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Patent GB-2482631-A (GB)
Title: Auxiliary conduit cutting apparatus
Inventor: ZAVEKY ANTHONY C
IPC: E21B29/04
Filed: 2010-05-20
Abstract: A cutting assembly for external conduits on a tubing string features a breakaway in the string that can be severed with a tensile force. Preferably each external conduit is run through a cutter housing. Upon severing of the string and applying a pickup force, a tension is applied to each external conduit since the severing of the string happens above all the cutter housings. Each housing cuts at least one conduit and the upper portion of the string brings with it the upper portion of the external conduit while the lower portions of each cut external conduit are retained in the cutter housings that remain downhole below the breakaway. In that manner there are no loose external conduit ends to interfere with and/or disturb subsequent fishing or other wellbore operations.
Patent GB-2488027-A (GB)
Title: Electrical socket allowing testing
Inventor: FINCH STEPHEN
IPC: H02G3/16
Filed: 2012-02-06
Abstract: An electrical socket includes a front part 2 and a back part. The front part has a socket for a plug. Electrical connection means are provided on or associated with the back part for connecting an electrical supply and/or one or more electrical connectors. The front part is selectively detachable from the back part in use without disconnecting the back part and/or the electrical connection means provided on or associated with the back part, allowing the socket to be tested. The connection means may include a switch or other isolation means, and the isolation means may prevent the front part being fitted to the back part when the switch is open. The front part may be attached to the back part with quick release connectors 66.
Patent GB-2500058-A (GB)
Title: A balance board with a movement generating mechanism
Inventor: HJELT KARI
IPC: G16H20/30
Filed: 2012-03-09
Abstract: A balance board comprising a first surface 106 suitable for a user to stand upon, a second surface 108 for engaging with a floor in use wherein the second surface 108 has a mechanism which can generate movement of the first surface 106 or change its orientation relative to the floor, a signal receiving arrangement for receiving signals indicative of a users reaction to movement of the balance board and a processor 118 operable to activate one of more modes of operation of the second surface movement mechanism based on the signals received. A second set of sensors 120 may monitor movement of the balance board. The second surface 108 may be an inflatable body or a solid curved or spherical surface 112 which can be retracted or extended. A safety mechanism including air bags may be provided. The device may be operated by voice commands or gestures. The device may analyse readings to diagnose a medical condition.
Patent GB-2487520-A (GB)
Title: Tool magazine and machining center
Inventor: HAYASHI JUNICHI
IPC: B23Q3/157
Filed: 2010-11-17
Abstract: Disclosed is a tool magazine wherein long tools and other tools can reasonably coexist. Further disclosed is a machining center provided with this tool magazine. The tool magazine comprises a rotating magazine body and a plurality of tool-holding sections provided to the magazine body. The tool-holding sections move in succession to a tool-exchanging position. Some or all of the aforementioned tool-holding sections can switch between an exchanging stance, wherein the tools are held in a direction that is parallel to the direction of the axis of revolution of the magazine body, and a moving stance, wherein the tools are held in a direction that is along a plane that is perpendicular to the direction of the axis of rotation of the magazine body. When the aforementioned tool-holding sections that can switch stance are positioned in the tool-exchanging position, the tool-holding sections shift to the exchanging stance, and when the tool-holding sections depart the tool-exchanging position, the tool-holding sections shift to the moving stance. The machining center is provided with the abovementioned tool magazine.
Patent GB-2494951-A (GB)
Title: Colour image processing for reducing ink/toner use in a printer.
Inventor: NAGAI JUN
IPC: B41J2/21
Filed: 2012-07-19
Abstract: Disclosed in an image processing method and apparatus which is designed to suppress degradation of image quality when a recording material (such as ink or toner) save mode is selected in a device such as laser or inkjet printer. An input image undergoes a colour conversion process (for example from RGB colour space to CMYK colour space) in which the density of image data after the colour conversion is decreased more in high density areas as compared to low density areas, 301. This may be achieved using a toner/ink saver mode Look up Table (LUT), 306, in which total image density is set to not exceed a threshold density level. Following colour conversion, if a reduction ratio target value in the amount of recording material used is not met further adjustment is carried out on the image data by linearly decreasing a signal value of the image data so that the reduction ratio target value is met, 302.
Patent GB-2498828-A (GB)
Title: Ink cartridge, set of ink cartridges, and ink cartridge determination system
Inventor: JIA ZHIZHENG
IPC: B41J2/175
Filed: 2010-11-22
Abstract: An ink cartridge, a set of ink cartridges, and an ink cartridge determination system are disclosed. The ink cartridge (1) includes a first signal blocking portion (2) and a second signal blocking portion which is a movable part (6). Before detected, the second signal blocking portion is in an initial installation detecting position which determines whether the second signal blocking portion prevents a second signal from passing through the second signal blocking portion or alters the path of the second signal. Different ink cartridges are distinguished according to different initial installation detecting positions of the second signal blocking portion. Technical problems are solved that an installation mistake tends to take place and thus a printer detects information mismatching with actual ink cartridge information because different ink cartridges are distinguished according to different thickness of the second signal blocking portion of the ink cartridge, the set of ink cartridges, and the ink cartridge determination system in the prior art.
Patent GB-2491765-A (GB)
Title: A curtain track assembly and mounting device
Inventor: DENNISON ROGER FREDERICK
IPC: A47H1/04
Filed: 2011-03-18
Abstract: A mounting device for installing a track for a curtain or blind has an engagement portion for cooperation with the track by a snap-type engagement. A resiliently deformable release means has a tongue portion (29) that has a free end that is positioned in a cavity of the track when the engagement portions are fully mutually engaged and a connected end that is connected to the mounting portion and spaced from the free end and that is positioned externally of the cavity of the track when the engagement portions are fully mutually engaged. The tongue portion (29) has an abutment face (33) disposed for assisting with prising apart the mounting device and the track by turning a tool, simultaneous with the operation of the tool against the tongue portion. The abutment face is opposed to and spaced from the track in use.
Patent GB-2506914-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems for weld control
Inventor: BEATTIE ROBERT J
IPC: B23K9/127
Filed: 2012-10-12
Abstract: A welding location (J12) progresses along a weld path (526) by arranging relative motion between a welding head (W) and workpieces (530). A controller (CTL) controls the actuator to correct transverse deviation of the welding location relative to a target position on the workpieces. A monitoring apparatus comprises a workpiece tracking sensor (T) configured to observe a shape profile of the weld in the vicinity of the welding location and a weld tracking sensor (S) for obtaining a thermal profile of the workpieces, at a location (J14) downstream of the welding location. The apparatus compares observations made by the two sensors (S, T) in a common reference frame (540), to detect and correct transverse deviation of the welding location relative to a target position on the workpieces. The apparatus may be applied in a spiral pipe mill.
Patent GB-2492715-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for supplying gases to a patient
Inventor: BARKER DEAN
IPC: A61M16/00
Filed: 2011-04-27
Abstract: An apparatus for the supply of humidified gases to a patient is disclosed that comprises a gases supply passage downstream of a humidified gases supply, and upstream of a patient in use, where at least one sensor is embedded in or located on the outside of the wall of the passage. In preferred forms the wall of the passage divides the sensor(s) from a flow of gases in the passage. In use, a controller receives an output of the sensor(s) and derives from the output of the sensor(s) an estimation of a property of gases flowing through the passage or provides a control output to the humidified gases supply according to the output of the sensor(s).
Patent GB-2508142-A (GB)
Title: Forming projections on a surface for hybrid joint manufacturing
Inventor: GRAHAM DANIEL PETER
IPC: B23K9/20
Filed: 2012-11-21
Abstract: A method of forming an array of projections 22 on a surface of a metallic component 21, the method including the steps of bringing at least one preformed projection 22 into at least close proximity to the surface of the component 21 and causing a portion of the projection and a portion of the component in the region of an intersection 29 thereof to at least partially melt, and causing them to be joined together. Electric welding, especially stud arc welding or resistance welding, is preferably used to join the projections 22 to the surface of the metallic component 21. A plurality of preformed projections 22 may be welded simultaneously to the component 21. The component comprising the array of projections is used in the manufacture of hybrid joints, more particularly to the manufacture of joints between parts made of differing materials, and most particularly to the manufacture of a metallic component comprising a plurality of preformed projections which penetrate composite fabric within a composite part (figures 1-5).
Patent GB-2494830-A (GB)
Title: Underwater marker
Inventor: TILTMAN CARL PETER
IPC: G10K11/20
Filed: 2011-07-11
Abstract: A marker to mark underwater objects characterised in that it undergoes whole body resonance when exposed to an incident acoustic wave. In one arrangement the marker comprises a shell (12) surrounding a water core. In other arrangements the marker is toroidal or cylindrical or tubular in shape. Holes (20) are provided in the shell to allow water freely to enter and leave the core when the marker is immersed in water. In the case of cylindrical or tubular shells, the cylinders or tubes can be open ended to allow water freely to flow into the interior of the shell. Best results are obtained when the marker is a sphere of aluminium, aluminium alloy or brass between 200mm and 400mm inclusive in diameter with a shell wall between 6mm and 15 mm inclusive thick, operating with an interrogating sonar or other acoustic transducer at 30 to 80KHz inclusive.
Patent GB-2496080-A (GB)
Title: Device and method of controlling a computer using centroids
Inventor: SCHNEIDER JOHN K
IPC: G06F3/033
Filed: 2011-07-29
Abstract: A computer control system is disclosed including an area-array sensor and a processor. The processor may have a navigation mode where the processor is configured to execute certain tasks. Those tasks may include acquiring a first information set and acquiring a second information set from the sensor. The first information set may represent reflected energy received by the sensor at the first time and the second information set may represent reflected energy received by the sensor at the second time. A first contact area corresponding to that portion of an indicator object (such as a finger or stylus) which contacts the platen at the first time, and a second contact area corresponding to that portion of the indicator object which contacts the platen at the second time. Centroids of the contact areas are used to determine a navigation control measurement that may be used to control a computer.
Patent GB-2513649-A (GB)
Title: The uniform rectilinear gun (URG)
Inventor: CAMILLERI STEVEN MARK
IPC: F41A21/16
Filed: 2013-05-03
Abstract: A weapon has a smoothbore barrel 2 which is adapted for use with a ball projectile 1. A rack of teeth 5 is provided on an internal surface of the barrel2 in order to impart spin on the ball projectile 1.
Patent GB-2504213-A (GB)
Title: Antenna circuit with magnetically coupled sets of sensing and feedback coils
Inventor: LEIGHTON GRAHAM
IPC: H01Q5/00
Filed: 2012-06-26
Abstract: An antenna circuit comprises a plurality of sets 20 of antenna circuitry. Each set 20 comprises an antenna coil wound on a former, feedback circuitry and a negative feedback coil. The feedback coil being magnetically coupled to the antenna coil and wherein the antenna coils and the feedback coils of the plurality of sets of antenna circuitry are magnetically coupled. The antenna circuit comprises at least one output signal derived from one of the sets of feedback circuitry and provides a frequency response corresponding to the individual frequency responses of the plurality of sets 20 of antenna circuitry. The rod antenna circuit may have a reduced Q, electric field susceptibility and noise, with multiple band and/or wideband operation. Also disclosed is a rod antenna circuit 20 which comprises: a first antenna coil wound on a former and the ends of which provide first and second connections, respectively, to the non-inverting and inverting inputs of a differential amplifier. The amplifier provides an output signal which is used to provide a negative feedback signal to a feedback coil which is magnetically coupled to the first antenna coil. The first antenna coil may have a centre tap connected to ground and the circuit may include biasing means for suitable amplifier operation.
Patent GB-2517135-A (GB)
Title: Cutter
Inventor: DUTTON ROBERT EDWARD GRAHAM
IPC: A47J43/20
Filed: 2013-07-03
Abstract: A utensil suitable for use in cutting out shapes from an edible material or a non-edible modelling material and which is characterised in that it has a rounded cutting edge. There may be two such blunt cutting edges, one at each end of the device. The material to be cut may be a confectionery material such as flower paste, sugar paste, or marzipan. Alternatively, the cutter can be used on non-edible materials, such as modelling clay. The cutter may be hand-operated, or incorporated into an automated machine. The device can be made of metal, preferably stainless steel.
Patent GB-2505759-A (GB)
Title: A hydraulically damped mounting device
Inventor: WEST JOHN
IPC: B60K5/12
Filed: 2013-07-09
Abstract: A hydraulically damped mounting device 10 is provided. The mounting device included a flow limiting element 42, such as a resilient diaphragm, in a switchable auxiliary passageway 36 that is in fluid communication with a working chamber 22. The switchable auxiliary passageway 36 corresponds to an additional fluid mass that can be switched into and out of communication with the working chamber 22 to control the vibration characteristics of the device.
Patent GB-2515125-A (GB)
Title: Early Jackknife Correctional System
Inventor: MANGION CHARLES JOSEPH
IPC: B62D59/04
Filed: 2013-07-17
Abstract: A jackknife correction system is provided for an articulated trailer truck vehicle. The system comprises an on dashboard activation switch A in a dc system of the tractor unit. An electrical power connection B connects an additional flat engine E installed on the trailer. A drive shaft F from the engine E is coupled to two or more trailer axles. The engine E is fed by an additional small fuel tank C via a fuel line D. When the system is activated through switch A, the engine E is immediately ignited. It begins to accelerate up to reach its preset rotational speed settings. An installed centrifugal clutch between engine E and shaft F is then set into motion, engaging engine E to shaft F which is coupled to the axles, providing a drive force which is transferred from shaft F to the axles, causing back traction in a reverse direction. Correction can occur whilst the driver uses engine braking and steers in a straight line. The invention tends to return the vehicle to its initial axes. The system can then be reset.
Patent GB-2516676-A (GB)
Title: Aerofoil component handling tool
Inventor: BITONDO DONATO
IPC: F01D5/00
Filed: 2013-07-30
Abstract: The handheld tool 16 is adapted to facilitate the removal of an aerofoil 4 from an array of aerofoils for an axial flow machine. The tool includes a body portion 18 and first 24 and second 26 jaw members depending from the body portion. The first jaw member is shaped to be insertable between a first aerofoil (4A, Figure 5A) and an adjacent aerofoil (4B) in the array so as to contact a first surface of the first aerofoil. The position of the first and/or second jaw member is adjustable to selectively grip the first aerofoil therebetween in use. The second jaw member is adapted to contact a further portion of the first aerofoil, such as a trailing edge (38, Figure 5B). The tool may allow for manual levering to apply a tensile force and/or impact forces to be applied to the aerofoil. A method of removal of aerofoils is also provided, involving a sequence of manual operations using the tool. The aerofoil array may be a stator vane array for a gas turbine engine.
Patent GB-2501852-A (GB)
Title: Interconnection for connecting a switched mode inverter to a load
Inventor: RICHARDSON ROBERT
IPC: H01B9/02
Filed: 2012-01-18
Abstract: An interconnection for connecting a switched mode inverter to a load, the interconnection comprising: a plurality of insulated conductors (311-313, 321-323); sleeving means (351) sleeving the insulated conductors together; and at least one lossy toroidal inductor core (352) concentric with and partially surrounding the sleeving means to hold the plurality of insulated conductors together; wherein the at least one lossy toroidal inductor core (352) is arranged to act as a common mode inductor to minimise current flowing through the interconnection to a stray capacitance of the load. Preferably, high frequency eddy current effects are minimised in the interconnection by a suitable choice of diameters of conductive cores of the plurality of insulated conductors and the spacing between the centres of the conductive cores.
Patent GB-2506518-A (GB)
Title: Method for a direct wireless data exchange in a wireless ad hoc network
Inventor: STRANG THOMAS
IPC: H04B7/26
Filed: 2013-08-20
Abstract: A method for a direct wireless data exchange in an ad hoc mode between moving traffic participants (10a, 10b, 10c, 11) in a traffic telematic system uses the TETRA DMO standard frame structure of four timeslots per frame and 18 frames per multiframe. Any traffic participant (10a), if it expects a vacant transmission channel, assumes the role of a master and transmits its data during a transmission cycle with a length of exactly two time slots by sending exactly one synchronization burst in one time slot, which prepares a traffic participant (10b) for the reception of a payload burst immediately following the synchronization burst, and the master (10a), following this exactly one synchronization burst, sends its payload burst in the immediately subsequent time slot, and the master (10a) hereafter concludes its transmission of this payload burst without sending another synchronization burst or another payload burst in this transmission cycle. In an alternative embodiment, each participant uses a GNSS receiver to synchronise to a common reference time and 72 payload bursts can be transmitted per multiframe.
Patent GB-2518675-A (GB)
Title: A Trailer
Inventor: PARKER THOMAS
IPC: B62D63/06
Filed: 2013-09-27
Abstract: A skateboard trailer 100 comprises an attachment means 4, for example a ball joint, for attaching trailer 100 to a skateboard (8, Figure 2), one or more wheels 2, preferably detachably secured at an upwardly extending tail portion 11 of trailer 100, and a load support 9 for supporting a load. The load support may have a plurality of sections 110a, 110b, 110c, 110d, 110e, each comprising two side portions extending upwardly from a bottom portion, and may have means for securing cargo being hauled. Trailer 100 may be elongate and may have a deck of adjustable height. Suitably, trailer 100 may be towed behind a skateboard.
Patent GB-2505375-A (GB)
Title: Secure browser environment with restrictions on system resource access for data transfer outside the environment
Inventor: PEPPER TONY
IPC: G06F21/62
Filed: 2009-05-05
Abstract: Data to be viewed in a secure environment 114 is stored in a container 112 with programming for providing access to the data 116. The data is also is associated with at least one system resource access permission 118 for enforcing data transfer restrictions. Access to the data is provided following a request from a recipient system 102. The data access program is executed to establish a secure browser environment 122 on the recipient system, the secure browser providing access to the data. Requests made in the secure browser for transfer of the data outside the secure environment are evaluated against the system resource access permissions to see if the request is permitted. The data and the data access program may be stored remotely, and the execution of the environment carried out by the remote system. Evaluated requests may include transfer to/from a clipboard, transmission over a network, and sending data to a printer.
Patent GB-2508572-A (GB)
Title: High throughput epitaxial lift off for flexible electronics
Inventor: CHENG CHENG-WEI
IPC: H01L21/78
Filed: 2012-09-10
Abstract: A method of removing a semiconductor device layer from an underlying base substrate is provided in which a sacrificial phosphide-containing layer is formed between a semiconductor device layer and a base substrate. In some embodiments, a semiconductor buffer layer can be formed on an upper surface of the base substrate prior to forming the sacrificial phosphide-buffer layer. The resultant structure is then etched utilizing a non-HF etchant to release the semiconductor device layer from the base semiconductor substrate. After releasing the semiconductor device layer from the base substrate, the base substrate can be re-used.
Patent GB-2513044-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for optical sensing
Inventor: FARHADIROUSHAN MAHMOUD
IPC: G01D5/353
Filed: 2010-05-27
Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the position of a structure 1802 comprising: a plurality of acoustic reference sources 1806; and an acoustic optical fibre sensor system where the system measures the time of flight of the acoustic signals received at a plurality of locations along the structure. Preferably the system is a Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS) or a Distributed Temperature Sensor (DTS). A surveillance apparatus where an optical sensing fibre is installed along a structure or area to be monitored. An apparatus for monitoring a structure where an acoustic source arranged to move within the structure is tracked by an optical fibre sensor measuring acoustic transmission through the structures wall. Apparatus for monitoring fluid flow within a fluid carrying structure where an optical sensing fibre is deployed inside the structure and is carried along the structure by the fluid whose measurements may be used for diagnosis or imaging. An energy harvesting acoustic source. An apparatus for measuring fluid leakage along a structure where an acoustic source located within the structures body of fluid or the structure itself. An apparatus for monitoring a process in a vessel where an optical fibre sensor measures the noise generated within the vessel.