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Patent GB-2428337-A (GB)
Title: Enhanced jack with plug engaging printed circuit board
Inventor: DENOVICH SAM
IPC: H01R24/58
Filed: 2006-07-12
Abstract: An electrical connector (for example a telecommunications jack) comprising: a housing 26 having a wire receiving end 24 and a mating end 22, a printed circuit board (PCB) 100 having a plurality of contacts 20, the printed circuit board 100 being mounted within the housing 26. The PCB 100 has a connector insertion opening 102 in which a second electrical mating connector such as a plug may be inserted. The plurality of contacts 20 is configured to extend from the PCB 100. Two contacts 20 forming a contact set may be provided for a single contact of a corresponding mating connector. Each contact set preferably comprises a signal contact and a compensation contact. Since the mating connector plugs into a hole in the printed circuit board a more rigid connection is provided. The contacts 20 are preferable of short length and adverse effects of crosstalk are reduced.
Patent GB-2440393-A (GB)
Title: A clamping system for detachably attaching individual spiral blades from a conventional cylinder mower.
Inventor: CARTWRIGHT JONATHAN
IPC: A01D34/52
Filed: 2006-07-24
Abstract: A clamping system for detachably attaching individual spiral blades 4 from a conventional cylinder mower, thereby allowing damaged blades to be removed and either sharpened or replaced for example. The clamping system comprises seating bodies, tapered clamps and anti-vibration bolts. The seating body 1 may be integral to, welded, or fixed by other means to a number of radial discs (16, Fig 6) that support the spiral blades, and has a flat surface 12 and an opposing tapered surface 5. The spiral blade is clamped to the seating body, by a tapered clamp that is detachably secured to the seating clamp via the anti-vibration bolt 3, which when tightened, forces the tapered clamp downwards and sideways forcing the spiral blade into the flat surface of the seating body. The tapered clamps and seating body are angled to accommodate the angle produced by the twist in the spiral blades. The tapered clamp may have a locating pin 6 which rests in a hole/slot 9 in the spiral body thereby aiding the location of the blade in the clamping system. The anti-vibration bolt may have cross holes for the insertion of a split pin, to prevent the bolt from loosening.
Patent GB-2443237-A (GB)
Title: Communications system for an underwater fluid extraction facility
Inventor: ROBINSON GERALD IAN
IPC: E21B47/12
Filed: 2006-08-17
Abstract: A subsea electronic module (SEM, 16) in a hydrocarbon extraction field facility 14 communicates with a remote surface Master Control Station (MCS, 9) via a Local Area Network in which switched data packets are transmitted at the full data rate, instead of being time division multiplexed on virtual channels of a single bus (fig. 1). LANs can be built up from commercial modems, routers, switches and cables allowing high bandwidth (eg. 100 Base Ethernet), capable of accommodating sophisticated sensors and real time video streams, for a fraction of the cost of specially designed bus systems. Star configurations of several SEM's form a secondary Etherhub 15 which communicates with a primary Etherhub 13 connected to the MCS, via Optical Ethernet Media Converters (OEMCs, 10 and 12) at either end of a 600 km long fibre optic cable 11.
Patent GB-2429361-A (GB)
Title: Method for path and bundle locking in a video processing device
Inventor: PAULSEN ARND
IPC: H04Q3/52
Filed: 2005-01-29
Abstract: A method is proposed for controlling a device for the distribution of audio, video, data and control signals with respect to path and bundle locking, as well as unlocking. The device has a number of inputs and outputs which can be connected by switching and cover signal paths. The method according to the invention comprises the following steps: signal paths are completely locked and unlocked by automatic locking and unlocking, respectively, of the switching processes involved. Signal paths are joined together to form signal bundles. All of the signal paths involved are automatically locked and unlocked during the locking and unlocking, respectively, of signal bundles.
Patent GB-2437373-A (GB)
Title: Heat transfer compositions
Inventor: LOW ROBERT ELLIOTT
IPC: C09K5/04
Filed: 2006-10-03
Abstract: A heat transfer compositions comprise: <SL> <LI>(i) R-1225ye; <LI>(ii) at least one further refrigerant selected from carbon dioxide (R-744); fluoromethane (R-41); fluoroethane (R-161); 1,1,1 -trifluoroethane (R143 a); 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a); 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134); dimethyl ether; heptafluoroproane (R-227ea); propane (R-290); propene (R-1270); isobutane (R-600a); n-butane (R-600) 2,3,3,3- tetrafluoropropene (R-1234yf); 1,1-difluorocyclopropane; 1,1,2-trifluorocyclopropane; 1,1,2,2-tetrafluorocyclopropane; pentafluorocyclopropane, pentafluoroethane (R-125) or ammonia or mixtures thereof. Further similar mixtures form the basis of preferred embodiments including compositions based on the isomer R-1225yeZ and similar co-refrigerants in differing combinations. The compositions are used for conventional refrigeration applications such as automobile air conditioning or as aerosol propellants or in vapour phase heating or cooling applications. </SL>
Patent GB-2432446-A (GB)
Title: Occupant classification system and method
Inventor: MURAD MOHANNAD
IPC: B60N2/90
Filed: 2005-06-10
Abstract: A system for classifying an occupant located on a vehicle seat comprising a controller configured to receive signals from a plurality of sensors for detecting the vertical forces on the seat. The controller is configured to determine whether the detected vertical forces are indicative of the weight of the seat and the weight of the occupant located on the vehicle seat.
Patent GB-2436694-A (GB)
Title: Requesting VoIP communication with an agent from a website and sending product data associated with the customer to the agent
Inventor: SRINIVASAN THIRU
IPC: H04M7/00
Filed: 2007-03-15
Abstract: Adding information associated with one or more items and/ or products to a virtual shopping cart associated with an entity, such as a customer browsing a website. The described implementations may detect a request to establish a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications session, the request made by the entity (customer), and retrieve product data associated with the information in the virtual shopping cart. The product data may be bundled with VoIP session parameters usable to establish a VoIP communications session with the entity. The website may have a VoIP button that enables the customer to establish VoIP with an agent of the website. Clicking on the VoIP button causes data associated wit the goods contained in the shopping cart to be delivered to an agent before the VoIP session is initiated. In general, delivery of the data associated with the goods may accelerate the process of purchasing goods online.
Patent GB-2447614-A (GB)
Title: Lockable mounting unit for bicycle accessories
Inventor: MAN WAI CHI
IPC: B62J6/00
Filed: 2007-03-22
Abstract: A lockable mounting unit for bicycle accessories comprises a main body 2, a connecting member 1 adjustably connected to a bicycle accessory and adapted to be movable only in a lateral direction relative to the main body when the connecting member is engaged with the main body at an engaged position, a lock core receiving recess 11 provided at a bottom end of the connecting member facing the main body, a mounting collar 3 which is connected with the main body for securing the lockable mounting unit to a part of a bicycle, and a locking means 4 disposed in the main body and operated by a key 42, which at a locking position uplifts a lock core 41 so that a top end of the lock core is exposed out of the main body 2 to engage with the lock core receiving recess and thereby preventing lateral displacement of the main body relative to the connecting member, and at an unlocking position lowers the lock core 41 completely into the main body 2 and thereby allowing lateral displacement of the main body relative to the connecting member.
Patent GB-2438481-A (GB)
Title: Measuring a characteristic of a well proximate a region to be gravel packed
Inventor: PATEL DINESH R
IPC: E21B47/12
Filed: 2007-04-23
Abstract: A gravel pack service tool 108 is lowered into a well 104. At least one sensor 116 proximate a well region to be gravel packed measures at least one characteristic of the well, where the measuring is performed during a gravel pack operation by the gravel pack service tool. The gravel pack service tool is removed from the well after the gravel pack operation. The sensor may form part of a lower completion section 110 which transmits measurement data to an upper completion section 300 through an induction coupler 112, 114.
Patent GB-2449470-A (GB)
Title: OFDM-MIMO Radio Frequency Transmission System
Inventor: HAFFENDEN OLIVER PAUL
IPC: H04B7/04
Filed: 2007-05-23
Abstract: An OFDM-MIMO radio-frequency transmission system takes the form of a DVB-T system which is modified in that the phases of selected ones of the pilot signal transmissions, particularly the scattered pilots, are chosen or changed at the transmitters such that some of the corresponding pilot signal transmissions from the two (or more) MIMO transmitter stages are in the same phase and others of the transmissions are with relatively-inverted phase. Block diagram of the transmitter is shown in Fig.4 . At a receiver the received pilot signals 10 are extracted and combined so as to obtain an indication of the transmission channel characteristics. There are three improvements to prior art (GB2436414): (i) any continual pilots on the same carrier as inverted scattered pilots are also inverted in phase, (ii) those scattered pilots on alternate pilot-bearing carriers are phase inverted, even if this means that a given symbol has some inverted and some non-inverted, and (iii) at the receiver the non-inverted and inverted pilots are separated, interpolated in frequency and time, and then both added and subtracted.
Patent GB-2439455-A (GB)
Title: Combination lock with baseline indication and master combination
Inventor: POPPE CARL H
IPC: E05B19/20
Filed: 2007-06-21
Abstract: A combination lock comprises a locking mechanism and plural devices for embodying a preset combination of the lock. The lock comprises an indication of a baseline position that is correlated to the preset combination by a preset master combination. The lock may be a multiple dial lock including reset dials (16) rotatable around a lock shaft (18), each reset dial (16) being at a specific angular position for a user to unlock the lock or reset the combination. Each reset dial (16) has a magnet (46). A master key (48) may include sensors (50), each in communication with one signal (52). Each of the signals (52) indicates to a user that a respective magnet (46) is adjacent a respective sensor (50), thus assisting a user in recovering a lost combination. In another embodiment, the lock may be a rotary lock (60) including a dial (62) which rotates a drive cam (68), which in turn rotates several wheels (66) to their unlocking positions.
Patent GB-2450685-A (GB)
Title: Flexible tee
Inventor: MAIDMENT LESLIE
IPC: A63B57/00
Filed: 2007-07-02
Abstract: A flexible tee <B>1</B> comprises a first member having a stem <B>4</B> and an integral golf-ball cup <B>5</B> and a second member being a closed-coil tension spring <B>7</B>. The first member is held in a state of tension by the second member and the second member is held in a state of compression by the first member. The second member may be contained within the first member or around the stem <B>4</B> of the first member. This arrangement allow the tee <B>1</B> to be easily deflected and to then return to an upright state and to be stable, the tee <B>1</B> also has sufficient longitudinal strength for it to be pushed into the ground. The tee <B>1</B> may be used in the ground or within a golf-mat bush on a driving range. The bush may hold the tee securely by means of a friction force applied to the tee by means of a tensioned band secured to the base of the bush. The tensioned band may be held in a circumferential groove of the lower section of the bush.
Patent GB-2445286-A (GB)
Title: Transmission control device that prevents a reverse drive force being transmitted to an electric motor
Inventor: SHIBATA HIROYUKI
IPC: B60W20/00
Filed: 2007-12-28
Abstract: A control device for a drive system (e.g. an automatic transmission system) in a hybrid vehicle comprises reverse drive force suppression means 86 operative to preclude output member, such as an output shaft 22 and drive wheels 34, of an automatic transmission portion 20 from inputting a reverse drive force to a differential portion 11. This prevents. e.g. when the vehicle is on a slope, a power transmitting member 18 from rotating in a direction opposite to a rotational direction set by a manually operated shift operation device (50, fig 6), thereby improving durability and possible damage to electric motor M1 by blocking the reverse drive force being transmitted to the electric motor M1. The control device comprises a shift position determining means 88 that establishes if the operation device is in a running position, a reverse rotation determining means 90 which determines when a rotational direction of wheels 34 becomes opposite to a direction set by a shift lever (52). If the wheels 34 are rotating in an opposite direction to the set direction then the reverse drive force suppression means 86 includes a rotations stop means which applies a brake device 72 and/or blocks an output member of the transmission portion 20 from rotating in a reverse direction.
Patent GB-2450403-A (GB)
Title: Shower device
Inventor: TSAI PI KUANG
IPC: B05B1/18
Filed: 2008-06-12
Abstract: A shower device includes a frame 10 having a conduit 14 there being two barrels 16 attached to two end portions 15 of the frame 10. A cover 40 engages with a housing 30 and has a number of holes 44. A plate 50 is disposed in the housing 30 and has a number of nozzles 53 engaged through the holes 44 of the cover 40. Two distributors 70 each have a pipe 71 engaged into the barrels 16, a bore being formed in the pipe 71. A pathway 74 is formed in the pipe 71 and communicates with the barrels 16, the conduit 14 of the frame 10 and the bore of the pipe 71 allowing the housing 30 and the cover 40 to be pivoted relative to frame 10.
Patent GB-2463447-A (GB)
Title: Thermostat control device
Inventor: TOOKE JOHN EDWIN
IPC: G01K5/32
Filed: 2008-07-01
Abstract: A thermostat control device (1) comprises a housing (2) within which there is provided a diaphragm (4) and temperature sensor (5) coupled via a capillary system (6). A drive screw (12) is threadingly engaged to a correspondingly threaded diaphragm head (7) which moves the drive screw (12) in response to temperature changes at the sensor, bringing a striker arrangement (15) into and out of engagement with a moveable contact (18) to "break" and "make" electrical connection with a fixed contact (19). A rotatable user control spindle (30) receives a tabbed end (25) of the drive screw (12) within a receiving slot (27) allowing rotation of the drive screw with respect to the diaphragm (4) without imparting axial movement to the user control spindle (30). Calibration of the device is achieved by adjusting the depth of engagement between the drive screw (12) and the diaphragm head (7) thereby eliminating the need for a conventional calibration screw mechanism.
Patent GB-2462073-A (GB)
Title: Assembly for preventing a sliding door from movement
Inventor: COLEMAN PETER
IPC: B60J5/06
Filed: 2008-07-21
Abstract: An assembly 20 for preventing a sliding door 2 moving in one or both of an opening and closing direction, the assembly including a first plate (22, fig.5) having a plate abutment (38, fig.5), a second plate (24, fig.4) pivotally mounted relative to the first plate, a pawl 26 pivotally mounted on the second plate and including a pawl abutment 52, the first and second plates having a first relative position (figure 3) at which the pawl abutment engages the plate abutment to prevent rotation of the first plate in a first direction relative to the second plate and thus prevents the sliding door from moving in say a closing direction, the first and second plates having a second relative position as shown in the figure at which the first plate is rotated in the first direction relative to the second plate when considering the first relative position and the pawl abutment is disengaged from the plate abutment. In order to move the assembly from the first position to the second position it is necessary to rotate the pawl 26 to disengage the pawl from the plate abutment 38. The first plate preferably slides within a guide track 10 via a pair of rollers 5B mounted to the first plate. The guide rail 10 preferably contains bends 16, 17, which cause rotation of first plate relative to the second plate and automatic locking of the assembly retaining the door in the open position. The assembly may be used with the sliding door of a vehicle.
Patent GB-2451733-A (GB)
Title: Learning aid
Inventor: DEACON SIMON
IPC: G09B3/02
Filed: 2008-07-28
Abstract: A learning aid 100 comprising a housing portion having first 112 and second opposed 114 faces, the housing portion 110 being configured to bear a first list 160 of visual indices at a first position of the first face 112, the housing portion 110 being further configured to bear a second list 125 of visual indices corresponding to the first list 160 of visual indices at a second position of the first face 112, the aid 100 being provided with means for associating a visual index of the first list 160 with a visual index of the second list 125, the aid 100 being configured to provide an indication to a user whether respective indices associated with one another by a user are correctly associated, wherein at least one of the first 160 and second 125 lists of visual indices borne by the housing portion 110 may be changed.
Patent GB-2449381-A (GB)
Title: Printed capacitive sensor
Inventor: DEANGELIS ALFRED R
IPC: G01D5/24
Filed: 2007-02-06
Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible, resilient capacitive sensor suitable for large-scale manufacturing. The sensor comprises a dielectric, an electrically conductive detector and trace layer on the first side of the dielectric layer comprising a detector and trace, an electrically conductive reference layer on a second side of the dielectric layer, and a capacitance meter electrically connected to the trace and to the conductive reference layer to detect changes in capacitance upon interaction with detector. The sensor is shielded to reduce the effects of outside interference.
Patent GB-2455870-A (GB)
Title: Retractable roll-over protection member
Inventor: BEIERL DOMINIK
IPC: B60R21/13
Filed: 2008-12-16
Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle 1 comprising a roof arrangement 5 which is displaceable between a closed position and an open position and has a roof skin 8, and at least one roll-overprotection member 7 which is concealed under a cover 12 in a retracted rest position RS. The roll-over protection member is movable into an extended protection position AS by displacement of the cover 12 and has a manipulating component (24, figure 2) to enable it to pass through the roof skin 8 in order to attain the protection position AS. In order to be able to achieve reliable extension of the roll-over protection member 7, it is provided that the cover 12 has, on its underside 16 facing the roll-over protection member 7, a contact structure 17 which engages with the roll-over protection member 7 and prevents the manipulating component from touching the cover. The contact structure may be integrally formed in the cover. The manipulating member may be a spike or pin.
Patent GB-2459348-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for capturing heat from a stove to selectively heat room air and/or water for central heating with failsafe operation
Inventor: REDFORD SIMON J
IPC: F24B7/00
Filed: 2009-03-19
Abstract: Apparatus for capturing heat from a stove 18 including an air-water heat exchanger 84 (e.g. tube-and-fin type), an air duct 82 through which air heated by stove 18 may pass, and controller 86 (e.g. fan) to direct the flow of air within the apparatus; wherein in a first mode controller 86 allows air to flow from duct 82 to the surroundings of stove 18 at least partially by natural convection and in a second mode, controller 86 induces air to flow from duct 82 to the air side of heat exchanger 84 to transfer heat to water flowing in channels in the water side. Air within duct 82 may flow in opposite directions in first and second modes (generally upward in the first) and be drawn initially from the surroundings of stove 18 for heating before passing to heat exchanger 84. A closable bypass 88 may be included to prevent flow of air across heat exchanger 84. Duct 82 may include plates and stove 18 may include heat transfer fins on any external heating surfaces. The apparatus may be used in a heating system with a boiler to re-heat return water (Figure 4b) or act as a radiator (Figure 4a).
Patent GB-2469097-A (GB)
Title: Rewinding mechanism and container for bag with rewinding mechanism for the bag
Inventor: DAVIDSON EUAN ERIC NEIL THOMAS GEORGE
IPC: A45C3/04
Filed: 2009-04-01
Abstract: The container 2 includes a mechanism to rewind or recoil a bag 1 back into its container. The mechanism includes an axle 10, around which the bag can be wrapped, a one way drive bearing 12 attached to the axle and a spool 14 connected to the one way bearing and having a cord 16 wound on it, the spool surrounded by a cover 6. In use one end of the bag will be attached to the axle and on pulling of the cord, the axle is rotated and the bag is pulled back into the storage container and wound round the axle. The end of the bag may be provided with a cover 28 for the exit aperture 4 of the container, which prevents the total entry of the bag into the container and which provides an accessible part to pull from for removing the bag when unwinding it from the axle. When the bag has been unwounded, the container itself can be used as a handle for the bag via loop 32 which lodges into groove 34 on the container. The cord may have a finger pull 18 which can be lodged in a corresponding formation at one end of the container.
Patent GB-2469325-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for allowing a transfer of data
Inventor: BARSON ANDREW W
IPC: G06F21/88
Filed: 2009-04-09
Abstract: Secure data transfer apparatus comprising a first device 200 to be mounted in a housing 400 and having a predetermined normal configuration for normal operation wherein secure data transfer takes place between the first device 200 and a second device 300 in the housing 400. The first device 200 includes a detector configured to detect when the first device 200 is placed in a predetermined initialization configuration different from the normal configuration and to enable an initialization data transfer between the devices for permitting normal operation to occur thereafter in said normal configuration. The first device 200 may be a peripheral device or component of a vending of gaming machine. The first device 200 may be placed within or on a docking station or shelf 520 or fixed to a bracket within the machine. The second device 300 may be a processing unit of the machine. The initialization data may comprise an encryption key sent from the first device 200 to the second device 300 which is used to secure all messages sent between the devices. This may only be sent in the initialization configuration, which is preferably a geometric orientation, angular position or acceleration different from that achievable when the first device 200 is installed within the housing 400. This means that the encryption key cannot be transmitted when the device is fixed in the housing 400.