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Patent GB-2588370-A (GB)
Title: Sensor apparatus
Inventor: LAWRENCE LAWSON MCALLISTER
IPC: E21B47/01
Filed: 2019-09-19
Abstract: Sensor apparatus for locating at a downhole position in a well. The sensor apparatus has an electronics module 2 and a battery 5 provided in a housing 1, the electronics module 2including: a logging memory; and an electrical contact 3 for contact with the battery 5 when the sensor apparatus is located at the downhole position in the well. The sensor apparatus has one or more sensors configured to generate sensor data. When the battery 5 is provided in the housing, a first electrical circuit is formed including the battery 5, the electrical contact 3 and the logging memory. When the electronics module 2 is powered by the battery 5 via the electrical contact 3, it is configured to store the sensor data in the logging memory. The electronics module 2 is electrically connected to an interrogation device to output the sensor data stored in the logging memory to the interrogation device.
Patent GB-2580738-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to well abandonment
Inventor: LARS KRISTIAN KRISTIANSEN
IPC: E21B33/00
Filed: 2019-09-24
Abstract: A method to break a sealing contact between a casing and material in the annulus behind the casing 12 in a wellbore 10, comprising running a cement bond breaker tool 30 into the casing, operating the bond breaker to act against the casings inner surface, running a cutter tool 34 into the casing and penetrating the casing with the cutter tool to form an aperture 60 in the casing. The bond breaker may be a shock wave generator 31 or casing expander used to elastically deform the casing. The cutter tool may take the form of a perforating tool, punching tool, casing cutter, section mill, abrasive cutter or pipe cutter and act to perforate or form a circumferential slot resulting in a cut casing section. The aperture may be used to circulate fluid to look for fluid return at the surface, to wash the annulus removing material or to pump plugging material into the annulus. The cutting and bond breaker tool may be run in on the same string enabling simultaneous operation. The string may include a jack, spear, anchor, jetting tool, washing tool or bridge plug.
Patent GB-2588200-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for determining the age of a haematoma
Inventor: LISE LYNGSNES RANDEBERG
IPC: A61B5/103
Filed: 2019-10-15
Abstract: Provided is a method wherein the colour of a first area in a haematoma 111 is determined and compared with a simulated colour to determine the first area’s haemoglobin and bilirubin concentrations which are in turn used to determine the age of the haematoma. The method may comprise the use of a calibration card 123 and may comprise colour data from a second, unaffected, area 110. The age may be determined by comparing the ratio of haemoglobin and bilirubin concentrations in the haematoma. The method may further comprise determining the ratio of oxygenated to non-oxygenated blood in the haematoma and may comprise determining the type of trauma resulting in the haematoma. Also provided is a computing device for carrying out said method and a storage medium comprising computer-readable instructions which are executed on a processor to carry out said method.
Patent GB-2588249-A (GB)
Title: Allograft tolerance without the need for systemic immune suppression
Inventor: ANDRAS NAGY
IPC: C12N15/85
Filed: 2018-06-12
Abstract: A cell genetically modified to comprise at least one mechanism for providing a local immunosuppression at a transplant site when transplanted in an allogeneic host, and methods for making and using the same are provided. The cell comprises a set of transgenes, each transgene encoding a gene product that is cytoplasmic, membrane bound, or local acting, and whose function is one or more of: to mitigate antigen presenting cell activation and function; to mitigate graft attacking leukocyte activity or cytolytic function; to mitigate macrophage cytolytic function and phagocytosis of allograft cells; to induce apoptosis in graft attacking leukocytes; to mitigate local inflammatory proteins; and to protect against leukocyte-mediated apoptosis. The transgenes comprise two or more of the following genes: PD-L 1, HLAG or H2-M3, Cd47, Cd200, FASLG or Fasl, Ccl21 or Ccl21b, Mfge8, and Serpin B9 or Spi6.
Patent GB-2592069-A (GB)
Title: Address calculating instruction
Inventor: LEE DOUGLAS SMITH
IPC: G06F9/46
Filed: 2020-02-17
Abstract: An apparatus 2 has processing circuitry 16; an instruction decoder 10; and capability registers 60, each capability register to store a capability comprising a pointer 62 and constraint metadata 64 for constraining valid use of the pointer/capability. In response to a capability-generating address calculating instruction 310 specifying an offset value 312 a reference capability register is selected as one of a program counter capability register and a further capability register. A result capability is generated for which the pointer of the result capability indicates a window address identifying a selected window within an address space, the selected window being offset from a reference window by a number of windows determined based on the offset value of the capability-generating address calculating instruction. The reference window comprises the window comprising an address indicated by the pointer of the reference capability register.
Patent GB-2580235-A (GB)
Title: Orifice plates
Inventor: PAUL VAN BUSKIRK
IPC: G01F1/42
Filed: 2014-09-23
Abstract: Provided is an orifice plate 100 for modifying the flow of fluid through a conduit. The plate 100 has at least two through-holes 102, which may have inlets/outlets with blunt, knife, bevelled, or contoured edges. The holes 102 are positioned on the plate 100 such that they satisfy the following equations: K ρ A VN = constant and ΔP = k ρ Vn / 2 GC In one embodiment, the hole inlet diameters are identical, the hole outlet diameters are identical, and N = 0. N > 0 and N < 0 in two other respective embodiments. Also provided is a method of using at least two of these plates 100, which involves placing two plates 100, 100 in series; rotating one plate 100 so that its openings 102 are out of phase with the openings 102 of the other plate 100; and installing this arrangement between two portions of a conduit.
Patent GB-2587681-A (GB)
Title: Systems, arrangements, Structures and methods for aircraft
Inventor: KAMRAN IQBAL
IPC: B64D41/00
Filed: 2020-03-11
Abstract: According to the present disclosure there is provided an electrical power management system for managing the level of an energy storage device 554 installed in an aircraft. The system comprises a receiver 556 which receives second flight information relating to a second flight, the second flight subsequent to a first flight, and a processor 558 which processes the second flight information to determine a target level of the energy storage device suitable for use in the second flight. The system is arranged to manage the level of the energy storage device during the first flight to achieve the target level at a target time in the first flight. The level may be a charge level of the energy storage device, for instance a battery pack. The second flight information may relate to a take-off phase and/or initial climb of the second flight.
Patent GB-2595231-A (GB)
Title: Wearable air purifier
Inventor: DUNCAN JACK PATTULLO
IPC: A62B18/02
Filed: 2020-05-18
Abstract: A wearable air purifier comprising a headgear; an air purifier assembly, the air purifier assembly configured to generate a filtered airflow from an outlet aperture 43 thereof; and a nozzle assembly 100. The nozzle assembly is connected to the headgear by a hinge assembly 116. The nozzle assembly comprising an inlet aperture for receiving the filtered airflow from the outlet aperture of the air purifier assembly and an air outlet for emitting the filtered airflow from the nozzle assembly. The hinge assembly is configured such that the nozzle assembly is movable relative to the headgear between first and second configurations, filtered airflow is emitted from the air outlet in the first configuration and filtered airflow is not emitted from the air outlet in the second configuration. A wearable air purifier is also provided in which the nozzle assembly is rotatably connected to headgear by a hinge assembly and comprises a releasable detent 118 that inhibits rotation of the nozzle assembly relative to the headgear until the detent is released.
Patent GB-2595897-A (GB)
Title: Method of determining engine torque
Inventor: BART SCHREURS
IPC: G01M15/04
Filed: 2020-06-10
Abstract: A method of controlling a vehicle engine, eg for engine safety monitoring (ESM), comprises estimating a value for the actual engine torque, comparing this with a further calculated (expected) torque value. The value for the actual engine torque is determined by (a) from a crankshaft signal, providing a plot or signal indicative of instantaneous crankshaft speed; (b) differentiating the crankshaft speed plot or signal with respect to time to determine acceleration values; (c) within a crankshaft/time interval, determining a maximum and a minimum acceleration value; (d) determining the difference between the maximum and minimum acceleration values, and (e) determining a torque value dependent on the difference. The output torque of the engine may be reduced, or the engine disabled, if the actual engine torque differs from the further calculated (expected) torque by more than a threshold.
Patent GB-2587711-A (GB)
Title: Hex driver
Inventor: BENJAMIN T SCHULZ
IPC: B25B15/00
Filed: 2019-08-27
Abstract: A male tool with rounded corners comprising a generally hexagonal body portion having first 104a and second 104b corners and a sidewall 106a extending between these two corners. The sidewall includes a first straight portion 108a extending from the first corner, a first curved portion 110a extending from the first straight portion, a second curved portion 112a extending from the first curved portion, a straight across flat 114 extending from the second curved portion, a third curved portion 112b extending from the straight across flat, a fourth curved portion 110b extending from the third curved portion and a second straight portion 108b extending from the fourth curved portion to the second corner 104b. The first and fourth curved portions may have a first blend radii. The second and third curved portions may have a second blend radius different than the first blend radius. The straight across flat be recessed with respect to the first and second straight portions. The first straight portion may be disposed at about 62-68 degrees with respect to the centre of a first corner. The first and second curved portions may curve in different directions.
Patent GB-2593585-A (GB)
Title: Diamond lens
Inventor: ANDREW MICHAEL BENNETT
IPC: G02B13/14
Filed: 2021-02-03
Abstract: A diamond lens is configured for use in a multispectral imaging system. The diamond lens has a largest linear dimension of at least 10 mm and is formed from diamond material having a birefringence Δn of greater than 1x10-4, measured over a specified area of at least 4 mm by 4 mm through a maximum thickness of at least 400 μm. A diamond lens is also made of single crystal diamond material having Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM) X-ray rocking curve width of greater than 20 arc seconds. The single crystal diamond material may be obtained by one of a tiling growth method and a heteroepitaxial growth method. The lens may be a Fresnel lens.
Patent GB-2588741-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods of element scrambling for compensation and calibration of analog-to-digital converter feedback
Inventor: JOHN L MELANSON
IPC: H03M1/66
Filed: 2015-06-17
Abstract: The disclosed apparatus includes a scrambler element configured to receive an input signal and generate a scrambled thermometer code-like signal having a plurality of bits based on the input signal and having a plurality of possible quantization values. The scrambler element generates at least one equivalent code of the scrambled thermometer code-like signal for each possible quantization value. For each of one or more of the possible quantization values, the scrambler element may be configured to generate a plurality of possible equivalent codes of the scrambled thermometer code-like signal. Responsive to the input signal, the scrambler element may cause the transition, on average over many cycles, of two bits of the scrambled thermometer code-like signal per cycle.
Patent GB-2591685-A (GB)
Title: Electric motor for an axle assembly
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER G BAILLIE
IPC: H02K9/19
Filed: 2019-09-27
Abstract: An electric motor for use in an axle assembly. The electric motor includes a stator having a stator core, and a rotor adapted for rotation about a rotor axis within the stator core. The stator includes a series of conductive windings that are disposed about the stator core. The windings are wound in a direction generally parallel to the rotor axis and protrude from first and second ends of the stator core. The stator core is formed to include a plurality of longitudinal passageways that are radially arranged about the stator core and are adapted to permit the flow of a cooling fluid through the passageways. The passageways of the stator core extend longitudinally through the stator core and are positioned between the windings such that heat generated by the windings is transferred to the cooling fluid to remove heat from the windings. The motor also includes a metering ring coupled to a first end of the stator core and a discharge ring coupled to a second end of the stator core. The rings are adapted to direct the flow of cooling fluid through the passageways of the stator core to remove heat from the windings generated by operation of the electric motor.
Patent GB-2598476-A (GB)
Title: Accessible wellbore devices
Inventor: MARK S HOLLY
IPC: E21B47/01
Filed: 2019-03-29
Abstract: A wellbore assembly for use downhole in a wellbore may include a casing string comprising a mandrel. The mandrel may include a side pocket in an inner region of the mandrel. A downhole device may be positioned within the side pocket of the mandrel. The downhole device may include an electronics package, a power source, and a transmitter for transmitting data from the downhole device via a wireless communications link to a downhole tool for transmitting the data to a surface of the wellbore for monitoring a downhole environment of the wellbore.
Patent GB-2598254-A (GB)
Title: Reductant deposit detection using a radiofrequency sensor
Inventor: SRIRAM SRINIVASAN
IPC: F01N13/00
Filed: 2018-06-25
Abstract: An aftertreatment system 302 comprises a doser 314 coupled to a decomposition reactor tube 312 to dose reductant into exhaust gas within the decomposition reactor tube. A first radiofrequency device 324 coupled to the decomposition reactor tube comprises a first radiofrequency communicator 328 configured to transmit a radiofrequency signal from within the decomposition reactor tube. A second radiofrequency device 326 coupled to the decomposition reactor tube comprises a second radiofrequency communicator 330 configured to receive the radiofrequency signal from within the decomposition reactor tube. A controller 332 determines an amount of reductant deposits within the decomposition reactor tube based on the radiofrequency signal received by the second radiofrequency communicator. The controller may activate a deposit mitigation process if the amount of reductant deposits is greater than a deposit formation threshold. The radiofrequency communicators may be transceivers.
Patent GB-2613382-A (GB)
Title: Drive arrangements
Inventor: MARTYN INGLETON
IPC: B64C13/28
Filed: 2021-12-02
Abstract: A drive arrangement 401 for manipulating a vehicle control surface, comprises a first drive 403, a second drive 453, an output member 409 for connecting to the vehicle control surface, and first and second engaging means for selectively engaging and disengaging the first and second drives respectively with the output member, the first engaging means comprising a first epicyclic gearbox 433. At least one actuator 421 may simultaneously cause the first engaging means to disengage the first drive and the second engaging means to engage the second drive. A rocker 439 may radially move a friction material 437 to a first ring gear 434 of the epicyclic gearbox to constrain its movement. The second drive may comprise a second epicyclic gearbox 457 with a second arm 459 configured to bring a friction material 458 into contact with a second ring gear 454. The first and second ring gears may be rotatably mounted on bearings 435, 452. The epicyclic gearbox may comprise an additional gearing arrangement. The first and second drives may be mechanically grounded.
Patent GB-2609687-A (GB)
Title: Virtual reality footwear locomotion system
Inventor: ASHLEY MARTIN FOXCROFT
IPC: G06F3/01
Filed: 2022-02-28
Abstract: A footwear assembly for use in a virtual reality environment comprising a front platform portion 20 and a rear platform portion 18 the platforms both having an upper surface that support and releasably retaining a front and rear part of the user’s foot respectively. The front and rear platform portions being joined by a transverse hinge 22 so that the platform portions can pivot relative to one another in the longitudinal plane to accommodate flexing of the users foot, in which each platform portion has mounted under a lower surface thereof two drive motors (34 figure 3a), each drive motor driving a continuous belt (32a, 32b figure 3a), the two continuous belts on each platform portion being arranged substantially in parallel, one located to each side of the platform portion. The belts and motors may be mounted to a drive module such that they can be rotated relative to the front and rear platforms.
Patent GB-2617069-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for matching vehicles
Inventor: BHRAMAR CHOUDHARY
IPC: G01C21/34
Filed: 2022-03-28
Abstract: The vehicle matching system 1 is configured to match a pair of vehicles Vn to perform vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) charging. The vehicles Vn are road vehicles, such as automobiles. A charging location CCL is identified for connecting the two vehicles and a first cost wP1 is determined for the first vehicle to travel from its present location to the charging location. The controller matches the first and second vehicles in dependence on the first cost. Preferably the second cost wP2, SoC of the two batteries and intended destinations of the two vehicles are also taken into account. A plurality of candidate charging locations may be identified.
Patent GB-2617863-A (GB)
Title: Ice and snow landscape building with transparent air-inflated membrane as shaping and supporting
Inventor: ZHAOQING CHEN
IPC: E04B1/34
Filed: 2022-04-27
Abstract: An ice and snow building supported by a transparent air-inflated membrane 1. The ice and snow building comprises an air-inflated membrane body, a shell ice layer 2, a ring beam foundation 3, a closed rotating door 4, a temperature control device 5, an internal pressure regulation and control device 6, and a lighting control device 7. The air-inflated membrane body includes a plurality of groups of membrane sheet units, spliced into a free-form surface structure with pre-set shaping by cutting analysis. A bottom periphery of the air-inflated membrane body is fixedly and sealingly connected to the ring beam foundation. The shell ice layer is formed on the outer side of the air-inflated membrane body by spraying. The closed rotating door is fixedly installed at the bottom of the air-inflated membrane body. The temperature control device and the lighting control device are fixed inside the air-inflated membrane body, and the internal pressure regulation and control device is fixedly connected to the bottom of the air-inflated membrane body. The temperature control device, the internal pressure regulation and control device and the lighting control device are electrically connected to an external power system.
Patent GB-2607217-A (GB)
Title: Plumbing fitting
Inventor: ADRIAN DAVID BRISTOW
IPC: F16L37/091
Filed: 2019-05-21
Abstract: Plumbing fitting 310 comprising a pipe socket 314 for receiving the free end of a pipe, and a grab ring comprising teeth extending from an annular body, with a mechanism for moving the grab ring from an active state where the teeth engage a pipe and a passive state where the teeth are disengaged from the pipe, the grab ring forming part of a sub-assembly associated with the socket and comprising a housing which supports the grab ring within it, the housing being fixed against rotation relative to the socket, the mechanism comprising a release member 144 movable in an axial direction between first and second positions to move the grab ring from the active to passive states. The grab ring is supported in a housing of a sub-assembly associated with the socket, the housing defining a circumferential shoulder 146 which interacts with a circumferential lip 147 on the release member to retain the release member axially. A locking mechanism comprising serrations 382 which inter-engage with protrusions 384 on the housing may fix, lock or prevent rotation of the housing. The release member may comprise a ramped cam surface which is acted on by a driver.
Patent GB-2619983-A (GB)
Title: Waste disposal receptacle
Inventor: STUART PERRY
IPC: B65F1/00
Filed: 2022-08-03
Abstract: A waste receptacle (100, fig 1) comprises a frame 102 and a flexible container 106 attached to the frame 102. The flexible container 106 defines a volume for receiving waste and may be a net. The flexible container 106 has a mouth 144, a net base 146, and is tapered from the mouth to the base. The frame 102 may include a triangular frame base 118 and two uprights 126 and 128 extending from a first and second vertex of the triangular base. The waste receptacle (100, fig 1) may comprise a removable mouth frame 104 where the mouth 144 of the net 106 is attached to hold the net 106 open. In use, the mouth frame 104 may be attached to the frame 102 at a non-zero angle between the horizontal and vertical. The mouth frame 104 may comprise an annular portion and a pair of lugs 140 and 142 that engage with slots (134, fig 3) in the frame 102. The net base 146 may be attached to a third vertex of the triangular frame base 118 to hold the volume open.
Patent GB-2609865-A (GB)
Title: High-performance permanent magnet motor with controllable magnetic field in variable operating conditions, and flux orientation design method and leakage flux
Inventor: XIAOYONG ZHU
IPC: H02K1/276
Filed: 2022-01-07
Abstract: A high-performance permanent magnet motor with a controllable magnetic field, comprising a stator and a rotor fixed to a rotation shaft. The stator comprises a stator core 1 and a stator winding 2. The core comprises armature teeth 1-1, a yoke, and slots between the teeth. The winding is a distributed integral slot winding and is wound on the armature teeth. The rotor comprises asymmetrical units, comprising leakage flux units 3 and torque units 4 that are alternately disposed. The leakage flux units of the rotor comprise a leakage flux magnetic bridge (fig 2, 3-4), a magnetic isolation magnetic barrier (fig 2, 3-5), and leakage flux magnetic steel, where the leakage flux magnetic bridge is located between the leakage flux magnetic steel and the air gap, and the magnetic isolation magnetic barrier is located between the leakage flux magnetic steel and the rotation shaft. The torque unit comprises a magnetic isolation magnetic barrier (fig 2, 4-4), a magnetic isolation magnetic barrier (fig 2, 4-3), and torque magnetic steel, where the magnetic isolation magnetic barrier is located between the torque magnetic steel and the rotation shaft, and the magnetic isolation magnetic barrier is located between the torque magnetic steel and the air gap. The leakage flux magnetic steel and the torque magnetic steel comprise permanent magnet arrangements.