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Patent GB-2562293-A (GB)
Title: Method and system of processing multi-dimensional system models
Inventor: STEPHEN PHILIP GARDNER
IPC: G06N5/04
Filed: 2017-05-11
Abstract: Processing a multi-dimensional system model which describes a system spanned by valid combinations of a plurality of state variables and associated object functions of static constraints on finite domains and/or intervals. The method comprises creating a plurality of clusters, wherein a cluster is a list of at least one state vector, determining a plurality of cluster variables, wherein one cluster variable is associated with one cluster, determining a plurality of cluster relations, wherein one cluster relation represents an association between one cluster variable and at least one of the plurality of state variables of the multi-dimensional system model, and processing the plurality of cluster relations to deduce at least one logical inference pertaining to the system. The at least one state vector comprises external state variables and/or the plurality of state variables of the multi-dimensional system model.
Patent GB-2547605-A (GB)
Title: Rotating superhard cutting element
Inventor: BRADLEY DAVID DUNBAR
IPC: E21B10/573
Filed: 2015-01-26
Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a rotating superhard cutting element. The rotating cutting element includes a substrate comprising a rotating portion and a stable portion. The stable portion has a cavity and is configured to be fixed to a blade of a drill bit. The rotating cutting element further includes a retainer that rotatably secures the rotating portion of the substrate in the cavity of the stable portion of the substrate, and a cutting layer on the rotating portion of the substrate. The cutting layer has a plurality of cutting surfaces. One of the plurality of cutting surfaces has a property different from another one of the plurality of cutting surfaces. The cutting layer is configured to rotate with respect to the stable portion of the substrate and use one of the plurality of cutting surfaces based on a characteristic of a formation to be cut.
Patent GB-2550706-A (GB)
Title: A sports object and system for tracking a sports object
Inventor: BEN MCCARTHY
IPC: G01S5/14
Filed: 2015-01-08
Abstract: A sports object comprises an electronic circuit having a power source and a transmitter and arranged to transmit a signal identifying the sports object. The sports object has an inner core encapsulating the electronic circuit. The inner core is configured such that the inner core and electronic circuit are balanced. There is at least one outer core layer encapsulating the inner core. The sports object is used in a system for providing sports game information. The system comprises the sports object and a portable computing device including a receiver responsive to the signal and a location means for determining the location of the computing device. The computing device records the signal received at two or more different locations and records the location of the computing device at each of the different locations to enable estimation of a location for the sports object identified by the received signal.
Patent GB-2553665-A (GB)
Title: Enhanced steering operation
Inventor: ERIC SHE
IPC: B62D5/30
Filed: 2017-07-28
Abstract: A vehicle power steering system comprises first actuator 14 engaged with a steering rack 34 and a second actuator 16 engaged with a steering column 22, and an operation mode of each is determined. The operation mode of an actuator 14, 16 is adjusted upon detecting a failure in the other actuator 16, 14, so that at least one of rack 34 and column 22 is actuated based on the operation mode. In an angle control mode, a predetermined steering angle is provided to actuators 14, 16 to adjust rack 34 according to the steering angle. In a torque control mode, a steering column torque from a torsion sensor disposed on column 22 is provided to actuators 14 16 to adjust rack 34 according to the steering column torque. Suitably, the torque control mode may be used if first actuator 14 fails, and the angle control mode may be used if second actuator 16 is used or if the steering is operated in a fully autonomous mode.
Patent GB-2565852-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for treating a fluid
Inventor: Kukla Martin Peter
IPC: H05H1/24
Filed: 2017-08-25
Abstract: A method of treating a fluid comprises the steps of: ionising a gas or gas mixture, and subsequently combining the gas or gas mixture into the fluid to introduce hydroxyl radicals into the fluid. The fluid can be a liquid, such as drinking water, wastewater or milk. The gas or gas mixture may contain oxygen, for example air. Apparatus for treating a fluid comprises an ioniser (1, Fig. 1) and gas flow means arranged to cause a gas to flow via the ioniser and into the fluid to be treated thereby introducing hydroxyl radicals into the fluid. The ioniser may be a dielectric barrier discharge device and air may flow from the device via a chamber (7, Fig. 1) to the fluid to be treated. The gas flow means may be a pump, blower or venturi device 9. In a further aspect, a dielectric barrier discharge device comprises a cylindrical dielectric tube 14 housing an electrode (15, Fig. 4), wherein the dielectric tube is surrounded by an electrically conductive sleeve 16. The sleeve is cylindrical over a major part of its length and its inside diameter increases at each opposite end.
Patent GB-2566311-A (GB)
Title: Machine-to-machine mobile health communications device for diabetes remote monitoring
Inventor: ROBERT SHUKRI HABIB ISTEPANIAN
IPC: G16H10/60
Filed: 2017-09-08
Abstract: An integrated machine-to-machine mobile health gateway communications device for diabetes remote monitoring is described. The communications device 30 is connectable to a plurality of different types of glucose meter 20 and the Internet. The device comprises a controller, a first communications interface for connecting to a glucose meter, the glucose meter being one of a plurality of different types of glucose meter to which the first communications interface can connect, and receiving blood glucose measurements from the connected glucose meter, a second communications interface 70 for connecting to the Internet and transmitting the received blood glucose measurements over the Internet to a remote server, a battery, for powering the medical communications device, and a motion sensor. The controller is operable to activate the communications device in response to the motion sensor detecting movement of the communications device. Other embodiments provide for intelligent selection of a communications channel for use by the second communications interface through the use of different communications protocols. In embodiments, the device may also connect to the internet through different first and second communications channels, the second can be selectively used when the first is unable to connect.
Patent GB-2567215-A (GB)
Title: Reconfigurable circuit architecture
Inventor: MBOU EYOLE
IPC: G06F15/78
Filed: 2017-10-06
Abstract: A reconfigurable circuit architecture 400 and a method of reconfiguration thereof with a configurable volatile storage circuit 404 and a non-volatile memory element (NVM) 402 located on a common die 406. The NVM stores bit states for the reconfiguration of the volatile storage circuit. The volatile storage circuit may be implemented using FPGA’s, programmable logic arrays or coarse grained reconfigurable arrays. The NVM elements may be provided in a layer co-located vertically on a die stack, with a layer forming the volatile storage circuit, and the NVM may be located in a metal layer over the layer forming the volatile storage circuit. The stack may be so arranged as to match the footprint of access transistors located below the stack. The NVM elements may be an array or correlated electron switching elements. The circuit may have multiple NVM elements and a configuration power gate for initiating the writing of a state into the configurable circuit, which may be performed multiple times compared to writing a state into the NVM. The NVM may be powered off after writing a state into the volatile storage circuit. The output of the circuit may be connected to a multiplexer for selecting between entries in a look-up table.
Patent GB-2558365-A (GB)
Title: Antenna and method of manufacture thereof
Inventor: BRIAN SCANNELL
IPC: H01Q15/24
Filed: 2017-10-23
Abstract: A polariser arranged about an antennas physical aperture having radiating vanes (3 fig.2) that extend away from the antenna and are oriented obliquely to propagated linearly polarized electromagnetic waves so as to convert the EM waves to circular polarisation. The width of the vanes may vary with distance from the aperture and the distal ends of the vanes may lie on a convex or concavely curved surface. The polarizer may be mounted across a horn (30 fig.10A) or bicone aperture and may contain a hub (2 fig.3) which may physically and electrically isolate the bicone radiating surfaces 5A as well as supporting the cones 5, whilst gap 9 may be dielectric filled. The polarizer may have a second set of vanes of a different size to the first set and may have metallised surfaces in the hub providing the radiating surface of the bicone antenna and be made from a single integral piece defining the vanes and/or a radome. The polarizer and antenna may be manufactured by 3D printing and directly metallising a plastic or dielectric material. The bicone antenna may have four feeds (3 fig.11B) to increase the power handling of the feed structure.
Patent GB-2568755-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in golf mats
Inventor: Kevin James Shelton
IPC: A63B69/36
Filed: 2017-11-28
Abstract: A golf mat comprises an artificial grass surface 1 which is set into a rubber liner 16; these are attached by adhesive means to a planar plastic base 7. The mat base 7 includes a number of protruding forward angled claws 8, which seat into the ground and hold the golf mat in place during play, preventing it from propelling forward or moving in anyway, when a golf ball on the mat surface or a golf tee, is struck by a golf club. Also disclosed is a golf mat having spiked members (6K,8K,10K – figure 12) for engaging the ground.
Patent GB-2560220-A (GB)
Title: Synthetic diamond optical elements
Inventor: ALEXANDER CLARK MUHR
IPC: H01S3/034
Filed: 2017-12-12
Abstract: An optical element comprises a window formed of synthetic diamond material and an optical surface pattern formed directly in a surface of the synthetic diamond material. The window of synthetic diamond material is in the form of a wedged diamond window with non-parallel major surfaces defining a wedge angle in a range 1 arcminute to 10° and the optical surface pattern is formed directly in one or both of the non-parallel major surfaces. The wedge angle may be in a range of 1 arcminute to 5° or 1 arcminute to 60,30,10,8 or 6 arcminutes. A difference in thickness between the thickest and thinnest region of the wedged diamond window may be 30-100 micrometers. A marking may indicate the thickest or thinnest point of the wedged diamond window. The windows thickness at a central point may be 0.8-1.5mm and its diameter may be 20-80mm. The surface pattern(s) may have diameter(s) of 30-70mm and be formed in a central region of the window, surrounded by an unpatterned border. A laser system comprises the optical element and a laser having a coherence length which is greater than twice the thickness of the wedged diamond window at its thickest point.
Patent GB-2569826-A (GB)
Title: Orbital vane pump
Inventor: PAUL BUCKLEY
IPC: F04C2/46
Filed: 2018-01-02
Abstract: A vane pump 10 having a housing 24 with a liner 22 and piston 20, the piston received into the housing, the piston having vanes 261-264, which are sliceable to contact with the liner, one of the vane tips 50 contacting the liner to form a pivot 40 around which it oscillates. The driveshaft 30 may be connected to the piston by an eccentric 32. Each consecutive pair of vanes may form a chamber c1- c4 between them. Each chamber may have an inlet 141-144 and an outlet 161-164, the outlets may be channels which extend to driveshaft from each chamber, to form an intermittent fluid connection with the opening 52 on the driveshaft. The inlets may be kidney shaped. The inlets and outlets may be arranged such that each chamber has the inlet before the outlet opens, it may also be quasi-simultaneous. The vanes may have concave tips 50 where they contact the liner.
Patent GB-2568325-A (GB)
Title: Examining latency in communications networks
Inventor: SIMON TIMOTHY GERARD WOOTTON
IPC: H04L12/26
Filed: 2018-01-25
Abstract: Assessing latency in a cellular network. A user equipment UE (e.g. mobile phone) attempting to contact a specific internet resource (e.g. web/DNS server) using a hyper text transfer protocol HTTP request addressed to the resource. Data specifying the period, which may be a measurement of the duration of the period between making the attempt from the UE and receiving a response from the resource, may be used to assess latency. The period may comprise measuring the period required to perform a DNS look-up, and after any DNS look-up, to perform a HTTP(S) connect operation to the resource. The HTTP request may be one of GET, POST, HEAD, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, CONNECT. The HTTP request may use a POST request method containing a blank data field. The internet resource may respond to the HTTP request with an indication of connection of success, but no content. Using a GET request method, the UE may also terminate a connection established with the resource upon detecting that connection has been established. The data captured may also be reported to another assessing means arranged to collect latency measures from other UEs, determine latency issues in a network and present the information to a user.
Patent GB-2569199-A (GB)
Title: Anti-slip-off sock and knitting method thereof
Inventor: RUIFENG ZHANG
IPC: A41B11/01
Filed: 2018-01-29
Abstract: A sock comprising a toe 11, body 12 and heel 13, the sock having a first knitting structure 21 and a second knitting structure 22 being located proximal to the toe or heel, the first structure comprising a loop-dropping knitted area (A1, fig. 5) and an loop-adding knitted area (B1, fig. 5). In a first aspect the second knitted structure forms a loop-removing area A2 linking to the first loop-adding area B1; in a second aspect the second knitted structure forms a loop-adding area (B2, fig. 9) linking to the first loop-removing area (A1, fig. 9). The first and second areas of the first knitting structure may be different dimensions (figure 7). The arrangement allows an improved angle of bifurcation for larger feet compared to a Y-shaped heel which allows the sock to stay up better. Also claimed is a method of knitting such a sock.
Patent GB-2563498-A (GB)
Title: Insulation Apparatus
Inventor: PAUL ASHTON
IPC: F16L59/12
Filed: 2016-09-30
Abstract: An insulation assembly for a conduit comprises a conduit 12, insulation material 14 which substantially surrounds the conduit, a shell which encases the insulation material, and a support arrangement 18 between the shell and the conduit. The support arrangement maintains a void between the shell and the insulation material, and comprises elongate members 22 extending radially between the shell and the conduit, such that the shell is supported by the conduit. A support portion 28 defining a ring supports the shell, and can feature a first 28a and second 28b part, wherein the ends of each part can overlap those of the other part, and are attached so as to form a joint. The elongate members extend from the ring to the conduit. Methods of installing include fitting the support arrangement to the conduit, fitting the insulation to the conduit and then fitting the shell about the conduit such that there is a void between the shell and the insulation. Where a conduit is supplied with insulation, a kit for installing the shell on the conduit is provided.
Patent GB-2565638-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning A Vehicle Display
Inventor: PAUL KENNETH DELLOCK
IPC: B60W40/08
Filed: 2018-06-27
Abstract: An interior cleaning system 10, stored computer instructions and method are provided for use in a vehicle 12. A display 14 has a screen 16 with a light-sensitive coating 18 and a bezel 20 having a lamp 22 which emits a light frequency to activate the coating 18 and sanitize a screen surface 24. The instructions are executable to determine whether a cabin is occupied; and based on that, to control actuation of the lamp 22. The coating 18 may comprise titanium dioxide and the frequency may be in the ultraviolet (UV) band. The display 14 may be carried by an instrument panel 26 or may be elsewhere such as a center console (28 fig 2). The invention is useful for killing bacteria and viruses which may be on a touch screen for example, whilst minimizing exposure of occupants to UV light.
Patent GB-2567301-A (GB)
Title: Calibration for baking contrast units
Inventor: JEROME J WORKMAN JR
IPC: G01N21/78
Filed: 2018-08-09
Abstract: Calibrating a spectrophotometer 10 for measuring baking contrast units (BCUs) comprising transmitting a range of broadband light (e.g. obtained using band-pass filter 53 in filter wheel 50) through a sample reflection pathway 40 in the spectrophotometer; detecting 60 a reference sample value based on a reflection through the sample reflection pathway of the range of the broadband light off a BCU reference standard 85; calculating, with processing circuitry 70, a reflectance ratio value based on a ratio of the reference sample value and a reference reflectance value; and calibrating, with the processing circuitry, the spectrophotometer for measuring BCUs based on the reflectance ratio value and a known BCU value for the BCU reference standard. The reference sample value and the reference reflectance value may be corrected for measurement drift over time.
Patent GB-2576555-A (GB)
Title: Mobile network operator selection
Inventor: RUTH BROWN
IPC: H04W48/18
Filed: 2018-08-23
Abstract: A radio access network (RAN), which is shared by multiple mobile network operators (MNOs), receives a network communication, such as a network session, from a wireless device. An MNO for the communication is then selected based on network characteristics. The network characteristics may be determined by interrogating the networks of the respective MNOs, and may relate to quality of experience (QoE), quality of service (QoS), the availability of network slices or properties of the core network. The MNO may also be selected based on the type of network communication and used for the entire session. Multiple network characteristics may also be considered, and weighted or ranked according to their importance to the type of communication. The MNOs may be virtual network operators. The wireless device may first register with its default MNO, and an optimal MNO may be identified by the access point. The RAN-share agreement may be a multi-operator core network (MOCN) arrangement.
Patent GB-2580291-A (GB)
Title: A platform
Inventor: SIMON EWERS
IPC: E04G5/08
Filed: 2018-10-30
Abstract: A platform 1 comprising a pair of elongate stiles 2a, 2b, at least one cross bar 30 arranged between the stiles and a connector 20 provided at an end of the cross bar. One of the connector or a stile comprises at least one protrusion 25a, receivable in a groove 9a in the other of the stile and connector. Further provided is a locking member 40 to secure the cross bar to the stile and a deck panel (50, fig 5) arranged on the cross bars. The connector may comprise two rails 25a, 25b, and the stile may comprise two grooves 9a, 9b. Preferably provided is a lip 10, with the locking member being a rivet securable through the lip, deck panel, the cross bar and the connector. Further disclosed is a method of assembling the platform.
Patent GB-2578761-A (GB)
Title: A collapsible locker
Inventor: DAVID ANDREW WILSON
IPC: A47B45/00
Filed: 2018-11-07
Abstract: A storage container having a collapsible concertina portion 2 extending between two substantially rigid end caps 5,6. One end cap has a mouth 12 for receiving items, and there is a lid (14, figure 4) to cover the mouth. The concertina portion defines a storage volume 7 when expanded. The collapsible region may have telescopic sections (figures 3a,b). There may be rigid screen wall panels (26, figure 8) that slot into a groove 24 in an end cap to support the compactable portion in the expanded configuration. The lid, screen panels and end caps may be hollow to receive ballast, such as a liquid or sand. There may be a rigid collar 22 around the pleated portion, in between the two rigid ends. The end caps, collar and lid may be constructed from water resistant plastic. The collapsible trunk may have cup holders, phone holders and detachable wheels, and may receive a sun umbrella. The container may have holes 23 for locking to another object as a means of anchorage to prevent theft. The storage container may be used to safely store valuables, for example at a festival or whilst camping.
Patent GB-2580437-A (GB)
Title: Nasal device
Inventor: YOSHIAKI AKIHIRO
IPC: A61F5/56
Filed: 2019-01-31
Abstract: A nasal dilation device 1 adapted for insertion within a human nasal cavity or nostril, the device comprising at least one tubular body 5R, 5L provided with a hollow structure (6, Fig 2) and extending between front and rear open ends. A pressing portion 12 is located at the rear end (3a, Fig 2) of the body 5R, 5L, the pressing portion 12 being moveable sideways between a position in which it protrudes from the main body 5R, 5L (Fig 2) and an overlapping position, wherein, when viewed from above, the pressing potion 12 overlaps the hollow structure 6 of the body 5R, 5L. The body is preferably formed from three interconnected walls; first and second walls 31, 32 connected at one end and extending at substantially right angles to one another and a third wall 33 connecting the other ends of the of the first and second walls 31, 32. In such an arrangement the pressing portion 12 preferably protrudes from the upper end of the first and second walls 31, 32.
Patent GB-2581813-A (GB)
Title: Insulated formwork structure and method of construction
Inventor: SIMON HACKETT
IPC: E04B5/08
Filed: 2019-02-27
Abstract: The insulated formwork structure 10 comprises: a structure base and a number of wall sections 12. The structure base 14 includes a number of linear wall positions. The wall sections are installable on the perimeter of the base the, sections associated with the wall positions. Each wall section includes two layers, at least one of which is insulating, with a number of rail members in between to define a cavity. Between a pair of wall sections at a corner the cavities are in fluid communication. Also claimed is a wall section with a non linear cavity. Also claimed is a wall section with an outer covering or reinforcing outer layer. The fluid communication allows concrete or expandable foam into a contiguous structure cavity. The base may comprise a series of interlocking slab sections.