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Patent GB-2557586-A (GB)
Title: Cycle storage assembly
Inventor: GARY OLIVIER
IPC: B62H3/12
Filed: 2016-12-09
Abstract: A cycle storage assembly 2 comprises a frame member 4 having a ground anchor portion 6, at least two lower fixing arrangements 14,16 and at least two upper fixing arrangements 28,30; a lower cycle carrier arm 18 releasably coupled to one of the lower fixing arrangements14,16; and an upper cycle carrier arm 36 releasably coupled to one of the upper fixing arrangements 28,30. Components of the assembly may also be assembled to provide an alternative cycle storage rack configuration (figure 3) comprising a vertical channel 220 and an upper bracket made up of two side plates 154 connected to support a front wheel of a cycle hanging vertically.
Patent GB-2557666-A (GB)
Title: Road cycling domestique indicator/signal
Inventor: JAMES RICHARD HYLAND
IPC: B62J6/00
Filed: 2016-12-15
Abstract: Devices mounted on the handlebars of cycles allow cyclists to communicate by pushing a button rather than verbally. When activated, a device transmits a signal to a similar device mounted on another bicycle. Upon receiving the signal, the second device displays an alert relating to their optimal speed. The alert may comprise LEDs.
Patent GB-2547758-A (GB)
Title: Gate drive integrated circuit and display device including the same
Inventor: JOONKYU PARK
IPC: G09G3/36
Filed: 2016-12-23
Abstract: A gate drive integrated circuit (IC), 110, for a display device includes a start pulse modulator, 210, configured to receive a start pulse or a front-end carry pulse alternating between a first logic level (Figure 8, L1) and a second logic level (Figure 8, L2) to output a modulation start pulse or a modulation carry pulse that is generated by modulating a logic level shift time of the start pulse or the front-end carry pulse. The start pulse modulator is further configured to output the modulation start pulse or the modulation carry pulse having the second logic level at a time when a logic level of the start pulse or the front-end carry pulse has a third logic level (Figure 8, L3) between the first logic level and the second logic level. The gate drive IC may further include a shift register, 220, configured to receive and sequentially output the modulation start pulse or the modulation carry pulse. The invention aims to reduce time differences between gate signals output from the gate drive IC and thus reduce dimming effects.
Patent GB-2558924-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for providing a quantitative volumetric assessment of organ health
Inventor: MATTHEW KELLY
IPC: A61B5/00
Filed: 2017-01-20
Abstract: A method of providing a quantitative volumetric assessment of organ (such as a liver for example) health comprises obtaining a volumetric map 110 of organ health comprising information defining a state of tissue health across at least part of an organ, receiving input defining at least one organ section 125 , determining an assessment organ volume 130 based at least partly on the at least one defined organ section, calculating an organ-viability measure 135 for the assessment organ volume based at least partly on information within the volumetric map defining the state of tissue health across the organ volume, and outputting an indication of the organ-viability measure 150. The method may comprise inputting a user-defined region of interest, and the functional organ model may be based on Couinaud classification. The state of tissue health may be measured at multiple discrete locations within the organ, and these results averaged or interpolated to determine the whole organ health. An apparatus for carrying out the method is disclosed. The method and apparatus are suitable for monitoring conditions such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and for identifying the functional liver remnant (FLR) prior to removal.
Patent GB-2559628-A (GB)
Title: Short range roaming for low power, paired devices
Inventor: KARL JONSSON
IPC: H04W84/18
Filed: 2017-03-14
Abstract: A method of virtually and wirelessly pairing and connecting a low power client device, such as wearable device 12, to a low power host device, such as smart phone 10, uses a local area network 14 of wireless access points 18 to provide communication between the client device 12 and the host device 10 when the client device is outside of the normal range of connectivity. A host device is paired with an available access point 18, the host device pairing protocol is then imitated and communicated over a local data network to all other access points 18. The client device 12 scans for available wireless access points, e.g. 18C, which are broadcasting the imitated pairing protocol for the host device and establishing pairing between the client device and the host device over the local area data network. The wireless access points are provided within a networked lighting system comprising a plurality of luminaires 16. The host and client devices may employ a short range wireless protocol such a BluetoothRTM Low Energy, BLE. As client device 12 moves out of range of access point 18C, a roaming server 28 will coordinate reconnection with another access point, e.g. 18D.
Patent GB-2552622-A (GB)
Title: Automated connection assembly
Inventor: JAMES G MARTENS
IPC: E21B33/05
Filed: 2014-12-11
Abstract: A method for automated connection 10 of a fluid conduit (110, Fig. 1) to a fluid inlet port (105, Fig. 1) of a cement head (100, Fig. 1). A lifting assembly on or in proximity to the cement head (100, Fig. 1) is installed and includes a connection receiver 35 in fluid communication with the inlet port (105, Fig. 1) and cement head (100, Fig. 1) and a winch assembly 20 having a cable 21 wrapped around a winch drum 26 rotatably disposed around the cement head (100, Fig. 1). A distal end of the fluid conduit (110, Fig. 1) having a stinger (quick-lock male connection member) (42, Fig. 3) is lifted toward the cement head (100, Fig. 1) with the cable 21 until the stinger (42, Fig. 3) is at least partially received within the connection receiver 35. A locking assembly controlled from a remote location is actuated to secure and form a fluid pressure seal between the stinger (42, Fig. 3) and the connection receiver 35. Cement slurry is pumped through the system and fluid pressure is sensed across the connection receiver 35, with disconnection of the stinger (42, Fig. 3) being prevented when fluid pressure is sensed.
Patent GB-2554277-A (GB)
Title: Ball seat for use in a wellbore
Inventor: MIKE A LUKE
IPC: E21B34/08
Filed: 2016-03-24
Abstract: A downhole device shifts a component from a first state to a second state. In one embodiment, the device includes a body having the component in a bore thereof and an annular space formed within an inner and outer wall of the body. The annular space includes a first fluid chamber in fluid communication with the bore at a first location and with a pressure transducer at a second location, the transducer constructed and arranged to measure pressure of the fluid and provide a signal to circuitry controlling a valve upon reception of a predetermined pressure pulse sequence. When the pulse sequence is delivered, the valve opens, placing a source of pressurized fluid in communication with an actuator that shifts the valve.
Patent GB-2555053-A (GB)
Title: Leak noise logger
Inventor: MARK AGATE
IPC: G01M3/24
Filed: 2016-04-15
Abstract: A leak-noise-detecting data logger (101) includes: a case (102), an acoustic transducer (103), a communications antenna (104), an analogue to digital converter (105), a microprocessor (106), a clock (107), a memory (108) and a communications module (109), a radio signal reception antenna (121) separate from the communication antenna; a radio receiver (122) connected to the antenna and arranged to be switched on and off immediately before and after logging by the microprocessor, a demodulation circuit (123) in the receiver and arranged to output an audio signal from the receiver, an electronic switch (124) again switched by the microprocessor for switching the modulation from the radio receiver to the A-to-D converter (105) or the transducer output to the A-to-D converter.
Patent GB-2569796-A (GB)
Title: Drive lifetime extension
Inventor: MARK TOWERS
IPC: H03K17/14
Filed: 2017-12-21
Abstract: A method of controlling a switching frequency of a device includes estimating the device temperature ripple rate 404 and, based on the estimated rate, determining the total number of device ripples expected 406 over a required lifetime 402 of the device. A first temperature ripple limit is determined 408 and set based on the total number of device ripples expected over the required lifetime of the device, and a switching frequency of the device is controlled based on the first temperature ripple limit (Fig.5). Controlling the device switching frequency may further comprise monitoring and determining if a temperature ripple at a first switching frequency is above a first temperature ripple limit, and if it is, setting the device switching frequency to a second, lower, frequency. A second temperature ripple limit may be determined in substantially the same manner as the first; the first and second temperature ripple limits being used when the device has a steady state or transient frequency output respectively. The device may be a variable speed drive (VSD) (Fig.3, 300) which, for example, uses in its power stage a power module comprising IGBTs and diodes. A typical application includes an elevator drive where reliability and failure prediction is important.
Patent GB-2574194-A (GB)
Title: Improved tool
Inventor: DANIEL JONES
IPC: B25B15/00
Filed: 2018-05-07
Abstract: The key tool 1, for use with fasteners with internal geometries, includes a plastic or polymer body e.g. glass filled nylon. At the proximal end of the body is a handle 2 shaped to be received in a user’s hand. At the distal end of the body is an integrally formed tool tip 3. The tool may be a hexagonal (hex), hexalobular or Allen(RTM) key tool. The integral tool tip may include a shank 4, the tip of which is shaped to engage with the head of a fastener such as a screw or bolt. The handle may include a first section 7 and a second section 8, integrally formed and set at an angle from each other substantially forming an L-shape. The first section and second section may conjoin at a midsection. The body may include grasp surfaces for engaging a user’s finger and thumb. An aperture 9 in the body may be used to receive a key ring. The tool may be used for bicycle repair.
Patent GB-2578096-A (GB)
Title: Aircraft passenger seat unit
Inventor: RACHEL JAMES
IPC: B64D11/06
Filed: 2018-10-15
Abstract: An aircraft passenger seat unit 100 has a privacy shell 110 partially surrounding a seat 121, with an access opening 117. A door 140 is provided to at least partially block the opening in a first position. A storage unit 130, such as a wardrobe or closet, is located against an interior face of the privacy shell, with clothes holders; in a second position, the door partially closes access to the holders (fig.2a). Preferably, the door slides between positions, and the storage unit may be shallower at its edge nearest to the opening, and deeper at the edge distant from the opening, providing the offset angle of between 1 and 30o, at which the door moves relative to the angle of the privacy shell adjacent the opening. The door may have a removable frangible portion allowing an emergency exit from the seat unit when the door is in the first position.
Patent GB-2566389-A (GB)
Title: Antigen binding molecules that bind light
Inventor: STEVE HOLMES
IPC: C07K16/28
Filed: 2018-01-24
Abstract: The present invention relates antigen binding molecules, particularly antibodies, fragments and variants thereof, that bind to the TNF-related cytokine LIGHT (TNFSF14), competing with LIGHT binding to cellular receptors Herpes virus entry mediator (HVEM) and lymphotoxin beta receptor, and the use of said antigen binding molecules in treating and/or preventing inflammatory disorders and immune disorders.
Patent GB-2571418-A (GB)
Title: Oxidation catalyst for a diesel engine exhaust
Inventor: TOMOHARU HAYAMA
IPC: F01N3/00
Filed: 2018-12-20
Abstract: An oxidation catalyst for treating diesel engine exhaust gas, comprising a catalytic region and a substrate. The catalytic material comprises bismuth or an oxide thereof; a group 8 metal or an oxide thereof; a PGM from platinum, palladium or a Pt/Pd mixture; and a support material which comprises alumina, silica, a mixed oxide of alumina or silica and a refractory oxide, a composite oxide of alumina or silica and a refractory oxide, alumina doped with a refractory oxide or silica doped with a refractory oxide. Preferably the PGM is platinum. The catalyst may comprise 0.1-5% bismuth and 0.1-5% group 8 metal by weight of the support and may have a total bismuth loading of 15-40gft-3 and a group 8 metal loading of 15-40 gft-3. The catalytic region may further comprise a zeolite. The catalyst can also comprise second catalytic regions, layers or zones which may comprise: a molecular sieve with a noble metal having PNA activity; a nitrogen oxides storage material with LNT activity; or platinum, manganese and a support with DOC activity. An exhaust system and a method of treating exhaust gas, all using the oxidation catalyst, are also described.
Patent GB-2572685-A (GB)
Title: Firing stand for shaped charges
Inventor: DAVID TIMOTHY NEWELL
IPC: F42B1/02
Filed: 2019-02-25
Abstract: A firing stand 30 for mounting a plurality of shaped charges can be configured by a user between a transport configuration in which shaped charges are stored for transport, and at least a first firing configuration from which shaped charges can be deployed. Inter-connected rotating panels 31 may be used to provide user configurability to the firing stand 30, with shaped charges optionally being mounted in panel apertures 36.
Patent GB-2573390-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor power module to protect against short circuit event
Inventor: JIHWAN KIM
IPC: H01L23/24
Filed: 2019-03-14
Abstract: A semiconductor power module including: a substrate 302; a semiconductor device 304, coupled to the substrate; a bond wire 306 coupled to the device; and, first and second moulding layers 310,312 encapsulating first 316,318 and second 314 portions of the bond wire respectively. The second moulding layer has a lower hardness than the first. The second portion of the bond wire fuses in response to a short circuit. A power module having a housing frame 308 (preferably plastic) coupled to the substrate, with a first end of the wire soldered to the device and a second end connected to the substrate is also presented. A power module having a second semiconductor device with a second end of the wire connected to the second device is also presented. The first and second moulding layers may be epoxy and silicone gel respectively. A connector 350,360 may be coupled to the substrate.
Patent GB-2582310-A (GB)
Title: Synchronising network devices
Inventor: Hilary Logan
IPC: H04W56/00
Filed: 2019-03-18
Abstract: The operation of a set of client devices in the same local network is synchronised by providing an externally derived common parameter 100 available to all the client devices, for example a MAC address of a gateway (e.g. wireless LAN router) to which they are all connected, to determine a time at which the client devices all perform a predetermined operation 700 such as a regular report to an external server. Such co-ordinated operations may include two or more devices waking from a dormant condition in order to exchange data with each other or an external service. Devices in one home will co-ordinate their operations to each other without appointing a master and devices in different homes will synchronise their equivalent operation, e.g. reporting to the external server, at a different time point (e.g. different number of seconds after each hour or different number of seconds/minutes past midnight). The common factor may be a Wi-Fi SSID, TV transmitter ID, gateway/router MAC address or serial number or WAN IP address. An algorithm may be used to extract a variable portion of the MAC address e.g. with truncation 200, 300 and a spreading function (e.g. SHA hash) 400 may also be used.
Patent GB-2568439-A (GB)
Title: Enhanced meter reading schema to improve functionality in a utility's communications system
Inventor: DAVID ALAN HAYNES
IPC: G01D4/02
Filed: 2017-09-27
Abstract: An improvement to a utility (U) meter's (M) meter reading schema. The improvement includes a device (D) responsive to a native language with which a meter is programmed to convert communications to and from the meter from that native language into a neutral language. The neutral language is convertible by other meters programmed with different native languages into the native language of a particular meter for meters programmed with different native languages can communicate with each other. This allows facilities within a localized area of a utility's power grid (G) to form into a micro-grid (MG) in which meters programmed with the same or different native languages can communicate with each other without having communications between them routed through a central location of the utility.
Patent GB-2586772-A (GB)
Title: Underfloor vent
Inventor: MIKE CHALLINOR
IPC: F24F7/00
Filed: 2019-05-30
Abstract: A connector 16 for an underfloor vent 8 comprising a first end comprising a first aperture 20 for attaching to at least one airbrick 10, and a second end comprising a second aperture 22 displaced further from the first aperture than a third aperture 24, where in use each of the second and third apertures are attached to separate under floor vents. The first aperture may be attachable to two stacked airbricks. The second and third apertures may be attachable to one end of separate underfloor vents when two underfloor vents are stacked. The connector may comprise a flange having a recessed shoulder proximate the first aperture. The connector may comprise four joined side walls defining openings at each end of the connector, the first opening defining the first aperture and the second opening being split by a member 34 to define the second and third openings. The flange may interference fit with an airbrick. Also claimed is a system for venting a building comprising the connector, at least one airbrick, and at least two underfloor vents stacked together mounted to the connector, and a second connector 28 attached to a second end of the stacked vents.
Patent GB-2586778-A (GB)
Title: A fence panel
Inventor: LYN CORSHAM
IPC: E04H17/16
Filed: 2019-07-30
Abstract: The fence panel 110 is formed from an impervious material and comprises a hollow body for water storage. An inlet 115 and outlet 114 are provided for receiving and releasing water respectively. One or more ribs 116 may connect a front face 111 and a rear face 113 of the panel, which may be made from synthetic plastic (e.g. ABS), preferably recycled. The outlet, which may be lower than the inlet, may include a valve, tap or other flow control feature. The fence panel may comprise a photovoltaic or thermal solar panel, means of observing the water level, display screen, downpipe or gutter, anti-climb paint, hanging basket, waterfall, electric socket, CCTV camera, light, awning and/or pump.
Patent GB-2586601-A (GB)
Title: Determining object pose from image data
Inventor: WILHELM E J KLEIN
IPC: G06T13/40
Filed: 2019-08-27
Abstract: Systems and methods for determining pose using a trained neural network 9 are described, whereby a user device receives image data 41 of a marker 23 affixed to an object 25 to be tracked, provides a set of input data derived from the image data to a neural network stored on the user device, and generates a pose descriptor 43 indicative of estimated pose of the marker based on output of the neural network produced in response to receiving the set of input data. The marker comprises a first surface to convey radiation in a first direction, and a second surface to convey radiation from a radiation source 29 in a second direction different to the first direction, whereby the image processing system determines object pose from captured image data of at least a portion of the radiation conveyed from the first and/or second surface of the marker affixed to the object. The conveyed radiation may be non-visible light such as infrared (IR) or ultraviolet (UV) light. The surfaces of the marker may be at normal angles to each other.
Patent GB-2589890-A (GB)
Title: Catalytic converters
Inventor: JOE HOWARD
IPC: F01N3/28
Filed: 2019-12-11
Abstract: A catalytic core for an exhaust catalytic converter has a network structure defining a plurality of fluid flow channels for receiving a flow of fluid for catalytic conversion. A catalytically active surface of the network structure has a surface topography defined by a repeating pattern of surface features 13 extending from a body 7 of the network structure. Each surface feature has a characteristic dimension, in a direction locally perpendicular to a profile of the body, of less than about 1 mm, and preferably no less than 1 nm or 10 µm. A dimension of the surface features locally parallel to the profile of the body may be no greater than about 250 µm or 100 µm. The surface features may be the same or different in size and/or shape. The surface features may be of micron-scale and may further comprise nano-scale secondary surface features 14. The catalytic core may be manufactured using an additive manufacturing (3D printing) process such as selective laser melting or electro-beam melting.
Patent GB-2582060-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for measuring levels of materials
Inventor: GRAHAM BARKER
IPC: G01N22/00
Filed: 2020-01-14
Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for determining the identity, location or level of one or more material phases or the location of an interface between two material phases within a defined volume such as an oil separator, the apparatus comprising: a linear array of units configured to generate and detect electromagnetic radiation; an elongate enclosure 12 containing the array of units, the elongate enclosure being at least partially transparent to the electromagnetic radiation generated by the units; the apparatus being configured to be at least partially submerged within the one or more material phases within the defined volume with the linear array of units being physically isolated from the one or more materials by the elongate enclosure, the linear array of units being configured to generate transmission signals through the at least partially transparent elongate enclosure to the one or more material phases surrounding the enclosure at locations along the length of the enclosure, and to receive return signals through the elongate enclosure at locations along the length of the enclosure from the one or more material phases surrounding the enclosure, wherein the apparatus is configured to process the return signals to determining the identity, location or level of the one or more material phases or the location of an interface between two material phases within the defined volume. The electromagnetic radiation may be microwaves.