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Patent GB-2525745-A (GB)
Title: Mower deck leveling system
Inventor: HAUN ROBERT D
IPC: A01D34/74
Filed: 2015-03-25
Abstract: A mower deck leveling system 100 comprises two sight levels (110, 112) mounted on an upper surface of a mower deck that extends out from under an operation station of a lawn tractor. The sight levels indicate if the first side of the mower deck is level with a second side of the mower deck, and if the front of the mower deck is level with the back of the mower deck. The system also comprises at least one electrical switch actuatable from the operator station and connected to two electric actuators 124, (120) that raise and lower a side and a front of the mower deck. Preferably the actuators include an electric motor rotating a threaded rod and the sight levels are mounted on a belt guard on the mower deck. Preferably the connection between the front and lawn tractor and the mower deck includes a front rockshaft.
Patent GB-2523505-A (GB)
Title: Tangible alphanumeric interaction on multi-touch digital display
Inventor: MILNE ROBIN DUNCAN
IPC: G09B19/02
Filed: 2013-12-13
Abstract: A method and system of using a tangible object with a touch screen display device to enhance a user's experience while operating the touch screen display device. The tangible object may be placed on the touch screen display device by the user and the unique attributes may be detected by the touch screen display device's built-in detection/sensing capabilities and processed as an input to a program or app. running on the touch screen display device. In this regard, various aspects of the present invention are directed toward providing a tangible feature to touch screen display operation to provide a more interactive experience when using a touch screen display, especially for young children.
Patent GB-2533447-A (GB)
Title: Method for treating sheet metal
Inventor: HARTMUT BAUMGART
IPC: C23C10/28
Filed: 2015-07-08
Abstract: A method for treating sheet metal 7 comprising the steps of (i) applying an amorphous mass 3 containing an alloying element onto a first area (2, fig. 3) of the metal sheet surface, while a second area (4, fig. 3) of the surface is kept free of said amorphous mass, and (ii) at least locally heating the metal sheet and/or the amorphous mass in order to alloy the alloying element into the first area of the metal sheet. Heat treatment may be carried out in a furnace 11 after application of the amorphous mass, preferably implemented by means of screen printing, gravure printing or spraying. The temperature of the heat treatment is preferably lower than the melting point of the metal sheet, preferably made of steel or aluminum. The alloying process may be followed by the step of forming the metal sheet during cooling, the cooling being effected via contact with the forming tool 23. Preferably the alloying element is carbon, nitrogen, silicon, magnesium, manganese, lithium, nickel or chrome. Products comprising a metal sheet as above are also claimed, further comprising an attachment part which is either fastened on the second, uncoated area or abuts on the first, coated area.
Patent GB-2526005-A (GB)
Title: Battery management system, method and battery
Inventor: LAVENDER JOHN PAUL
IPC: H01M50/296
Filed: 2011-09-02
Abstract: A battery management system controls the operation of plural electric batteries coupled to one another and includes a master control unit 50 coupled to each battery, a unit to provide a measure of the power draw required from the batteries and a unit to provide data relating to the status of each battery. Master control unit 50 activates a number of the batteries to meet the power draw required from the batteries and de-activates any batteries which would cause the number of batteries to exceed the required power draw. Each battery can include a control unit 50 that is settable as a slave unit or a master control unit and a connection element that signals a sequential connection of the battery to another battery. One control unit can be set as a master and the others as slaves, on the basis of the battery coupling sequence, detected by a link terminal 30 being connected to status terminal of another battery. A unique identifier can be assigned to each battery indicating its position in the sequence. The number of active batteries can be controlled so that their combined power capacity does not exceed the maximum safe power to a device coupled to the batteries. Batteries can be activated or deactivated over time and on the basis of their state of charge and temperature and set in either a discharge only mode or a charge mode to charge batteries connected together (figs 3,4). The system allows a large number of batteries to be connected together in a stack whose total power capacity does not exceed the safe maximum power of a battery-powered device such as a camera (fig 2)
Patent GB-2526760-A (GB)
Title: Use of chelants in formate-based solutions to dissolve residual filtercakes in subterranean wells
Inventor: LUYSTER MARK RONALD
IPC: C09K8/528
Filed: 2014-04-22
Abstract: A wellbore fluid for dissolving a filtercake includes a chelating agent and an aqueous solution of carboxylate salt. The concentration of the chelating agent is up to 50 percent volume per volume (v/v) in the aqueous solution of carboxylate salt. A method of treating a well includes preparing a wellbore fluid up to 50 percent volume per volume (v/v) chelating agent in an aqueous solution of carboxylate salt. The method further includes emplacing the wellbore fluid downhole such that the wellbore fluid dissolves a filtercake in the well.
Patent GB-2529340-A (GB)
Title: Contact avoidance assist device
Inventor: KASHIKI TAKUYA
IPC: G08G1/16
Filed: 2013-06-06
Abstract: This contact avoidance assist device (10) is provided with: an object sensing unit (61) that senses an object present in the vicinity of a vehicle (1); an operating unit (70) that implements contact avoidance control for the vehicle (1) with respect to the object sensed by the object sensing unit (61); and a traffic division determination unit (64) that determines whether the left/right traffic division of the road on which the vehicle (1) travels is left side or right side. The operating unit (70) modifies the control content of the contact avoidance control in accordance with the content of change in the left/right traffic division when the left/right traffic division determined by the traffic division determination unit (64) is changed between left side and right side.
Patent GB-2544791-A (GB)
Title: Screw
Inventor: HUI-JU YANG
IPC: F16B33/02
Filed: 2015-11-27
Abstract: A screw has a circular rod (10), a pointed cone (11), a head (12), a first threaded portion (13), a second threaded portion (14) and a third threaded portion (15). The pointed cone (11) is formed on a first portion (103) of the circular rod (10). The head (12) is formed on a second portion (104) of the circular rod (10). The first threaded portion (13) is formed from the pointed cone (11) to the first portion (103) and has a first pitch. The second threaded portion (14) is formed on the circular rod (10) and has second pitch. The third threaded portion (15) is formed on the circular rod (10) and has a third pitch. The first pitch is longer than the second pitch and the third pitch.
Patent GB-2532878-A (GB)
Title: Estimation of optimum tripping schedules
Inventor: Tobias Hoeink
IPC: E21B41/00
Filed: 2014-05-22
Abstract: A method for removing a core sample from a borehole includes: taking the core sample within the borehole with a sampling tool; generating a model of the core sample, the model based on data representing properties of the core sample; defining a plurality of proposed tripping schedules; applying, by a processor, the plurality of proposed tripping schedules to the model, and estimating a core parameter for each of the plurality of proposed tripping schedules; comparing the core parameter to a criteria; and selecting a suitable tripping schedule based on the comparison.
Patent GB-2531230-A (GB)
Title: Turbine for transmitting electrical data
Inventor: ANDREW MCPHERSON DOWNIE
IPC: F03B13/02
Filed: 2013-12-18
Abstract: The turbine (100) can be used to transmit electrical data signals, for example, sensor data signals, across a down hole turbine using, with the data signals be communicated via a shaft (102). As a result, a signal can be induced onto the shaft (102) from a lower end of the shaft (102), for example, motor shaft, to an upper end of the shaft (102). The signal can be induced on the shaft (102) by a first induction loop (112) and can be picked up by a second induction loop (114) with the first induction loop (112) being downhole from the second induction loop (114). The second induction loop (114) can be communicatively coupled to a receiver (712) which can pass the signals passed to a transmitter (712), for example, a measurement while drilling (MWD) unit. The MWD unit can then process the signal and transmit the signal to the surface.
Patent GB-2534790-A (GB)
Title: Image processing device and image processing method
Inventor: YOSHITAKA TOYODA
IPC: H04N1/387
Filed: 2014-07-10
Abstract: Provided are an image processing device and an image processing method, whereby an inputted image (Din) is enlarged and a low-resolution enlarged image (D101) generated. Coefficient data (D108) for high-resolution conversion is selected according to the result of a pattern assessment of the inputted image (Din), and a low-resolution feature constituent (D102H) is converted into a high-resolution feature constituent (D103H). Whether or not the pattern of a local region of the inputted image (Din) is flat is assessed, and if the pattern is flat, coefficient data that would not result in a large change of pixel values at a high-resolution conversion unit (103) is selected. It is thus possible to carry out high-resolution conversion which is suited to being carried out in hardware, such that robustness to noise is improved while circuit scale and memory usage are reduced.
Patent GB-2541296-A (GB)
Title: System and method for estimating the fatigue of a vehicle
Inventor: BARRY OUTEN
IPC: G01M99/00
Filed: 2016-07-26
Abstract: The invention relates to a system (12) for estimating the fatigue of a vehicle (10), comprising at least one sensor for measuring at least one parameter contributing to the fatigue of the vehicle (10) and a data processing unit (16) designed to estimate the fatigue of the vehicle (10) based on signals provided by the at least one sensor, whereby the at least one sensor is an accelerometer (14) mounted on a chassis of the vehicle (10), whereby the data processing unit (16) is designed to estimate the fatigue of the vehicle (10) by calculating a cumulative score (5) based on acceleration values provided by the at least one accelerometer (14). The invention furthermore relates to a method for estimating the fatigue of a vehicle 10.
Patent GB-2552683-A (GB)
Title: Electronically controlled water flushing system
Inventor: MELVYN DAVENPORT
IPC: E03B1/04
Filed: 2016-08-02
Abstract: The invention relates to saving water by collecting rain and grey water and retaining it in a tank or butt. The gathered water is then drawn into the electronic controlled water flushing system and distributed via the electronic unit by a pressurised water pump. The pump pumps the water through a series of solenoid valves and meters and various electronically operated systems to outlets which include garden hose pipes, toilet flushing, intermittent watering on window boxes and hanging baskets or patio containers.
Patent GB-2538672-A (GB)
Title: Wear bushing with hanger lockdown
Inventor: DANIEL CALEB BENSON
IPC: E21B33/068
Filed: 2015-03-04
Abstract: A wear bushing assembly (20) protects and locks down a hanger (46) in a wellhead housing (45); and which includes a wear bushing body (22) that inserts into a wear bushing sleeve (34). A lock ring (40) extends into registered recesses (42, 44) on the body and sleeve to couple together the body and sleeve. The wellhead housing has a profiled recess circumscribing its inner surface. A lockdown ring (28) selectively mates with the profiled recess; and when mated is in interfering contact with an upper surface of the wear bushing sleeve, thereby coupling the sleeve to the wellhead housing. The sleeve outer surface is profiled to interfere with upward movement of the hanger, so that force is transferred from the hanger to the housing through the sleeve which locks down the housing.
Patent GB-2554420-A (GB)
Title: A massage device
Inventor: ANGELA CAROLINE ALLANBY
IPC: A61M35/00
Filed: 2016-09-27
Abstract: A massage device includes a handheld, hemispherical body and a massage head; the massage head comprises one or more massage portions 3 retained in a socket 5 and able to move with respect to the socket, the body comprises a reservoir 2 for receiving a massage fluid, and at least one fluid channel 6 connects the reservoir to the massage portion(s) so that in use, fluid passes from the reservoir to the massage portion(s). The massage portions may be a plurality of stainless steel spheres. The fluid channel may have a valve. The socket may be formed by adjacent plates 11, 12.
Patent GB-2554872-A (GB)
Title: A compaction compensation system
Inventor: ANTHONY KELLY
IPC: E01C19/48
Filed: 2016-10-07
Abstract: The system comprises a paving machine 1 for laying compactible paving material and having a height adjustable screed 5, a height adjustable sensor 17 for sensing the height of the screed relative to a reference 10, a screed height control system which automatically adjusts the screed height to lay varying thicknesses of material in response to the output of the sensor, and a mechanism for automatically applying a compaction compensating factor to the height adjustment of the sensor. Also claimed is a system comprising the machine, and a mechanism for applying a compaction compensation factor to the screed height control system which automatically adjusts the compensation factor based on the thickness of the layer being laid at a given time. The sensor may be maintained at a fixed height from the reference. The system may comprise a surface level detector 40 connected to the sensor by a lever 45, with the positions of the detector and sensor relative to the lever determining the compensating factor.
Patent GB-2555596-A (GB)
Title: System and method of input verification
Inventor: ISTVAN FABIAN
IPC: G06F21/44
Filed: 2016-11-02
Abstract: An input validation method in which the timings between at least two input events in a sequence are monitored. Upon observing an input event, the method predicts a timing from that event to a next input event in the monitored sequence. If the method detects that the next obtained input event occurs within a predetermined threshold deviation of the predicted timing, this input event is classified as machine generated. The input events may correspond to a sequence of a plurality of physical inputs, which may be obtained from a videogame to which the inputs are directed. If a predetermined number of consecutive input events are labelled as artificial, cheating may be declared. The method may be applied to detect the use of auto-fire, rapid-fire or turbo buttons in video games. Also disclosed are a computer readable medium and a system employing this method.
Patent GB-2545795-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle winch control system and method of controlling a winch
Inventor: JEREMY GREENWOOD
IPC: B66D3/00
Filed: 2013-03-26
Abstract: A control system 110C for a vehicle 100 winch 110 having an electric reluctance winch motor 116, the amount of current drawn by which is controlled to maintain a substantially constant winch line 114 tension. The value of tension may be selected by a user, via a user input device (figure 3). Controller 110C may limit line tension to an upper value. It may also account for changes in diameter of the winch drum as cable is wound, controlling drum speed accordingly. The system may set a maximum rate at which cable can be wound, and said rate may be chosen by a user (figure 3). The system may apply a brake torque to the winch drum, which may effect regenerative braking, and may also limit the rate of increase of torque. Power supply potential may be between 110V and 5kV. The vehicle may be electric or hybrid, may have an inverter unit, an electric traction motor, and a charge storage module, or battery.
Patent GB-2542318-A (GB)
Title: Method for preparing graphene sphere electroconductive adhesive and graphene sphere electroconductive adhesive
Inventor: Yungjui Lee
IPC: H01B1/24
Filed: 2014-08-14
Abstract: Provided are a method for preparing a graphene sphere electroconductive adhesive and the graphene sphere electroconductive adhesive. The method for preparing a graphene sphere electroconductive adhesive comprises the following steps: step 1, providing a monomer, an initiator, a dispersant and a solvent to prepare a monomer mixture, and using the monomer mixture to prepare high molecular microspheres; step 2, heating or plasma-etching the high molecular microspheres; step 3, covering or growing graphene on the surface of or inside the high molecular microspheres pretreated in step 2 by a chemical vapour phase deposition method to prepare a graphene sphere; step 4, weighing an epoxy resin, a curing agent and an accelerant in a certain ratio and mixing and stirring same until uniform dispersion to prepare an epoxy resin adhesive system; step 5, dispersing the graphene microsphere prepared in step 3 into the epoxy resin adhesive system to obtain a graphene sphere electroconductive adhesive pre-material; and step 6, defoaming the graphene sphere electroconductive adhesive pre-material to obtain a graphene sphere electroconductive adhesive.
Patent GB-2552736-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatuses for reconstructing incident energy spectrum for a detector
Inventor: LIANG LI
IPC: G01T1/36
Filed: 2017-05-16
Abstract: A method and scanning apparatus reconstructing an incident energy spectrum for an X-ray or gamma detector. An object to be inspected is illuminated rays and received by the detector to convert into data of a detected energy spectrum. The incident energy spectrum for the detector is reconstructed based on the data of the received energy spectrum using a statistical iterative algorithm with a pre-established detector response function. The response function has characteristic peak and baseline portions and may include an escape peak portion. The response function parameters are calibrated using X-ray fluorescence spectrums from different target materials. The reconstruction method can reduce a distortion of the incident energy spectrum caused by the detector.
Patent GB-2554490-A (GB)
Title: An axial turbine
Inventor: JOHN GRAINGER
IPC: F01D5/03
Filed: 2017-06-12
Abstract: An axial turbine comprising a stationary shaft 8 with stator blades 6, and a rotating outer casing 4 with rotor blades 2, wherein at least one of the stator blades, rotor blades or the outer casing comprises silicon nitride. Preferably the silicon nitride is reaction bonded. Preferably, the outer casing is formed from connecting the outer rings 14 of an axially arranged series of rotor sections 10, each rotor section comprising rotor blades. Preferably, the stationary shaft is formed of connected inner hubs 20 of axially arranged stator sections 12, which comprise stator blades. At least one shroud may be comprised in an inner hub or in an outer ring. Also claimed is a turbine assembly comprising an external sheath (16, fig 3) providing structural support for an axial turbine, wherein the sheath comprises silicon nitride. Preferably, the silicon nitride of the sheath is dense, and may be sn282 or gas-pressure-sintered silicon nitride.
Patent GB-2552279-A (GB)
Title: Combining a high resolution narrow field display and a mid resolution wide field display
Inventor: Mark bradley spitzer
IPC: G06T15/00
Filed: 2016-02-12
Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) includes a first display portion included in the HMD, the first display portion having a first pixel density, a second display portion included in the HMD, the second display portion having the first pixel density, a third display portion attached to the HMD, the third display portion having a second pixel density, and at least one image combiner configured to combine two images by reflecting an image projected by the first display portion and the second display portion and allowing an image projected by the third display portion to pass through the at least one image combiner.
Patent GB-2568709-A (GB)
Title: Load floor for a load space for a vehicle
Inventor: PHILIP IAN JAMIESON
IPC: B62D25/20
Filed: 2017-11-24
Abstract: A load floor for a vehicle load space comprises a first floor section 31 having an engagement member; a second floor section 32 movable relative to first floor section 31, and a connecting floor section 33 between first floor section 31 and second floor section 32. A third floor section 34 may extend from second floor section 32. Second floor section is movable relative to first floor section 31 between a first position and a second position; preferably, this involves pivoting through two spaced pivot axes, each defined by a living hinge. First floor section 31 may be in a fixed orientation when the floor is moved between the first and second positions.
Patent GB-2568902-A (GB)
Title: System for speech evaluation
Inventor: PETER BELL
IPC: G10L15/193
Filed: 2017-11-29
Abstract: A speech recognition/evaluation system refines user-defined text (eg. by removing punctuation) to form base text-units and defines a path (P, fig. 2) traversing the base text-units sequentially, then processes an utterance to generate interpretation text-units for mapping to the base text-units, and calculates an assigned score associated with the traversed path (based on eg. acoustic parameters, accent or pronunciation via a weighted finite state transducer algorithm) to evaluate the speech.
Patent GB-2570118-A (GB)
Title: Storage management methods and systems
Inventor: Metin Gokhan Ünal
IPC: G06T1/60
Filed: 2018-01-10
Abstract: A method for image processing comprising identifying image locations corresponding to a read path 112; generating, from the location data, parameter data relating to a characteristic of the read path within pixel blocks (pixel tiles) in the image (e.g. see surface areas between trajectory 112 and the lower boundaries of each of blocks 114b, 114c, 114b etc); and based on the parameter data assigning different storage prioritisation values to the various blocks (see table 1, p. 14). In this way, blocks with low prioritisation values may be evicted from the cache while blocks more likely to be needed again may be assigned a high priority for retention in the cache. The surface area between the read trajectory and the lower boundary of the block may be calculated by approximation (fig 4). This method may be more efficient than a Least Recently Used (LRU) algorithm. The storage may be a cache memory of an image processing system (GPU etc).
Patent GB-2561086-A (GB)
Title: Marking video media content
Inventor: WILLIAM DEL STROTHER
IPC: H04N21/8358
Filed: 2018-03-28
Abstract: A method of marking video media-content, which comprises a plurality of frames, with a user ID. The method comprises arranging a media-delivery platform to have a plurality of target devices connected thereto and further arranging the media-delivery platform to deliver the video media to a specific target device 802 associated with a particular user identifier. An image is overlaid 810 over at least some frames of the plurality of images as the video media-content is displayed, wherein the watermark encodes the user ID 806 and comprises a plurality of zones (202, 204, Fig. 2), the zones being arranged to encode the user ID and wherein a visual property of the image is arranged to vary within at least some of the zones, The image is arranged such that, when the image is overlaid on the video media content, the image is at least substantially imperceptible to a viewer. The user ID may be obtained by averaging the frames. The variation of a visual feature may be related to texture, noise, transparency or intensity. The method may be used to assign unique user identifiers to multiple viewing devices.