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Patent GB-2411166-A (GB)
Title: Replaceable container stopper
Inventor: PEACE PAUL
IPC: B65D39/12
Filed: 2004-02-21
Abstract: A container stopper 1 with a shaft 2 of variable thickness running through its core. When the thicker parts of the shaft are seated within the stopper, the stopper material is forced outwards against the container wall (e.g. the neck of a bottle) with sufficient pressure to hold it there and maintain a fast seal. As the shaft is drawn through the stopper and the thicker part 3 exits giving way to the thinner part 4, the outward force of the stopper material against the container wall is relieved. The stopper is then removable. The drawing through of the shaft is arrested by a terminal object 5 which also facilitates the removal of the stopper. The stopper may be replaced by plunging thicker part of the shaft back into the stopper. Its movement can be arrested by a projection that comes to rest in a recess on the stopper. The shaft may be threaded (fig 3) by T-bars, J-shapes, hollow polygon, thread ribbon, horizontal discs or pinch grips. The terminal objects may be integral or separately applied to the shaft 2. A tamper evident seal may be provided by a wax coating, foil or plastic seal around the shaft.
Patent GB-2412320-A (GB)
Title: Orthopaedics device and system
Inventor: WILSON-MACDONALD JAMES
IPC: A61B17/56
Filed: 2004-03-02
Abstract: An implantable orthopaedic device comprising attachment means 5 and force generating means 4; the attachment means 5 being attached to vertebrae 6 and the force generating means 4 being applied to a pair of attachment means 5 so as to provide a force to the vertebrae 6 to encourage motion thereof. The force generating means 4 may be in the form of springs, and may comprise a memory metal. The orthopaedic device is intended for correcting excess spinal curvature over time and may be used as a posterior non-fusion device to treat spinal deformity, either scoliosis or kyphosis.
Patent GB-2403194-A (GB)
Title: Injection moulded articulating cup holder
Inventor: MOYER SCOTT A
IPC: B60N3/10
Filed: 2004-06-21
Abstract: A cup holder assembly in which pivotal movement of the cupholder articulating arms 23 about a living hinge 22 is elastically inhibited by an over-molded TPE sufficiently to facilitate infinite adjustment of the cupholder arms 23 between fully extended and fully retracted positions for supporting containers of various sizes, without the need for spring or ratchet mechanism or a separate hinge for the arm 23 to pivot. This thereby provides reduced assembly and lowers the number of parts necessary.
Patent GB-2415797-A (GB)
Title: Method of operating a filesystem for a computing device
Inventor: PROUX GUILLAUME
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2004-06-24
Abstract: A computing device filesystem is provided with separate presorted arrays of pointers to subdirectory and file entries along with the standard unsorted and mixed flat file lists which comprise directories in filesystems such as FAT. When included in boot ROMs on mobile battery operated devices, this enables a much shorter interval between power-on and the device reaching operational state (faster boot time) because it is no longer necessary to navigate through multiple layers of the directory tree and searching every entry in each branch for a matching filename. The new presorted arrays allow for matching entries to be located more efficiently by means of a simple binary search.
Patent GB-2404218-A (GB)
Title: Extendable vertical support for attachment of safety line
Inventor: MURTEN STEPHEN
IPC: E04G5/00
Filed: 2004-07-22
Abstract: An extendable vertical support for attachment of a safety line, e.g. during erection of scaffolding, comprises a lower support section 602 and an upper support section 610 received within section 602 and telescopically adjustable, the lower section defining an aperture 606 configured to receive an internal support section 605, 612, through said aperture. The internal support section may be attached to upper section 610 by a screw thread (Fig 5, not shown) and further sections may be screwed thereto; as shown in fig 6a the upper section may consist entirely of joined internal supports 605. Alternatively, the upper section 610 may simply stand upon a pile of internal support sections 612. The arrangement allows the attachment point of the safety line (the eye at the top of the column) to be raised whilst the workman remains attached.
Patent GB-2405481-A (GB)
Title: Electric impedance tomography (EIT) device with adjustable current feed-in frequency to improve signal to noise ratio
Inventor: GARBER YVO
IPC: A61B5/053
Filed: 2004-08-24
Abstract: An electroimpedance tomography (EIT) device having a plurality of electrodes, automatically adjusts the frequency of the current fed into a pair of the electrodes in order to reduce the sensitivity of the device to electromagnetic interference. The frequency spectrum of the background noise is detected by measuring voltage signals from the electrodes over a period of time and transforming the resulting voltage time series into a frequency spectrum. This background noise frequency spectrum is searched for a frequency which when used as the current feed-in frequency would give a signal to noise ratio (SNR) above a predetermined threshold value. This frequency is then selected as the feed-in current frequency.
Patent GB-2405584-A (GB)
Title: A hair iron
Inventor: HENSON MARK ANTHONY STEEL
IPC: A45D1/04
Filed: 2004-08-26
Abstract: The hair iron 10 comprises at least one platen or plate 14 which has a heating element 26 that is either printed, sintered or bonded thereon. The platen may be made of a ceramic composite, such as cordierite, and the heating element may be a metal alloy, such as a silver alloy, in a bonding matrix that is printed on to the platen, e.g. by screen printing. Alternatively the platen may be made of metal, glass or a glass-ceramic composite with insulated heating elements (40, Fig.6) bonded or sintered thereon. The material of the heating elements may be any material with low resistivity and high thermal coefficient of resistance so that temperature control is regulated by the characteristics of the material itself. The heating elements may be provided on the upper or lower side of the platen and may end in terminal pads connected to a battery within the device, or to the mains. The platens may have channels (24, Fig.3) for engagement with the fingers 12, 16, of the device. Alternative interchangeable platens with different shapes to straighten, curl or brush hair are also provided.
Patent GB-2422027-A (GB)
Title: Memory unit for use with audio/visual player
Inventor: STEHLE TARQUIN ANDREW
IPC: G06F3/06
Filed: 2005-01-05
Abstract: A contactless cartridge memory unit 1 for use with a base unit such as a CD or DVD player. The memory unit receives power from the base unit by inductive transfer and transfers data to and from the base unit by wireless means. Power is transferred by inductive coils in both the memory unit and the base unit when the two units are aligned. Data can be transferred by infrared, radio, Bluetooth or inductively. Guides 16 may be provided to ensure the memory unit is correctly positioned on the base unit to allow power and data exchange. Information from an internet connection on the base unit may also be transferred to the memory unit.
Patent GB-2415008-A (GB)
Title: Building element such as a kerbstone
Inventor: GEESON IAN JOHN
IPC: E01C11/22
Filed: 2004-06-30
Abstract: The building element has a body with one surface defining at least one re-entrant portion 22 to provide for a reduction in weight of the building element, the re-entrant portion defined, in part, by side surfaces of upper 26 and lateral 28,30 reinforcement formations extending rearwardly at an angle of between 20 and 70 degrees from an inner portion 24 of the rear surface to a portion of the rear surface defining a back, in use, surface of the reinforcement formations. The re-entrant portion is preferably in the rear, in use, surface 12 of the building element so that it is concealed in use. The building element may include a number of re-entrant portions that are preferably all formed in one surface. The inner face of the re-entrant portion(s) may be flat and parallel to the front surface of the building element, sloped at an angle relative to the front surface or formed from a number of stepped portions. Guides, such as projections, indentations or score lines 34, may be provided on the building element, preferably on the rear surface, to assist the locating of the building element in use. The building element is preferably a concrete kerbstone. Also claimed is a method of forming a building element.
Patent GB-2414710-A (GB)
Title: Router with flexble shield
Inventor: HESSENBERGER JEFFREY C
IPC: H02K5/10
Filed: 2003-08-21
Abstract: A router (20, fig 1) comprises a base (24, fig 1), a motor housing (28, fig 1) supported by the base and movable relative to the base, where at least one of the base and th<WC 1>e motor housing define a depth adju<WC 1>stment column (146, fig 2) having an open end (150, fig 2). A depth adjustment mechanism (22<WC 1>4, fig 2) is supported in the depth adjustment column and is operable to adjust the cutting depth of the tool element (31, fig 2), and a flexible shield 336 is connectable to the base in a position to cover the open end and allow access to the depth adjustment mechanism through the open end. Preferably the flexible shield includes at least one perforation 340. When the router is operated in an inverted position the flexible shield inhibits movement of debris through the open end and into the depth adjustment column. An adjustment member 292 may be insertable through a perforation to allow adjustment of the cutting depth of the tool element.
Patent GB-2429890-A (GB)
Title: Display processing system using a tree to represent windows
Inventor: TURTON NEIL
IPC: G06F3/14
Filed: 2005-08-31
Abstract: A method of rendering a plurality of overlapping image display elements, the method comprising: processing said image display elements according to a hierarchy defined by a tree, nodes of the tree representing said image display elements and links between said nodes defining said hierarchy of said elements, a state of said tree defining processed elements of said tree, said processing rendering said processed display elements into a screen frame buffer for display; wherein the method further comprises: identifying an image display element for offscreen processing; processing a portion of said identified image display element using a temporary buffer; writing a result of said element portion processing into said screen frame buffer; and repeating said element portion processing and result writing to process said identified element portion-by-portion.
Patent GB-2414194-A (GB)
Title: Method of awarding a prize
Inventor: DE BRUIN ANDRE
IPC: A63F13/12
Filed: 2004-03-10
Abstract: A method of awarding a prize in a network of electronic gaming machines in which the probability of a machine winning the prize is dependent upon a change in a win meter of the electronic gaming machine within a polling cycle.
Patent GB-2430334-A (GB)
Title: Control of equalizer operation using signal quality thresholds in a receiver
Inventor: KAISE GO
IPC: H04B1/16
Filed: 2005-09-15
Abstract: A receiving apparatus, a mobile communication terminal, and a communication system are provided that reduce power consumption and improve receiving performance even when changes occur in the receiving environment. Receiving apparatus 10, incorporated in a mobile communication terminal forming a communication system, has receiving quality threshold setter that receives as input a decoding determining signal outputted from error correction decoder 24 and outputs a threshold for use in determining receiving quality to receiving quality determiner 18. This receiving quality threshold setter 25 is able to adjust (change and correct) the threshold according to the result of error correction decoding outputted from error correction decoder 24. Based on the adjusted threshold, receiving quality determiner 18 determines receiving quality. Based on this determination result, controller 19 controls the operation of equalizer 22 or the operation of equalization and decoding processor 20. Power consumption in the receiver is therefore reduced, when a received signal is of high quality, equalizing is not necessary and is not performed. Also when a received signal is of very low quality, equalizing would not improve the result and equalizing is therefore not performed.
Patent GB-2414686-A (GB)
Title: Amusement or educational device
Inventor: WICKS NIGEL EARL
IPC: A63H23/16
Filed: 2004-03-26
Abstract: Amusement or educational device comprising a member (5) bearing a plurality of discrete images (4), means (8) for converting the momentum of a mass flow (6) into motion of said member, and a screen (2) having a window (3) through which only a subset of said plurality of images (4) is visible at any one position of the member (5).
Patent GB-2431322-A (GB)
Title: Demixing In Phase and Quadrature channels in OFDM systems
Inventor: KALE IZZET
IPC: H04L27/38
Filed: 2005-10-17
Abstract: An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Multi-Carrier receiver removes In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) mismatches using blind (ie. pilot-less) adaptive techniques in which each downconverted signal (12, fig. 4) is resolved (14, fig. 4) into carrier signals (1-8) and then demixed (PE 1-4) to remove cross-coupled contributions from other carriers (8-1, fig. 3). The demixing is achieved by feeding the received symbol (r) and its unwanted complex conjugate (r*) into first and second adaptive filters (72, fig.7) in either feed-forward (fig. 7) or feedback (fig. 8) configurations, yielding channel estimates c1 and c2.
Patent GB-2419769-A (GB)
Title: Image white point estimation
Inventor: ZHANG XUEMEI
IPC: H04N1/60
Filed: 2005-11-01
Abstract: Difference values between selected pixels pairs in the same color plane are determined 102 in a processing circuit for each color plane of an image. The pixel pairs may include contiguous or non-contiguous pixies. A statistic based on the pixel difference values of each color plane is then calculated 106 in computational circuitry and used to estimate the white point.
Patent GB-2428869-A (GB)
Title: Field emission display device
Inventor: LI JUNG YU
IPC: H01J31/12
Filed: 2006-02-07
Abstract: A field emission device (FED) includes a substrate 22, a first conductive layer 23 formed over the substrate biased at a first voltage level, a second conductive layer 25 formed over the substrate biased at a second voltage level different from the first voltage level, emitters 26,27 formed on the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer for transmitting electrons, and a phosphor layer 24 formed over the substrate and being disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, wherein the electrons are transmitted from one of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer through the phosphor layer to the other of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer in a direction substantially orthogonal to the normal direction of the substrate. The emitters 26,27 may include tips directed towards the phosphor layer 24. The first and second conductive layers are electrodes (Anode, cathode).
Patent GB-2439727-A (GB)
Title: Flexible packaging material
Inventor: HELPS JASON MORLEY
IPC: B65D65/40
Filed: 2006-07-03
Abstract: Flexible packaging material which may be in the form of bags comprises a first layer of polyethylene and at least one overlayer of substantially impervious film applied thereto such as aluminium or silicon oxide coated polyester. Tie layers such as low-melt polyethylene maybe present. Laminating plant 1 for its manufacture may comprise a pair of cooperating laminating pressure rollers 2, 3, a first feed roller 4, upper feed rollers 5, 6, 7, 8 and lower feed rollers 9, 10, 11, 12. A conversion unit 13 is disposed downstream of the rollers 2, 3. A first layer 14 of polyethylene film material in flattened tubular form is carried by the first or unwind feed roller 4. Overlayers 15, 16, 17, 18 of aluminium oxide coated polyester film material are carried by the upper feed or unwind rollers 5, 6, 7, 8. Further overlayers 20, 21, 22, 23 of the same film material are carried by the lower feed or unwind rollers 9, 10, 11, 12. The coopering pressure rollers 2, 3, together define a nip 25. These rollers may 15 be heated, in order to assist combination of the layers 14 to 18, and 20 to 23. The unit 13 applies heat seals to the laminate emerging from the rollers 2, 3, and cuts the laminate into discrete lengths.
Patent GB-2428748-A (GB)
Title: Wind turbine control
Inventor: GONZALEZ JOSE IGNACIO LLORENTE
IPC: F03D7/02
Filed: 2006-07-21
Abstract: A method of operating a wind turbine, comprising the step of reducing the rotor speed and/or the generator power in response to one or more variables exceeding predetermined value(s), wherein said variable(s) includes: the wind direction relative to the horizontal direction of the main shaft of the turbine and the turbulence of the wind, as sensed by external sensors, and any other variable(s) as sensed by one or more sensors mounted on components of the turbine and sensing a condition of that component. The rotor speed may be reduced by adjusting the pitch and yaw of the turbine.
Patent GB-2443470-A (GB)
Title: Intense pulsed light device with bulb and cooling circuit in removeable cartridge
Inventor: DAVIES GEOFFREY CLIVE
IPC: A61B18/18
Filed: 2006-07-24
Abstract: A replaceable cartridge 10 is provided for an intense pulsed light (IPL) device. The cartridge comprises a housing 11; a fluid inlet 12 for coolant, a fluid outlet 14 and a fluid cooling path 16 connecting the inlet and outlet; an electric lamp 20 within the housing adjacent the cooling path; and an electrical connection 18 for connecting to an electrical supply and transferring data between the cartridge and the device. A transparent window 24 covers the lamp and may form a wall of the fluid flow path; the opposite wall being a reflector adjacent the lamp. Preferably the device and the cartridge engage via a plug and socket connection located at the end of a flexible arm extending from the device. The fluid portals may have automatic valves.
Patent GB-2431487-A (GB)
Title: Method of manufacturing a medication storage assembly
Inventor: BEUS ERIC A DE
IPC: A61J1/03
Filed: 2006-10-10
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a medication storage assembly for example for composing medicine orders is disclosed. Patient dosage information (100) for multiple medications is merged into a personalized medication schedule (130) for the consumer. The schedule is printed on paper (125) divided into sections by lines of perforation. Individual doses of medication are added to each section corresponding to the instructions printed therein. The medicine may be impregnated into the paper, which is edible. Alternatively, the medicine may be held in edible blister packs.
Patent GB-2442997-A (GB)
Title: An image integrated circuit
Inventor: CHUANG PEI SUNG
IPC: H01L27/146
Filed: 2007-02-01
Abstract: An image integrated circuit 100 includes a light sensor layer 10 and a semiconductor circuit layer. The light sensor layer receives and converts the light of a photographed image and into a corresponding light-induced electrical signal. The bottom of the light sensor layer form conductive terminals 12 for supplying the light-induced electrical signal to the semiconductor circuit layer formed on the bottom of the light sensor layer. The semiconductor circuit layer 20 receives and processes the light-induced electrical signal and in turn generates digital image signal/data so as to realize reconstruction of the image.
Patent GB-2446646-A (GB)
Title: Synchonising master and slave clocks
Inventor: REEVE ANDREW
IPC: G04C11/00
Filed: 2007-02-15
Abstract: A method for synchronisation time comprises measuring at least one duration of a process at a first node (e.g. master clock), measuring at least one further duration of the process at a second node (e.g. slave clock) and correcting a clock at the second node to bring it into line with a clock at the first node by adjusting the clock at the second node frequency by a factor dependent on the at least one duration divided by the at least one further duration. The process preferably comprises the steps of operating a number of ticks or pulses at eh first and second nodes and transmitting packets between the nodes.
Patent GB-2441836-A (GB)
Title: Coolant composition and beverage cooling apparatus
Inventor: PAXMAN CURTIS
IPC: B67D1/08
Filed: 2007-03-16
Abstract: A beverage cooling system comprising a beverage cooling apparatus and a coolant composition is shown. The coolant composition comprises a corrosion inhibitor (e.g. dipotassium phosphate), a deposit combatant (chelating agent), a biocide, a freeze point depressant and water. The apparatus comprises a housing comprising a reservoir; means for freezing the coolant composition; beverage inlet means; a beverage cooling coil; and beverage outlet means.
Patent GB-2448875-A (GB)
Title: A tunable cavity resonator with a temperature compensation plate comprising an aperture for the tuning member
Inventor: MOBBS CHRISTOPHER IAN
IPC: H01P1/30
Filed: 2007-04-30
Abstract: A TEM mode resonator comprising a tuneable cavity defined by an electrically conducting cavity wall, the cavity wall comprising a grounding face 15, a capacitor face 16 and a surrounding wall extending therebetween; an electrically conducting resonator member 18 within the cavity extending from the grounding face part way to the capacitor face; a tuning member 19 within the cavity between the resonator member and capacitor face adapted to be displaced towards and away from the capacitor face along a displacement axis to tune the resonator; the capacitor face further comprising an electrically conducting temperature compensation plate 25, the temperature compensation plate being connected to the capacitor face at two spaced apart points 23, 24 and forming a bowed surface therebetween; the temperature compensation plate having a smaller coefficient of thermal expansion than the capacitor face; characterised in that the temperature compensation plate comprises an aperture 26 being arranged such that on displacement of the tuning member towards the capacitor face the tuning member is displaced towards the aperture.
Patent GB-2452080-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle lamp fastening
Inventor: BALLINGER DAVID EDWARD
IPC: B60Q1/00
Filed: 2007-08-24
Abstract: A rear lamp 1 assembly comprises a housing 3 containing a light source and a covering pane 6 is detachable from a vehicle's bodywork by means of a fixing arrangement including two interlocking, detachable parts 9, 10. When the lamp 1 is removed, for the purposes of bulb replacement, one of the parts 10 remains on the lamp housing 2 and the other 9 remains secured to the bodywork of the vehicle by means of a threaded bolt 11. The lamp can be easily replaced by aligning the two parts and snapping them together. The other end of the lamp may be fixed by threaded bolts 7, 8 and the part 10 may be formed within the housing 3. The assembly permits easy removal of the lamp from inside the vehicle boot or trunk, despite the presence of other vehicle components or trim.