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Patent GB-2399902-A (GB)
Title: Security in trusted computing systems
Inventor: WRAY MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2003-03-28
Abstract: A system comprising a trusted computing platform including one or more logically protected computing environments, each of which is associated with at least one service or process supported by said system, the system being arranged to load onto said trusted computing platform a predetermined security policy including one or more security rules for controlling the operation of each of said logically protected computing environments, the security rules for at least one of said logically protected computing environments including an execution control rule which defines the security attributes to be applied to a service or process associated with said logically protected computing environment when said service or process is started.
Patent GB-2393280-A (GB)
Title: Transposing data in a plurality of processing elements using a memory stack.
Inventor: BEAUMONT MARK
IPC: G06F15/80
Filed: 2003-04-23
Abstract: A method for transposing data in a plurality of processing elements is comprised of a plurality of shifting operations and a plurality of storing operations. The shifting and storing operations are coordinated to enable data to be stored along a diagonal of processing elements from a first direction or first pair of directions and to be output from the diagonal in a second direction or a second pair of directions perpendicular to the first pair of directions, respectively. The plurality of storing operations are responsive to the processing elements' positions. The first and second pairs of directions are selected from among the dimensions of the array, e.g., the +x/-x, +z/-z and +y/-y pairs of directions.
Patent GB-2399224-A (GB)
Title: Portable computer with panel attached by magnets
Inventor: HUANG CHAO-MING
IPC: G06F1/16
Filed: 2003-06-02
Abstract: A portable computer or laptop 1 has a display and a detachable panel 2. The computer has a plurality of magnets 14', and at least one locating feature 15'. The panel has corresponding magnetic units 24 and locating units 25, to allow the panel to be retained so that the computer and panel can be handled as one unit. The panel 2 may comprise a keyboard.
Patent GB-2385152-A (GB)
Title: Method of controlling a variable speed fan
Inventor: BLAKE CHARLES C
IPC: F02D45/00
Filed: 2001-10-26
Abstract: Various control strategies and techniques for controlling a variable speed fan in an internal combustion engine are provided. The various control techniques improve fuel economy by operating the fan at a speed sufficient to cool the engine, while avoiding unnecessarily higher speeds that result in poor fuel economy. Further, the fan may be completely disabled at cold start up to avoid over cooling, particularly in an engine using a charge air cooling system.
Patent GB-2390219-A (GB)
Title: Method for decontaminating solid iodine filters
Inventor: DEVISME FREDERIC
IPC: G21F9/28
Filed: 2002-03-12
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for decontaminating solid iodine filters containing silver iodide and/or physisorbed molecular iodine. Said method consists in bringing the filter into contact with an aqueous solution of a reducing agent chosen from hydroxylamine, hydroxylamine salts, ascorbic acid, ascorbic acid salts, ascorbyl esters, sodium borohydride salts, sodium hypophosphite, formaldehyde, urea, formic acid and the mixtures thereof, in order to extract iodine from the filter and to solubilize it in the aqueous solution. Silver can also be dissolved in the reducing agent solution or in an other appropriate aqueous solution either simultaneously or successively.
Patent GB-2394033-A (GB)
Title: Refrigerant recovery device
Inventor: YUZAWA JIRO
IPC: F25B9/00
Filed: 2003-09-16
Abstract: A compact, portable refrigerant recovery device which can recover a refrigerant present in a refrigeration circuit of a household refrigerator or an extra-low temperature freezer comprises a refrigerant recovery tank (10) which stores an activated carbon for adsorbing the refrigerant, the recovery tank is equipped with a detachable cap (13), and the activated carbon is wrapped in unwoven cloth (14) finer than a grain diameter of the activated carbon, and stored in the recovery tank. The refrigerant recovery device is connected to the refrigeration circuit, a gas in the refrigerant recovery tank is vacuumed via line (16) to be discharged before the refrigerant of the refrigeration circuit is recovered, and then the refrigerant is adsorbed on the activated carbon to be recovered. A filter (18) in line (16) captures fine grains of activated carbon leaked from the recovery tank (10) during vacuuming.
Patent GB-2407541-A (GB)
Title: Tilting vehicles
Inventor: HOBBS MICHAEL
IPC: B62K5/04
Filed: 2003-10-29
Abstract: A tilting chassis vehicle has a differential gear driving opposed half shafts (16,18). Each half shaft is connected to a respective wheel hub. Pivoting tie rods (24,26) are provided between the chassis (12) and these wheel hubs, and a control arm (48) is provided between the chassis and the differential carrier to constrain movement thereof. The arrangement gives a tilting vehicle with shaft drive and low centre of gravity.
Patent GB-2396274-A (GB)
Title: Data communication system
Inventor: SPAARGAREN JEROME
IPC: H04W4/02
Filed: 2002-05-24
Abstract: A method for enabling the communication of messages comprising images to a recipient specified by a sender operating a mobile communications device, said method comprising: obtaining the location of a sender's mobile communications device, said location having been derived by a process in which the location of the sender's mobile communications device is automatically sensed; using said obtained location, searching a geocoded database comprising photographic images which relate to predetermined geographic locations or areas; retrieving data relating to one or more of said photographic images and transmitting same to the sender's mobile communications device.
Patent GB-2398952-A (GB)
Title: Scanning different image planes using dual lens arrays
Inventor: HARRIS RODNEY C
IPC: H04N1/10
Filed: 2004-02-03
Abstract: In an optical document scanning system, different image planes relative to a platen 102 - for example, planes separated by a distance H - are imaged using reflecting mirrors 108 and two lens arrays 110. The first and second lens arrays 110, which may be displaced or offset, serve to focus image data from different, displaced image planes onto respective CCD detectors 112. The system improves scanning of items such as books or slides, where, for example due to the book's spine, the image to be scanned may be located in a plane above the scanner platen.
Patent GB-2407940-A (GB)
Title: Providing secure authentication data in a wireless network
Inventor: HANCOCK ROBERT
IPC: H04L12/28
Filed: 2004-03-12
Abstract: The present invention seeks to combine both an "open security" and "closed security" model to increase the security of an insecure network (e.g. WLANs). An "open security" model which allows a user to access the infrastructure before authentication occurs, which may take the form of a password and username, for example, is insecure as there is no access control on data entering the network. A "closed security" model however works at the radio level to restrict access to the network infrastructure until a successful authentication exchange has been carried out. A user can be connected to a "closed security" model network without their knowledge which is not necessarily desirable. Therefore, by combining both models the security of a network is improved.
Patent GB-2396516-A (GB)
Title: A method of providing facsimile service over a digital subscriber line
Inventor: BOSSEMEYER JR ROBERT WESLEY
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 2000-04-18
Abstract: A method of providing a facsimile service over a digital subscriber line comprises the steps of a) dialling a telephone number associated with a facsimile machine connected to a digital subscriber line, b) triggering on the telephone number at a service switching point 548, c) sending a routing query to a switching control point 554, d) routing a facsimile call to an interworking unit 546, e) converting analogue facsimile data to digital facsimile data and f) routing the digital facsimile data to the digital subscriber line. The description further discloses the means by which the above method is integrated into an advanced intelligent network (AIN) which allows facsimile transmission via the PSTN, or a data network, such as the Internet or ATM LAN.
Patent GB-2411761-A (GB)
Title: Superconductor coaxial cable assembly
Inventor: LIBAN ALI HUSSIEN
IPC: H02K3/00
Filed: 2004-04-13
Abstract: A capacitor superconductor assembly consisting of anode wires 1, cathode wires 2, dielectric material 3, and a power source 4 in which the said dielectric material separates the said anode wires from the cathode wires to form a coaxial assembly. The said cathode wires and anode wires are connected to the external power source to exert a potential difference across the said assembly. Preferably the coaxial cable is for use in windings. The dielectric material may be a coating of aluminium dioxide and the anode wire is of a woven construction.
Patent GB-2417852-A (GB)
Title: Network data flow control
Inventor: RODRIGO MIGUEL DE VEGA
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 2004-04-14
Abstract: A method of determining the blocking probability of traffic, Pm at a server M, said server having at least two inputs, at least one being Poisson, and one of which is from one or more nodes which are non-Poisson, (non-Poisson node(s)) but whose input is/are Poisson comprising the steps of:: viewing the arrangement as a network having a single Poisson input with incoming traffic equal to the sum of the Poisson traffic into the 1<st> set of nodes and the Poisson traffic into server M; and for each of said non-Poisson nodes determining the sum of the blocked customers/second and using equivalence to determine Pm.
Patent GB-2414975-A (GB)
Title: Automatic central buffer coupling for rail vehicles
Inventor: KANG SOONHEE
IPC: B61G3/06
Filed: 2004-06-08
Abstract: An automatic central buffer coupling for rail vehicles has a coupling head (1) with a projection (25), a hook (3) mounted on a fixed pivot bearing (4) in the coupling head for swinging in a coupling position, an articulated arm mechanism (10, 11, 12, 13, 14) mounted in the coupling head and spring means (17, 19; 18, 20) acting on the hook (3). The articulated arm mechanism comprises a first articulated arm (10) which is pivotally connected to a second pivot bearing (12) defining a fixed axis of rotation with respect to the coupling head, wherein the hook (3) is connected by means of a pivot joint (13) to a second articulated arm (11) which is connected by means of a second pivot joint (14) to the first articulated arm (10) whose movement is limited by a wall (28) or stop provided with the coupling head. In the coupling position of the hook (3) the axes of rotation defined by the first and second pivot joints (13, 14) and the second pivot bearing (12) are intersecting an arc-shaped line (30) and the articulated arm mechanism is pressed by means of a spring means (17, 19) against the stop or wall (28) of the coupling head, wherein the spring means is supported on a supporting bearing (21) located on the concave side of the arc-shaped line (30).
Patent GB-2415232-A (GB)
Title: Antilock brake device for bicycles
Inventor: HEAYSMAN CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B60T11/224
Filed: 2004-06-17
Abstract: A device suitable for use in a bicycle's hydraulic braking system, said device being interposed in a brake line from a pressure source (hand lever 8) to a brake actuator 9, said device having a chamber 1,2 possessing an inlet 7, an outlet 7 and a piston /washer 3 slidably located within said chamber 1,2 which fluidly separates the inlet 7 and chamber 1 from the outlet 7 and chamber 2, and wherein biasing means (spring 5) cooperates with the piston 3 to provide an outlet pressure that is less than the inlet pressure. The piston has a seal 4 attached to it. Bleed ports may be provided on the chamber 1 and chamber 2. The device serves to prevent locking up of hydraulic disc brakes on the front wheel of a bicycle.
Patent GB-2403389-A (GB)
Title: Bait compression apparatus
Inventor: LUCAS JOHN PAUL JOSEPH
IPC: A01K97/04
Filed: 2004-07-02
Abstract: A bait compression apparatus including a bait container 100 into which bait material is loaded for compression into a rounded ball-shaped plug of bait. Bait material loaded into the bait container is forced into a rounded bait receptacle 14 by a bait compression member 200. The end of the bait compression member comprises a rounded recess 24 enabling a rounded plug of compressed bait to be produced.
Patent GB-2405107-A (GB)
Title: Trajectory-based 3-D games of chance for video gaming machines
Inventor: BROSNAN WILLIAM R
IPC: A63F13/10
Filed: 2003-06-05
Abstract: Trajectory-based games of chance are described that may be implemented on a video gaming machine. In a trajectory-based game of chance, a trajectory of a game object may be generated in a 3-D gaming environment. A wager may be made on an aspect of the game object's trajectory in the gaming environment such as a termination location for the trajectory of the game object. The aspect of the game object's trajectory may occur according to a known probability. Hence, an award for the trajectory-based game of chance may be proportional to the probability of the aspect of the game object's trajectory occurring.
Patent GB-2405679-A (GB)
Title: Pipe seal
Inventor: NEWTON JOHN REGINALD
IPC: F16L5/10
Filed: 2003-06-09
Abstract: A pipe seal (1) is disclosed which comprises a main body portion (7) adapted to be fixed to the wall of a chamber, tank, or the like, a face plate (22) adapted to be secured to the body portion (7) to surround, in use, a pipe (6) to be sealed, the body (7) and face plate (22) between them housing a deformable member (24) in contact with a seal (26), such that, on forcing the face plate (22) toward the body portion (7), the deformable member (24), in use, deforms and presses the seal element (826) into sealing contact with the pipe (6), characterised in that the seal (1) has a port (8) which in use is connectable to the interstitial space (9) of a double walled container (2). The seal (1) may be provided with a further port (10) which is, in use, connectable to the interstitial space (11) of a double walled pipe (6) and which is in turn connectable to the first port (8).
Patent GB-2423480-A (GB)
Title: A pivoting talking board
Inventor: THOMPSON CHRISTOPHER DAVID
IPC: A63F9/18
Filed: 2005-02-23
Abstract: A pivoting talking or 'ouija' board comprises a circular board 1 marked with a variety of indicia including the letters of the alphabet, numbers 1-10, 'yes', 'no', 'bye' and '?'. A marker ball (fig 4) is supplied which rolls in channel 2 to indicate the chosen indicia. On the underside of the board a recess (5, fig 2) is provide in the centre which sits upon a pivot ball (fig 3), allowing the board to tilt freely in all directions.
Patent GB-2424547-A (GB)
Title: Mobile telecommunications system where a plurality of users can request a group multimedia session through token based authorisation
Inventor: CHEN XIAOBAO
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2005-03-24
Abstract: A telecommunications system provides an internet protocol multimedia communications session to a mobile user equipment. The system comprises an internet protocol multimedia subsystem including a call state control function operable to control the multimedia communications sessions, and a home subscriber server operable to provide information associated with the mobile user equipment for providing the communications session. A packet radio network is operable to provide a mobile communications facility to the mobile user equipment to support the multimedia communications session. The call state control function is operable in response to a request message from the mobile user equipment for the communications session to be established, to generate an authorisation token for the mobile user equipment in accordance with subscriber information representing a service to which the mobile user equipment has subscribed. The request from the mobile user equipment identifies that the communications session requested is for one of a group communications session sharing a communications resource, or a single communications session for which a communications resource is dedicated to the mobile user equipment. The authorisation token generated by the serving call state control function for communication to the mobile user equipment provides an indication that the mobile user equipment can use correspondingly one of a common communications bearer or a dedicated communications bearer via which the communications session can be supported. As such a plurality of mobile user equipment can request and receive a group multi-media communications session authorised through a token based authorisation procedure. The packet radio network can then allocate a group multi-media communications session, which shares a common packet communications bearer.
Patent GB-2414555-A (GB)
Title: Estimating the accuracy of azimuthal orientations
Inventor: GNEPF SILVIO
IPC: F41G3/14
Filed: 2005-04-15
Abstract: In a method for estimating the accuracy of azimuthal orientations (a) of a measuring device (1) having an electronic magnetic compass (2), a plurality of determinations of an azimuthal orientation (a, a', a'', a''', a'''') are carried out, in which the measuring device is aligned with one and the same measuring points at different measuring locations (P, P', P'', P''' , P'''') adjacent to one another. On the basis of these determined azimuthal orientations (a, a', a'', a''', a''''), the value of the accuracy is automatically estimated by the measuring device (1) by means of a computational method. The adjacent measuring locations (P, P', P'', P''') are advantageously located one above the other or along a straight line to the measuring point. By means of this method, stationary stray fields of local scale can be detected and the effects thereof on the accuracy can be estimated. Further methods according to the invention are designed in each case specifically for further types of stray fields.
Patent GB-2419461-A (GB)
Title: A TOF spectrometer for the acquisition of daughter ion spectra
Inventor: HOLLE ARMIN
IPC: H01J49/16
Filed: 2005-09-20
Abstract: A time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the acquisition of daughter ion spectra comprising a mass filter 2 for selecting parent ions, means for orthogonally injecting the selected parent ions in a direction perpendicular to their original flight path, a collision cell 7 for fragmenting the parent ions by collisionally induced dissociation (CID) to produce daughter ions, means 9, 10 and 11 for accelerating the fragmented ions and means for detecting the daughter ions. Preferably, the mass filter 2 is a quadrupole mass filter, and the means for accelerating the daughter ions incorporates a 'lift' region between diaphragms 9 and 10, and an acceleration region between diaphragms 10 and 11. The apparatus is known by the generic abbreviation 'Q-tof -TOF'.
Patent GB-2425861-A (GB)
Title: Changing the power configuration of a USB device
Inventor: SCHULTZ RUSSELL ALVIN
IPC: G06F1/26
Filed: 2005-09-30
Abstract: A computational device comprises functional circuitry, a transceiver interface and a universal serial bus transceiver configured to couple to a USB media. The transceiver interface is configured to provide a first set of configuration data including a first power setting (e.g. more than 100mA) to a host device via the USB transceiver. The USB transceiver is configured to electrically disconnect from and electrically reconnect to the USB media, for example in response to a suspend signal. Upon reconnection, the transceiver interface is configured to provide a second set of configuration data including a second power setting (e.g. 100mA), which is less than the first power setting.
Patent GB-2434747-A (GB)
Title: Surgical jig for the knee
Inventor: MURRAY DAVID
IPC: A61B17/17
Filed: 2006-02-01
Abstract: A jig 2 for attachment to a femur is shaped to accommodate at least a part of a patella and/or a patella tendon in their normal anatomical positions with respect to the femur. The jig may comprise a recess or groove 30 in which the patella and/or patella tendon are accommodated. The jig may include an intramedullary rod 6 and/or adjustment means.
Patent GB-2424451-A (GB)
Title: Fuel injection valve with concentric inner and outer valve needles
Inventor: MAGEL HANS-CHRISTOPH
IPC: F02M47/02
Filed: 2006-02-14
Abstract: A fuel injection valve comprises a choke plate 9, a control body 7 and a valve body 5 containing a pressure chamber 12 and an outer valve needle 16. The outer valve needle 16 controls flow of fuel from the chamber 12 to outer injection openings 26. Arranged concentrically in the outer valve needle is an inner valve needle 18 which controls flow of fuel from the chamber 12 to inner injection openings 28. Pressure in outer control chamber 40 exerts a closing force on outer valve needle 16 while pressure in inner control chamber 50 exerts a closing force on inner valve needle 18. When first or second control valves 55, 60 are opened fluid is released via outer or inner chokes 44, 43 and pressure drops in outer or inner control chambers 40, 50 thereby allowing the outer valve needle 16 or the inner valve needle 18 to be lifted off the injection openings 26, 28. in another embodiment the first and second control valves 55, 60 are replaced wit a single valve (70, fig 2) operated by Piezo-actuator (80).
Patent GB-2436805-A (GB)
Title: Attaching appendages, e.g. limbs, hair, to doll.
Inventor: WONG TAK KO
IPC: A63H3/44
Filed: 2006-04-03
Abstract: A doll in the form or a human or animal, has at least one appendage made of a soft flexible material. The appendage may be limbs, hair, nose, tongue, etc. The appendage is attached to the figure by a piece of fabric (7, Fig. 3) that is fused, e.g. by moulding or gluing, to the appendage at one end and sewn (8, Fig. 3) at the other end to the figure. The body of the figure is preferably made of a fabric material. The appendage is preferably a highly elastomeric gel plastic.
Patent GB-2437119-A (GB)
Title: A system for bi-directional wireless communication
Inventor: WONG FELIX WING KWONG
IPC: H02J13/00
Filed: 2006-04-13
Abstract: The invention relates to a system 1 for monitoring and controlling an electrical or electronic device, in the embodiment a two-way radio frequency (RF)-controlled on/off power socket extension 2, comprising a computing device 3 separate from and remote from the electronic device 2 in the sense of being at a separate location from the location of the electronic device. The arrangement of the system 1 is such that there is a bi-directional wireless communication path between the computing device 3 and the electronic device 2 to form a bi-directional network. The computing device 3 has secure access enabled by USB SMART card 4 via a SMART card reader. There is access via the Internet 5 between the computing device 3 and say a lap-top 6 which has a RF transmission Dongle 7 comprising a two-way RF transmission mounted in the lap-top 6. There is also an RF controller unit 8, remote from any other item of the system, also operable by RF signal.
Patent GB-2429835-A (GB)
Title: Tandem mass spectrometry with feedback control
Inventor: ZUBAREV ROMAN
IPC: H01J49/02
Filed: 2006-04-19
Abstract: A method for the acquisition of fragment ion spectra of biopolymer ions in a sample, using a tandem mass spectrometer, the method comprising: acquiring a fragment ion spectrum of a biopolymer ion in the sample; calculating a quality coefficient from the spectrum data; determining from the value of the quality coefficient whether a further fragment ion spectrum of the biopolymer ion is to be acquired; and in the event of a positive determination, reacquiring the fragment ion spectrum of this biopolymer ion. Preferably, different acquisition parameters are used during the reacquisition of the fragment ion spectrum.