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Patent GB-2444489-A (GB)
Title: Materials Handling System
Inventor: WINDOW JOHN
IPC: B65D19/02
Filed: 2006-12-08
Abstract: A materials handling system for prefabricated building wall frames comprises a stillage sled or pallet to support a stack of wall frames in substantially upright orientation, a gantry at floor level for offloading the wall frames singly from the stillage sled and a masted lifting truck to receive the individual wall frames from the gantry and carry them to their end positions. The stillage sled may include a central support frame 13, side frames 15, an angled floor 14, a pair of pivotable ends guards (16 fig 1) or webbing straps in place of the solid end guards and a metal frame 17 to display an inventory. The gantry (20 fig 3) may comprise an overhead track (22 fig 3) supported by wheeled end frames (21 fig 3) with releasable brakes (27 fig 3) and carrying a pair of trolleys (23 fig 3) supporting lifting tackle (24 fig 3) having hook means such as headed studs for engaging end uprights of wall frames such as by means of keyhole shaped apertures. The masted lifting truck (30 fig 4) may include castors (32 fig 4) and a visible marker (35 fig 5) for alignment with the centre of gravity of a wall frame.
Patent GB-2444908-A (GB)
Title: Separating immiscible liquids
Inventor: SAMSON IIAN ZADIK
IPC: A23L23/00
Filed: 2006-12-21
Abstract: A method of removing an immiscible liquid having a given density from another liquid having a different density, such as removing fat floating on hot soup. A flat thermally conducting plate 14 is cooled to a temperature below that at which the fat solidifies and is lowered onto the floating fat to cause it to congeal and adhere to the under surface of the plate. The plate 14 may be the base of a vessel 10 cooled by placing a solid, having a freezing point similar to the soup, within the vessel. Preferably the solid is ice formed into cubes. Also disclosed is a separate invention to an apparatus comprising a vessel characterised by a an outside less thermally conducting than the base or the vessel comprising a base with an edge that does not flare out on its way up.
Patent GB-2436009-A (GB)
Title: Method of fabricating a colour filter array substrate using a soft mould
Inventor: CHAE GEE SUNG
IPC: G02F1/1335
Filed: 2005-06-27
Abstract: A method comprises the steps of forming a black matrix 102 followed by red, green, blue color filters, 102R,G, B, on a substrate 101, coating a transparent resin 182 over the substrate, aligning a soft mold 184 having a groove 186a to the transparent resin layer and simultaneously forming at least a spacer (124, Fig12D) an overcoat layer (122, Fig12D). Preferably a while colour filter (104W, Fig12D) is formed during the moulding step and the groove in the mold corresponds to the spacer. The soft mould may be made from polydimethylsiloxane PDMS, polyurethane or a cross-linked novolac resin. The method preferably includes pressing the soft mould into the resin and soft curing the resin.
Patent GB-2435125-A (GB)
Title: Nonlinear crystal modifications for durable high-power laser wavelength conversion
Inventor: SUN YUNLONG
IPC: H01S3/109
Filed: 2007-05-30
Abstract: A wavelength converter (34) such as a nonlinear crystal has an angle cut exit surface (36) to separate a harmonic wavelength from a fundamental or different harmonic wavelength. A solid optical overlay medium (28) has an entrance surface (38) that is angle cut to mate with the converter exit surface (36). The optical overlay medium (28) is substantially transparent to the fundamental and selected harmonic wavelengths, has a refractive index similar to that of the wavelength converter (34), and has damage thresholds at the selected wavelengths that are greater than the respective damage thresholds of the wavelength converter (34).
Patent GB-2450315-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle security system
Inventor: WADE DARREN GEORGE
IPC: B60R25/102
Filed: 2007-06-07
Abstract: A vehicle having a security system comprising a battery operated surveillance unit 6 and portable viewing means 8, the surveillance unit comprising a camera and transmitter means for transmitting surveillance data from the camera to the portable viewing means, the surveillance unit being attached to the vehicle by releasable attachment means (fig 4, 7 and 8). The surveillance unit is portable when not attached to the vehicle. The releasable attachment means being such that it has a locking device for helping to prevent the surveillance unit from being stolen from the vehicle.
Patent GB-2438975-A (GB)
Title: Hairdresser's masking aid
Inventor: BIRD RAYMOND
IPC: A45D19/00
Filed: 2007-06-08
Abstract: A hairdresser's masking aid for masking selected strands of hair from other strands of hair while the selected strands are treated comprises at least two panels of flexible sheet material which are capable of being hinged apart to receive the selected strands and subsequently brought together to envelop the selected strands, at least one of the panels comprising a substrate of a flexible and transparent plastics material 50,52 laminated over at least part of its area to a metal foil substrate 42. The plastics substrate is laminated to the said metal foil substrate by a laminating wax so that the resultant laminated sheet is capable of being dead folded in a similar way as non-laminated aluminium foil.
Patent GB-2449948-A (GB)
Title: Four-stroke engine lubrication system
Inventor: CHEN CHUN-CHIN
IPC: F01M1/04
Filed: 2007-06-27
Abstract: A lubrication system for a four-stroke engine, eg a small utility engine, includes an oil pan 1, a crankcase 2, a gearbox 3, a rocker-arm chamber 4 and a gas-oil separator 7. When a piston 62 of the engine moves upward in its cylinder 5 to form a negative pressure in the crankcase 2, the crankcase sucks the lubrication oil from the oil pan 1, the rocker-arm chamber 4 and the gas-oil separator 7. When the piston 62 moves downward to form a positive pressure in the crankcase 2, the lubrication oil and the exhaust gas in the crankcase 2 are compressed into a gearbox 3, and then into the rocker-arm chamber 4 and the oil pan 1. The exhaust gas in the oil pan 1 further enters into the gas-oil separator 7 to separate the lubrication oil from the gas. The separated gas is delivered into the cylinder 5 to be burnt and the separated lubrication oil is sucked into the crankcase 2 at next stroke; thereby completing the lubrication oil circulation of the engine. The engine is thus lubricated without the need for a pump and can operate at any inclination.
Patent GB-2438536-A (GB)
Title: Evanescent wave sensing device
Inventor: SHAW ANDREW MARK
IPC: G01N21/55
Filed: 2005-03-15
Abstract: An evanescent wave cavity-based optical sensor comprises an optical cavity formed by a pair of highly reflective surfaces such that light within said cavity makes a plurality of passes between said surfaces, an optical path between said surfaces including a reflection from a totally internally reflecting (TIR) surface, said reflection from said TIR surface generating an evanescent wave to provide a sensing function; a light source to inject light into said cavity; and a detector to detect a light level within said cavity; and wherein said TIR surface is provided with a functionalising material over at least part of said TIR surface such that said evanescent wave interacts with said material; whereby an interaction between said functionalising material and a target to be sensed is detectable as a change in absorption of said evanescent wave. A partition or an atrium 405 is provided to allow selective transport of sensed entities to the interface. An alternative version uses an optical fibre stripped of some of its cladding. Preferably the TIR surface has substantially no features with a dimension perpendicular to the surface of greater than 3 microns, more preferably 1 micron.
Patent GB-2443337-A (GB)
Title: Method for generating text that meets specified characteristics in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same
Inventor: FUX VADIM
IPC: H04M1/72436
Filed: 2006-04-25
Abstract: Incoming e-mails, instant messages, SMS, and MMS, are scanned for new language objects such as words, abbreviations, text shortcuts and, in appropriate languages, ideograms, that are placed in a list for use by a text input process of a handheld electronic device to facilitate the generation of text.
Patent GB-2457509-A (GB)
Title: Conveyer freezer
Inventor: CHANDLER KENNETH
IPC: A23B4/06
Filed: 2008-02-18
Abstract: A conveyer freezer, for chilling or freezing a product, comprises an insulated container 2, an inlet 22 and an outlet 24, and a support structure 10, (12, fig.5) disposed within the container. The insulated container is provided with a refrigeration unit for chilling or freezing the product passing through the container. The product enters the container through the inlet and exits the container through the outlet which is located at a lower level than the inlet. The support structure carries an array of at least four vertically stacked conveyer belts 14, where each conveyer belt is arranged to move in a direction opposite to the conveyer belt below or above it and is positioned so that the array forms a cascade carrying the product along a path from the inlet through the container to the outlet. Preferably, the array consists of an even number of conveyer belts and the inlet and outlet are located on a common wall of the container. The refrigeration unit may be located at an end of the container remote from the common wall. Preferably, the support structure is provided with wheels (38, fig.4) and/or rollers travelling along tracks (40, fig.4) in the floor of the container, enabling the support structure to be moved in and out of the container. The product may be a food product such as fruit, vegetables or seafood.
Patent GB-2448071-A (GB)
Title: Associating a query with an application user
Inventor: LAL AMRISH K
IPC: G06F11/30
Filed: 2008-03-27
Abstract: Determining an application user as a source of database activity is disclosed. A communication is received. A thread that is configured to handle the communication is associated with an application user with which the communication is associated. The application user is associated with a database query generated by the thread. An indication that the query is associated with the user can be provided to a downstream reader, such as a security monitor. The indication can be in the form of an inserted comment. Providing an indication can include generating a dummy query, which can be entirely commented, which indicates that subsequent queries are associated with the user.
Patent GB-2461702-A (GB)
Title: Hand drying apparatus
Inventor: BENNETT THOMAS
IPC: A47K10/48
Filed: 2008-07-08
Abstract: A hand drying apparatus comprising a main body, a cavity formed in the main body for receiving objects to be dried, an outlet for draining fluid from the cavity and a filter arrangement 100 located downstream of the outlet. The filter arrangement 100 comprises a particulate filter and a further filter 108. The particulate filter is removable from the main body separately from the further filter 108. The further filter 108 may comprise a sterilising filter.
Patent GB-2462063-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for setting an uplink transmit power level for a wireless communication unit
Inventor: POKHARIYAL AKHILESH
IPC: H04B7/005
Filed: 2008-07-15
Abstract: An access point 130, UE 114, method and software for supporting communication in a femto cell of a cellular communication network. Whereby the setting of the femto cell uplink transmit power level is based on at least one determined macro cellular interference criterion and preferably at least one macro cellular path loss. The access point may request the UE to perform the at least one macro cell path loss measurement periodically and/or in response to a trigger. Preferably the femto cell uplink transmit power level for the UE is based at least on an estimated maximum uplink transmit power allowable to meet the macro cellular interference criterion.
Patent GB-2463053-A (GB)
Title: Flow restricting valves
Inventor: OGG STEPHEN MICHAEL
IPC: F16K17/18
Filed: 2008-08-30
Abstract: A flow restricting valve comprises a valve chamber 26 which has a first valve seat 20 and a second valve seat 27 opposite the first valve seat, and a valve member 23 in the chamber. A spring 24 urges the valve member toward the first valve seat. The seat is profiled to provide a bypass (31, Fig. 6) which allows restricted flow through the chamber when the valve member is urged against the first valve seat 20. The valve member 23 is engageable with the second seat 27 in response to excessive inlet pressure. Flow past the valve member 23 is prevented when the valve member engages the second valve seat 27. The valve is connected between a first flow passage (28, Fig. 3) and a second flow passage (29, Fig. 3) and the flow passages are connected in parallel with the valve by another flow restricting valve, which preferably comprises a second valve similar to the first but disposed in reverse.
Patent GB-2463113-A (GB)
Title: Floating water wheel with chevron shaped paddles
Inventor: LOWERY MICHAEL
IPC: F03B17/06
Filed: 2008-09-06
Abstract: A water wheel for generating electricity comprises a floating barrel with chevron shaped paddles around its circumference. The paddles are thus inclined at an angle to the axis of the barrel so that they enter and leave the water smoothly as it rotates. The barrel may have sealed permanent magnet generators using planetary gearing (figure 2) mounted in recesses at either end of the barrel. The barrel may be supported by stub axles or a through axle, and may be supported by a harness 13 pivoted 14 to an anchor point 16. The power cable 15 may run inside the frame 16.
Patent GB-2454799-A (GB)
Title: Diagnosing infection, SIRS or sepsis using RT-PCR and biomarkers
Inventor: BROOKS TIMOTHY JOHN GILBY
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2008-11-17
Abstract: A method for screening a biological sample to detect early stages of infection, SIRS or sepsis comprising the steps of detecting expression of at least one biomarker from a first set and one from a second set of informative biomarkers by RT-PCR; analysing the results of detection; classifying said sample according to the likelihood and/or timing of the development of overt infection. The first set of biomarkers consists of CD40, CD5, CD79A, CRX, CTNND1, CX3CL1, ENTPD2, ENTPD5, EPHA8, GPR44, HMMR, IL8, MAP1A, MAPK7, MEF2D, ODF1, SAA3P, SLC6A9, SPN, TDGF1, TSC22D1 and HDAC5, the second set consists of CD178, MCP-1, TNF-alpha, IL- 1beta, IL-6, IL-10, INF-alpha and INF-gamma. A multilayered perceptron neural network analysis may be used for high accuracy prediction. A diagnostic means may be prepared from the method.
Patent GB-2451049-A (GB)
Title: Improved variable valve actuation
Inventor: PATTAKOS MANOUSOS
IPC: F01L3/20
Filed: 2007-04-19
Abstract: To improve the precision of the control of the charge of a cylinder during idling and low revs / light load operation, a bypass feeding path of low flow capacity provides the cylinder with air or mixture while the high flow capacity intake valves stay closed.
Patent GB-2457375-A (GB)
Title: Lidar arrangement for mapping the environment around a vehicle
Inventor: CRAMBLITT ROBERT M
IPC: G01S17/931
Filed: 2009-02-12
Abstract: A laser detection and ranging system 300 for a vehicle is disclosed comprising a fan beam generation unit 302,304, a detector 310, a streak unit 308, and a data processing unit. The fan beam generation unit 302,304 transmits a fan beam onto an environment around the vehicle. The detector 310 has a plurality of rows of sensors for detecting a return signal from the fan beam. The streak unit 308 shifts the return signal from the fan beam onto different rows of the detector 310 based on when each portion of the return signal is received. The data processing unit generates range and angle data from the return signal detected by the detector 310. An image of the environment around the vehicle is formed from the angle and range data. The shifting may be achieved by passing the return signal from the fan beam through a focusing lenticular array and: a collimating lenticular array; or a field lenticular array and a collimating lenticular array; or an optical relay, a tilt mirror, and a collimating lenticular array.
Patent GB-2467960-A (GB)
Title: Laparoscopic surgical retraction device with expanding element and anchor arrangement
Inventor: RUSSELL BARRY
IPC: A61B17/00
Filed: 2009-02-23
Abstract: A laparoscopic surgical retraction device 100 with an insertion configuration wherein the device is collapsible to fit through a trocar or a cannula 160 and can be expanded into an operational configuration for retraction of tissue or organs 215. The device may have a furled or rolled arrangement during insertion and may use inflation to facilitate expansion of it. The device may further feature an anchor element that can be coupled to the retraction element to hold it in place and may include flexible tethers between the anchor and the retraction element. The device may use adhesives, surgical screws or sutures to secure it in place. The device may be anchored between the left and caudate lobes of the liver or used in connection with bowel procedures.
Patent GB-2459418-A (GB)
Title: An improved erosion protection device
Inventor: ATKINSON FRANCIS STEWART
IPC: E02B3/12
Filed: 2008-03-11
Abstract: An erosion protection device is described which is made of two or more components. Each component has an edge, surfaces on respective sides of the edge and at least one joining portion (a joining portion of a component comprises a recess in the edge and receiving portions on respective sides of the edge). Each recess has a base which is indented relative to the edge, and sidewalls which diverge as they extend from the base out to the edge. The receiving portions diverge relative to each other with the same slope as the sidewalls as they extend from adjacent the base of the recess away from the edge towards the respective surfaces. When joining two components together, a bonding medium is applied to the joining portion on one or both components. The joining portions are then brought together such that the space between the sidewalls and receiving portions of one component and the receiving portions and sidewalls respectively of the other component diminishes thereby squeezing the bonding medium therebetween as the components come together.
Patent GB-2459626-A (GB)
Title: Nuclear quadrapole resonance logging tool
Inventor: EDWARDS CARL M
IPC: G01R33/44
Filed: 2008-03-14
Abstract: An instrument for investigating properties of an earth formation includes a body housing a nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) probe, the probe having at least one coil wound around a core material and an electronics coupling, the body being adapted for insertion into a wellbore within the earth formation.
Patent GB-2472113-A (GB)
Title: Level-shift circuit
Inventor: NOTMAN ANDREW
IPC: H02M1/00
Filed: 2009-10-27
Abstract: A level-shift circuit 400 comprises: an input, for receiving a first voltage. Vout; an output, for outputting a second voltage Vout_Ls; a resistor array comprising one or more resistors R1, R2 connected in series to the input; a current sink CS1 for providing a current that is independent of the first voltage; a switch arrangement F1-3, S1-3 comprising a plurality of switch connections for establishing a selected one from a plurality of force paths between the current sink and the input, where the force path comprises a selected number of the resistors; and at least one connection between the output and the resistor array that provides a sense path between the resistor array and the output that does not comprise any of said switch connections used to establish each of said plurality of force paths. The level-shifting circuit is particularly suitable for use with a DC-DC converter (200, fig. 2).
Patent GB-2475678-A (GB)
Title: Contact Lens Handling Towel
Inventor: REID MARK
IPC: A47K10/02
Filed: 2009-11-25
Abstract: The invention relates to a microfibre contact lens handling towel (1 figure 1), which may be treated with a biocide is disclosed along with a method of use. A microfibre towel comprising a biocide for general-purpose use is also disclosed. The towel is of particular use in environments where sterility is desirous, such as hospitals. The microfiber is preferably a mix of 80% polyester with 20% polyamide. The biocide may be an organosilicon quaternary ammonium compound. The towel may comprise a microfiber filament 2 having a star shaped polyester core 3 with polyester spokes 4 and polyamide wedges 5 lying between the polyester spokes.
Patent GB-1210698-A (GB)
Title: Curing of golf ball covers
Inventor: CORISH PATRICK JOSEPH
IPC: A63B37/00
Filed: 1968-03-01
Abstract: 1,210,698. Golf balls and compositions. DUNLOP CO. Ltd. 27 Feb., 1969 [1 March, 1968], No. 10001/68. Heading A6D. [Also in Division C3] The curing of a golf ball cover made of composition comprising an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer of such a copolymer in which some of the carboxylic groups have 'been converted to metal salts is effected by making and shaping the composition to the form of a cover without the inclusion of any curing agent, contacting the cover with a peroxy curing agent in liquid or vapour form, allowing it to diffuse into the cover and heating the cover to cure it. In a modification the uncured cover is fitted around a golf ball core and then pressed and heated to mould the cover around the core and cure the cover. Specified curing agents are di-t-butyl or amyl peroxide, t-butyl penbenzoate, t-butyl peroxy isopropyl carbonate and t-butyl cumyl peroxide. The exemplified terpolymer is ethylenemethacrylic acid-sodium methacrylate. The compositions may also contain cis-polybutadiene, lead carbonate and TiO 2 . A composition suitable for a core comprising cis-polybutadiene, trimethylol propane trimethacrylate, silica, TiO 2 , lead carbonate and dicumyl peroxide is also described.
Patent GB-557198-A (GB)
Title: Production of coloured photographic images
IPC: G03C5/48
Filed: 1942-07-18
Abstract: 557,198. Coloured photographic images. TULL, A. G. July 18, 1942, No. 10027. [Class 98 (ii)] A coloured photographic image is produced in a silver halide emulsion layer containing a uranium ferrocyanide image by applying a solution of a mercurous salt to produce a mordant image from the uranium ferrocyanide, and then applying a solution of a basic dye, which mordants to the mordant image, the unmordanted dye being then washed out. In an example, Prussian blue and uranium ferrocyanide images are produced in two superimposed layers or strata of a multi-layer or multi-strata material by the method of Specification 540,971, and before or after removal of unwanted silver or silver salts, e.g. with Farmer's Reducer, the material is bathed in a solution containing mercurous nitrate and nitric acid and is then washed. The material is dyed with a solution of a basic dye (e.g. Rhodamine B 500 or G or Auramine or Acronol Yellow) containing acetic acid, and is then washed (e.g. with acidulated water) to remove unmordanted dye. The dye may be fixed by tannic acid, tartar emetic, phosphomolybdic or phosphotungstic acid or their salts, or an acid dye (e.g. Lissamine Red 7 BPS, which may modify the colour of the mordanted dye image), and the mordant image is removed with hypo or Farmer's Reducer. If the latter is used, negative silver and bleached silver salt images may be removed at the same stage. Specification 540,979 also is referred to.