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Patent GB-2546731-A (GB)
Title: Recording set indicator
Inventor: Alasdair grant
IPC: G06F12/0864
Filed: 2016-01-20
Abstract: An apparatus comprises processing circuitry for accessing data in a physically indexed cache. Set indicator recording circuitry 100 is provided to record a set indicator 32 corresponding to a target physical address, where the set indicator depends on which set of one or more storage locations (50 in Figure 2) of the cache 20 corresponds to the target physical address. The set indicator is insufficient to identify the target physical address itself. This enables monitoring of performance issues, such as cache thrashing, caused by contention of data items for individual sets in a physically-indexed set-associative or direct-mapped cache without needing to expose or make visible the physical address itself to potentially insecure processes or devices. The set indicator may comprise index bits subjected to an obfuscating function 102 based on a secret key, providing a level of encryption.
Patent GB-2547004-A (GB)
Title: A portable airing or drying device
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER JOHN MOSS
IPC: D06F57/12
Filed: 2016-02-04
Abstract: A portable airing or drying device suitable for garments, comprising two opposing end portions 1 and a plurality of intermediate connecting sections 2, said sections arranged to connect the end portions. The end portions may be arranged to connect to a subordinate structure such as a wall or window and may be attached by suction cups 12. The end portions may have slots 5 for receiving ends 4 of the sections. The sections may include intermediate divisors 3.
Patent GB-2547700-A (GB)
Title: Adhesive applier for screen printing machine
Inventor: STEPHEN ILES
IPC: B41F15/40
Filed: 2016-02-27
Abstract: A device for applying adhesive to a screen printing machine A free standing portable device for automatically applying solvent or water based adhesives to a platen carried by a screen printing machine comprises a housing (13, Fig 3) for retaining a spray can filled with adhesive and a spray guard 31 which contains any excess adhesive. The spray guard is attached to a stand by means of two vertical channels that are lowered on to two vertical prongs situated either side of the spray can or spray gun housing. The machine head protrudes into the spray guard through a rubber membrane 35. When the spray guard makes contact with the platen the control computer 36 immediately activates a solenoid, depressing the spray can nozzle or spray gun trigger; a stepper motor partially rotates the spray can or spray gun from left to right, while a linear actuator moves the spray up and down. At the end of the spraying cycle and before the spray guard is raised a high power extraction fan 33A sucks the air from inside the spray guard through a composite particle filter to remove any air born adhesive particles and toxic gasses before the spray guard is raised.
Patent GB-2537743-A (GB)
Title: Aircraft propulsion system
Inventor: PETER SWANN
IPC: H02K7/18
Filed: 2016-03-23
Abstract: The invention concerns an aircraft propulsion system comprising a combustion engine 10 and electrical generator 11 arranged to be driven by the engine, an electrical energy store 30 and a propulsive rotor 20 arranged to be driven by an electric motor 2. The system further comprises a controller for selectively varying the supply of power to the electric motor from the generator and/or energy store in dependence on one or more property of a vapour trail resulting from the engine exhaust flow 16. The system may comprise a plurality of engines, each engine being independently controllable by the controller. The controller may control a combustion parameter so as to alter the rate of soot particle production by the engine, or engine efficiency. The controller may control engine throttle. The controller varies supply of power to the electric motor or energy store in dependence upon optical depth or expected lifetime of a contrail. The system may comprise an ambient condition sensor such as a temperature sensor, humidity sensor and/or sunlight sensor.
Patent GB-2548917-A (GB)
Title: Robot
Inventor: Conor McGinn
IPC: B62D61/12
Filed: 2016-04-01
Abstract: A robot 1 comprises a body 100 carrying a first drive arrangement 10, a second drive arrangement 20 and a stabiliser 30. The robot 1 further comprises actuators 40 operable to cause relative movement of the drive arrangements and stabiliser 10, 20 and 30 and to drive the first and the second drive arrangements 10, 20. The robot 1 is arrangeable in first, second and third configurations each having static stability. In the first configuration (fig. 2A), the stabiliser 30 and the first drive arrangement 10 are arranged to contact the ground. In the second configuration, the stabiliser 30 and the second drive arrangement 20 are arranged to contact the ground. In the third configuration (fig. 2C), the first 10 and the second 20 drive arrangements are arranged to contact the ground. No other ground contacting point is involved in conferring said static stability in said configurations. The stabiliser 30 may further comprise arms 33A and 33B providing ground contacting support during stair climbing.
Patent GB-2549960-A (GB)
Title: Handle system for a closure
Inventor: FELIX URE
IPC: E05B3/00
Filed: 2016-05-04
Abstract: The system comprises a sprung rose system 12, which has a rose 15 for attachment to a door and a return mechanism behind the rose for urging a spindle passing through the rose into a predetermined orientation, the return mechanism being rotatable against its biasing by a user force applied to the spindle through a handle (60, fig.11) independently removable from the spindle. The rose may have an independently removable cover (22, fig.11). The return mechanism may comprise a torsion spring 30 in a housing 35. Also claimed is a handle system comprising first and second sprung rose systems and handles for attachment to respective sides of a door. Also claimed is a sprung rose system, comprising a rose attachable to a door by first and second fixture holes 26, and a return mechanism connected to and behind the rose and comprising a spring in a housing between the holes, the spring acting on a spindle driver to urge the spindle into a predetermined orientation, the return mechanism being rotatable against the spring by user action.
Patent GB-2550411-A (GB)
Title: Integrated helmet technology systems
Inventor: TIM NICHOLAS MOOR
IPC: A42B3/04
Filed: 2016-05-20
Abstract: A device suitable for detecting a force applied to a helmet, the device comprising a first flexible substrate layer 1 having a first plurality of pressure sensors 3 and a first plurality of electrically conductive tracks 2, the tracks being arranged to provide electrical connection between the pressure sensors. The device may form an inner lining of the helmet, and the sensors may be formed by printed or screen coated pressure sensitive ink spots, the spots changing electrical resistance in response to pressure changes. The conductive tracks may be applied to the substrate layer using solder, conductive adhesive or anisotropic conductive tape, or alternatively printed onto the substrate layer. The device may further comprise a processor. There is preferably a second substrate layer having pressure sensors and conductive tracks, a gap layer (5, figure 3) separating the first and second substrate layers. The processor may configure the magnitude of the force or pressure transferred through the gap layer. The device may also comprise a gyroscope of accelerometer. Also claimed is a helmet having such a device, and an app arranged to communicate with the device.
Patent GB-2541128-A (GB)
Title: Spillproof container assemblies
Inventor: STEVEN BRYAN DUNN
IPC: B65D1/02
Filed: 2012-06-03
Abstract: A container for a spillproof assembly has a main body which is substantially round is viewed in top plan, with a first wing 24 protruding from a side. The container may have a second wing 26 on the other side, with matching first and second wings 16, 18 on the lid. Lid wing 16 may have a view window 38, through which, a snap ridge on the container first wing 24 may be seen, to check the lid has been tightened properly. An acoustic waveguide (figs 4, 10 & 11), with communicating sound generating structure 38, may create an audible click when the lid has been tightened onto the container. The acoustic waveguide acts as the viewing port 38 so that a user can visually verify the position of the lid body. The wings of lid body may slightly interfere with and cam over respective upper platforms on the wing portions of the container body so that a user will be provided with a tactical feedback as a lid body is approaching an optimal amount of tightness. The wings may enhance the grippability of, and properly orientate, the container assembly for small children.
Patent GB-2557267-A (GB)
Title: Piston Bowl
Inventor: VIVIAN PAGE
IPC: F02F3/26
Filed: 2016-12-02
Abstract: A piston crown 120 for use in a combustion cylinder of an internal combustion engine. The piston crown includes a top annular surface 201. Radially inside the top annular surface is a piston bowl 210 for guiding fuel injected into the cylinder. The piston bowl comprises a central raised frusto-conical portion 220, an arcuate surface 230, a circumferential surface 235 and a frusto-conical lip chamfer surface 240 at a throat of the piston bowl next to the annular surface. In diametric cross-section the frusto-conical lip chamfer surface has a radius of at least 30mm. The lip chamfer surface promotes improved distribution of fuel leaving the bowl in pistons of reduced size, improving the thermal distribution and combustion efficiency. A cylinder using such a piston and a fuel spray nozzle producing a spray cone angle between 129o and 131o and a combustion engine are also disclosed. A method of manufacturing a combustion cylinder and method of increasing the efficiency of an engine are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2557688-A (GB)
Title: Navigation method and system
Inventor: MARCUS HOGGARTH
IPC: G01C21/34
Filed: 2016-12-15
Abstract: A method 100 of navigation, the method comprising: selecting 110 a first point and a second point on a map; setting 120 at least one of a time margin and a distance margin, the time margin being an amount that extends the travel time beyond the shortest possible travel time between the first point and the second point, and the distance margin being an amount that extends the travel distance beyond the shortest possible travel distance between the first point and the second point; and determining 130 a route between the first point and the second point based on at least one of the time margin and the distance margin. The method may also include basing the route on the direction a user (e.g. a passenger of a vehicle) is looking. The controller configured to calculate the route may base the route on the direction a user of a second controller is looking.
Patent GB-2548687-A (GB)
Title: Automotive imaging system including an electronic image sensor having a sparse color filter array
Inventor: Adil Nizam Siddiqui
IPC: H04N9/04
Filed: 2017-01-27
Abstract: An automobile imaging system comprising a camera 100 including a lens 110 and an image sensor having a sparse colour filter array (SFCA), where the camera is configured to generate image data based on light incident on the sensor, the lens having an f-stop higher than f/2.4. The imager also comprises a controller 20 configured to generate an image and a display device 30 for displaying the picture. The SFCA may have different combinations of pixel numbers and diverse integration times or f-number values may be used. The lens may be a fish-eye lens and the sparse CFA may include a repeating mosaic of colour filters arranged in a pattern (Fig. 3C) such that the mosaics are more highly concentrated towards a centre of the image sensor, rather than close to its edges.
Patent GB-2543991-A (GB)
Title: Exercising support
Inventor: MATTHEW MACNAMARA
IPC: A63B71/06
Filed: 2015-08-24
Abstract: An exercising support comprising: a mat having a lower surface arranged to engage the floor in use and an upper surface arranged to support a user, the upper surface including a plurality of upwardly extending projections; a kneecap rest having a lower surface which is adapted to engage the upper surface; a foot or lower leg rest having a lower surface adapted to contact the upper surface; wherein the lower surfaces of the foot or lower leg rest and kneecap rest each have a securing arrangement for detachable engagement to one or more of the upwardly extending projections; a thigh support configured to engage the back of a user's upper and lower legs; wherein the thigh support, foot or lower leg rest and kneecap rest, are maintained in a configuration, relative to one and other when in use on the mat, to cumulatively provide pressure to a user's upper and lower leg portions.
Patent GB-2559808-A (GB)
Title: Instrumented shaft for condition monitoring
Inventor: ANDREW CAMPBELL
IPC: F16H1/28
Filed: 2017-02-21
Abstract: A flanged shaft 110, eg a planet carrier shaft in a planetary gearbox of a wind turbine, comprises a shaft 111 for mounting the inner ring of a bearing which is retained by the axially inner surface 114 of a flange 112. The shaft 110 is instrumented with one or more sensor units 130 each having a measuring surface 132 formed by an axially inner surface of at least one contact plate on which one or more sensors are provided, for monitoring bearing operating parameters such as vibration, temperature, acoustic emission or strain. Each sensor unit 130 is arranged in a recess which extends through the flange part 112 such that the measuring surface 132 lies flush with or protrudes somewhat beyond the axially inner surface 114 of the flange part 112. The shaft 110 may have four sensor units 130 arranged evenly around its circumference. The sensor(s) may be powered by one or more batteries housed in a battery box 152 in the other end of the shaft 110.
Patent GB-2560013-A (GB)
Title: Urban hydroponics air scrubber
Inventor: Dominic Richard Anthony Clyde-Smith
IPC: A01G31/06
Filed: 2017-02-25
Abstract: Plants are grown on volume of inert grow medium (i.e. media) 2 (see Figure 1), contained in container 6, the containers are stacked upon one another, creating a tower, when water in the media reaches a certain level a bell syphon 7 situated in each reservoir, drains the water to the next lower reservoir; as the water is drained it draws air. The water absorbs contaminates from the air, in particular nitrogen oxides. The nitrogen oxide is converted to nitrate and in-turn absorbed into the plant through the roots. The lowest reservoir contains a volume of water. The water is pumped to the top reservoir. This process is repeated down the levels of the tower of containers.
Patent GB-2551421-A (GB)
Title: Safety system
Inventor: DAVID GUY
IPC: H01H85/02
Filed: 2017-04-07
Abstract: A device 17 for preventing insertion of a fuse into a fuse holder comprises two retaining elements 18a,b capable of engaging with the fuse holder, and a resilient member (19, figure 12A) situated between the retainers to bias them apart when the device is in an engaged position. The resilient member may be a spring. Each retainer may comprise an actuator tab (20, figure 9B), a stem region 21, and a foot 22. The device may comprise a cylindrical core body 24 having a cavity that houses the stem region of the retainers and the spring. The actuator tabs may be pressed using fuse pullers (30, figure 14A) to compress the spring and move the retainers towards each other, after which the core body is placed in the fuse holder and the actuator tabs released to engage the retainers with the ends of the fuse holder. Locking tabs 23 are then secured to fix the device in situ. Alternatively, the device comprises one or more retaining elements (4a,b, figure 1) capable of engaging with the fuse holder, and a cover 3 that immobilizes each retainer to prevent them from disengaging while also preventing the insertion of a fuse into the fuse holder.
Patent GB-2551614-A (GB)
Title: Hybrid acquisition method incorporating multiple dissociation techniques
Inventor: JEFFERY MARK BROWN
IPC: H01J49/00
Filed: 2015-04-17
Abstract: A method of mass spectrometry comprising: fragmenting in a first fragmentation mode first ions with a first charge to mass ratio; monitoring for fragments or products of interest; when identifying the fragments or products of interest further fragmenting second ions with a smaller mass to charge ratio in a second fragmentation mode. Also disclosed is a method of mass spectrometry comprising: separating parent or precursor ions by a physicochemical property such as mass or ion mobility; transmitting the ions to a first fragmentation or reaction device operating in a first mode; fragmenting or reacting the ions to form first fragment or products; where the physicochemical properties are varied over time so that ions of different properties are fragmented at different times; monitoring for the detection of ions or products of interest, when these are detected the method further comprises: halting the variation in physicochemical properties over time for a first period of time; directing the ions with the set physicochemical properties to a fragmentation or reaction device operating in a second mode; and fragmenting or reacting the ions to produce second fragments or products. Further disclosed are mass spectrometers configured to perform the above methods. The method enables a full un-biased MS/MS data set to be provided over a wide mass to charge ratio range with high-duty cycle, together with complementary detailed fragment data of interest, in a single experimental run or acquisition.
Patent GB-2553392-A (GB)
Title: Security barrier
Inventor: BRUCE MCGARIAN
IPC: F41H13/00
Filed: 2017-04-19
Abstract: A security device 10 is disclosed comprising: a barrier 20; and a panel 30, wherein the security device can be transitioned repeatedly between a first configuration and a second configuration. In the first configuration the security device is unassembled and at least the barrier can be arranged in a storage configuration in which the barrier curves or bends through a first angle, and in the second configuration the security device is assembled in an arrangement for use, in which the security device is assembled around a rail. In the second configuration, at least a part of the panel is orientated to be substantially vertical, and the barrier is curved, bent or folded through a second angle, which is greater than the first angle, to protrude away from the panel in a horizontal direction, perpendicular from a plane extending vertically through the rail, to provide an overhang on an exterior side of the rail. A method of installing the security device on to a railing is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2561906-A (GB)
Title: Heating arrangement
Inventor: MARK SEIDLER
IPC: H05B6/12
Filed: 2017-04-28
Abstract: A heating arrangement 100 comprises a platform 201 for a container 300 and an attachment arrangement for attaching at least two different types of container. The arrangement further comprises heating element(s) 101, 102 that heat a container on the platform and sensor(s) that detect at least one property relating to the type container attached to the platform. A control arrangement controls the heating element(s) in dependence on the output of the sensor(s). The property may be the size of the container or container base. The platform may comprise a plurality of heating zones and the control arrangement may control the heating element(s) selectively to heat at least one of the heating zones in dependence on the sensor output(s). In use, the arrangement aims to avoid the inappropriate, unsafe, and inefficient energisation of heating elements not needed for heating the container on the platform. Also disclosed is a food processor 200 comprising a platform for a container, at least one heating element for heating the container and at least one sensor that detects at least one property relating to the type of container on the platform. A control arrangement heats the heating element(s) in dependence on the output of the sensor(s).
Patent GB-2553645-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle with park assist
Inventor: ANDREA PLA RUBIO
IPC: G08G1/16
Filed: 2017-07-06
Abstract: A vehicle includes motor(s), steering, sensors and processor(s) and is configured to load a stored parking spot 300, map an area in front of the vehicle using the sensors, intersect virtual segments with locations on the map based on the stored parking spot, compare a current heading to a desired heading and automatically steer the vehicle based on the desired heading. In an embodiment, three intersection points of the parking spot can be intersected with three points on the map, and four virtual segments intersected with the three intersection points. Typically, the stored parking spot can be overlaid on the map, and infrared sensors 180a, 180b may be used to detect a beam of infrared light defining a side 307 of the parking spot.
Patent GB-2564848-A (GB)
Title: Prenatal screening and diagnostic system and method
Inventor: NICK LENCH
IPC: G16B30/10
Filed: 2017-07-18
Abstract: Disclosed is prenatal screening and diagnostic system. The prenatal screening and diagnostic system includes a wet-laboratory arrangement for processing a blood sample to determine cell-free DNA readout data from the blood sample, and a data processing arrangement for processing the cell free DNA readout data with reference to information stored in a database arrangement to generate a risk score indicative of whether or not there are genetic abnormalities in the blood sample that are indicative of fetal abnormalities or risk of developing abnormalities. The prenatal screening and diagnostic system is operable to ligate nucleic acid base molecular barcodes to fragments of the cell-free DNA present in the blood sample prior to amplifying the molecular barcode-ligated DNA fragments for sequencing the amplified molecular barcode-ligated fragments to generate the cell-free DNA readout data. Associated methods and computer programs are also claimed.
Patent GB-2565530-A (GB)
Title: A packaging container and process
Inventor: PETER JAMES WEBBER
IPC: B65D75/32
Filed: 2017-07-19
Abstract: A package 1 with multiple compartments 3, 5, 7 sealed by a film 4, 6, 8 where one compartment can be folded 9, 11 over the other so that their films abut. The compartments could foldably attach via a shared planar rim or could be separate trays and only linked by the film. There could be two small compartments 5, 7 either side of a big compartment 3 with widths such that they entirely cover the big compartment when folded over it to protect its film. A sleeve 13 could retain the compartments in the folded configuration. One compartment could receive an insert. Ideally the periphery of a compartment is contoured. A user could order a product such as uniquely customised or tailored food by telephone or the internet; the company could seal the product in the container; the company could print information relating to the user on the package or a label or sleeve with a preprinted background; the company could deliver the package to the user; the user could pay the company.
Patent GB-2549680-A (GB)
Title: Segregated multi-material metal-matrix composite tools
Inventor: GRANT O COOK III
IPC: E21B10/42
Filed: 2015-03-19
Abstract: A mold assembly system includes a mold assembly that defines an infiltration chamber used for forming an infiltrated metal-matrix composite (MMC) tool, and at least one boundary form positioned within the infiltration chamber and segregating the infiltration chamber into at least a first zone and a second zone. Reinforcement materials are deposited within the infiltration chamber and include a first composition loaded into the first zone and a second composition loaded into the second zone. At least one binder material infiltrates the first and second compositions, wherein infiltration of the first and second compositions results in differing mechanical, chemical, physical, thermal, atomic, magnetic, or electrical properties between the first and second zones in the infiltrated MMC tool.