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Patent GB-2374886-A (GB)
Title: Single trip system for completing, testing and abandoning a well
Inventor: DAVIS JABUS T
IPC: E21B43/116
Filed: 2002-04-16
Abstract: The invention discloses apparatus and methods for perforating, completing, testing and abandoning a wellbore in a single trip. A workstring 50 is equipped with a perforating gun 52, sand screen 56 and an isolation valve 58 and may also have packers 54, 60 and a testing device. Perforation of the wellbore is followed by positioning of the sand screen adjacent the perforated interval, which is then packed with gravel. Well tests are performed on this interval prior to it being abandoned by closing of the isolation valve and withdrawal of the upper workstring. In a preferred embodiment, packers are set above and below the sand screen prior to testing and a plug of sand or cement is spotted on top of the upper packer during abandonment. The lower packer may be retrievable, so that it can be used to stabilise the work string for firing of the perforating gun, then withdrawn and redeployed before testing.
Patent GB-2380660-A (GB)
Title: A filtered water dispenser
Inventor: MONTEIRO ANDRE FRASER
IPC: A47J27/21
Filed: 2002-07-25
Abstract: A vessel for holding water, especially a kettle, comprises a first chamber 4 from which water can be pumped though a filter 12 into a second chamber 1. Alternatively the vessel may contain one chamber with water drawn though a filter into the chamber by a pump. Pumping may be by means of a manually operated plunger 8 or by a rotary electrically-powered pump. Alternatively no pump may be used. A chosen amount of cold water from the first chamber 4 may be pumped though an annular filter 12 of ion exchange resins into the second chamber 1 where it can be heated. The contents of filter 12 may be held in a porous bag that is replaceable. Metering means may indicate the amount transferred, eg in multiples of a volume such as a cupful. The vessel may have a spout that selectively allows the first chamber 4 to be filled or water to be poured from the second chamber 1 (Fig 9). The first chamber, and pump, may be external to the vessel (Fig 3, 3b and 6). The water may pass though non-return valves (3a, 3b, fig 9c) and a siphon system (28, Fig 9c).
Patent GB-2384334-A (GB)
Title: Control module and expansion board, with a control processor module, for connection to a motherboard bus
Inventor: MCDONALD DONALD WILSON
IPC: G06F15/78
Filed: 2002-08-28
Abstract: A control module 10 with a motherboard bus connector 11, a motherboard bus to serial port bridge module 12, at least one serial port 13 and a processor module 16 is disclosed. The control module could have least one peripheral control port. The processor could monitor the state of the motherboard and possibly the state of the software running on the motherboard. The control module could also have a battery 115 power supply separate from the PC power supply. Also the control module could monitor the power supply powering the motherboard. A system comprising the control module and a motherboard could also have socket servers for providing event handlers for the serial port and /or the peripheral control port, operating between the application layer and operating system layer on the motherboard. Also disclosed is the use of a LCD screen fitted to the control module to show system information.
Patent GB-2393642-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable dual-function toothbrush applicator
Inventor: SPALDING ANTHONY
IPC: A46B17/04
Filed: 2002-10-28
Abstract: A brush head 4 that connects to a stemmed handle 1 is attached to a reservoir of tooth cleaning agent by an adaptor 2. The handle is adjustable by being able to retract into the toothpaste supply. With the handle fully retracted a securing cap 3 fastens to the adaptor as does a bristle cover 7. The bristle cover prevents the toothpaste from drying out. In use, pressure on the reservoir causes cleaning agent to flow though the handle to the brush head and out through holes (5, figure 2) at the base of the bristles. The toothbrush applicator would ideally be made of plastics or resin based materials.
Patent GB-2382365-A (GB)
Title: Downhole equipment with reservoir of liquid sealant
Inventor: KOHLI HARJIT
IPC: E21B47/10
Filed: 2002-11-19
Abstract: A liquid sealant 28 is stored in a reservoir 26 in downhole equipment and is used to remedy leaks in that equipment. Preferably, the sealant is in direct contact with a metal-metal seal 10 compressed by an energising nut 16 and is forced against the seal by high well fluid pressure, possibly resulting from a pressure test. A piston 18 may transmit the pressure and force the sealant into any small flaws in the sealing surface. The sealant comprises monomers and polymers in suspension and has a high viscosity. Also disclosed is an arrangement for sealing a spliced cable connection (figures 3 and 4) using the sealant.
Patent GB-2399991-A (GB)
Title: Sharing resource access based on location classes
Inventor: SERFATY SALOMON
IPC: H04W74/08
Filed: 2003-03-28
Abstract: Mobile stations are assigned to a location class depending upon their position relative to a fixed terminal. Random access opportunities for resource access are dynamically adjusted based upon the number of attempts made in a given period of time. The resource may be a communications channel for control, speech, text, picture or video information. The fixed termianl may be a base transceiver. The random access opportunities for each location group are provided in given slots or sub-slots of a TDMA system, and may be in neighbouring frequency bands. The location classes may be "near" and "far." The mobiles may determine their own position and assign themselves to the relevant position class, based upon the path loss.
Patent GB-2402929-A (GB)
Title: Drinking water tank sealing structure
Inventor: CHANG KUEI TANG
IPC: B67D3/00
Filed: 2003-06-19
Abstract: The cap 1 of a drinking water tank 10 has a recessed hollow water guide 11 into which a water inlet and venting pipe 3 of a water dispenser 20 enters. A sealing cover 2 encases the water guide 11 so that, on entry of the water inlet and venting pipe 3, the water guide telescopes within the sealing cover 2 (see figure 9). Latching structures 13,22 are provided between the sealing cover 2 and the water guide 11 and latching structures 21, 31 between the water inlet and venting pipe 3 and the sealing cover 2.
Patent GB-2403198-A (GB)
Title: Utilising sensed parameters in form-fill-seal packaging
Inventor: GERL PETER
IPC: B65B9/073
Filed: 2003-06-27
Abstract: An apparatus for packaging piece-goods articles (A) comprises a feed conveyor (3) for feeding piece-goods articles (A) on a packaging material (F), a packaging station (5) for forming a flexible tube of the packaging material (F), the packaging station (5) comprising sealing and cutting means (53, 54) for sealing the packaging material (F) and for separating the flexible tube in individual bags (B), the bags (B) comprising at least one article of said piece-goods articles and a data determining station (2). The data determining station (2) is positioned upstream of the packaging station (5) and comprises means for determining at least one feature of at least one unpacked article passing through this data determining station (2). This feature is used when packing this at least one article. The apparatus further comprises a marking station (4, 6) being positioned upstream of the packaging station (5). The apparatus and process allows to apply data or labels on any places of the bags (by detecting weight) and it furthermore can handle individual articles in a more individual way (by detecting dimensions).
Patent GB-2405117-A (GB)
Title: Shear blade gap compensator
Inventor: TYAS SHAUN
IPC: B23D35/00
Filed: 2003-08-18
Abstract: A shearing machine for cutting sheet material in which a pair of opposed planar blades are arranged with a predetermined gap (Fig 4, G) between the planes of the blades B and D, and including actuators G arranged to counteract the deformation produced by the shearing force F, to maintain the gap at the predetermined size. Preferably, the actuators are controlled by an open or closed feedback loop, in response to stress or deformation produced by the shearing force. The actual deflection of the shear beams C and E or the back up beams H and J, may be detected by strain gauges or other transducers and the control system then causes the actuators G to expand until the deflection is suitably adjusted. The mechanism dynamically applies forces to maintain the shear gap close to its optimum value.
Patent GB-2405222-A (GB)
Title: Method for controlling the heating of a motor vehicle seat
Inventor: PALIN ROBERT ALAN
IPC: B60N2/56
Filed: 2003-08-21
Abstract: A heated vehicle seat 5 is provided in which an electronic controller 20 is programmed to vary the heat supplied to the seat 5 from a seat heater 8 based upon the measured weight of an occupant of the seat 5. Also disclosed is a method in which the seat heater 8 is switched on by the electronic controller 20 before a person enters the motor vehicle so as to pre-heat the seat 5, in response to a sensor associated with a door lock, or a signal from remote door locking means.
Patent GB-2406789-A (GB)
Title: Breast cancer cure idea
Inventor: LISTER MARTIN
IPC: A61K39/00
Filed: 2003-10-07
Abstract: By using a mould created with diseased matter from the breast of the patient antibodies could be produced to treat breast cancer by developing the natural immune system of the patient so that it produces antibodies to breast cancer.
Patent GB-2407291-A (GB)
Title: A method and apparatus for moulding a sheet
Inventor: WILKINSON STEPHEN JOHN
IPC: B29C39/10
Filed: 2003-10-21
Abstract: A method of moulding an article having a relatively small thickness in relation to its dimensions in plan i.e. a sheet 21 comprises, locating or forming one more inserts 19a, 19b that will define a part of the surface of the moulded article. Introducing a material 24 into the mould 16, providing attachment means with an irregular surface in contact with the material and maintaining the mould in such an orientation while the material hardens and mechanically bonds to the attachment means. The mould face is inclined to the horizontal at an angle at which the insert is retained on the face against slipping by friction during the hardening of the material and a gas outlet means is provided from an upper part of the mould in the inclined position. The irregular surface of the attachment means may be flexible, mechanically scuffed, chemically etched, ribbed, and may comprise an array of short hairs or bristles or knit loops.
Patent GB-2410147-A (GB)
Title: Electronic stethoscope with piezo-electrical film contact microphone
Inventor: YANG PAUL
IPC: A61B5/00
Filed: 2004-01-13
Abstract: An electronic stethoscope comprises a stethoscope head 10 with a Piezo-Electrical Film contact microphone 11 inside. The stethoscope head is electrically connected to a switchable filter circuit and a microcontroller unit 20 (MCU). The microcontroller unit 20 is connected to a front-end operational amplifier (OP-amp) circuit 50 a wave filter circuit 61,62 and a transmit circuit 80 such that when the stethoscope is used, the weak sound signal received by contacting stethoscope head with a human body is sent to the OP amplifier. The amplified sound signal (such as heart sound and lung sound) selectively measured by the switch module is processed by the microcontroller unit and the wave filter. The filtered sound signal is sent to a transmit/receive circuit, so that the wave filter circuit can filter the noise of the sound signal produced by human bodies under the control of the microcontroller unit, and medical people can make correct diagnostics based on the correct sound received through the transmit/receive circuits.
Patent GB-2397870-A (GB)
Title: Stacked disk valve trim
Inventor: THURSTON KENNETH A
IPC: F16K47/08
Filed: 2003-01-21
Abstract: Pressure reduction in a fluid flow control device is optimized, minimizes valve wear and presents solutions in reducing, attenuating, eliminating, damping, redirecting, or otherwise defeating valve noise. In one embodiment, a flow control device is provided including a valve trim assembly comprising a plurality of stacked valve trim disks 22A-22D defining a plurality of flow paths 30 along a fluid passage between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet of the flow control device. Respective flow paths defined by the valve trim disks comprise an expansion/contraction mechanism 40, a velocity control mechanism 50, an acoustic chamber 60, and frequency shifting passages 70. The expansion/contraction mechanism 40 has a cross section including rapid increases and decreases in cross-sectional flow area. The velocity control mechanism 50 defines a cross-sectional flow profile defining a relatively low cross-sectional flow area proximate the fluid inlet and a relatively high cross-sectional flow area proximate the fluid outlet. The acoustic chamber 60 is configured to defeat acoustic disturbances generated in the expansion/contraction mechanism 40 and the velocity control mechanism 50. The frequency shifting passages 70 are configured to direct fluid flow from the acoustic chamber 60 to the fluid outlet and increase the sonic frequency of acoustic disturbances associated with the directed fluid. Also disclosed is the expansion/contraction mechanism in the form of acute-angled V-shaped turns defined within a single trim disk and lying in a plane defined by the disk.
Patent GB-2402171-A (GB)
Title: Casting of lower casing of engine crankcase
Inventor: OSMAN AZMI
IPC: B22D19/08
Filed: 2004-05-28
Abstract: The crankcase lower casing includes a pair of left and right aluminium side members 11, 12 extending along side the crankshaft 5 and a laterally extending cross member 13 provided between the side members 11, 12. The cross member 13 comprises an aluminum cross member body 14 provided between the side members 11, 12, and a cast-iron supporting member 17 formed with a semicircular supporting recess 15 on its top surface 16 for the crankshaft 5 to be fitted in at the lower half of its journal 4, and built in the cross member body 14 while leaving the top surface 16. The side members 11, 12 and the cross member body 14 are formed together through aluminum casting by using the supporting member 17 as an insert member. A notch 23 is formed at a lower end of the supporting member 17 below the supporting recess 15. Such an arrangement can prevent casting defects from occurring in casting a lower casing of a crankcase for supporting a crankshaft.
Patent GB-2406824-A (GB)
Title: Saw positioning system for a woodworking bandsaw
Inventor: ZHANG ROSS
IPC: B23D59/00
Filed: 2004-06-04
Abstract: There is a bandsaw unit positioning system for work 15 with a light emitting unit 3 which emits a planar light beam 5. The unit has a power supply, connected to the unit via a lead 4. The unit is mounted to the bandsaw so that the light beam emitted from the unit 3 coincides with the plane of a saw blade 6 mounted on the bandsaw. The unit 3 may be located on the upper box 1 of the bandsaw. A converging lens (figure 3, 13), cylindrical lens (figure 3, 14) and corrugated lens can be used to ensure the light emitted is in the form of a fine line 16. The light source (figure 2, 7) may take the form of a light emitting diode or laser diode, where the light emitting diode colour can be changed depending on the work 15 colour.
Patent GB-2402543-A (GB)
Title: Obscuring data in an audiovisual product
Inventor: GREEN STUART
IPC: G11B27/10
Filed: 2004-06-07
Abstract: Access to an audiovisual product such as DVD video is controlled by dividing the data into cells 420 of an original sequence A,B,C and creating one correct sequence instruction 410a that reproduces the sequence A,B,C and a plurality of incorrect sequence instructions 410b each of which replays the sequence in the wrong order, e.g A,C,B; B,A,C etc. Sequences 410 may comprise program chains (PGC) and the correct sequence 410a may be obscured among many incorrect sequences 410b which be permutations of the correct sequence 410a. Cells 420 may be re-arranged in a scrambled order and have distorted data cells or erroneous cells added. The structure location of the correct sequence 410a may be derived from an access code or password. The cells 420 may be divided between two or more video streams (fig 20) and a switch instruction (fig 20, 2011, 2021) switches between them on reproduction. One stream may contain erroneous cell data (fig 20 C2) while another holds correct cell data (fig 20, C1).
Patent GB-2421724-A (GB)
Title: Feeding device for cylindrical rods, having an unblocking mechanism
Inventor: GRIFFITHS MARK
IPC: B65D88/64
Filed: 2005-01-17
Abstract: A device for dispensing cylindrical or multi-sided rods comprises a hopper, the lower section of which narrows so that only one rod can pass and a bridge breaker mechanism which prevents the formation of a bridge of rods at the point where the hopper narrows. The bridge breaker mechanism comprises an actuator <B>A</B> and a spring strip <B>F</B>. The actuator <B>A</B> pushes the strip <B>F</B> which raises the strip <B>F</B>, on the release of the actuator <B>A</B>, the rods are allowed to fall. The device may have a catcher mechanism <B>G</B> which holds a rod in position until a ejector mechanism <B>B</B> dispenses the rod. A photocell switch <B>E</B> may activate a valve/relay <B>C</B> which operates the bridge breaker mechanism <B>A</B>. A pulsed input from a switching device can be used to activate the devices pneumatic or electronic circuits. The device may be used to dispense pens or pencils.
Patent GB-2425042-A (GB)
Title: Device for securing curtain cords
Inventor: ULLYART GLADYS
IPC: A47H3/02
Filed: 2005-03-15
Abstract: A device for securing curtain cords that are drawn when gathering/pleating curtains comprises an elongate body about which cords can be wrapped. The body includes a main shank portion a) which tapers at a distal end e). The shank includes an upper hooked feature c) and a lower hooked feature d) and indentations f). A hook portion may be included at the top or proximal end of the device as a means of hanging the device.
Patent GB-2412494-A (GB)
Title: Maskless particle-beam system for exposing a pattern on a substrate
Inventor: PLATZGUMMER ELMAR
IPC: H01J37/305
Filed: 2003-01-13
Abstract: A method for forming a pattern on a surface of a substrate (41) by means of a beam (lb, pb) of energetic electrically charged particles, comprising the following steps: ```producing said particle beam, ```directing said particle beam (lb, pb) through a pattern definition means (102) producing a number of beamlets (bm) using an aperture array means (203) having a plurality of regularly arranged apertures (230) of substantially identical shape defining the shape of said beamlets (bin), and using a blanking means (202) to switch off the passage of selected beamlets (bin), the others forming, as a whole, a patterned particle beam, and ```projecting said patterned particle beam onto said substrate (41) surface to form an image of those apertures (230) which are switched on, each aperture (230) corresponding to an image element on the substrate (41) surface during a uniform exposure time, ```wherein a subset of the apertures (230) is switched on during a fraction of the exposure time and switched off for the remaining fraction of the exposure time, thus causing a fractional exposure at a value lower than a threshold of exposure of image elements on the substrate (41) surface, which threshold is lower than or equal to the value corresponding to a full exposure as caused by an aperture (230) switched on during the full exposure time.
Patent GB-2430868-A (GB)
Title: Garment hanger with means for securing it to a drying device
Inventor: JONES ROY
IPC: A47G25/32
Filed: 2005-09-28
Abstract: A garment hanger hook 1 comprises a clip 2 which enables the hanger to be secured from a drying device, e.g. a clothes line 6. The clip has a number of securing positions 3,4,5 to accommodate drying devices of different sizes.
Patent GB-2430926-A (GB)
Title: Pallet with retractable wheels
Inventor: LOFTUS STEPHEN CLIVE
IPC: B65D19/44
Filed: 2005-10-06
Abstract: A pallet (2, Fig 3) includes a deck (4), a support structure 8a,b for supporting the deck above the ground, and a plurality of retractable wheel 12a,b that can be configured in a deployed condition in which they fully support the pallet or a retracted condition. A releasable locking mechanism 28 is provided for locking the retractable wheels in the deployed condition. Preferably, the wheels, which can be pivotal castors, are mounted on arms 14 having a central pivot 16 and pressed by springs 18 so that the wheels are normally retracted and moved by locking cranks 32 at each end of the pallet. The cranks are moved by a handle part 28.
Patent GB-2421356-A (GB)
Title: Wafer bonding of microelectromechanical systems to active circuitry
Inventor: DUNGAN THOMAS E
IPC: B81C1/00
Filed: 2005-11-03
Abstract: A single integrated wafer package 10 includes a micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) wafer 12, an active device wafer 16, a seal ring 30, and external contacts 40, 46. The package 10 may also includes a microcap 14 bonded to the MEMS wafer 12. The microcap 14 protects and hermetically seals MEMS components 20, 22 and also provides electrical connection to the active device wafer 16 through contacts 32A, 34A. The package is fabricated at the wafer-level and then singulated to form individual wafer packages 10. A method of fabricating the wafer package is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2435939-A (GB)
Title: Electronic control system for safety or security critical devices or systems in a vehicle
Inventor: CHEVALIER JOHN PHILLIP
IPC: E05B65/12
Filed: 2006-01-23
Abstract: The vehicle has plural device actuators, each configured to provide an output signal indicative of its actuation status, the vehicle also having inputs for requesting actuation of the respective devices and generating corresponding actuation request signals, and vehicle condition sensors for providing vehicle condition signals indicative of vehicle parameters such as speed and tilt or the status of vehicle components. The control system comprises master and slave controllers all connected to receive the vehicle condition signals. The master controller is connected to receive the actuation request signals and to receive the status output signals from all the devices and is in two-way data communication with all the slave controllers, and each slave controller is connected to receive a corresponding actuation request signal and to receive power from the master controller for its respective device. Each slave controller is responsive to an actuation request signal requesting actuation of its device to send a slave request signal to the master controller. The master controller is responsive to the slave request signal to provide a master consent signal to the slave controller only if it has independently received the same actuation request signal and it determines that it is safe and appropriate to do so, and to supply power to the slave controller. The slave controller is responsive to the master consent signal and the relevant vehicle condition signals and the respective status output signal to supply power to the device to control the actuation of the device only in the event that it determines that it is safe and appropriate to do so. The control system may be used for supplying power to electrical actuators such as a steering column lock, a door latch or a tailgate latch.