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Patent GB-2388290-A (GB)
Title: A tool to lift unwanted roots from the soil
Inventor: HOLLANDS THOMAS HAROLD ALFRED
IPC: A01B1/18
Filed: 2002-05-10
Abstract: A root extractor includes a long metal handle 1 welded to a metal box 2. This box is pivotally hinged via a rod 12 to a similar box 8. Two rods 4 & 7 are welded respectively to the top of each of the boxes such as to form the teeth of the root extractor. In use the end of the root to be removed is fed into the void A between jaws 4 & 7. Pulling on the handle causes the jaws to close around the root, gripping it firmly. With plate 13 acting as a steadying aid the root may be pulled out of the ground by the further levering action of the handle. The device is of an all metal construction.
Patent GB-2374182-A (GB)
Title: The acoustic encoding of dynamic identification codes
Inventor: LABATON ISAAC J
IPC: G07F7/10
Filed: 2000-12-19
Abstract: Methods for identifying a remote user at a portable device by using the portable device to encode sound corresponding to the identification of the remote user. The sound is received by a microphone external to the portable device and converted to an electrical signal. The electrical signal is transmitted to a processing device, that may be remote to the microphone, where the electrical signal is processed and the identification of the remote user is completed.
Patent GB-2391067-A (GB)
Title: Pressure calibration devices
Inventor: MANKIA HARBHAJAN SINGH
IPC: G01L27/00
Filed: 2002-07-23
Abstract: A device for calibrating fluid pressure-sensitive instruments, eg. pressure gauge 10, comprises a piston and cylinder pump 1 and a pressure centre 2, the pump outlet connected through a first non-return valve 6, to supply fluid under pressure to the inlet of the pressure centre 2 and the pump inlet 5 connected through a second non-return valve 7 to a source of fluid. Opposite sides of the first non-return valve 6 are connected by a passage in which is a bridging valve 13 which when closed retains fluid pressure in the pressure centre 2 and when opened permits fluid to flow between the pressure centre and the pump. When the bridging valve 13 is open the pump piston may be used to increase or reduce fluid pressure in the pressure head under precise control.
Patent GB-2383268-A (GB)
Title: Method for predicting a golfer's ball-striking performance
Inventor: LIGOTTI PETER
IPC: A63B57/00
Filed: 2002-12-13
Abstract: A method for predicting a golfer's performance comprises determining by analysis the pre-impact properties of a golfer's swing with a first golf club, inputting these properties together with a plurality of both club head and ball properties to form a body code for the golfer, generating ball launch parameters from the body code, inputting possible atmospheric conditions and known lift and drag properties for the ball, from whence a trajectory code is predicted for the performance of the golfer with the first club and ball combination, this trajectory code including flight distance, possible dispersion, trajectory shape and apex. The system can then use the trajectory code to predict performance of the golfer with different balls and/or clubs without the need for the golfer's swing for these combinations to be measured.
Patent GB-2400360-A (GB)
Title: Goods container with movable lifting device
Inventor: CARTWRIGHT ALAN JOHN
IPC: B60P1/02
Filed: 2003-03-05
Abstract: A goods container such as a road haulage vehicle trailer has a floor (2), opposite side walls (3, 4) and a load lifting device (15) movable along the floor (2). The load lifting device (15) has a platform (27) movable up and down on an upright frame (16). This frame (16) is located alongside one side wall (3) and has an upper transverse extension (17) with wheels (26) at its free end which are urged into contact with the opposite side wall (4). The frame (16) has wheels (24) at its bottom end which run on a raised surface (13) along the side wall (3). The floor (1) may be stepped with a raised leading end region (12) and the raised surface (13) may be level with this.
Patent GB-2384685-A (GB)
Title: Jewellery with touch stone retained by anchor stone
Inventor: PACHAUER WERNER
IPC: A44C17/04
Filed: 2000-08-11
Abstract: A jewellery piece (18 see fig 2) comprises a setting 24, an anchor gemstone 20 and a touch gemstone 22. The setting 24 typically comprises a base 26 and a retaining means which preferably holds the anchor gemstone 20. The pavilion 14 of the anchor gemstone 20 and of a further anchor gemstone may retain the touch gemstone 22 by contact with a crown portion 12 of the touch gemstone 22. Each gemstone also preferably comprises a girdle 16. The setting 24 may comprise channel walls 28 to retain the anchor gemstones 20. The channel walls 28 preferably do not run between either of the anchor gemstones 20 and the touch gemstone 22. The jewellery piece (18) may comprise rows of such anchor gemstones 20 and a row of touch gemstones 22. A method of setting such gemstones comprises placing the gemstones into base cavities 32 and preferably tightening the gemstones using a wedge 38.
Patent GB-2388279-A (GB)
Title: Secure transmission of audio signals
Inventor: COURTNEY PETER
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2003-06-12
Abstract: In a headset 14 audio speech signals are picked up by the microphone 25, where they are digitally sampled before being encoded by a vocoder 26. The coded speech data is then provided to a CRC module 27, where error correction data is added before the resulting data is encrypted by an encryption module 22. The resulting encrypted data is transmitted using a Bluetooth radio interface 24, by which the headset is connected wirelessly to a mobile telephone (Figure 1). Received data is decrypted by a decryption module 23, error corrected by an error correction module 28 and decoded by a decoder 29, with the resulting audio signals then being reproduced at a speaker 30. When a user wants to instigate a telephone call with another telephone, the headset 14 is caused to send a control signal to the mobile telephone instructing it to enter a data mode. A data call is then set up and, once established, the CPU 20 controls the setting up of a 128 bit encryption key which is subsequently used for communications between the headset 14 and a corresponding device associated with the recipient of the call. Encryption and decryption are performed only at the headset 14. This provides increased security since even if the call can be intercepted, the interceptor will need to decrypt the signals before being able to reproduce the audio signals. The encryption key comprises a session key which may be periodically changed by selection of a new key from a catalogue of keys and transmitting the new session key to the recipient in encrypted form.
Patent GB-2404533-A (GB)
Title: Multicarrier transmission using overlapping frequency channels.
Inventor: FINES PANAGIOTIS
IPC: H04L5/06
Filed: 2003-07-15
Abstract: Multicarrier transmission to a receiver from multiple antennas arranges transmission pairs to overlap in time and frequency, and sub-receivers recover the data using narrowband embedded pilot sequences. A stream (fig. 3) of pilot (P) and data (Q) symbols are spread onto successive frequency channels (fig. 2). The data channels are allowed to partially overlap in frequency (figs. 10-13) by spacing them on the order of the signal symbol rate, and the data may include parity bits for Forward Error Correction. The pilot symbols can be repeated so as to result in a narrowband spectrum (fig. 7) and used in adaptive channel estimation at the receiver.
Patent GB-2393658-A (GB)
Title: Penis holder
Inventor: KAISER GERD
IPC: A61F5/40
Filed: 2003-08-14
Abstract: The device holds and stretches the penis to facilitate self catheterisation. The device is generally "U" shaped and made of a flexible polymeric material such that the handling zones 5 can be pulled apart to open the device (figure 2) so that the penis shaft can be placed inside. The thick base of the U shape is intended to be supported on the thighs and lifts the penis for catheterisation.
Patent GB-2403564-A (GB)
Title: A system for generating customised odds for an event
Inventor: ASHER JOSEPH M
IPC: G06Q40/04
Filed: 2003-10-24
Abstract: A system (10) for managing bets comprises a memory (40) and a processor (38). The memory stores information associated with a field of participants (80) for an event, each participant associated with particular odds for the event. The processor receives a bet that a lead participant (82) from the field of participants will finish in a particular subset of finishing positions in the event, wherein the bet (12) is associated with customized odds (86). The processor further select one or more additional participants (84) from the field of participants to add to the bet such that the odds associated with the lead participant combined with the odds associated with the one or more selected additional participants at least approximates the customized odds for the bet. The system can be applied to pari-mutuel wagering events and can deal with exacta, trifecta, superfecta or quinella bets for events such as horse racing.
Patent GB-2396718-A (GB)
Title: A logic circuit for carry and sum gereration
Inventor: JACKSON ROBERT CHARLES
IPC: G06F7/50
Filed: 2003-11-14
Abstract: A logic circuit for generation of a carry or sum bit output by combining two sets of binary inputs, the logic circuit comprises bit level carry generate and propagate function logic for receiving the binary inputs and for generating bit level carry generate and propagate function bits for said binary inputs by respectively logically AND and OR combining respective bits of said binary inputs; first logic for receiving bit level carry generate and propagate function bits for a first group of at least three most significant bits of said binary inputs to generate a high output if a carry is generated out of the first group of most significant bits of said binary input or if said carry propagate function bits for the most significant bits are all high; second logic for receiving bit level carry generate and propagate function bits for said binary inputs to generate a high output if any of said carry generate function bits for the most significant bits are high or if a carry is generated out of a second group of least significant bits of said binary input; and combining logic for generating the carry or sum bit output by combining outputs of said first and second logic.
Patent GB-2392674-A (GB)
Title: Mesenchymal cells and osteoblasts from human embryonic stem cell
Inventor: XU CHUNHUI
IPC: C12N5/0775
Filed: 2002-07-03
Abstract: This invention provides populations of mesenchymal cells obtained from pluripotent stem cells by differentiating them ex vivo. Multipotent mesenchymal cells can in turn be differentiated into more specialized cell types such as osteoblasts, with properties that make them suitable for reconstituting musculoskeletal cell function in an individual. The compositions, methods, and techniques described in this disclosure can be used for a variety of commercially important diagnostic, drug screening, and therapeutic applications.
Patent GB-2410656-A (GB)
Title: Secure delivery of encryption key by splitting it amongst messages from many sources to hinder interception
Inventor: KALOGRIDIS GEORGIOS
IPC: H04L9/08
Filed: 2004-01-29
Abstract: A network (20) of communication devices is provided, the network comprising a first device (10) seeking to initiate a secure communication link and a plurality of network devices (21, 22, 23) adapted to communicate securely using a secret encryption key. The plurality of devices each send the first device a unique message including part of the secret encryption key. Splitting the key delivery between many messages makes it harder to intercept, and is particularly useful in wireless networks. (See Figs 3,4). The key parts may be encrypted with an already known weak encryption key.
Patent GB-2398053-A (GB)
Title: Anchor for vehicle,vehicle and anchor in combination,and method of using the anchor
Inventor: BRUNNING PAUL JONATHAN
IPC: B63B21/26
Filed: 2002-12-20
Abstract: A seabed anchor (20) is fixed to and deployable from an ROV (10) for positively anchoring the ROV (10) to the seabed (100). The seabed anchor (20) comprises three nested telescoping tubes (26, 28, and 30). The upper end of the outermost tube (26) is fixed to the ROV (10). A rotary drill bit (38) is carried on the output shaft of a motor (34) that is mounted on the lower end of the innermost tube (30). The nested assembly of three telescopic tubes (26, 28, 30) can be controllably extended and retracted by controlled operation of a hydraulic ram or other linear actuator coupled between the outer tube (26) and the inner tube (30). Each of the tubes (26, 28 and 30) carries a respective one or two pairs of inflatable packers (40, 42, and 44) that are normally uninflated and lie quiescent within respective recesses in the sides of the tubes where the packers do not interfere with telescopic relative movements of the tubes. To set the seabed anchor (20), the drill bit (38) is rotated and forced downwards into the seabed (100) to form a bore. When the bore is at its full depth, the packers (40, 42, and 44) are inflated to force the packers into penetrating engagement with the seabed (100) surrounding the bore, thereby anchoring the ROV (10) to the seabed (100). The seabed anchor (20) allows the ROV (10) to be firmly anchored onto the seabed (100) to resist upward reaction forces arising from ROV-carried geotechnical tools and/or sensors (e.g. a soil sampling tool) being made to penetrate the seabed (100). The seabed anchor (20) is particularly useful for ROVs which are neutrally buoyant or slightly positively buoyant, and which therefore have negligible weight (when fully submerged) for holding them down onto the seabed against upward reaction forces.
Patent GB-2420152-A (GB)
Title: Pressure-charged gasoline internal combustion engine
Inventor: TURNER JAMES WILLIAM GRIFFITH
IPC: F02B33/34
Filed: 2004-11-10
Abstract: An expander 220 is used to expand gases previously compressed in a compressor, eg of a turbocharger 207, and cooled in an intercooler 209 in order to reduce the temperature and pressure of the charge air while returning work to the crankshaft eg via a belt drive. This "turboexpansion", together with direct injection (GDI), reduces the end-of compression temperature in the engine by reducing the compression ratio. The engine may comprise combustion chambers 210, 211, 212 each having a pair of inlet valves and a pair of electronically controlled hydraulically actuated exhaust valves a, b. A duct 201 connects exhaust valves a to turbocharger turbine 207a the exhausted gases from which are combined with exhaust gas from exhaust valves b. Valves a and b are controlled independently thus enabling control of the turbocharger 207. Charge air may be drawn in via air filter 204 and pressurised by a supercharger 205 before further compression in the compressor 207b of the turbocharger 207. Supercharger 205 may be used only on start-up and/or at low speeds and bypassed otherwise so that only the turbocharger 207 is used. In a modification, fig.6, exhaust gases from exhaust valves a,b drive high- and low-pressure tubochargers, respectively. The engine may operate with controlled auto-ignition (CAI/ HCCI).
Patent GB-2405598-A (GB)
Title: Method for playing a question and answer game
Inventor: ZHELEZNYAKOV NIKOLAI ALEKSANDR
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 2002-05-23
Abstract: The inventive method consists in marking sold articles with codes and storing them in a server database. Questions and answers are formed and transmitted to user devices. A random code is produced and compared with a user code. The number (N) of questions is determined according to an expression N=S-M+k, wherein S is the total number of symbols in the sequence of the random code, M is a number of coincided symbols in the sequence of random and user code, k is a whole number. The operations of transmitting questions from the server and receiving correct answers from the user device are repeated, the number of transmitted questions and received correct answers being limited according to said mathematical expression. The played user codes are stored in the server database in order to prevent the participation thereof in following draws.
Patent GB-2408473-A (GB)
Title: Press- forming method,Press- forming machine and Press-formed product
Inventor: MORITA TSUKASA
IPC: B21D53/88
Filed: 2004-11-17
Abstract: A plurality of plates are prepared and end faces of the plurality of plates are butt joined to obtain a blank 110 having joined portions 140. The blank has deformed-shape sections 150 formed in the vicinity of the joined portion 140 so as to deform in a direction along which peripheral lengths of the deformed-shape sections 150 are stretched. Press-forming, involving stretch-flange formation, is carried out on the blank 110 so as to allow the joined portions 140 to be included in respective stretching regions. Also, the stretch-flange formation is carried out on the blank while restraining ends of the joined portion of the blank.
Patent GB-2405475-A (GB)
Title: Acoustic subsea monitoring system
Inventor: SVEIN ARILD HAUGEN
IPC: G01S11/14
Filed: 2003-05-16
Abstract: The invention relates to a subsea monitoring system with at least 3 three-dimensionally placed hydrophones. The hydrophones are fixed at a distance from the equipment to be monitored, so that the sound that is produced by the monitored objects is emitted through the water. The system is direction sensitive and can separate sounds of different equipment from each other, in order to manage simultaneous monitoring of a number of equipment objects of different types.
Patent GB-2410922-A (GB)
Title: Textured paint effect
Inventor: MARSHALL ANDY SEAN
IPC: B05D5/06
Filed: 2005-02-11
Abstract: A surface such as a body panel of a vehicle is given a decorative effect by coating it with adhesive lacquer, applying a heat-stamp light-reactive metallic foil to the lacquer before it sets, stripping off the backing of the foil and applying pressure to the foil, the whole operation being carried out at room temperature. Solid colours can be applied over the foil and can be unevenly distributed by rag rolling. A final layer of lacquer is then applied.
Patent GB-2425052-A (GB)
Title: Height adjustable car seat
Inventor: NIELD DAVID
IPC: B60N2/16
Filed: 2005-04-14
Abstract: A horizontally and vertically adjustable car seat can be raised to an elevated position, preferably to a height of 43cm from the floor. The elevated position reduces stress on the hips and back of a user, particularly elderly users. The seat can be used in a car with a high roof level and having an adjustable steering arrangement to ensure that a fully personalised driving position can be adopted.
Patent GB-2413869-A (GB)
Title: Transmission line routed between power conductors
Inventor: WOOD JOHN
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 2003-02-14
Abstract: A system for communicating over a lossy medium such as a very narrow transmission line that is high impedance. Such a transmission line saves space in an integrated circuit but creates problems over sufficiently long distances. A bipolar pulse driver P1,N1 sends Tx either a positive or a negative pulse over the lossy medium and a self-biased receiver P2, N2, P3, N3 receives Rx the pulse and amplifies it to a logic level Q. They lossy transmission line Tx/Rx is routed between a power supply VDD and a ground VSS trace that supply power to both the driver and receiver. The transmission line and self-biased receiver form a high pass filter to reject noise from the supplies. A multi-phase rotary traveling wave oscillator can be used to generate the positive or negative pulse, which may have a duration equal to the time difference between any two adjacent phases of the traveling wave oscillator. The driver may include circuitry for transition-encoding data and the receiver may include circuitry for decoding such data.
Patent GB-2426565-A (GB)
Title: Foot operated control device with rotary joint
Inventor: AYRE MARK ROY
IPC: G06F3/033
Filed: 2005-05-26
Abstract: A control device for operation by the foot which consists of a foot plate 1 with or without control buttons, attached to a base 2 by a rotary joint 3 which allows limited bidirectional rotation of the foot plate around two principal axes (y) and (z) centred on the rotary joint, allowing 360 degree direction and variable magnitude control signals to be generated by sensing the displacement of the foot plate and/or rotary joint caused by the controlled foot 4. The rotary joint may or may not be sprung such that it will return to a neutral position in the absence of any controlling forces. The sensors may be analogue or digital.
Patent GB-2426983-A (GB)
Title: Roofing system
Inventor: MCGEEVER PATRICK
IPC: E04D3/32
Filed: 2005-06-06
Abstract: A roofing system comprises a planar covering portion 20 for overlying the trusses 102 of a building, and beam members 24 extending from a surface of the planar portion 20, these being adapted to be situated between adjacent trusses. The member 20 may be of plastics and the beams 24 integral, cross beams 30 may be fastened to trusses 102 and beams 24 fastened to the cross beams, e.g. by clamps. H - section members (Fig 5, not shown) may receive edges of adjacent sheets 20 to couple them together.
Patent GB-2410959-A (GB)
Title: Method for surface hardening of thermo rolls
Inventor: BLOMSTER KARI
IPC: C21D9/38
Filed: 2004-01-14
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for hardening steel rolls. In the method, the residual stress distribution resulting from the hardening is changed to correspond essentially to the stress load caused by the thermal load of the thermo roll. In the method, the thermo roll is first preheated to the Ms temperature or above it, then surface heated for hardening to above temperature A3, and finally quenching is carried out and continued until the temperature falls below about 160{C.
Patent GB-2428217-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for forming grooves in cylindrical surfaces
Inventor: JENKINS PETER DAVID
IPC: B21D17/04
Filed: 2005-07-13
Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for forming circumferential grooves 14 in the exterior surface of a linear member 10, such as a tube. The grooves 14 are formed by rotating a cylindrical cutting element 120 around the tube such that cutting means 122 in the cylindrical cutting element 120 form the grooves 14. One rotation of the cylindrical cutting element 120 causes multiple grooves 14 to be formed in the surface of the tubes 10.
Patent GB-2430844-A (GB)
Title: Air interface technique for E-UTRA transmissions
Inventor: WHINNETT NICK W
IPC: H04L27/26
Filed: 2005-10-03
Abstract: In a Discrete Fourier Transform-Spread Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (DFT-SOFDM) transmitter for Evolved-UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) signals, each of two cascaded phase rotators 203 and 205 multiply an incoming complex Binary Phase Shift Keyed (BPSK) symbol by some complex value in accordance with different phase rotation constraints in order to prevent transmitters aligning in the In phase/Quadrature (IQ) domain. For example, 203 could output a pi/2 BPSK modulated signal by multiplying by a j, 1, j, 1, ... sequence, which 205 then multiplied by a j, j, j, 1, 1, 1, -1, -1, -1 ... scrambling code, reducing alignment interference and the required amplifier back-off. The symbols are then converted to groups (101) and directly coupled to an M-point DFT (105), without being mapped to constellation as in prior art (103), before entering an N>M-point inverse DFT (107) to retrieve a time domain signal.
Patent GB-2436814-A (GB)
Title: Pencil sharpener
Inventor: BRADLEY TIMOTHY JOHN
IPC: F16B23/00
Filed: 2006-04-08
Abstract: Pencil sharpener 10 comprises a blade 14 and a body 12. The blade 14 is attached to the body 12 by a safety screw 16. This may have a head which cannot be engaged by a flat bladed or crosshead screwdriver (figures 2-7). Alternatively, it may be a one-way screw.