial clearance along which back leakage of gas 5 flows from the high pressure region to the low pressure region. An additional leakage path for back leakage 8, 10, 12, 14 is formed spaced away from the seal arrangement along which gas can flow without contact with the seal arrangement so that the amount of gas which contacts the seal arrangement during use of the pump is reduced.
Patent GB-2475514-A (GB)
Title: Phase locked loop with coarse tuning circuit operated by a cycle slip detector
Inventor: THOMAS NEIL EDWIN
IPC: H03L7/07
Filed: 2009-11-20
Abstract: A PLL circuit 10 comprises a tunable oscillator 12 and a mixer-based phase sensitive detector 18 which receives input signals from the oscillator 12 and from a reference signal generator 20. The circuit 10 also comprises a cycle slip detector 26 which receives input signals from the oscillator 12 and the reference source 20. The cycle slip detector 26 generates an output signal when two consecutive pulses are present at one of its inputs without an intervening pulse at the other input. The cycle slip detector 26 forms part of a coarse tuning signal generating circuit that includes register 32 and DAC 34. Adder 24 adds the output of the coarse tuning circuit 26, 32, 34 to the signal from the phase sensitive detector 18. In operation, the output of the coarse tuning circuit brings the tunable oscillator 12 within the capture range of the phase locked loop. Normal PLL action then occurs and the loop rapidly locks.
Patent GB-629023-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of waterproof safety fuses
IPC: C06C5/00
Filed: 1947-04-16
Abstract: 629,023. Safety fuzes. CALDWELL, W. A., OWENS, R. D. J., and IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, Ltd. April 16, 1947, No. 10075. [Class 9 (i)] A waterproof safety fuze having a solid non- porous extruded core of thermoplastic nature comprising a mixture of pulverulent oxidising and reducing agents bonded together with a thermoplastic bonding agent in an envelope of continuous coating of waterproofing composition is made with diameter between 0.080 inches and 0.130 inches. The extruded core is 0.04 to 0.06 inches in diameter and provided with one or more textile coverings waterproofed with coatings of bitumen and rubber compound finished with a textile counter held in place by a colour varnish. Alternatively a continuous covering of polyvinyl chloride or polythene may be applied by extrusion, with or without one or more textile coverings. Two examples are given, in which parts are by weight. In the first, the pulverulent mixture consists of 42.4 parts of red lead, 33.9 parts of potassium nitrate and 23.7 parts of silicon ; 79 parts of this powder are bound with 21 parts of nitrocellulose plasticised with half its weight of dibutyl phthalate containing small amounts of diphenylamine. The composition is extruded at 100‹ C. around a 36 S.W.G. copper wire to form a core of 0.040 inches diameter. This core is coated with spinning cotton, countering cotton, bitumen, polyvinyl chloride and colour varnish to give a fuze 0.099 to 0.108 inches in diameter. In the second example the core is extruded around a cotton thread. Specifications 544,252, 580,409, 610,069 and 611,082 are referred to.
Patent GB-1279958-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for the manufacture of ready-made articles of clothing
IPC: A41H43/02
Filed: 1971-04-20
Abstract: 1279958 Manufacturing garments DURKOPPWERKE GmbH 20 April 1971 [22 April 1970] 10286/71 Heading A3V Apparatus for the manufacture of articles of clothing comprises an overhead conveyer installation consisting of a rail 1 suspended from a ceiling 3 by means of brackets 2, and a slide 5 moveable along the rail by means of rollers 4 engaged on the rail, the slide including a rod 6 to which bands 7 are secured by means of eyelets, the bands being secured at their lower ends to the articles of clothing 8 either by stitching or by clamps or other means, the articles of clothing 8 being conveyed along the rail 1 to successive manufacturing stations, e.g. a sewing machine table 9, each having a guide stirrup 11 to guide the articles of clothing to a position for receipt by an operator, the guide stirrup also effecting the separation of processed articles of clothing from unprocessed articles.
Patent GB-309040-A (GB)
IPC: A43D95/20
Filed: 1929-04-03
Abstract: 309,040. Sandt, J., and Sandt, K., (trading as Sandt, J. [Firm of]). April 3, 1928, [Convention date]. Edge-setting and burnishing. - In an edge-setting, burnishing, or like, e.g. edge-polishing machine in which the tool requires to be heated, and which is driven by an electric motor, the tool is heated by an air current produced by a fan driven from the motor and passing over an electrically heated spiral. An electric motor 17 on a shaft 1 drives a fan 2 and a disc 18 inclined to the shaft. The disc engages rollers on arms 20 fixed to shafts 22 which carry arms on which are the oscillating burnishers 7. The outlet pipes 4<1> from the fan deliver to pipes 5 in which is an electrically heated spiral 13 spaced from the pipe by cross-shaped members 15. At each end of each tube 5 is a nozzle 6 directing heated air on to ribs on the tools 7. An air jacket surrounds each tube 5. Air valves 4 and a rheostat regulate the heating. Preferably, the fan draws air through the motor 17, cooling this and preheating the air.
Patent GB-309138-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to deoxidizing apparatus for use with oil-immersed electrical apparatus
IPC: H01F27/14
Filed: 1929-04-03
Abstract: 309,138. Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., (Assignees of Styer, C. A.). April 5, 1928, [Convention date]. Resistance furnaces. -Deoxidizing apparatus for maintaining an inert gas' in the space above the oil in a tank containing a transformer or other electrical apparatus comprises a chamber 31 communicating by pipes 1, 2 with the space and containing a block 38 of deoxidizing material in the form of prepared charcoal in contact with a heating element 49. The heating element 49 serves to maintain the block at the necessary working temperature and also to promote circulation of the atmosphere in the space above the oil through the deoxidizing chamber along the path indicated by arrows in Fig. 2. The gas passes between a pair of heat-reflecting members 39 and the heated faces of the block 38. The members 39 carry terminal bars 22 to which the wires forming the heater are attached. These are maintained taut by hooks 33 attached to a rod 25 on the ends of which bear springs 34. Heating current is supplied by a small transformer 3, Fig. 5, in the primary circuit of which is a thermal switch 59 situated in the gas outlet stream so that when oxidation is proceeding rapidly as for example when, due to opening of an inspection door, fresh air has been admitted and a rise in temperature occurs, the heating current is cut off until the temperature subsides. An ash space 26, accessible for cleaning through a door is provided below the heating grid. The block 38 moves downwardly as it is consumed in a guide 13 provided with a door for recharging, the door being interconnected by rods 18 and bell-cranks 20 with spring-urged fingers 21 which when the door is opened for insertion of a new block are thrust into the guide so as to prevent damage to the heater grid by dropping the block. A glass panel for inspection of the block is provided in the charging door. Specifications 226,790 and 241,547, [both in Class 38 (ii), Electric currents, Converting &c.], are referred to.
Patent GB-333223-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to indicators for winding engines
IPC: B66B3/02
Filed: 1929-04-03
Abstract: 333,223. Robinson, H. April 3, 1929. Index attachments. - In winding- apparatus for pairs of mine cages, &c. of the kind in which the cage can operate either between the top and bottom of the shaft or between an intermediate level and the top of the shaft, and the winding drum of each cage is coupled to the driving-gear by a clutch so that it may be operated independently of or simultaneously with the other winding drum, an auxiliary indicator 8 is provided which is adapted when one of the cages is moved independently to move with the ordinary indicator 3 to indicate the position to which the cage has been moved and to be held stationary by mechanism operated by the coupling of both winding units with the driving gear and released by the uncoupling of either unit. Means are provided for constraining the auxiliary indicator to move with the ordinary indicator on the return of the corresponding cage to the top of the shaft when the retaining mechanism is released. The indicator 3 is mounted on a hollow shaft 4 which is geared to the winding drum through the gearing 5 and shaft 6. The indicator 8 is mounted on a shaft 9 which is disposed within the shaft 4 and carries a disc 12 provided with a stop 13. A disc 10 mounted on the shaft 4 is provided with a peg 11 which during the movement of the indicator 3 upon the descent of the cage bears against the stop 13 and thus effects the movement of the indicator 8. A clutch member 17 integral with the disc 12 normally is maintained in engagement with a stationary clutch member 18 mounted on a fixed member 20 by a spring 21. A casing 15 fixed upon the shaft 9 has attached thereto a counterweight 16 which will cause the indicator 8 to follow the indicator 3 in the movement of the latter during the ascent of the cage unless the clutch members 17, 18 are in engagement. The clutch controlling springs 21 are released upon the unncoupling of the winding unit of either cage from the driving gear. In a modification the indicator is replaced by a radial arm provided with an electricad contact member adapted to, make contact with corresponding fixed contacts arranged around a disc, the arrangement being such that as the arm makes contact with any of the fixed contacts, a circuit is completed and a lamp upon the dial is illuminated. Each fixed contact is provided with a lamp. The circumferential spacing of the fixed contacts and the lamps is adjustable and is arranged to correspond with the positions in the shaft at which the cage may be stopped.
Patent GB-745883-A (GB)
Title: Improved refrigerator cabinet
Inventor: KESLING KEITH KENTON
IPC: F25D23/08
Filed: 1954-04-09
Abstract: 745,883. Spring catches. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION. April 9, 1954, No. 10434/64. Class 44. [Also in Group XIII]. Spring brackets 33 on the top and bottom walls of the food compartment 15 of a refrigerator cabinet embrace and frictionally grip the enlarged head portions of headed studs 34 on the inner panels 22 of the doors 16, 17 when the doors are closed.
Patent GB-623659-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to means for attaching shutter and lens mount to photographic cameras
IPC: G03B3/02
Filed: 1947-04-18
Abstract: 623,659. Photographic cameras. KODAK, Ltd. April 18, 1947, No. 10454. Convention date, April 20, 1946. [Classes 97 (i) and 98 (i)] Means for attaching a shutter and lens mount to a photographic camera comprise an annular latching plate which includes a plurality of fingers and a latch arm and is secured to the mount by means of a nut screwed on to the rear lens tube of the mount and seated in a recess formed in the latching plate, and a camera lens board which includes a central aperture to receive the lens tube, a plurality of fingers, a flange extending forwardly from the outer periphery thereof and a recess adapted to seat the other face of said nut, so that when the latching plate is placed on the lens board and rotated relative thereto, the fingers on the latching plate engage under the fingers on the lens board and the latch arm snaps into a notch in the flange of the lens board, thereby securing the latching plate to the lens board. Fig. 1 is a side elevation showing the invention applied to a between the lens type shutter mount and Fig. 2 a front elevation of the attaching means, the latching plate 20 having fingers 24 and latch arm 25 which engage fingers 18 and notch 12 in flange 11 respectively of the camera lens board 10. The mount 1 with focusing cell 7 for the front lens element has rear lens tube 4 attached to the latching plate 20 by nut 27, which nut lies in the recess between flanges 26 and 16 of the latching plate 20 and the lens board 10 respectively and so excludes light from the bellows 29 of which a folded end 30 is secured between the lens board 10 and a frame 31. The latch arm 25 may project beyond the flange 11 of the lens board 10 to form a handle, as shown in Fig. 2. -
Patent GB-1185121-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Auger Discharge of Material from Storage Silos
Inventor: DICKINSON JOHN EDWARD
IPC: B65G65/46
Filed: 1968-03-05
Abstract: 1,185,121. Discharging a silo. BOYTHORPE CROPSTORES Ltd. 4 March, 1969 [5 March, 1968], No. 10520/68. Heading B8E. Material in silo 14 is conveyed towards the centre thereof by sweep auger 44, the material falling down well 18 and being discharged therefrom by discharge auger 10 through outlet 20. The two conveyers are driven from the motor 36, the auger 10 being driven via chain 34 and sprocket 32 and the auger 44 being driven from the said sprocket 32 via a clutch not shown, shaft 22 positioned within the hollow sleeve 21 of auger 10, and the gearing 40. The auger 44 when at rest is lifted up by means of bracket 60 so as to position itself beneath V- shaped support 52 fixed within the hopper. In this way the two drives are made separate. The auger 44 may be started by rotating it in its static elevated position beneath support 52, then lowering the bracket 50 so that the auger descends to the ground, at which point it may be caused to sweep.
Patent GB-260866-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in indicators for use on taximeters
IPC: G07B13/00
Filed: 1926-04-21
Abstract: 260,866. Cant¨, C. April 21, 1926. Taximeters; flag mechanism.-The state of hire is indicated by flag-controlled switch mechanism and lamps arranged in a two-compartment casing surmounting the meter 1. In the front compartment 2 is a lamp 3 in a circuit including the contacts 8. When the flag is vertical, denoting " for hire," its shaft bears against the end of a plunger rod 4 to maintain the end 6 in engagement with the contacts 8 so as to illumine the lamp 3 to shine through a window 10. When the flag is turned down to either tariff position the plunger is released to switch off this lamp and to close circuit at 11 for another lamp 12 disposed in the rear compartment and serving to illuminate the dials of the meter through a window 14. To indate which tariff is in use, the lamp 12 also shines through a window 15 backed by a sliding shutter 17 provided with a transparent panel and a coloured panel. This shutter is controlled by a cable connected with a two-armed lever 24 the curved end of which is operated by the flag shaft when turned down to the second tariff position.