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Patent GB-2475663-A (GB)
Title: Direct digital synthesizer for reference frequency generation
Inventor: CARLEY RICHARD L
IPC: H03L7/187
Filed: 2009-08-28
Abstract: A direct digital frequency synthesizer having a multi-modulus divider, a numerically controlled oscillator and a programmable delay generator. The multi-modulus divider receives an input clock having an input pulse frequency foscand outputs some integer fraction of those pulses at an instantaneous frequency fVpthat is some integer fraction (1/P) of the input frequency. The multi-modulus divider selects between at least two ratios of P(1/P or 1/P+1) in response to a signal from the numerically controlled oscillator. The numerically controlled oscillator receives a value which is the accumulator increment (i.e. the number of divided pulse edges) required before an overflow occurs that causes the multi-modulus divider to change divider ratios in response to receiving an overflow signal. The numerically controlled oscillator also outputs both the overflow signal and a delay signal to the delay generator that further controls the frequency of the multi-modulus divider output signal (VP) to provide an output signal (VD) with an fOuτ that has improved phase and timing jitter performance over prior art direct digital frequency synthesizer architectures.
Patent GB-2478494-A (GB)
Title: Single trip positive lock adjustable hanger landing shoulder device
Inventor: NGUYEN DENNIS P
IPC: E21B33/04
Filed: 2009-12-08
Abstract: A system, in certain embodiments, includes a landing assembly. The landing assembly includes a top ring. The landing assembly also includes a bottom ring disposed axially below the top ring. A radially interior surface of the top ring is configured to engage a radially exterior surface of the bottom ring via first threading. The landing assembly also includes a lock ring disposed between the top ring and the bottom ring on a radially exterior side of the landing assembly. The landing assembly further includes a landing ring disposed axially below the bottom ring.
Patent GB-2480565-A (GB)
Title: Electrical condensers and magnetos for spark ignition engines
Inventor: TARGETT KENNETH STANLEY
IPC: F02P7/06
Filed: 2011-08-03
Abstract: An electrical condenser assembly 104 for an automotive ignition system wherein the ignition system has first and second contact breaker points and first and second electrically conductive members 34,58 electrically connected to the first and second contact breaker points, respectively, the first and second electrically conductive members having first and second faces, respectively, facing each other but not directly electrically connected to each other. The condenser comprises an attachment portion arranged to be interposed between the first and second faces of the electrically conductive members of the ignition system. The attachment portion has first and second oppositely facing electrically conductive faces, or sections of faces, for making electrical contact with the first and second faces, respectively, of the electrically conductive members of the ignition system. The first and second conductive faces of the attachment portion are not directly electrically connected to each other, but at least one capacitor 122 is electrically connected between them.
Patent GB-2501102-A (GB)
Title: Drawer assembly for holding medical items during bio-decontamination
Inventor: FERRY CHRISTOPHER ANDREW
IPC: A61B19/00
Filed: 2012-04-12
Abstract: A drawer assembly which can be assembled in different ways to provide different drawer units suitable for holding medical items during bio-decontamination. The invention provides a kit of parts comprising: a plurality of drawers 10 having drawer interlocking means 25 for securing one drawer 10 to another drawer 10; and a frame (70) comprising a plurality of pairs of rails (76) for slidably receiving and supporting drawers 10. The kit of parts is assembleable to provide at least two different configurations of drawer unit. In a first configuration at least one drawer 10 is located directly on top of another drawer 10 and is secured to the underlying drawer 10 by configuration the drawer interlocking means 25. In a second configuration, drawers 10 are each supported by a pair of rails (76) in the frame (70).
Patent GB-2488278-A (GB)
Title: Howling suppression using echo cancellation
Inventor: SVENDSEN PETER WILLIAM HILDING
IPC: H04M9/08
Filed: 2010-10-11
Abstract: A method for reducing howling in a communication system (200) containing collocated mobile devices (540, 610, 640, 710) is presented. In a transmitter (610, 710), an audio signal is received at a microphone (512). Acoustic feedback is removed from the audio signal and the resulting signal is encoded and transmitted either using direct or trunked mode operation to a receiver (540, 640). The encoded signal is decoded at the transmitter (610, 710), in addition to at the receiver (640, 740), and fed back to an echo canceller with sufficient delay to account for substantially the entirety of a loop delay from encoding of the audio signal to reception of the acoustic feedback at the microphone (512) to enable removal of the acoustic feedback. An estimate of the acoustic feedback is used to initially remove the acoustic feedback, the error being fed back to the processor (102) to adaptively change the signal being subtracted from the audio signal to better reduce the acoustic feedback.
Patent GB-2506360-A (GB)
Title: Retractable roof storage space cover comprising two flaps
Inventor: THORNDALE STEPHEN
IPC: B60J7/20
Filed: 2012-09-26
Abstract: A covering apparatus (14, Figure 1) for a vehicle having a retractable roof and an opening through which a mechanism for the retractable roof can extend and retract, the apparatus configured to move between a covering position (Figure 1) in which at least a portion of the opening is covered by the covering apparatus (14) and a stowed position. The covering apparatus14 includes a primary flap 16 and a secondary flap 18 each having an outer surface (24a, 24b, Figure 1). The primary 16 and secondary 18 flaps are hinged together and are moveable between an open position (Figure 1) and a folded position. In the open position the primary 16 and secondary 18 flaps together cover at least a portion of said opening in the vehicle. When the retractable roof is deployed to cover the vehicle cabin the primary 16 and secondary 18 flaps are folded and stowed for allowing the retractable roof to be deployed with the outer surface (24b) of the secondary flap 18 folded towards the outer surface (24a) of the primary flap 16.
Patent GB-2506623-A (GB)
Title: Managing user files in a tiered storage system
Inventor: SCHAEFER ROLF
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2012-10-04
Abstract: Managing user files in a tiered storage system A method for file handling in a hierarchical storage system comprising: implementing a user virtual file system for each user comprising a user interface, a set of data containers and a control unit; wherein said user virtual file system scans, reads and analyses data or user behaviour to create or modify at least one rule, policy or metadata; identifying logical and/or temporal relationships of user files based on said at least one rule, policy or metadata; aggregating or grouping identified related files in at least one container; and moving said at least one container containing a collection of related files to different tiers of storage based on said at least one rule, policy or metadata.
Patent GB-2508375-A (GB)
Title: A position sensor comprising a magnetoresistive element
Inventor: HAEBERLE WALTER
IPC: G01B7/00
Filed: 2012-11-29
Abstract: The magnetoresistive element (1) comprises a stack (11, fig 1) of layers including at least a conductive layer (112) in between two magnetic layers (111,113). The layers have a longitudinal extension (L) along a longitudinal axis (X) and a lateral extension along a transverse axis (Y). A magnet (2) is provided comprising a magnetic dipole (N/S) with a dipole axis (DA) orthogonal to a plane defined by the longitudinal axis (X) and the transverse axis (Y). The electrical resistance of the conductive layer (112) depends on a position of the magnet (2) along the longitudinal axis (X). Layer 114 comprises an antiferromagnetic cover layer. The position sensor provides for nano-scale sensing.
Patent GB-2503756-A (GB)
Title: LCD with replaceable LED edge illumination assembly
Inventor: PARK MINWOO
IPC: G02B6/00
Filed: 2012-12-13
Abstract: An LCD device includes a cover bottom 111, a light guide panel 120, a liquid crystal panel 150, a LED assembly 170, a frame 140, and a case top 160. The liquid crystal panel 150 is disposed over the light guide panel 120 to display an image. The LED assembly 170 is disposed at a lateral side of the light guide panel 120 in the cover bottom 111 to irradiate light to a side of the light guide panel 120. The frame 140 guides the light guide panel 120 and supports the liquid crystal panel 150. A slide hole 141, into which the LED assembly 170 is removably inserted, is formed in the frame 140. A slide hole cover 180 covers the slide hole 141and is releasably coupled to part of the housing. The case top 160 is coupled to the cover bottom 111.
Patent GB-2497896-A (GB)
Title: Fluid conveyance safety devices, methods and systems
Inventor: BURBANK JEFFREY H
IPC: A61M5/158
Filed: 2011-10-25
Abstract: The disclosed subject matter includes a structure and method for making a dual-lumen needle from single lumen needles to take advantage of the much higher economies of scale. Variations include two needles joined by a flow junction and one needle and a single cannula joined by a flow junction. In addition disclosed are methods of using a dual-lumen needle in a two needle access for blood treatment is disclosed in which at least venous flow is provided through a dual-lumen needle with arterial flow just sufficient to provide air infiltration detection in the event of withdrawal of the dual-lumen needle.
Patent GB-2508940-A (GB)
Title: Locking unit having a pair of pivotal locking bolts
Inventor: EDMONDS TRACY WILLIAM
IPC: E05C9/04
Filed: 2013-04-12
Abstract: A multipoint locking unit comprising drive means and a pair of pivotal locking bolts/hooks 20a, 20b, which rotate between a retracted position and an extended position. Preferably the locking unit has a primary set of locking bolts and a first and second secondary set of locking bolts (4, 6, 8, fig.2) each consisting of a pair of locking bolts/hooks. The locking unit may be of the espagnolette type having a first and second drive bars driven in opposite. The locking elements may have an engagement portion for cooperating with a keeper and have a toothed body portion driven by drive arms/bar 42, 44 driven in opposite directions via rack and pinions, ultimately driven via toothed cam 36 connected to a handle. The locking bolts in each pair may rotate in opposite directions such that one locking bolt rotates clockwise and the other rotates anti-clockwise. The locking elements may be flush with a surface of a lock casing in the retracted position. Additional locking bolts may be provided as shootbolts (212) and sliding locking pins (208) as corner locking units on a second and third edge of the window (figs. 17-22).
Patent GB-2501411-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for the application or removal of railway track fasteners
Inventor: MELVELLE ANDREW JOHN
IPC: E01B29/24
Filed: 2011-10-31
Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an apparatus (10) for the application or removal of one or more railway track fasteners (12). The apparatus comprises a support frame assembly (14), a drive assembly (16) mounted to the support frame assembly (14), and a workhead (18) operatively coupled to the drive assembly (16). The workhead (18) includes a tool (20) designed for applying or removing the fasteners (12) wherein the drive assembly (16) is powered to activate the workhead (18) and the associated tool (20) which contacts the fastener (12) in a hammering action.
Patent GB-2506236-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulically damped hinge
Inventor: CHOW CHUNG
IPC: E05F3/20
Filed: 2013-07-08
Abstract: A hinge, eg for a door, comprises a housing 1 pivotally connected to a fixture by a coupling which includes a linkage 4. A shuttle 7 is located in a bore 27 and comprises an internal cavity filled with fluid. A non-moveable baffle 13 located in the bore to divide the cavity into first and second chambers 16, 17. A first passageway, which may include a one-way ball valve 21, communicates between the chambers so that fluid may pass in one direction between the first and second chambers. A return passageway 15 provides a restricted flow of fluid between the second and first chambers during movement of the hinge from an open to a closed position. Additional passageways 18, 19 may connect chambers 16, 17 via an adjustable valve. A stop arrangement may be included to hold the hinge open at a predetermined position. The hinge may also include a closing and alignment mechanisms.
Patent GB-2516253-A (GB)
Title: The skeleton boot
Inventor: GOOCH TREVOR EDWARD
IPC: A47G25/90
Filed: 2013-07-16
Abstract: A frame for assisting a user in self fitting a surgical stocking or sock. The frame is constructed of rods 3, 4, 5, 6, and may be mounted on a users knee while a stocking is pulled over the frame. A base of the frame may be placed onto a floor surface so that the user may use his/her bodyweight to push their foot and leg inside the stocking and frame to the bottom of the frame. Parts 3 and 4 may taper to allow the frame to nest with other frames. The stocking may then be pulled up onto the leg and off the frame.
Patent GB-2510238-A (GB)
Title: Power converter for transferring power between feeders
Inventor: NAKATSUKA YASUHIRO
IPC: H02J3/32
Filed: 2013-11-25
Abstract: A power converter 1, particularly for use in an electrified railway system, includes a plurality of power conversion units 14-1, 14-2 each connected to a different feeder 2-1, 2-2, and mutually converts and interchanges power between these feeders. A DC energy interchange unit 17 is connected to the power conversion units and connected to a secondary battery 16. A power control unit 11, which instructs the regeneration-side power conversion unit, is connected to the regeneration-side feeder of the feeders, through which a regenerative current flows. The consumption-side power conversion unit is connected to the consumption-side feeder through which a current consumption flows, to output power from the regeneration-side feeder to the consumption-side feeder through the DC energy interchange unit. The power control unit also determines the voltage of the DC energy interchange unit in such a manner as to input/output energy corresponding to the sum of regenerative power of the regeneration-side feeder and consumed power of the consumption-side feeder to and from the secondary battery.
Patent GB-2522020-A (GB)
Title: A method of livestock rearing and a livestock shed
Inventor: THEOBALD JAMES
IPC: A01K67/02
Filed: 2014-01-08
Abstract: A method of rearing chickens comprises providing a chicken shed 10 having a floor area 12 over which the chickens can move freely. The shed is provided with a plurality of lights 18 arranged to illuminate respective different regions of the floor area so that, collectively, the lights are able to illuminate substantially all of the floor area. The shed is provided a plurality of cameras 20 arranged to view respective different regions of the floor area so that, collectively, the cameras are able to view substantially all of the floor area. A controller 22 is provided and is operatively connected to the lights and to the cameras. The controller receives and analyses signals, such as images, from the cameras. The controller controls the lights to adjust illumination provided to the floor area by the controlled lights in a manner dependent on the signals from the cameras. The controller is able to control each light independently of the other lights. In some situations, the control of the lights causes a predetermined desired response in the chickens. In some cases, the predetermined desired response overcomes or circumvents an undesirable situation recognised by the controller from analysis of the signals from the cameras.
Patent GB-2511222-A (GB)
Title: Transaction processing system, method and program
Inventor: RESEARCH-TOKYO IBM
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2012-07-20
Abstract: In order that when a map entry that is being locked in another global transaction is inquired and updated in a local transaction, the local transaction is promoted to a global transaction in a distributed KVS system, a step in which in a client computer, a transaction ID is determined and a global transaction is started, a step in which in a server that is processing a local transaction among a plurality of servers, an inquiry local transaction is started, a step in which all values that are being inquired in the local transaction are inquired in the inquiry local transaction, a step in which all values that are being updated in the local transaction are each updated to a combination of a value before the update, a value during the update, and a lock value using the transaction ID as the value in a data table, and a step in which the local transaction is committed are executed.
Patent GB-2518046-A (GB)
Title: Slot liner for an electric machine
Inventor: MATTHEW HAL LITTLEJOHN
IPC: H02K3/34
Filed: 2014-07-07
Abstract: A slot liner 40 is provided for a stator 12 and/or a rotor 14 of an electric machine 10 and includes a body 54 extending a length from a first end 58 to an opposite second end 60 and a width from a first edge to an opposite second edge. The body includes an inner segment 70 flanked by first and second outer segments 72,74 that extend along the length of the body. The inner segment includes at least one different material from the first and second outer segments such that the thermal conductivity and rigidity of the inner segment is greater than that of the first and second outer segments. The thermal conductivity of the inner segment is between 1.5 - 2.5W/mK and that of the outer segments is less than 0.2W/mK. The inner segment may be a polyimide filled with boron nitride particles, and/or reinforced with at least one of glass fibres, PEEK fibres, PEKK fibres, para-aramid synthetic fibres or polybenzimidazole fibres. The outer segments may be of neat polyimide.
Patent GB-2528881-A (GB)
Title: Antenna
Inventor: SHEPHARD DAVID JOHN
IPC: H01Q1/28
Filed: 2014-08-01
Abstract: A high temperature, dielectrically loaded, electromagnetic radiation sensor 10 and a method for its manufacture, comprises: providing an outer casing 14 of a material with a melting point of at least 1000Â°C which has an inner channel with a first type of dielectric material 16a located at a first end section of the channel which is chemically stable at a temperature of 1500Â°C and a remaining length of the channel being loaded with at least one section being loaded with a second type of dielectric material 16b which is chemically stable at a temperature of at least 800Â°C and where the dielectric constant of the first type of dielectric material 16a is greater than that of the second type of dielectric material 16b. The casing 14 may be cylindrical and made of a material comprising one or more of titanium, nickel alloy, stainless steel and platinum. The first and second dielectric materials 16a, 16b may be selected from boron nitride, synthetic sapphire, fused silica, macor and quartz- rigid silica. A waveguide 12 may be directly coupled to the second end of the inner channel of the casing 14 or it may be coupled via a longitudinal slot in a side wall of the outer casing 14 to the sensor 10.
Patent GB-2515209-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in methods for producing lens arrays
Inventor: MOON JONATHAN A
IPC: G02B30/27
Filed: 2010-03-03
Abstract: There is provided a lens array 120 for imaging a plurality of image elements in an object plane, and a method of making a lens array. The lens array includes a plurality of lenslets 122 formed in or on one side of a transparent or translucent material with the image elements disposed on the opposite side, and has a gauge thickness corresponding to the distance from the apex of each lenslet to the object plane. Each lenslet 122 has a set of lens parameters. The gauge thickness and/or at least one lens parameter is or are optimised such that each lenslet has a focal point size 130a, 130b in the object plane which is either substantially equal to the size of the image elements in the object plane, or varies from the size of the image elements by a predetermined amount, wherein the gauge thickness of the lens array is less than the focal length of all of the lenslets.
Patent GB-2519674-A (GB)
Title: Pressurised Gearbox
Inventor: LEVELL PAUL
IPC: F16J15/447
Filed: 2014-10-23
Abstract: A sealing arrangement 106 for a gearbox 100 having a shaft 102 supported on bearings 104 which serves to help prevent leakage of lubricant from the gearbox is provided. The lubricant serves to lubricate bearings 104. The sealing arrangement 106 has a chamber 110 and a labyrinth seal 212. Labyrinth seal 212 seals shaft 102 in the usual manner. The sealing arrangement 106 includes means for introducing air under positive pressure into the chamber 110. Labyrinth seal 212 is configured to allow some air to escape along path 120 into gearbox 100, thereby improving the effectiveness of the labyrinth and improving sealing. Labyrinth seal 212 may also be configured to allow some air to escape along path 122 into the immediate environment 124 of the gearbox 100.
Patent GB-2522302-A (GB)
Title: Size-and-type determining device, underwater detecting apparatus and method of determining size and type
Inventor: MATSUO IKUO
IPC: G01S15/96
Filed: 2014-10-31
Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining the size and type of an object, such as fish, aquatic or marine life, the apparatus 1 comprising, an echo signal input means 11 to receive an echo signal of an ultrasonic wave transmitted underwater. An individual object determining means 13 to determine an individual object based on amplitude information of the echo signal. A reflection intensity calculating means 14 configured to calculate reflection intensities of the echo signal at respective frequencies within a predetermined range that indicate the individual object. A reflection intensity distribution memory 15 to store the reflection intensity distribution at frequencies corresponding to one of, pairs of a length, and a type for every pair. A length-and-type selecting means 16 to select one of the pairs that corresponds to the individual object by comparing the reflection intensity distributions stored in the reflection intensity distribution memory 15 with the reflection intensities calculated by the reflection intensity calculating means 14.
Patent GB-2531084-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle configured for autonomous driving and method for operating a vehicle
Inventor: KONSTANTIN FICK
IPC: G08G1/16
Filed: 2014-12-22
Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle 10 configured for autonomous driving, the vehicle 10 having detection means 12 for detecting the presence of a non-motorised traffic participant 16, such as a pedestrian or cyclist, in the surroundings of the vehicle 10. The vehicle 10 has communication means 18, 20, 40 configured to provide information to the traffic participant dependent on the detection of the presence of the traffic participant 10 in the surroundings of the vehicle 10. The communication means 18, 20 may comprise a plurality of light sources wherein the vehicle 10 comprises control means 30 to activate and deactivate the light sources 18, 20 separately. The communication means 40 may comprise an acoustic output device 40 configured to provide sound and/or at least one word.