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Patent GB-2533255-A (GB)
Title: Downhole monitoring using magnetostrictive probe
Inventor: KE WANG
IPC: E21B47/06
Filed: 2014-09-02
Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for controlling a downhole operation is disclosed. A tool is operated to perform the downhole operation at a selected downhole location using a first value of an operation parameter of the tool. A magnetostrictive probe is used to determine a temperature profile along a section of a wellbore related to the operation being performed using the first value of the operation parameter. At least one temperature of the temperature profile is compared to a selected threshold. The operation parameter is altered to a second value based on the comparison of the temperature profile to the selected threshold.
Patent GB-2538673-A (GB)
Title: Compact compensating cylinder
Inventor: LARS POHNER
IPC: E21B19/09
Filed: 2015-02-17
Abstract: The invention concerns a compensating cylinder 100 unit suitable for compensating relative movements between a stationary frame 40 and a compensated frame 50 constituting parts of a coiled tubing compensation system 30, where the compensated frame 50 is connected to the compensating cylinder 1. All the necessary tools for the coiled tubing system may be arranged on the compensated platform in order to ensure compensation of vertical movements during operation. The cylinder unit 100 comprises a compensating cylinder 1 suitable for connection to the compensated frame 50 and a fluid reservoir 5 suitable for connection to the stationary frame, wherein the compensating cylinder 1 is in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir 5 to allow for an axial displacement of the compensating cylinder 1 relative to the fluid reservoir 5. Furthermore, the compensating cylinder 1 is partly enclosing the fluid reservoir. The invention also concerns a method for altering a compensating cylinder unit from an operational configuration to a transport configuration.
Patent GB-2540709-A (GB)
Title: Using synthetic acid compositions as alternatives to conventional acids in the oil and gas industry
Inventor: Clay Purdy
IPC: C09K8/86
Filed: 2015-05-28
Abstract: A synthetic acid composition for use in oil industry activities, said composition comprising: urea and hydrogen chloride in a molar ratio of not less than 0.1:1; a metal iodide or iodate; an alcohol or derivative thereof. Optionally, formic acid or a derivative thereof; propylene glycol or a derivative thereof, ethylene glycol glycerol or a mixture thereof; cinnamaldehyde or a derivative thereof; and a phosphonic acid derivative can be added to the composition.
Patent GB-2548189-A (GB)
Title: Automatic purchasing of digital content
Inventor: Daniel Chak
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 2015-11-03
Abstract: A client (e.g., an eReader) receives and displays a sample version of an e-book or other content to a user retrieved from a store server. The sample version is a subset of the full version of the content. The client establishes a location in the sample content as a purchase point. The location of the purchase point may be determined by a content server, the client, or another entity. If the user consumes the content past the purchase point, the client treats the user's action as the user's intent to purchase the full version of the content. The client automatically performs a purchase transaction for the full version of the content, and prepares the full version for consumption by the user. The client seamlessly transitions the user to the full version.
Patent GB-2558584-A (GB)
Title: QoS management for multi-user and single user EDCA transmission mode in wireless networks
Inventor: Stéphane Baron
IPC: H04W74/08
Filed: 2017-01-06
Abstract: A communication network comprising a plurality of nodes, at least one node comprising a plurality of traffic queues for serving traffic at different priorities. Each queue is associated with a respective queue backoff value, computed from respective queue contention parameters having first and second values in first ( maybe multi-user (MU)) and second (maybe single user (SU)) contention modes. These contention modes allow for communication according to different qualities of service (QoS). The second contention mode is only available when resource units provided by another node within one or more transmission opportunities (TXOP) granted to the other node are accessible. Communication involves obtaining QoS requirements of data in traffic queues; checking QoS can be satisfied by using the second contention mode; if it cannot be fulfilled, access is disabled to the resource units provided by the other node is disabled; transmission is performed using first contention mode. Other aspects include: checking if service requirements are satisfied by the first contention mode, and disabling access to resource units if so; disabling access upon receiving service requirements for transmitting in a direct link mode; setting contention parameters to first values after disabling access to resource units.
Patent GB-2544210-A (GB)
Title: Cobalt-containing fischer-tropsch catalysts, methods of making, and methods of conducting fischer-tropsch synthesis
Inventor: HEINZ J ROBOTA
IPC: B01J37/18
Filed: 2015-07-16
Abstract: Catalyst compositions, methods of making catalysts, and methods of conducting Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactions are described. It has been discovered that a combination of large crystallite size and high porosity results in catalysts and FT catalyst systems with high stability and low methane selectivity.
Patent GB-2548973-A (GB)
Title: Automotive vehicle navigation using low power radios
Inventor: DAVID A HERMAN
IPC: G08G1/14
Filed: 2017-02-22
Abstract: A navigation system for a parking area 42, e.g. a parking lot, comprises a plurality of nodes 46 and a server 50 communicating with the nodes. Each node comprises a camera 52 capturing images of the parking area and a low power radio 54 transmitting a unique radio signal 58. The system receives a parking request from a user (e.g. a cellular device 32). The server analyzes the images to propose a parking space and navigates the vehicle 10 to a proposed parking space having an unoccupied availability status via waypoints 48. Each of the waypoints comprises strength and time of flight values of the radio signals. The system may also navigate a pedestrian from the parked vehicle to a pedestrian entrance 68, and navigate the pedestrian back to their vehicle upon their return.
Patent GB-2560977-A (GB)
Title: Connector
Inventor: ALEX HODGKINSON
IPC: B64D11/06
Filed: 2017-03-31
Abstract: A connector 1 for attaching an aircraft seat cushion to a frame, has a body 2; a first fastener 5; a second fastener 6; and a cushion attachment means 7a,7b to removably attach the cushion. The first fastener is mounted on the body facing the frame and the frame and the second fastener 6 at least partially surrounds the frame. Preferably, the first fastener is an adhesive pad, and the second fastener is a cable tie, securing the body against the frame. The body may be shaped to partially surround the frame and have an outer surface groove 8, accommodating the second fastener; apertures 9 at the ends of the groove hold the second fastener against the body. The cushion attachment means may be a pair of hook and loop strips either side of the groove. Also claimed is seat base cushion (fig.4D,3) with one or more receiving elements (fig.4E,13) for receiving the second fastener of the connector. The receiving elements may be one or more loops and the cushion may have channels (fig.3,10a,10b) suitable for accommodating the connector(s). A row of seats (fig.4a,15) may be formed using the connectors and cushions.
Patent GB-2558330-A (GB)
Title: Split cycle engine
Inventor: ROBERT MORGAN
IPC: F02D13/02
Filed: 2017-04-28
Abstract: A split cycle internal combustion engine 101 comprising a combustion cylinder 126 with combustion piston 128 and inlet valve 124, a compression cylinder 104 with a compression piston 108 providing compressed fluid to the combustion cylinder, and a controller 100 arranged to receive an indication of a parameter associated with the combustion cylinder 126 and/or a fluid associated therewith and to control the inlet valve 124 based on the indicated parameter to cause the inlet valve 124 to open at an early opening position during a cycle of the piston 128, when the indicated parameter is less than a target value for the parameter, and open at a later piston cycle position, when the indicated parameter is equal to or greater than the target value. An exhaust valve 134 of the combustion cylinder may be controlled to close early in the piston cycle if the parameter is less than a target value.
Patent GB-2558965-A (GB)
Title: Golf club heads with energy storage characteristics
Inventor: MARTIN JERTSON
IPC: A63B53/04
Filed: 2015-10-22
Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads with energy storage characteristics are presented herein. In some embodiments, a golf club head comprises a hollow body comprising a strikeface, a heel region, a toe region opposite the heel region, a sole, and a crown. In many embodiments, the crown comprises an upper region comprising a top rail and a lower region. In some embodiments, a cavity is located below the top rail, is located above the lower region of the crown, and is defined at least in part by the upper and lower regions of the crown. The cavity comprises a top wall, a back wall, a bottom incline, a back cavity angle measured between the top and back walls of the cavity and at least one channel.
Patent GB-2546464-A (GB)
Title: Communication apparatus, method for controlling communication between different types of devices,
Inventor: SEIICHI ITO
IPC: H04L29/12
Filed: 2015-07-01
Abstract: The objective of the invention is to achieve the maintenance, operation and monitoring of a network environment by: eliminating the specificity and complexity of operational management accompanying the connection of different networks; eliminating on-site installation/adjustment operations; and improving the security. It can be ensured that: addresses for use only within a system are used to perform communications without using any addresses for use in the Internet or the like; any person can easily configure a network space on a group-by-group basis, e.g., a company-by-company basis, a department-by-department basis and a project-by-project basis; path information or the like is registered with a center that manages a network; any connection between different types of devices can be implemented; relay apparatuses acquire path information and perform mutual verifications; and all pieces of information flowing through the paths are encrypted.
Patent GB-2547381-A (GB)
Title: Valve arrangement
Inventor: HOWARD WILSON
IPC: F16K1/22
Filed: 2015-11-16
Abstract: A valve assembly is described comprising a valve body having a valve aperture defining a sealing surface; and a valve member (12) rotatably mounted within the valve body. The valve member (12) has a closure formation defining a closure surface complementarily shaped with and juxtaposed with respect to the sealing surface so as to be rotatable into and out of a closed position whereat the closure surface seats within and against the sealing surface and acts to close the aperture. The valve member (12) has a shaft member (6) mechanically coupled to the closure formation such as to be operable to rotate the closure formation into and out of a closed position, the shaft member (6) being eccentrically mounted with respect to the aperture in that the shaft member (6) is displaced out of the plane of the aperture and/or the shaft is member (6) offset from the aperture centreline; wherein the closure surface and the sealing surface are complementarily inclined with respect to a direction perpendicular to the plane of the aperture by an incline angle that continuously varies from a non-zero minimum angle to a maximum angle at a point remote therefrom.
Patent GB-2547838-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for improved classification of constituent materials
Inventor: KEVIN KOCH
IPC: G01R33/565
Filed: 2015-12-02
Abstract: An imaging system and method are disclosed. An MR image and measured B0 field map of a target volume in a subject are reconstructed, where the MR image includes one or more bright and/or dark regions. One or more distinctive constituent materials corresponding to the bright regions are identified. Each dark region is iteratively labeled as one or more ambiguous constituent materials. Susceptibility values corresponding to each distinctive and iteratively labeled ambiguous constituent material is assigned. A simulated B0 field map is iteratively generated based on the assigned susceptibility values. A similarity metric is determined between the measured and simulated B0 field maps. Constituent materials are identified in the dark regions based on the similarity metric to ascertain corresponding susceptibility values. The MRI data is corrected based on the assigned and ascertained susceptibility values. A diagnostic assessment of the target volume is determined based on the corrected MRI data.
Patent GB-2563249-A (GB)
Title: Security tag
Inventor: CHRIS NAPTHINE
IPC: E05B73/00
Filed: 2017-06-07
Abstract: A security tag 10 comprises a first portion 24 housing a retractable pin 88 in fixed relation to a second portion 26 housing a latching mechanism for retaining the pin. A slot 22 is between the first and second portions. The pin is movable between a first position fully retracted within the first portion and second position in which it is retained by the latch. The pin is biased, e.g. spring, toward the first position when the latch is released. The pin may be housed in a telescopic button 44. Preferably the latch is sprung biased ball bearing clamping against the pin. Preferably the first portion has a walls forming guide passage 36 for guiding the pin; the second portion includes a pin aperture 108 and may be tapered 112. The tag may be an electronic article surveillance (EAS) tag and include a sensor 12.
Patent GB-2554131-A (GB)
Title: Performing geophysical surveys using unmanned tow vessels
Inventor: RUNE TOENNESSEN
IPC: G05D1/02
Filed: 2017-06-29
Abstract: A system comprising a plurality of unmanned tow vessels 302a-d including a first vessel towing one or more source element (116, fig 1) and a second vessel towing one or more streamers (120, fig 1). Vessels traverse a first sail path 316 in an ordered formation, actuating the source(s) and collecting data via the streamer(s). Vessels turn towards a second sail path 318, which they traverse in a second, differently ordered formation, actuating the source element(s) and collecting data via the streamer(s). During the first formation vessels may be aligned in a direction perpendicular to the sail path. First and second formations may be mirror images. Fig 4 shows another aspect wherein unmanned tow vessels 402 are positioned in a crossline direction, having one or more streamers and source elements 404, comprising different numbers of, but at least one low (404c) and at least one high frequency source (404a). Fig 4 shows another aspect wherein there is at least one mid (404b), high (404a) and low (404c) frequency source(s), which are towed at different source densities with the low-frequency source(s) being towed at a lower source density than at least one of the mid or high frequency sources.
Patent GB-2551078-A (GB)
Title: Implementing enhanced CMOS inverter based optical transimpedance amplifier
Inventor: Raymond Richetta
IPC: H04B10/69
Filed: 2016-01-19
Abstract: A method and circuit are provided for implementing enhanced CMOS inverter based optical Transimpedance Amplifiers (TIAs). A transimpedance amplifier(TIA) includes a photo- detector, and the TIA is formed by a first TIA inverter and a second TIA inverter. The first TIA inverter has an input from a cathode side of the photo-detector and the second inverter has an input from an anode side of the photo-detector. A replica TIA is formed by two replica inverters, coupled to a respective input to a first operational amplifier and a second operational amplifier. The first operational amplifier and the second operational amplifier have a feedback configuration for respectively regulating a set voltage level at the cathode side of the photo-detector input of the first inverter and at the anode side of the photo- detector input of the second inverter
Patent GB-2569806-A (GB)
Title: Support framework for a self-balancing transportation device
Inventor: TIMUR ARTEMEV
IPC: B62K13/00
Filed: 2017-12-22
Abstract: A support framework 25 for a self-balancing transportation device 100, such as a self-balancing electric unicycle is connectable to the self‑balancing transportation device 100, and provides an additional ground contacting element (11, figure 8) together with a handle (12, figure 8) for supporting the user. The handle 12 and ground contacting element 11 are together rotatable about the self-balancing transportation device, so as to be moveable in at least a vertical direction with respect to the device. In an embodiment, the frame and self-balancing transportation device, when connected together, form a scooter-like configuration.
Patent GB-2570300-A (GB)
Title: Energy storage system
Inventor: Tore Berge
IPC: H01M10/6557
Filed: 2018-01-17
Abstract: An energy storage system (1, Figure 1) comprises at least one energy storage module 10. Each module 10 comprises a plurality of energy storage devices 23. Each energy storage device comprises at least one electrically conducting cell tab 20, 21 electrically connected to electrodes of the energy storage device with one end of the cell tab protruding from the energy storage device. The energy storage module 10 further comprises a cooling element 22 for each energy storage device, the cooling element comprising a one or more enclosed cooling channels (25, Figure 4) in contact with one surface of the energy storage device. The cooler further comprises a section of the cooling channels thermally coupled to the cell tab (20, 21) to provide cooling. The cooling element may comprise an electrically non-conducting material. The material of the cooling element may have a thermal conductivity between 0.2 W/mK and 50 W/mk and may be for example a polyamide or a thermoplastic. The channel walls may form a raised section at an end of the cooler for connection of the cell tab. The energy storage device may comprise two cell tabs. The cells may comprise lithium-ion cells.
Patent GB-2570443-A (GB)
Title: Wheelchair lifts
Inventor: ADAM BECK
IPC: F15B21/14
Filed: 2018-01-18
Abstract: The wheelchair lift system for a vehicle comprises a lift platform 10 raised by a hydraulic actuator 20, a pump 24 supplying hydraulic fluid under pressure to the actuator 20, a drive 26 for the pump 24 that draws power from a battery 28. Power generated by the flow of hydraulic fluid from the actuator 20 as the platform 10 is lowered recharges the battery 28. The drive 26 may be an electric motor such as a brushless DC motor that generates electric power when the pump 24 is driven. The drive 26 may include an electric generator powered by the flow of fluid from the actuator 20 to supply the battery 28. The electric generator may be a dynamo 54 located in a pump bypass or return line 50 that accommodates fluid flow. The bypass line 50 may include an impeller 56 to drive the electric generator.
Patent GB-2570942-A (GB)
Title: Noise attenuation system
Inventor: ROGER LANE
IPC: B65F3/12
Filed: 2018-02-13
Abstract: A pivotal hood 22 with an aperture 40 can be attached to a bin lorry adjacent the lifting mechanism 10. Upon lifting the bins 16 mouth extends into the aperture where it remains during tilting so that any noise arising from the discharge of waste from the bin into the vehicle is attenuated by the hood. Ideally there can be sound absorbing material removable mounted on the hood or within the vehicle on its walls. Flexible acoustic seals can extend from the edges of the hood to engage the bins body. The hoods edge can include a roller 50 or low friction material to promote relative movement between the bin and hood. The movement of the bin on the lifting means can cause the hood to pivot.
Patent GB-2562891-A (GB)
Title: Intraoral surgical mouth prop
Inventor: RALPH PAUL DAY
IPC: A61C19/00
Filed: 2018-04-04
Abstract: An intraoral surgical mouth prop comprising an anatomically contoured compressible outer body element 1 providing a bite block, and an integral inner element comprising a permanently attached, flexible and extensible tether 2 and tether grip 3 formed of a less compressible material. The mouth prop may be entirely manufactured from two varieties of a high performance, biocompatible, thermoplastic elastomer, each variety having a different Shore-A hardness. The mouth prop may be manufactured using over-moulding or a twin-shot, co-injection moulding technique. The mouth prop may have an aperture located within the inner element allowing for compression of the device when pressure is applied to the bite surfaces 8 and access for intraoral aspiration devices.
Patent GB-2558840-A (GB)
Title: Real time tracking of bending forces and fatigue in a tubing guide
Inventor: ALAN CHARLES JOHN TURNER
IPC: E21B47/007
Filed: 2015-12-15
Abstract: A coiled tubing deployment system includes an offshore rig having a reel positioned thereon and coiled tubing wound on the reel. A tubing guide is operatively coupled to receive the coiled tubing and to direct the coiled tubing into the water, with a weight sensor positioned to measure the weight of the portion of coiled tubing deployed into the water. A first set of bend sensors are positioned at a first location on the tubing guide to measure a real-time strain assumed by the tubing guide at the first location. A data acquisition system is communicably coupled to the weight sensor and the first set of bend sensors, and receives and processes weight measurement signals and bend sensor signals in order to provide an output signal indicative of a real-time bending fatigue of the tubing guide.
Patent GB-2574646-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic density separator
Inventor: RICHARD HENRY COULTON
IPC: B03B5/62
Filed: 2018-06-14
Abstract: A hydraulic density separator 1 comprises a first compartment 2 for receiving a mixture comprising higher density elements, lower density elements and water. A flow generator 16 provides an upward flow of water within the first compartment 2. The rate of flow can be adjusted to allow the maximum density of elements entrained by said flow to rise upwardly to be varied. A second compartment 4 receives a mixture comprising water and lower density elements from the first compartment 2. A water flow path is provided from an upper region of the first compartment 2 into the second compartment 4 and over a portion of a mesh screen 8 such that lower density elements entrained by the flow of water are deposited on the screen 8. The screen 8 is configured to move lower density elements from a first position to a second position spaced apart from the first position.
Patent GB-2579761-A (GB)
Title: Flu safe plug
Inventor: DAVID BOSELEY
IPC: F24H9/20
Filed: 2018-07-09
Abstract: A plug for an access hole in a central heating boiler unit outlet flue. The plug may be made of memory foam. The plug may have a slice cut into to allow the entry of a gas analytic probe during a service of the heating unit. The device ensures that if the cap of the outlet flue is accidently left off after a service visit, that the foam plug will prevent carbon monoxide leaking out of the unit.