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Patent GB-2304344-A (GB)
Title: Flameproof thermoplastic resin compositions
Inventor: LEE KYU-CHEOL
IPC: C08L69/00
Filed: 1995-11-30
Abstract: Flameproof thermoplastic resin compositions comprise (A) a base resin consisting of (a 1 ) 80 to 96 % by weight of a thermoplastic, halogen-free polycarbonate, and (a 2 ) 20 to 4 % by weight of a core-shell type ABS resin with a graft index of 40 or above, which is obtained by grafting 25 to 45 % by weight of a styrene and 10 to 15 % by weight of an acrylonitrile onto 45 to 60 % by weight of a butadiene rubber, (B) 5 to 20 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the base resin (A), of a phosphorus compound, and (C) 0.1 to 2.0 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the base resin (A), of a perfluoroalkane polymer. The phosphorus compound is represented as the general formula (I):  wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 and R 5 independently of one another are C 6 -C 20 aryl or alkyl-substituted C 6 -C 20 aryl and the average n of the phosphorus compound is in the range of 0.3 to 0.8.
Patent GB-2296439-A (GB)
Title: Absorbent article with liquid-receiving space
Inventor: WIDLUND URBAN
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1995-12-06
Abstract: The article comprises an absorbent body 3 enclosed between liquid-permeable and liquid-impermeable outer sheets 1 and 2, the body including a liquid-receiving space 24 which comprises at least one cavity or region of lower density than that of an adjacent part of the body located in the same plane and which is disposed in a storage layer 19 of the body. The layer 19 is formed from a web of material divided longitudinally along a curve 20, which undulates so as to cross a centre line 21 of the web at least twice, the web parts 22 and 23 being relatively displaced in the plane of the web to thereby delimit the receiving space 24 therebetween. The absorbent body may also include a liquid-receiving layer 18 and a further absorbent layer 26. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296096-A (GB)
Title: Flowmeter
Inventor: DUNCAN STEPHEN
IPC: G01F1/44
Filed: 1995-12-14
Abstract: A venturi tube flowmeter which permits the evaluation of the downhole flowrate and density of a fluid flow comprises a first pressure sensor (16) connectable in use to a first pressure port (4), a second pressure sensor (17) connectable in use to a second pressure port (5), and a valve (15) operable to selectively connect each of the first and second pressure sensors (16, 17) to a common pressure source to facilitate sensor calibration. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2298871-A (GB)
Title: Electroplating elongated substrate and drawing
Inventor: HUGHES ANDREW
IPC: C25D5/48
Filed: 1993-09-13
Abstract: In a method of continuously coating a conductive substrate such as brass wire 10 to produce a desired cross-sectional size of coated material, the wire is drawn through a first die to produce an oversize wire, electroplated in a bath 32, and then drawn through a final die 44 to reduce its area to the desired size and produce a controlled surface finish. The wire may be cleaned in an acid bath 20 and rinsed in a rinsing bath 30 prior to the electroplating bath. A further rinsing bath 36 and dryer 38 may be interposed upstream of the final die 44.
Patent GB-2301015-A (GB)
Title: Cappuccino coffee
Inventor: MUENZ-SCHAERER DANIELA DORIS
IPC: A23F5/38
Filed: 1996-06-04
Abstract: A soluble coffee beverage powder which, upon the addition of water, is capable of forming a coffee beverage having a foamed upper surface. The soluble beverage powder is made up of a soluble whitener powder containing gas and a soluble coffee powder of delayed water solubility. Upon addition of water, the soluble whitener powder dissolves first and hence it is possible to obtain whiter, stable foams.
Patent GB-2314725-A (GB)
Title: Satellite switch
Inventor: COLLAR STEPHEN
IPC: H04B7/204
Filed: 1996-06-28
Abstract: Switching means of a satellite has a first set of switches for receiving respective channel slots of de-multiplexed narrow band channels. The set of switches may be made up of four position switches 5<SP>1</SP>, 5<SP>2</SP> etc. Switch 5<SP>2</SP> may be connected straight through, or to the straight through positions of switches 5<SP>1</SP> and or 5<SP>3</SP> via interswitch connections. The same is possible with the second set of switches 6. A wide selection of the possible frequency slots is possible (for example eight out of sixteen) to allow routing among the amplifiers 9, 10, some of which are designated as redundant.
Patent GB-2306660-A (GB)
Title: Fluid electrical measurement apparatus and method
Inventor: COLLISTER CHRISTOPHER JOHN
IPC: G01N33/28
Filed: 1996-07-26
Abstract: Measurement apparatus for electrical measurement of fluid such as oil, or brake fluid for use in an engine, vehicle or hydraulic machine is provided in which a circuit includes a sensor sensing variables dependent on complex relative permittivity of the fluid in the sensor. The circuit provides a first value dependent upon the imaginary part, and a second value dependent on the real part of the complex relative permittivity. A number of capacitive sensing arrangements for use in the apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus may be used for continuous or periodic monitoring of the fluid, and may provide an audible signal, the frequency or volume of which is indicative of the permittivity of the fluid.
Patent GB-2304842-A (GB)
Title: A valve unit for an anti-skid brake system
Inventor: FRIEDOW MICHAEL
IPC: B60T8/48
Filed: 1996-08-09
Abstract: Before the introduction of brake fluid, a brake system has to be evacuated to allow complete venting. A non-return valve 18 is provided to permit evacuation of a return line 15 which is separated from a brake line 12 by normally closed, pressure-reducing solenoid valves 16, 17. A solenoid valve 17 and the non-return valve 18 are in parallel, and the two valves are integrated into a single valve unit 40, in which elements 54, 56 are parts of the solenoid valve, and ball 72 and seat 70 constitute the non-return valve.
Patent GB-2309603-A (GB)
Title: Position detection system in an electronically controlled camera
Inventor: NOMURA HIROSHI
IPC: G02B7/08
Filed: 1997-01-24
Abstract: A position detection system has an array of series connected resistors (R0, R1, R2, R3) having an output point (V0) and discrete electrodes (ZC0, ZC1, ZC2, ZC3) contactable by a pair of electrically interconnected contacts during relative movement therebetween. Each electrode is connected to a respective point in the array and has a particular pattern whereby, depending on the relative movement, particular combinations of electrodes are interconnected by the contacts to provide differing voltages at the output point (V0). The detected positions control operations of a zoom lens (Figures 41 to 73).
Patent GB-2309871-A (GB)
Title: Channel assignment controlling system
Inventor: IEMURA TAKAYA
IPC: H04B7/26
Filed: 1997-01-31
Abstract: A channel assignment controlling system comprises a terminal unit 120, a base station 130, and a channel assignment controlling portion 110. The terminal unit comprises a demodulator 121, a modulator 123, and a channel controller 122 which controls channels and time slots of the modulator. The base station comprises an extractor 134, a signal detector 135, a demodulator 133, a unique word detector 132, and a modulator 131. The extractor 134 inputs an output signal of the terminal unit 120 and extracts a signal with the frequency of the channel of the base station. The signal detector 135 determines whether or not a signal has been received. The demodulator 133 demodulates the input signal. The unique word detector 132 detects a unique word and outputs data from which preamble has been removed from the input signal corresponding to output signals of the signal detector and the unique word detector. The channel assignment controlling portion 110 determines channels and time slots corresponding to an output signal of the base station.
Patent GB-2324617-A (GB)
Title: Electrochromic devices
Inventor: SIDDLE JOHN ROBERT
IPC: G02F1/1524
Filed: 1997-04-24
Abstract: An electrochromic device has successive layers of electrochromic (16), electrolyte (6) and counter-electrode (18) materials and the electrochromic material layer oxide is at least 600 nm thick and preferably comprises tungsten oxide. The device may be switched between coloured and bleached states by reversibly inserting mobile ions contained in electrolyte layer (6) into electrochromic layer (16). The thick electrochromic layer (16) enables substantially greater increases in solar electrochromic efficiency of the device compared to luminous electrochromic efficiency of the device.
Patent GB-2315833-A (GB)
Title: Brake master cylinder
Inventor: CLAUSS JOHANNES
IPC: B60T7/04
Filed: 1997-07-21
Abstract: A brake master cylinder 1 has a plunger piston 2 acted upon by a brake linkage, an axially movable floating piston 3 which separates two working spaces 20, 21, each of which opens, in use, into a respective main brake circuit, and an axially movable sleeve 4. The sleeve 4 and the wall of the brake master cylinder 1 have interacting openings 6, 5 which connect the first working space 21 to a displacement passage 7 at least when the floating piston 3 moves into a first position (Figure 2) on normal brake actuation in which valves 8 are closed, so as to provide "feel". In the case of a malfunction in which the valves do not close, the floating piston moves beyond the first position (Figure 3), and moves the sleeve 7 to separate the first working space 21 from the displacement passage 7, so that "feel" is disabled when the master cylinder directly communicates with the brake circuits.
Patent GB-2316482-A (GB)
Title: Inclination detection apparatus
Inventor: UMEDA YICHI
IPC: G06F3/033
Filed: 1994-11-23
Abstract: An inclination detection apparatus comprises a light source 5, a light detection section and a control part for determining an inclination of the light source. The detection section includes a variable gain amplifier 23 which is responsive to a gain control signal from the control section. The light detection section may comprise more than one sensor element, each of the outputs of the sensors being connected to an amplifier on a time divided basis. The light source may be moveable or fixed and the detector respectively fixed or moveable, and where the detector is moveable, positional data may be transmitted to a main body by infra red or FM transmission. The apparatus maybe used to control the position of a cursor on a screen. Also disclosed are data transmission arrangements and a quadrant detector arrangement.
Patent GB-2335424-A (GB)
Title: Acrylic monomers and polymers prepared therefrom
Inventor: MARRION ALASTAIR ROBERT
IPC: C07D303/16
Filed: 1998-03-20
Abstract: A compound or polymer (A), for example an ethylenically unsaturated functional monomer, containing at least one activated #-CH- group bonded to at lest two electron-withdrawing groups, is reacted with a compound (B) of the formula: R - CH = CH - Q where R represents H, an optionally substituted alkyl group or a carboxylic ester or amide group and Q is an electron-withdrawing group which is or which contains a reactive functional group or R and Q are joined to form a cyclic functional group, under alkaline conditions so that Michael addition occurs between the ethylenically unsaturated double bond of the compound (B) and the activated #-CH- group of the compound (A). A malonate polyester is reacted with a compound of the formula CH2=CH-Q<1> where Q<1> is an electron-withdrawing group, to form a polyester having increased resistance to hydrolysis. Some functional monomers are also claimed per se.
Patent GB-2337721-A (GB)
Title: Hairdressing scissors
Inventor: WANG SHU-JUAN
IPC: B26B13/12
Filed: 1998-05-28
Abstract: A pair of hair designing scissors has a first handle 12, and a second handle 14 connected to the first handle 12 pivotally. The first handle 12 has a channel 122, a groove 124, a first opening 123 communicating with the channel 122 and the groove 124, and a first button 16. The second handle 14 has a slot 142, a second opening 123 communicating with the slot 142, a periphery recess 144, and a second button 18. The channel 122 is parallel to the slot 142. The scissors can be stacked by engagement of button posts 162 on one pair of handles with the channel and slot 122, 142 of another handle.
Patent GB-2329812-A (GB)
Title: Configurable Graphic User Interface for audio/video data manipulation
Inventor: MERCS JAMES
IPC: H04H60/04
Filed: 1998-09-21
Abstract: A configurable graphic user interface (GUI) 705 for audio/video (AN) data is associated with a data descriptor engine 710 coupled to the AN file system 715 containing the A/V data. A type of user interfacing to the GUI 705 is identified. A display generator 720 accesses the A/V file system 715 and generates a display of the AN data dependent upon the type of user. A menu constructor 725 generates user selectable options/features to be displayed in the GUI 705, the options/features displayed being dependent upon the type of user. A manipulation engine 730 receives user input and determines operations to be performed, the determination being based upon the type of user.
Patent GB-2331624-A (GB)
Title: Plasma etching of a nitride layer over an oxide layer
Inventor: SHOJI HIDEYUKI
IPC: H01L21/302
Filed: 1998-11-13
Abstract: A process for plasma etching a silicon nitride film from an underlying silicon oxide film overlying a silicon substrate 43 comprises simultaneously applying a first RF power, from first RF source 42A, having a frequency of 13.56 to 60MHz and a second RF power, from second source 42B, having a frequency of between 0.8-13.56 MHz. The power density at the top surface of the substrate 43 being between 0.2-0.35 W/cm<SP>2</SP> and the power density at the bottom surface of the top electrode 38A being 1.13 W/cm<SP>2</SP>. The etching may be performed in a chlorine or chlorine/oxygen atmosphere, the pressures and flow rates being disclosed. The process may be used to form an oxide element isolation region (Figures 7A-C) or a nitride side wall film (Figures 8A-C).
Patent GB-2343955-A (GB)
Title: Detecting tooth spacing errors of a toothed wheel for an internal combustion engine
Inventor: BRADSHAW BENJAMIN JAMES
IPC: F02D41/34
Filed: 1998-11-21
Abstract: Tooth 4,6 spacing errors of a toothed wheel 1 eg crankshaft/camshaft timing wheel of an internal combustion engine are determined from fuel correction factors derived from a fuel balancing algorithm. Fuel correction factors are provided by the cyclical variations in the amount of fuel required to be added to or subtracted from the quantity required for a particular cylinder in order to correct surges in engine speed and have a period equal to the period of one full revolution of the toothed wheel. Cyclical positive and negative values of fuel correction factors (Fig.2), or factor values above a given threshold eg 50% of normal amount of fuel required, may indicate tooth spacing error. Tooth spacing error is independent of, but its magnitude varies with, engine speed. An engine control system may be disabled to ensure that the quantities of fuel supplied to the engine are independent of the output of the fuel balancing algorithm to allow tooth spacing errors to be searched for in isolation.
Patent GB-2335461-A (GB)
Title: Battery pack housing with fixed latch(es) at each end
Inventor: STONE III FRANK H
IPC: H01M50/50
Filed: 1999-01-18
Abstract: The battery pack 200 is releasably attached to the housing 106 of an electronic device 100, such as a mobile phone, by fixed latches 242, (304,305,Fig 3) at each end of the housing which engage with corresponding notches (300), 214, 215 on the battery pack. The notches at each end of the housing are set at different depths. The contact arrangement has a flat contact 220 carried on the battery and a spring contact (310) carried on the housing. Upon mating of the battery and the housing, the spring contacts deflect and urge the battery pack 200 into secure engagement with the fixed latching arrangement. In alternative arrangements, the latches and notches may be transposed, as may the flat and spring contacts.
Patent GB-2347295-A (GB)
Title: Encoding and decoding of watermarks into moving images using edge detection
Inventor: YIN JIA HONG
IPC: H04N5/91
Filed: 1999-02-11
Abstract: An apparatus for, and method of, encoding information into and decoding information from, a sequence of moving images, such as video images, MPEG. The present invention identifies moving and static portions of an image in an image sequence and provides two separate channels, one for the moving portion of an image and the other for a static portion of an image. One or more watermarking codes are then inserted into moving, or both moving and static image channels, so that moving image sequences including the watermark code are produced. Static edges and moving edges are detected by edge detectors for the purposes of encoding or decoding the image sequence.
Patent GB-2335302-A (GB)
Title: Recording combined audio and video signal on magnetic tape
Inventor: KIM CHUL-MIN
IPC: H04N5/782
Filed: 1999-03-11
Abstract: A high fidelity (Hi-Fi) audio signal recording/ playback apparatus in which a Hi-Fi audio signal is recorded/reproduced using video heads without an extra Hi-Fi audio head. In the Hi-Fi audio signal recording/ playback apparatus, the Hi-Fi audio signal is recorded and reproduced together with the video signal using the same 2-channel head and the same pre-amplifier, without an extra head and pre-amplifier for only a Hi-Fi audio signal, thereby markedly lowering the manufacturing cost.
Patent GB-2338766-A (GB)
Title: Clutch release bearing
Inventor: MEBUS NORBERT
IPC: F16D23/14
Filed: 1999-03-17
Abstract: A clutch release bearing has a bearing ring 3 with ball face 5 land is mounted rotationally rigid on a sliding sleeve 2. A rotating bearing ring 12a with associated bearing face 14a and ball face 52, and rolling bodies 21 are guided within the bearing and rotate about a common axis of rotation. Bearing ring 12a connects to or may be part of clutch diaphragm spring 15. The radius of curvature R of the ball face segments intersects the common axis of rotation provided by the rolling bodies of the release bearing and the release bearing is self-centring parallel to the axis 4 of rotation.
Patent GB-2336185-A (GB)
Title: Linear guide with pinion-constrained cage
Inventor: EDELMANN LUDWIG
IPC: F16C29/04
Filed: 1999-03-31
Abstract: A linear guide has two longitudinally relatively displaceable rails 1, 2 with tracks 3, 4; 5, 6 respectively along which rolling bodies 7 in a cage 9 roll. The cage 9 has at least one gear 11 with rolling bodies 13 (either rotatably or statically mounted relative to the gear 11) projecting slightly over the gear 11 and which engage recesses 16, 17; 18, 19 in the rails 1, 2 for constrained guidance of the cage 9 relative to the rails 1, 2. The rolling bodies 13 of the gear 11 may be balls 13 or rollers (23 fig 5). The rails may be prismatic. The gear 11  may be in a pocket 8 of a single cage 9 or in a separate housing (fig 5). The recesses 16, 17; 18, 19 may extend over a part or the whole of the rails 1, 2 and be formed by plastic deformation or metal cutting.
Patent GB-2350779-A (GB)
Title: Formation of uniform blocks of frozen foodstuff
Inventor: HAWES RICHARD JOHN
IPC: B26D7/30
Filed: 1999-06-09
Abstract: Waste is reduced in a process involving the cutting up of blocks of frozen foodstuff, especially blocks of plate frozen fish fillets in which at least the final cutting step is performed using a guillotine rather than a bandsaw. Additionally, methods are described for adjusting the length of the frozen foodstuff which is advanced before the next cut is to be performed, so as to produce final cut pieces of substantially uniform weight. The methods allow for variations in density and variations in cross-section to be accommodated.
Patent GB-2351723-A (GB)
Title: Pressurised beverage cans
Inventor: MADELEY LEVI CHARLES STUART
IPC: B65D79/00
Filed: 1999-07-09
Abstract: A can for beverage under pressure is formed with an opening panel 20 in its side and adjacent its bottom. A foam-inducing device 30 is mounted adjacent the top of the can by means of a carrier member having radiating fingers the tips of which are engaged in an internal annular groove of the can. The panel 20 may be opened by depressing it inwardly using a finger, the finger keeping the can closed until it has been lowered into a glass to receive the beverage.
Patent GB-2350035-A (GB)
Title: Management system and method for monitoring stress in a network
Inventor: STEVENSON DAVID JAMES
IPC: H04L12/26
Filed: 1999-07-30
Abstract: A raw data value for a monitored characteristic of a network device or link is obtained by the network management system and compared with a predetermined threshold value for the monitored characteristic. If the raw data value is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the management system provides a stress value equal to a default value which is a maximum or minimum of a predefined bounded range; if the raw data value is less than the threshold value the management system calculates a stress value within the bounded range using an appropriate algorithm. Thus raw data is normalised to a predetermined range for example zero to 100 for ease of interpretation by the network manager. Stress values for a plurality of monitored characteristics may be combined to form a single aggregated stress value for the network.
Patent HU-T64068-A (HU)
Title: Process for producing triaza-spirodecanone methylchroman derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds
Inventor: HEINE HANS-GEORG
IPC: C07D311/58
Filed: 1992-10-28
Abstract: Triazaspirodecanonemethylchromans of the general formula (I) are prepared by reacting methylchromans, which are substituted on the methyl group by appropriate leaving groups, with triazaspirodecanones. The substances can be employed for the production of medicaments, in particular for medicaments for the control of central nervous system illnesses. <IMAGE>
Patent HU-T69662-A (HU)
Title: Envelope-alignment device
Inventor: BURGER MANFRED
IPC: B65H1/04
Filed: 1993-05-27
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/EP93/01331 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 4, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 4, 1994 PCT Filed May 27, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO93/25459 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 23, 1993.A compensating support arrangement for a printing machine for printing envelopes has the uppermost envelope of an envelope stack rest on a movable top surface which is brought into a horizontal position and the means of a suction device to the printing apparatus. For producing the horizontal position, a bottom surface is provided, to which is fixed at least one spring holder with at least one adjustable and replaceable spring element, which carries and supports the top surface.
Patent HU-T69730-A (HU)
Title: Synergistic combinations of antibiotics
Inventor: GOLDSTEIN BETH P
IPC: A61K38/14
Filed: 1994-03-09
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a synergistic combination of ethambutol and an antibiotic selected from teicoplanin, a teicoplanin amide derivative, an aglycon or pseudoaglycon thereof, antibiotic A40926 complex, a factor, a derivative, aglycon or pseudoaglycon thereof.  The synergistic combinations of the invention are particularly effective in the treatment of infections caused or sustained by mycobacteria, particularly M. tuberculosis, including multi-drug resistant strains of M. tuberculosis.