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Patent GB-2581155-A (GB)
Title: Device for use in the humane slaughter of animals
Inventor: JOSEPH EUGENE HOLLAND
IPC: A22B3/02
Filed: 2019-02-05
Abstract: A device 1 for use in the humane slaughter of animals has a barrel 3 and a cap 2 arranged for limited reciprocal axial movement and urged to an inoperative position by resilient means 4. A captive bolt 5 is received in the barrel for reciprocal axial movement, the bolt being driven out of the barrel by a driving force provided by an explosive cartridge 8 adapted to be received in a breech 7 in the barrel. The cartridge is fired by striking a firing pin 11 provided in the cap. The cartridge is mounted on a strip 9 movable in response to a manual operation, and registration means 13 are provided between the strip and the cap to locate the cartridge relative to the open breech in the inoperative position. Movement of the barrel relative to the cap against the force of the resilient means places the cartridge in the breech and causes it to strike the firing pin to fire the cartridge and operate the captive bolt, the resilient means then returning the barrel and the cap to the inoperative position to open the breech and allow movement of the strip to remove the spent cartridge. Preferably the strip mounts more than one cartridge to a provide a magazine. A cartridge strip comprising an elongate member made from flexible and resilient material is also described. The strip has at least one central aperture for mounting a brass cartridge, registration means (22, fig 5) along one lateral edge and a handle (24, fig 5) at one end for manual insertion and removal of the strip.
Patent GB-2568014-A (GB)
Title: Gas-liquid separator for collecting chromatographic fractions
Inventor: EDWIN E WIKFORS
IPC: G01N30/84
Filed: 2016-08-15
Abstract: A gas-liquid separator includes a fluid inlet, a shell including an inside surface enclosing an interior space, an outlet structure with fingers converging toward a longitudinal axis, and a dripper including a dripper tip. The fingers terminate at fingertips located proximate to an outside surface of the dripper. Gas exit ports are defined between adjacent fingers, and by the dripper. The gas-liquid separator defines a liquid flow path from the fluid inlet, along the inside surface, along one or more of the fingers, converging along the dripper outside surface, and to the dripper tip. The gas-liquid separator also defines a gas flow path from the fluid inlet, through the interior space, and through the gas exit ports. The gas-liquid separator may be utilized in fluid separation systems such as liquid chromatography or supercritical fluid chromatography/extraction systems.
Patent GB-2583366-A (GB)
Title: System and method of verifying display of visual information
Inventor: TERENCE SIMPSON
IPC: H04N21/43
Filed: 2019-04-25
Abstract: A method for verifying that visual information, such as an advertisement, is displayed on the screen of an electronic visual display device 14 comprises sending data to the display device for causing the display device to display the primary visual information on the screen, the data further including data for causing the device to display visual verification information, such as a watermark, on the screen simultaneously with the visual information; and monitoring the screen using at least one optical detector 30 to detect display of the verification information on the screen. The optical detector may be comprising a photoelectric sensor or other image sensor which may be contained within a digital camera. The visual verification information may be located in a portion (figure 3, 32) of the screen, may be located in the periphery of the display, may overlay the visual information, and/or may be displayed separately to the information.
Patent GB-2584099-A (GB)
Title: Direct tie-in of subsea conduits and structures
Inventor: Håvar Ilstad
IPC: F16L1/23
Filed: 2019-05-20
Abstract: In a method of connecting a conduit or pipeline 10 to a subsea structure 20, a tensioning member 16 is provided on the conduit and attached to the conduit at two locations near a first end 14 of the conduit. The tensioning member maintains a curvature formed in the conduit between the two locations by deflecting a portion of the conduit using e.g. a wire 16a. A first end of the conduit is engaged with a guide assembly adjacent the subsea structure that may have e.g. supports 36. Tension in the tensioning member is released to allow direct connection between the conduit and the subsea structure. A method of disconnecting a conduit from a subsea structure using a tensioning member is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2571865-A (GB)
Title: Distribution of a virtual network operator subscription in a satellite spot-beam network
Inventor: SATYAJIT ROY
IPC: H04B7/185
Filed: 2017-11-22
Abstract: A system and method for bandwidth management for a Host Network Operator (HNO) is disclosed. The method including: providing shared beams shared by two or more of a plurality of Virtual Network Operators (VNOs), wherein each VNO has a subscription including a global bandwidth limit applicable for a flow control epoch for each VNO and a terminal subscription for each terminal associated with the respective VNO; aggregating, in the current flow control epoch, a demand and the terminal subscriptions of active terminals per shared beam per VNO; distributing, for each shared beam per VNO, the aggregated demand and active terminal subscriptions into a distribution bandwidth per shared beam per VNO, wherein the distribution bandwidth is based on the respective global bandwidth limit of the respective VNO; and proportionally balancing, for each shared beam, an oversubscription of the distribution bandwidths per shared beam per VNO based on the proportionalities of the global bandwidth limit of each VNO subscribing to the shared beam, to provide a proportional distribution bandwidth per shared beam per VNO.
Patent GB-2585242-A (GB)
Title: Shelving system
Inventor: TONY PIERCE
IPC: A47B57/04
Filed: 2019-07-05
Abstract: A shelving system (10, Figure 1(a)) for installation within a frame, comprises a shelf 40 and a pair of shelf supports 38 positionable vertically within the frame; wherein each shelf support has right and left lateral sides 38A, top and bottom ends 38B, 38C and front and rear ends 38D, 38E; and wherein the supports 38 removably support the shelf 40 and the frame removably supports the shelf supports 38, in the assembled state of the shelf system. The shelf support 38 may have a side view profile that is selected from: rectangular, square, parallelogram and trapezoid. The bottom end 38C of the support 38 may be adapted to be seated on the upper surface of the shelf 40. The top end 38B of the shelf support 38 may define a shelf ledge. The top and bottom ends 38B,38C may be parallel to each other. The shelf support 38 may have an aperture (68, Figure 2(b)) in its side for engaging the end of a hanger rod (64, Figure 2(a)). The system (10, Figure 1(a)) may comprise the frame which supports shelf support 38.
Patent GB-2573451-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for monitoring home inventory
Inventor: DAVID WINKLE
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2018-01-18
Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to a system for monitoring items in a residence for replenishment. Multiple sensors are disposed in a residence and configured to sense characteristics of an item indicating at least a quality of the item. A computing device is configured to retrieve and analyze usage data for the item. The computing device determines that the item needs replenishment based at least in part on the sensed quality of the item and the usage data for the item. The computing device generates an alert at a user interface in response to determining that the item needs replenishment.
Patent GB-2586076-A (GB)
Title: A mop head
Inventor: RONALD ALEXANDER SCOT YOUNG
IPC: A47L13/255
Filed: 2019-08-02
Abstract: A mop head for use with mop material 15, said mop head comprises a first portion 20 for attachment to a mop handle, said first portion connected to a second portion 30 by a resiliently deformable hinge 90, said second portion moveable about said resiliently deformable hinge in a first direction between an open position for attaching and detaching mop material and a closed position for retaining mop material and wherein movement in said first direction to a position exceeding said open position is prevented by an engagement of said second portion and said first portion. Plastic deformation of said resiliently deformable hinge may be prevented by said engagement of said second portion and said first portion and engagement of said second portion and said first portion is between an engagement formation 160 on said second portion and an abutment formation 170 on said first portion.
Patent GB-2578665-A (GB)
Title: Food preparation method and apparatus
Inventor: STEPHEN JOHN HOLDING
IPC: A47J29/02
Filed: 2019-08-27
Abstract: A method of preparing a pre-cooked, packaged egg product comprises the steps of: (i) de-shelling an egg; (ii) sealing the egg in a packaging pouch; and (iii) performing a thermal treatment on the egg in the pouch, so that the white of the egg is substantially set and the yolk of the egg remains substantially unset, but is pasteurised. Also disclosed is apparatus for a pre-cooked, packaged egg product comprising: (i) a de-shelling device for de-shelling an egg; and (ii) thermal treatment apparatus for treating an egg inside a pouch, so that the white of the egg is substantially set and the yolk of the egg remains substantially unset, but is pasteurised. Additionally disclosed is an egg product comprising a set egg white and a pasteurised substantially unset yolk within the white, sealed in a pouch.
Patent GB-2574347-A (GB)
Title: Diaper pants having a waistband that provides softness and skin comfort.
Inventor: SANGHYUN LEE
IPC: A61F13/496
Filed: 2017-02-27
Abstract: An absorbent garment that includes a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis. The absorbent garment also includes a front region, a back region and a crotch region, with the crotch region being disposed between the front region and the back region. The crotch region includes an absorbent assembly. The absorbent garment further includes a front panel in the front region, wherein the front panel includes an inner layer, an outer layer and a front longitudinal end; a back panel in the back region, wherein the back panel includes an inner layer, an outer layer and a back longitudinal end. The front panel and the back panel each include a stranded elastic area between their inner and outer layers. The front panel also includes a stretch banded area disposed between the inner and outer layers. The stretch banded area is disposed adjacent the front longitudinal end.
Patent GB-2592553-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for analysing drilling fluid
Inventor: JAN OVE BREVIK
IPC: G01N33/28
Filed: 2019-09-17
Abstract: Analysing drilling cuttings using image data from a hyperspectral imaging device 9, which may be camera using short wave infra-red (IR) radiation, and at least one optical camera 6. Hyperspectral image data is generated having a plurality of lines of data derived from line images (one directional images) positioned along a drilling fluids cuttings path 5, preferably including a shale shaker or shaker table 7. Tracking information in respect of particles of interest (PoI) is obtained from the optical camera 6 and a position of pixels associated with the PoI in the lines of hyperspectral imaging data is corrected based on the tracking information. The corrected hyperspectral imaging data is analysed to characterise the cuttings. In another embodiment a mineralogy analysis is performed on the line of hyperspectral data which is projected onto an image from the optical camera 6. The mineralogy of the cuttings is classified along the projected line in the optical camera image and a morphology of the cuttings is determined.
Patent GB-2583548-A (GB)
Title: Demolition charge
Inventor: ROLAND ALFORD
IPC: F42D3/00
Filed: 2019-05-03
Abstract: A demolition system comprises two or more liquid tamped explosive charges 170a, 170b. The explosive charges 170a, 170b are placed in spaced apart relation on the outside of a structure 175 so as to cause a shockwave collision therebetween upon substantially simultaneous detonation.
Patent GB-2592864-A (GB)
Title: Improved hybrid engine
Inventor: SABINO IANNUZZI
IPC: F02B75/02
Filed: 2019-10-23
Abstract: An engine 1 to power a vehicle. The engine (referred to as a hybrid engine) comprising: a compression device 2; an electric motor 6 to drive the compressor 2; and an expansion device 21 distinct from said compressor and comprising: a cylinder 22 in fluid communication with the compressor to allow transfer of a fluid (eg air) to the cylinder; a piston 23 movable with respect to said cylinder; and means of ignition 31 to trigger the combustion in the cylinder and cause movement of the piston. The piston 23 is disconnected from the compression device and connected, in use, to a driving wheel of said vehicle. Further disclosed is a tank 13 to store the pressurised air from the compressor, and a control mechanism to turn the electric motor powering the compressor on or off depending on the air pressure within the tank.
Patent GB-2590491-A (GB)
Title: Communication with vehicle based node
Inventor: PETER JONATHON LEGG
IPC: H04L45/24
Filed: 2019-12-19
Abstract: A communication system comprises access points 203, 205 communicating via directional beams and a first and second wireless modem 111, (701) for establishing a first and respectively second mm wave radio communication links to access points 203, 205. The first and second wireless modems 111, (701) are located on a vehicle 103 and employ electronically steerable beamforming directional antennas having first main beams for establishing the radio communication links. A common network element (705) supports communication over both links and a connection control circuit switches between the links while providing a single wired connection point. A multipath controller (713) communicates with a complementary multipath controller of the fixed network over a plurality of paths with the multipath controller (713) having a first wired port for a first path of the plurality of paths connected to the first single wired connection point.
Patent GB-2591287-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to open display refrigerators
Inventor: PAUL MCANDREW
IPC: A47F3/04
Filed: 2020-01-24
Abstract: An open display refrigerator 1 comprising a refrigerated interior space, air which is separated from ambient air by an air curtain 3. The barrier 3 is established by a fan 6 which blows air through an outlet 2 towards a corresponding inlet 5 which recovers air from the air stream 3 for recirculation to the outlet 2. First and second weir screens 4, 10 are respectively proximal to and distal from the exterior space outside the refrigerator. A channel is formed in between the risers 4, 10 for receiving air from the air curtain 3 before it is recovered by the inlet 5. The second weir screen 10 may cover a portion of the inlet 5. Also disclosed is a kit for retrofitting the weir screens 4, 10 to a refrigerator 1, including both risers 4, 10 and attachment means for attaching them to the fridge 1.
Patent GB-2593548-A (GB)
Title: Rack-mounted cabinet
Inventor: LOK YU LAM
IPC: H05K7/20
Filed: 2020-04-02
Abstract: A rack-mounted cabinet covering structure 202t suitable for managing airflow comprises a first side covering 204t and a second side covering 206t. The first side covering 204t may include a first tightener (figure 3, 210) and a first rollable rectangular layer 208. The first tightener (figure 3, 210) is coupled to the first rollable rectangular layer 208 at or near a first lateral edge (figure 3, 250). The first tightener comprises a first tightener height (figure 3, 210) that is less than a first sheet height between the first top edge (figure 3, 240) and a first bottom edge (figure 3, 242). A second side covering 206t and a middle covering are provided comprising the same features as the first side covering 204t. The middle covering is used in conjunction with the first and second side coverings 204t and 206t to cover an opening in a rack. Another aspect of the invention is taught as providing a top covering structure 202t comprising first and second upper side coverings 204t 206t, as well as a bottom covering structure 202b comprising first and second lower side coverings 204b 206b.
Patent GB-2593896-A (GB)
Title: Retaining apparatus
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER JOHN CALVERT
IPC: H02G3/00
Filed: 2020-04-06
Abstract: An apparatus 100 for locating at least two cable ties with respect to an elongate object (e.g. cable) to be secured to a support surface, comprising a plurality of substantially flexible elongate portions 104,105,106,107 each configured to axially receive and guide a cable tie 300, 302 and provide an elongate liner surface (112) between the elongate object and the respective cable tie, wherein the elongate portions are integrally formed to define a cross-like profile of the apparatus. Used to secure the cable to the support surface whilst protecting the at least one cable from the cable ties. Aspects include a method comprising: inserting a first cable tie along a first substantially flexible and elongate portion; inserting a second cable tie along a second substantially flexible and elongate portion, locating the apparatus on an elongate object supported on a support surface to thereby provide an elongate liner surface between the elongate object and each cable tie; extending respective end regions of each cable tie around the elongate object and the support surface; coupling the respective end regions of each cable tie together; and tightening each cable tie to secure the elongate object to the support surface.
Patent GB-2582075-A (GB)
Title: Resin composition and optical fiber
Inventor: KATSUSHI HAMAKUBO
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 2018-12-04
Abstract: This resin composition comprises: a base resin containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator; and a hydrophobized spherical inorganic oxide, wherein the inorganic oxide is dispersed in the resin composition, and the contained amount of the inorganic oxide is 1-60 mass% with respect to the entire amount of the resin composition.
Patent GB-2587068-A (GB)
Title: Modulating fuel for a turbine engine
Inventor: DAVID JUSTIN BRADY
IPC: F02C9/36
Filed: 2020-06-11
Abstract: A fuel supply system 100 for a turbine engine 10 that provides a modulated thrust control malfunction accommodation (TCMA); in the case of a metering valve 106 failure. The fuel supply system 100 includes a fuel line 112 that fluidly connects a fuel tank 102 and the turbine engine 10. A fuel pump 104 and a fuel metering valve are fluidly connected to the fuel line 112. A bypass line 114 is fluidly connect to the fuel line 112. Flow through the bypass line 114 will be controlled using a bypass valve 108 and a balancing pressure valve 110. The balancing pressure valve maintains a pressure differential across the bypass valve at a predetermined value. The TCMA can then modulate the fuel flow using the valves. The predetermined bypass pressure differential can be set according to a throttle setting for the turbine engine. The bypass valve can maintain the pressure differential across the fuel metering valve at a predetermined fuel line pressure differential. One of the fuel metering valves, bypass valve or the balancing pressure valve may comprise a controllable servo 134.
Patent GB-2587948-A (GB)
Title: Common high and low random bit error correction logic
Inventor: JAMES O'CONNOR
IPC: G11C16/26
Filed: 2019-04-02
Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a memory module that includes a plurality of memory devices and a memory buffer device. Each of the memory devices are characterized as one of a high random bit error rate (RBER) and a low RBER memory device. The memory buffer device includes a read data interface to receive data read from a memory address on one of the memory devices. The memory buffer device also includes common error correction logic to detect and correct error conditions in data read from both high RBER and low RBER memory devices. The common error correction logic includes a plurality of error correction units which provide different complexity levels of error correction and have different latencies. The error correction units include a first fast path error correction unit for isolating and correcting random symbol errors.
Patent GB-2601189-A (GB)
Title: Fabric article and method of making the same
Inventor: NAEEM RIAZ
IPC: D04B21/14
Filed: 2020-11-24
Abstract: Knitted fabric article formed by knitting base component 201 comprising knitting a first plurality of courses 101-105 of yarn using a knitting technique that forms a first peak or valley 203 in the base component 201 and knitting a course of conductive yarn to forma conductive region 209 connected to the base component 201 and follows the peak or valley 203, the conductive course of yarn forms a contoured outer edge of the conductive region 209. Forming the peak may comprise increasing or decreasing the length of the courses. A further part of base component 201 may be knit by knitting second plurality of courses surrounding conductive region 209. The conductive region may form a connection region suitable for connecting with a further component such as an electronics module. The conductive courses may case the conductive region 209 to form a three-dimensional conductive region 209 extending away from the base component 201. Also claimed is a computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for carrying out a method of knitting a fabric, and a fabric article comprising a knitted base component and knitted conductive region attached to the base component and following a peak or valley of the base component.
Patent GB-2592718-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle refuge for a motor carriageway
Inventor: ALEXANDER HAYK CELIK
IPC: E01C5/22
Filed: 2020-12-11
Abstract: The vehicle refuge 100 comprises a plurality of blocks 110, 120, 130 of, polymeric material for arrangement on a ground surface to indicate a safe stopping area. At least some of the blocks are connected together. One or more of the blocks may comprise a coloured pigment to make it highly visible to a driver of a vehicle. the blocks may comprise a base portion and an upper surface portion and the base and upper surface may be formed of different materials which a bonded, fused or otherwise joined together. The blocks may comprise embedded aggregates. The base portion may comprise a granular material made from recycled vehicle tyres. The blocks may be connected by a connector member arranged to mechanically engage the blocks and the mechanical engagement may be by the connection of one or more posts with one or more sockets. Also disclosed is a method of forming a vehicle refuge.
Patent GB-2587301-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for optical sensing
Inventor: MAHMOUD FARHADIROUSHAN
IPC: G01D5/353
Filed: 2016-03-07
Abstract: A distributed sensing system comprises first and second optical sources arranged to produce optical pulses at first and second wavelengths (a μm and b μm) said pulses received by an optical fibre deployed in use in an environment to be sensed. First and second sensing apparatuses are arranged to detect light from the optical pulses of the first and second wavelengths reflected back along the fibre and to determine a parameter (e.g. acoustic, vibration, temperature) that perturbs the path length of the fibre in dependence on the reflected light. The fibre is provided with first reflector portions and second reflector portions in first and second sections of the fibre arranged to reflect at least a portion of signals of the first and second wavelengths. The spacing between the first portions (10 m) may be different to the spacing between the second portions (1 m) such that the fibre can provide different spatial sensing resolutions. A product of the number of reflector portions and the average reflectivity of the reflector portions may be 0.1 or less.