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Patent GB-2536463-A (GB)
Title: System to enable balancing of a central heating system
Inventor: Peter jeffery
IPC: F24D19/10
Filed: 2015-03-18
Abstract: A central heating system 1 comprises a plurality of parallel radiator circuits 2. A feed pipe or inlet 6 supplies heated water to the radiator 2 with an inflow valve 7 connected to the feed pipe 6 to adjust the flow of heated water through the radiator 2 and out through an outlet pipe 8. A flow meter 10 connects to either the feed pipe 6 or the outlet pipe 8 to measure the flow rate of heated water through the radiator 2. Each radiator 2 may comprise an outflow valve connected to the outlet pipe to adjustably restrict the flow rate of water through the radiator. The central heating system may be hydraulically balanced by comparing the flow rate through one or more radiators with a desired nominal flow rate and adjusting the inflow or outflow valve so that the system reaches equilibrium.
Patent GB-2537125-A (GB)
Title: Liquid air energy storage system
Inventor: JONATHAN SEBASTIAN HOWES
IPC: F25J1/00
Filed: 2015-04-07
Abstract: A liquid air energy storage (LAES) system comprising a flow pathway 34 leading from an air inlet to first power machinery 12,14, an optional thermal energy storage TES system 36 , a second power machinery 55 and a cryogenic tank 120 for storing liquid air. The first power machinery is configured to compress air upon charging and to expand air to produce work upon discharging. The TES is configured to store and return the heat of compression upon charging and discharging, respectively. The second stage power machinery is configured to expand the air into the tank upon charging, and to withdraw the air from the tank and compress it upon discharging. Air enters and leaves the cryogenic tank in gaseous form and is stored in the cryogenic tank as saturated liquid/vapour air mixture under equilibrium pressure and temperature conditions. Condensation of the air in the tank during charging causes a progressive increase in equilibrium vapour pressure and temperature of the saturated mixture, and air evaporating during discharging progressively decreases it. The LAES system may form part of a gas turbine power generation system and may include a solid regenerator 56 interposed between the second power machinery 55 and cryogenic tank.
Patent GB-2534942-A (GB)
Title: GRP Door having enhanced fire protecting performance
Inventor: HYUN SIK KWAK
IPC: E06B5/16
Filed: 2015-04-27
Abstract: Glass-fibre reinforced plastic (GRP) door having a frame that has a vertically long rectangular shape; plate-shaped Glassfiber Reinforced Plastic skins 200 attached to the front and rear sides of the frame; phenolic foam 300 disposed in internal space defined by the frame and skins; and vertically elongated reinforcing members 400 in the internal space, made of cellulose fibre reinforced cement (CRC), and increasing bending strength of the frame and the interior material. The frame may have include first and second horizontal frames 110, 120 and first and second vertical frames 130, 140 and the reinforcing members may be on the inner sides of the vertical frames. The reinforcing members may be arranged in parallel or may be at angles between 70° and 80° to a first horizontal frame. The horizontal frames may have a plurality of grooves (111, 121, Fig. 3) to receive ends of the reinforcing members. There may be L-shaped reinforcing members (410, Fig. 4) at the inner corners of the frame.
Patent GB-2538057-A (GB)
Title: A cable reel
Inventor: OLIVER BLACKWELL
IPC: H02G11/02
Filed: 2015-04-25
Abstract: A cable reel (2) for electrical cable, has at least one plug 8, and a handle 6 which turns the reel, winding the electrical cable. The reel 2 is arranged such that the two sides 14, 16 of the hub are joined together by a carrying handle 10, which is offset from the longitudinal axis of the hub 4 of the reel 2. When the reel is lifted, the weight of the reel will cause it to rotate about the handle, and cause a first end 22 of the base to touch the floor before a second end of the base 24. Preferably, the reel is arranged so that the handle may be received in a receiving formation 30 of another reel, so that a number of cable reels 2 may be stacked in a line along the ground.
Patent GB-2538519-A (GB)
Title: A particulate material transfer assembly
Inventor: GEORGE WILLIAM SNAPE
IPC: F16L27/10
Filed: 2015-05-19
Abstract: A particulate material transfer assembly features a connector mount 34 on a discharge tube, normally of a container or process, and a releasable fastener 36 secured to the mount 34, and a flexible coupling 30, the releasable fastener 36 engageable around the flexible coupling 30 in use. Also disclosed is a connection system with a first ring fastener 38, and a releaseable fastener 36, parallel and offset to the first ring fastener 38, and joined to a slidable connection mount of the first ring fastener 38. Also disclosed is a flexible coupling with reinforcing rings and a flexible skirt, as per claims 22, 25. The items are aimed at improving connections between particulate material processing components.
Patent GB-2539240-A (GB)
Title: Method of estimating load on a vehicle
Inventor: JONATHAN CHIDLOW
IPC: B60C23/16
Filed: 2015-06-11
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of estimating the load carried on a motor vehicle (fig. 1, 10). The motor vehicle having a wheel 12 comprising a tread 20 for rolling over a surface being driven on fig. 1, 14 and a first air chamber in which there is a gas which by means of its gas pressure (G) counteracts deformation of the tread when the wheel is rolling. The method lets gas into the first air chamber over a predetermined period from a source of gas, held at a higher pressure. The load is then estimated based on the change in pressure in the chamber. The source of higher pressure gas, may be held within the wheel having a second air chamber 38 which is coupled to the first air chamber by a valve device 44, the first air chamber extending between the tread and the second air chamber and the gas may flow from the second air chamber into the first air chamber.
Patent GB-2542365-A (GB)
Title: A method of controlling a vehicle take-off from rest
Inventor: GRAHAM BERGIN
IPC: B60W50/08
Filed: 2015-09-16
Abstract: A method 10 and a corresponding apparatus (100 in Figure 3a) for automatically launching a motor vehicle (200 in Figure 2) from rest are provided. The method includes the steps of transitioning the vehicle 200 from a brake holding mode to an engine driving mode and then accelerating the vehicle 200 in a forward direction until a set vehicle target speed has been reached. The vehicle is maintained at the set target speed until a driver of the vehicle 200 intervenes.
Patent GB-2534272-A (GB)
Title: Rotationally-independent wellbore ranging
Inventor: RICHARD THOMAS HAY
IPC: E21B47/01
Filed: 2013-07-11
Abstract: In one example of a rotationally independent wellbore ranging system, a housing attached to a rotary component is positioned in a first wellbore and remains substantially stationary relative to the first wellbore when the rotary component rotates in the first wellbore. Multiple sensors affixed to the housing are operable to receive multiple ranging signals from a second wellbore while the rotary component rotates in the first wellbore, and provide the multiple ranging signals to a processor to determine a position of the first wellbore relative to the second wellbore.
Patent GB-2531195-A (GB)
Title: Converting reserve estimates in a reservoir model to a standard format for dynamic comparison
Inventor: MICHAEL DAVID EWING
IPC: G06T17/20
Filed: 2014-08-15
Abstract: Systems and methods for converting reserve estimates in a reservoir model to a standard format for dynamic comparison by storing them with a sealed triangulated mesh and a thickness grid as a printable string in one or more Processing History fields.
Patent GB-2531466-A (GB)
Title: Security coding system & marker, optoelectronic scanner and method of coding articles
Inventor: KEAY PETER JEFFREY
IPC: G07D7/2033
Filed: 2013-06-24
Abstract: A scanner (200) is arranged to detect a unique spectral signature acquired from a sample (230) coded with a security marker (700) made up from one or more overt or covert coloured features (704a-704b) having known and uniquely identifiable spectral characteristics. More particularly, a narrowband light source (218), operating in the middle/near ultraviolet to short/near infra-red wavelength ranges, pulses light onto the security marker fixed to or formed in the sample (230). A lens system (222, 216) collects spectral data for analysis by a processing engine (201), such as a smartphone. The light source (218), which may be an array of differently coloured LEDs (224), selectively illuminates the security marker with discrete wavelengths as LEDs are selectively energized. The coloured features (704a-704d) are realized by combinations of dyes, pigments or inks that may fluoresce that are difficult to replicate and therefore typically pantone-based. The coloured features each have unique spectral responses, i.e. spectral characteristics, in the presence of incident EM radiation, so coding a bona fide product with a security marker made up from pre-selected coloured features producing the unique signature allows validation of the product. Specifically, by using the scanner and executing analysis code, the processing engine (201) is configured to make a quick comparison of the spectral peak and trough data acquired from the security marker against stored reference spectral signature corresponding to the marker on the product and to provide an indication (or not) of correspondence.
Patent GB-2539308-A (GB)
Title: Display control apparatus and control method of the same
Inventor: TOMOHIRO OTA
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2016-04-01
Abstract: The application discloses a display control unit configured to display a live view of an image being imaged by an imaging unit on which is displayed an item indicating a degree of in-focus, superimposed on the live view image. An acquiring unit is configured to acquire information relating to a degree of in-focus in a focus detecting region and a changing unit is configured to change display positions and display forms of a first indicator and second indicator that indicate a degree of in-focus by a positional display relationship with each other. A third indicator that indicates a focus position, based on information acquired by the acquiring unit, the first indicator and the second indicator and the third indicator is included in the display.
Patent GB-2549093-A (GB)
Title: Composition and method for the pelletisation of gilsonite
Inventor: NEIL CALDWELL
IPC: C08L95/00
Filed: 2016-04-04
Abstract: A composition for pelletised natural asphalt comprises between 90% and 99% by weight of natural asphalt and between approximately 1% and 10% by weight of one or more tree by-products selected from lignin, lignosulphonate, tall oil or tall oil pitch. A method for forming the pellets comprises the steps of providing natural asphalt powder to feed a mesh filtering system to produce a filtered powder, blending/mixing the filtered powder with other ingredients (such as adhesion agents or polymers), and water, and one or more tree by product(s) selected from lignin, lignosulphonate, tall oil or tall oil pitch to produce a blended mixture, providing the blended mixture to an agglomeration/pelletising chamber and providing the pellets to a drying/baking oven to remove the water. Preferred natural asphalts include Gilsonite, uintahite, asphalutm, Trinidad asphalt, rock asphalt, glance pitch, manjak or grahamite.
Patent GB-2533534-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for modified reference signal transmission for cell discovery
Inventor: THORSTEN SCHIER
IPC: H04W48/12
Filed: 2014-09-11
Abstract: The proposed approach comtemplates systems and methods configured to utilize a modified reference signal to facilitate efficient discovery of as many cells as possible within one channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) sub-frame while maintaining certain detection and measurement performance. The proposed approach is configured to unambiguously discover at least the number of anticipated small cells within one cluster and to further identify all small cells within the coverage area of a base station/macro cell. In some embodiments, frequency multiplexing is utilized to allow different cells to transmit their discovery signals on different physical resource blocks (PRBs) rather than one cell using every PRB over the entire system bandwidth.
Patent GB-2535912-A (GB)
Title: A voting booth assembly
Inventor: PATRICK MCGONAGLE
IPC: E04H1/12
Filed: 2014-10-18
Abstract: The present invention relates to a voting booth assembly. In particular, the present invention relates to a voting booth assembly comprising at least one extendable panel adapted for positioning the extendable panel adjacent a substantially planar structure to define a voting compartment between the extendable panel and the substantially planar structure. The present invention finds utility as a voting boothoperable between a collapsed state and an expanded state, thereby providing a temporary voting booth for use as a private area within the polling station for voters to cast their vote when otherwise-used facilities act as a polling station, and which can be easily assembled and/or disassembled for ease of transport and storage during times when the facility does not act as a polling station.
Patent GB-2535102-A (GB)
Title: Single-string overpower protection device and light source driving circuit in display
Inventor: XIANMING ZHANG
IPC: G09G3/34
Filed: 2014-01-17
Abstract: Provided are a single-string overpower protection device and a light source driving circuit in a display. The device comprises a voltage detecting unit, an integrating unit, a comparing unit and a locking unit. The input terminal of the voltage detecting unit is connected to the two terminals of a resistor in a single-string light bar circuit to obtain terminal voltages on these terminals; the input terminal of the integrating unit is connected to the output terminal of the voltage detecting unit, and the integrating unit is used for performing integral transformation on the obtained terminal voltages; the comparing unit is connected to the output terminal of the integrating unit and used for comparing the voltages resulting from integral transformation with a reference voltage, in order to output a valid over-voltage signal in the case that the voltages resulting from integral transformation are higher than the reference voltage; the locking unit is connected with the comparing unit and used for locking an output standby signal according to the valid over-voltage signal. With the protection device, the problem that the entire backlight module is negatively affected by overheat arising from the excessively high current on a single-string light bar can be avoided, thus better protecting the LCD (Liquid Crystal Display).
Patent GB-2552154-A (GB)
Title: Vector register access
Inventor: THOMAS CHRISTOPHER GROCUTT
IPC: G06F9/30
Filed: 2016-07-08
Abstract: An apparatus comprises a set of vector registers 800, each arranged to store a vector with a plurality of portions. The set of vector registers is logically divided into a plurality of columns 845, 850, each arranged to store a same portion of each vector. The apparatus also comprises register access circuitry 830 that comprises a plurality of access blocks such as ports 835, 840, each arranged to access a portion in a different column when accessing one of the vector registers 805 than when accessing at least one other of the vector registers, such as 810. The register access circuitry is arranged to simultaneously access portions in any one of: the vector registers 805 to 820 and the columns 845, 850. The wiring may therefore be logically twisted. The columns may be logically arranged in a nested structure, with parent levels split into child levels (945, 950, 955 in Figure 22). The access circuitry may also comprise rearrangement circuitry, such as a crossbar multiplexer (1010 in Figure 23), which may be used to interleave or de-interleave data.
Patent GB-2537326-A (GB)
Title: Sheet material dispenser
Inventor: SARA V SANTOS
IPC: B65D83/08
Filed: 2015-01-20
Abstract: In one aspect, a sheet material dispenser may generally include a flexible pouch and a rigid container. The flexible pouch may generally be configured to receive a plurality of sheets and may include a dispenser opening. In addition, the flexible pouch may include a resealable cap for intermittently exposing and resealing the dispenser opening. The rigid container may generally include an interior region defined at least partially between a back wall and sidewalls extending outwardly from the back wall. The rigid container may also include first and second front plates configured to be slideably coupled to the sidewalls such that the front plates are movable relative to one another and relative to the sidewalls between an open position, wherein the front plates are positioned in a distal relationship relative to one another, and a closed position, wherein the front plates are positioned in an adjacent relationship relative to one another. Additionally, when the first and second front plates are moved to the closed position, a portion of the front plates may be configured to be positioned directly below a portion of the resealable cap.
Patent GB-2553338-A (GB)
Title: Serial communication control
Inventor: Russell John Buckett
IPC: G01R31/3185
Filed: 2016-09-02
Abstract: An apparatus 2 for, and method of, performing serial data communication with a target device 4, having a serial transfer circuitry 16 to transfer serial data to the target device and a serial retrieval circuitry 18 to retrieve an acknowledge signal (32, Fig. 2) indicating whether or not the target device is ready to perform further processing following such a transfer. There is also a delay control circuitry 20 to apply a predetermined delay period following the transfer of the serial data before initiating the retrieval of the acknowledge signal. This predetermined delay period is controlled in dependence upon the ready status indicated by the acknowledge signals retrieved, such as so that the proportion of acknowledge signals retrieved which indicate an unready status meets a predetermined condition, such as being less than a non-zero predetermined value. The serial communication may take place via JTAG serial scan chains and require moving a controlling state machine 14 between a shift state and a capture state.
Patent GB-2545065-A (GB)
Title: Injection stretch blow moulding processes and products
Inventor: HELENA PETTERSON
IPC: B65D1/02
Filed: 2016-10-18
Abstract: A method of forming a preform for use in the production of a container, the method comprising: providing stock material formed predominantly of polyolefin material; melting the stock material; introducing the melted material into a mould cavity of a preform mould; moulding the melted material into the shape of a preform within the mould cavity; and setting the preform. The stock material, may include high density polyethylene (HDPE) or polypropylene (PP). The manufacturing process includes various optimised parameters, including stock material selection, melt temperature, melt pressure, preform mould temperature, preform mould filling pressure, preform reheat temperature, container mould temperature, and container moulding pressure. The method may further comprise treating the stock material prior to melting to remove solid contaminants from the stock material, such as by drying. The body portion of the preform may have a substantially constant wall thickness around the circumference of the preform. Alternatively, the preform may include one or more internal ribs. A method is also provided for forming a container, the method comprising: providing a preform formed predominantly of polyolefin material; heating the preform; and blow moulding the preform within a container mould to produce a container.
Patent GB-2555384-A (GB)
Title: Preventing phishing attacks
Inventor: DAAVID HENTUNEN
IPC: G06F21/83
Filed: 2016-10-21
Abstract: An intent to type or copy paste any content to a password field related to a service is detected 202 particularly by detecting data entry into the password field. At least part of the content intended to be typed or copy pasted to the password field is replaced 204 with random data while it is being typed or copy pasted. Service data such as a pin, a digital certificate, or public/private keys related to the matching user password data and the content are compared. In the event the service data of the matching user password data and the content match 210, the random data in the password field is replaced with the content intended to be typed or copy pasted 212. In the event the service data of the matching user password data and the content do not match taking further action 216, particularly blocking the service, preventing operation of the application or website or alerting the user.
Patent GB-2555610-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to data traffic management in a telecommunication network
Inventor: MEHRDAD SHARIAT
IPC: H04W84/22
Filed: 2016-11-04
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of steering data traffic between a Core Network, CN, and a User Equipment, UE, in a cluster of a telecommunication network. The cluster comprises a plurality of Access Points, AP, and at least two of the plurality of Access Points are connected via separate Points of Access, PoA, to the Core Network. The method comprises the steps of: in the event of an outage or Radio Link Failure RLF between a first Access Point and the User Equipment, either: steering data traffic from the first Access Point to a second Access Point and on to the User Equipment; or steering data traffic from a Cluster Head, CH, to a second Access Point and on to the User Equipment. The APs may utilise mm-wave technology which are more outage-prone and rely upon line of sight or strong reflections between the AP and UE to maintain a connection. The choice of at which point to steer the data from may be based on the state of the cluster based on one or more of inter-AP interface quality, loading, state of interface towards CN and/or the service-level requirements of various elements within the network.
Patent GB-2544423-A (GB)
Title: Identity verification
Inventor: JOHN KININMONTH KANE
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 2015-07-29
Abstract: A method of associating a person with a particular set of data, which method includes, digitally capturing an image of a trusted document on which the identity of a person is represented on a capturing device, capturing data with which the person is to be associated on the capturing device, transmitting the digitized document in combination with the captured data via a computer network from the capturing device to a remote receiver.
Patent GB-2544009-A (GB)
Title: Seismic lineation mapping method and system
Inventor: JOHN SOLUM
IPC: G01V1/34
Filed: 2015-10-01
Abstract: A method for seismic geological lineation mapping, wherein a seismic dataset is collected, with information about minor lineations generated by subtle structural geological features in an underground earth formation. Seismic attribute volumes are identified in the seismic dataset, relating to trace continuity, amplitude, frequency and phase. The attribute volumes may have an insufficient resolution to display the minor lineations. A seismic multivolume lithological lineation map is generated, in which single attribute lineation maps generated for each of the identified seismic attribute volumes are combined to accurately display the minor lineations generated by the subtle geological features.
Patent GB-2545583-A (GB)
Title: Stage tool
Inventor: STEPHANIE DIANNE WIND
IPC: E21B34/14
Filed: 2015-10-06
Abstract: A method of closing a stage tool (100) in a wellbore includes releasing a closing tube (150) into the wellbore; attaching the closing tube to the stage tool; and expanding the closing tube, thereby closing a port (115) of the stage tool.