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Patent GB-2309517-A (GB)
Title: Lens guide mechanism of lens shutter type camera
Inventor: NOMURA HIROSHI
IPC: G03B7/097
Filed: 1997-01-24
Abstract: A lens guide mechanism includes two members 40,50 positionable adjacent to each other, the second member supporting a lens group and being movable relative to the first member along the optical axis of the lens group; a guide shaft 52 extending between the members in the optical axis direction, one end of the guide shaft being secured to the second member; a lens shutter provided on the first member; a first encoder on the first member comprising a photosensor 56 and a rotating disk 58 for detecting the size of the diaphragm formed by the lens shutter; and a second encoder on the first member comprising a second photosensor 57 and rotating disk 59 for detecting the axial position of the lens group, wherein the two rotating disks are positioned adjacent to the guide shaft with the guide shaft positioned between the disks.
Patent GB-2323879-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable door security device
Inventor: SWEENEY MARTIN
IPC: E05C19/00
Filed: 1997-03-08
Abstract: An adjustable door security device has a tubular outer shell 1 and an inner bar 2, which slides within it in telescopic fashion. The bar is placed across a door opening and expanded to fit, preferably by locating pins 3a, 3b in preformed recesses, and locked in position by means of a device 6. The inner bar 2 has a connecting rod 4 which locates in a slotted keep 5 of the door.
Patent GB-2312432-A (GB)
Title: Ink and toner compositions comprising a dye with at least one 3-([{vinyl-(carbonylamino/sulphonylamino)}aryl]amino)triazinylamino- substituent
Inventor: GREGORY PETER
IPC: C09D11/00
Filed: 1997-03-25
Abstract: An ink composition comprises :  (i) a dye having at least one group of the Formula (1): wherein: ```W is a labile or non labile group; ```L 1 is an arylene group; ```R 1 , R 2 and R 3 are each independently H or alkyl; ```Q is a group or the formula -CO- or -SO 2 -;  B is an optionally substituted vinyl group, a group which is converted into an optionally substituted vinyl group in the presence of aqueous alkali or a group of the formula:  R 4 and R 5  each independently is H, halo or alkyl; A is -OR 6 , -SR 6 or -NR 7 R 8 wherein R 6 , R 7 and R 8 each independently is H, optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, optionally substituted alkenyl, optionally substituted aryl, optionally substituted aralkyl, or R 7 and R 8 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a 5 or 6 membered ring; and  (ii) a medium comprising an organic solvent, a low melting point solid, or a mixture of water and one or more water-soluble organic solvent(s).  A toner composition comprises a toner resin and a dye with at least one group of Formula (1). Also claimed is a process for ink jet printing using the inks and a process for ink jet printing of textiles using the inks.
Patent GB-2311745-A (GB)
Title: Manufacturing heat exchanger assembly by CAB brazing
Inventor: EVANS TIMOTHY VAN
IPC: F28F21/08
Filed: 1997-04-02
Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly including at least one aluminium based tube (12) has an aluminium based lithium-magnesium composition cladding (18) applied to either one of the internal surface (14) and external surface (16) of the tube (12), and at least one aluminium based component (20,22) disposed adjacent the cladding (18). A modified aluminium brasing flux is applied to a joint between the surface and one component. The modified aluminium brazing flux comprises cesium fluoride, lithium fluoride, or both. Preferably, the cladding (18) further comprises cesium. To manufacture the heat exchanger assembly, the tube and component are joined together with flux applied in the area of the joint using a controlled atmosphere brazing (CAB) process.
Patent GB-2314912-A (GB)
Title: An operating element arrangement for controlling the longitudinal amd transverse movement of a motor vehicle
Inventor: ECKSTEIN LUTZ
IPC: B62D6/00
Filed: 1997-06-25
Abstract: An operating element arrangement with an operating element serving both for controlling the longitudinal movement and for controlling the transverse movement of a motor vehicle contains an arcuate operating element 1 which is articulated in a lower driver's seat region pivotably about a transverse control axis 3 perpendicular to the transverse direction of the vehicle, for the purpose of controlling the transverse movement of the vehicle, and being responsive to force applied in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, for the purpose of controlling the longitudinal movement of the vehicle, and which extends from there upwards, on at least one side of the driver's seat, laterally past the seat cushion 11 of the latter, where the said operating element terminates in an end handle 2a, 2b.
Patent GB-2327175-A (GB)
Title: Automatically downloading data according to predicted data requirements
Inventor: KNIGHT PHILIP ANDREW
IPC: H04W4/02
Filed: 1997-07-08
Abstract: In a cellular network, a base station analyses data associated with the calls made by users of that station in order to form usage profiles of users. The profiles are stored in a database, which is then used to calculate future usage. On the basis of those calculations, speculative connections are made available to specific users at times that are optimum from the station's perspective (eg during periods of low network activity), in anticipation of demand. The invention is particularly applicable to data networks wherein users typically access data services (such as Internet pages) at the same time each day. A change analyser may be included in order to determine the degree of change occurring in data pages and decide whether a whole page or just the modifications to the page should be sent to the subscriber. Call related data may include dialled call destination, time of call, location from which call is dialled out/received, access to Internet, access to information services etc.
Patent GB-2315468-A (GB)
Title: Method and part for fitting a seat to a vehicle
Inventor: COZZANI HENRI
IPC: B60N2/015
Filed: 1997-07-09
Abstract: A method of mounting a seat 25 in a vehicle uses a part 1 that clips onto the seat and onto the vehicle floor prior to securing the seat with a screw. A number of the parts may be clipped to the seat and then the seat may be introduced into the vehicle and the parts clipped into holes 36 in the vehicle floor 35. The part may be a one piece moulding with a hook (7 figure 3) and a shaft 6 intended to clip onto a rail 27 of the seat and a stem 20 with resilient edges 22 intended to clip into the hole in the vehicle floor.
Patent GB-2317068-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for displaying an image
Inventor: SCHWARZENBERGER PAUL
IPC: G02F1/1333
Filed: 1997-08-27
Abstract: Apparatus for displaying an image has a display area comprising a plurality of displays 2, 3 such as LCDs or CRTs each displaying a given part of the display area in a side by side arrangement facing in the same direction with gaps between them. A pair of arrays of converging lenses 6, 8 is provided in the path of light from the displays. Each array 6, 8 comprises lenses having the same focal length, and lenses in respective arrays have different focal lengths. The arrays have different pitches and lie in parallel planes in an afocal arrangement. The arrays expand and/or laterally shift the given parts of the display area to form a viewable image 12 of the whole display area in which the gaps between neighbouring parts of the image are less visible than the gaps between neighbouring parts of the display area.
Patent GB-2323483-A (GB)
Title: Electrical connector assembly
Inventor: PAGE THERON V
IPC: H01R13/658
Filed: 1997-12-11
Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (1) comprises an insulating housing (5) encircling a conducting shield (4) and a circuit board (2) enclosed by the shield (4) and terminating electrical cables (10). The shield (4) and the circuit board (2) provide a disconnectable electrical connection at a mating end (6) of the connector assembly (1), and sealant fills the interior of the insulating housing (5) and the spaces between the shield (4) and the circuit board (2).
Patent GB-2322672-A (GB)
Title: Direct-injection spark-ignition i.c. engine with spark electrode on the piston
Inventor: BIEMELT ANDREAS
IPC: F02F3/28
Filed: 1998-02-23
Abstract: A spark-ignition internal combustion engine 1 has at least one cylinder 2 with a combustion chamber bounded by a piston 3. A centre electrode 7 of a spark plug 6 projects fixedly into the combustion chamber, and an earth electrode 9 on the piston form part of an ignition system which supplies an ignition voltage and by means of which an ignition spark, which jumps between the electrodes 7, 9, for igniting a fuel/air mixture can be triggered at an ignition time dependent on the operating point of the internal combustion engine. A fuel injector 10, by means of which fuel can be injected directly into the combustion chamber, is arranged in the top 11 of a combustion chamber, in order to form an inflammable fuel/air mixture with combustion air which can be fed in through an inlet valve. The ignition and combustion conditions are improved since by the selection of suitable ignition times, and hence of corresponding spark lengths, it is possible to reduce incomplete combustion, eg misfiring, especially in the partial load range.
Patent GB-2335438-A (GB)
Title: Drying of skins
Inventor: RONAN THOMAS
IPC: C14B1/58
Filed: 1998-03-25
Abstract: A plurality of lamb-skins 1 are loaded onto hangers 2 on one of a plurality of trolley brackets 3 at a loading station 4 in a drying room. The trolley brackets 3 are driven along a conveyor (5) to a drying oven (6). The conveyor (5) is a single course having a tortuous pathway including a first pass leg (10), a second pass leg (11) and a third pass leg (15) in which the skins are dried in the oven (6) at a temperature of from 50'to 60'C and at an oven residence time of from 10 to 25 minutes in each pass. The skins are then drawn along a tortuous path in ambient air to an unloading station at which the dried skins are removed from the trolley brackets 3.
Patent GB-2321131-A (GB)
Title: Miniature quadrupole mass spectrometer array
Inventor: CHUTJIAN ARA
IPC: H01J49/42
Filed: 1996-10-11
Abstract: The present invention provides a miniature quadrupole mass spectrometer array (100) for the separation of ions, comprising a first pair of parallel, planar, nonmagnetic conducting rods (130) each having an axis of symmetry, a second pair of planar, nonmagnetic conducting rods (130) each having an axis of symmetry parrallel to said first pair of rods and disposed such that a line perpendicular to each of said first axes of symmetry and a line perpendicular to each of said second axes of symmetry bisect each other and form a generally 90 degree angle. A nonconductive top positioning plate (120) is positioned generally perpendicular to the first and second pairs of rods (130) and has an aperture for ion entrance (205) along an axis equidistant from each axis of each of the parallel rods (130), a nonconductive bottom positioning plate (145) is generally parallel to the top positioning plate (120) and has an aperture for ion exit (162) centered on an axis equidistant from each axis of symmetry of each of the parallel rods (162), means for maintaining a direct current voltage between the first and second pairs of rods, and means for applying a radio frequency voltage to the first and second pairs of rods.
Patent GB-2336665-A (GB)
Title: Door
Inventor: THOMAS PERIS WYN
IPC: F24C15/04
Filed: 1998-04-21
Abstract: A door 1 particularly designed for use in a domestic oven comprises a first panel 2 and a second panel 4 in spaced, substantially parallel relation to the first panel 2, there being connected to the first panel 2 one or more supports 8 to hold the second panel 4, said one or more supports 8 consisting of folded rigid sheet material. The support(s) 8 may include engagement surfaces 22, 24 for engaging opposite faces of the second panel 4. The support 8 may include two side portions 10 and two crosspieces 12, 14. The support 8 may be connected to the first panel 2, by use of an upper screw extending through an aperture in the support 8 (see Fig 4a), and a lower screw engaging a bracket adhered to the first panel (see Fig 4b). The panels 2, 4 may be of toughened glass.
Patent GB-2340969-A (GB)
Title: Data logging with a trigger band comparator
Inventor: CHEALE GRAHAM RUSSELL
IPC: G01V1/24
Filed: 1998-06-05
Abstract: Apparatus for logging input signal values (20,26,28) as a sequence of logged values and respective time periods for which the logged values subsist comprises a trigger-band comparator (24) for comparing an input signal value with a trigger-band of signal values to determine whether the value is within the trigger-band following a preceding logged value, and signal processing logic coupled to the comparator and responsive to the value being outside the trigger-band to trigger logging of a new logged value with a new time period and setting a new value (26) for the trigger-band, where the signal processing logic detects intermediate points with predetermined characteristics between the preceding and new values (20,26) and logs the intermediate points. The signal processing logic may also include an inner-band comparator, and the intermediate points may be logged at the most recent point where the signal was within the inner-band. The intermediate points may also be maximum or minimum values of the signals between the preceding and new logged values. The logged value may include a rate of change value (22).
Patent GB-2331349-A (GB)
Title: Gear-wheel for tachograph housing backlash reducing slip spring held by cover plate
Inventor: SAEGER BENJAMIN
IPC: G07C5/00
Filed: 1998-08-28
Abstract: An injection moulded gearwheel 1 provides a spring barrel 4 for accommodating a slip spring 15 used to compensate for tooth play in the driving gear of a tachograph. A cover plate 16 is provided to prevent axial escape of the slip spring 15 from the spring barrel 4. The cover plate 16 is fastened by resilient catch hooks 7, 9 moulded on a base 2 of the component 4 around a band 5 providing a pocket and sliding surface 6 for the spring 15. Preferably a washer is used as the cover plate 16.
Patent GB-2328410-A (GB)
Title: Air bag device
Inventor: YOSHIOKA KAZUHIKO
IPC: B60R21/26
Filed: 1997-08-27
Abstract: An air bag device comprising received inside a case 2 a substantially cylindrical inflator 4, an air bag 3 inflated by gas generated by the inflator, and a diffuser 5 disposed covering the inflator for regulating the flow of the gas, wherein the diffuser is provided with a plurality of gas delivery openings 52 for guiding gas generated by the inflator into the air bag; and the plurality of gas delivery openings are so disposed that their opening area on a side Q on which an air bag upper part to constitute an upper part of the deployed air bag is fitted is greater than their opening area on the side P on which an air bag lower part to constitute a lower part of the deployed air bag is fitted so that gas is more guided into the air bag upper part than into the air bag lower part.
Patent GB-2343091-A (GB)
Title: Electronic business card exchange
Inventor: PORTER LAWRENCE LEON
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 1998-10-19
Abstract: The method comprises acquiring electronic information from a first smart card 21A; acquiring an electronic address from a second smart card 21B; and sending the information from the first smart card to the electronic address of the second card. This allows electronic information from one smart card to be sent to an e-mail location contained on another smart card without the e-mail location of the second smart card being manually entered by the card carrier. The method combines Smart Card technology, embedded systems and standard e-mail. The individual's personal details are carried in an applet on a smart card device such as a Java Ring (TM) or IButton (TM) or traditional Smart Card. Low-cost, network-attached readers 10 are provided in locations where business cards are normally exchanged. The act of inserting two Smart Card devices into the reader automatically starts up an application which reads the details (including the e-mail addresses) from the two cards. The application then e-mails the business card details of one participant to the e-mail address of the other, and vice versa. Optionally, a mail agent at the recipient's mail server automatically files the business card details in the correct place. Alternatively the recipient can file the e-mail in a special business contacts folder manually when next accessing his/her e-mail.
Patent GB-2331264-A (GB)
Title: Hand-held scraping tool
Inventor: LANGELAAN MARTIN JOHN
IPC: B44D3/16
Filed: 1998-11-13
Abstract: A handle 2 has an integral connector 7, for connection with a suction hose 38, and has hand-grip ribs 13-16. A head 6 projects below the handle 7 with a transverse slot-shaped bottom opening 20, and a blade 22 extends along the front margin of the opening with a scraping edge 27 projecting below the opening. An upstanding projection 17 at the junction between the head 6 and the handle 2 has a front face 21 which slopes forwardly and downwardly to the blade 22 for applying manual pressure to the scraping head.
Patent GB-2335203-A (GB)
Title: Oxidising doped silicon films
Inventor: SUGIYAMA SATORU
IPC: C23C16/56
Filed: 1999-03-11
Abstract: A manufacturing process for a semiconductor device, comprises injecting a silane compound and a dopant into a low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor to deposit a doped silicon film on a wafer; and at the end of the deposition, injecting an oxidizing gas to form an oxide film over the silicon film deposited in the reactor. Anomalous growth or generation of foreign matters such as particles during a deposition step can be effectively minimized to improve a production yield and provide a high-quality and highly reliable semiconductor device. The dopant is preferably a phosphorus compound. In a modification an oxidising gas is injected into a CVD reactor to deposit an oxide film over a silicon film deposited on a wafer, this wafer is replaced with another wafer, and a silane compound and a silane compound and a dopant are injected into the reactor to deposit a doped silicon film on said another wafer. A CVD apparatus is also disclosed which comprises a heater, a reaction tube provided with exhaust means, injectors for injecting a silane compound and a dopant 9, 10, 11 into the reaction tube, means for injecting an oxidizing gas from at least one of the injectors, means for placing a wafer in the reaction tube and for removing the wafer from the reaction tube.
Patent GB-2356525-A (GB)
Title: Method of resolving collisions in direct mode operation
Inventor: CARMON RAFAEL
IPC: H04L12/28
Filed: 1999-11-08
Abstract: A method of resolving collisions between transmissions in a system in which users use transceivers such as half-duplex RF transceivers to talk to each other on a common channel. During transmission, each transceiver detects pauses in its user's speech, for example using a Voice Activity Detection algorithm. During a pause, the transceiver monitors the common channel for transmissions of other transceivers. If the transceiver detects such transmissions, it disables itself temporarily from transmitting and generates a busy signal to the user.
Patent GB-995550-A (GB)
IPC: A47L9/04
Abstract: 995,550. Suction cleaners. LICENTIA PATENT VERWALTUNGS G.m.b.H. March 28, 1962 [April 4, 1961], No. 11918/62. Heading A4F. In a suction cleaner the motor driven brushing or beating roller 3 is mounted within a nozzle casing for swinging movement with respect to the mouth of the nozzle about a horizontal axis remote from and parallel to the roller axis. The roller 3, which is formed as an eccentric mass, is mounted at the free ends of rock levers 8 and secured by clamping springs 16, while the other ends of the rock levers are bent over and mounted between rubber members in bearing slots 7 of journals 6. Horizontal lugs 18 secured to the levers 8 are interposed between stops 11 mounted on brackets 13 adjustable by screws 10, to limit adjustably the amplitude of oscillation of the levers. In an alternative embodiment the roller 3 is mounted on resilient oscillating arms clamped at their ends, and in another the rock levers are oscillated with variable amplitude by two rotatable co-axial eccentrics.
Patent GB-191214011-A (GB)
IPC: G06C11/00
Abstract: 14,011. Haddan, R., [National Cash Register Co.]. June 15. Type-wheel machines; column and like printing - arrangements.-In calculating - apparatus such as is described in Specifications 9588/03, [Class 106, Registering &c.], and 15,532/06, the type-wheels can be moved bodily to any lateral position in order to print a column of items at a selected point of the relatively stationary record-strip and type-actuating members; the type-carriers can also be split or divided into sections at a predetermined point so that two columns of items may be simultaneously printed at any selected lateral positions of the paper. In machines of the type referred to, a depressed key 1, Fig. 1, in any bank co-operates with a locking-device 10 and with one of a series of pins 19 on the corresponding denominational spring-controlled slide-bar 2. Upon the forward movement of the operating-lever 3 a bail 18 normally restraining the slide-bars is moved forwards and allows the slide-bars to undergo their differential movement, the typecarriers being set by means of racks 33 attached to the slide-bars, and a corresponding movement communicated to the registering racks. The type-wheels, Fig. 9, consist of partly toothed disks 42, on each of which is mounted a series of movable types 44; the type-wheels and the actuating-pinions 38 are mounted on feathered shafts 37, 36 so that they can be moved as a whole together with the type-hammers 63, 65 in either direction across the machine by means of one of the side frames 76 and its projecting knob 77. The pinions 38 are rotated by their shafts from pinions 34, Fig. 1, which engage directly with the racks 33. The knobs 77 can be held in position with reference to a scale by means of catches 81 engaging in depressions 82 of the framing. Between the fifth and the sixth denominations of the printing-mechanism another knob 77<a> is provided, by means of which the type-wheels can be divided into two sections, Fig. 5, and the sections adjusted in suitable positions with reference to the recordstrip. Hammer - impression arrangements. - The spring-controlled type hammers 63, 65, Fig. 9, are adjustably mounted on a shaft 64, and there is a lost-motion connexion between their two parts, which are further connected by a spring. Cams 62 mounted on the shaft 37, which is driven through a clutch 55, 56, Fig. 2, in one direction only by a sector 50, Fig. 1, and pinion 53, energize the hammers; the hammers when released by the cams are forced rearwards by their springs, but, when the parts 63 are stopped by the cams, the lost-motion connexion enables the inertia of the parts 65 to exert their full percussive effect on the typebars 44. Line-spacing mechanism.-A cam disk 87. Fig. 2, on the shaft 37, by means of a pin 88, reciprocates a plate 89 carrying a pawl 92, Fig. 2, which actuates a ratchet-wheel 91 fixed to the platen spindle. Ink-ribbon mechanism.-A pawl 94, Fig. 2, on the plate 89 drives a ratchet 95 attached to the ink-ribbon spool 96.