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Patent GB-2274472-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible protective awning for vehicle
Inventor: SHERMAN DEREK ARTHUR
IPC: E04H6/04
Filed: 1993-09-24
Abstract: An awning is farmed from a waterproof material 1 stretched over a support framework 2 comprising hoops 3, 4, whose legs 5, 6 are mounted into runners 7 which, at one end, each support a ground plate 8. The front wheels of a vehicle 9 which is to be serviced are run onto the pair of plates 8, thus using the weight of the car 9 to hold the awning down. Once the height of the awning has been adjusted as necessary thumbscrews 10 are tightened to lack each leg 5, 6 onto the associated runner 7. By this means a protective tunnel/work area is created to the engine compartment of the vehicle 9 to be serviced. This gives the service engineer protection from the weather. The awning can be collapsed for easy storage by removing the flexible cover and dismantling the support framework. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284910-A (GB)
Title: An integrated electronic warehousing and distribution system
Inventor: HANNIGAN PHILIP
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 1993-12-14
Abstract: A system 1 comprises a routing network 38 which provides dynamic, real-time access to a product data structure 34 and to a product/warehouse structure 36. Addressing of the product/warehouse structure 36 is carried out using a combination address key of the product and warehouse addresses as determined by the routing network 38. The structures 34, 36 provide for an extremely fast response time in tracking of overall quantities and also location of goods in a complex warehousing situation where there are inter warehouse transfers as well as sales to customers. A dynamic array 39 provides for in-line, real-time auxiliary data to allow responses to be made immediately to queries and sale documents to be generated. A switch 31(b) provides for interface communication control. The structure 36 may contain records 37 only for product/warehouse pairs for which a quantity of the product is stored in that particular warehouse, with new records being created dynamically as required. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274727-A (GB)
Title: Optical display system
Inventor: MARSHALL IAN
IPC: G02B27/01
Filed: 1994-01-28
Abstract: A magnifying optical system for use in a head mounted display having miniature video screen(s) 1 employs one or a pair of lens arrays 3 adapted to provide magnification of the virtual image 5 which progressively increases away from the optical axis 11 so as to provide an extended field of view without sacrificing clarity in a central area of interest 30. The lens has one or more aspheric surfaces which give the central area of constant magnification but have increased magnification away from one or both sides of the axis.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275346-A (GB)
Title: Camera with built-in and external flash
Inventor: LEE JIN-GI
IPC: G03B7/16
Filed: 1994-02-16
Abstract: A camera system capable of automatically switching between a built-in flash and an external flash and including a body and an external flash detachable from the body. The body of the camera system includes a power supply integral therein, a built-in flash integral therein and coupled to the power supply, a device for determining a distance between an object and the body and producing a distance value representing the determined distance, a device for determining brightness and producing a brightness value representing the determined brightness, a device for selecting one of the external flash and the built-in flash based on the distance value and the brightness value, and a device for activating a selected one of the external flash and the built-in flash.
Patent GB-2275433-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for loading and unloading of twin disk lapping and honing machines
Inventor: POTEMPKA EBERHARD
IPC: B24B37/34
Filed: 1994-02-22
Abstract: Apparatus, for loading and unloading of twin disk lapping and honing machines, includes a plurality of orbiting disks 24 carrying workpieces and arranged at a predetermined pitch, the orbiting disks having peripheral toothings 26 which roll along internal 20 and external 16 annular members having teeth or pins 22, 18 when the internal 20 and/or the external 16 annular members are rotated by a drive, and the orbiting disks with the workpieces being fed into and removed from an interspace between the internal 20 and external 16 annular members by linearly conveying loading 30 and unloading 32 devices, which are arranged so as to be separated and offset along the periphery of the lapping or honing machine by one or a plurality of pitches. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289089-A (GB)
Title: Fan blade
Inventor: HUANG YUNG-CHUNG
IPC: F04D29/38
Filed: 1994-04-28
Abstract: A fan blade 20 for a ceiling fan 10 (figure 4) includes a body which has a first end 201, a second end 202 opposite to the first end 201, a longitudinal axis 203 that extends from the first end 201 to the second end 202, top and bottom surfaces 204, 205 that are confined respectively within a periphery of the body, and a reinforcing projection portion (21) that is formed integrally with the body on at least one of the top and bottom surfaces (204), 205. The reinforcing projection portion (21) includes a main rib 211 which is located at the longitudinal axis 203 of the body and which extends from a first position near the first end 201 toward a second position near the second end 202, and a plurality of secondary ribs 212 which extend from the main rib 211 in a direction toward the periphery of the body so as to reinforce the body of the fan blade 20. The ribs may perform a secondary function of providing ornamentation for the blade (figures 5 to 9), such as a floral pattern (figure 8). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278084-A (GB)
Title: Ultra-high performance carbon composites
Inventor: EVANS MAURICE JAMES
IPC: B32B7/022
Filed: 1994-05-19
Abstract: A multi-ply carbon fibre fabric, preform or composite material, typically used in the aircraft and nuclear industries, is fabricated: by arranging in superimposed relationship layers (2) of unidirectionally aligned carbon fibres of ultra-high modulus (5) and layers (3) of low modulus carbon fibres (4) so that at least a substantial number of the fibres of low modulus are disposed transversely of the fibres of the ultra-high modulus fibre layer, and connecting the two layers by interlacing fibres (6) of the layer of low modulus fibres with those of the layer of ultra-high modulus fibres by needle-punching using felting needles (14) orientated and configured so that their barbs (15) snag only the low modulus fibres during passage through the layers. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284864-A (GB)
Title: Automatic pumping apparatus utilizing wave motion
Inventor: KOJIMA MASAYUKI
IPC: H02K7/18
Filed: 1993-06-29
Abstract: An automatic pumping apparatus utilizing a wave motion, having not less than one sink-and-float member provided so as to be moved vertically in accordance with a wave motion, and pistons positioned below the sink-and-float members, connected to the sink-and-float members which are combined with each other via a transmission means, and adapted to be moved slidingly in one-end-opened fixed cylinders in accordance with the vertical movement of the sink-and-float members, a horizontal cross-sectional area of each piston with respect to that of each sink-and-float member being set small in inverse proportion to pumping height, whereby the water can be pumped owing to the operations of the pistons to a storage tank through pumping pipes extending from the other ends of the cylinders to the positions higher than the ranges of vertical movements of the sink-and-float members. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289572-A (GB)
Title: Solenoid actuator for a fuel injector
Inventor: MALEY DALE C
IPC: F02M57/02
Filed: 1995-04-10
Abstract: The actuator has a pole member 112, an armature 118 associated therewith, and an energizable winding 116 associated with the pole member. The solenoid actuator is iatchable by residual magnetism between the pole member and the armature without the aid of a permanent magnet. The pole member and the armature are composed of steel having a carbon content of between 0.8% and 1.2% by weight and an RC hardness of between 40 and 60. The armature is reciprocable between a first position in which the armature makes physical contact with the pole member and a second position in which the armature is spaced from the pole member. The armature occupies the first position when the winding is energized and the second position when the winding is deenergized. The armature is held in the first position by residual magnetism between the pole member and the armature when the winding is deenergized after being initially energized. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289871-A (GB)
Title: Waterproof grommet for vehicle door wiring harness
Inventor: SUZUKI SHIGEMICHI
IPC: B62D65/06
Filed: 1995-05-24
Abstract: A vehicle door wiring harness 14 is mounted on the inside of a door panel 11, behind the door trim (not shown). The harness is bent around the front face 15 of the door, and packaged (fig. 4) to fit through a grommet 17. The grommet has a cylindrical part 17b connected to the main bodyshell, and a substantially flat plate-like part 17c connected to the door. The outer body of the grommet is made of an elastic substance, and has a mounting plate 18 moulded in. Fasteners, such as clips 18a (fig. 3), anchor the grommet to the door, ensuring watertightness by compressing the elastic part around the edges of the mounting plate. Screws (21, fig. 14) or bolts (40, fig. 17) may be used to secure the grommet; a concave cavity (15a, fig. 11) may be made in the door. Numeral 20 denotes a sealing strip, which projects over the grommet at 20a. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2300613-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for conveying articles in a buffer store arrangement
Inventor: HANSCH EGON
IPC: B65G47/51
Filed: 1996-03-20
Abstract: A connecting conveyor (32) arranged between first and second supply conveyors (10) (24), includes a carrier (30) which can be moved freely along the conveyors and incorporates a rotary conveying member (35) intended to recieve, at a transfer location (42) of the first conveyor (10), the articles fed by said first conveyor and to transport said articles to a receiving location (44) of the second conveyor (24), depending on the relative speeds of the first and second conveyors. Mounted on the carrier (40) are two drive wheels (38) (38') which interact with in each case one of the conveyors (10) (24). In normal operation, the drive wheels (38) (38') are connected to one another and to a shaft (78) fixedly carrying the member (35) for rotation therewith when the shaft is rotated due to a difference in speed of the two conveyors (10) (24). In order to close or to form a gap between successive articles, one of the drive wheels (38) (38') is blocked by means of a blocking element (80), and the other drive wheel (38) (38') is released by virtue of a relevant coupling (82) (82') being disengaged, whereupon the non-rotating member (35) is moved along with one of the conveyors (10) (24). The connecting conveyor may alternatively comprise an endless belt arrangement.
Patent GB-2299259-A (GB)
Title: Ornamental chain
Inventor: CERATO SILVERIO
IPC: A44C11/00
Filed: 1996-03-29
Abstract: An ornamental chain comprising links formed by rings shaped in such a manner to allow close fitting with each other, said links being subjected to gradual compression and beating operations resulting in a chain composed of offset bands formed on a flat or slightly convex surface with no observable spaces between said bands.
Patent GB-2311719-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning apparatus for a roller applicator
Inventor: WILLIS DESMOND
IPC: B44D3/00
Filed: 1996-04-03
Abstract: A cleaning apparatus comprises a chamber 21, mounting means 32 for rotatably supporting a roller (100 figure 2), a cleaning fluid inlet 23, leading to manifold (25 figure 2) adjacent a sidewall of the chamber from apertures 30 in which manifold the cleaning fluid issues in a plurality of jets so as to strike the roller in a non-radial direction and both clean and impart a rotation to the absorbent member 102 of the roller, the cleaning fluid exiting through the base 12. The manifold may be elongate and tubular with a line of apertures 30 directing parallel jets and it may also have an axis parallel both with the axis of rotation of the roller and with the axis of the chamber, which may also be tubular. A flexible tube may connect the inlet to a domestic water supply tap. The mounting means may comprise a clip clipping the handle 103 of the roller. A removable lid may be provided on the upper end of the chamber.
Patent GB-2302467-A (GB)
Title: Optical communications link
Inventor: MEDVED DAVID
IPC: H04B10/114
Filed: 1996-06-06
Abstract: A wireless communication system includes an airlink transceiver including an airlink transmitter and an airlink receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving optical, radio or acoustic signals over the air; an optical communication network interface unit for transmitting optical signals towards the airlink transmitter and for receiving optical signals from the airlink receiver; and a universal converter unit, coupled between the airlink transceiver and the optical communication network interface unit, for supplying optical signals without protocol conversion to the optical communication network interface unit and electrical signals to the airlink transceiver. The optical link between the converter and the network interface operates at 850 nm in one direction and 1300 nm in the other direction. The invention enables connection of a wireless communication system to a plurality of communication networks, each having a different fundamental type of basic networking technologies.
Patent GB-2301027-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable seat back
Inventor: SNYDER TIMOTHY J
IPC: B60N2/90
Filed: 1995-02-07
Abstract: An adjustable seat back has side sections that fold inward to provide lateral support for an infant or remain flat to provide a wider seat back for a toddler. The seat back includes a center portion (180) and two side wing sections (185) that are pivotal with respect to the center section about substantialy vertical axes along two seams. A wing adjustment assembly (200) sewn into a section of the seat liner (100) includes a pivoting actuator (300). By actuation of the lever section (310) of the actuator that extends through an aperture (240) in the liner at the rear of the seat back, the operator can pivot a pair of wing support sections (360) outward on the front side of the liner. The wing support sections of the actuator act to push the two wing sections of the seat pad forward providing a narrower seat to provide lateral support for an infant.
Patent GB-2304809-A (GB)
Title: Preventing derailing of zipper sliders
Inventor: JAMES PETER ANTHONY RICHARD
IPC: A44B19/26
Filed: 1996-08-28
Abstract: The slider (32), Figure 3, or (42), Figure 4, of a resilient zipper (10), is prevented from derailing by providing anti-derailing ribs (28) on the flexible closure strips (12,14). The closure strips (12,14) include interlocking ribs (20) having enlarged heads (24) and channels (22) having enlarged bottoms (26), and are extruded from polymeric resin material. One of the closure strips (12,14) may have a single male interlocking member, and the other a single female interlocking member.
Patent GB-2317030-A (GB)
Title: Defining a pharmacophore for the design of MDR modulators
Inventor: ASHWORTH PHILIP ANTHONY
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 1996-08-30
Abstract: Determining a pharmacophore for identifying (e.g. by screening) and designing molecules which possess multi-drug resistance (MDR) modulatory activity. The pharmacophore represents a 3-dimensional aggregate array of positions in space of the field points of a series of molecules having the same, or similar, MDR modulatory activity, and describes regions of positive or negative maxima in the local electrostatic field associated with a molecule, and van der Waals surfaces. A number of lowest energy conformations for each molecule are determined and selected, and interconformational comparisons between conformers of pairs of molecules are carried out and ranked in order of Coulombic overlay energy. A conformational mapping joins pairs of conformers in the top three ranked comparisons (fig. 3), and an optimum cyclic path is determined. This joins all the molecules, with their conformations selected such that the total Coulombic overlay energy over the path is minimised (fig. 4). The field points of these "active" conformations on the cyclic point are combined using an aggregate average method, to generate the pharmacophore.
Patent GB-2305281-A (GB)
Title: Transmitter control
Inventor: DYKEMA KURT A
IPC: H04B1/20
Filed: 1994-04-15
Abstract: A trainable remote-control transmitter includes an attenuator for adjusting the level of an output signal as a function of the pulse width and frequency of the output signal. The transmitter also includes receiver components which are disabled when the transmitter is transmitting.
Patent GB-2321213-A (GB)
Title: Decorated confectionary bar
Inventor: LAMB JOHN GORDON
IPC: A23G1/00
Filed: 1997-01-16
Abstract: Confectionery including a form of decorated chocolate bar is described having a raised pattern preferably containing a word such as a name, greeting or logo, the pattern being composed of a non-chocolate material of different colour from the base chocolate and having a (normally vegetable) fat content from 36 to 42 wt.%. There is also described a process for making the chocolate bar involving syringing molten non-chocolate material into grooves 12 in a mould surface so as not to fill the grooves completely and, after solidification, flood filling with molten chocolate. The mould may be made by cutting into an acrylic sheet using a computer programme to form a positive and then vacuum forming negative moulds from the positive.
Patent GB-2312096-A (GB)
Title: Switch
Inventor: NAKAZAWA TAKESHI
IPC: B60Q1/14
Filed: 1997-03-26
Abstract: A switch for detecting the position of an automatic gear shifter of an automobile comprises an axle 21 rotatable within a bearing hole 11 of a case 1, a movable plate 2 integral with the axle 21 so as to be movable in the case 1, a movable contact 22 supported on the movable plate 2, a fixed contact 31 supported on a base 3 which houses the movable plate 2 in conjunction with the case 1 and an operating lever 4 which is fixed to the axle 21 and which is movable on an external surface 12 of the case 1. The operating lever 4 has a projection 42 on a bottom side 41 for abutting stoppers 13, (14,Fig 1) on the external surface of the case 1. The height H1 of the stoppers is less than the height H2 of the bottom side 41 of the operating lever 4 from the external surface 12 of the case 1 to provide a movement range of the operating lever 4 that goes outside of the case 1. The axle may have an end portion (711, Fig 6) having projecting teeth (713,714) which fit into slots (951,952) located around a hole (95) in the operating lever in which the end portion (711) fits. The axle and the operating lever are ultrasonically bonded at the end portion (711).
Patent GB-2324081-A (GB)
Title: Additives for Electric Arc Furnace
Inventor: SHAW DANIEL JONATHAN
IPC: C22B1/245
Filed: 1997-04-07
Abstract: A method of making an additive for addition to an electric arc furnace from solid waste such as oily millscale comprising screening waste and then mixing with a carbonaceous substance and a hydratable substance to form particles. The particles are kept in bags made of air pervious material for several days to form substantially dry particles, suitable for pneumatic injection into the furnace.
Patent GB-2326345-A (GB)
Title: Orthopaedic appliance for correcting class II malocclusions
Inventor: ROSENBERG FAREL ARTHUR
IPC: A61C7/36
Filed: 1997-06-17
Abstract: A dental appliance for correcting Class II malocclusions with automatic adjustment as tooth movement, bone movement, or both occur, comprises upper and lower anchoring means (14a, 14b), upper (7a) and lower (7b) link holders rotatably attached to respective anchoring means, upper (8a) and lower (8b) links mounted at one end so as to permit planar rotation into and out of respective link holders, a cylinder (2) closed at one end and pivotably joined at that end to the free end of said upper link, a piston (1) slidably engaged with said cylinder and pivotably joined at its non-engaged end to said lower link, at least one aligning pin (10a, 10b) and a compression spring (15) within a chamber in said piston which, when closing the mouth causes linkages to drive the piston into the cylinder, thereby compressing the spring and creating a downward and forward force on the lower jaw.
Patent GB-2314893-A (GB)
Title: Friction clutch automatic wear adjuster having a worm engaged by a one-way clutch
Inventor: ORLAMUNDER ANDREAS
IPC: F16D13/75
Filed: 1997-06-24
Abstract: A friction clutch automatic wear adjuster comprises a wear adjusting member in the form of a knife edge ring 18b which is rotatable about a clutch axis A. An adjusting device 24b has a worm 30b rotatably mounted on a carrier 22b and engaged by teeth 36b on the ring l8b. During engagement, as friction lining wear occurs, pressure plate l4b and ring l8b move in the direction of arrow P rotating the worm 30b about axis 28b, thereby causing a clearance to develop between the teeth of the worm 30b and ring 18b. On withdrawal, a one-way clutch, for example in the form of a compression spring (70b, fig 21), couples the worm 30b to the carrier 22b so that the carrier 22b and worm 30b rotate as one which results in the rotation of ring 18b about clutch axis A, thereby taking up the wear induced clearance. In another embodiment a wear detecting lever (26, fig 4) abuts housing 10b so that if the pressure plate moves further to take up the clearance the lever (26, fig 4) and the worm 30b, via the one way clutch, are rotated together which leads to the rotation of the ring l8b about axis A.
Patent GB-2327161-A (GB)
Title: IC time delay circuit using thermal effects
Inventor: MILES DAVID JOHN
IPC: H03K3/02
Filed: 1997-07-10
Abstract: Relatively long delays are achieved in an integrated circuit by using thermal effects, thereby avoiding the need for large capacitors or frequency dividers. Thermally dependent electrical properties V2, V4 of a pair of matched components 2,4 are monitored while one of the components is heated 14 or cooled, and when the electrical properties differ by a certain amount the timed period ends. The matched components 2,4, which may be diodes, Zener diodes, resistors or transistors, are located within separate thermally insulating structures 16,18 and 20,22. The delay circuit may be applied to vehicle flashing indicators or as a lamp cadence controller for a telephone terminal display circuit.
Patent GB-2317471-A (GB)
Title: Concurrent execution of programmes
Inventor: GARVEY PATRICK JAMES
IPC: G06F9/40
Filed: 1997-07-30
Abstract: A method for running a secondary programme while a main applications programme is running comprises providing a sub-routine in the main programme which reads, 31, a descriptor which identifies the secondary programme or a data file associated with the secondary programme. The descriptor is then written, 32, into the main memory of the computer. A permanent memory, such as a hard disk, is searched to retrieve, 46, the secondary programme and associated data files, and the secondary programme is executed while the main programme is still running. Data from the data file associated with the secondary programme may be operated on by the secondary programme and outputted, 49, for incorporation in the main programme. Additionally, data from the main programme may be inputted to the secondary programme and operated on by the secondary programme.