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Patent GB-2387551-A (GB)
Title: Tiltable golf platform
Inventor: HUTCHON BRUCE GORDON IMRIE
IPC: A63B69/36
Filed: 2001-11-21
Abstract: The present invention relates to a tiltable tee apparatus suitable for use in practising golf diving. The apparatus comprises a ground support, and a tee platform rotatably mounted on the ground support. The tee platform comprises a base portion and a playing surface panel hingedly connected at a first edge portion to a corresponding edge portion of the base portion. The playing surface panel is supported at a jack support portion remote from the first edge portion on an upper end of at least one screw jack pivotally connected thereto. At least one screw jack has its lower end pivotally connected to the base portion. One of the ground support and the tee platform base portion as a fixed spur gear secured thereto in a substantially horizontal plane on the rotational axis of the rotatable tee platform, and the other has mounted thereon a drive motor with an elongate toothed dive output transmission member for diving engagement with the spur gear so as to rotate the tee platform in use of the apparatus. In use of the apparatus the tee platform may be tilted throughout a range of slope angles and slope directions by operation of the screw Jack and the tee platform rotation dive motor.
Patent GB-2388225-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for avoiding race condition with edge-triggered interrupts
Inventor: CLINE LESLIE E
IPC: G06F13/24
Filed: 2001-12-20
Abstract: An embodiment of a system for avoiding race conditions when using edge-triggered interrupts includes a processor that asserts an interrupt pending signal in response to the receipt of an edge-triggered interrupt. A power management device receives the interrupt pending signal. If the processor is in a low power state when it asserts the interrupt pending signal, then the power management device causes the processor to enter a high power state to allow the processor to service the pending interrupt.
Patent GB-2404269-A (GB)
Title: Estimating symmetry in a document
Inventor: BALINSKY HELEN
IPC: G06F17/27
Filed: 2003-07-24
Abstract: To estimate the symmetry present in a page or part of a page of a document a set of co-ordinates of features of the content of the document is defined using a co-ordinate system one axis of which is aligned with an axis about which the symmetry is to be estimated and the other orthogonal to this 320. The co-ordinates are mapped into complex co-ordinates in a complex plane 330 and how far the content is from the nearest symmetrical layout is determined, 340, 350, 360.
Patent GB-2405949-A (GB)
Title: Voice activated device with periodicity determination
Inventor: REES DAVID LLEWELLYN
IPC: G10L19/14
Filed: 2003-09-12
Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a device, preferably a camera, comprises a means for receiving a speech signal. A detecting means detects an extended periodic portion within the signal and a controller for controls a device in dependence upon a detection made by said detecting means. There may be a means for dividing the speech signal into a sequence of frames and a processor for processing each frame to determine a measure of periodicity of the portion of speech represented by the frame. The speech signal may represent a keyword spoken by the user.
Patent GB-2407016-A (GB)
Title: Pest detection apparatus
Inventor: NEWTON JOHN
IPC: A01M23/00
Filed: 2003-10-14
Abstract: A pest detection apparatus 2 which signals the detection of a pest and subsequently retains the pest for the purpose of inspection. An entrapment portion 20 is accessible via an entrance portion 4 such that detection means 22, 24 detects the presence of a pest in the region of the entrapment. Indication means 30, which may transmit a signal to a remote location, and inspection means 14 to allow viewing of a trapped pest are also provided. The apparatus 2 is likely to be most effective in capturing small animals of the phylum Arthropoda but may similarly be used with other small pests such as rodents.
Patent GB-2409135-A (GB)
Title: FDM/OFDM with reduced peak to average power ratio
Inventor: WU YANYAN
IPC: H04L27/26
Filed: 2003-12-12
Abstract: A method of reducing PAPR in an OFDM transmission, including at the transmitter, pre-adjusting each subcarrier phase by an amount determined by a quadratic function of the subcarrier index and a predetermined factor, and at the receiver, recovering the predetermined factor from a pilot subcarrier and reversing the preadjustments to recover the signal. The factor may be found at the transmitter by a search method.
Patent GB-2400728-A (GB)
Title: Thin film laminate for electrolumninescent element with reduced water content
Inventor: ITOH KIYOSHI
IPC: H01L51/00
Filed: 2004-02-26
Abstract: A thin film laminate for an organic electroluminescent (EL) element comprises a substrate and first and second thin films. The first thin film acts as a carrier transport layer and is formed of a hydrophilic organic material having hydrophilic groups which have been converted to lipophilic groups. The lipophilic groups are partially or wholly returned to hydrophilic groups upon exposure to heat energy or radiation. The first film is deposited by coating the substrate with a liquid composition. The second thin film is formed of a lipophilic organic material which forms the luminescent layer of the device. The first hydrophilic film does not contain any residual water and thus the function of other thin films in the device is not deteriorated.
Patent GB-2402742-A (GB)
Title: Measuring work-height of a boat rigger with respect to its seat by the use of a referencing laser beam
Inventor: EWANS JOHN FRAYN
IPC: G01B3/02
Filed: 2004-06-14
Abstract: An instrument for measuring work-height of a rowing or sculling boat rigger 8 at a respective seat 11. A light source, such as a red laser that is held in housing 6, emits a beam B to a target 13, such as a white card, that is held beside a vertical flat 12 of an oarlock 9. An elongate base member 1, which is located horizontally across saxboards 10 (or gunwales) of the boat and bridges the seat 11, supports the laser source housing 6. The light source housing 6 is mounted on pivoted links 5 which provide a parallelogram linkage that can raise the laser housing 6 to bring the laser beam onto the target 13 on the oarlock 9. As the links 5 are raised, the light source and the light beam remain parallel to the base member 1, so that measurement of the height of the light source above the seat indicated by a graduated scale 14, gives the work-height.
Patent GB-2400422-A (GB)
Title: CVT having a one-way clutch that unlocks under torque
Inventor: COOPER JEREMY BERNARD
IPC: F16H29/22
Filed: 2001-05-29
Abstract: A continuously variable transmission device, for a motor vehicle, has an extra crank 9 connected to an engine crankshaft 10 and to a connecting rod 8 which causes crank 7 to oscillate drive shaft 6 so as to twist and untwist spring 4 relative to road wheel 2. When the spring 4 is twisted in a clockwise direction a one way clutch or free-wheel device 5 locks and torque is transmitted to the road wheel 2 via a road wheel drive shaft 3. When the oscillating drive shaft 6 has rotated back anti-clockwise sufficiently far to untwist the spring 4 to zero torque, the free-wheel device 5 unlocks and slides freely in an anti-clockwise direction allowing the vehicle to roll on. The transmission replaces a gearbox and clutch and, by using separate devices for each driven wheel, cloud replace a differential and provide traction control.
Patent GB-2407415-A (GB)
Title: Preventing a web crawler from indexing or following a portion of a web page
Inventor: KAMHOLZ DAVE
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2004-10-21
Abstract: Specific content on a web page is prevented from being indexed or followed by a web crawling mechanism by means of a robot tag. Thus specific portions of a generated web page remain private while at the same time other portions of the web page are available to be indexed. The invention includes designating content for publication on the web page and designating a specific portion (315) of the content to prevent a web crawling mechanism from indexing the specific portion, by means of a robot tag (314).
Patent GB-2417480-A (GB)
Title: A valve having seals and gasket made from different materials
Inventor: WARBY RICHARD
IPC: C09K3/10
Filed: 2004-12-15
Abstract: A valve 10 comprises a valve stem 11 and a chamber body 12. Dynamic seals 17 and 18 extend between the valve stem and the chamber body and regulate the discharge of material from a dispensing container. A gasket 16 seals a ferrule 15 to the dispensing container. The gasket 16 is made from a different material to the seals 17, 18. This has been found to reduce the ingress of moisture to the container. The materials from which they are made are EPDM, butyl, nitrile or polychloroprene. The seals 17, 18 may be located on the valve stem, rather than on the valve body.
Patent GB-2411712-A (GB)
Title: Air conditioning apparatus
Inventor: ASAI TOSHIAKI
IPC: F25B43/00
Filed: 2005-03-03
Abstract: In a conventional refrigeration cycle <WC 1><WC 1>compressor failures occur due to strong acids such as organic acids or inorganic acids, <WC 1><WC 1><WC 1>or due to the fact that a large amount of<WC 1> abrasion dust and deteriorated refrigerant oil obstruct <WC 1>the strainers installed in the refrigeration cycle. The present invention includes a refrigeration cycle in which a plurality of mesh <WC 1>strainers 11 is disposed within a refrigerant circuit along which a compresssor 1, <WC 1>a four-way valve 2, a condenser 3, a first electric expansion valve 4, a fluid reservoir mechanism 5, a second electric expansion valve 6, a fluid line <WC 1>7, an evaporator <WC 1>8, and a gas line <WC 1>9 are <WC 1>also <WC 1>disposed. A drying filter 12 for trapping foreign matter is disposed between the second electric expansion valve 6 <WC 1>and the fluid line 7, to trap foreign matter remaining in the existing lines, such as dust from abrasion in the compressor, and deteriorated oil. An activated charcoal filter 17, for trapping organic acids. inorganic acids, and chlorine, is positioned in a bypass line 15. A capillary unit 18 is preferably positioned after the charcoal <WC 1>filter 17.
Patent GB-2428567-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of sanitary ware
Inventor: NIXON ROSS
IPC: A47K3/17
Filed: 2005-07-23
Abstract: An article of sanitary ware such as a shower tray 1 having a composite construction, includes an outer skin 20 of plastics material forming an upper surface of the tray, a backing layer 21 of resin concrete applied to the underside of the skin, and a partial back skin 22 covering less than 90% of the underside of the backing layer. The remainder of the underside is uncovered to allow removal of air from the resin concrete during manufacture. A number of inserts are cast into the backing layer to form sockets into which support elements may be inserted to support the article above a surface on which it is installed. The sockets are bolted to a carrier tool in sealing contact with the partial back skin which is held between the sockets and the tool. The manufacturing process can be carried out without using release agents or high pressure moulding.
Patent GB-2415596-A (GB)
Title: Flavour compositions comprising menthol, a mint oil and other flavour materials
Inventor: PERRING KEITH DOUGLAS
IPC: A23L27/10
Filed: 2004-02-11
Abstract: A flavour composition comprises: (a) at least 10% by weight of the total weight of the flavour composition of menthol; (b) at least 10 % by weight of the total weight of the flavour composition of a mint oil selected from peppermint oil, spearmint oil, and mixtures thereof; the menthol and one or more mint oils together comprising at least 40% by weight of the total weight of the composition; and(c) at least 3 % by weight of the total weight of the flavour composition of at least two flavour materials having an octanol-water partition coefficient of at least 4.0 (in logarithmic form); wherein the flavour composition has a weighted average octanol-water partition coefficient of at least 3.3 (in logarithmic form). The composition shows enhanced substantivity and thus longevity in the oral cavity and finds use in consumer products, particularly oral care products.
Patent GB-2419982-A (GB)
Title: A system which provides incentives to users to use it during off peak hours
Inventor: SHAH ANIL RAJARAM
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2005-10-28
Abstract: A online system which monitors the current level of usage of a server of the system determines if the monitor level is above a threshold and if it is then an offer is provided to a user of the system to give the user an incentive to use the system during a future off-peak window. Preferable offers include discounts on purchases made during off peak windows, and free shipping on purchases made during off peak windows. Preferably the user is a existing customer having a stored customer profile which is used to target the user with a particular offer.
Patent GB-2424108-A (GB)
Title: Method of securing radio link for remotely programmable device
Inventor: BERGSTEDT PER-OLOF
IPC: G06F21/60
Filed: 2006-03-08
Abstract: A remotely programmable device (10, fig 2) includes a message store (11, fig 2) for receiving messages over a radiolink from a controller and forwarding the messages to a local application (13, fig 2) resident in the device, writable registers (14, fig 2) for controlling operation of the device, a command interpreter (12, fig 2) for interpreting commands embedded in the messages to write data to the register, and a lock for inhibiting writing of data to the registers. The local application is responsive to an authorization code embedded in the messages to release the lock and thereby allow writing of data to the registers.
Patent GB-2427786-A (GB)
Title: Routing and forwarding between virtual routers within a single network element
Inventor: SHEN NAIMING
IPC: H04L45/74
Filed: 2003-06-27
Abstract: Routing and forwarding between virtual routers is described. In a single network element peering a first virtual router to a second virtual router, wherein the first and second virtual routers have separate address spaces and separate routing tables (205 A, B), distributing a set of one or more routes from the first virtual router to the second virtual router, wherein a first of the set of routes identifies the first virtual router as a next hop of the first route, said first route including a destination, and downloading to a set of one or more forwarding tables, the destination and the next hop. Alternatively, in the single network element, inserting a route into a routing table at a first virtual router; the route into a routing table at a first virtual router; the route indicating a destination, and identifying a second virtual router as a next hop.
Patent GB-2425743-A (GB)
Title: A screen assemly for a shale shaker
Inventor: BURNETT GEORGE ALEXANDER
IPC: B07B1/49
Filed: 2003-10-16
Abstract: A screen assembly for a shale shaker comprises a panel 101 having a perimeter and a support structure 102. The panel has a multiplicity of apertures 159 over which at least one layer of screening material is stretched and a pull down member 176, 177, 178, 196, 198 adapted to interact with a support to pull the panel down onto the support. In use the panel is fitted and then clamped in position by a clamping mechanism. During this procedure, the clamping mechanism also interacts with the pull down member forcing it into contact with the support which pulls it down and hold the panel firmly in place.
Patent GB-2427632-A (GB)
Title: Transmitting MWD signals through a mud motor
Inventor: MORIARTY KEITH A
IPC: E21B7/06
Filed: 2006-05-12
Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for transmitting measurements while drilling are adapted for use with a drill string equipped with a mud motor 360. The drill string may comprise a plurality of interconnected drill pipe joints or a plurality of interconnected casing joints. The apparatus comprises a measurement-while-drilling tool 342 adapted for placement in the drill string beneath the mud motor 360. The measurement-while-drilling tool 360 has a system for transmitting telemetry signals, such as mud-pulse telemetry signals, upwardly through the mud motor 360 and the drill string. In particular embodiments, the measurement-while-drilling tool 342 has a system for transmitting mud-pulse telemetry signals upwardly through the mud motor and the drill string at frequencies below approximately 1 Hz, although other frequencies may be employed to advantage. The apparatus may further comprise a rotary steerable system for placement in the drill string beneath the mud motor The rotary steerable system may be a point-the-bit system or a push-the-bit system. In particular embodiments, the rotary steerable system and the measurement-while-drilling tool are integrated.
Patent GB-2439601-A (GB)
Title: A moulded housing member with an integrated antenna element for a portable device
Inventor: LASAROV HARRI
IPC: H01Q1/38
Filed: 2006-06-30
Abstract: A housing member for a portable electronic device or a method of its manufacture comprises an antenna element 50 embedded in a housing portion 52 where the said element 50 has a thickness substantially equal to at least four skin depths at an operational resonant frequency of the said device 10. This may be 72 m or 740 m for RFID frequencies of 125 kHz or 13 MHz, respectively. The antennae 50 may operate at frequencies from 125 kHz to 2400MHz. The antenna 50 may be formed by a printed circuit with one or more folded wire-like loop elements connected in series and located around a display 54 or in some other position in the housing. A RF shield element may be used in the housing where a layer of ferrite material is arranged between the antenna 50 and internal circuitry. The antenna may also be formed by a plurality of conductive surfaces which are folded relative to one another to be substantially equal to the surface area of the device housing. The antenna element may be a rigid structure which reinforces the housing structure. The antenna, alternatively, may be located in a small portion of the device housing. The housing may be formed by moulding or spraying plastic material and the antenna may be a conductive metal element which may be formed from sheet material whilst within a mould. Also disclosed is a housing for a portable electronic device comprising a housing member and an antenna element embedded within the housing member where the antenna element is substantially rigid and reinforces the said housing member.
Patent GB-2429617-A (GB)
Title: Perspective image generation for registration with sensed image
Inventor: OLDROYD LAWRENCE A
IPC: G06T15/20
Filed: 2006-07-03
Abstract: The present invention provides a method of generating a synthetic perspective image of a location from a stored database reference image of the scene area, and a corresponding digital elevation model or DEM of the scene area. The generated synthetic perspective image is constructed to geometrically match an electronically sensed image of the location, in a way that only a shift displacement between the generated synthetic perspective image and the sensed image must be measured, in order to accurately register the images. The method involves directing an image sensor, for example a FLIR sensor or SAR sensor, having a line of sight so that the line of sight intersects with a particular location desired to be viewed. The image sensor produces a sensed image of the location around the line of sight. A database stored reference image of the location is then obtained from an available database of reference images. Elevation information for the location is then obtained and associated with the reference image, assigning each pixel an elevation value. The reference image is then oriented so that it corresponds to the orientation of the location relative to the image sensor line of sight. The reference image is then mapped into a synthetic perspective image using a standard projection coordinate transformation.
Patent GB-2429770-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for determining angular pose of an object
Inventor: LEONARD PATRICK F
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2005-03-04
Abstract: The present invention is operative to determine the angular pose of an assumed object. A series of projection sums are calculated from a sample image of the known object where the known object has an assumed pose. The projection sums are calculated for a range of angles and organized into a two dimensional array coined a projection image. An image of the known object is provided where the known object has an unknown pose. A projection sum is calculated across the image of the known object with the unknown pose preferably at the perpendicular. This projection sum is correlated against the projection image and the angle corresponding to the best correlation is determined to be the angular pose of the known object.
Patent GB-2447027-A (GB)
Title: Prevention of solid gas hydrate build-up
Inventor: KINNARI KEIJO
IPC: C07C7/20
Filed: 2006-09-21
Abstract: A method of treatment of hydrocarbon fluid flowing through a pipeline comprises an in-field flowline and downstream thereof a larger internal cross-sectional area trunkline, said method comprising introducing a gas hydrate formation inhibitor into hydrocarbon gas at a site in said flowline and downstream thereof cooling the gas in said pipeline to a temperature close to or below the water dew point thereof thereby condensing water from the gas such that the water dew point of the gas entering said trunkline is close to or lower than the ambient temperature. Water condensed in this manner may be removed by a water separator and inhibitor trapped in such water can be recovered and reused.
Patent GB-2427738-A (GB)
Title: Traffic information system for road and rail
Inventor: MURRAY FANE ROBERT CONANT
IPC: B60K31/00
Filed: 2005-03-04
Abstract: A system for generating a control output signal, the system comprises a vehicle, information carrying means located on a vehicular route, a detector for detecting said information carrying means, and a controller including a processor. The detector generates a detector output signal carrying at least part of the information carried by the information carrying means, and the detector output signal is received as an input to the controller and is processed by the processor to generate the said control output.
Patent GB-2431100-A (GB)
Title: Gear or thread driven height adjustable column
Inventor: HOEGLUND PER
IPC: A47B9/06
Filed: 2006-10-09
Abstract: A telescopic column, which may be used to raise or lower a table, has an outer tube and an inner tube which move in a sliding relationship to one another. The tubes are actuated by a handle connected via a pair of bevel gears (Fig 3 items 27, 28) to a rotary screw which may be worm gear supported on a shaft (Fig 3 item 26) and a bearing (Fig 3 item 33) which in turn are all located within a bracket or housing assembly. The bracket may be attached to the outer tube via a fastening and hole. A channel like means may be disposed in a section cut out of the wall of the inner tube. Located on one side of the channel may be elongate member which may have a thread or tooth form corresponding to the worm gear, (Fig 4). The bracket or housing assembly may sit within the channel member, (Fig 3 and 4). Rotation of the handle causes the rotary member to travel along the threaded form and hence move the tubes with respect to one another. In an alternative form the elongate member may be attached to the outer tube and the bracket and rotary screw may be attached to the inner tube. The handle may be replaced by a motorised power drive.