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Patent GB-2497977-A (GB)
Title: Fault detection and correction in valve assemblies
Inventor: STUBBS ADAM
IPC: F16K31/02
Filed: 2011-12-23
Abstract: An electrically actuated valve comprises a valve element which is moveable between open and closed positions. Applying an electrical signal of a first polarity to the valve causes the valve element to move in a first direction and applying an electrical signal of an opposite second polarity causes the valve element to move in a second opposite direction. In response to the application of an electrical signal the valve element may move more slowly than is expected or not at all. A control system for detecting and correcting such faults includes the steps of using a controller to calculate and send electrical signals to the electrical actuator to move the valve element dependent on actual and desired positions, detecting a fault condition defined as the actual position of the valve element failing to match a desired position after a period has elapsed, and in the event of detecting the valve fault condition, substituting the data corresponding to the desired position of the valve element with pulses of waveform data which oscillate about a value corresponding to the desired position until either the actual position matches the desired position within an allowable valve position margin, or a preconfigured number of pulses has been reached.
Patent GB-2498380-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable wall mount for furniture
Inventor: TOOLEY JONATHAN HARRY
IPC: A47B95/00
Filed: 2012-01-13
Abstract: A method and/or apparatus for mounting a furniture unit to a wall includes providing one or more body units 20 retained within an aperture in the rear wall 13 of a furniture unit and wherein the body unit 20 houses a movable position adjustment member 21, e.g. rotating cam, that is anchored to the wall and arranged such that rotation of the adjustment member 21 within the main body 20 causes displacement of the item of furniture relative to the wall. Anchorage of the cam member 21 to the supporting wall may be achieved directly by a screw or by use of a bobbin member [41, Fig. 5] that is fastened to the wall and received and retained within in an aperture of the adjustment member [50, Fig. 5]. The main body 20 may include an elongate aperture 27 for retaining the cam member 21. All moving components are housed within the main body 20 thus allowing the furniture unit to be flush mounted and without the need to provide dedicated fitting spaces between the unit and the wall.
Patent GB-2499253-A (GB)
Title: A heater system for preheating vehicle components
Inventor: GODSALL COLIN
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 2012-02-13
Abstract: The heater receives a wake signal to commence heating and determines a parameter value indicative of a flow capability of a fluid to be heated. A start-up sequence is determined and initiated based upon the parameter value. The heater may be a fuel operated heater 18 supplied with fuel from a fuel tank 16 by a pump 20 arranged to heat coolant in a fluidic circuit    C    of a vehicle having an engine 8 and a HEVAC system 12. The parameter value may be the temperature of the coolant or ambient air, or the viscosity of the coolant. In extreme cold conditions the engine may need preheating and the viscosity of coolant may be elevated such that the coolant flows slowly and is overheated under normal operation of the fuel operated heater. To mitigate this, in extreme cold conditions the heater may open a valve 14 and pump less fuel to the fuel operated heater so that the engine is preheated and coolant overheating is prevented. The heater system may also be used to preheat a combustion engine of a portable heater.
Patent GB-2488420-A (GB)
Title: Automated camera cleaning
Inventor: VOGEL HOLGER
IPC: G03B17/56
Filed: 2012-02-20
Abstract: A camera system (1) has at least one viewing camera (2,2') arranged in a casing (3) with at least one viewing window (4)in the casing (3). At least one cleaning installation (20)is provided for automatically preventing and/or removing visual impairments in the region of the viewing window (4), wherein the cleaning installation (20) can be controlled in respect of visual impairments which are present by means of an automated evaluation by an image processing of camera images of the viewing window (4) such that the choice of the cleaning methods and the time sequence thereof is made purposefully on the basis of a classification of the results of the automated evaluation. The cleaning methods may include wiping, heating, high pressure water jets or compressed air.
Patent GB-2485960-A (GB)
Title: Distributed acoustic sensing with fiber bragg gratings
Inventor: DRIA DENNIS EDWARD
IPC: G01V1/16
Filed: 2010-10-15
Abstract: A method for obtaining information about a subsurface formation from acoustic signals that contain information about to the subsurface formation, comprises: providing a fiber optic having a proximal end and a remote end, with the proximal end being coupled to a light source and a proximal photodetector, wherein said fiber optic cable includes randomly spaced impurities and selectively placed Bragg gratings and wherein the fiber optic cable is acoustically coupled to the subsurface formation so as to allow the acoustic signals to affect the physical status of at least one grating: transmitting at least one light pulse into the cable; receiving at the photodetector a first light signal indicative of the physical status of at least one first section of the cable, and outputting at least one item of information to a display.
Patent GB-2496003-A (GB)
Title: Method for the selective determination of a quantity of oil mist or aerosols
Inventor: SEECK ANDREAS
IPC: G01N1/22
Filed: 2012-04-10
Abstract: A method for the selective determination of the quantity of oil mist or aerosols in a gas sample with a device which comprises an impactor as a measuring sensor 1 which comprises micro-nozzles 4 for metering a predetermined test gas flow and a baffle plate 5 downstream of the micro-nozzles for separating a non-rotation-symmetrical pattern of aerosol or oil particles; the method including causing the baffle plate to rotate about the axis of symmetry of the measuring sensor and determining the separated oil quantity, by means of an optical evaluation device, from the extinction of a light beam reflected by the baffle plate due to the change between grey values of the background and the pattern. The pattern may be a strip, a rectangle, a square or a triangle. A print-mark reader may be used as the optical evaluation device.
Patent GB-2491325-A (GB)
Title: Position-sensing device and method
Inventor: SOLIMAN ASHRAF
IPC: G01B21/16
Filed: 2011-03-23
Abstract: A movable member position-sensing device includes a sensor and a biasing member in operable communication with both the sensor and a movable member configured to communicate a parameter to the sensor indicative of a position of the movable member.
Patent GB-2513528-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for backup management of software environments in a distributed network environment
Inventor: WAGNER PETRA
IPC: G06F11/36
Filed: 2012-10-09
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of backup management of software environments 60, 60', 60" in a distributed network environment 1. The method starts by creating a platform specific software environment according to a predefined software environment definition. Then automatically creating a generalized backup GB of the software environment by extracting platform independent data contents X, Y, Z and platform specific transformation rules. Next calculating enhanced meta data CONSPEC describing the generalized backup, assigning the enhanced metadata with the predefined software environment definition, registering the generalized backup in a backup storage 100 accessible by a plurality of distributed users connected via the network environment. Creating a software environment according to a predefined software environment definition by automatically checking the backup storage for an available generalized backup by means of the predefined software environment definition.
Patent GB-2508216-A (GB)
Title: A bearing shell for a sliding bearing
Inventor: BARRAL STEPHANE
IPC: F16C9/02
Filed: 2012-11-26
Abstract: A bearing shell 200 for a sliding bearing is provided. The bearing shell 200 has a convex outer surface 204 and an alignment feature 202 projecting from the outer surface 204 adjacent an end face 210 of the bearing shell 200. The alignment feature 202 tapers from a width W1 at a first end 212 adjacent to the end face 210 to a width W2 at a second end 214 furthest from the end face 210. The taper of the alignment feature 202 angled away from parallel with the axial end face 210 of the bearing shell 200 makes an angle of 2Â° to 10Â°.
Patent GB-2500079-A (GB)
Title: Dynamic change of probing frequency for resource availability associated with resource consumption pattern for processing input file
Inventor: FERDOUS RASHED
IPC: G06F11/30
Filed: 2012-12-11
Abstract: An application input file is analysed and a resource consumption pattern (fig. 2) is produced 102 based upon the input file. The resource consumption pattern is related to processing by the application of the input file and, in response to the pattern, a probing frequency is set for querying system resource availability. Both system resource availability and application resource utilisation for processing the input file are monitored and the probing frequency is dynamically changed 110 for selected periods of time, as determined by the pattern. The frequency may be increased, possibly at a critical point in the pattern that precedes an expected increase in system resources needed by the application. Alternatively, the frequency may be decreased based on a period of time known from the pattern where no increase in resources will be required. Also disclosed is an arrangement in which the frequency change is based upon predicted application resource utilisation.
Patent GB-2509119-A (GB)
Title: Cooled beverage holder located in vehicle door trim
Inventor: CHAUDHARI MAHESH S
IPC: B60N3/10
Filed: 2012-12-20
Abstract: An interior door panelling assembly 16 for a side door 10 of a vehicle, the interior door panelling assembly 16 comprising at least one interior door trim element 18 for at least partially covering the side door 10 towards the interior of the vehicle. The interior door panelling assembly 16 comprises a beverage holding device 23 having at least one holding element 24 for holding at least one beverage container 26 and a cooling device 28 for cooling the beverage container 26. Cooling device may be in the form of duct 30 and through opening 32. Preferably a storage compartment 34 has a closing element 36 which is movable between an open position and a stowage position. The holding element 24 may be attached to the closing element 36 and may be movable along with the closing element 36. Optionally the closing element 36 is pivotably coupled to the interior door trim element 18 about a pivot axis extending in the vertical direction of the vehicle.
Patent GB-2497212-A (GB)
Title: A method for treatment of subterranean sites adjacent to water injection wells
Inventor: ALSOP ALBERT W
IPC: C09K8/58
Filed: 2011-07-08
Abstract: A method to improve the effectiveness of MEOR or bioremediation processes has been disclosed. In this method toxic chemicals accumulated in subterranean sites adjacent to the water injection wells are either dispersed or removed prior to introduction of microbial inocula for enhanced microbial oil recovery or bioremediation of these sites.
Patent GB-2496347-A (GB)
Title: Doped graphene films with reduced sheet resistance
Inventor: BOL AGEETH ANKE
IPC: B82Y10/00
Filed: 2011-06-07
Abstract: Techniques for increasing conductivity of graphene films by chemical doping are provided. In one aspect, a method for increasing conductivity of a graphene film includes the following steps. The graphene film is formed from one or more graphene sheets. The graphene sheets are exposed to a solution having a one-electron oxidant configured to dope the graphene sheets to increase a conductivity thereof, thereby increasing the overall conductivity of the film. The graphene film can be formed prior to the graphene sheets being exposed to the one-electron oxidant solution. Alternatively, the graphene sheets can be exposed to the one-electron oxidant solution prior to the graphene film being formed. A method of fabricating a transparent electrode on a photovoltaic device from a graphene film is also provided.
Patent GB-2513638-A (GB)
Title: Electronic cigarette
Inventor: REEVELL TONY
IPC: A24F40/60
Filed: 2013-05-02
Abstract: An electronic cigarette comprises a generally cylindrical housing 2 with a proximal mouth end 3 and a distal end 4. Within the housing is a vaporiser 10 to produce vapour to be delivered to the mouth end, a battery 8, and sensor circuitry 9 to detect a user drawing on the mouth end and connect the battery to power the vaporiser to produce vapour. The vaporiser comprises a tube 11 having inlet 12 and outlet 13 ends and extends longitudinally of the housing. Supports are provided at opposite ends of the tube for directing airflow into and out of the tube from the inlet to the outlet. A porous matrix 18, 19 containing a vaporisable liquid extends around the tube and wicking fibres 15 extend through side openings (14a, 14b, Fig 3) in the tube and are configured to wick the vaporisable liquid from the porous matrix into the tube. An electrical heater coil 16 in the tube is configured to be powered by the battery to vaporise liquid on the wicking fibres in the tube, so that vapour is supplied along the tube to the outlet end when the user draws thereon. The wicking fibres (15a, 15b, Fig 3) diverge from one another from the side openings 14a, 14b and are spread over the outer surface of the tube 11 so as to contact and receive the vaporisable liquid by capillary action from the matrix.
Patent GB-2514126-A (GB)
Title: Interruption of chip component managing tasks
Inventor: LICHTENAU CEDRIC
IPC: G06F9/48
Filed: 2013-05-14
Abstract: An integrated circuit contains a service engine, which receives requests to execute tasks on a service processor. The tasks are assigned priorities. The state of the currently executing task indicates whether it can be interrupted without affecting its processing. When a request to execute a new task is received, the priority of the new task is compared with the priority of the currently executing task. If the currently executing task has a higher priority, it continues to execute. Otherwise, the engine waits a predetermined time. If, within that time, the executing task indicates that it can be interrupted, the executing task is terminated and the new task executed. If at the end of that time, the executing task has not indicated that it can be interrupted, it is terminated anyway and the new task is executed.
Patent GB-2518810-A (GB)
Title: Automated brewing kettle
Inventor: MCLAUCHLAN ROBERT ALEXANDER
IPC: C12C13/08
Filed: 2013-07-29
Abstract: A brewing kettle suitable for brewing beers and other foods and drinks, that has means to enable the boiling contents of the kettle to be removed from the kettle and re-circulated into the kettle via pipe work thereby maintaining the sterility of the kettle and circulation components. Preferably brewing kettle 2 has an internal heating element 10 and a lid 1; the contents of the kettle 2 may be pumped from the base of the kettle via a pump and heat exchanger 11 and returned to the vessel via a pipe 7. When the contents of the kettle are to be dispensed a switch 9 allows the contents to be dispensed via an outlet 8. The brewing kettle may have a condenser 3 to condense steam from the boiling process. The brewing kettle 2 may have filters 5, 6 within the kettle and circulation pipes.
Patent GB-2520301-A (GB)
Title: Filter drill rod adapted for cleaning
Inventor: KOSOVICH JOHN
IPC: E21B17/18
Filed: 2013-11-15
Abstract: The present invention relates to a filter drill rod 3 comprising first 11 and second 12 fluid flow channels, with a filter 17 disposed within said first channel, wherein pressure fluid can flow in either one of said channels and return fluids flows in the opposite channel, for connection to a hydraulic down-the-hole hammer 1, means 2 to selectively place first and second channels in fluid communication with one another and a filter cleaning valve component containing a moveable member 13.
Patent GB-2511902-A (GB)
Title: Multi-disc clutch for a power train of a vehicle
Inventor: SATHYAN KIRAN
IPC: F16D13/52
Filed: 2013-12-18
Abstract: A multi-disc clutch 10 in a vehicle powertrain comprises counter elements 12a-d and a plurality of clutch discs 16a-d movable between at least one engagement position in which the clutch discs 16a-d are connected to the counter elements 12a-d and at least one disengagement position in which the clutch discs 16a-d are disengaged from the counter elements 12a-d. The multi-disc clutch having an actuator device 24 capable of moving the clutch discs 16a-d from the disengagement position into the engagement position independently from each other. Preferably there is an actuator 30a-d associated with each clutch disc 16a-d. The diameter of the clutch discs 16a-d may vary. The actuator 30a-d may be pneumatic, hydraulic or electric.
Patent GB-2511192-A (GB)
Title: Head chip method of manufacturing head chip liquid jet head and liquid jet apparatus
Inventor: DOMAE YOSHINORI
IPC: B41J2/14
Filed: 2013-12-20
Abstract: A head chip comprises: an actuator plate 15; a cover plate 16 on a first surface of the actuator plate 15 and a nozzle plate 14 on another surface of the actuator plate 15; the actuator plate 15 includes a plurality of ejection grooves 12 and the nozzle plate 14 includes a plurality of nozzle holes 13; the cover plate 16 includes a positioning reference 87 facing at least one of nozzle holes 13 through at least one ejection groove 12 or facing at least one hole (19 fig 18), adjacent a nozzle hole 13; the positioning reference 87 can be detected from underneath the nozzle plate 14 through a hole 13, (19) in the nozzle plate 14. The positioning reference 87 may be a hole through the cover plate 16 or a reflective portion on the cover plate 16. The detection is preferably by means of reflection or transmission of light from an optical source B through a nozzle hole 13. A method of manufacturing the head chip includes a positioning step for positioning the nozzle plate by detecting the positioning reference provided in the cover plate is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2524286-A (GB)
Title: Leak detection apparatus and methods
Inventor: GLANFIELD ANTHONY
IPC: G01M3/16
Filed: 2014-03-19
Abstract: An isolation apparatus, for use in a leak detection system (1, figure 1), comprising a sleeve 12 within which a plurality of conductors (11a; l1b) may be received, the sleeve 12 comprises a partition 15 which serves to separate a first conductor receiving region 14a of the sleeve from a second conductor receiving region 14b of the sleeve, wherein the sleeve 12 and/or the partition 15 is/are capable of isolating said conductors when dry but, when wetted by a conductive fluid, is/are capable of forming a conductive region between the first and second conductor receiving regions.
Patent GB-2524835-A (GB)
Title: Cover lid, housing for electric or electromagnetic applications and method of assembly of a HF housing
Inventor: KRAUSE RAINER
IPC: H05K5/03
Filed: 2014-04-04
Abstract: A cover lid 50 for a housing 1 for electric or electromagnetic applications has parallel upper 54 and bottom 53 surfaces, these surfaces connected by a peripheral lateral surface that has a bevelled edge 58, preferably adjacent the bottom surface. The lid 50 is preferably press-fit into a reception space (20) of housing (10) (see fig 4) that contains a PCB (24) where the housing may also have an further external lid that encloses the cover lid. The lid may have peripheral recesses that provide for some resilience when the lid is press-fitted, as the lid is made slightly bigger than the reception space. A method of assembly of the housing with a cover lid is disclosed, where the position of a press fitted lid is monitored by detecting the effect on the enclosed electronics. The position of the lid may alter the impedance of transmission lines inside the housing. The position may thus be optimised for a preferred impedance.
Patent GB-2514966-A (GB)
Title: Thermal prioritized computing application scheduling
Inventor: BERLIN KIMON
IPC: G06F9/48
Filed: 2012-06-29
Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein relate to thermal based prioritized computing application scheduling. For example, a processor may determine a prioritized computing application. The processor may schedule the prioritized computing application to transfer execution from a first processing unit to a second processing unit based on a thermal reserve energy associated with the second processing unit.
Patent GB-2517873-A (GB)
Title: Subsea connector
Inventor: TAYLOR RICHARD
IPC: F16G15/04
Filed: 2013-06-11
Abstract: There is disclosed a subsea connector (100), e.g. a mooring connector, and a method of mooring a subsea structure to a line, e.g. a mooring chain, with the subsea connector. The subsea connector comprises a first portion (105)and a second portion (110), means for connecting (120) the first portion and the second portion, and means for rotationally aligning the first portion and the second portion. The first and second portions are connectable to a respective line, such as a respective mooring chain. The means for rotationally aligning comprise a first alignment member at least partly spanning across a bore, such as an internal bore, of the first or second portion. The means for rotationally aligning comprise a second alignment member provided by the other of the first or second portion. The first and second alignment members co-act when the first and second portions are brought together or mated.
Patent GB-2528343-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for efficiently executing hash operations
Inventor: WOLRICH GILBERT M
IPC: H04L9/06
Filed: 2015-02-25
Abstract: A processor executing hash functions e.g. SM3 includes a register set including a first storage location (1002) and a second storage location (1010) in which state variables for a hash function are to be stored. The processor initially designates the first and second locations as storing, respectively, first and second sets of state values used for computing rounds of the hash function. During execution of plural rounds of the hash function, the processor swaps the designations of the first and second storage locations such that the first location stores the first set of state values for a first (even) set of rounds and the second set of state values for a second (odd) set of rounds, and the second location stores the second set of state values for the first set of rounds and the first set of state values for the second set of rounds.
Patent GB-2539256-A (GB)
Title: A method of producing a ribbon having personalised indicia printed theron
Inventor: DANIEL MORNING
IPC: G09F3/10
Filed: 2015-06-12
Abstract: A method of producing a ribbon 51 having personalised indicia printed thereon comprises: providing an adhesive-backed vinyl sheet 41 mounted on a sacrificial layer (45, fig 4); printing the personalised indicia onto a front face of the vinyl sheet 41; removing the sacrificial layer (45) from the vinyl sheet 41; providing a ribbon 51 for reception of the vinyl sheet 41 having the personalised indicia printed thereon; and applying the vinyl sheet 41 to the ribbon 51. The vinyl sheet 41 acts as a sticker or label. The vinyl sheet 41 preferably includes a resin layer on the surface that receives the printed indicia; the indicia are preferably printed with a laser printer and the vinyl sheet 41 is preferably colourless.