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Patent GB-2511386-A (GB)
Title: Herbicidal compositions
Inventor: KOTZIAN GEORG RUDIGER
IPC: A01N43/16
Filed: 2013-12-04
Abstract: The present invention provides a herbicidal composition comprising: (a) a compound of formula (I) or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof: wherein the substituents are as defined herein; and (b) an ALS (acetolactate synthase) inhibitor herbicide suitable for use on rice, wherein the rice-suitable ALS inhibitor herbicide is bensulfuron-methyl, pyrazosulfuron-ethyl, azimsulfuron, flucetosulfuron, orthosulfamuron, prosulfuron, triasulfuron, trifloxysulfuron, bispyribac, pyriminobac-methyl, pyribenzoxim, and/or penoxsulam, or an agriculturally acceptable salt of any of these; and wherein the weight ratio of the compound of formula (I) or the salt thereof, (calculated as the free compound), to the rice-suitable ALS inhibitor herbicide, (calculated as the free compound), is as defined herein. Also claimed is a composition comprising (a) and (b) and a safener. The invention also relates to a method of controlling grassy weeds (e.g. Brachiaria, Echinochloa, and/or Leptochloa) in crops of useful plants (e.g. rice), which comprises applying the composition to the grassy weeds or to the locus (particularly to the flooded locus, e.g. floodwaters) thereof.
Patent GB-2506074-A (GB)
Title: Information processing device, method, and program which administer secret information
Inventor: KIRIYAMA HAYATO
IPC: G06F17/24
Filed: 2012-04-04
Abstract: To provide an information processing device, method, and program, with which, without limiting duplication from an electronic document which includes secret information by a property of a copy destination electronic document, or when pasting copy data from an electronic document which includes secret information, secrecy of a copy destination electronic document is made appropriate: content data which a user has designated and a label which denotes the secrecy of an electronic document which includes the content data are saved to a clipboard; the content data which the user has designated is pasted to a copy destination electronic document; the label of the electronic document which includes the content data which the user has designated is provisionally saved to a data table which logs the label of the electronic document as a label of the copy destination electronic document; and the secrecy of the copy destination electronic document is inspected, with the provisionally saved label being either verified or deleted.
Patent GB-2522847-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for detecting a flow blockage in a pipe
Inventor: GRICE CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL
IPC: F17D5/00
Filed: 2014-02-05
Abstract: A method of detecting a flow blockage in a pipe comprises the steps of: arranging a fluid flow along the pipe, the pipe being in fluid communication with a pressure sensor; configuring the pressure sensor to measure a pressure within the pipe; recording a plurality of measurements of the pressure within the pipe; sampling 'n' successive values of the pressure within the pipe; performing an analytical test on the 'n' successive values, the analytical test producing an output value, the output value being representative of a variation in the individual ones of the 'n' successive values; comparing the output value to a pre-defined threshold value, the threshold value being indicative of a lack of variation in the individual ones of the 'n' successive values; and if the output value is less than the threshold value, generating an alert to thereby provide a user with an indication of the presence of a flow blockage in the pipe. The invention is particularly suited to use with a pipe within a gas turbine engine that is particularly prone to blockage by the freezing moist air.
Patent GB-2527312-A (GB)
Title: Harvesting power from ambient energy in an electronic device
Inventor: SAVANTH PARAMESHWARAPPA ANAND KUMAR
IPC: H02J17/00
Filed: 2014-06-17
Abstract: An electronic device 50 has at least one harvesting unit 52 for harvesting power from ambient energy. At least one circuit 54, including processing circuitry 56 configured to perform data processing, is supplied with power from the harvesting unit. Control circuitry 60 is provided to adjust at least one property of the processing circuitry or the at least one harvesting unit to reduce impedance mismatch between an output impedance of the harvesting unit and an input impedance of the at least one circuit. The impedance mismatch may be reduced by adjusting the frequency of a clock signal supplied to the processing circuitry in dependence upon an amount of power generated by the harvesting unit. The device may include plural harvesting units such as a photovoltaic cell, a thermoelectric generator a piezoelectric energy harvester and a radio frequency energy harvester.
Patent GB-2521494-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to footwear
Inventor: BURROWS CLAIRE LILIAN
IPC: A43B17/14
Filed: 2014-07-09
Abstract: A shoe insole comprising a first layer 22 in the heel section providing lift, a second layer 24 extending from the heel section to the ball of the foot, an edge of the second layer following an angle subtended by the phalanges, and a third layer 26 overlying the first and second layers providing the only support for the phalanges. The first layer is preferably manufactured from a foam with an Asker hardness of 40-50. The second layer is formed from a foam having an Asker hardness of 20-30 and the third layer from a foam with a hardness of 60-90. The first layer is preferably chamfered. The layers may be formed from polyurethane and rubber foam. The third layer may comprise a laminated foam.
Patent GB-2529403-A (GB)
Title: A Method of operating a shared nothing cluster system
Inventor: MUELLER-WICKE DOMINIC
IPC: G06F11/20
Filed: 2014-08-18
Abstract: Share nothing cluster system (SNCS) 100 comprises backup server 126 for backing up data elements 135. SNCS 100 includes common namespace component 101 (e.g. file system mount point), nodes 110-112 with storage devices 120-122, and local table 128. Data 135 is partitioned in block sequences 137A-137E distributed across storage 120-122 as set of blocks BS1-BS3. For example BS1 comprises sequences 137A, 137C. Placement information is stored in table 128. After a request for backing-up data 135, each node identifies corresponding block sequences and sends them to the back up server alongside information on the ordering of block sequences, the node, and the data element (e.g. filename). The server organises the information for a block sequence as an entry in backup information table 300. It adds a first flag after complete reception and storage of each sequence and a second flag at completion of the back-up for the entire data element.
Patent GB-2521503-A (GB)
Title: Device for connecting a fixed portion of a turbine engine and a distributor foot of a turbine engine turbine
Inventor: GARNIER FABIEN
IPC: F01D25/24
Filed: 2014-10-01
Abstract: A device for connecting a fixed turbine engine portion 2 and a distributor, or stator, foot 31, comprising a ring-shaped flange 111, two brackets 13, 14 for clamping the stator foot and a ring-shaped screen 9 secured to the flange and positioned in an upstream chamber 4 between the fixed turbine engine portion and the flange to at least partly block heat radiation from the fixed turbine engine portion directed towards the flange. The screen is preferably configured to prevent contact of a fluid from a vein 71 of the turbine engine with the flange. The screen may be adapted to orientate a flow 22 for purging the upstream chamber along the screen for cooling. The screen is preferably attached to the flange via an elastic element 951 so as to absorb stresses associated with expansion of the screen. The screen protects the flange from high temperatures produced by the engine, thereby increasing the lifetime of the stator.
Patent GB-2532987-A (GB)
Title: Surface cleaning apparatus
Inventor: DARAGH MICHAEL MANNING
IPC: A47L13/22
Filed: 2014-12-04
Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a water storage container 12, a steam generator 13 including a heating element(s), and a fluid passage for directing steam from the steam generator 13 to a cleaning head 50 of the apparatus, wherein the apparatus includes a device 20 for blocking the fluid passage which is moveable between blocking and unblocking positions and wherein the device 20 moves to the unblocking position when the pressure within the fluid passage exceeds a predetermined magnitude. Preferably, the device 20 moves to the blocking position when the pressure within the fluid passage falls below a predetermined magnitude and the device 20 can be biased to its blocking position. The biasing may be effected by a spring or other resiliently deformable member. The device 20 is preferably a valve.
Patent GB-2524380-A (GB)
Title: Drive device with a hypocycloid gear assembly for a forming machine
Inventor: MERKLE THOMAS
IPC: F16H21/36
Filed: 2015-02-06
Abstract: A drive device 10, for a forming machine for cans, comprises a hypocycloid gear assembly 20 having an eccentric gear 23, a stationary annulus gear 24 and a planetary gear system 28. The planetary gear system 28 includes an orbiting gear 29 orbiting and rolling in the annulus gear 24 and connected to at least one first planetary gear 35 of the planetary gear system 28. Alternatively, a planetary gear 35, 36 each may be arranged on opposite sides of the orbiting gear 29. On the first planetary gear 35, there is provided a first planetary gear equalization mass m2 diametrically opposite an output bearing. At least one first eccentric gear equalization mass m3 and, optionally, a second eccentric gear equalization mass m4, are arranged on the eccentric gear 23. The first eccentric gear equalization mass m3 is arranged diametrically opposite, relative to a planetary gear axis PA about which the planetary gear system 28 rotates. The resultant forces and torques acting on the annulus gear 24 can at least be reduced by the equalization masses.
Patent GB-2535166-A (GB)
Title: Additives for wet heating and cooling systems
Inventor: ROBERT WILSON
IPC: C11D1/83
Filed: 2015-02-09
Abstract: A surfactant suitable for use as an additive in the heat transfer liquid of a heating and/or cooling system, wherein the surfactant comprises a coconut-derived surfactant, the preferred coconut-derived surfactant being a non-ionic, coco-glucoside. The surfactant may further comprise a glycol e.g. ethylene glycol and can be used as an additive in a heat transfer fluid of a wet central heating system or a chiller circuit at a concentration of between 800 ppm and 1500 ppm, but preferably 1200 ppm, as this has surprisingly been found to yield an optimum reduction in the surface tension of the heat transfer fluid, whilst not significantly or appreciably increasing the specific heat capacity of the heat transfer fluid.
Patent GB-2520206-A (GB)
Title: Engine
Inventor: HASEGAWA NAOHIRO
IPC: F02M35/104
Filed: 2013-07-22
Abstract: An air intake route (2) leads air drawn in from outside into a diesel engine (100). The air intake route (2) is provided with an air intake manifold (22) and an EGR device (35) is provided which supplies some of the exhaust to the air intake route (2). An introduction path (22b) for introducing exhaust supplied from the EGR device (35) is provided inside of the air intake manifold (22), and an exhaust port (22c) of the introduction path (22b) is arranged downstream from and near the intake entrance (22a) in the air intake manifold (22). By this means, exhaust gas performance can be improved without increasing the engine size.
Patent GB-2536284-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic system
Inventor: PETER MATTHEW LANGLEY
IPC: F15B11/17
Filed: 2015-03-13
Abstract: A hydraulic system 20 for supplying fluid to an actuator 26 is provided. The system 20 comprises a variable speed prime mover 28 drivingly coupled to a variable displacement hydraulic pump 30. The system 20 is configured to deliver hydraulic fluid via fluid conduits 31 to the actuator 26. It may deliver hydraulic fluid to the actuator 26 at a first hydraulic pressure at a first rate of pressure rise; and at a second hydraulic pressure at a second rate of pressure rise. The first hydraulic pressure may be greater than the second hydraulic pressure; and the first hydraulic rate of pressure rise may be lower than the second hydraulic rate of pressure rise. The actuator 26 may be operable to move a control surface 24 of a vessel. A method of operating such a vessel is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2524913-A (GB)
Title: Rapid make up drive screw adapter
Inventor: LIEW JOSEPH SHU YIAN
IPC: E21B33/038
Filed: 2013-11-26
Abstract: An assembly (20) for clamping flanged tubular components (10, 14), the assembly (20) including a segmented clamp (22) having a recess (24) configured to accept the flanges (12, 16) of the tubular components (10, 14), and a hole (38) oriented substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the tubular components (10, 14). The assembly (20) also includes a housing (40) surrounding an outer portion of the segmented clamp (22) and configured for attachment to at least one of the tubular components (10, 14), and a drive screw (50) that passes through the housing (40) and is threadedly engaged with the hole (38) of the segmented clamp (22). As the drive screw (50) rotates, it drives the segmented clamp (22) perpendicularly relative to the tubular components (10, 14) between a locked position, in which the circumferential recess (24) engages the flanges (12, 16) of the tubular components (10, 14), and an unlocked position, in which the circumferential recess (24) is positioned laterally out of engagement with the flanges (12, 16) of the tubular components (10, 14).
Patent GB-2540423-A (GB)
Title: Annular coupler for a central tyre inflation system
Inventor: EMMA-CLAIRE DUNNING
IPC: F16J15/02
Filed: 2015-07-17
Abstract: An annular coupler 2 of a central tyre inflation system (CTIS) for facilitating delivery of air to a driven wheel of a vehicle is described. The annular coupler is for coupling between a knuckle 14 and an axle 18 of the vehicle, and comprises an inlet aperture 4 for receiving air from a source of air, said aperture being in fluid communication with an annular channel 6 defined at least in part by a first radially inner wall portion (17, figure 2B) of the annular coupler for delivering the received air to the driven wheel via the axle. Second and third radially inner wall portions (8, 10) arranged adjacent to and on respective sides of the first radially inner wall portion may define at least two sealing surfaces for receiving annular seals 16A, 16B. The CTIS may include at least two annular seals that seal against the at least two sealing surfaces of the annular coupler, in use, for defining the annular channel. A method of delivering air using a CTIS comprising such a coupler is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2525534-A (GB)
Title: Transferring data
Inventor: BURGESS PAUL
IPC: H04L47/36
Filed: 2014-11-28
Abstract: Apparatus has at least one processor and at least one memory having computer- readable code stored therein which when executed controls the at least one processor to perform a method comprising: maintaining plural logical connections on a communications path; transmitting data packets on different ones of the logical connections; monitoring acknowledgements received in respect of the data packets transmitted over the different ones of the logical connections; reusing a logical connection for which an acknowledgement for a transmitted data packet has been received; creating a new logical connection when there is a data packet to transmit over the path and there are no logical connections available for reuse; and destroying excess logical connections. This can result in the maintenance and use of a number of logical connections that is most appropriate for the link conditions and the data transmission requirements, thereby potentially maximizing transmission speed and minimizing system resource requirements. Advantageously, one excess logical connection is retained. This contributes further to minimizing system resource requirements.
Patent GB-2534623-A (GB)
Title: Formulations for transmucosal delivery
Inventor: TERENCE SIMON CORBITT
IPC: A61P33/06
Filed: 2015-08-21
Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising a combination of artemether and lumefantrine (benflumetol) and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable lipid excipients is provided. Preferably the lipid excipient is one or more fatty acids, hydroxy fatty acids, esters of fatty acids and esters of hydroxy fatty acids, in particular oleic acid. The amount of lipid excipient present in the composition is preferably from about 60 to about 85% w/w. The composition is preferably formulated for transmucosal delivery, in particular buccal administration. The composition may further include flavourings, preferably essential oils such as orange terpenes or D-limonene; antioxidants such as palmitoyl ascorbic acid; and/or preservatives such as propyl parabens and butyl parabens. A composition comprising 12g lumefantrin, 2g artemether, 0.109g orange terpenes, 0.6g palmitoyl ascorbic acid and 50g oleic acid is exemplified. The composition is preferably for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of malaria.
Patent GB-2525559-A (GB)
Title: Interactive environment for performing arts scripts
Inventor: THREEWITS RANDALL LEE
IPC: G09B19/00
Filed: 2014-02-27
Abstract: One or more embodiments present blocking information associated with a manuscript to a user. In one embodiment, a determination is made that at least one line from a digital representation of a manuscript has been selected. Another determination is made that the line is associated with a set of blocking information. The set of blocking information is presented on a digital representation of a stage.
Patent GB-2528410-A (GB)
Title: Method of operating a fuel injector
Inventor: TORDIN SERENA
IPC: F02D41/40
Filed: 2015-10-20
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of operating a fuel injector 160 of an internal combustion engine 110, wherein the method comprises the steps of: setting a value of a target fuel quantity to be injected by the fuel injector 160; initializing a value of a fuel quantity requested from the fuel injector 160 to the value of the target fuel quantity and correcting the value of the requested fuel quantity. The correction of the value of the requested fuel quantity comprises performing a first learning cycle including the steps of determining a value of an energizing time corresponding to the value of the requested fuel quantity, performing a fuel injection by energizing the fuel injector 160 for the determined value of energizing time, measuring a value of an oxygen concentration in an exhaust gas, determining the fuel quantity that has been injected by the fuel injector 160 as a function of the measured value of the oxygen concentration, calculating a difference between the value of the target fuel quantity and the value of the injected fuel quantity, and adding the value of the requested fuel quantity to the calculated difference. The method essentially provides closed loop feedback control of the fuel injection amount based on readings of the oxygen level in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. A computer program for carrying the method is disclosed as is an internal combustion engine using the method
Patent GB-2533705-A (GB)
Title: Riser restrictor device
Inventor: JOHN H COHEN
IPC: E21B21/08
Filed: 2014-08-12
Abstract: A restrictor device (6) for controlling a return flow of drilling fluid from a borehole (51) where drilling fluid is provided from a surface installation (3) via a drill string (4) to a bottom-hole assembly (45), drill pipes (41) forming the drill string (4) being provided with pipe joints (42) including enlarged-diameter pipe portions (43), and where an annulus (22) is formed between a pipe, for example a marine riser (1), and the drill string (4), and where the annulus (22) is in fluid communication with or forms parts of a drilling-fluid flow path (23), and where the restrictor device (6) is arranged in the annulus (22), the restrictor device (6) being formed of a restrictor pipe (61) anchored to said riser (1) and surrounding at least one restrictor element (64) placed on an intermediate pipe portion (44) that connects two enlarged-diameter pipe portions (43), and the length (L) of the restrictor device (6) exceeding the largest distance (M) between two consecutive restrictor elements (64), the restrictor element (64) being a drill-pipe/casing protector (DPP) with an external diameter larger than a diameter of the pipe joints (42).
Patent GB-2535884-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in relation to security printing
Inventor: DAVID MALCOLM LEWIS
IPC: D21H21/48
Filed: 2016-02-16
Abstract: An article comprising a substrate which carries a doped tin oxide wherein less than 50 mol% of the tin atoms in the tin oxide are substituted with a dopant element, e.g. antimony, tungsten, fluorine or phosphorus. The doped tin oxides may be used as invisible but IR-active pigments for confirming genuineness of an article or for assessing its quality. A genuine article may be determined by measuring the absorption of the article, which may be non-uniform, at two different wavelengths in the infra-red range and calculating their ratio. The quality is assessed by comparing the IR absorption with a standard. The article may be a banknote, which has either the doped tin oxide (e.g. cassiterite, SnO2) distributed throughout the substrate or the doped tin oxide is applied as an ink composition. The ink compositions may have tin oxide with 5 20 mol% antimony or with 1.5 mol% fluorine. The banknote may contain a covert security image or hidden coating. The difference in colour dE between substrate with doped tin oxide and without it may be less than 2.
Patent GB-2537715-A (GB)
Title: An instantaneous electric water heater, a heat exchanger and an electric shower
Inventor: ROBIN EDWARD BRASH
IPC: H05B3/48
Filed: 2014-04-14
Abstract: An instantaneous electric water heater 10 having a heat exchanger comprising two electrical heating elements 14, 15. Each heating element 14, 15 is a double helix. One double helix 15 has a smaller diameter and is disposed within the other 14, coaxially. The elements are contained within a chamber 12. The heating elements 14, 15 may have a return configuration, such that the free ends 14a, 14b, 15a, 15b of both are at the same end of the chamber 12. Also provided is an electric shower comprising the heater 10, and a baffle 20or flow directing element to ensure the water flows substantially in line with the axis of the heating elements 14, 15.
Patent GB-2558865-A (GB)
Title: Food apron
Inventor: COSBY SANDERS
IPC: A41D13/04
Filed: 2016-04-19
Abstract: A food apron 12 comprises a flexible material with bi-folding straps 23, 24 on opposing sides which are partially detached and loop under the bottom of the apron. A flexible pocket (22, figure 1) is positioned on the front of the apron and is formed by an upward fold 84 in the flexible material. Attachments 33, 34 on the back of the apron 12 secure the folded side straps 23, 24 which keeps the pocket in a folded position. The apron may be made from water resistant material. There may be a second flexible pocket position on the back side of the apron, i.e. an inside pocket when being worn. The advantage is that the pocket (22, figure 1) can collect food when being worn, but the apron can be unfolded so that it be washed properly.