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Patent GB-2308859-A (GB)
Title: Security screen for building aperture with lockable means for clamping the screen to the aperture from the outside.
Inventor: POWELL HENRY
IPC: E05B67/38
Filed: 1996-07-22
Abstract: A boarding up system for windows, doors and the like after damage from burglars, which can be fitted from the outside of the building. A panel 14 closes off window 12 from the outside, and a like panel or a beam 18 spans the door or window aperture on the inside. The beam 18 and panel 14 are clamped to the window frame by a screwthreaded stem 20. Screwthreaded stem 20 passes through the beam 18 and ends in a disc 22 which has teeth to grip beam 18. The end of the screwthreaded stem extending through to the outside of panel 14 passes through a large washer and is secured by a wing nut. A padlocked bolt 70 is provided and cooperates with the washer to make the wing nut angularly fast so as to prevent the nut being released until the lock has been freed. A drill bit tool for tightening the wing nut is also disclosed (figure 5).
Patent GB-2305054-A (GB)
Title: Blemish concealment in video signals
Inventor: MAY ROBERT EDWARD
IPC: H04N5/213
Filed: 1996-07-31
Abstract: A video signal 21 is input to a motion-compensated median filter to produce a preliminary blemish-concealed signal 23. The preliminary signal and the original input signal are passed via appropriate delays to respective inputs of a selector switch 31 and to a side chain circuit. The selector switch is controlled by the side chain circuit output and the selector switch output 22 forms a final blemish-concealed video signal. In the side chain circuit a difference signal C is generated to indicate differences between the input signal and the preliminary signal. The difference signal C is processed in two parallel circuit branches to remove differences having gently-sloping edges and differences corresponding to similar-sized differences in similar areas of adjacent frames, which are likely to be motion artifacts. The modified difference signals from each circuit branch are combined in an AND gate 95 to generate a control signal, which controls the selector switch 22 to output the original input signal except in image areas where the side chain processing indicates that a blemish is present. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2305920-A (GB)
Title: Antitumour Vector Constructs
Inventor: BALMAIN ALLAN
IPC: C12N15/63
Filed: 1996-10-02
Abstract: Compositions for targetting expression of a gene such as an antitumour gene may contain a first nucleic acid construct in which expression of a first gene 1 is controlled by a first promoter 2,3 whose function is suppressed in non-tumour cells, and a second nucleic acid construct in which expression of a second gene 4 for down-regulating the first gene in non-tumour cells is controlled by a second promoter 5,6 that is up-regulated in non-tumour cells. The second promoter may be regulated by means of p53 binding, targetting expression of the first gene to cells in which p53 down-regulation of expression is disrupted, e.g. cells in which p53 is mutated. The first promoter may be one which is upregulated in tumour cells, for example the Hsp70 promoter which is up-regulated in mutant p53 tumour cells. A suitable antitumour agent is thymidine kinase, demonstrated using such compositions to provide cell killing action specific for tumour cells as opposed to non-tumour cells.
Patent GB-2306859-A (GB)
Title: Integrated Sharing of Satellite Access Link Bandwidth
Inventor: NATARAJAN KADATHUR S
IPC: H04B7/185
Filed: 1996-10-23
Abstract: The method (100) assigns satellite link access bandwidth upon demand as requested by a number of subscriber units (30). After receiving the connection request, a number of time slots being requested is determined. Next, if the maximum number of available time slots is greater than or equal to the number of time slots being requested plus the number of time slots already in use, the connection request is accepted and the number of requested time slots are allocated before communication begins. Otherwise the connection request is rejected and the subscriber unit (30) must try later.
Patent GB-2319558-A (GB)
Title: A wooden hinge
Inventor: WILKINSON MARK ROGER
IPC: E05D9/00
Filed: 1996-11-26
Abstract: A hinge made substantially from wood, provided to join two members (1) and (2), comprises at least two parts (14) and (15). Each part is made from two wooden elements (3) and (5) which are joined together along a common join surface (10). A tube (8) of plastics material is situated in a bore through the two parts (14) and (15), and extends partially into grooves in both of the wooden elements (3) and (5). This tube (8) prevents metal-on-wood moving contact, as a rigid metal rod (26) passes through the bore to join the two parts (14) and (15). A plastics leaf (22) is also provided between (14) and (15) to prevent wood-on-wood moving contact. The parts of the hinge may be rounded once assembled to provide smooth edges and to enable members (1) and (2) to pivot freely.
Patent GB-2319856-A (GB)
Title: Controlling oven with convection and microwave sources
Inventor: BROWN GEOFFREY JOHN EDMUND
IPC: F24C7/04
Filed: 1996-11-28
Abstract: The oven comprises convection and microwave heat sources controls for presetting the temperature and cook time of the oven for a food item to be cooked therein, and a further "rapid cook" control for selecting a reduced time cooking routine for the oven. If the "rapid cook" control is selected within 10 seconds of the cook time being entered, a microprocessor calculates a reduced cooking time using the convection heat source and/or the microwave heat source in accordance with a reduced time cooking routine which is determined from the preset temperature and cook time, and operates the oven according to the calculated cooking routine.
Patent GB-2309720-A (GB)
Title: Method for increasing methane recovery from a subterranean coal formation
Inventor: BROSS STEPHEN V
IPC: E21B43/40
Filed: 1997-01-29
Abstract: A method for increasing the production of methane from a subterranean coal formation penetrated by at least one injection well and at least one production well by producing methane from the coal formation; passing at least a portion of the methane to a synthesis gas generation zone wherein at least a major portion of the methane is reacted with an oxygen containing gas to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen; passing at least a major portion of the mixture to a hydrocarbon synthesis zone wherein the carbon monoxide and hydrogen are reacted to produce a mixture of heavier hydrocarbons containing more than one carbon atom per molecule and a tail gas comprising nitrogen and carbon dioxide; separating at least a major portion of the tail gas from at least a major portion of the hydrocarbons and recovering the hydrocarbons as a product stream; compressing at least a portion of the tail gas to a pressure suitable for injection into the coal formation; and injecting at least a portion of the tail gas into the coal formation. The methane may also be obtained from a single well or a plurality of wells operated to produce the methane by a huff and puff process.
Patent GB-2309632-A (GB)
Title: Inflatable containers
Inventor: GORYL ANDREW FRANK
IPC: A45C7/00
Filed: 1997-01-30
Abstract: An inflatable container for use, for example, as a bait bag by fishermen, has an inflatable base (20), inflatable side and end walls (21 and 22) and one or more carrying straps (24) attached or attachable to the bag to enable it to be carried as, for example, a hold-all or as a shoulder bag. A zip fastener (30) is provided for fastening the bag when deflated. The bag may have internal partitions. When inflated it may be used as a buoyancy aid.
Patent GB-2322197-A (GB)
Title: Well log stacking
Inventor: QUIRK DAVID GORDON
IPC: G01V1/48
Filed: 1997-02-18
Abstract: A digital processing technique used to enhance well log trends and provide an objective measurement of the predictability of rock bodies in the sub-surface. Similar well log data in related wells are depth corrected using at least two datum levels in a reference well which represent the depth of correlation boundaries identified in all the wells. The depth corrected log data in each well is digitally resampled in the same way as the reference well. For each sampled depth, the log values in all the depth corrected wells plus the reference well are summed and then divided by the total number of wells 60 to produce a mean value. All of these mean values are plotted against depth to produce a stacked well log trace 64. Prior to applying the process, the data may be filtered and normalised.
Patent GB-2313733-A (GB)
Title: Connecting arrangement for a modular telephone system
Inventor: LUNDELL LOUIS J
IPC: H04M1/725
Filed: 1997-04-28
Abstract: An elongate, U-shaped clamp 600 holds together first 102 and second 104 modular housing units. The first housing unit has a channel opening (702, Fig. 7) in a bottom wall 610, that borders a side wall 108. The second housing unit has a similar channel. The longitudinally extending U-shaped clamp 600 (Figures 8-15) has a base (800) a first attachment wall (802) and a second attachment wall (804). The two modules are connected together by inserting the first attachment wall of the clamp 600 into the channel (702) of the first housing unit 102 and inserting the second attachment wall (804) into the corresponding channel in the second housing unit 104. The clamp 600 may also have electrical contacts to provide an electrical connection between the two units. Channels may be provided on both sides of a modular unit and a series of units may be connected together, e.g. corded or cordless handset units, answering machine units and caller-ID units.
Patent GB-2315776-A (GB)
Title: A roller bearing
Inventor: MATSUMOTO YOICHI
IPC: C22C38/44
Filed: 1997-07-30
Abstract: A roller bearing comprising a rotating race 1, a non-rotating race 2 and roller elements 3 all made from steel containing 4.5 weight % or less nickel and 0.5 weight % or less copper. The mean weight % value of copper equivalent (defined by Cu % + 0.3*Ni %) in the rotating race 1 and the roller elements 3 is greater than that in the non-rotating race 2, thus ensuring that any hydrogen embrittlement that occurs as a result of corrosion is in the former, 1 and 3, and not the latter 2 where such embrittlement has a far worse effect on the life of the roller bearing. Preferably the sum of weight % copper equivalent in the rotating race 1 and the roller elements 3 is at least 0.15 weight % higher than twice the weight % copper equivalent in the non-rotating race 2. Preferably the races 1 and 2 and roller elements 3 are carburised/carbonitrided and all contain 5-45 % volume retained austenite in their surfaces.
Patent GB-2317184-A (GB)
Title: Bis-[(2-[(Indanylazo)-sulpho-naphthalenylamino]-triazin-4-yl)amino]- substituted derivatives, free of fibre-reactive groups, as colourants for ink jet inks
Inventor: TALLANT NEIL ANTONY
IPC: C09B43/40
Filed: 1997-09-01
Abstract: Compounds of the Formula (1) and salts thereof are provided:  B 1 and B 2 each independently is an optionally substituted indanyl group; each J independently is a group of the Formula (2):  R 3 is H or optionally substituted alkyl; n is an integer from 0 to 3; R 1 and R 2 each independently is H; alkyl; cycloalkyl; alkenyl; aryl; or aralkyl, each of which is optionally substituted; L is a divalent organic linking group; or L, R 1 and/or R 2 together with the nitrogen atoms to which they are attached form a 5 or 6 membered ring; each X independently represents a group of the formula: wherein: ```W represents a group of the formula -OR 4 ; -SR 4 or -NR 4 R 5 ; ```R 4 and R 5 each independently is H; optionally substituted alkyl; optionally substituted cycloalkyl; optionally substituted alkenyl; optionally substituted aryl; optionally substituted aralkyl; a heterocyclic group; or R 4 and R 5 together with the nitrogen to which they are attached form a 5 or 6 membered ring; or optionally R 4 and/or R 5 is, or contains a flexibly spaced amine; ```the compounds of Formula (1) being free from fibre-reactive groups. Also claimed are inks containing a compound of Formula (1), a process of ink jet printing and a substrate printed with the inks.
Patent GB-2333627-A (GB)
Title: Security system for windows
Inventor: BIRCH BRIAN LAWRENCE
IPC: B60R25/10
Filed: 1998-01-24
Abstract: A motor vehicle (2) has a heating element (8) mounted on each and every window (4, 5, 6). A change over switch (14) in one position supplies the heating elements (8) with a heating current to effect demisting and in the other position supplies a sensor current. A monitoring switch (20) monitors the sensing current and activates an alarm (22) when the current changes in response to an attack on the windows.
Patent GB-2321944-A (GB)
Title: Rolling-bellows gas spring with dust protector
Inventor: FREY JOACHIM
IPC: F16F9/05
Filed: 1998-02-05
Abstract: In a rolling-bellows gas spring, in which a gas-loaded space that is located between a piston 2 and a cylinder 1 surrounding the latter radially is sealed off from the atmosphere, the annular space 3 that is located outside this rolling bellows 4, between piston 2 and cylinder 1, is protected by a dust protector 5 which is designed as a rolling bellows, without pressure loading, in the annular space to be sealed.
Patent GB-2324811-A (GB)
Title: Article having a sandwich layer coating
Inventor: SUGG ROLIN W
IPC: C25D5/12
Filed: 1998-04-29
Abstract: An article is coated with a multi-layer coating comprising a nickel layer, a tin-nickel alloy layer, a non-precious refractory metal layer, a sandwich layer comprised of a plurality of alternating layers of non-precious refractory metal compound and of a non-precious refractory metal, a non-precious refractory metal compound layer, and optionally a layer comprised of a non-precious refractory metal oxide or the reaction products of a non-precious refractory metal, oxygen and nitrogen.
Patent GB-2326147-A (GB)
Title: Folding apparatus for wrapping
Inventor: BAYNE ROBERT
IPC: B65B11/08
Filed: 1998-06-12
Abstract: Apparatus for use in wrapping an item in a tamper respondent laminate comprises: a body; a support (41) for an item (24) with a sheet of laminate adjacent (26) a face of the item and a flap (56, 57) of the laminate extending beyond an edge of the face; and a folding member (59) mounted on the body and being pivotable around an axis (61), the member defining a surface for engaging the flap of laminate. The support (41) positions the item (24) such that the edge (30, 32) of the face lies on the pivot axis (61), whereby pivoting of the folding member (59) folds the laminate flap around the pivot axis and around the edge. A second folding member (67) is pivotally connected to the first (59) so that subsequent folding of member (67) about pivot axis (65) folds a flap of the laminate over a further face of the item (24).
Patent GB-2327362-A (GB)
Title: Golf bag cover
Inventor: DOIG CAROLANNE
IPC: A63B55/00
Filed: 1998-07-17
Abstract: A detachable cover for a golf bag is in the form of a hollow cylinder, the lower portion of the cylinder fitting over the mouth of the bag and being provided with releasable fastening fitting the cover around the upper strap sling fixing and the upper end of the cylinder being in the form of a flap 14 which in use covers the top of the bag. The cover of the invention can fit most sizes of golf bags and provides a large area for the application of a logo.
Patent GB-2332656-A (GB)
Title: Device for ducting airflow in a motor vehicle front assembly
Inventor: TOURRET ALAIN
IPC: F24F13/15
Filed: 1998-12-23
Abstract: The ducting device comprises a frame 34 delimiting an airstream passage and at least one slat 42 mounted so that it can rotate on two crossmembers 36 of the frame, between a position in which the airstream passage is open and a position in which this passage is shut off, by means of journals 46 of this slat which are housed in bearings 56 formed in the crossmembers 36. The ducting device additionally comprises means 58 of inserting the journals 46 into the bearings 56 by moving the slat 42 at right angles to its axis of rotation Z and by forcing the orientation of this slat into an angular position that this slat never adopts between its open and shutting-off positions.
Patent GB-2333774-A (GB)
Title: Oxopiperazinyl derivatives and use thereof to stabilize organic materials against damage by light, oxygen and/or heat
Inventor: LAZZARI DARIO
IPC: C08K5/5317
Filed: 1999-01-26
Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) [wherein p is zero or 1; q and r, independently of each other, are an integer from 1 to 6; and s is a number ranging from 1 to 8; X is -O- or, when p is 1, X is also a group R w , R x , R y  and R 2  are, independently of each other, C 1 -C 18 alkyl, C 5 -C 12 cycloalkyl or C 1 -C 5 hydroxyalkyl, especially methyl; R 1  is hydrogen; C 1 -C 18 alkyl; oxyl; OH; CH 2 CN; C 1 -C 18 alkoxy; C 5 -C 12 cycloalkoxy; C 3 -C 8 alkenyl; C 3 -C 8 alkynyl; C 7 -C 12 phenylalkyl; C 7 -C 15 phenylalkyl, which is substituted on the phenyl ring by 1, 2 or 3 radicals selected from C 1 -C 4 alkyl and C 1 -C 4 alkoxy; C 7 -C 15 phenylalkoxy; C 7 -C 15 phenylalkoxy, which is substituted on the phenyl ring by 1, 2 or 3 radicals selected from C 1 -C 4 alkyl and C 1 -C 4 alkoxy; or R 1  is C 1 -C 8 alkanoyl; C 3 -C 5 alkenoyl; C 1 -C 18 alkanoyloxy; glycidyl; or a group -CH 2 CH(OH)-G, in which G is hydrogen, methyl or phenyl; R 2  and R 6  are hydrogen, C 1 -C 8 alkyl, C 5 -C 12 cycloalkyl or C 1 -C 4 hydroxyalkyl; R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 7 , R 8  and R 9  independently of each other are hydrogen, C 1 -C 8 alkyl or C 5 -C 12 cycloalkyl; and W is as described in claim 1]; the four compounds named in claim 16; and related polymers as defined in claims 6 and 7 are claimed per se. Such compounds (other than said "related polymers") may be reacted with a functional organic polymer (as defined in claim 17) to give a modified polymer. The compounds which are claimed per se, as the said "modified polymers" are effective stabilizers for organic materials, for example thermoplastic organic polymers, coating compositions or photographic materials against light, oxygen and/or heat.
Patent GB-2335356-A (GB)
Title: Bed extender
Inventor: WHITE CECILIA MARGARET
IPC: A47C19/04
Filed: 1999-02-05
Abstract: A device 10 is disclosed for extending the length of a bed so that people of above average height can be accommodated comfortably. The bed extension device comprises a body 14 having a cushioned portion 12. In use, the device is abutted against and secured to the end of a bed using the apertures normally provided in the bed for a head or footboard, the cushioned surface of the device thus continuing and extending the sleeping surface of the bed. The device may also have adjustable legs for height adjustment.
Patent GB-2335806-A (GB)
Title: Power saving in audio-visual switching apparatus
Inventor: SUGANO TETSUO
IPC: H04N5/44
Filed: 1999-02-24
Abstract: A switching apparatus interconnecting three audio-visual devices has three switches SW2, SW4, SW1 with SW3, three power supplies 12, 14, 11 with 13, and a control circuit that controls the power supplies and switches. The first switch, powered by the first power supply, supplies a video signal from the first device (e.g., a television set) or the second device (e.g., a video tape recorder) to the third device (e.g., a decoder). The second switch, powered by the second power supply, supplies an audio signal from the first or second device to the third device. The third switch, powered by the third power supply, supplies audio and video signals from the second or third device to the first device. The control circuit saves power by switching the first, second, and third power supplies off individually when the outputs of the corresponding switches are not required.
Patent GB-2336944-A (GB)
Title: Interconnection structures for semiconductor devices
Inventor: MATSUBARA YOSHIHISA
IPC: H01L23/522
Filed: 1999-04-29
Abstract: A method for forming a multi-level copper interconnection structure includes the steps of etching an interlayer dielectric film 26 using a photoresist mask (28, Fig.1F) to form an opening (30) for exposing a copper interconnect (24), and removing the photoresist mask (28) by a plasma ashing at a substrate temperature lower than 150 C and a RF power not higher than 0.7 watts/cm<SP>2</SP>. The plasma ashing prevents formation of a copper oxide film on the surface of the copper interconnect thereby reducing the contact resistance between the via plug 34 and the copper interconnect (24).
Patent GB-2342850-A (GB)
Title: Bristle carrier with replaceable bristles for cleaning polishing apparatus
Inventor: ROSS CLIFFORD
IPC: B24B53/017
Filed: 1999-05-28
Abstract: A bristle carrier 16 for cleaning a polishing apparatus comprises a number of radial slots 18 into which sub-frames 19 carrying bristles 20 can be releasably mounted. The bristle carrier 16 is used in place of a component carrier used during normal polishing and is driven in a planetary fashion over clothed polishing surfaces to clean those surfaces. The same carrier 16 can be used, even when the bristles have to be replaced due to wear, by replacing the sub-frames 19 ones having new bristles. The polishing apparatus is suitable for items such as semiconductor wafers, oxide wafers and piezoelectric elements and materials including quartz, ceramics, ferrite, carbon, metals and super-hard compounds.
Patent GB-2340177-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic automatic shock absorbing hinge
Inventor: JANG JONG BOK
IPC: E05F1/00
Filed: 1999-07-07
Abstract: The device has an axially movable tube (17) and a piston (18) received in an oil cylinder. In the event of shock loading on the hinge, valves (32,32a) open under the oil pressure to absorb the shocks. When the tube moves vertically, the load produced by hydraulic pressure, is applied uniformly to a shaft (40). Preferably, the device is provided with a release mechanism in the form of a cylinder arrangement (70), activated by heat, in the event of fire.
Patent GB-2352048-A (GB)
Title: Foot measuring method
Inventor: BARTLETT DAVID
IPC: A43D1/02
Filed: 1999-07-10
Abstract: A foot measuring method where the feet to be measured are projected onto a grid. The footprint which appears on the grid is then translated into a sequence of arrays which are then used to generate a number which can be stored digitally or communicated via known data transmission lines.
Patent GB-2340944-A (GB)
Title: Estimation of earth formation parameters using a neural network
Inventor: CHAKRAVARTHY SRINIVASA
IPC: E21B41/00
Filed: 1999-07-14
Abstract: A method for generating an improved estimate of horizontal conductivity, dip angle, azimuth and anisotropy parameter of an earth formation penetrated by a well bore. Initial estimates of these parameters are derived from dual frequency transverse electromagnetic induction measurements made at a plurality of base frequencies. The estimated values are input into a primary trained neural network and an improved estimate is calculated. The network may be trained by generating models of earth formations with known parameter values. The voltages which would be measured by an instrument in response to each model are synthesized. The parameter values estimated from the synthesized voltages are calculated and input into the neural network to cause it to learn a relationship between the initial estimates and the true parameter values.
Patent GB-2343272-A (GB)
Title: Circuit arrangement and method for creating activations
Inventor: HAASE TORSTEN
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 1999-07-28
Abstract: In this activation generation unit and the associated method, activations for test sequences for testing user-program modules to be newly inserted in a data processing system are created on the basis of interface descriptions.