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Patent GB-2503706-A (GB)
Title: A self-terminating cable network splitter
Inventor: BOSKALJON GERRIT
IPC: H04N7/10
Filed: 2012-07-05
Abstract: Each output port 24 of a device 20, such as a signal splitter, in a cable network is terminated locally by a 75 Ohm impedance in switch circuit 26 when the detection circuit 28 senses that downstream equipment has been disconnected from the port. The detector 28 may sense voltage or current. Radiation or ingress of RF signals at open ports is avoided, and ripple in the transfer characteristic of splitters and directional couplers is avoided.
Patent GB-2492275-A (GB)
Title: A stable narrow vehicle with stabilising arms
Inventor: AMIRI AHMAD
IPC: B60G21/00
Filed: 2009-05-21
Abstract: This invention provides stability for narrow and or short length vehicles 38A-1 against side, head and back rolls. One category are rollers 38A-6, 38B-6 that hover on or just above the road and are attached to the vehicle via arms that move the rollers to a position that would counteract rollover by, for example, widening the vehicles support base or footprint, and back to reduce vehicle width when roll over risk expires . Another category adapts to wheels that support and carry the vehicle to perform as the rollers. The moving of rollers or roller wheels has many versions. In one version 37-9, 37-10, the arm is telescopic, in another 38B-6, 38B-8, the arm swings around its attachment to the vehicle, a third version is both telescopic and swinging. The rollers movement is largely lateral/longitudinal, compared to the road, thus unlike pushing a roller vertically to the road, there is no sudden impact with the road when engaged. Arms need not change their angle with the road to engage the roller.
Patent GB-2511748-A (GB)
Title: Emergency braking system for a vehicle
Inventor: PARKER DIRK
IPC: B60R21/013
Filed: 2013-03-11
Abstract: An intelligent emergency braking (IEB) system for a vehicle comprises a camera (14, fig 2), an ultrasonic parking distance control transceiver (22, fig 2) and a computer (20, fig 2). The camera provides the computer with captured image data to detect objects in front of the vehicle; and automatically to invoke the vehicle's brakes when the confidence that a detected object exceeds a first predetermined level and the vehicle will collide with the person or object vehicle. Likewise, the ultrasonic transceiver is adapted to provide the computer with transceiver data to detect objects in front of the vehicle; and automatically to invoke the vehicle brakes in the event that the vehicle will collide with an object detected. However the computer also automatically invokes the vehicle brakes when the confidence of the captured image data that an image is of an object exceeds only a second predetermined level less than said first level; when the vehicle will collide with the detected object; and when the ultrasonic transceiver provides the computer with transceiver data consistent with the object detected through the captured image data.
Patent GB-2517191-A (GB)
Title: Hot viscous raw material leaving a cooler perforated body cooling a cutter
Inventor: TREFFER DANIEL
IPC: B29C48/05
Filed: 2013-08-14
Abstract: An apparatus 100 for manufacturing particles, wherein the apparatus 100 comprises a supply unit 102 adapted for supplying a viscous raw material, a perforated body 104 having a plurality of perforations 106 and arranged to receive the viscous raw material from the supply unit 102 to flow through the plurality of perforations 106, and a cutter 108 arranged so that the viscous raw material flowing out of the plurality of perforations 106 is cut into the particles by the cutter 108, wherein the apparatus 100 is configured so that, during manufacturing the particles, a temperature of at least a portion of the perforated body 104 is lower than a temperature of the viscous raw material flowing through the plurality of perforations 106, wherein the perforated body 104 and the cutter 108 are arranged relative to one another such that the cutter 108 is cooled by thermal exchange with the perforated body 104 during operation of the apparatus 100. The particles formed may be plastic, food, dietary supplement or a pharmaceutical product.
Patent GB-2505128-A (GB)
Title: Resilient and compressible roller and autonomous coverage robot
Inventor: GILBERT DUANE LEIGH JR
IPC: A47L9/04
Filed: 2012-04-30
Abstract: A resilient compressible roller rotatably engaged with an autonomous coverage robot, the resilient compressible roller comprising: a rigid drive shaft; a resilient tubular member having a longitudinal axis and inculding an outer surface, one or more vanes extending outwardly from the outer surface, a hub disposed along the longitudinal axis of the tubular member within the outer surface, the hub haivng one or more engagement elements formed therein for engaging securely with the rigid drive shaft, a plurality of resilient curvilinear spokes extending between an inner surface of the flexible tubular member and the hub.
Patent GB-2512501-A (GB)
Title: Packet identification
Inventor: TYSON HUGO MARK
IPC: H04L45/02
Filed: 2014-03-31
Abstract: A method for identifying packets received at a wireless communication device capable of operating according to a wireless communications protocol and capable of communicating in a network. The method comprises receiving a first packet and processing, in accordance with a predetermined algorithm, a portion of the first packet in dependence on a first network key associated with a first network. The result of said processing is then determined to be successful or unsuccessful and, if successful, identifying the first packet as being addressed to devices in the first network. If the processing is unsuccessful then the device may take no further action. This may be used in home networks, for example, to ensure packets are only relayed among devices of the appropriate network to increase security and also to conserve battery resources of devices outside the intended network.
Patent GB-2525677-A (GB)
Title: Powered unicycle device
Inventor: ARTEMEV TIMUR
IPC: B62K1/00
Filed: 2014-05-02
Abstract: A self-balancing powered unicycle 100 comprises: a single hubless wheel 120; a motor adapted to drive the wheel; a balance control system adapted to maintain fore-aft balance of the unicycle device; at least one foot platform 165 for supporting a user of the unicycle device 100; and a casing 110 adapted to cover at least a portion of the outer rim of the wheel 120. The self-balancing powered unicycle 100 further comprises at least one energy storage device compartment 155 protruding outward from a side of the casing and adapted to house an energy storage device for powering the unicycle device.
Patent GB-2526865-A (GB)
Title: Methods of operating a gas turbine to inhibit vanadium corrosion
Inventor: MOLIERE MICHEL
IPC: C23F11/18
Filed: 2014-06-05
Abstract: A method of inhibiting vanadic corrosion of a hot part of a gas turbine system is described. The method includes introducing, in the combustor, a first oxide comprising magnesium oxide (MgO) and at least one second oxide from among Al203 (aluminum oxide), Fe2O3 (iron oxide), TiO2 (titanium dioxide) and Si0, (silicon dioxide). A ratio "m" of a number of moles of MgO to a number of moles of V205 and a ratio "a" of a total number of moles of the at least one second oxide to the number of moles of V205 satisfies two conditions based on a firing temperature of the expansion turbine. An average density of one or more double oxides formed by a reaction between MgO and the at least one second oxide, and an average Knoop hardness of the one or more double oxides formed by the reaction between MgO and the at least one second oxide.
Patent GB-2528678-A (GB)
Title: The fulcrum transport machine
Inventor: GAGER CRAIG ANTHONY
IPC: F16H25/20
Filed: 2014-07-28
Abstract: A skateboard-like transport machine has a pivoting footplate or deck 1a, the motion of which causes two helical drive shafts 1b, 1c to rotate. Rotation of the drive shafts 1b, 1c is transferred to the wheels by way of a plurality of bevel and spur gears 1e such that pivoting the footplate in a reciprocal fashion drives the wheels. Braking is achieved by tilting the footplate 1a to its furthest extent, which causes push rods (4b, fig 4) to drive callipers (4c, fig 4) into braking engagement with the drive shaft.
Patent GB-2538934-A (GB)
Title: Broadcasting data in MPEG transport streams
Inventor: CHRIS POOLE
IPC: H04N21/4405
Filed: 2015-01-28
Abstract: An encoder for encoding data broadcast in an MPEG transport stream, of MPEG sections, comprises means for processing the MPEG sections using a hash function (e.g., excluding CRC elements) to provide multiple hash outputs, each associated with one or more MPEG sections by section identifying information. The hash outputs and corresponding section identifying information are signed using a private key corresponding to a public key available at receivers, producing signatures. The hash outputs, section identifying information and signatures are then coded into one or more MPEG sections which are designated signature MPEG sections, which are broadcast in an MPEG transport stream (TS). A receiver verifies using the signature MPEG sections that the MPEG transport stream has been provided by a known (not tampered with) source. Also described is a decoding method, establishing a trusted public key, comprising: periodically receiving one or more broadcast public keys; storing public keys that have been seen on a broadcast channel, and a (e.g., time threshold-based) count relating to the number of times each public key has been received; determining the public key with the highest count; and asserting the highest count (most frequently received) public key as being trusted.
Patent GB-2525294-A (GB)
Title: E-cigarette personal vaporizer
Inventor: MEMARI KAVEH
IPC: A24F47/00
Filed: 2015-02-27
Abstract: A re-fillable and re-chargeable e-cigarette personal vaporizer (PV) in which the PV indicates consumption of e-liquid using a visual indicator that extends or moves along the body. A series of twelve light emitting diodes (LEDs) progressively light up as the PV consumes nicotine equivalent to a single cigarette typically one LED lights up per inhalation, where the e-liquid strength means that twelve inhalations corresponds to smoking a single cigarette. The user can also set the LEDs so that a single LED lights up when nicotine equivalent to an entire cigarette is consumed. Hence, the device when used in this mode would show when the equivalent of between one and twelve entire cigarettes had been consumed.
Patent GB-2535801-A (GB)
Title: Composite product and method
Inventor: STEPHEN TEMPLE
IPC: B33Y80/00
Filed: 2015-02-27
Abstract: A method of making a fibre reinforced composite product comprises the steps of forming a scaffold structure 400 comprising a set of tubes 408, 410 defining tube lumens running within the product interior and investing the tube lumens with fibres and optionally matrix material. A digital 3-D printing process is ideally used to form the scaffold. Preferably, a carrier fluid is used to invest the tube lumens wherein the carrier fluid may enter through the end of a tube connecting with an input manifold and exit the tube radially via a capillary which runs alongside the tube. The shear stress in the carrier fluid, or the application of suction, causes the fibres to align with the axis of the tubes and to preferably aggregate at or attach to a wall of the tube. A synthetic composite product comprising elongate tube lumens opening to an external surface of the product with reinforcing fibres embedded in a matrix material and substantially aligned in the tube length direction is also provided. A scaffold structure is also disclosed for use in making a composite product comprising a set of tubes defining tube lumens running within the product interior for investing with fibres and optional matrix material.
Patent GB-2541168-A (GB)
Title: Process for preparing a coating
Inventor: ILEANA NEDELCU
IPC: F16C33/06
Filed: 2015-07-27
Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing a coating on at least part of a tribological surface of a mechanical component which is derived from a non-elastomeric material, which process comprises the steps of: (a) applying an aqueous polymer dispersion onto at least part of the tribological surface to form a coating, which aqueous polymer dispersion comprises an isocyanate that contains two or more isocyanate groups per molecule and an isocyanate-reactive polyol to form polyurethanes; and (b) subjecting at least part of the coating as obtained in step (a) to a curing treatment during which polyurethanes are formed in the coating on the at least part of the tribological surface of the mechanical component. In addition, the invention relates to (i) a mechanical component (e.g. a steel rolling element bearing) obtainable by the present process, and (ii) the use of a protective coatings as prepared in the present process for reducing friction between the mechanical component and a further mechanical component that is in dynamic contact with the mechanical component.
Patent GB-2530396-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic system for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle
Inventor: OTT ETHAN
IPC: B62D5/07
Filed: 2015-08-04
Abstract: A hydraulic system 10 for a vehicle, typically a truck or other commercial vehicle, comprises a pump 14 drivable by an engine and decouplable from the engine using a clutch 20. Pump 14 pumps hydraulic fluid through two hydraulic circuits 22, 28, with a valve 32 distributing fluid through circuits 22, 28. First circuit 22 comprises a hydraulic accumulator 24 and a closed centre steering gear 26 of a power steering system. Second circuit 28 comprises a hydraulic motor 30, which may drive a fan 36. Pump 14 may be driven through an air compressor 16 driven by the engine. A cooler 40 may be provided in one of the circuits 22, 28 to cool the hydraulic fluid. Hydraulic system 10 may be operated efficiently, with low parasitic load on the engine when steering assistance is not required.
Patent GB-2534308-A (GB)
Title: Tracking system
Inventor: DAVID CRAIG INGERSON
IPC: G08B25/10
Filed: 2010-09-24
Abstract: A system for tracking the location of an individual, such as an elderly person, and for providing medication consumption compliance alerts to the individual. The system comprises a device (100, fig 1) worn by the individual in use, the device including a processor (121, fig 1) for determining the devices location 500, and a transceiver (142, fig 1) for transferring location information 510 indicative of the devices location to a base station (201, fig 2) via a communications network. The base station is operable to generate a location indication 530 indicative of the tracking device location using the location information and further to provide the location indication to at least one user via a user end station 540 and a communications network. The system additionally has provision for alerting the individual that medication should be taken in accordance with settings adjusted by the at least one user via the base station. The alert may be issued as textual information on a display (151, fig 1), or as audible information presented via a speaker (153, fig 1).
Patent GB-2534081-A (GB)
Title: Actuating unit for a heat exchanger, heat exchanger, and a method for controlling a heat exchanger
Inventor: ULRICH ZIEGLTRUM
IPC: F28F27/00
Filed: 2014-10-17
Abstract: The invention relates to an actuating unit (1) for a heat exchanger (2), wherein the actuating unit (1) receives information on an environmental temperature, an environmental humidity, a water volume of a wetting device (3) for wetting the heat exchanger (2), a speed (41) of a ventilator (4) of the heat exchanger (2), and a geodetic height. The actuating unit (1) is intended to calculate a spraying water volume (31), in dependence on the cited information, and the actuating unit (1) adjusts the wetting device (3) such that the wetting device (3) wets the heat exchanger (2) with the calculated spraying water volume.
Patent GB-2556316-A (GB)
Title: Flood protection apparatus and method
Inventor: JOHN LESLIE GREEN
IPC: E06B9/00
Filed: 2016-05-13
Abstract: Flood protection apparatus for temporarily blocking a building opening 30 to guard against the ingress of water. The apparatus comprises a watertight collapsible bag 10 and has a part 20 for admitting a flowable filling medium, e.g. water, to the bag to expand the bag. In use the bag is filled and conforms to the building opening, such as a door to seal against a periphery of the building opening to define a sealing region A. A pair of buttress regions B are disposed on front and rear sides of the sealing region A. The weight of the filling medium in the buttress regions B acts to prevent displacement of the bag from the building opening.
Patent GB-2542922-A (GB)
Title: Support Harness
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER MCNICHOLL
IPC: A61H3/04
Filed: 2016-08-26
Abstract: A system for coupling a user to at least one support apparatus comprising a harness 26 for said user, a hoist, wherein said harness 26 and said hoist have co-operable attachment means for releasably coupling said harness 26 to said hoist and at least one frame 2 configured to receive said user, wherein said harness 26 and said frame 2 have co-operable attachment means 28 for releasably coupling said harness to said frame 2. The attachment means 28 to couple to the frame 2 may be provided at the hips or upper back region of the user. The frame 2 may be part of a walker, exercise device or other support. The attachment means for the hoist may be provided at the shoulders of the user. The harness 26 may provide postural support, either as a single rigid piece or as a plurality of pieces. The harness 26 may have thigh and arm straps.
Patent GB-2543923-A (GB)
Title: Method of fabricating a plurality of single crystal cvd synthetic diamonds
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER JOHN HOWARD WORT
IPC: C30B29/04
Filed: 2016-09-14
Abstract: A method of fabricating a plurality of single crystal CVD diamonds comprises: coating a carrier substrate with a layer of polycrystalline CVD diamond material; bonding a plurality of single crystal diamond substrate to the layer of polycrystalline CVD diamond material on the carrier substrate; growing single crystal CVD diamond material on the plurality of single crystal diamond substrate to form a plurality of single crystal CVD diamonds and separating the plurality of single crystal CVD diamonds from the layer of polycrystalline CVD diamond material on the carrier substrate and any polycrystalline CVD diamond material which has grown between the plurality of single crystal CVD diamonds. The carrier substrate may be made of a carbide falling material, and may have a diameter of 30 mm to 200 mm and a thickness of 3 mm to 20 mm. The plurality of single crystal diamond substrate may be bonded to the layer of polycrystalline CVD diamond material on the carrier substrate via brazing or soldering.
Patent GB-2544197-A (GB)
Title: Sliding resin composition, and sliding member
Inventor: HIROKI KOBAYAKAWA
IPC: F16C33/20
Filed: 2015-05-15
Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to improve the seize resistance of a resin composition used in a sliding member. Provided is a sliding resin composition including a resin binder, a solid lubricant, and aggregates of particles. The coupling force between the particles in the aggregates is less than the threshold stress of the resin binder. Some of the exposed aggregates are detached from the resin binder by a force less than the threshold stress of the resin binder. Aggregates of particles harder than the resin binder are employed as a protection reinforcement agent, and the included amount of the aggregates of said particles is at least 1 vol.% but not more than 20 vol.% of the whole of the sliding resin composition. The average particle size of the particles harder than the resin binder is lower than that of the solid lubricant, and is at least 10 nm, but not more than 100 nm. When A represents the average particle size of the aggregates, and σ represents the standard deviation of the aggregates, A-1σ is at least 60 nm, and A+1σ is not more than 400 nm. Furthermore, the aspect ratio of the aggregates is not more than 10.
Patent GB-2557297-A (GB)
Title: Generating a reference current for sensing
Inventor: AKSHAY KUMAR
IPC: H01L45/00
Filed: 2016-12-05
Abstract: Apparatus and method of generating a reference current to sense the state (high/low resistance) of Correlated Electron Switching CES memory cells in a memory array, and comprising current reference generating tracking circuit(s). The tracking circuit (16 fig 1) comprises a tracking bit cell 60 comprising low resistance (as manufactured) first 62 and second 64 CES elements in series with reference and ground column lines respectively, whilst third and fourth CES elements (66, 68 programmed high resistance) are arranged in parallel between column and ground reference lines. The tracking circuit may cascade many tracking bit cells (ie. 16 or 32) in a resistive ladder arrangement (figure 5b). Hence application of a voltage across the tracking circuit provides an optimum reference current proportional to the geometric mean of the high and low resistance (impedance) of the ladders CES elements. The reference current is mirrored to a plurality of sense amplifiers coupled to each of the CES memory elements in the array, and preferably one sense amplifier per column of CES memory cells. The memory device includes sense amplifiers (20 fig 1), wherein one of the plurality of sense amplifiers is coupled to each column of the memory array; and wherein the reference current generated by the tracking circuit is mirrored to each of the plurality of sense amplifiers (fig 8). The tracking reference circuit not only provides a reference current based on the geometric mean of the high/low resistances of the CES cells, but also includes an offset current contribution enabling tracking of the cell leakage current derived from the leakage current of dummy MOSFET access devices N0-N3. The leakage current is modifiable by tying a number of the arrays bit cell column lines.
Patent GB-2557589-A (GB)
Title: Electric self-balancing vehicle
Inventor: DANIEL ASKER
IPC: B62K11/00
Filed: 2016-12-09
Abstract: An electric self-balancing vehicle having a load bearing structure with a first platform 12 joined to a second platform 13 by a rotatable bearing 40 so as to define a first and a second side respectively, the rotatable bearing 40 being arranged such that the first platform 12 and the second platform 13 are independently rotatable about an axis. The electric self-balancing vehicle also having a first casing 14, a first and second wheel 30 rotatably mounted to opposing outer edges of the load bearing structure, a first and second motor 20 attached to each wheel 30, a plurality of sensors 50,56 disposed between the load bearing structure and the first casing 14, a battery 60 disposed between the load bearing structure and the first casing 14 and a control board 70 disposed between the load bearing structure and the first casing 14. The vehicle is characterised by the battery 60 and controller 70 being located in the same half of the vehicle. This is said to minimise the number of wires required to run between the halves of the vehicle, and thereby improve reliability over the prior art.