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Patent GB-2366241-A (GB)
Title: Sublimation transfer decoration
Inventor: GARDNER RICHARD JAMES ERNIE
IPC: B41M5/035
Filed: 2000-08-30
Abstract: The three-dimensional surface of an article (10) is provided with a decoration by a method in which the decoration is printed, in reverse and using sublimable ink, on one side (22) of a plastics sheet (20): then the sheet (20) is vacuum-formed to bring its printed side into intimate, conforming contact with the surface of the article; then heat is applied to transfer the decoration from the printed side of the deformed sheet (20) to the surface of the article (10).
Patent GB-2358839-A (GB)
Title: Working apparatus
Inventor: ALLEN WALTER ROY
IPC: B66F9/065
Filed: 2000-08-30
Abstract: A working apparatus (10) includes a body (11), a power operated motive means(14), a front axle (46) and a rear axle (47), the axles (46,47) each carrying ground engaging means (16,17) on which the apparatus (10) may move over the ground, the apparatus (10) further including an operator's cab (28) mounted on the body (11), and there being at least one working arm (18) supported at or adjacent one end (19) on the body (11) at a position for movement relative to the body (11), the arm (18) being adapted to carry a working implement (22,23) at or adjacent a second end (26) thereof, and wherein one of the front (46) and rear (47) axles is suspended from the body (11) by suspension means which is adjustable independently of the other axle (47) to raise the body (11) to a fully raised position in which an uppermost part (34) of the body (11) lies, is at a maximum height above the ground and a fully lowered position in which the plane (30) is at a minimum height above the ground.
Patent GB-2364303-A (GB)
Title: Barium titanate based semiconducting ceramic material
Inventor: NIIMI HIDEAKI
IPC: C04B35/468
Filed: 2000-11-17
Abstract: A semiconducting ceramic material containing BaTiO<SB>3</SB> has a high breakdown voltage. Above the Curie temperature, the ceramic has a positive temperature coefficient of resistance in a first temperature range, and a negative temperature coefficient of resistance in a second, higher temperature range. A boundary temperature defined at the boundary between a first temperature range and a second temperature range is 180{C or more (e.g. 370{C) higher than Curie temperature. The semiconducting ceramic is prepared by mixing a BaTiO<SB>3</SB> source, a material imparting a semiconducting property to BaTiO<SB>3</SB>, SiO<SB>2</SB> and optionally Mn to form a mixture, calcining the mixture, mixing with a organic binder, compacting, firing the compact in an N<SB>2</SB>/H<SB>2</SB> atmosphere at a temperature lower than a temperature at which the mixture is completely sintered, and re-oxidising the fired compact in air. Preferably samarium is added to impart semiconductivity to the barium titanate. Preferably the mole ratio of SiO<SB>2</SB> to BaTiO<SB>3</SB> is 0.0005 and the mole ratio of Mn to BaTiO<SB>3</SB> is in the range of 0 to 0.0001. The semiconducting ceramic material may be used in electronic components having internal electrodes where the semiconducting material and the internal electrodes are alternately superposed on one another.
Patent GB-2369154-A (GB)
Title: Mailbag hook
Inventor: BROWN BARRY
IPC: B65D33/14
Filed: 2000-11-17
Abstract: A hook 5 for a mail bag, the hook comprising:<BR> ```a planar attachment portion 7 which for attachment to a mail bag, the attachment portion defining a longitudinal axis 8;<BR> ```a planar supporting portion 9 extends from the attachment portion in the direction of the longitudinal axis, and which is planar with the attachment portion 7, the supporting portion defining an aperture 10 therethrough, and<BR> ```a retaining portion 11 which extends in the plane of the supporting portion 9, and which partially occludes the aperture of the supporting portion, the retaining portion 11 being resiliently deformable out of the plane of the supporting portion 9 by a projection 2 on which the bag is suspended.
Patent GB-2355586-A (GB)
Title: A MOSFET having a gate electrode extending over a drift region of alternating conductivity type
Inventor: FUJIHIRA TATSUHIKO
IPC: H01L29/786
Filed: 1997-01-21
Abstract: A field effect transistor having a plurality of first conductivity type drift path regions 1 extending from a well, each drift path region being spaced by a second conductivity type compartment region. The drift path regions and the compartment regions being in contact with a drain region 29 of the first conductivity type. An insulated gate 21 is formed extending across the drift path regions and compartment region adjacent the source 28.
Patent GB-2376618-A (GB)
Title: Expandable plant container
Inventor: JOHNSON WILLIAM NEVIL HEATON
IPC: A01G9/02
Filed: 2001-06-21
Abstract: The container can be expanded progressively to accommodate increased root growth and/or soil content as the planted plant therein grows. The container may take various forms and, in a preferred embodiment, comprises a circumferential wall which is vertically pleated to allow for radial and circumferential expansion and/or a wall, or a wall part which is horizontally pleated or folded to allow for vertical expansion. The container may be provided with external decoration, for example a pictorial representation arranged to expand in apparent size and/or to change in appearance as the plant pot is expanded.
Patent GB-2361768-A (GB)
Title: Detector system for detecting glowing particles
Inventor: JANSSON LENNART CARL ERIK
IPC: G01J5/60
Filed: 1999-12-27
Abstract: The present invention relates to a detector arrangement (10) included in a preventative, protective system. The sensor lobes of at least two sensor units or sensor sections (10a-10g) are arranged to cover the cross-sectional area of a tubular transport device (8). The arrangement includes a unit (16) for evaluating the output signals of the sensor units (10a-10g), and an activation unit (12) which is adapted to evaluate sensed sub-intensities (10a'-10g') relating to wavelength ranges and each deriving from said sensor units (10a-10g), and to thus co-ordinate received wavelength-related and sub-intensity-dependent signals for calculating and establishing therefrom the relevant disposition of the particle to initiate fire and/or explosion or some other danger.
Patent GB-2381668-A (GB)
Title: Microstrip to coplanar waveguide transition
Inventor: SIMPSON PAUL JONATHAN
IPC: H01P5/08
Filed: 2001-11-01
Abstract: A transition 122 connects a ground backed coplanar waveguide (GCPW), which includes a hot conductor formed on a ground backed insulating substrate 120 and having parallel top ground planes 130, 131 on either side, to a ground backed microstrip transmission line 121 formed on an insulating substrate 120. The hot conductor of the GCPW and the hot conductor of the microstrip transmission line are electrically connected together, there being vias extending through the insulating substrate and forming an electrical connection between the top ground planes 130, 131 and the ground backing 205. The transition 122 from the GCPW structure to the microstrip structure is such that the characteristic impedance of the feed-line is a substantially constant 50  L   along its length within the operating frequency range such that broadband operation is possible. In one aspect, the transition 122 is tapered in width and ends of the ground planes 130, 131 are rounded, and splay outwardly from the hot conductor.
Patent GB-2373512-A (GB)
Title: A method of killing bacteria
Inventor: ILLSON TIMOTHY FRANK
IPC: C12N1/06
Filed: 2001-11-13
Abstract: A method for controlling bacteria comprising stressing a bacterium so that it lyses and produces bacteriophages which then kill other bacteria. The method may be applied to kill sulphate reducing bacteria in oil and gas processing and production facilities. The phages may be naturally present in the bacteria or they may be added to and infect the bacteria, producing lysogens.. The bacteria <I>e.g Desulfovibrio</I> or <I>Desulfotomaculum</I> species, may be stressed by applying ultra violet, (u.v), light, heat, stress inducing toxic chemicals or antibiotics to them. The prophages are induced to enter the lytic life cycle and the cell is ruptured releasing new virus particles which infect other bacteria. Under harsh environmental conditions the bacteriophage continue to follow the lytic life cycle so lysing more microbes. The method is intended to kill corrosion causing microorganisms in petroleum production plants.
Patent GB-2383098-A (GB)
Title: A method of retaining and sealing a cover to a machine housing
Inventor: LEIMANN DIRK-OLAF
IPC: F16H57/029
Filed: 2001-12-12
Abstract: A method of retaining and sealing a cover 1 to a housing of a machine 2 comprises the application of a fluent adhesive material 4 to either or both of the confronting surfaces of the cover 1 and housing 2, the adhesive material 4 being interposed between those surfaces when the cover 1 and housing 2 are assembled. Holding means (5 in Fig. 3) is then applied to the cover 1 and the housing 2 which retains the cover and housing in position whilst the adhesive material 4 sets. The method may additionally comprise providing a groove in the confronting surfaces of the cover 1 and housing 2, the fluent adhesive material filling the groove (see Figs. 4 and 5).
Patent GB-2373269-A (GB)
Title: Tubing conveyed fracturing tool and methods
Inventor: ESLINGER DAVID M
IPC: E21B23/00
Filed: 2002-02-22
Abstract: A tubing 34 conveyed multi-position well treating tool 10 has a tubular housing 16 and a tubular inner member 30 which can be positioned relatively by a mechanical indexing system 78, such as a J-slot mechanism, which is spring-loaded to eliminate the need for set-down forces. The treating tool 10 includes anchoring means 58 and packers 22, 24 that are activated by the pressure of the treating fluid, which is supplied from the tubing 34. The tool 10 also provides a bypass passage to allow communication of the casing regions above and below the tool 10 whilst the straddled interval is isolated. The tool 10 can be reset and repeated operations carried out without retrieving the tool 10 from the well. Claimed are: a method for treating wellbore zones characterised by the use of hydraulically operated anchors 58 and packers 22, and an indexing mechanism 78 to select the various operating modes of the tool 10; a method characterised by maintaining the casing above the treating tool 10 in communication with the casing below the treating tool 10; a method characterised by using spring-induced force shifting of a treating tool 10; and a tool 10 characterised by a movable, inner tubular member 30.
Patent GB-2371370-A (GB)
Title: Statistical trend generator for predictive instrument maintenance
Inventor: PRASAD MOHAN
IPC: G05B23/02
Filed: 2000-11-03
Abstract: A method for adaptively scheduling maintenance of a sensor (14) infers the need for maintenance of that sensor on the basis of an error signal indicative of a difference between a measurement signal generated by that sensor and an independently obtained reference signal that is correlated with the measurement signal (16). Although the reference signal is not identical to the measurement signal, the correlation between these two signals assures that when the sensor is functioning, the two signals will track each other over time. The disclosed method includes the step of generating this error signal and then monitoring that error signal to detect a triggering event indicative of a mismatch between the reference signal and the measurement signal. This mismatch is indicative of a probability that there exists a malfunction in the sensor. The value of this probability depends on the choice of the triggering event.
Patent GB-2386677-A (GB)
Title: Hand, wrist or arm direction indicator device
Inventor: DOW CHRISTOPHER
IPC: A41D19/015
Filed: 2002-04-16
Abstract: An arm, wrist or hand worn illumination means 12 comprises fitting means 13, 13a adapted to secure the illumination means to the user, a plurality of light emitting diodes 14 mounted on the external surface of the fitting means, an operating switch 16, a battery 19 to provide power and an electronic operating system 17 adapted to control the illumination of the light emitting diodes. The fitting means may be a glove (1, figure 1), a wristband, an elbow or arm pad, or the sleeve of an article of clothing. The LEDs may be arranged in a cluster or in an arrow shape and are illuminated according to a programmable sequence when the switch is operated. In the embodiment where the fitting means comprises a glove the switch (5, figure 1) is a thumb-operated pressure switch mounted on the forefinger.
Patent GB-2379896-A (GB)
Title: Coating a substrate
Inventor: YU SUNG H
IPC: C04B38/00
Filed: 2002-08-16
Abstract: A substrate is coated by forming a suspension comprising ceramic particles and particles of a combustible material dispersed in a liquid medium in which the average particle sizes of the combustible and ceramic components are 100:1 to 5:1, the combustible particles having an average particle size of 10 to 500 micrometers, and the volume proportion of ceramic particles to combustible particles is from 1:100 to 1:5, granulating (e.g. spray drying) the suspension to form composite particles in which the particles of combustible material are coated with the ceramic particles and plasma spraying the composite particles on to the substrate. The composite particles may be subjected to a temperature sufficient to burn out the combustible material before the particles are plasma sprayed. The ceramic particles may be selected from zirconia, yttria-stabilised zirconia, alumina, chromia, magnesia and mixtures thereof including spinel structures comprising these oxides. The combustible particles may be polymeric e.g. polyester, nylon, polyimide or polycarbonate or a readily combustible finely divided organic powder such as walnut shell flour or wood powder. Applications include temperature resistant coatings on moulds for casting metals and on turbine blades for jet engines.
Patent GB-2392588-A (GB)
Title: Adaptive TDM clock recovery using timestamps
Inventor: SCOTT MARTIN RAYMOND
IPC: H04J3/06
Filed: 2002-08-24
Abstract: A method of recovering a clock signal in a Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) packet network having a source TDM clock and a destination TDM clock provided by an oscillator involves calculating the difference 16 between a Remote Timestamp (the time when a packet was created) and a Local Timestamp (the time when said packet was received). This Transit Time is then low-pass filtered 24 and used to control 20 the clock frequency 22 of the TDM output. This output is also regulated by a buffer control algorithm 26 which prevents underrun or overrun errors due to the buffer being empty or full. The method dispenses with the need for dedicated clock generation circuits.
Patent GB-2392773-A (GB)
Title: Digital turntable music deck
Inventor: BAGNALL KENNETH JOHN
IPC: G11B27/00
Filed: 2002-09-03
Abstract: An audio controller has rotating controls 1, whose speed can be manually varied by an operator and whose speed of rotation affects the speed of playback from an audio source such as a CD player 11. The rotating control 1 is driven by a motor (fig 1, 3) and its speed is detected by a sensor (fig 1, 2). A pitch control 6 may adjust the rotational speed of the rotating control 1, and a switch (fig 1, 5) may stop the rotating controls, to facilitate effects such as scratching. A digital memory (fig 2, 9) may be used to store sound material for playback.
Patent GB-2383857-A (GB)
Title: Detecting unbounded growth of linked lists
Inventor: CURTIS JAMES R
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 2002-09-03
Abstract: A method for detecting memory leakage of a linked list in a running program, includes saving (214) current size of the linked list as a new maximum size of the linked list when a new element is added to the linked list that causes the current size of the linked list to exceed a former maximum size of the linked list, determining (216) whether a first pre-determined period of time has elapsed from when the liked list was created, and determining (210) whether the new maximum size of the linked list exceeds the former maximum size of the linked list during a second pre-determined period of time.
Patent GB-2392807-A (GB)
Title: Processing digital data
Inventor: DENSHAM RODNEY HUGH
IPC: G10L19/00
Filed: 2002-09-06
Abstract: A first digital signal is compressed at 2 and encrypted at 4 before being combined at 8 with a second signal. The second signal may be an unencrypted but impaired version of the first signal. A person receiving the combined signals can then decide whether to buy the key 3 to decrypt the first signal. Alternatively, the second signal may be a announcement informing a person how the key can be obtained. The first signal may be embedded in the second signal by replacing LSBs of the second signal by bits of the first signal and retaining the MSBs of the second signal, whereby the first signal occurs as noise in the second signal. Alternatively, the first signal may be embedded in the second signal by selecting groups of N samples and distributing over the N samples of each group corresponding sets of M samples of the first signal, the ratio M/N being an integer fraction. Alternatively, the second signal may be compressed according to a format such as MPEG having an auxiliary data space, and at least part of the first signal embedded in the auxiliary data space. The first and second signals may be audio signals. Alternatively, the first signal may be a computer program, the second signal being an audio signal, e.g. a music track or instructions how to access the program. Applications to video data, audio/visual data, still image data and multimedia data are also envisaged. The data may be transmitted over the Internet, DAB or DVB.
Patent GB-2382717-A (GB)
Title: Ion implantation beam monitor
Inventor: MITCHELL ROBERT JOHN CLIFFORD
IPC: H01J37/304
Filed: 1998-07-21
Abstract: As a rotating spoked substrate wheel of an ion implanter passes across a beam stop during a scan cycle, a series of pulses are generated by the beam stop. These pulses are analysed to determine characteristics about the ion beam such as uniformity, width and height. A digital signal processor samples the beam stop current (I  BEAMSTOP ) at regular intervals. By comparing the magnitude of successive samples, a dose uniformity map may be generated, so that identification of particular substrates on the wheel which have been dosed incorrectly is possible. The time taken for the beam to move between two points during the scan can also be measured from the sampled beam stop current. This provides a measurement of ion beam width. Similarly, by measuring, from the sample beam stop current, the time taken for the ion beam to pass between the middle of two adjacent substrates, the beam height may be ascertained.
Patent GB-2399942-A (GB)
Title: Vertical cavity semiconductor optical devices
Inventor: CALVEZ STEPHANE LUC DOMINIQUE
IPC: H01S5/024
Filed: 2003-03-24
Abstract: A vertical cavity optical device for example an extended cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) or optical amplifier (VCSOA) includes a heat spreader 70 adjacent chip 50 containing the active semiconductor layer, to remove heat from the active region. The optical cavity may be a Fabry-Perot resonator formed from two reflectors 20, 300. The heat spreader is transparent to light wavelengths in an operating bandwidth of the device, and for compactness, has at least one additional property to control a selected property of light output. For example it may be birefringent, controlling the polarization of the output, or may have a curved surface 79 providing control over the spatial mode or functioning as a condenser, or may have a nonlinear optical response. Refractive index matching or mis-matching can eliminate or enhance sub-cavity resonances. In one arrangement, the output spectrum is line-width broadened, suitable to pump telecomm Raman amplifiers. One surface of the heat spreader may be at an angle to the chip to provide sub-cavity suppression for an anti-resonant device.
Patent GB-2389304-A (GB)
Title: Liquid distribution system for a carpet cleaning machine
Inventor: WEBER VINCENT L
IPC: A47L11/03
Filed: 2003-04-01
Abstract: Cleaning apparatus 60 for cleaning a surface in which cleaning solution is dispensed to the surface and substantially simultaneously extracted along with the dirt in a continuous operation comprises two separate sources for providing two cleaning solutions to be dispensed on said surface. A pump is connected to the first source to draw under pressure the respective cleaning solution to said surface; the cleaning solution from the second source is drawn to said surface by gravity. A valve may be connected to the first source and to the outlet of the pump, said valve being opened and closed in response to the change in pressure at the outlet of the pump. A distributor may be used to dispense the cleaning solutions, said distributor having a first inlet connected to both sources, and a second inlet connected to the second source only. The cleaning apparatus may include only a single source of cleaning solution, set up in the same manner as the first cleaning source of the above embodiment.
Patent GB-2383100-A (GB)
Title: Retaining ring and cover plate for fuel unit
Inventor: TRATNIK MICHAEL
IPC: F02M37/10
Filed: 2001-10-26
Abstract: A fuel sealing assembly seals a fuel sender unit to a fuel tank. The fuel sealing assembly includes a retainer having a locking finger and a plurality of retaining lugs, and cover plate having a detent and a plurality of slots. Each of the plurality of slots receives one of the plurality of retaining lugs. The cover plate is rotated relative to the retainer so that the retaining lugs abut the top circumferential surface of the cover plate. The detent then receives the locking finger to lock the cover plate to the retainer. As a result, Both axial and rotational movement of the fuel sender unit is prevented.
Patent GB-2402507-A (GB)
Title: A user input interpreter and a method of interpreting user input
Inventor: STETINA JIRI
IPC: G06F3/033
Filed: 2003-06-03
Abstract: A user input interpreter (2) for interpreting user input to enable a user to provide a data processor (3) with a user command for controlling an operation to be carried out on an object presented to the user by a user interface of the data processor has: a data model provider (14) providing a data model (17) having object and operation data entry locations required to be populated in accordance with user input data to enable a user command to be generated for causing the data processor to carry out an operation on an object, each data entry location being associated with semantic identifier specifying means specifying a semantic identifier required to be associated with received user input data for that data entry location to be populated; a semantic meaning determiner (81, 82)for associating received user input data with semantic identifiers in accordance with semantic rules stored in the semantic rules store (11) to provide semantically identified user input data ; and a data model populater (9) for populating data entry locations of the data model in accordance with semantically identified user input data associated with the semantic identifiers specified for those data entry locations. The data model has a data model extension (18) identifying at least one process that has to be carried out by the data processor to identify an object specified by the user. The data model populater (9) is arranged to communicate with the data processor (3) to instruct the data processor to carry out a process identified by the data model extension (18) and to return object identifier data to enable the data model populater (9) to complete an instantiation of the data model to generate the user command.