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Patent GB-2576876-A (GB)
Title: Surgical cutting tool
Inventor: PER MAGNUS HARAM
IPC: A61B34/30
Filed: 2018-08-31
Abstract: A surgical cutting tool, and a surgical robot including a cutting tool, for keyhole/minimally invasive/MIS surgery comprises: a handle 2 at a proximal end of the tool; an elongate member 4 extending from the handle to a distal end of the tool; and a saw 6 (e.g. an oscillating saw blade 8, a wire type saw, a rotating disc saw or a saw blade excited by a ultrasonic or piezoelectric mechanism) supported by the elongate member 4 at the distal end of the tool. The tool is arranged for insertion of the saw 6 into the body during keyhole surgery and the elongate member has a length allowing for insertion of the saw into the body by a distance of at least 150mm. The saw 6 is able to cut bone when pressed against the bone and may be pivotally mounted to the elongate member allowing the angle of the saw to vary relative to a longitudinal axis of the elongate member.
Patent GB-2576900-A (GB)
Title: A rotary valve internal combustion engine
Inventor: KEITH LAWES
IPC: F01L7/16
Filed: 2018-09-06
Abstract: A rotary valve internal combustion engine has a piston 1 connected to a crankshaft 3 and reciprocatable in a cylinder 2, a combustion chamber 4 being defined in part by the piston. The engine has a rotary valve 5 rotatable in a valve housing 8 fixed relative to the cylinder 2, the rotary valve having a valve body containing a volume defining, in part, the combustion chamber 4. The valve body has a non-uniform radial profile along its axial length and/or about its axis of rotation to accommodate changes in the profile of the valve body during operation. The rotary valve may be fustro-conical along its length and rotatable within a cylindrical valve housing, the valve and housing forming a seal between the two. The taper of the valve compensating for the effects of thermal expansion along the length of the valve due to the temperature gradient that occurs during combustion.
Patent GB-2563771-A (GB)
Title: Barrier layer for correlated electron material
Inventor: KIMBERLY GAY REID
IPC: H01L45/00
Filed: 2017-02-27
Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to correlated electron switch devices, and relates more particularly to one or more barrier layers (615, 625) having various characteristics formed under and/or over and/or around correlated electron material (620).
Patent GB-2568807-A (GB)
Title: Operator watch area in a process control plant
Inventor: DANIEL R STRINDEN
IPC: G05B19/418
Filed: 2018-09-28
Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting a watch area display view in a process plant are provided. Indications of process control display elements may be presented via a user interface (8, figure 1A) of a computing device executing an operator application in an operating environment of a process plant. The process control display elements may be displayed in a first display region 410 in a display view, with each of the process control display elements corresponding to process parameters. Simultaneously with the first display region, a second display region (watch area) 420 (not occluding any process control display elements) may be presented in the display view. An indication that a user has selected one of the process control display elements in the first display region for display in the second display region may be received and in response the one or more process parameters corresponding to the selected process control display element may be displayed in the second display region (watch area) 420.
Patent GB-2577702-A (GB)
Title: Champagne case
Inventor: Pellumb Gurra
IPC: B65D85/44
Filed: 2018-10-02
Abstract: A container 1 comprising means for: raising and lowering a top 2 of the container 1 while maintaining a position parallel to a base 4 of the container 1, opening and closing at least one side 10, 12 of the container 1 by extending away from a body of the container 1 and pivoting at least one holding section 22 within the container 1, wherein the means for raising the top 2, opening the at least one side 10, 12 and pivoting the at least one holding section 22 is powered and is controlled by a one-touch control. Also disclosed is a storage container 1 comprising a lid 2 and means for mechanically raising and lowering the lid 2 while maintain a position parallel to a base 4 of the container on activation. The container 1 is preferably a food hamper or a jewellery box.
Patent GB-2566182-A (GB)
Title: Multi-band filter apparatus and method of use thereof
Inventor: EVARISTO MUSONDA
IPC: H01P1/208
Filed: 2017-05-19
Abstract: Multi-band filter apparatus is provided including a housing in which at least one resonating means is provided. The at least one resonating means is capable of resonating at one or more frequencies. Each of said at least one resonating means is arranged such that one or more radio frequency signals in at least two different and distinct passbands are able to pass therethrough in use.
Patent GB-2580401-A (GB)
Title: A control system, system and method for providing assistance to an occupant of a vehicle
Inventor: LLIAS AITDIS
IPC: G06T19/00
Filed: 2019-01-10
Abstract: A control system (10 see fig 1), a system (30 see fig 1) and a method (100 see fig 3) are provided for assisting an occupant of a vehicle (50 see fig 2). The control system (10) receives data indicative of topography of a surface (36 see figs 6a-d) within an environment. A vehicle trajectory is determined in dependence on vehicle parameters for use in a composite image sequence comprising image frames 32 each comprising a captured image and a trajectory indicator 40, 42 indicative of the determined vehicle trajectory for display to an occupant. The trajectory indicator 40,42 is displayed within the image sequence in dependence on the topography data. The invention avoids an unnatural sense of trajectory lines not being closely associated with the topography of the ground surface 36.
Patent GB-2566893-A (GB)
Title: Conforming magnet tool for recovery of downhole debris
Inventor: ELLEN ELLIS RUD
IPC: E21B37/00
Filed: 2017-06-28
Abstract: A debris removal tool for removal of metallic debris from within a wellbore. The debris removal tool includes a housing defining a central bore and a plurality of magnetic members retained within the central bore and axially moveable therewithin, the magnetic members each presenting a contact surface to contact and form a magnetic attachment to the metallic debris.
Patent GB-2574691-A (GB)
Title: A telecommunications system
Inventor: NIMA JAMALY
IPC: H04W4/42
Filed: 2019-01-31
Abstract: A multi-faceted scattering panel 600 is disclosed which is suitable for use in radio communications system, e.g. for redirecting a signal from a direction 6’ parallel to a railway track 8’ to a direction 12’ transverse to the rails. The scattering panel thus acts as a passive relay, preferably to serve train passengers. The scattering panel comprises a plurality of reflectors, each formed from electrically conductive facets. Each reflector is coupled to one or more other reflectors. In the first embodiment each reflector comprises two facets, each in the form of a planar surface, and the facets are angled relative to each other such that the reflector is concave. In another embodiment (Fig. 8), the scattering panel comprises a “trapezoidal prism”, with plate-like fins extending from two sides of the base of the trapezoid, and an inverted triangular prism attached, by its apex, to the top of the trapezoid. In the first embodiment, the two facets of a reflector intersect along a line which is perpendicular to a line along which the reflector intersects with an adjacent reflector.
Patent GB-2570587-A (GB)
Title: Automated mistie analysis and correction across two-dimensional (2D) seismic surveys
Inventor: NAM XUAN NGUYEN
IPC: G01V1/50
Filed: 2017-08-22
Abstract: Systems and methods to correct misties across multiple 2D seismic surveys using a correction solution calculated using only the intersecting points between different surveys.
Patent GB-2584607-A (GB)
Title: Tool for a kitchen appliance
Inventor: BART LAMPARD
IPC: B01F15/00
Filed: 2019-04-29
Abstract: A tool 100 for a kitchen appliance such as a food mixer that is detachably attached to the mixer (200, Fig 1B). The tool such as a whisk, beater or dough hook has a spacer formation 102 on the distal end of the tool, to space the working part 104 of the tool from a working surface 110 such as the surface of a mixing bowl/vessel 108. The spacer engages with the surface of the bowl and may be made from a different material to the working part, preferably wear resistant, non-marking and/or having a low friction thank the working tool. The spacer may have a circular cross-section wherein the distal end is rounded. Preferably the working surface of the bowl has a formation for receiving the spacer formation of the tool when in use, wherein the formation may be an annular groove that may be arranged to correspond with the path in the bowl of a planetary-geared tool. Preferably the tool is biased towards the working surface via a resilient member or spring within the tool mounting means in the head of the appliance.
Patent GB-2570609-A (GB)
Title: 99mTc-labelled isonitrile-containing glucose derivative and preparation method and use
Inventor: JUNBO ZHANG
IPC: C07F13/00
Filed: 2018-01-24
Abstract: Disclosed are a 99mTc-labelled isonitrile-containing glucose derivative of the structural general formula [99mTc-(CNDG)6]+ and a preparation method and the use. The derivative takes 99mTc+ as a central core, and the isonitrile carbon atom in the CNDG and 99mTc(I) coordinate to form a six-coordinated complex [99mTc-(CNDG)6]+. The [99mTc-(CNDG)6]+ derivative is obtained through the synthesis of the ligand CNDG and the preparation of a CNDG freeze-dried medicine box. The derivative of the present invention has good stability and is easy to prepare, has a high uptake and good retention on a tumour site, has a high tumour/non-target ratio, and is a high-performance new type 99mTc-labelled isonitrile-containing glucose derivative useful for tumour imaging, which is easy to popularize and apply.
Patent GB-2577169-A (GB)
Title: Dispenser
Inventor: ANDREW HARRY ORCHARD
IPC: B65B67/08
Filed: 2019-07-23
Abstract: An extender 126 for a plastic wrap dispenser has a portion to engage the dispenser and an extension portion with a free end. It can attach coaxially to a wrap dispenser 101 to lengthen the region which supports the core 106 of a wrap 107 roll 105. The dispenser can have two shoulders 116, 118 to abut either end of the wrap core. The dispenser can be cylindrical and tubular with slots 122 in to resiliently adjust its diameter at the distal end. Opposed projections 127 on the extender can engage on of two pairs of opposed apertures on the dispenser to secure it in an extended or retracted position; rotating the extender in one direction secures it and rotation in the other direction disengages it. A handle 103 can be cylindrical and/or concave. The barrier film core can be up to 275mm or with shorter cores when the extender is retracted.
Patent GB-2576652-A (GB)
Title: Optoelectronic device
Inventor: GUOMIN YU
IPC: G02F1/225
Filed: 2017-07-18
Abstract: An optoelectronic device comprising an optically active region 219 and a silicon substrate 201, wherein there is no insulating layer between the active region and the substrate. Optionally there is a cladding layer 203 made of epitaxially grown silicon or SiGe. The active region may be an electro-absorption modulator, a photodiode, or an avalanche photodiode. A method of manufacturing a device from a silicon-on-insulator SOI wafer comprises the steps of etching a cavity into the wafer, such that the cavity extends to an upper surface of the substrate. A cladding layer is grown on the upper surface of the substrate, and an optically active material is grown on the cladding layer. The cladding layer has a lesser refractive index than the active material. The active material is etched to form an optically active region above the cladding layer.
Patent GB-2577211-A (GB)
Title: Opto-electronic assembly
Inventor: CARL CARLEY
IPC: H05K3/36
Filed: 2019-12-02
Abstract: An optical transceiver for fibre optic communication is disclosed, which includes a bi-directional optical sub-assembly (BOSA) 101, a first circuit board 306 and a second circuit board 302. The BOSA includes a laser 103, a photodiode 104, photodiode connectors (110/111 Fig. 2) on a first side of the BOSA and laser connectors (109, Fig. 2) on a second side of the BOSA. The first side of the BOSA (the bottom in Figure 3) is mounted on a first circuit board 306. The first circuit board includes laser driver circuitry (107, Fig. 1)/303, amplifier circuitry (108 Fig. 1)/303 and a receive path 307 which connects the amplifier circuitry with the BOSA’s photodiode connectors. A second side of the BOSA is mounted on a second circuit board 302. The second circuit board is mounted on the first circuit board. The second circuit board includes circuitry 304 for providing impedance matching or modification between the laser driver and the laser. An electrical path 310 couples the impedance matching circuit with the first circuit board 306. The first and second circuit boards may be rigid and orthogonal.
Patent GB-2576467-A (GB)
Title: Acoustic and RF cancellation systems and methods
Inventor: NEIL JUDELL
IPC: H04B15/00
Filed: 2018-06-06
Abstract: A method of performing cancellation for acoustic or electromagnetic measurement or communications includes receiving an output signal to be applied to a transmit transducer, introducing a delay to the output signal to produce a delayed output signal, applying the delayed output signal to the transmit transducer, receiving an input signal from a receiving transducer, wherein the input signal comprises at least a portion of the delayed output signal, and iteratively solving a Kalman filter problem as a function of the input signal, the output signal, and the delay to produce a first filtered input signal.
Patent GB-2590647-A (GB)
Title: Supplying water in subsea installations
Inventor: SIGBJØRN DAASVATN
IPC: E21B43/40
Filed: 2019-12-20
Abstract: Pressurised water is supplied to a plurality of subsea water consumers by supplying pressurised water to a common shared header 12 that connects the consumers 26 and then supplying the pressurised water from the header 12 to the consumers 26 on demand, as required by the consumers 26. The common header 12 may be a looped header ring at the seabed and pressurised from a location outside the loop 14. Consumers 26 are supplied by a branch at a demand point 22. Each consumer branch can include means for boosting pressure or controlling flow rate such as a termination end 30, a valve and orifice 32, an operating valve 34, branches 36, or an ejector 38 (jet pump). The consumers may be items of subsea hydrocarbon processing equipment, or more generally hydrocyclones, water injection systems, chemical injection systems, ejectors, hydraulic pumps, jetting systems, flushing circuits or pressure accumulators. The header and the consumers may be supported together by a structure of a discrete subsea hydrocarbon processing unit that can be assembled on land and transported offshore for installation on the seabed.
Patent GB-2578697-A (GB)
Title: Formation acoustic property measurement with beam-angled transducer array
Inventor: WEI HAN
IPC: G01V1/52
Filed: 2018-06-22
Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing formation evaluation in a borehole intersecting an earth formation. Methods may include exciting at a first borehole depth at least one critical refraction wave by steering an acoustic beam transmitted by at least one ultrasonic transmitter to an interface in the formation to intercept the interface at a critical angle; receiving an acoustic signal comprising critical refraction wave data at a logging tool in the borehole; and obtaining a wave property measurement from the critical refraction wave data. The interface may be the borehole wall in an open-hole well or behind casing. Methods include using ultrasonic transmitter(s) to generate the plurality of acoustic beams, identifying critical refraction wave data within the response signal corresponding to the at least one critical refraction wave, and obtaining the wave property measurement from the critical refraction wave data.
Patent GB-2579465-A (GB)
Title: Capacitor Header
Inventor: Paul Holligan
IPC: H01G9/008
Filed: 2020-01-24
Abstract: A capacitor header 101 for coupling a voltage output from a capacitor, which allows the capacitor to store a large amount of charge and then discharge this as a high voltage, while reducing the risk of dielectric breakdown. The capacitor header 101 includes a live output plate 120 connected to a central live conductor 106 of the capacitor and a ground output plate 117 connected to a ground conductor of the capacitor. The capacitor header also includes first and second insulating members 108, 124, which both have non-planar mating surfaces that interleave to form a non-linear path. An insulating seal 129 is included between the non-planar mating surfaces. The capacitor header 101 also includes two sets of insulating sheets 132, 134. The sets of insulating sheets extend beyond an outer perimeter of the live output plate and the ground output plate.
Patent GB-2592938-A (GB)
Title: Six-Piece Optical Lens System
Inventor: SIAN-CHIH KE
IPC: G02B13/00
Filed: 2020-03-11
Abstract: A six-piece optical lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side 180: a stop 100, a first lens element 110 with a positive refractive power, a second lens element 120 with a negative refractive power, a third lens element 130 with a refractive power, a fourth lens element 140 with a negative refractive power, a fifth lens element 150 with a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens element 160 with a negative refractive power. Some of the aspheric lenses have inflection points. Conditional expressions may govern the focal lengths and the Abbe numbers of the lenses. This can provide a miniaturized six-piece optical lens system for use in electronic products such as smartphones or tablet computers.
Patent GB-2595929-A (GB)
Title: Protection circuit for an electrical appliance
Inventor: YUEN KEE LEOW
IPC: H02H5/04
Filed: 2020-06-12
Abstract: A protection circuit for an electric appliance 4 configured to control power supply to an associated electrical component 6 of the appliance such as a heating device, lamp or motor. The protection circuit comprises a first comparator module 10 configured to compare an operating parameter (e.g temperature) input signal 16 to a threshold value 20 and to output a first control signal 22 to a first switching circuit 12 configured to control power flow to the associated electrical component 6. The first comparator module is configured to receive an enable/disable signal 31 from a first state-change latching device 30, wherein the first state-change latching device is responsive to a state change of the first control signal 22 from the first comparator module, in response to which the state-change latching 30 device changes the enable/disable signal 31 from an enable state to a disable state to set the first control signal into an off state.
Patent GB-2583040-A (GB)
Title: Data object rewrite to sequential storage media
Inventor: ROY CIDECIYAN
IPC: G11B20/18
Filed: 2018-12-04
Abstract: A method includes writing a data set to a sequential access medium. The method also includes reading the data set immediately after being written to the sequential access medium in a read-while-write process to identify one or more faulty encoded data blocks, each of the one or more faulty encoded data blocks including at least one faulty codeword having symbols at least 10 bits in size. Moreover, the method includes rewriting a first of the one or more faulty encoded data blocks within a first encoded data block set to a particular logical track in the rewrite area of the sequential access medium selected from a predetermined subset of logical tracks. The predetermined subset of logical tracks includes D1+D2+1 logical tracks. Only one faulty encoded data block from a particular sub data set is rewritten in a single encoded data block set in the rewrite area.
Patent GB-2587564-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for downhole object location and orientation determination
Inventor: CRAIG MILNE
IPC: G01V11/00
Filed: 2015-05-15
Abstract: A distributed acoustic sensor (DAS) system, with an optical fibre 14 deployed along a wellbore and a signal processing apparatus arranged to receive optical backscatter/reflections from along the optical fibre and to determine vibrational/acoustic signals incident on the optical fibre. The fibre is collocated at one or more positions along the wellbore with an apparatus 22, the apparatus having an orientation detector, e.g. three-axis accelerometer 32, and a vibrational/acoustic source 36. The vibrational/acoustic source produces signals representing the detected orientation of the orientation tool. The DAS system thus determines the orientation of the of the apparatus from the signals. The apparatus is powered by one of: a battery 38, a non-chemical energy storage mechanism, or a power wireline from the surface. The orientation detector may be offset rotatably mounted magnetic masses, where a magnetic detector detects the rotational orientation of the masses. The vibrational/acoustic signal may be frequency modulated to encode information pertaining to the detected orientation, may be chosen from a selection of predetermined frequencies that represent predetermined orientations, and preferably where no frequency is the harmonic frequency of another.
Patent GB-2602627-A (GB)
Title: Acuator assemblies
Inventor: Jason Tun
IPC: G03B5/02
Filed: 2020-12-31
Abstract: A shape memory alloy SMA actuator has features to reduce bearing jitter (stiction). The actuator has a support element 50, a movable element 60, an SMA component 40 connected between the movable element and the support element to cause movement and a bearing 100 to guide the movement of the movable element 60. A controller supplies energy to the SMA component 40 to thereby cause contraction and/or relaxation of the SMA component 40 and hence movement of the moveable element 60 in a first direction The controller also controls the movable element 60 to cause it to be moving in a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction, at least whilst the movable element starts to move in the first direction. The movement in the second direction may comprise rotary oscillation. The bearings 100 may be configured such that the coefficient of static friction is substantially equal to the coefficient of dynamic friction.
Patent GB-2602825-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for testing a fluid sample
Inventor: RICHARD BARR
IPC: G01N17/00
Filed: 2021-01-18
Abstract: A testing system 10 suitable for testing a fluid sample from a process system 12 comprises a test loop 16; a sample vessel 18 defining a sample chamber 28 with first and second ports 32, 34; a testing apparatus 20 with flow 22 and return 24 conduits connecting the sample vessel ports to the testing apparatus. A method of use includes evacuating the test loop 16 to clean the loop, using a vacuum pump 38, delivering sample fluid from the process system 12 into the sample chamber (28 Figure 2), and circulating the fluid sample between the chamber 28 and test apparatus 20. A separator 60 may be used to provide a sample to the sample chamber. The sample vessel may comprise a piston arrangement 26 with pressure source 50. Pump 42, flowmeter 44, heater 46, and flow bypass 48 may be included.