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Patent GB-2549348-A (GB)
Title: An automated contact cleaning system for docking stations
Inventor: Mark Howe
IPC: H04M1/725
Filed: 2016-09-02
Abstract: A docking station for electronic devices, comprising: a receiver 60 for receiving an electronic device; a base 70; a piston 80; the piston having a plunger and an air/gas chamber 82, the piston being mounted to the base; the receiver being mounted on an exterior top portion of the piston plunger, such that pushing the receiver in a downward direction forces the plunger to compress air in the air chamber; at least one (gas jet) nozzle; the nozzle having a nozzle body and a spray tip, the nozzle being mounted in proximity to the a bottom portion of the air chamber and extending into the air chamber; electrical contacts on the base for connecting to the electronic device, the electrical contacts being positioned directly under the receiver, such that a port on the electronic device will contact the electrical contacts when the receiver is pushed in the downward direction; and the spray tip of the nozzle being directed towards the electrical contacts, whereby the spray tip directs air/gas over the electrical contacts when the receiver is pushed in a downward direction. Aspects include an automated contact cleaning device on a docking station for electronic devices
Patent GB-2539593-A (GB)
Title: Hydrophone response compensation filter derivation, design and application
Inventor: Miller Lee Bell
IPC: G01V1/36
Filed: 2015-03-10
Abstract: A method to derive, design and apply digital signal filters to compensate for variations in hydrophone sensitivity. The impedance or resonance of a hydrophone is measured and compared respectively to the impedance or resonance values from a library of hydrophone responses containing values for impedance, resonance, amplitude sensitivity, phase response, or other hydrophone characteristics. A corrective filter is determined based on library values, and this filter is applied to the data collected by the hydrophone.
Patent GB-2556918-A (GB)
Title: Exhaust manifold slip joint
Inventor: JAMES EDWARD SMITH
IPC: F16L27/00
Filed: 2016-11-25
Abstract: An exhaust manifold slip joint 10 for forming a permanent gas-tight seal between portions of an exhaust manifold 100, eg of an i.c. engine, comprises a first pipe portion 12 having a male coupling part 16 insertable into a female coupling part 18 of a second pipe portion 14. An exhaust gas leakage path 22 is provided at the section 24 where the male and female coupling parts overlap. A plurality of ridges 26 are provided on the male or female part at the overlapping section 24 to trap particulate matter thus forming a combustion seal. In a modification, an annular flange (56, fig.3) is provided on the first pipe portion 12 supporting a seal ring (58) which extends over the outlet 52 of the leakage path 22.
Patent GB-2547086-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for using analytical/statistical modeling for continued process verification (CPV)
Inventor: ZUWEI JIN
IPC: G05B19/418
Filed: 2016-12-14
Abstract: Distribution characteristics of parameters used in a previously run batch are collected and assigned a quality value at step 402. This historic batch dataset is received by a continued process verification (CPV) server step 404. A plurality of batch datasets are simulated at 406, the number of simulated batch datasets corresponds to a predetermined batch data set threshold. A quality value or prediction is assigned to each simulated batch dataset. At 408 a statistical or analytical model is generated using the historic batch dataset and simulated batch datasets. The statistical model is used to monitor the manufacture of subsequent batches, applying corrective actions or measures 414,416 where necessary to ensure the batch products comply with a threshold quality.
Patent GB-2559177-A (GB)
Title: A component for a gas turbine engine
Inventor: STEFAN WAGNER
IPC: F04D29/38
Filed: 2017-01-30
Abstract: A component 100 for a gas turbine engine comprises first 22 and second 24 opposing aerodynamic surfaces with a trailing edge surface 36 therebetween. The trailing edge surface forms a tapered trailing edge section 35 of the component and the trailing edge surface is provided with one or more cooling openings 38 for ejecting a cooling fluid flow. The cooling openings may be defined by a bore with an axis oblique to the trailing edge surface, and the cooling holes may be provided adjacent a trailing edge of the component. An internal angle may be formed between a pressure surface and the trailing edge surface, and the angel may be between 160 and 175 degrees. The trailing edge surface may be straight, concave or S-Shaped in cross section in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the component. Also claimed is a gas turbine engine comprising the component as described. The object of the invention is to prevent blockage of cooling holes and limit disruption of aerodynamic flow over a blade.
Patent GB-2558324-A (GB)
Title: Power control circuit assembly for an electric door latch mechanism
Inventor: DAVID CORBIN
IPC: H02J9/06
Filed: 2015-09-02
Abstract: A method of operating a power control circuit for powering a door latch mechanism wherein the circuit includes both DC input power supply and a rechargeable energy storage device, e.g. rechargeable battery, for powering the door latch mechanism. The method comprising determining whether a voltage supplied by the battery drops below a threshold voltage; determining the length of time since the battery was last recharged; then charging the battery if the time since last recharge was above a preselected length of time; and interpreting a failure of the rechargeable battery if the time since the previous recharge is below the preselected length of time. Preferably an alarm signal is initialised upon failure of the battery. The door latch is normally powered by the rechargeable battery and preferably switched to be powered by DC input power if the battery fails, e.g. can no longer retain charge when the battery may need replacing.
Patent GB-2562240-A (GB)
Title: A winding device
Inventor: ARTHUR LESLIE TOMLINSON
IPC: B65H75/48
Filed: 2017-05-07
Abstract: A winding device (1) for a flexible cable. The device comprises a housing (10), a cable winding spool (17) mounted within the housing and rotatable about an axis, an opening (16) formed through the housing to allow a cable to be wound on the spool, a spring (37, fig 6) applying torque to the spool in a cable-winding sense, and a locking mechanism (41, fig 7) configured to restrain rotation of the spool under the action of the spring in a cable-winding sense. The locking mechanism comprises a locking member (42, fig 3) movably mounted within the housing between an engaged position in which the locking member is in locking engagement with the spool and prevents rotation of the spool, and a release position in which the locking member is out of engagement with the spool. The locking mechanism further comprises a biasing member (39, fig 3) configured to bias the locking member into the engaged position. The locking member is moveable in a first range of motion in an axial direction of the spool between the engaged position and the release position and a second range of motion in the rotational direction of the spool between a first position in which axial movement of the locking member into the release position is restricted and a second position in which axial movement of the locking member into the release position is permitted.
Patent GB-2547376-A (GB)
Title: Low-cost driver circuit with improved power factor
Inventor: TIMOTHY CHEN
IPC: H02M3/325
Filed: 2016-01-06
Abstract: A driver circuit for powering a load is disclosed. The driver circuit includes an input for receiving for connection to a source of AC power, and a rectifier for converting the AC power from the input into DC power. The driver circuit also include a voltage bus filter, a high-frequency oscillator for generating a high-frequency AC signal, a resonant driver, a feedback circuit, and a high-frequency DC rectifier. The voltage bus filter smoothens the DC power from the rectifier, and includes at least one capacitor. The resonant driver is in electrical communication with the high-frequency oscillator, and limits a current of the high-frequency AC signal and produces a limited output voltage based on the high-frequency AC signal. The feedback circuit is in electrical communication with the resonant driver and the voltage bus filter, and maintains a charge on the capacitor of the voltage bus filter.
Patent GB-2554787-A (GB)
Title: Systems, methods, and devices for rendering in-vehicle media content based on vehicle sensor data
Inventor: CASEY BRYAN FELDMAN
IPC: H04N21/414
Filed: 2017-07-20
Abstract: Vehicle sensors are used to generate vehicle information concerning the environment and/or status of the vehicle which is provided to a media content provider (such as DVD player mobile computing device or any other source of content.) The content provider provides content for rendering on the media system of the vehicle, said content being configured for rendering based on the vehicle information obtained from the vehicle sensors. The invention enables content to be rendered in the vehicle based on real time information obtained from on board vehicle sensors such as cameras, light sensors, LIDAR & RADAR systems, positioning systems, accelerometers, rains sensors etc.) The media system may include a Heads-up display (HUD) which enables content to be displayed upon a transparent or reflective surface of the vehicle (for example on the vehicle windscreen.)
Patent GB-2554822-A (GB)
Title: Intelligent multimedia playback re-positioning
Inventor: VIRENDRA SINGH
IPC: H04N21/2387
Filed: 2016-05-05
Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media may facilitate the repositioning of content based upon scene boundaries. In embodiments, content may be automatically repositioned at a scene boundary, so that the content presentation starts from a more meaningful and sensible point after a re-position (e.g., time-shift, trickplay, seek, etc.). Also provided herein is an approach to provide an option for the user to start playback of content from an absolute time based repositioned point or a scene based repositioned point. Scene change detection may be used to detect scene changes within a piece of multimedia content as the content is being received, played, or recorded by a device. Scene changes within a piece of content may be identified using scene meta-data created on a per content basis, wherein the meta-data includes the starting frame offset of each scene along with the duration of the scene.
Patent GB-2571116-A (GB)
Title: A flow stabiliser
Inventor: NICHOLAS J P WIRTH
IPC: F25D17/08
Filed: 2018-02-16
Abstract: A flow stabiliser assembly for stabilising an air curtain flowing across an open front of a refrigerated display case comprising a shelf mount 102, a flow stabiliser 105 and an extension mechanism 130 which extends between the shelf mount 102 and the flow stabiliser 105 wherein the extension mechanism 130 is configured to guide the flow stabiliser 105 to translate and rotate relative to the shelf mount 102 between retracted and extended configurations. The movement may be provided by a pair of pins moving in a slot with locking positions or there may be a linear extension part which can slide. An actuator may be provided to drive movement of the stabiliser 105 in response to a change in the angle of a shelf. The device is designed to counteract tilting of a shelf to maintain alignment of the flow stabiliser.
Patent GB-2575056-A (GB)
Title: Curable compositions comprising filled multistage polymers
Inventor: RONALD MAARTEN POLS
IPC: C08L33/12
Filed: 2018-06-27
Abstract: A curable composition comprising component [a] one or more multistage polymers; [b] one or more (meth)acrylic polymers (P1) different from (meth)acrylic polymer/s present in [a]; [c] one or more polymerising organic substances; [d] one or more photoinitiators; and [e] a reinforcing filler, such as carbon fibres. The composition is curable by, for example, exposure to radiation to form useful articles such as three-dimensionally printed objects. Also disclosed is a method of making a cured article using the curable composition. The multistage polymer is effective to toughen and impact modify cured articles, yet the compositions prior to curing are relatively low in viscosity and agglomerate content even at high loadings of multistage polymer.
Patent GB-2562195-A (GB)
Title: Ceiling Luminaire
Inventor: MICHAEL ALLCOCK
IPC: F21V21/088
Filed: 2018-08-29
Abstract: A ceiling luminaire comprises an elongate body 10 and means (20, Fig. 2A) for removably attaching the elongate body 10 to a T-bar 40 of a suspended ceiling of a room. The elongate body 10 is suspended at an underside of the T-bar 40 and a lighting arrangement is included for illuminating the room. The means 20 comprises a clip or fastener having a pair of outwardly extending arms 24, 26 that grip opposing ledges 11, 12 defining an opening 13 on the elongate body 10.
Patent GB-2565683-A (GB)
Title: System for determining airway patency
Inventor: MATTHEW JON PAYTON
IPC: A61B5/087
Filed: 2017-04-28
Abstract: This invention relates to a method or system for providing an indication or establishment of airway patency of a patient comprising monitoring of at least one targeted gas (e.g. CO2, N2 or may be other gases capable of being detected, monitored, and measured) that is being expired or being expelled from an airway of a patient (e.g. an apnoeic or non-spontaneously breathing patient), and based on measurements of the at least one targeted gas for a period of time, providing an indicator as to an output of the measurements of the at least one targeted gas for the period of time, or a determination as to airway patency, or a determination as to a location of a blockage or obstruction in the airway, or combinations of these.
Patent GB-2579579-A (GB)
Title: Method of manufacturing a container for a comestible product
Inventor: Harry Stimpson
IPC: B29C49/24
Filed: 2018-12-04
Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming a container for an ice pop. The method which comprises providing a parison (20, fig 4) of a thermoplastic material, providing a tube mould 30 composed of separable parts 30a, 30b that together define a cavity having the desired shape of a finished container, electrostatically adhering a plastic label 40 bearing a printed image to at least one of the parts of the mould, closing the mould about the parison of thermoplastic material, and inflating the parison to cause the parison to form a tube by conforming tothe mould cavity and to adhere the inflated tube to the label, wherein the label is provided with perforations (fig 3) to permit gas to pass therethrough, so as to prevent blistering. The labels may be applied to the tube mould parts robotically, the labels may be picked-up from a cassette by a robot arm using suction and are transferred to the mould by an electrostatic charge. To enable adhesion of the label to the extruded tube, the label material is selected to weld to the material of the extruded tube at the temperature of the tube within the tube mould.
Patent GB-2571200-A (GB)
Title: Foam and fiber composite
Inventor: Jun G Zhang
IPC: A61F13/53
Filed: 2016-09-09
Abstract: The foam and fiber composite can provide an absorbent article with improved dryness and an improved liquid distribution capability. The foam and fiber composite can be formed from at least two materials. The first material is an open cell foam material and the second material is a fibrous material. A plurality of the fibers forming the fibrous material can be fluid inserted into the open cell foam material thereby forming the foam and fiber composite. In various embodiments, the foam and fiber composite can be incorporated into an absorbent article as a component of an absorbent system located between a topsheet layer and a backsheet layer of the absorbent article.
Patent GB-2582250-A (GB)
Title: Method of extracting salts from brine using gravitational force
Inventor: ANTHONY GREGORY SMITH
IPC: C02F1/26
Filed: 2019-01-30
Abstract: Concentrated salt brine is extracted from a dilute salt brine solution by vaporizing the solution at reduced vacuum pressure created by a gravitational force. A column 1 contains a piston 4 which forms a chamber 2 at the top. The piston may be held in place by an external restraint 3. The chamber is filled with dilute salt brine and the restraints are released. Gravitational force causes the piston to sink down the column, reducing the pressure in the chamber which vaporizes the desalinated liquid leaving the salts suspended in a concentrated brine 7. This brine is drawn off once the piston is fully deployed through a valve arrangement in the piston plate 8 and hence the weight of liquid is reduced. At this point the negative pressure in the chamber exerts a negative force on the piston causing it to rise. The pressure in the chamber will increase and condense the desalinated vapour back to liquid which can be drawn off from the chamber once the piston has returned to its starting position. Alternatively, the desalinated vapour could be drawn off directly which would cause the piston to rise.
Patent GB-2582026-A (GB)
Title: Foldable clothes warmer
Inventor: WING YIU LAM
IPC: A47K10/04
Filed: 2019-03-08
Abstract: A frame assembly (10 figure 1) for a heating foldable clothes drying apparatus comprises first and second arm assemblies (30, 40 figure 2c). The first and second arm assemblies (30, 40 figure 2c) each comprise a plurality of spaced apart elongate members 38 extending between a pair of transverse end members 32, 42. The elongate members 32, 42 having heating elements (36 figure 2a). A central portion (50a, 50b figure 2a) pivotally connects the first and second arm assemblies (30, 40 figure 2c) and receives at least two sets of electrical conductors 54, 56. The conductors 54, 56 provide at least one set of electrical conductors to each of the first and second arm assemblies (30, 40 figure 2c). At least one of the transverse end members 32, 42 of each arm assembly includes an end earth plate 34, 44 electrically and mechanically engaged with each of the elongate members 38.
Patent GB-2571469-A (GB)
Title: Source array configuration for repeated marine seismic surveying of the same area
Inventor: PHILLIP M FONTANA
IPC: G01V1/38
Filed: 2018-01-30
Abstract: A method for conducting a seismic survey for collecting seismic data off shore. It comprises a first seismic survey providing a first set of data for an area using individual seismic sub-source arrays (2). It further comprises a second seismic survey of the same area for providing a second set of data. The individual seismic sub-source arrays (2) are similar to the sub-source arrays used during the former survey and are arranged in more than two shot-unit sources (3). Each shot-unit source (3) comprises a pair of neighboring individual seismic sub-source arrays (2) arranged to be fired substantially at the same time.
Patent GB-2590048-A (GB)
Title: Circular defect testing method for optical chip of integrated circuit
Inventor: HUA WANG
IPC: G01R31/28
Filed: 2019-04-25
Abstract: A circular defect testing method for an optical chip of an integrated circuit, comprising: processing a captured image array using the concept of a circle, that is, performing division by means of a radius so as to obtain a plurality of circular patterns; performing reconstruction according to coordinates so as to obtain another two-dimensional array; and performing a corresponding operation on the obtained array so as to obtain required values. The testing method does not incur any additional hardware costs, and resolves, under original testing conditions, the technical issue in which the current industry lacks mature testing methods or algorithms to thoroughly examine in-display fingerprint chips for a circular defect.
Patent GB-2586803-A (GB)
Title: Control system and method
Inventor: JOHN HATZAKIS
IPC: B60R1/00
Filed: 2019-09-03
Abstract: The present invention relates to a control system for providing assistance to an occupant of a vehicle V1, said system receiving hitch angle data of a towed vehicle V2 coupled to the vehicle. The system selects first and second image data subsets of at least first image data. The first and second subsets represent first and second viewports on first and second sides of the vehicle. A signal indicative of the first and second subsets is output to at least one display for displaying the viewports to the occupant. The system is configured to select the first and second subsets in dependence on the hitch angle data. The first subset is selected to increase the prominence of the first viewport relative to the second viewport when the hitch angle data indicates that the towed vehicle is disposed on the first side of the vehicle; and the second subset is selected to increase the prominence of the second viewport relative to the first viewport when the hitch angle data indicates that the towed vehicle is disposed on the second side of the vehicle. In a variant, the control system is configured to adjust the prominence of the first viewport relative to the second viewport in dependence on steering angle data of the vehicle.
Patent GB-2581302-A (GB)
Title: Disability vehicle hoist
Inventor: OWEN PETER BRIGGS
IPC: B60P1/54
Filed: 2014-05-30
Abstract: A carrier vehicle 12 has a hoist 2 for lifting a disability vehicle into the carrier vehicle 12, the hoist 2 having a support arm 4 for supporting the weight of the disability vehicle, a four-bar linkage 16, and a linear actuator 18. The support arm 6 is mounted to the carrier vehicle to rotate about a vertical axis, and the linear actuator assembly 18 actuates the four-bar linkage 16 to rotate the support arm 4 to swing into/out of the carrier vehicle 12. A second body 16b of the linkage does not rotate with respect to the carrier vehicle 12, and a first body 16a is V-shaped. The linear actuator 18 has an electric motor 20 and hand-held controller.
Patent GB-2597082-A (GB)
Title: Hardware autoloader
Inventor: DANIEL JOHN PELHAM WILKINSON
IPC: G06F21/57
Filed: 2020-07-14
Abstract: An integrated circuit with a plurality of processors 4 and a set of executable boot instructions then when executed by processing circuitry of a hardware module 72 in the integrated circuit 51 cause the set of executable boot instructions to be stored in the hardware module, configure, at runtime by the trusted software, the processing circuitry to cause the set of executable instructions to be dispatched over an interconnect 79 of the integrated circuit to at least some of the plurality of processors. Then on each of the processors, executing the received set of executable boot instructions to cause read requests to be issued to a memory that is external to the integrated circuit to fetch a set of executable application instructions and execute those instructions using application data. An execution unit may be arranged to cause checkpoint data generated during execution of the instructions to be dispatched in write requests to a storage external to the integrated circuit.