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Patent GB-2519246-A (GB)
Title: Low density composite materials, their production and use
Inventor: DAUPHIN CLAUDE
IPC: B32B27/38
Filed: 2013-05-31
Abstract: Laminar structures comprising a fibre reinforced layer bonded to an expandable filler containing layer to provide improved flexural stiffness to weight ratio at lower fibre loading; a process for the manufacture of the laminar structures in which the material are selected so that migration of the expandable filler into the fibre structure of the fibre reinforced layer as they expand is minimised or prevented.
Patent GB-2533410-A (GB)
Title: MEMS devices and processes
Inventor: SCOTT LYALL CARGILL
IPC: H04R19/00
Filed: 2014-12-19
Abstract: A MEMS transducer having a membrane layer 101 and at least one variable vent structure 301; the variable vent structure has a vent hole for venting fluid so as to reduce a pressure differential across the membrane layer and a moveable vent cover 302a, 302b which, at an equilibrium position, at least partly blocks the vent hole, the movable vent cover is moveable from its equilibrium position in response to a pressure differential across the movable vent cover so as to vary the size of a flow path through the vent hole; the vent cover comprises at least a first flap section 302a and a second flap section 302b, the first flap section being coupled to the side of the vent hole and the second flap section being coupled to the first flap section so as to be moveable with respect to the first flap section. The second flap section may be configured so that it deflects away from the first section more readily than the first section deflects away from its equilibrium position. For use with speakers or microphones.
Patent GB-2519456-A (GB)
Title: Operation of a heterogeneous wireless network by determining location of a wireless device
Inventor: SCHIER THORSTEN
IPC: H04W72/12
Filed: 2014-01-13
Abstract: A heterogeneous wireless communication network includes a macrocell base station and one or more low power nodes. A first schedule of downlink reference signal transmissions is generated such that each entry identifies a first transmission time slot, a first transmission point group that transmits the downlink reference signal and a first UE that produces a first measurement report (e.g. location information for the first UE). A second schedule is generated wherein a time slot identified in the first schedule is excluded from the second schedule and identifies a second UE that produces a second measurement report (e.g. a channel quality indicator). Entries in the second schedule identify reference signal transmission from a second transmission point group to the second UE only when it is also being used to transmit user data to the second UE. The schedule may also specify a downlink transmission antenna configuration.
Patent GB-2534364-A (GB)
Title: Mechanical ventilation and heat recovery unit
Inventor: NEIL COTTINGHAM
IPC: F24F6/12
Filed: 2015-01-19
Abstract: A mechanical ventilation and heat recovery unit (1, fig 1) comprises a drainage coupling (3) at a drainage outlet 4. The coupling comprises an outer threaded drainage attachment 5 for attaching to a first drainage fitting, and a spigot drainage attachment 7 disposed radially inward of the outer threaded drainage attachment and for attaching to a second drainage fitting by adhesive or solvent welding. A threaded cap 9 may be attached to the outer drainage attachment to protect the coupling during transit. The outer drainage attachment shrouds the inner drainage attachment, i.e. they are arranged concentrically, to protect it when the cap is removed. The inner drainage attachment may comprise of a female attachment surface 17 and an end stop 19 against which a drainage pipe abuts. The inner drainage attachment provides a flow channel of smaller radial dimension than the outer drainage attachment and guides condensate through a central region and thereby can accommodate a failure at the seal of the outer drainage attachment.
Patent GB-2538040-A (GB)
Title: Flow reactor and method of conducting flow reactions
Inventor: DUNCAN RICHARD GUTHRIE
IPC: B01J19/24
Filed: 2015-02-18
Abstract: A continuous flow reactor for the reaction of one liquid reagent with another liquid reagent. The reactor has an inner tube, the inner tube defining a first flow path 130 along at least part of the length of the inner tube 102; an outer tube 104, the outer tube enclosing at least a section of the inner tube along its length, so that a second flow path 132 is defined by the space between the outer tube and the inner tube along the length of the tubes; and the inner tube having a plurality of holes (142, fig 6c) through the thickness of the inner tube, the holes being spaced longitudinally along the section of the inner tube enclosed by the outer tube. Flow reactors according to the invention are particularly suited for liquid-liquid reactions and may involve at least one highly reactive reagent. A method of performing flow reactions is also provided.
Patent GB-2536677-A (GB)
Title: Antenna impedance matching using negative impedance converter and pre-and post-matching networks
Inventor: SAMPSON HU
IPC: H04B1/40
Filed: 2015-03-25
Abstract: An impedance matching circuit for connecting an electrically small antenna 1 to a transceiver port 2 comprises a pre-matching LC network 4 to increase the resistive part of the antenna impedance while decreasing the reactive part, a negative impedance converter 3 to cancel the residual reactive impedance and compensate for losses in the networks 4 and 5, and a post-matching LC circuit 5 to increase the residual real part of the impedance to 50 Ohms. The antenna reactance is transformed by the network 4 to a value close to zero for good transmitter efficiency and receiver noise reduction. Each stage may comprise a tuneable or switchable capacitor circuit to enable good wideband impedance matching and high transmit power efficiency in different frequency channels. An RC bridging network (13,14, figure 11) may be placed across the NIC.
Patent GB-2537187-A (GB)
Title: Electronic cigarette with woven fiber tube atomizer
Inventor: VACLAV BORKOVEC
IPC: A24F40/44
Filed: 2015-05-15
Abstract: An electronic smoking device comprising a housing; a liquid supply 34; one or more woven fiber tubes 2 wherein at least one of the woven fibre tubes comprises an electrically conductive heating section 6 and one or more end sections in contact with the liquid supply; a first and second side of the heating section is connected to a first and second lead (3, 3) respectively; the first and second leads being connectable to a power source 18. The entire woven fiber tube may be electrically conductive. Preferably the first and second ends are joined to the first and second sides of the heating element respectively and may extend into the liquid supply. The woven fiber tube may be U-shaped, L-shaped or C-shaped. Preferably the heating section is straight with end sections longer than the heating section. The heating section may have a different diameter from the end sections. The device may comprise two or more woven fiber tubes which may have different diameters, may be positioned in parallel to each other and/or be in direct contact with each other. The liquid supply may be a free-flowing liquid or stored in a porous medium.
Patent GB-2539226-A (GB)
Title: Combination method of heating device of pot/kettle
Inventor: YAO-TSUNG KAO
IPC: A47J36/02
Filed: 2015-06-10
Abstract: A combination method of a heating device of a pot/kettle includes pre-casting an electric heating tube 11 or a magnetically conducting metal into an aluminium block 1. Then, an aluminium plate 2, the aluminium block 1 and the pot/kettle 3, which may be made of stainless steel, are heated to reach a preset temperature between 200 and 450 degrees C. Then, the aluminium plate, the aluminium block and the pot/kettle are stamped at a high speed so that the aluminium plate between the pot/kettle and the aluminium block is compressed instantaneously so as to combine the aluminium block with the bottom of the pot/kettle tightly and closely.
Patent GB-2542151-A (GB)
Title: Process for initializing and utilizing a mobile phone as a transient, secure, point of sale terminal
Inventor: DAVID MICHAEL GRIFFITHS
IPC: G06Q20/20
Filed: 2015-09-09
Abstract: A method for using a mobile phone 5 as a point of sale terminal, the mobile has an application that can securely communicate with a merchants point of sale payment service 2, and uses the mobiles near field communication service to communicate with a customers contactless payment card 7 to obtain the data necessary to complicate the payment transaction which the merchant has initiated. Preferably the initiation of the point of sale application on the mobile phone is operated by the merchant who populates the application with the payment and transaction details, which the customer can confirm prior to making the payment. Preferably to initiate the process the customer provides the merchant with their mobile phone number either via the merchants call centre or via the merchants website a. Preferably a session based encryption algorithm is used to secure communication of the data between the mobile phone application and the merchants point of sale payment service.
Patent GB-2543736-A (GB)
Title: An interface apparatus and method of operating an interface apparatus
Inventor: JAKOB AXEL FRIES
IPC: G06F13/40
Filed: 2015-09-10
Abstract: This application is for an interface that allows a display controller 14 to request image data from an external memory 16 using the uncompressed image data addressing scheme, i.e. spatial co-ordinate system, while the image data is stored using the compressed image data addressing scheme, i.e. block-based co-ordinate system. First the display controller requests the image data via an AXI slave interface, or first bus interface. A prefetcher 42, or encoding circuitry, uses its address translation, or conversion, circuitry to convert the spatial co-ordinates into the block-based format. It then issues a read request which goes via an AXI master interface, or second bus interface. The relevant blocks are then sent back to the display controller via a superblock decoder 62, or decoding circuitry, which decodes the compressed image data. Finally, this data is then written to a de-tiler buffer, or SRAM 40, which is then read by the de-tiler control circuitry 38 and returns the pixel data to the display controller via the AXI slave interface.
Patent GB-2532864-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use when making a beverage from a bag containing a beverage concentrate
Inventor: ALAN CHARLES SALES
IPC: A47J31/20
Filed: 2015-10-13
Abstract: Apparatus 2 for use when making a beverage from a bag 4 containing abeverage concentrate comprises holder means 6 for holding the bag 4 and a handle 8 for enabling the holder means to be dipped into water in at least one beverage container 10. The holder means releasably holds the bag such that the bag is able to be held for dipping into the water, and such that the bagis able to be released for disposal when the bag is no longer required for use. The holder means is a clamp holder means comprising first and second jaws 12, 14 which move towards each other to hold the bag, and which move away from each other to release the bag with a sliding action. Each of the first and second jaws has apertures 16. The first and second jaws extend to one side of the handle and are concave jaws which both face in the same direction. The first and second jaws are spring biased towards each other for retaining the bag when the holder means is being dipped intothe water.
Patent GB-2545257-A (GB)
Title: Internal combustion engine comprising a shifting cam system for variable valve actuation
Inventor: DAVIDE DI NUNNO
IPC: F01L13/00
Filed: 2015-12-10
Abstract: An internal combustion engine (110, Fig. 1) comprising a cam shifting system (50, Fig. 3) comprising a shifting unit 10 rotatably fixed and axially moveable with respect to a camshaft 135, the shifting unit 10 comprising at least two cams 13, 14, 15 configured to be selectively brought in contact with a cam follower 216 and provided with a base circle (13a, 14a, Fig. 6) and with at least one cam lobe (13b, 14b, Fig. 6); the shifting unit 10 is provided with at least one groove 19 having a shifting portion 19a; a driving pin 20 is operable to be selectively engaged with and disengaged from the shifting portion 19a of the groove, wherein engagement between the driving pin 20 and said shifting portion 19a of said groove 19 moves said shifting unit 10 with respect to said camshaft 135. During the movement of the shifting unit 10 the cam follower 216 engages at least a portion of at least one cam lobe (13b, 14b, Fig. 6). This system allows for a single cam follower to activate its respective cylinder valve with varying parameters, in particular valve lift.
Patent GB-2535298-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for displaying location information for RFID Tags
Inventor: Hunter Leland
IPC: G06Q10/08
Filed: 2015-12-11
Abstract: A system for visually identifying the location of RFID tags, of use in inventory management, includes a transmit antenna 102, at least one receive antenna 106 and an imager 114 configured to acquire one or more images in a scanning area having one or more radio frequency identifier (RFID) tags including one of interest 132a. The system further includes a controller 110, which operates the transmit and receive antennas to acquire location information from the RFID tags and operates the imager to acquire images of the scanning area, and a processor 112, configured to correlate the location information and images to determine an image of the location of the tag. The receive antenna may receive backscattered phase information for the RFID tags and the processor may unwrap this information to determine a closest location of a tag. The images and location data may be correlated using time-stamped information. The system additionally includes a display 124 to display this image. Independent claims are also included for a method and computer program for determining the location of a tag of interest.
Patent GB-2534698-A (GB)
Title: Illumination device
Inventor: YOSHIO MONJO
IPC: H05B44/00
Filed: 2014-10-20
Abstract: [Problem] To prevent a detrimental effect from being exerted on the eyes and the brain of a user, while ensuring simply a control of light-emission to a specific color. [Solution] The illumination device is provided with LEDs (1) having different light-emission colors, a control circuit (2) for controlling the emission intensity of each LED (1), and an input device (3) for entering the overall color of the light-emission from the LEDs (1). The input device (3) is provided with a color display unit (8) for displaying a chromaticity diagram (13), a color point pointer (9) for specifying a color point (P) in the chromaticity diagram (13) represented on the color display unit (8), and an output circuit (10) for detecting and supplying the coordinate values of the color point (P). The control circuit (2) is provided with a limiter circuit (5) for supplying limiter signals limiting the maximum outputs at the peak wavelengths of the LEDs (1), and a calculator circuit (4) for calculating, from the coordinate values and the limiter signals, the light-emission output for each LED (1). With the coordinate values entered from the input device (3) and the limiter signals entered from the limiter circuit (5), the control circuit (2) controls the light-emission output from each LED (1), causing the light to be emitted with the light-emission color of the color point (P) indicated.
Patent GB-2547437-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for needle handling
Inventor: TOBY COWE
IPC: A61M5/32
Filed: 2016-02-17
Abstract: A needle bending assembly 10 for bending a hypodermic needle 18 in a medical device. Assembly 10 comprising: a holder 12 for holding the needle 18 along a needle axis N; and a bending member 50 thats axially movable along a bending axis B from: an initial state where the bending member 50 is spaced from the needle axis N; into a cooperating state where the bending member 50 is positioned for engagement with the needle 18. Bending axis B is non-parallel to the needle axis N. When the bending member 50 is in the cooperating state, it turns about the bending axis B to apply a bending force to the needle 18. With bending member 50 in the co-operating state, the turning movement of bending member 50 may occur automatically. Assembly 10 may comprise a deshielder to remove a needle shield from the needle 18, wherein removing the deshielder triggers movement of bending member 50 from the initial to the cooperating state. Holder 12 may comprise an aperture through which the needle 18 is extendable after application of the bending force. Also a medical device with a needle bending assembly 10, which may also comprise a patch pump.
Patent GB-2534500-A (GB)
Title: Microwave monitoring
Inventor: AHMED AL-SHAMMA'A
IPC: A61B5/05
Filed: 2014-09-10
Abstract: Wireless monitoring of microwave-responsive sensors integrated into a record keeping system.
Patent GB-2543873-A (GB)
Title: Compositions and methods for cell targeted HPV treatment
Inventor: STEPHEN QUAKE
IPC: C12N15/88
Filed: 2016-05-27
Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating human papillomavirus (HPV) comprising a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) comprising a RNA-guided nuclease and an RNA with a portion complementary to a target site within a viral nucleic acid of said virus. The composition comprises a targetable nuclease selected from the CRISPR associated protein and Cpf1 or Cas9 and a nuclear localization signal, further comprising a liposome. The target site lies within an E6 or E7 gene of the HPV genome and the composition may comprise a first and second RNP enveloped in a first and second liposome wherein the second target site lies within E6 or E7. The invention further relates to a composition comprising a vector encoding the RNP further comprising a tissue specific promoter for a keratinocyte. Other nucleases may also be used selected from zinc finger nuclease (ZFN), a transcription activator like effector nuclease (TALEN) and a meganuclease. The composition may further comprise a carrier for topical application to skin.
Patent GB-2542494-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle imaging system and method
Inventor: JEREMY GREENWOOD
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2016-08-18
Abstract: A video data transmitter 3 for use with a vehicle V, comprising: a camera 5 for generating video data Dv; an image processor 15, for processing (e.g. changing: image resolution; colour content; response time (latency); frame rate) video data in dependence upon operating parameters Vref (e.g. vehicle reference speed, steering angle) of the vehicle; a transmitter 14 to transmit processed video data Dvp, to a receiver. A video data receiver 2 for a vehicle, comprising: a processor 6 configured to receive 7 operating parameters Vref of the vehicle, and generate a control signal S1, in response to the operating parameters, to control processing of the video data Dv prior to transmission; a receiver 7 for receiving video data from one or more transmitters 3; a transmitter 7 to transmit the control signal S1 to the one or more transmitters 3. A method of controlling the transmission of video data Dv from a video data transmitter 3 to a video data receiver 2 disposed in a vehicle, comprising: determining operating parameters Vref of the vehicle; generating video data Dv; processing video data in dependence upon the operating parameters of the vehicle; transmitting 14 processed video data Dvp to the receiver.
Patent GB-2540060-A (GB)
Title: Hybrid interconnect for low temperature attach
Inventor: KABIRKUMAR J MIRPURI
IPC: H01L23/498
Filed: 2014-03-27
Abstract: Apparatuses, processes, and systems related to an interconnect with an increased z-height and decreased reflow temperature are described herein. In embodiments, an interconnect may include a solder ball and a solder paste to couple the solder ball to a substrate. The solder ball and/or solder paste may be comprised of an alloy with a relatively low melting point and an alloy with a relatively high melting point.
Patent GB-2541140-A (GB)
Title: Keratin treatment formulations and methods
Inventor: ERIC D PRESSLY
IPC: A61Q5/08
Filed: 2015-05-15
Abstract: Formulations, kits, and methods for rebuilding the disulfide bonds in keratin found in hair, skin, or nails. Hair that is damaged due to a hair colouring treatment and/or other reducing treatment, such as during a permanent wave, can be treated with the formulations containing one or more active agents of formula (I) or (II) where A, B, C, n, m, o and Z are as defined therein. The formulations may be applied subsequent to a hair colouring treatment or simultaneously with a hair colouring treatment. Use of the active agent formulations during a permanent wave treatment prevents the reversion of the hair to its previous state, for at least one week, preferably at least three months, more preferably at least one year, most preferably greater than one year, after one or more than one application of the formulation. Application of the active agent formulation to skin or nails can help repair damaged disulfide bonds due to natural wear and tear or natural aging. (B)m-Z-(A)n - (I) (B)m-Z-(A)n-----(C)o (II)
Patent GB-2559166-A (GB)
Title: Inductive system for determination of overhead electrical contact wire's wear and end-of-life
Inventor: SILVIU PUCHIANU
IPC: G01N27/82
Filed: 2017-01-29
Abstract: An array 7 of magnetic field sensors 8 capable of measuring the magnetic field across a three-dimensional space, positioned on an electric locomotive 5, below the pantograph 4, to measure the magnetic field proximate the contact wire 3 from the external power source whilst the locomotive is stationary or in operation and in any environmental conditions. Also claimed is a system for diagnosing faults in a contact wire used with a pantograph, wherein a three-dimensional map of magnetic field strength measured by magnetic sensors is used, in conjunction with GPS location data, to recognise particular types of faults. Further claimed is a method for determining the magnetic field intensity of a contact wire by subtracting the magnetic field of a pantograph from a measured magnetic field of the vicinity of the contact wire, wherein the pantograph magnetic field is calculated by means of a real time current measurement and stored calibration data.
Patent GB-2548013-A (GB)
Title: Beverage capsule
Inventor: LESLIE GORT-BARTEN
IPC: B65D85/816
Filed: 2017-02-27
Abstract: A frustoconical beverage capsule 1 for use in a coffee machine is made from a polyolefin with an active oxygen scavenging additive dispersed in the polymer matrix. The capsule has an upper surface 3 and a lower surface with an annular flange 7 with sealing means (8, fig. 2) on surface facing the upper surface. The capsule is further provided with a plurality of grooves 6 in an upper surface. The upper end maybe formed of a second frustroconical part 4 and an indent 5 and the grooves may be external, on the second frustroconical part and may extend from the indent towards the edge of the second frustoconical part. The capsule may have a foil seal (8, fig. 2) which is applied at a temperature of around 220 degrees C.