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Patent GB-2562899-A (GB)
Title: In-cell touch liquid crystal panel and array substrate thereof
Inventor: JIANXING XIE
IPC: G02F1/1333
Filed: 2015-10-12
Abstract: An in-cell touch liquid crystal panel and an array substrate (100) thereof. The array substrate (100) comprises a glass substrate (10), and a thin-film transistor (20), a common electrode layer (30) and a pixel electrode (40) that are formed on the glass substrate (10) in sequence. The common electrode layer (30) is divided into multiple elongated touch-control drive electrodes (31) that are insulated from each other, wherein each touch-control drive electrode (31) is provided with multiple suspension electrodes (32). A second insulating layer (80) and a metal trace layer (90) are further disposed on the common electrode layer (30) in sequence. The metal trace layer (90) comprises multiple drive electrode traces (91), multiple suspension electrode traces (92) and multiple touch-control sensing electrodes (93), wherein each drive electrode trace (91) is electrically connected to one of the touch-control drive electrodes (31) by means of a via hole on the insulating layer, and each suspension electrode trace (92) is connected to the multiple suspension electrodes (32) arranged in a second direction.
Patent GB-2574583-A (GB)
Title: Hybrid Chair
Inventor: NICOLAS HARTLEY JONES
IPC: A47C1/028
Filed: 2018-06-04
Abstract: A hybrid chair 10 convertible between upright and lounger modes, having a double-sided back 12 and two planar portions 14, (40, figure 1) forming separate seats in the upright and lounging configurations, two side plates 16, (18, figure 2) attached at fixed angles on either side of the back and seating portions, and a pair of cam plates 50, (51, figure 1) on either side of the chair forming the front legs in the upright seating mode (figure 5), and lying beneath the seat in the lounger mode (figure 6). The side plates form the front and rear legs in the lounger mode (figure 6). The chair is convertible between the sitting and lounging arrangements by rotating the cam plates about an axle 52. When the chair is moved between configurations, the cam plates may rotate 35 degrees about a horizontal cam rod 52 towards the front of the upright seat and the side profile plates may pivot 58 degrees.
Patent GB-2574482-A (GB)
Title: Optical Switching Unit
Inventor: BRIAN ROBERTSON
IPC: H04Q11/00
Filed: 2018-06-08
Abstract: An optical switching unit 10 comprising a plurality of arrays 11 of multiple optical waveguides (12a – 12c and 13a – 13c) and a switching structure controllable to direct light received from any of the optical waveguides in a first array of the plurality of arrays to one or more optical waveguides of each other array in the plurality of arrays. The unit may further comprise a plurality of optical assemblies (14, 15) for passing light between the waveguides of the arrays and the switching structure. The switching structure may comprise a spatial light modulator (SLM). The optical assemblies may comprise a Fourier lens or multiple collimating lenses. The switching structure may comprise a wavelength demultiplexer which in turn may comprise a diffraction grating or one or more prisms. The switching structure may further comprise a birefringent crystal and a polarisation rotator.
Patent GB-2575024-A (GB)
Title: Dental treatment appliance
Inventor: MATTHEW WILLIAM FORD
IPC: A61C17/36
Filed: 2018-06-20
Abstract: A dental cleaning appliance, preferably a toothbrush or interdental cleaning device, includes a handle (12, Fig 1), a fluid reservoir (32, Fig 1) for storing a working fluid, and a fluid delivery system for receiving working fluid from the reservoir and for delivering the fluid from a nozzle to the oral cavity of a user. The fluid reservoir includes a fluid port 76 from which fluid is dispensed from the reservoir, and also through which the fluid reservoir is replenished. The fluid reservoir is moveable between a first position in which the fluid port is connected to the fluid delivery system, and a second position in which the fluid port is exposed to allow the fluid reservoir to be replenished. A stem 22 extending between the handle and the nozzle further includes means for inhibiting movement of the fluid reservoir beyond the second position, with the inhibiting means preferably comprising a stop member 112 protruding from an external surface of the stem.
Patent GB-2564604-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for monitoring pressure transients and pipe bursts
Inventor: DAVID SOLOMON
IPC: G01M3/26
Filed: 2017-04-04
Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring pressure transients and pipe bursts in a pipeline network are provided. The system can include a pressure sensor for measuring pressure in a pipe and generating a pressure signal, and a hydrophone for detecting a change of the pressure and generating a hydrophone signal. The system can include a high pass filter that can filter a portion of the hydrophone signal corresponding to a particular frequency. The system can include a comparator that generates an interrupt signal when the hydrophone signal satisfies a threshold value. The system can include a microcontroller which stays in a sleep mode until receiving the interrupt signal. The microcontroller can switch on the pressure sensor to record the pressure signal generated by the pressure sensor after being woken up.
Patent GB-2583943-A (GB)
Title: A large format table-top cutting apparatus with cutter sag compensation
Inventor: ANDREW MAURICE ROBERTS
IPC: B26D7/26
Filed: 2019-05-14
Abstract: A guillotine-type cutting apparatus 1 comprises a cutter bar; lifting components 14/15 configured to move the cutter bar assembly between upper/lower positions; the cutter bar comprising: an elongate upper support 2 and elongate lower support 3, the upper and lower supports connected via linkage 4, 5, that connects the supports in parallel and allows movement relative to each another longitudinally, and; a raiser (6; Fig 5d) configured for adjustment by a user to exert a variable force on the lower part of the upper support at one end so as to place the support in tension and raise the free-hanging central portion of the support. Also, a method of compensating for sag in an elongate bar assembly comprising: constraining a first end of the cutter bar assembly, and exerting force on the lower part of the upper bar at the second end of the cutter bar. Also, a method of compensating for sag in the supports of an elongate cutter bar assembly having upper/lower supports by rigidly fixing the supports together at the first end; bending the supports over a former; rigidly connecting the second ends of the supports together and removing the supports from the former.
Patent GB-2576228-A (GB)
Title: A mini-spinner flowmeter and downhole tool
Inventor: ERIC P DONZIER
IPC: G01P5/06
Filed: 2019-06-05
Abstract: A spinner flow meter 1 for measuring a fluid speed and or fluid direction in a hydrocarbon well. The flow meter comprising an impeller 2 formed with a plurality of longitudinally extending vanes 3 secured to a shaft 4, a support 5 having bearings 6 & 7 positioned on each end of the shaft and an optical unit 9. The optical unit comprises an emitting optical fibre E and first and second receiving optical fibres R1 & R2. The optical fiber distal ends 10 are directed towards the vanes. The vanes are reflective such that the light from the emitting optical fibre is reflected from the vanes to the receiving optical fibres. The speed and direction of the turbine can thus be determined, this being indicative of the speed and direction of the flow of fluid downhole.
Patent GB-2571495-A (GB)
Title: LED retrofit lighting unit
Inventor: SEAN PATRICK O'KELL
IPC: H05B45/59
Filed: 2017-11-16
Abstract: An LED lighting assembly (1) comprising a cassette (2), a lens, a printed circuit board, PCB, (6) having at least one LED light source mounted thereon, the lighting assembly comprising an LED driver circuit arranged to maintain conduction in the circuit, the PCB using a first amount of power and wherein the LED driver circuit is arranged to simulate use of a second amount of power, the second amount being lower than the first amount. The LED lighting assembly comprises a capacitor arranged to be activated when a voltage across the LED driver circuit is below a first predetermined level. A resistor or resistor/capacitor combination is connectable to a trickle sensor in a passenger service unit (PSU).
Patent GB-2585003-A (GB)
Title: Anaerobically curable compositions
Inventor: FRANCES MURPHY
IPC: C09J133/04
Filed: 2019-06-21
Abstract: An anaerobically curable composition comprises a curing component and a particulate solid dispersed in a non-encapsulated liquid monomer, wherein the solid has a particle size of 80-300 microns and a melting temperature of 50-90°C. Preferably, the composition comprises 10-50 wt.% liquid monomer, 15-50 wt.% particulate solid, and 4-6 wt.% curing component. The monomer may be ethoxylated bisphenol A dimethacrylate, lauryl methacrylate, or polyethylene glycol dimethacrylate. The solid may be a polyester polyol resin, polyethylene glycol with molecular weights of 4000-20000, stearic acid, 2-methacryloxyethylphenylurethane, or difunctional (meth)acrylated polyurethane. The curing component may be benzoyl peroxide, saccharin, or acetyl phenylhydrazine. A method of application comprises applying the composition, in flowable form, to a substrate, heating the applied composition to melt the particulate solid to form a mixture with the liquid monomer, and cooling the mixture to form to a solid on the substrate. Typically, the compositions are used as threadlocking adhesives.
Patent GB-2572115-A (GB)
Title: DC- DC converter for implantable medical devices
Inventor: MIN TAN
IPC: A61N1/378
Filed: 2016-12-08
Abstract: A DC-DC converter for implantable medical devices includes a switch capacitor converter core including a plurality of power transistor switches configured to receive an input voltage and output an output voltage; a switch driver connected with the switch capacitor converter core and configured to turn on corresponding power transistor switches in the switch capacitor converter core so as to supply power to a load receiving the output voltage; a switch signal router connected with the switch driver and configured to selectively transmit signals required by the switch driver; a gain selection decoder connected with the switch signal router; a gain controller connected with the gain selection decoder, the gain selection decoder being configured to decode gain selection instructions transmitted from the gain controller; an input adjusting device connected with the gain controller and configured to receive the input voltage and a reference voltage, to indicate relationship between the input voltage and the reference voltage, and to transmit the relationship to the gain controller; an output adjusting device connected with the gain controller and configured to receive the output voltage and the reference voltage, to indicate relationship between the output voltage and the reference voltage, and to transmit the relationship to the gain controller; a clock generator connected with the switch signal router, the gain controller and the output adjusting device; and a counter connected with the gain controller.
Patent GB-2587803-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use in establishing a wellhead
Inventor: WILLIAM CHARLES WENANDE
IPC: E21B33/035
Filed: 2019-09-27
Abstract: Discloses an apparatus, associated assembly and method for effecting a change in direction of a casing as it is driven into a formation to establish a wellhead comprising a drive shoe 3 with deflection surface that extends from within a tubular 2 wherein drive means 5, 6, 7, 9 enable extension, retraction and rotation of the drive shoe relative to the tubular. Drive means may enable translation of linear movement of the drive shoe into rotation using a helical formation 7, drive lugs and two actuators 5, 6, wherein one actuator moves a drive shoe housing 4 relative to the tubular and the other moves the drive shoe relative to the drive shoe housing and synchronising the two enables rotation of the drive shoe at a desired axial extension. The deflecting surface may be a wedge like inclined surface (fig.2, 11).
Patent GB-2575749-A (GB)
Title: Detecting and correcting for discrepancy events in fluid pipelines
Inventor: DAVID ROSSI
IPC: G05B23/02
Filed: 2018-04-20
Abstract: Techniques for detecting and correcting for discrepancy events in a fluid pipeline are presented. The techniques can include obtaining a plurality of empirical temperature and pressure measurements at a plurality of locations within the pipeline; simulating, using a pipeline model, a plurality of simulated temperature and pressure measurements for the plurality of locations within the pipeline; detecting, by a discrepancy event detector, at least one discrepancy event representing a discrepancy between the empirical temperature and pressure measurements and the simulated temperature and pressure measurements; outputting to a user an indication that the at least one discrepancy event has been detected; accounting for the at least one discrepancy; determining, after the accounting and using an estimator applied to the pipeline model, a corrected branch flow rate for the pipeline; and outputting the corrected branch flow rate for the pipeline to the user.
Patent GB-2575931-A (GB)
Title: Signal transmitting apparatus
Inventor: YASUNORI KATO
IPC: H04L27/18
Filed: 2017-05-18
Abstract: Provided is a signal transmitting apparatus wherein a weight switching unit (31) outputs weights for modulation signals such that, in a constellation diagram for a complex plane, signal points corresponding to modulation symbols are allocated in a communication direction and signal points different from the signal points in the communication direction are allocated in a non-communication direction. Weight application units (14-1 to 14-N) apply the weights for the respective modulation symbols output from the weight switching unit (31), to the modulation signals emitted from antennas (17-1 to 17-N).
Patent GB-2593139-A (GB)
Title: An eating surface
Inventor: STOWELL JERNIMAIN BARRY
IPC: A47B37/00
Filed: 2020-01-02
Abstract: A table having means to warm or cool food placed upon the table. The surface of the table has a plurality of plate sized adjustable temperature zones that are positioned appropriate to table settings. The temperature rising zones 30 and temperature lowering zones 60, control the temperature of both hot and cold plates during a meal. The temperature zones may be controlled together or independently, with the controls means provided locally 80 on the table or remotely. The temperature zones have induction coils, Peltier plates, heat sinks and/or a fans. The table may also have a communal hot plate for sharing dishes.
Patent GB-2591310-A (GB)
Title: Thermal management of an electric machine or vehicle
Inventor: ROBERT NICHOLAS HARPER
IPC: B60H1/14
Filed: 2020-03-26
Abstract: A machine, e.g. wheel loader (100, figure 1), has a dual motor assembly 250 comprising a first motor (300, figure 3) and a second motor (400, figure 3), and an output shaft to effect machine propulsion or to actuate a machine tool. The machine also has a controller to control the assembly, a battery storing electrical energy for the assembly, and a thermal circuit 150 for transfer of thermal energy. The thermal circuit has a pump 152, a radiator 153 to emit thermal energy to ambient and a motor conduit (550, figure 3) for transfer of thermal energy between the thermal circuit and the dual motor assembly. The controller commands the first motor to act against the second motor in response to a call for a rise in temperature of the thermal circuit. The machine ideally also includes arrangements to transfer thermal energy between the thermal circuit and one or more of the battery, a battery charger, a further motor assembly and a cab heat exchanger 180.
Patent GB-2581717-A (GB)
Title: Secure processor-based control plane function virtualization in cloud systems
Inventor: VICTOR BROWN
IPC: H04W28/12
Filed: 2018-10-18
Abstract: A secure processor-based enclave is used to protect to one or more software defined control functions or elements in a cloud environment, such as a hyperconverged cloud that includes compute nodes. One or more secure enclave(s) are instantiated within the environment. A control plane, such as an NFV-based control plane element, is hosted within the secure enclave, which itself is instantiated within may be virtualized or containerized. The control plane has an associated data plane, whose elements are across one or more of the compute nodes. One or more APIs provide connectivity between the control plane, and the various data plane elements that are located external to the secure enclave. The NFV-based control plane provides configuration information (e.g., a routing table) to the distributed data plane through the APIs. By hosting the control plane securely using in-memory workload protection, the approach insures integrity at load time, and it protects against compromise in real-time, e.g., by privileged attackers or other system processes.
Patent GB-2595709-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for supporting a musical keyboard
Inventor: OWEN O'MAHONY
IPC: G10G5/00
Filed: 2020-06-04
Abstract: Apparatus 2 for supporting a musical keyboard 112 between two microphone stands 100, 106 comprising a body member 4 having a first end portion 6 and a second end portion 8. A first clamping arrangement 10 is provided at the first end portion 6 and configured to releasably clamp a microphone stand 100. A second clamping arrangement 12 is provided at the second end portion 8 and configured to releasably clamp a microphone stand 106. The body member 4 is arranged with respect to the first clamping arrangement 10 and the second clamping arrangement 12 such that, when the first clamping arrangement 10 is clamped to a first microphone stand 100 and the second clamping arrangement 12 is clamped to a second microphone stand 106 which is spaced from the first microphone stand 100, the body member 4 is arranged to support a musical keyboard for use of the keyboard. The body member may be inclined at an angle towards or aware from the user. The body member may be in the form of an expandable lattice.
Patent GB-2589003-A (GB)
Title: Systems and devices for identification of a feature associated with a user in a gaming establishment and related methods
Inventor: TIMOTHY BUCHER
IPC: G07F17/32
Filed: 2020-10-01
Abstract: A method of monitoring a patron in a gaming establishment, such as a casino, including identifying a patron at both a gaming location and a non-gaming location of the gaming establishment and adding data from the non-gaming location to an account associated with the patron. Also disclosed is a system for monitoring a patron in a gaming establishment, comprising a biometric identification device, a remote processor and a gaming device, in which gaming actions at the gaming device are linked to an account of the patron, the patron being identified via facial features by the biometric identification device and the remote process. Further disclosed is a method of, and system for, tracking and responding to a player participating in a game, the game 406 being displayed at a display location on a gaming surface 402 of a gaming device and including a feature of the game. Motions of a player are tracked and the displayed feature of the game is altered based on the movement. An identification device 308 can be used to a identify a feature (hand or arm) associated with a player. The game can be projected on to the display surface by an over-surface projector 404.
Patent GB-2600481-A (GB)
Title: Handbag with a smartphone holder
Inventor: SAMANTHA BENVENISTE
IPC: A45C13/02
Filed: 2020-11-02
Abstract: A handbag 100 comprises a frame 10 including a base 12 and one or more surfaces which connect to form a closed loop 14; a first side panel 20 pivotally attached to the base along a first edge 22 of the base; and a second side panel 30 attached to the base along a second edge of the base 32. The base comprises a first holder 16 configured to hold a smartphone (40, figure 4) to the base. The first side panel is pivotable with respect to the base towards the first holder from a first position in which the handbag is open to a second position in which the handbag is closed. The handbag is configured to be closed by contact between the first side panel and the frame at an opposing portion of the frame to which the first side panel is pivotally attached. The second side panel may also be pivotally connected to the base. The first and second side panels may be frictionally held against the frame in the closed position. A holder 18 may also be provided to hold a perfume bottle.
Patent GB-2587276-A (GB)
Title: Furnace for combustion of solid fuel
Inventor: HELGE ROSVOLD
IPC: F23L9/00
Filed: 2018-04-25
Abstract: Combusting solid fuel in a furnace, where solid fuel deposited on a grate 150 is subjected to drying, gasification and carbon conversion at sub‐stoichiometric oxidative conditions in a primary chamber (100, Fig. 1), supplied with oxygen from below the grate, and moved through the primary chamber by a conveyor means, where solid inert material is removed. Synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide, nitrogen and hydrocarbons is guided into an oxidation chamber 300 to form carbon dioxide and water. Retention time and gas temperature in the primary chamber is controlled to favour ammonia formation, and air supply and retention time of the solid fuel is controlled to obtain a gas temperature in a range of between 800 and 950°C at an outlet of the primary chamber. Synthesis gas is mixed with a paired gas supply of recycled flue gas 203 and secondary air 204 in a reduction chamber 200 at super-stoichiometric oxidative conditions and a gas temperature between 1000 and 1300°C. The flow rates and temperatures of the recycled flue gas and secondary air supplied to the reduction chamber are controlled to keep the temperature of the gas flowing between 850 to 950°C.
Patent GB-2592704-A (GB)
Title: A pipe testing apparatus and method
Inventor: PETER ROBERTS
IPC: G01N3/12
Filed: 2020-11-10
Abstract: An apparatus for testing rings 6 cut from pipes comprising: a plurality of test chamber sections 2, 3, 4 which, when placed together, define a test chamber for receiving ring 6, the chamber comprising at least a first chamber section 2 defining a first inner face 7 of the chamber and a second chamber section 4 defining an opposed second inner face 8 of the chamber, the two inner faces defining annuli arranged to contain the ring to isolate its inside from its outside; means for clamping the sections together 9, 10; a fluid inlet port in one of the sections to allow a pressurised fluid into the chamber outside the ring; and one or more sensors for measuring strain and deformation of the ring and fluid pressure, wherein the annuli are aligned with one another, are wider than the wall thickness of the ring, and are flat. Another aspect is a method involving a) cutting the ring from the pipe; b) fitting attachments to measure strain and deformation; c) fitting the ring into the apparatus with sealing elements in place of the end faces of the ring; and d) applying pressure and measuring strain and deformation.