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Patent GB-2414637-A (GB)
Title: Data transmission method using a transmission time threshold
Inventor: MCNAMARA DARREN PHILLIP
IPC: H04L1/18
Filed: 2004-05-24
Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting data in a communications network. The method comprises determining an amount of data to be transmitted, determining a data rate at which said data is to be transmitted, calculating a transmission time for said data using the amount of data and said data rate, and comparing said transmission time with a threshold time 527. If said transmission time is not greater than said threshold time the data is transmitted in a first manner 528, and if said transmission time is greater than said threshold time, said is transmitted in a second manner, 529. The threshold may be used to determine whether a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) mechanism is used for the transmission, involving use of Clear-to-send (CTS) and Ready-to-send (RTS) packets. The method and apparatus is particularly useful for wireless LAN (WLAN) IEEE 802.11 networks. The method may also involve determining if the network is busy or idle before transmission and may also involve fragmenting the data to be transmitted into a plurality of packets, S23.
Patent GB-2415942-A (GB)
Title: V-shaped dock mooring bumper
Inventor: HAIDON PAUL
IPC: B63B21/00
Filed: 2004-07-09
Abstract: A dock mooring bumper that is a combined single-handed/assisted mooring system and dock bumper, that reliably protects the boat and dock from damage, requires minimal maintenance and requires no adjustment for different size boats. The inventive device generally comprises of a V shaped dock bumper 12 that is attached to the dock 24 with either bolts (25, Fig 5) or straps (29, Fig 5) and will accept the bow of a power or sail boat 28. The V shaped bumper may be made out of glow in the dark, tough marine grade vinyl, plastic, rubber or any suitable elastomeric or resilient material and can be filled with air or foam depending on the displacement weight of the boat. Attached to the bumper are two horizontal guide arms 19 with rollers 15 and 16 that rotate vertically along the arms and run the full length of the arm. Attached individually to each arm may be a vertical shaft (20, Fig 3) with multiple cushioned rotating rollers 21, which also act as floats. On top of each vertical shaft is a tall, flexible navigation marker 22 with a reflective ball 17 and 18 attached to the end.
Patent GB-2406268-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible rotary clothes airer with canopy
Inventor: COOPER SIMON JOHN
IPC: D06F57/04
Filed: 2004-07-23
Abstract: A collapsible rotary airer comprises a canopy 11 which is mounted on main and secondary supports 1,4 which are separate to the main and secondary supports 5,12 that support the drying cords 6. The main supports 1 for the canopy and main supports 5 for the cord are mounted to a support post 9 by a first central bearing 2. The secondary supports 4,12 for the canopy and cord are mounted to the post 9 by a second central bearing 3. The two bearings 2,3 are able to rotate about the post 9 and the first bearing may be slid along the post 9 to raise or lower the airer and canopy. A peg 16 is used to hold the bearing 2 in place. The canopy 11 is held on to the supports by straps 10 and pockets 13. A vented curtain [18, Figure 5] can be attached to the canopy.
Patent GB-2417163-A (GB)
Title: Signalling scheme for wireless communication
Inventor: MCNAMARA DARREN PHILLIP
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 2004-08-10
Abstract: To transmit additional information in a packet preamble without using the data content of the preamble fields, the invention can switch the modulation scheme between fields of the preamble to communicate information. A change of modulation scheme can indicate one piece of information where no change indicates a different piece of information.
Patent GB-2420485-A (GB)
Title: Sole nails for shoes
Inventor: HO MIN-HSIEN
IPC: A43C15/14
Filed: 2004-11-29
Abstract: A sole nail comprises an assembly post <B>10</B> having a plurality of rubber claws <B>13</B>; the assembly post <B>10</B> having a via hole <B>12</B> forming an upper and a lower opening in the assembly post <B>10</B>; a part of the assembly post <B>10</B> having a thread <B>11</B>; a spring <B>23</B> enclosing the periphery of the assembly post <B>10</B> having the thread <B>11</B>; a steel nail <B>22</B> passing through the via hole <B>12</B> of the assembly post <B>10</B>; an upper end of the spring <B>23</B> resisting against the bottom of the steel nail <B>22</B>; a seat <B>20</B> having a screw hole <B>21</B> penetrating through the seat <B>20</B>; the seat <B>20</B> being engaged into a shoe's lower sole; and a waterproof pad <B>30</B> made of soft rubber and fastened to the bottom side of the shoe's upper sole <B>7</B> and having a groove <B>31</B> corresponding the steel nail <B>22</B>.
Patent GB-2419450-A (GB)
Title: Promotional coupon distribution
Inventor: KEE HWANG KIAT DESMOND
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 2005-02-01
Abstract: A promotional coupon 80 of a merchant 15 is distributed though a broadcast infrastructure, e.g. a digital television or set-top box. The coupon is sent in encrypted form, decrypted and displayed to a consumer who may download it onto a mobile device such as a mobile phone, a smart card, a PDA, a portable computer, a thumb drive or a removable hard disk. The downloading may include coupon application software for management of the coupon. The coupon is redeemable by being presented to the merchant where it is read by a suitable terminal.
Patent GB-2410682-A (GB)
Title: Extendable applicator brush
Inventor: ADAMS SAMANTHA
IPC: A45D34/04
Filed: 2005-02-02
Abstract: An extendable applicator brush 4 is fitted as part of a lid 2 which may be affixed to a container 3. The lid houses a mechanism comprising a push button 1 which, when pressed, allows spring 16 to push side buttons 9 out though apertures 15. This action extends the applicator brush and holds it in the extended position. When the side buttons are pressed,springs 8 cause the brush to retract to its original position. The outer surface of the lid may be coated with a non-slip material.
Patent GB-2412673-A (GB)
Title: Installing instrumentation line in a wellbore
Inventor: VOLD GISIE
IPC: E21B47/01
Filed: 2005-03-29
Abstract: An instrumentation line is installed in a wellbore by locating a landing tool 200 having an upper instrumentation line and connector 270 within the wellbore, and landing a stinger 300 having a lower instrumentation line and connector 370 onto the landing tool 200, wherein the landing tool and stinger have an orienting shoulder and key to align the upper and lower connectors. The upper connector is housed in a pocket 218 of the landing tool, the pocket having a spring for biasing the upper connector out of the pocket when a debris sleeve 250 is displaced by the landing of the stinger. The landing tool may be run into the wellbore by a production string and the lower instrumentation line may be installed after expansion of a well screen or liner. This arrangement allows the lower instrumentation line to be removed prior to well workover procedures without pulling the production string.
Patent GB-2424602-A (GB)
Title: Nozzle assembly
Inventor: SU CHENG-YUAN
IPC: B05B11/00
Filed: 2005-03-29
Abstract: The assembly comprises a manually movable body 21 with an outlet nozzle and a communicating tubular portion 212 carrying a tubular piston 24 at one end. The body slides relative to a further body 23 attachable to a container for, e.g. perfume or lotion, the tubular portion 212 sliding within a tubular part 234 of the body 23. A return spring 22 surrounds the portion 212 and part 234 so that it does not lie in the liquid flow path to avoid contamination. A tube 25 extends within the portion 212 and has a radially outward end flange 251 contactable by the piston 24. The tube 25 accepts a rod 261 of a valve 26 comprising a body with two formations 263, 2621 for contacting respective seats 271, 272 of a hollow extension 27 of the further body 23 to define respective chambers for staged supply of liquid when the body 21 is manually pressed.
Patent GB-2425807-A (GB)
Title: Sash window having motor unit as structural part of window frame
Inventor: HAWKER MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: E05F15/10
Filed: 2005-05-06
Abstract: A sash window assembly 10 has an extruded plastics window frame 16 and a motor unit 20 mounted within the frame 16. The motor unit 20 contains a motor 22 which engages with a sash 14 and provides motorised raising and lowering of the sash 14. The motor unit 20 is located between a lower portion 18 and an upper portion 17 of a vertical window frame member 19. The motor unit 20 forms a structural component of the vertical window frame member 19. The motor unit 20 includes a housing 38 which has exterior surfaces 39 that provide visual continuity between the lower 18 and upper 17 portions of the vertical window frame member 19.
Patent GB-2426807-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for forming void-filll packaging
Inventor: YEO KARL
IPC: B31D5/00
Filed: 2005-05-31
Abstract: Apparatus 10 for forming void-fill packaging comprises: a longitudinal guide path 12 along which tubular plastics material 11 can pass; drive means 15 for moving the plastics material 11 along the guide path 12; transverse sealing means 16, 28 for forming one or more seals transversely across the plastics material 11; and air injecting means 30 for injecting air into the tubular plastics material 11. The air injecting means includes an air supply device 18, 36 which may be located on board and dimensioned so that the void-fill packaging apparatus 10 is portal as an operational unit. The air supply device 18, 36 may an electrically energisable air supply device so that the apparatus 10 is solely electrically energisable to produce void-fill packaging.
Patent GB-2417543-A (GB)
Title: Twin mass fly wheel
Inventor: GALLAGHER PAUL ANDREW
IPC: F16F15/131
Filed: 2004-06-17
Abstract: A twin mass flywheel (10) having an input mass (11) for connection with an engine, an output mass (12) for connection with a transmission, bearing means (14) supporting the masses for limited relative rotation, an annular radially extending flange (18) connected adjacent to its outer or inner periphery with one (11) of the masses, a pair of annular side plates (21, 22) located on either side of the flange and connected at their inner or outer peripheries with the other mass (12), and circumferentially extending spring means (16) acting between the flange and the side plates to damp relative rotation between the masses. The flywheel also includes a friction device (32) acting between the masses, this friction device is located between the side plates (21,22) and includes a first friction member (35) which acts between one (21) of the side plates and the flange (18) and a first axially acting spring (40) located between the flange (18) and sad one side plate (21) to load the first friction member (35) against the side plate (21) and take up any play between the fiction member and the flange, thus tending to control any tapping of the side plates (21, 22) relative to the flange (18) as the flywheel rotates.
Patent GB-2418146-A (GB)
Title: Arteriovenous Access Valve System And Process
Inventor: CULL DAVID L
IPC: A61M39/22
Filed: 2004-03-31
Abstract: An arteriovenous graft system is disclosed including an arteriovenous graft (12) that is well suited for use during hemodialysis. In order to minimize or prevent arterial steal, at least one valve device (24) is positioned at the arterial end of the arteriovenous graft. In one embodiment, the system includes a first valve device (24) and a second valve device (26) positioned at the arterial and venous ends respectively. In one embodiment, the valve devices may include an inflatable balloon (28/30) that, when inflated, constricts and closes off the arteriovenous graft.
Patent GB-2434170-A (GB)
Title: Access assembly
Inventor: PICKAVANCE JOHN NEIL
IPC: E03F5/06
Filed: 2006-01-11
Abstract: The access assembly, for use with a manhole, grating, ventilation cover assembly etc., comprises a frame 11 that defines an aperture within which one or more seatings are located for receiving one or more cover plates 18. A movable shaft 12a is located on one or more supports and includes one or more shaft formations 28 designed to engage cover and/or frame formations 29 when the shaft is in a first position so as to retain at least a first cover plate relative to the frame and to disengage the cover and/or frame formations when the shaft is in a second position so as to permit removal of at least a first cover plate from the frame. The shaft is supported on journal bearings 22 that extend though opposite walls of the frame so as to be rotatable relative to the frame between first and second positions. Alternatively the shaft may move longitudinally between first and second positions. The shaft formations preferably comprise one or more hooks or recesses with the other of the hooks or recesses being located on the cover and/or frame formations such that the formations are mutually engageable when the shaft is in the first position. One end of the shaft preferably protrudes externally of the wall of the frame and includes an actuator for effecting movement of the shaft which is located in a housing secured to the assembly and adapted to enable the shaft to be locked in at least the first position. The assembly may include more than one shaft.
Patent GB-2425598-A (GB)
Title: Processing seismic data representing a physical system
Inventor: OUAIR YOUNESS EL
IPC: G01V1/30
Filed: 2004-12-23
Abstract: Processing seismic data representing a physical system A method is provided for processing seismic data representing a physical system, such as seismic reflection data representing a region of the Earth. The method forms a difference (2) between first and second measured data (1) representing the system in first and second states, respectively, for example at different times. The difference is inverted (5) in accordance with a parameterised model (3, 4) of the physical system to obtain changes (6, 7) in the parameters of the model.
Patent GB-2425295-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning Assembly
Inventor: HANDY KEITH
IPC: B08B1/00
Filed: 2005-03-10
Abstract: A portable conveyor cleaning assembly (10) with adjustable first and second end assemblies (38, 40) selectively mountable on respective sides of different width conveyors (12, 14). A carriage (28) is movable reciprocally over the conveyor (12, 14) to direct a cleaning fluid onto the conveyor, with the degree of reciprocal movement being adjustable to suit a particular conveyor.
Patent GB-2429762-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle steering column bush with thinner corrugated portion for temperature accommodation
Inventor: BARTON LAURENCE GEORGE HERBERT
IPC: B62D1/185
Filed: 2006-09-04
Abstract: A bush 3 for insertion between two relatively moveable inter-engaging inner and outer members 1,2 has a corrugated portion 4 with a section thickness which less than other parts of the bush to accommodate expansion and/or contraction under varying temperature load. The bush 3 may be secured to the outer member 1 by the injection of adhesive through holes (1A, fig 1) into grooves 3b on the bush surface, and another embodiment has bush fixed to the inner member. The corrugation may have a "W" profile. The members (1, 2) may be inner and outer steering column members for a vehicle, and the bush can be triangular, circular or quadrangular in section. The sliding surface of a member may have an axial groove 2a to reduce friction, the bush may have radial inwardly projecting axial projections (3c, fig 5), and an extending portion (3a, fig 3) abuts an end face of a member.
Patent GB-2442486-A (GB)
Title: Measuring brillouin backscatter from an optical fibre using a tracking signal
Inventor: HARTOG ARTHUR H
IPC: E21B47/00
Filed: 2006-10-06
Abstract: A method and corresponding apparatus for measuring Brillouin backscattering from an optical fibre 18, comprises frequency mixing a first signal with a frequency fB(t) representative of the Brillouin frequency shift in backscattered light received from a deployed optical fibre with a second signal at a frequency fi(t) that varies in time in the same manner as a Brillouin shift previously measured from the fibre to produce a difference signal with a difference frequency AF(t) that has a nominally constant value corresponding to the situation where the received light has a Brillouin shift that matches the previously measured shift. The difference signal is acquired and processed to determine properties of the Brillouin shift and corresponding physical parameters producing the shift. The frequency mixing can be carried out optically or electrically. Techniques for acquisition of the difference signal include the use of parallel frequency measurement channels and fast rate digital sampling.
Patent GB-2428092-A (GB)
Title: Acoustic touch sensor
Inventor: KENT JOEL C
IPC: H01L41/314
Filed: 2005-04-13
Abstract: A touch sensor comprises a substrate capable of propagating acoustic waves. The substrate includes a first surface having a touch sensitive region. In one embodiment, the substrate includes a first sidewall intersecting the first surfaces a first edge. A transmitter is provided on the first sidewall of the substrate. The transmitter generates acoustic waves that propagate directly from the first sidewall through at least a portion of the touch sensitive region. In another embodiment, a transducer is formed on the substrate. The transducer comprises a piezoelectric element which is thermally cured after being formed on the substrate. The transducer is configured for at least one of generating acoustic waves and detecting acoustic waves. Alternatively, the transducer may include a strip comprising the piezoelectric element.
Patent GB-2432493-A (GB)
Title: Testing of radio frequency communication devices
Inventor: KURSULA MIKKO
IPC: H04B17/00
Filed: 2005-06-13
Abstract: A system, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for producing signals for testing radio frequency communication devices are provided. The system comprises a non-real-time domain which includes a data generator (102) for supplying a temporally discontinuous data stream (108) which data stream includes signal waveform data (110) and control data (112) defining characteristics of a conversion from the signal waveform data into a radio frequency test signal. The temporally discontinuous data stream is fed into a transformer (104) which transforms the temporally discontinuous data stream into a temporally continuous data stream (114), thus providing a transformation between the non-real-time domain and a real-time domain. The real-time domain includes a radio frequency unit (106) which uses the temporally continuous signal data stream as input, and performs the conversion from the signal waveform data (532) into the radio frequency test signal (534) according to the control data.
Patent GB-2447254-A (GB)
Title: A photon detector
Inventor: YUAN ZHILIANG
IPC: G01J1/44
Filed: 2007-03-01
Abstract: A photon detection system comprising a photon detector 51 configured to detect single photons, a signal divider 55 to divide the output signal of the photon detector into a first part and a second part, where the first part is substantially identical to the second part, delay means 56 for delaying the second part with respect to the first part and, a combiner 61 for combining the first and delayed second parts of the signal such that the delayed second part is used to cancel periodic variations in the first part of the output signal.
Patent GB-2435764-A (GB)
Title: Method of sealing an annular space in a wellbore
Inventor: BOSMA MARTIN GERARD RENE
IPC: E21B33/10
Filed: 2007-04-26
Abstract: A method of sealing a space in a wellbore formed in an earth formation, the method comprising the steps of inserting a plurality of swelleable particles into said space, the particles being susceptible to swelling upon contact with a selected fluid, and inducing said selected fluid to contact the swelleable particles whereby the swelleable particles swell so as to form a body of swollen particles in said space.
Patent GB-2448770-A (GB)
Title: Web points
Inventor: VALI RIAZ
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 2007-04-28
Abstract: A method that will automatically record user's activities on a website and add a certain amount of points on their account for them to later on exchange for gifts, experiences etc. Each different activity that is performed by the user on the site will be assigned a point value, the software that will be developed and integrated onto the site will have the capability to record the activity of the user hence rewarding them for using any of the services that are on the site, the value assigned to each activity will be decided by the webmaster, the value can be changed from a secure control panel. Points may be exchanged amongst users.
Patent GB-2438940-A (GB)
Title: Door opening/closing device with door operating lever and intermediate lever arranged on rotating shaft
Inventor: NOZAWA HIDEKI
IPC: E05B83/40
Filed: 2007-05-03
Abstract: A door opening/closing device for a vehicle includes a door operating lever (110) that releases a closed-door latch unit (CR) when being turned to a first direction and releases an open-door latch unit (OR) when being turned to a second direction is arranged on a base plate (101) by means of an inside-handle lever shaft (102). Also, an operation output unit is formed on an inside handle (IH) so as to engage with the door operating lever (110). When the inside handle (IH) is operated to open or close the door, the door operating lever (110) is turned in a desired direction by bringing the operation output unit (311) into contact with the door operating lever (110). Furthermore, an intermediate lever (160) that transmits the turning operation to the second direction of the door operating lever (110) to the open-door latch unit (OR) is arranged on the base plate (101) by means of the inside-handle lever shaft (102).
Patent GB-2438082-A (GB)
Title: Active and passive dual local oscillator mixers comprising triple gate mixer circuits or exclusive NOR switch (XNOR-SW) circuits.
Inventor: LIN CHIA-LIANG
IPC: H03D7/12
Filed: 2007-05-10
Abstract: A dual local oscillator (LO) mixer is disclosed. The dual-LO mixer receives an input signal, a first reference signal of a first reference frequency, and a second reference signal of a second reference frequency, and performs a frequency translation to convert the input signal into an output signal, wherein the frequency difference between the input signal and the output signal is a sum or a difference of the first reference frequency and the second reference frequency. Also disclosed is the use of such a mixer a radio transmission system including both a transmitter and receiver which comprise dual-LO mixers.
Patent GB-2451852-A (GB)
Title: Power tool cable safety device.
Inventor: BRISTOW PETER
IPC: A01D34/835
Filed: 2007-08-15
Abstract: The safety device has an elongate arm 3 and at least one cable guide 6 and is fixed to a tool eg a lawn mower 1, by an attachment 4. The arm 3 is made up of a number of telescoping parts (3a,3b, fig 5) which allows the arm 3 to be made shorter or longer as required. The arm has locking means (7, fig 5) to lock the movement of the telescoping parts (3a,3b, fig 5). The arm 3 supports a cable 5 providing power to the tool and aids in keeping the cable 5 out of the way of the tool.