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Patent GB-2354203-A (GB)
Title: Wind propelled watercraft
Inventor: ARAEEN RASHEED
IPC: B63H9/04
Filed: 1999-05-25
Abstract: A wind propelled watercraft (50) includes a floating disk (52) for supporting a user on a body of water. Also included is a pair of sails (78) for driving the user on the floating disk by way of wind. The floating disk has an inwardly-facing groove (68) for receiving the user's toes and is provided with a generally part-spherical bottom face (54). The sails (78) extend between the arms and the body of the user, whereby the user can spill wind by lowering the arms.
Patent GB-2370422-A (GB)
Title: PC card module with battery
Inventor: GASKELL THOMAS ALBERT
IPC: H05K5/02
Filed: 2000-12-22
Abstract: A PC card or compact flash card (1, 11) comprises a casing (2, 12) with a PCB (5) mounted therein with components (6) mounted thereon. A rechargeable battery (7, 17) is incorporated into the casing or attached to the casing so that the card does not need an external power supply. Means are included for controlling the battery recharge and sensing an external power supply to the card to save battery power.
Patent GB-2360701-A (GB)
Title: Seat adjustment/drive/locking mechanism using magneto- or electro-rhe ological fluids
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER HUGH CHARLES
IPC: B60N2/90
Filed: 2001-02-16
Abstract: A seat adjustment mechanism 12 comprises a pair of relatively moveable seat members 14, 16 and mechanism 18 interconnecting members 14, 16. Control element 20 comprises a control button for actuation of control mechanism 24, for changing the status of a magneto-or electro-rheological fluid in order that movement between the interconnecting members 14, 16 is allowed (when the fluid is not activated) and prevented (when the fluid is activated). Also disclosed is a dimensionally tolerant locking and/or drive mechanism comprising said electro- or magneto-rheological fluid element, and method of reducing mechanical backlash in such a mechanism. A further disclosure relates to a method of adjusting an automotive seat mechanism.
Patent GB-2366142-A (GB)
Title: Call setup
Inventor: GOSS STEPHEN CLIFFORD
IPC: H04Q3/00
Filed: 2001-02-19
Abstract: In an embodiment for establishing a cellular mobile call, if no radio traffic (voice or data) channels are available for a calling or called mobile station (MS), then a test is made to determine the expected wait time before a channel becomes available. If the expected wait time is less than a first threshold, then the call or the call request is queued. If a channel for an incoming call to an MS does not become available before a second time threshold, then the caller is notified by an announcement that the call has been queued and is expected to be established in a short time. If the caller of an incoming call to the MS does not disconnect, then the MSC waits for an available channel and establishes a connection to the MS over that available channel. For an outgoing call from an MS, a control message is sent to the MS to trigger an indication of the queued status to the user. The indication may be one or more tones, a data display, or the playing of a pre-recorded announcement. Advantageously, the number of calls blocked because of unavailable traffic channels is reduced. Advantageously, the same arrangement can be used to reduce blocking of calls because of unavailability of trunks for a link of a call connection in a PSTN.
Patent GB-2380450-A (GB)
Title: Ring binder clamp with perforator
Inventor: PASCHAL KELECHI
IPC: B42F13/36
Filed: 2001-03-28
Abstract: This dual-function ring binder clamp can also be used as a perforator. The device includes two plates 2,4, which may be hinged (Fig 2, 75) and punch members 15 for making holes in sheets of paper when they are placed between the plates 2, 4. It also includes clamping aperture 8 for retaining and clamping the device on the rings (Fig 9, 72) of a ring binder. A wide section 20 of clamping aperture 8 retains the rings and either of the narrow sections 22 clamps the rings when they are pushed into engagement with these sections. The device may also have receptacle 6 for collecting punched paper pieces and measuring device (Fig 5, 18) for positioning paper correctly.
Patent GB-2373844-A (GB)
Title: Means for attaching visor to signal light housing
Inventor: FORREST SMITH PHILIP ANDREW
IPC: F21S8/00
Filed: 2001-03-29
Abstract: A signal, for instance a traffic light, comprises a light housing and light source and a visor 7 wherein the visor 7 and the light housing include a set of mutually engaging members 11, such as lugs or teeth, to prevent relative rotation of the visor 7 and housing and to permit positioning of the visor 7 at a number of angular positions. The invention provides directionality to the signal light to prevent road users seeing a signal intended for other road users.
Patent GB-2365891-A (GB)
Title: Ground preparation
Inventor: BULLIVANT ROGER ALFRED
IPC: E02D3/12
Filed: 2001-07-09
Abstract: A method of ground preparation involves mixing a surface layer (12) of the ground with an amelioration material such as cement and forming depressions (16) in the ground at spaced intervals by impaction. The ameliorated ground is then moved into the depressions (16) from the surface between the depressions (16). The impact device may be conical in shape; the ground mixed by ploughing or rotavation and may be rolled before and after forming the depressions (16).
Patent GB-2366985-A (GB)
Title: Elimination of bacterial comtamination in cold processed fish products
Inventor: PARKE WILLIAM
IPC: A23B4/24
Filed: 2001-07-24
Abstract: A method of treating seafood to remove or kill pathogenic microbes comprising providing seafood and an aqueous solution having a pH of at least 9.5, and contacting the seafood with the aqueous solution such that all of the exterior and other accessible portions of the seafood are exposed to the solution, wherein the entire surface of the seafood is exposed to the aqueous solution for at least a time sufficient to kill or remove the microbes. Hydrated lime is the preferred chemical for raising the pH. The seafood may be provided frozen and subsequently deglazed prior to contacting with the aqueous solution.
Patent GB-2379071-A (GB)
Title: Vending machine operated by a chip card
Inventor: DIN LINDA
IPC: G07F11/00
Filed: 2001-08-24
Abstract: A vending machine operated by a chip card (20) includes a housing (10) having a window (11) to display goods (12), multiple selection buttons (13) associated with the appropriate goods, a display (160) to show the sum of money recorded on the chip card (20) and an access bin (18) from which the goods (12) are obtained from the vending machine. The vending machine further includes an electronic control unit for storing information about prices for the goods (12), an inductive card reader (14) for reading and writing information on the chip card (20), a checker for checking the stock of the goods (12), a transporter for transferring the goods (12) to the access bin (18), multiple indicators (13) to show what goods (12) are out of stock, multiple lamps to indicate what goods are available. The vending machine can communicate stock levels to a remote computer via a modem and telephone.
Patent GB-2371085-A (GB)
Title: Engine muffler with an external tube having a projection toward the sound absorbing material
Inventor: NAITO TAKAHIKO
IPC: F01N1/02
Filed: 2001-09-04
Abstract: An engine muffler 1 has a sound absorbing material 4 interposed between the external and internal tubes 3, 2, and a projection 6 is formed in the external tube 3 and projects toward the sound absorbing material, along almost the entire periphery of the tube. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing an engine muffler that comprises the steps of placing a sound absorbing material between the internal and external tubes, forming a projection in the external tube which projects toward the sound absorbing material along almost the entire periphery of the tube, then drawing the end of the external tube.
Patent GB-2371276-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle-applied display unit
Inventor: FURUYA YOSHIYUKI
IPC: G02B27/01
Filed: 2001-12-05
Abstract: A vehicle-applied display unit is provided, wherein the image light of an inverted display image emitted from a display device 3 in a dashboard 1 and passed an opening 1c of the dashboard 1 is reflected toward an eye point I by means of a combiner 5 standing from a recess 1b of the dashboard 1 positioned ahead of the eye point I. The combiner 5 is arranged outside the forward sight from the eye point I and on an optical path of a portion, of outer light entering a vehicle-inside from a vehicle-outside, going toward the display device 3 through the opening 1c at least over a whole extent, in a vehicle-width direction, of the portion of the outer light for at least partially enclosing the opening 1c over a front through both sides portions thereof, and a polarizing plate 5b is coated on an inner surface of the combiner 5.
Patent GB-2370058-A (GB)
Title: Drilling template with a pivoting side element
Inventor: RANGNES ATLE
IPC: E21B41/08
Filed: 1998-10-30
Abstract: A side element (31) for a drilling template for wells at sea, includes a hinge (32) by which it can be connected to a central portion of the drilling template, such that the side element (31) can move between a vertical and horizontal position. When in the horizontal position projections (41, 42) disposed on flange pairs (33, 34), abut against the central portion of the drilling template via contact surface (44) and prevent downward rotation passing the horizontal. This arrangement is said to reduce the forces constituting the reactive moment when the side element is in the horizontal position.
Patent GB-2371951-A (GB)
Title: Multiplexing method and device suitable for overhead data transmission from many communication lines
Inventor: SHIOTA KAZUNARI
IPC: H04J3/06
Filed: 1999-10-05
Abstract: Data mutually asynchronous from one another and sent from a plurality of channels are individually stored in separate FIFOs (10). A controller (12) supervises the statuses of the FIFOs (10), retrieves data in a preset sequence, and multiplexes timing data indicating the presence or absence of data with serial signals having frame configurations in which time slots are fixedly allocated to individual channels. The same values continuously appear as data in a serial signal; when the data is effective, corresponding timing data changes from 0 to 1, and when not effective, corresponding timing data stays unchanged.
Patent GB-2372525-A (GB)
Title: Treating a formation using a foam forming composition
Inventor: VAN EIJDEN GERBRAND JOZEF MARI
IPC: E21B43/25
Filed: 2000-10-12
Abstract: A method of treating a formation around a wellbore extending from a hydrocarbon-bearing zone comprising the steps of interrupting production from the hydrocarbon-bearing zone; introducing into the hydrocarbon-bearing zone a foam forming composition comprising a surfactant-in-oil solution; and resuming production from the hydrocarbon-bearing zone.
Patent GB-2378849-A (GB)
Title: Method and system of using a single telephone number for data and voice calls
Inventor: BRANDENBERGER SARAH M
IPC: H04M1/00
Filed: 2002-07-03
Abstract: A system 100 is provided for connecting received calls, which may be voice or data calls having a common destination identifier associating the calls with a subscriber, to a selected at least one of one or more call options assigned to the subscriber. In one embodiment, the system includes a call detector 105, a voice call decoder 110, and a data call decoder 120. The call detector has an input for receiving the calls. It also has a first output and a second output. The detector provides a received call to the first output if it is a voice call and provides it to the second output if it is a data call. The voice call decoder 110 has an input operably connected to the first output of the call detector for receiving the voice calls. It also has one or more outputs operably accessible to one or more voice call options 111 - 119 for connecting the voice calls each to a selected at least one of the one or more voice call options. Likewise, the data call decoder has an input operably connected to the second output of the call detector for receiving the data calls. The data call decoder also has one or more outputs 121A - 127 operably accessible to one or more data call options for connecting the data calls each to a selected at least one of the one or more data call options. System 100 may be implemented in any suitable environment such as a central office, a company's PBX, or in a subscriber's home.
Patent GB-2394897-A (GB)
Title: Ostomy appliance and spacing means therefor
Inventor: BRADY HUGH K
IPC: A61F5/445
Filed: 2002-10-15
Abstract: An ostomy appliance, an ostomy kit and a spacing means for use with an ostomy appliance. The ostomy appliance comprises a hollow bag having opposing internal surfaces and an opening for receiving a stoma. In addition, a spacing means 20 is either inserted by the user prior to use or supplied as an integral part of the ostomy appliance. The spacing means reduces the problem known as "pancaking" where the creation of a partial vacuum within the ostomy appliance causes the internal surfaces of the hollow bag to stick together. The use of the spacing means reduces the risk of pancaking and thereby reduces the possibility of leakage onto the peristomal skin of the user.
Patent GB-2394447-A (GB)
Title: A cake decoration and a method of manufacture therefor
Inventor: WOODHOUSE JAMES FREDERICK
IPC: A21D13/00
Filed: 2002-10-21
Abstract: The cake decoration is made from a sugar paste composition that is rolled to an even thickness, cut to delineate a blank 20 on a surface of which a design is created by off-set or screen printing. The printed sugar paste blank is then subjected to an embossing operation by a press 22 during which, an embossing tool 26 of coated magnesium mild steel, stainless steel, plastics, brass, copper or nylon, deforms the blank about defined lines of the design applied thereto whereby the design is given a three-dimensional appearance. In order to further enhance the three-dimensional effect, the design is coated with a glaze composition that comprises 25% by weight of shellac.
Patent GB-2383212-A (GB)
Title: Boundary-scan testing of opto-electronic devices
Inventor: PARKER KENNETH PAUL
IPC: G01R31/3185
Filed: 2002-10-24
Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for testing opto-electronic devices (302). Test data is shifted into a first boundary-scan cell (500). A test is then launched from the first boundary-scan cell by outputting the shifted test data to a signal generator (502). The signal generator, in turn, provides conditioned test data to an opto-electronic transmitter (302), in response to the shifted test data and at least one constraint for operating the opto-electronic transmitter. Finally, a response to the test is captured. The conditioned test data may be rectangular waveforms which cause the device under test to conform to a steady-state power constraint. A method of testing opto-electronic receivers is also disclosed (see Fig.4).
Patent GB-2384220-A (GB)
Title: Fuel tank incorporating a reservoir assembly
Inventor: THIEL STEVEN A
IPC: B60K15/03
Filed: 2002-12-16
Abstract: A fuel tank 12 is made by joining together two thermoformed shell portions 16 and 18, a reservoir assembly 22 being fixed to one shell portion before the two portions are joined so that the size of the reservoir assembly 22 is not limited by the size of an access aperture 20 in the upper shell portion 16. The shell portions are formed from sheets of plastics, e.g. high-density polyethylene. The reservoir is fixed either by welding mounting feet onto the lower shell portion 18 or (Fig. 19) suspending it from pillars welded to the undersurface of the upper portion 16. A fuel pump, fuel filter and fuel pressure regulator are removably mounted in the reservoir assembly 22 through the access aperture 20.
Patent GB-2399145-A (GB)
Title: Gear pump with electromagnetic drive
Inventor: STEVENSON ANDREW
IPC: F04C2/08
Filed: 2003-01-30
Abstract: The gears 4,5 of a positive-displacement gear pump 1 are located within a cavity 3 and are moved by electromagnetic elements 8 incorporated in the cavity 3 and sequentially switched into and out of activation. The electromagnetic elements 8 are sequentially actuated by controller 10 to interact through magnetic induction with the teeth of the gears in order to create the necessary movement for pumping action. Gear momentum is also used to maintain movement. The whole of each tooth may be formed from magnetically inducable material or, alternatively, the gears may be formed from a base material, eg plastics or ceramic, with magnetically inducable teeth or tips, eg of cobalt iron alloy or silicon steel. The invention allows the cavity 3 to be essentially closed and thus reduces risk of leakage.
Patent GB-2385093-A (GB)
Title: Door locking apparatus with shrouded mounting
Inventor: BURCHELL ALAN GEOFFREY
IPC: E05B67/38
Filed: 2003-02-05
Abstract: A door locking apparatus includes a first portion 1 adapted for mounting to a door frame 19 or the like, a second portion 8 adapted for engagement with the first portion and arranged to be mountable to the door 20 associated with the frame to operationally engage with the first portion, a cover member 22 adapted to shroud, any regions 21 of said portions by which the first and second portions are respectively secured to the frame and door, and means eg. apertured post 12 to be engaged by a locking device eg a padlock to secure the portions and the cover member together.
Patent GB-2384558-A (GB)
Title: Neural net prediction of seismic streamer shape
Inventor: NYLAND DAVID LEE
IPC: G01V1/38
Filed: 2001-09-07
Abstract: A neural network to predict seismic streamer shape during seismic operations having an input layer, an optional hidden layer, and an output layer, each layer having one or more nodes. The first layer comprises input nodes attached to seismic data acquisition operational parameters as follows: vessel coordinates, receiver coordinates, time, vessel velocity, current velocity, wind velocity, water temperature, salinity, tidal information, water depth, streamer density, and streamer dimensions. Each node in the input layer is connected to each node in the hidden layer and each node in the hidden layer is connected to each node in the output layer, the output layer outputting a predicted cable shape. The hidden layer may be omitted. When the hidden layer is omitted, each node in the input layer is attached to each node in the output layer. Each connection between nodes has an associated weight and a training process for determining the weights for each of the connections of the neural network. The trained neural network is responsive to the inputs and outputs to generate a predicted cable shape. The training process applies a plurality of training sets to the neural network. Each training set comprises a set of inputs and a desired cable shape. With each training data set, the training process determines the difference between the cable shape predicted by the neural network and the desired or known cable shape. The training process then adjusts the weights of the neural network nodes based on the difference between the output predicted cable shape and the desired cable shape. The error assigned to each node in the neural network may be assigned by the training process via the use of back propagation or some other learning technique.
Patent GB-2387200-A (GB)
Title: Driving mechanism having entraining device for sliding door
Inventor: FINK MARTIN
IPC: E05F15/649
Filed: 2003-04-01
Abstract: The invention relates to a driving mechanism for a door leaf (1) of a sliding door. The driving mechanism includes a pivoted lever (6), moved by a drive (4), which is pivotal about a fixed pivoted lever shaft (5) extending perpendicularly onto the door leaf plane and carries an entraining device (8). The entraining device projects into a substantially vertical groove (2) connected to the door leaf, and which can be moved with respect to the pivoted lever shaft (5). The entraining device (8), which may be in the form of a roller, is arranged on a rotary handle (7) rotatably mounted on the pivoted lever (6) about a rotary handle shaft (17). The rotary handle (7) in turn, is subject to the effect of a spring (9) which forces it in the direction corresponding to the closed end position of the door leaf (1). The spring (9) may be a compression spring which acts with one end attached to the pivoted lever (6), and its other end on the rotary handle (7), between the handle shaft (17) and the entraining device (8).
Patent GB-2401174-A (GB)
Title: Microextraction device for trace volatiles
Inventor: WAREHAM PETER DARREN
IPC: G01N1/22
Filed: 2003-04-30
Abstract: Solid phase microextraction (SPME) device for detecting trace volatile compounds e.g. produced by fungal decay of construction timber, has a sampling probe 10 typically comprising a housing 11 and a bored barrel 12 to receive an SPME device 14 in which a coated fibre 15 is guided within a needle sheath 16 into the barrel 12 and a pump 19 draws a fluid sample over the fibre within the bore of the barrel. A motor 23 can advance and retract the SPME device 14 and its fibre 15 for capture of volatile compounds in the test sample and the captured volatiles can then be released for analysis e.g. by an array of gas analysers.
Patent GB-2388710-A (GB)
Title: Lamp holder
Inventor: WEI JUNG-TSUNG
IPC: F21Y101/00
Filed: 2003-05-12
Abstract: A lamp holder contains a sensing control 7. A pulling chain 31 is connected to the sensing control and serves a touch-control purpose. A user can activate the sensing control to switch the lamp 4 on or off merely by lightly tapping, touching or feeling the chain 31 by hand. The sensing control is capable of multiple-step lighting control of the lamp. By wired or radio transmission, the lamp holder is capable of close or remote control, thereby replacing mechanical control in conventional models with electronic control, and bringing better convenience to the user.
Patent GB-2384634-A (GB)
Title: A CMOS output driver tolerant of overvoltage and undervoltage
Inventor: ALLEN MICHAEL J
IPC: H03K19/003
Filed: 1999-05-03
Abstract: A CMOS output stage comprises a high-voltage tolerant vertical drain MOS (VDMOS) pull-down NMOS transistor 175 (figure 3) and a pair of series-connected low-voltage PMOS pull-up devices 120,130 which are protected against gate overvoltage by their series connection and by a follower circuit 110 comprising LVDMOS devices 170,160 and 180. When the voltage on the pad 150 falls below Vss, the transistor 180 conducts to pull the gate potential of 120 lower. When the voltage on the pad 150 rises beyond Vdd, the diode-connected transistors 160 and 170 conduct to pull the gate potential of 120 higher. The supply voltage Vdd may be 3.3 Volts despite the PMOS devices 120 and 130 being fabricated by a 1.8 Volt process.
Patent GB-2391325-A (GB)
Title: Control system and method for a hybrid vehicle powertrain.
Inventor: DE LA SALLE STEPHEN
IPC: B60L50/16
Filed: 2003-06-02
Abstract: The hybrid vehicle comprises an internal combustion engine 50, an electric motor/generator 40, and an energy storage device 42 such as a battery. The system further comprises a detector 43 for detecting the status of the battery and a vehicle deceleration detector 30, both of which are in communication with a controller 32 coupled to the I.C. engine and the electric motor/generator. The controller is adapted to determine deceleration corresponding to a torque braking quantity and the status of the battery. In response to the foregoing values, whereby the status of the battery is capable for regenerative braking, the controller controls the I.C. engine to modulate engine pumping losses so as to selectively control the mass of fresh air passing through the vehicle catalyst system. Alternatively, if the battery status is such that regenerative braking is not required, the generator is operated as a motor.