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Patent GB-2480270-A (GB)
Title: Waste gas compressor train
Inventor: FLETCHER PAUL
IPC: F04D15/00
Filed: 2010-05-11
Abstract: An industrial system for compressing a waste gas product, such as a carbon capture system, comprising a compressor train 5 having an upstream rotor portion 8 and a downstream rotor portion 10 arranged in flow series with said upstream portion, where each rotor portion comprises one or more compressor stages and said downstream portion is arranged to rotate at a variable relative speed to that of the upstream rotor portion. Sensing equipment 9 for the compressor train is arranged to determine one or more flow conditions and a controller 19 is arranged to receive data indicative of said one or more sensed flow conditions, where the controller is arranged to set the rotational speed of the upstream rotor portion based upon the pressure or flow rate of gas upstream of said compressor train and to set operational parameters for said downstream portion so as to maintain a desired surge margin for said upstream rotor portion. Preferably the rotational speed of the upstream and downstream rotor portions is independently controllable and there are intercoolers between stages. A method of compressing waste gas is also claimed.
Patent GB-2473913-A (GB)
Title: Composition for preparing a surface
Inventor: LINDOW KEVIN
IPC: C08L31/04
Filed: 2010-08-05
Abstract: A composition comprising an adhesive agent, particles of a solid plastics material, and water is suitable for preparing a surface to which plaster or render may be subsequently applied. The composition preferably comprises 5-50 wt.% of the plastics material, which may be recycled or virgin plastics material. The adhesive agent is preferably selected from polyvinyl resin (e.g. polyvinyl acetate or polyvinyl alcohol), styrene-butadiene rubber or other rubber-based adhesives, dammar resin, a cellulose derivative (e.g. cellulose sodium glycolate, methyl cellulose, carboxymethylhydroxyethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, and propyl cellulose), sodium alginate, starch, dextrin, and sodium silicate. A method of manufacturing the composition comprises mixing together the adhesive agent, plastics material, and water. A method of preparing a surface to which plaster or render may subsequently be applied is also disclosed, wherein the method comprises applying the composition to a surface prior to application of a plaster or render.
Patent GB-2487087-A (GB)
Title: Oxygen concentrator with heat engine
Inventor: LAMB STEPHEN JAMES
IPC: A61M16/10
Filed: 2011-01-10
Abstract: This invention relates to powered medical devices such as portable oxygen generators. A powered portable oxygen concentrator (POC) is described comprising a heat engine 14 e.g. closed cycle gas engine or sterling engine, coupled to a portable oxygen concentrator 24 to power the portable oxygen concentrator 24. The POC comprises a gas to separate nitrogen from the received air and provide an oxygen enriched gas. The nitrogen is vented through an exhaust port 32 and fed back into the chamber/crankcase of the closed cycle gas engine 14 to pressurise the chamber. In another aspect a self pressuring closed cycle gas engine is described.
Patent GB-2477393-A (GB)
Title: Ion manipulation cell with tailored potential profile
Inventor: FRANZEN JOCHEN
IPC: H01J49/06
Filed: 2011-01-20
Abstract: Elongate RF ion cells with radial and axial potential profiles for the manipulation of ions, including their guidance, focusing, bunching, storage, reactive change, and mass measurement via oscillations, have an elongate interior volume which is surrounded by a sheath of many individual electrodes 8a-8f. The electrodes are insulated from each other, but have insulating gaps which do not predominantly run parallel to the longitudinal axis, so the individual electrodes taper or widen at least part of the way in the longitudinal direction and thus exert an electrical effect on the axis potential, the strength of this effect varying along the longitudinal axis in each case. The individual electrodes are electrically supplied with mixtures of DC and RF voltages in a way which allows not only a radial retarding force but also tailored axial profiles of DC potentials or pseudo potentials to be generated.
Patent GB-2488811-A (GB)
Title: Biodegradable polyester blend
Inventor: BAILEY PETER BRADBY SPIROS
IPC: B65D1/02
Filed: 2011-03-09
Abstract: A fully degradable and a compostable polyester based blend that is free from nondegradable organic or inorganic additives comprises (i) not less than 70% by weight of polylactic acid, (ii) between 0.5-15% by weight of a first polyester, and (iii) between 0.5-15% by weight of a second polyester wherein the second polyester has a greater average molecular weight than the first polyester. Also disclosed is the combination of polylactide, first and second polyesters where the second polyester has a higher melt flow rate (MFR) than the first. The thermal properties of the present blend are configured for optimised flow rate during process moulding via a 'flow rate enhancing component' being a relative low molecular weight biodegradable polyester. The blend also provides a resultant moulded article having the appropriate mechanical, physical and chemical properties including greatly improved toughness over existing PLA based blends. This is achieved by incorporating a `toughening component' within the blend being a relatively high molecular weight component relative to the flow rate enhancing component. The preferred embodiment consist of at least 80% by weight of PLA, up to 10% polybutylene succinate (PBS) and up to 10% polycaprolactone (PCL).
Patent GB-2490348-A (GB)
Title: Combustion chamber head part with collar and heat shield subassembly
Inventor: MILBURN RICHARD GORDON
IPC: F23R3/28
Filed: 2011-04-28
Abstract: A head part 100 of an annular combustion chamber for a gas turbine, has an end wall 110 with a first opening 112 for a burner; a heat shield 120 covering a side of the end wall facing the combustion chamber with a second opening 124 for the burner; and a burner collar 130 within the second opening fastened to the heat shield with one or more first fasteners 142 to form a sub assembly 140 and the heat shield of the sub assembly is fastened to the end wall with one or more second fasteners 144. An annular rim 132 of the burner collar 130 can rest against a smooth wear surface of a ring 150 on a cast surface of heat shield 120. The burner collar 130 is inserted into the opening 112 from the combustion chamber. The fasteners 142,144 can be threaded. In one embodiment the ring can have a cooling gap (252, figs 4a,4b).
Patent GB-2477674-A (GB)
Title: Cylinder driving apparatus using air pressure
Inventor: HA SEOK-BONG
IPC: F01B1/10
Filed: 2009-10-14
Abstract: It is an aim of the present invention to overcome urgent and pressing global troubles directly associated with the human right to live, such as the energy crisis, the economic crisis, and environmental pollution and the like which cannot be delayed or neglected any longer in order to meet the needs of the times. Further, it is an aim of the present invention to significantly reduce the dependency on a variety of fossil fuels directly associated with global warming. Therefore, the present invention provides a cylinder driving apparatus using air pressure, with maximized energy efficiency, characterized in that the use of fossil fuel energy is reduced and the use of clean energy is proposed. The present invention relates to a cylinder driving apparatus in which a plurality of flexible tubes connected to a crankshaft are filled with high-pressure air, alternately expand by expansion energy, and are elevated to operate and rotate the crankshaft. Further, the present invention relates to an apparatus for minimizing friction and eliminating gravitational force which may interfere with the elevating movement, to thereby maximize the efficiency of the conversion of compressed air expansion energy into rotating movement. The present invention achieves a great and active supplement to and improvement over Korean Patent Registration No. 0041791 and No. 0210368 granted to the applicant of the present invention, and proposes an inventive structure of an assistant tube that provides a novel en ergy source. Conventional apparatuses use a variety of fossil fuels as a power source, whereas the present invention eliminates the repeated rise of oil prices and ends energy problems, enables people to envoy a stable life and aids it economic development, and provides all mankind with a new environmentally-friendly energy resource to take the place of the innumerable conventional power sources. The cylinder driving apparatus using air pressure according to the present invention comprises: a plurality of flexible tubes arranged in a case to flexibly move via high-pressure air; a connecting rod fixed at each of the flexible tubes, and which penetrates through.
Patent GB-2491416-A (GB)
Title: Oxygen scavenging package
Inventor: HIRST JOHN
IPC: A23L3/3436
Filed: 2011-06-03
Abstract: A device comprising packaging, in the form of an envelope fabricated from a composite material, impermeable to liquid water, but permeable to gases and containing any one of a number of fill material formulations currently available in commercial, oxygen 'scavenging' food packaging inclusions, which include, as the principal active component, the alternatives of either finely comminuted iron metal, ascorbic acid, calcium ascorbate, sodium ascorbate, sodium erythorbate or finely comminuted palladium metal, being designed to establish and maintain an oxygen free atmosphere within the headspace of bottles, sachets or cartons of aqueous liquid foods and beverages.
Patent GB-2492582-A (GB)
Title: Modular elongate superstructure
Inventor: RAMSAY BEN ALEXANDER
IPC: B64D1/00
Filed: 2011-07-07
Abstract: An elongate superstructure is installed on a boom by lowering from a helicopter a multiplicity of segments in succession and locating a segment as it is lowered by its engagement with a previously installed segment. Each segment may include at least one slotted part (14) for engagement over a cross-member (7) of the boom, a front end adapted to be located longitudinally by a preceding segment and a rear end adapted to locate longitudinally a succeeding segment.
Patent GB-2494424-A (GB)
Title: Holder for displaying plates
Inventor: DOWLING JASON SEAN
IPC: A47G1/16
Filed: 2011-09-07
Abstract: A device for displaying collectable and souvenir plates 100 comprises a detachable stand, 2 a frame having a perimeter 1 and a plurality of extendable nubs 3 disposed about the perimeter, the nubs being provided with plate engagement surfaces to retain plates within the device. The perimeter is preferably annular and may have a hole 4 allowing the frame to be hung or mounted on a surface such as a wall. The nubs may be extended through the perimeter in a tangential fashion towards a common centre and may be adjusted by means of a rack and pinion mechanism. In use, the device allows a user to display both sides of a plate and be able, for example, to display a maker stamp on the plate's bottom face as well as its upper face design.
Patent GB-2484018-A (GB)
Title: 2 Step cam system
Inventor: LIEM PIETER
IPC: B63B21/50
Filed: 2010-05-12
Abstract: This invention relates to a mooring system comprising a vessel and a elongate mooring column having an upper end connected to an arm on the vessel projecting from the vessel bow and a lower end connected to the sea bed via anchor lines, characterised in that the arm is pivotable arond a transverse axis.
Patent GB-2486589-A (GB)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: ISHIDA YUSUKE
IPC: G03G15/06
Filed: 2011-12-16
Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a developing device, including a developer carrying member; the developer carrying member conveys a developer which includes a non-magnetic toner and a magnetic carrier to a developing position in which the developer carrying member opposes the image bearing member; a detecting portion detects information correlating to a toner charge amount of the developer in the developing device and a controller controls the developing device in response to the detected toner charge amount so that the toner is less tending to be deposited on the developer carrying member, with a decrease of the toner charge amount, in a first period during which an image is not being formed than in a second period when an image is being formed. The drive of the developer may be reduced or stopped during the first period and the bias voltage of the developer carrying member may be changed 6b.
Patent GB-2487649-A (GB)
Title: Identifying and locating the absolute position of an underwater acoustic reflector
Inventor: SYMES LISA JANE
IPC: G01S7/527
Filed: 2012-01-23
Abstract: A method of identifying and locating an underwater acoustic reflector having a shell surrounding a core by identifying if an object reflects a sonar interrogation of a search area with a double echo, measuring the separation of the two echoes, target strength of each echo, total target strength, acoustic width, frequency response and phase response of the object, which is accepted or rejected as being of interest if it matches known characteristics of an underwater acoustic reflector, such as minimum values. Acoustic diameter may be measured and compared to known diameters for acoustic reflectors within the search area. These steps may be carried out sequentially and/or in parallel. Objects may be measured with short pulses interspersed with long pulses that alternate between different frequencies and repeated three times, each from a different aspect. The second echo should be stronger than the first echo. An absolute position of the acoustic reflector in relation to the sonar receiver may be combined with the absolute GPS position of the sonar receiver to plot an absolute position of the acoustic reflector. Several reflectors may be attached to an oil pipeline and the pipeline route plotted.
Patent GB-2499609-A (GB)
Title: Forming paste from powdered detergent
Inventor: CASONATI ROBERTO
IPC: B01F7/16
Filed: 2012-02-22
Abstract: A process of producing a paste-form, detergent composition comprises admixing / mixing a particulate detergent composition with a liquid. A stator 2 and rotor mixing unit 6 may be used to produce the paste. The composition may be a laundry pre-treatment composition. Also disclosed is a method of pre-treating a garment or fabric.
Patent GB-2501920-A (GB)
Title: Receipt Holder
Inventor: MUNNS ANTONY JOHN
IPC: A45C1/06
Filed: 2012-05-11
Abstract: A cylindrical device for storing and retrieving receipts or credit card payment slips comprises an outer tube (A, fig. 1) provided with a lengthways slot (B, fig. 1), and an inner spindle D removably received within and rotatable with respect to the tube, such that receipts or credit card slips (not shown) can be retained inside the tube by inserting them through the slot and rotating the spindle so as to wind the receipts/slips thereon. The spindle D may be removably secured to the tube by threads F which engage with corresponding threads H provided in the tube. In a preferred embodiment the spindle is rotated by turning a ratcheted wheel (C, fig. 1) provided at one end of the spindle. The spindle may be provided with rubber washers E which assist in gripping the inserted receipt/slip. The tube may include a fixed end cap G. Receipts/slips can be retrieved from the tube by removing the inner spindle.
Patent GB-2489852-A (GB)
Title: Method, program, and system for forming configuration information of configuring element of system containing configuring element wherein acquisition
Inventor: SASATANI YOHKICHI
IPC: H04L12/24
Filed: 2010-11-15
Abstract: Disclosed is a system for managing configuration information of a configuring element of an improved managed system. The system for forming configuration information of a configuring element of a system containing a first configuring element wherein the acquisition of configuration information has been limited is provided with: an identification unit, which identifies the presence of the first configuring element from configuration information of at least one other configuring element aside from the first configuring element; a recording unit, which records pattern data that is associated with at least one attribute value and set of conditions and that is for analogizing the configuration information of the configuring element wherein acquisition of configuration information has been limited; a search unit, which searches for pattern data wherein the configuration information of a configuring element related to the first configuring element among at least one other configuring element fulfils the set of conditions thereof; and a formation unit that, using the attribute values associated with the searched-for pattern data, forms analogized configuration information of the first configuring element.
Patent GB-2493646-A (GB)
Title: Stereoscopic mapping as input for an entertainment device
Inventor: RAGHOEBARDAJAL SHARWIN WINESH
IPC: H04N13/239
Filed: 2011-08-11
Abstract: An input method, capturing complementary stereoscopic images of a real object from opposing corners of a first volume of space located immediately above a first area of a main surface of the input device. Complementary depth maps are calculated from the complementary stereoscopic images, to determine the position and orientation of a virtual model corresponding spatially to the real object, such as the users hand, and. using some or all of the calculated. position and orientation of the virtual model as a control input for an application. This enables 3D input, for example in the stroking of a virtual pet or using a finger tip to specify a path.
Patent GB-2508399-A (GB)
Title: Marine vehicle using a gyroscopic system to generate power for a propulsion system
Inventor: TOWNSEND NICHOLAS CHARLES
IPC: B63B39/04
Filed: 2012-11-30
Abstract: A marine vehicle (40, Fig 3) comprises a flywheel 14 having a spin axis S, a drive system 18 adapted to rotate the flywheel about the spin axis and a gimbal support 12 in which the flywheel is rotatably mounted for rotation about the spin axis, the gimbal support being rotatably mounted to a fixed base 4 in the vehicle for precession rotation about a precession axis V which is orthogonal to the spin axis of the respective flywheel. The flywheel, drive system, and gimbal support are comprised in a gyroscopic system mounted and adapted to cause precession rotation about the precession axis when the vehicle moves by at least one of roll motion, pitch motion and yaw motion. A power take-off device 22 is coupled to the gimbal support and comprises a mechanism which damps the precession rotation to generate power in the power take-off device. The vehicle also comprises a propulsion system 24 for providing the vehicle with motive power. The propulsion system is coupled directly or indirectly, to the power take-off device system to receive power generated by the power take-off device which is converted to motive power to propel the vehicle.
Patent GB-2508935-A (GB)
Title: Location using a ubiquitous multi-environment high dynamic indication (U-MEHDI) technique
Inventor: AL-NAJJAR AHMAD
IPC: H04W4/02
Filed: 2013-01-23
Abstract: In order to determine the position of a mobile unit (MU) in communication with a WiFi (RTM) network having at least three access points in an environment, the mobile unit measures the received signal strength indicators (RSSIs) of signals received from each network access point (AP). These are converted to distances using a polynomial function. In order to determine the coefficients of the polynomial function, signals from the APs are received at a plurality of reference points having known positions, and hence known distances from the APs; the RSSIs at the reference points are used, e.g. by means of curve fitting. When the environment comprises sub-regions with variable signal propagation characteristics, the method determines coefficients for each sub-region and determines the sub-region in which the mobile unit is located with a fingerprint positioning method, e.g. one finding a nearest neighbour using a city block distance method. The position may be calculated remotely and sent to the mobile unit. The ambiguity when more than three access points are used is resolved by a least squares method.
Patent GB-2511056-A (GB)
Title: Ball assembly and a method for manufacturing the same
Inventor: TOYE EDWARD
IPC: B65G13/00
Filed: 2013-02-20
Abstract: A ball assembly features a ball 14 with a support cup 12, a plurality of ball bearings 16, andÂ at least one drainage channel 28, through which any contaminants, dirt, and water can be drained from the assembly so that it can operate properly. The assembly faces with the ball 14 upwards, as part of a passive ball roller table conveyor.
Patent GB-2512643-A (GB)
Title: Weights for box sash windows
Inventor: KITCHING PAUL
IPC: E05F1/02
Filed: 2013-04-05
Abstract: A compound weight for use in balancing a window sash in a box sash window, said compound weight comprising at least a first component weight 301 and a second component weight 302, said first component weight and said second component weight comprising a ferromagnetic portion(901, 902 Fig 9), said ferromagnetic portion comprising ferromagnetic material being at least partially magnetised to form at least one magnetised portion in at least one of said first and said second component weights. In use the compound weight can be used to add additional weight to a counterbalance if the weight of the window increases. The magnet may be located in a recess each component to shield it from other metallic portions in the window frame. Pins 1001 1002 may be used to align the first and second components. Also claimed is the component on its own and a method of installing a counterbalance in a sash window.
Patent GB-2518349-A (GB)
Title: Wristband container
Inventor: BOOKER ADAM JAY
IPC: A44C5/00
Filed: 2013-07-16
Abstract: A dispenser wristband for carrying a consumable product comprising an elongate container portion 12 and a strap portion 2,4 being detachable from the container, both portions forming part of the circumferential extent of the wristband. The consumable product is preferably glucose gel, to be consumed by a diabetic patient in the case of hypoglycaemia. The wristband preferably comprises fastener means such as a buckle 6. The strap portion may comprise two parts, which are secured to the container portion by resilient connecting parts, such as a shoulder portion 24 engaging with an expandable resilient band 36; or a tongue engaging with a resilient groove. The tongue may be secured in position by a locking sleeve 18. The container preferably is in the form of a flat flexible ribbed cuboid, with a nozzle 14 closed by a sealed cap 40 and attached to the container by a lanyard (37, fig.3b.)
Patent GB-2514428-A (GB)
Title: Enabling access to data
Inventor: TARATINE BORIS
IPC: H04L9/08
Filed: 2013-08-19
Abstract: Methods, apparatus and computer programs for enabling access to data 12 by a requesting party, the data comprising a plurality of data portions. A plurality of sets S1,S2... of data portions P1-P9 are generated, each set identifying one or more said data portions, with at least one data portion being identified in two or more sets. A one-way function is used to generate a plurality of keys K1,K2... each associated with a respective one of the plurality of sets. Information associated with the data portions identified in a set is used as an input to the one-way function when generating a key associated with the said set. The keys are then made available for distribution to one or more requesting parties 24A,B,C.... A data access request comprising a key is received from a said requesting party and access by the requesting party to the one or more data portions identified in the set associated with the received key is enabled. The requesting party uses a one-way function to generate validation data from information associated with the received data and validates the received data by comparing the validation data to data derived from received key.