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Patent GB-2223685-A (GB)
Title: An electric steplessly speed-changing running apparatus
Inventor: CHEN RONARD
IPC: A63B22/02
Filed: 1988-10-14
Abstract: The running apparatus includes a running belt driven by a drive shaft 13. The drive to the drive shaft 13 is imparted by way of an assembly comprising an active wheel 50 having a fixed half 51 and a movable half 55 forming therebetween an annular groove, a slidable outer sleeve 62 carrying the movable half 55, an inner sleeve 64 slidably but non-rotatably mounted within the outer sleeve 62, a shifting member 69 rotatably secured to the outer sleeve 62 and having a screw rod 691 threadedly engaged with the inner sleeve 64, a spring-loaded following wheel 80 having a corresponding annular groove and coupled to the drive shaft 13, and a V-belt 90 extending in and between the annular grooves of the wheels 50, 80. An electric elevator 120 is also provided for changing the inclination of the running belt. The drive speed of the drive shaft 13 may be steplessly varied by actuating the shifting member 69 so as to change the distance apart of the wheel halves 51 and 55 and to thus lower or raise the V-belt 90 within the intervening annular groove. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2230465-A (GB)
Title: A kite string shuttle
Inventor: DUNFORD DONALD
IPC: A63H27/08
Filed: 1989-03-16
Abstract: A kite shuttle for movement along a kite string has wing sections each comprising an elongate element 22 which is held in a loop and retained by means of an arcuate groove 25 in a frame member 20. A web of lightweight material (24) extends over the area bounded by the loop. Arms (26) extend from the frame member into each wind-catching area to provide additional stiffness. The wing sections can be held latched in a first orientation (figure 1a) for kite string ascent, the latch being tripped when a stop on the kite string is reached, the wing sections then being spring-urged to a second string- descending orientation (figure 1b). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2233433-A (GB)
Title: Thermal target structure
Inventor: DEAN WILLIAM ROBERT
IPC: F41J2/00
Filed: 1989-06-20
Abstract: A thermal target structure to act as a weaponry target, training aid or arc designator structure has a target panel (1) with a reflective surface (2) placed at an acute angle relatively to a heat emissive surface (4) of a heated panel (5). By placing the target panel so that the reflective surface is at an angle when viewed from the front, the heated surface (4) of the heated panel (5) lies in the incident field of view and this causes the target depicted on the reflective surface (2) to appear to be heated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2234322-A (GB)
Title: Friction clutch driven plates
Inventor: CURTIS ANTHONY JOHN
IPC: F16F15/129
Filed: 1989-07-21
Abstract: A rotary coupling for inclusion in a friction clutch driven plate and which comprises an annular flange means (43) with annular side plates (41, 42) arranged on each side of the flange means (43) and which are capable of notation relative to the flange means (43). The flange moans (43) comprises two flange plates (43) with a spring washer (56) located therebetween to bias them into frictional engagement with the side plates (41, 42) to form a friction damper to resist the relative rotation between the flange means and side plates. The rotary coupling is operably located in the driven plate between a hub (11) and a friction facing carrier (14) to resist an initial phase of angular movement of the carrier (14) around the hub (11). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2235982-A (GB)
Title: Earth continuity checking system
Inventor: WHITE ALFRED KENNETH
IPC: G01R31/50
Filed: 1989-09-07
Abstract: In an earth continuity checking system of a mains power supply, a transmitter (4) located at the fuse box or point of known good earth injects signals onto the earth and neutral wires (3, 2) or earth and live wires (3, 1) and receivers (5) are situated at points where earth continuity is to be checked. The receivers can be fixed or mobile installations and can be used to continuously monitor the earth line and to disconnect live and neutral via an isolator (6) in the event of loss of earth continuity. Loss of neutral continuity and short circuit neutral to earth are also checked with this system. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2241438-A (GB)
Title: Anti-smoking treatment kit
Inventor: BOURNE STEPHEN JOSEPH
IPC: A61K38/35
Filed: 1990-03-02
Abstract: An anti-smoking treatment kit comprises:- corticotrophin or a corticotrophin analogue, and an anxiolytic, and/or a sedative and/or an opiate withdrawal agent, e.g. clonidine.
Patent GB-2241552-A (GB)
Title: Cam mechanism for operating the valve of an i.c. engine
Inventor: BAKER DAVID JOHN
IPC: F01L13/00
Filed: 1990-08-13
Abstract: Cams A and B operate on a poppet valve 1 via rockers 6a and 6b and an hydraulic tappet 5. The timing of the two cams A and B is adjustable, e.g. by jockeys 21a and 21b, so that the cams can be advanced or retarded with respect to the engine so as to vary the dwell angle. In order to increase the dwell angle still further a third cam C acts directly on the hydraulic tappet 5 to hold the valve open during the period when cam A would otherwise allow it to close and cam B is not yet in position to hold it open. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2239211-A (GB)
Title: Knitted plastic netting
Inventor: LEIBER YUVAL
IPC: D04B21/12
Filed: 1990-10-30
Abstract: Knitted plastic netting, particularly for wrapping pallet loads, and a method for making the ribbons used in knitting the netting wherein the ribbons are made from substantially unoriented primary film and the longitudinal ribbons are oriented so that the tensile energy at break is maximized. Alternatively netting is made from polyolefin, the longitudinal ribbons having an elastic limit of 6% or more, an elongational break of 60% or more and an elasticity of more than 15% when stretched more than 40%.
Patent GB-2242631-A (GB)
Title: Needle assembly
Inventor: DEEKS DAVID JOHN
IPC: A61M5/32
Filed: 1990-11-02
Abstract: A needle assembly is disclosed which comprises a hub (12) to which a needle (20) is fixed. A spring (30) is coupled to the hub (12) and surrounds the needle (20). The free end of the spring (30) retains an end cap (32) which is intended to cover the tip of the needle (20) after use of the needle assembly. A clamp (34) may be used to maintain the spring (30) compressed so that the needle assembly can be used and after use the clamp (34) is removed so that the needle biases the end cap (32) into a position where it covers the end of the needle (20). Alternatively, a deformable cylinder (80) may be coupled with the hub (12) and have clip members (82) which engage corresponding clip recess (84) on the end cap (32) to maintain the spring (30) compressed. Upon deformation of the deformable member (80) the end cap (32) is released from the deformable member (80) so that the spring (30) biases the end cap (32) into a position encapsulating the end of the needle.
Patent GB-2242157-A (GB)
Title: Corrugated sheet
Inventor: MABBUTT ROBERT JEFFREY
IPC: E04D3/28
Filed: 1991-02-07
Abstract: A corrugated thermoplastics sheet has a main section and two end sections with major corrugations extending along the whole of its length. Minor corrugations are incorporated in one or both of the end sections but do not extend along the main section. The major corrugations are formed by bending preceded by local heating. The minor corrugations are formed by pressing after local heating of the end section. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2242949-A (GB)
Title: Braking force control apparatus
Inventor: YASUNO YOSHIKI
IPC: B60T8/84
Filed: 1991-03-22
Abstract: The braking forces applied to the left and right wheels of the vehicle are controlled to provide a target yaw rate calculated based upon a sensed steering angle and a sensed vehicle speed. For this control, a target difference between the braking forces applied to the left and right wheels is calculated from a model specifying the target braking force difference as a function or functions of target yaw rate, steering angle, and vehicle speed. The model is obtained from equations of motion of the vehicle. The calculated braking force difference is used to set the braking forces to be applied to the left and right wheels by means of valves 3FR, 3FL. The controller 16 receives inputs from a steering sensor 11, vehicle speed sensor 12, pressure sensors 14, a brake switch 13 and optionally a longitudinal acceleration sensor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2244811-A (GB)
Title: Measuring Intracranial pressure
Inventor: WATANABE YASUO
IPC: A61B5/03
Filed: 1991-05-03
Abstract: Intracranial pressure of a patient is measured by applying the tip of a pressure measuring device (B) to the skin overlying the flexible dome (40a) of an implanted reservoir (40) linked to a brain ventricle. The device (13) includes a pressure transducer (6) arranged to provide an output signal corresponding to the pressure in a fluid-filled chamber (5) at the tip of the device. The tip of the device can be advanced towards, and retracted away from the skin, relative to a frame (1), by an electric motor (2) to effect measurements. Prior to measurement of intracranial pressure, a valve (7) is opened to vent the interior of the fluid-filled chamber to atmosphere to obtain zero point correction of the pressure transducer. The valve (7) is closed before advancing the probe (3) to measure intracranial pressure. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2258870-A (GB)
Title: Flame- and smoke-reduced high-density polyurethane foams
Inventor: MILLER JOHN W
IPC: C08K5/21
Filed: 1991-08-21
Abstract: Rigid polyurethane foams having densities from 208 kg/m3 (13 lb/ft3) to 480 kg/m3 (30 lb/ft3) which exhibit reduced flammability and smoke generating characteristics are obtained by reacting an aromatic isocyanate with a polyhydroxy containing compound, a blowing agent and optical additives, and incorporating a combination of melamine and urea into the unreacted polyhydroxy containing resin.
Patent GB-2251059-A (GB)
Title: Electric kettles
Inventor: HADEN JOHN DENIS
IPC: H05B3/82
Filed: 1991-09-16
Abstract: A device 20 is inserted into an electric kettle 10 to stand over the heater 12 and serve as an upstanding static flow- guiding substrate for deposition of minerals during heating of the water. The device may be cylindrical or of open rectangular cross sections, depending from a lid of or resting at the base of a heating vessel and may be formed from perforate metal sheet or metal mesh. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250735-A (GB)
Title: Zirconia coated with hydrous cerium oxide and at least one hydrous oxide of lanthanum,neodymium or praseodymium.
Inventor: DRANSFIELD GRAHAM PAUL
IPC: C04B35/486
Filed: 1991-11-18
Abstract: The invention provides a form of particulate zirconia suitable for forming zirconia ceramics in which the zirconia is stabilised in the cubic and/or tetragonal phase. The particles of zirconia are coated with a hydrous oxide of cerium and at least one hydrous oxide of lanthanum, neodymium or praseodymium. In a preferred embodiment a mixture of hydrous oxides of lanthanum and neodymium is used. Preferably the particles are also provided with an inner coating comprising hydrous titania, zirconia or alumina. The products of the invention can be converted into ceramics having a greater strength than ceramics produced from zirconia coated with a similar amount of ceria alone or those produced by physically mixing similar quantities of stabilising oxides with the particulate zirconia.
Patent GB-2255842-A (GB)
Title: Computing equipment for real time use
Inventor: YOUNG ARTHUR PHILIP
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 1992-05-06
Abstract: The invention provides general purpose equipment, and improved methods, for real time application. Such equipment may be employed to perfect requirement specification experimentally by modelling; these specifications, or adaptations of them, control the behaviour of other general purpose equipment used to provide the required facilities. A form of entity life model, suggested by proposed theory, underlies the invention and provides a theoretical basis for formal methods. The modelling involves prediction, 43, 53, of events within a real time system, e.g. for elevator or physical process control or signal processing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270788-A (GB)
Title: Robot operation training system
Inventor: YAMATO KUNITADA
IPC: B25J9/18
Filed: 1992-12-30
Abstract: To start training before the actual robot is manufactured or installed, the robot operation training system has a controller 20 substantially the same as in the actual robot, and a personal computer 10 for simulating the functions of the robot body. The training system can be applied easily to various robots of different models. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267259-A (GB)
Title: Generating signals for controlling or regulating a chassis
Inventor: KALLENBACH RAINER
IPC: G05D19/02
Filed: 1993-05-20
Abstract: A method and a device for generating signals for controlling or regulating a chassis, of controllable or regulatable movement cycles, of a passenger car and/or commercial motor vehicle are presented. Starting from the compression movements between the vehicle body and the wheels and from the longitudinal and/or transverse movements of the vehicle, according to the invention the suspension systems between the body and wheels are activated in such a way as to exert forces which are proportional to the modal speeds of the body. A separate adjustable damping of the forms of natural oscillation of the body is thereby possible. That is to say, the damping proportional to modal speed is based on the skyhook regulation notion in as much as forces are exerted by activations of the suspension systems such that the individual forms of natural oscillation of the body can be "skyhook-damped" separately from one another. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268025-A (GB)
Title: Progressive blanking of video signals.
Inventor: INABA HITOSHI
IPC: H04N5/44
Filed: 1993-06-01
Abstract: In a television receiver the display 8 is blanked eg during channel switching, or a portion of the screen may be blanked for displaying pictures having a different aspect ratio from the screen by mixing the picture signal with a blanking signal 6; the display blanking is made progressive to reduce the load put on the display driver 7 and the abruptness of the screen change for the viewer. On receipt of a video mute indicating signal control means 3 causes blanking signal generating means 2 to gradually increase or decrease the amount of screen being blanked. The blanking signal may be horizontally, or vertically symmetrical about the portion of screen displaying the picture signal (figures 2 to 4). The picture signal may be compressed 1 to fit into the available display window, also under control of control means 5. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267584-A (GB)
Title: Microwave oven with photosensor
Inventor: KONDO TOMOYUKI
IPC: H05B6/68
Filed: 1993-06-02
Abstract: A microwave oven has a photosensor to detect an object in a cooking compartment. The photosensor, including a light emitter 52 and a light receiver 54, detects whether a turntable is absent or present in the cooking compartment. The light emitter projects a plurality of pulses of light in sequence. A controller counts the number of pulses of light detected by the light receiver and controls the oven based on the number of pulses of light detected as compared to the number of pulses of light emitted. Typically, ten pulses would be emitted and the oven actuated if seven or more are counted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265803-A (GB)
Title: Processing model data
Inventor: WOOD KARL JOSEPH
IPC: G06T15/00
Filed: 1993-06-04
Abstract: An apparatus processes data describing a model comprising a plurality of features each described in terms of geometrical attributes defining the position and orientation of the feature and non-geometrical attributes defining characteristics of the feature an image of which is to be displayed on a screen, as viewed from an eyepoint in world space, the model data being stored in a hierarchical tree structure Fig 6 having a root (base) node branch nodes and leaf nodes, each node storing respective object data, leaf nodes storing at least one feature which contributes to the respective object, and root and branch nodes storing at least one pointer to another object and relative position and orientation data of the pointed to object relative to the pointed from object, whereby successive locations in the tree structure store data related to successively more detailed portions of the model, and each of a parallel array of object data processors 16 receives data read out from any node of the tree under control of a central controller 26, the object processor responding to pointer data by transforming the respective data into a common coordinate space and returning the pointer and the transformed data to the controller, and to feature data by transforming the geometrical attributes of the feature and feeding the transformed attributes for further processing, the controller 'walking' the tree using the pointer data. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274514-A (GB)
Title: Clinical thermometer with digital and vocal indication
Inventor: URSUEGUIA BALBUENA ANDREAS
IPC: G01K7/00
Filed: 1993-07-29
Abstract: The clinical thermometer is comprised of an input from a signal conditioner, which signals are generated by a sensor consisting of a negative coefficient resistance arranged to remain in contact with an area of the human body, a signal translating stage which is comprised of a capacity-resistance load network; a microcontroller which receives the information from the prior stages without having to effect an analog-digital conversion, an output being provided for a voice synthetizer which incorporates parasite suppressing filters and an amplifier stage for the sound signals appropriate to the application and an acoustical transducer such as a loud speaker; and an output for a digital display of the measured temperature. The circuit is designed as a compact arrangement which integrates the stages of conditioning the input signals coming from the probe, the microcontroller and the conditioner of low frequency signals provided to the loud-speaker, said circuit having incorporated a voice synthetizer, a measurement circuit and a microcontroller which sends the corresponding signals to the ideal modules formed by the circuit. Application to the visual and sound indication of the human body temperature. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269824-A (GB)
Title: Co-additives for flow improvers
Inventor: VIEHWEGER UWE
IPC: C10L1/14
Filed: 1993-08-04
Abstract: The additives prevent or retard paraffin sedimentation occurring below the turbidity point in petroleum distillates containing flow improvers and lower the temperature of the filterability as well as reduce the tendency of medium distillates to form an emulsion with water. The additives comprise 25-95% by mass of a solvent mixture consisting of non-polar and weakly polar solvents, the proportion of weakly polar constituent being between 8% and 50%, and 5 - 75% by mass of a nitrogenous constituent which is the product of the reaction at 50 DEG  C to 80 DEG  C or at 150 DEG  C to 180 DEG  C of C12-C22 fatty amines, having a primary proportion of over 80%, with C16-C24 carboxylic acids having at least one double bond, eg oleic and erucic acids; the carboxylic acids being present with a molar surplus of 10% to 30% in relation to the fatty amines.
Patent GB-2267663-A (GB)
Title: Sorbent filtration device
Inventor: LINNERSTEN STAFFAN B
IPC: B01D46/52
Filed: 1993-09-03
Abstract: A sorbent filter pad for removing undesirable gases from an air flow has one flat face and the opposite face is formed into a series of parallel ridges such that the thickness of the pad varies along a direction perpendicular to the ridges. The sorbent pad is combined with a pleated particulate filter element having micropleats and macropleats such that the ridges occupy the macropleat hollows on the downstream side of the particulate filter. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270047-A (GB)
Title: Combined bag and trolley
Inventor: RAO DODDI LAKSHMAN
IPC: A63B55/60
Filed: 1993-10-08
Abstract: A combined bag and trolley, particularly a golf bag and trolley, comprises an elongated bag (1) and a collapsible trolley (2). The trolley (2) comprises an arch-shaped brace (8) forming an undercarriage to which a pair of foldable wheels (11, 12) are mounted. The trolley (2) is pivotally connected to the bag (1) whereby the undercarriage can be swivelled between an operative position in which the wheel axes are transverse to the longitudinal axis of the bag (1) and an inoperative position in which the wheels are flat with to the lower long side of the bag and the arched shaped brace becomes parallel with the bag axis. The wheels, in order to be brought into the inoperative position, are each pivotably rotatable at the end of the arch shaped brace along two axes parallel to the axis of the bag. Preferably, the undercarriage, when in its inoperative position, is stowed in a cavity or recess (19) in the adjacent side (21) of the bag (1). The picture shows the trolley folded in the inoperative position.
Patent GB-2285079-A (GB)
Title: Road stud housing with wear indication grooves
Inventor: SHAW TREVOR
IPC: E01F9/06
Filed: 1993-12-24
Abstract: A housing 10 for a reflective insert 11 is embedded in a road. The housing 10 is provided with ridges that have transverse grooves 22 and 23 of different depths. Traffic going over the housing wears away the housing. The disappearance of one of the grooves or the reduced depth of one of the grooves is an indication that wear has occurred. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274112-A (GB)
Title: Fragaria plants and seeds
Inventor: BENTVELSEN GERARDUS CORNELIUS
IPC: A01H5/08
Filed: 1993-07-23
Abstract: Polyploid Fragaria plants propagatable from seed wherein substantially each plant is capable of a fruit productivity within its first year, F1 hybrid Fragaria plants, methods for producing F1 hybrid Fragaria plants, F1 hybrid (Fragaria) seed, and Fragaria berries thereof.
Patent GB-2275619-A (GB)
Title: Fortune telling game
Inventor: YAMANE YUJI
IPC: A63F1/02
Filed: 1994-03-01
Abstract: A fortune telling game, comprises a bar-code reader (4) for reading bar-code data, micro processor means for deciding the result of the fortune telling in accordance with said bar-code data thus read, and means (5) displaying the result thus decided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284641-A (GB)
Title: Method of gear detection in motor vehicles
Inventor: FRANZKE KNUT
IPC: F16H59/40
Filed: 1994-09-30
Abstract: In a motor vehicle having a drive unit (101) and a transmission (103) which is operatively connected to the drive unit by way of a converter unit (102) and which automatically changes its gears the mean velocity (Vrad) or the mean rotational speed of the driven wheels is detected and/or ascertained, and the output rotational speed N(Nmot) of the drive unit is detected. Furthermore, a variable (Nmot/Vrad), representing the ratio of the output rotational speed of the drive unit to the mean wheel velocity of the mean wheel rotational speed, is formed. This variable is then compared with at least two threshold values (Sup, Sdown), wherein change-up or change-down operations of the transmission are inferred from the comparison result. With knowledge of change-up or change-down operations, the actual gear of the transmission (Gi) may then be inferred on the basis of the gear ratio set before the comparison. <IMAGE>