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Patent GB-2508669-A (GB)
Title: A speed control system for a hybrid electric vehicle
Inventor: DEXTREIT CLEMENT
IPC: B60W20/00
Filed: 2012-12-10
Abstract: A speed control system for a hybrid electric vehicle is provided. The vehicle comprises an engine 121 and at least one electric machine, e.g. CIMG 123. The system is operable to allow a driver to set a target vehicle speed, the system being operable in first and second speed control modes to control the vehicle to maintain the target vehicle speed. In the first speed control mode the system is configured to limit operation of the vehicle to an electric vehicle (EV) mode. In the second speed control mode the system is configured not to limit operation of the vehicle to the EV mode. When the control system is in the first mode and one of a prescribed one or more conditions is met, the system is operable to not limit operation of the vehicle to the EV mode.
Patent GB-2508905-A (GB)
Title: Endoscopic instrument with bypass lead
Inventor: MORRIS DAVID
IPC: A61B18/14
Filed: 2012-12-14
Abstract: A shaft 14 is provided for a flexible endoscopic instrument e.g. electrosurgical, the shaft including at least one flexible section 20 along the length of the shaft, a distal section 19 located distally of the flexible section, and a proximal section 18 located proximally of the flexible section 20. The distal section 19 includes a connection to a shaft electrode, while the proximal section 18 includes at least one connection for connecting the shaft 14 to an electrosurgical generator 1. The shaft also includes a bypass lead 26 in electrical connection with both the distal section 19 and the proximal section 18. The bypass lead 26 ensures that the distal section 19 and the proximal section remain at the same potential even if the electrical pathway via the flexible section 20 becomes degraded by wear or damage thereto.
Patent GB-2495656-A (GB)
Title: Petroleum desalting utilizing voltage modulation
Inventor: SAMS GARY W
IPC: B03C11/00
Filed: 2011-08-05
Abstract: A method of removing entrained salt containing water from an inlet crude oil, stream includes the steps of applying an electrical energy to at least one electrode of a plurality of horizontally oriented, spaced-apart electrodes (12, 14, 16) housed within an elongated desalting vessel (10) and distributing an inlet crude oil stream between the electrodes. Each electrode in the plurality of electrodes is housed in an upper portion of the desalting vessel and may be in communication with a first, second and third transformer (42, 44, 46), respectively. The electrical energy may be at a single frequency and voltage or at a modulated voltage. Or, the electrical energy may be a modulated frequency at a single or modulated voltage. Fresh water may be mixed with the inlet crude oil stream either exteriorly or interiorly of the vessel.
Patent GB-2501000-A (GB)
Title: Composite material FADEC box mounted on aircraft engine
Inventor: BALK WOUTER
IPC: F01D25/24
Filed: 2013-03-27
Abstract: A device for protecting a computer of an aircraft turbine engine, the device comprising a box 34 containing the computer 30 and a cover 36 covering the box, the box being supported by tabs 38A-38D forming integral portions of the box and maintaining a flow of air between the bottom of the box and a portion of the casing 32 of the engine on which they are to come into secure contact via resilient studs 40A-40D, the box being made of a composite material. A plurality of connectors 42 may make external electrical connections through a wall of the box. The box may be covered by a layer of metal. The metal may be covered in intumescent paint. The computer may be a FADEC.
Patent GB-2501015-A (GB)
Title: Display with brightness local maximum along a vector not substatially normal to a plane of the display
Inventor: SKRYPCHUK LEE
IPC: F21Y101/00
Filed: 2010-07-06
Abstract: Display apparatus suitable for mounting to a dashboard of a motor vehicle comprising a display portion 105 and an illumination means 110. In one aspect of the invention a display apparatus comprises a display portion 105 arranged to display an image having a brightness and a contrast, the brightness and/or contrast of the image being a function of viewing angle, the brightness and/or contrast having at least one local maximum along a direction substantially parallel to at least one primary vector, the at least one primary vector not being a vector substantially normal to a plane of the display portion. The display may be arranged to comprise a first local maximum along a direction R1 towards the position of a driver D and a second local maximum along a direction R2 towards a passenger P.
Patent GB-2506986-A (GB)
Title: Magnetron cathodes
Inventor: ROBERTS CLIVE
IPC: H01J23/05
Filed: 2013-09-13
Abstract: A magnetron cathode comprises a structure 11 arranged to support a cathode body 16 which includes an electron emissive material. The support structure 11 has a longitudinal axis, and includes a first part 12 having a first cylinder 12a integrally formed with a first end hat 12b and a second part 13 having a second cylinder 13a integrally formed with a second end hat 13b. The first and second cylinders are joined together at an overlapping region d in the longitudinal axial direction. The cathode body 16 is located around the first cylinder 12a of the first part 12 of the support structure 11, and is joined thereto by a brazed joint. The outer surface of the first cylinder 12a also has a plurality of circumferential grooves 17, or at least one helical groove, in the region of the brazed joint.
Patent GB-2508490-A (GB)
Title: A sharps retraction device
Inventor: BROWN PHILIP ARNOLD
IPC: A61M5/32
Filed: 2011-12-06
Abstract: A device 10 for retaining a medical sharp 18 having a hollow housing with proximal and distal ends, a connector 16 in the distal end for receiving a medical sharp 18, and a retraction mechanism. The retraction mechanism is movable between a first position in which the sharp 18 protrudes from the distal end of the housing and is available for use and a second position in which the connector 16 and any sharp 18 received therein are completely retracted into the housing. The device 10 further comprises an actuator to operate the retraction mechanism and allow movement from the first position to the second position. A port is located in the housing and a closure device 64 is operable upon retraction of the connector 16 into the housing to close the port. An accessory 84 connects a fluid conduit 82 to the port for supplying or receiving fluids.
Patent GB-2521398-A (GB)
Title: Techniques for co-siting a metal detector with another detector
Inventor: GANNAWAY JULIAN NOLAN
IPC: G01V3/10
Filed: 2013-12-18
Abstract: A metal detecting sensing coil comprises one or more turns of wire 12 and is equipped to prevent interference from other sensors, such as NQR, NMR or ESR sensors, located on the same detector head as said metal detecting sensing coil. In one embodiment the coil comprises a tuned circuit arranged such that its resonant frequency is a frequency of operation of the other sensor. The tuned circuit may comprise a capacitor 15 arranged in parallel with a helical winding 18 formed from the coil or a conducting sheath 16 arranged over said coil. In a second embodiment the one or more turns of wire are fed from an antenna feed via a transformer having a transformation ratio selected to provide a desired EMF. In a third embodiment the one or more turns of wire experience substantially zero magnetic flux from the magnetic field of another sensor antenna co-sited with the metal detector sensing coil.
Patent GB-2518025-A (GB)
Title: Decoration holder
Inventor: MADRID JESSICA
IPC: A47G33/10
Filed: 2014-02-20
Abstract: A card holder for Christmas trees is made from bent wire. One section receives a card or other ornament or decoration in a coil, spiral, grip, clip or clamp. Another section extends parallel to a tree branch holding the card or ornament away from the tree to avoid obscuring the decoration. A zig-zag shaped bent section secures the holder to a branch, by wrapping round the branch or also using string, tape or glue.
Patent GB-2509847-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for removing partial discharge noise and method for diagnosing partial discharge
Inventor: CHOI KWANG SIK
IPC: G01N29/24
Filed: 2012-09-28
Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for removing partial discharge noise and to a method for diagnosing partial discharge. The apparatus comprises: a noise removing device which removes, upon occurrence of a partial discharge signal, noises from a partial discharge signal using a reaction speed difference of signals and outputs a signal from which noises are removed; a laser module which outputs, upon the occurrence of a partial discharge signal, laser to a surface of power equipment and extracts sound wave and vibration data from a reflection signal of the laser; a correlation analyzing unit which compares the partial discharge signal from which noises are removed, input through a sensor connection unit, and sound wave and vibration data extracted through the laser module so as to analyze a correlation; and a partial discharge diagnosing unit that performs a partial discharge diagnosis on the signal of which at least one of a generation period, generation time and phase of sound wave and vibration data corresponds to the partial discharge signal from which noises are removed, as a result of the correlation analysis performed by the correlation analyzing unit.
Patent GB-2515407-A (GB)
Title: Multi-reflection mass spectrometer
Inventor: GRINFELD DMITRY
IPC: H01J49/40
Filed: 2013-01-22
Abstract: A multi-reflection mass spectrometer is provided comprising two ion-optical mirrors, each mirror elongated generally along a drift direction (Y), each mirror opposing the other in an X direction, the X direction being orthogonal to Y, characterized in that the mirrors are not a constant distance from each other in the X direction along at least a portion of their lengths in the drift direction. Typically, the mirrors become closer together in the X direction along at least a portion of their lengths as they extend in the drift direction away from anion injector. In use, ions are reflected from one opposing mirror to the other a plurality of times whilst drifting along the drift direction so as to follow a generally zigzag path within the mass spectrometer. The motion of ions along the drift direction is opposed by an electric field resulting from the non-constant distance of the mirrors from each other along at least a portion of their lengths in the drift direction that causes the ions to reverse their direction.
Patent GB-2513081-A (GB)
Title: Writing new data of first block size to second block size using write-write mode
Inventor: MOERTL DANIEL
IPC: G06F3/06
Filed: 2013-01-29
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods to write new data of a first block size are provided. A particular method may include writing old data from a destination block of a second block size of a data drive to a first buffer of the second block size. The old data may be written according to address information of the old data and without overwriting the new data in the first buffer. The method may further include writing zeros to a second buffer of the second block size according to the address information of the old data. The zeros written in the second buffer may correspond with the old data written in the first buffer.
Patent GB-2519847-A (GB)
Title: Colorful and bright diamond
Inventor: HE QIANTAI
IPC: A44C17/00
Filed: 2014-08-28
Abstract: The diamond cut pattern for a diamond, or gemstone, with seventy-four facets, comprising eight main crown facets 1 and eight main pavilion facets 2. There is one round table facet 3 at the top end of a crown portion and eight crown arrow star facets 5 with eight upper girdle right star facets 6 and eight upper girdle left star facets 7 provided at two sides under the crown arrow star facet and above the girdle. There are eight pavilion arrow star facets 8 with eight lower girdle right star facets 9 and eight lower girdle left star facets 10. The height of the pavilion arrow star facets is half that of the main pavilion facet. A bottom tip star facet 11 is provided at the bottom end of the pavilion portion.
Patent GB-2529693-A (GB)
Title: Method of characterising a subsurface volume
Inventor: THORE PIERRE DANIEL
IPC: G01V1/30
Filed: 2014-08-29
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of characterising a subsurface volume 200. The method comprises: extracting a geobody (115, Fig.1) from seismic data arranged within a discretised volume comprising a plurality of cells 230, the geobody comprising a subset of the plurality of cells, each cell of the subset having one or more properties indicative of a particular fluid phase. The extraction of the geobody comprises: determining a propagation probability value for each cell indicative of the probability that a front will propagate through the cell; beginning from a source within the discretised volume, using the propagation probability value to calculate a travel time for each cell, the travel time describing the time the front takes to travel from the source point to the cell; and using the travel times to extract the geobody from the seismic data. The probability value may be used as a velocity or slowness for said front when calculating travel times. The boundary of the geobody may be defined by cells all having a single travel time attributed thereto.
Patent GB-2533420-A (GB)
Title: Exterior anti-cold bridge architectural profiles
Inventor: GRAHAM ANDREW JONES
IPC: E06B1/70
Filed: 2014-12-19
Abstract: An insulating product for providing insulation around the peripheral edge of a window or door positioned in a structure. The insulating product comprises a body 0 and a core 1 coated in an elastomeric material 2. A first abutment surface 4a for abutting a window or door reveal and a second abutment surface 4b for abutting an outer wall of the structure are provided. The core may comprise foam, such as expanded polystyrene. The coating may include polyurea, epoxy or polyurethane-polyurea hybrid, and may also include a particulate material adhered to the elastomeric material. The insulating product may be L-shaped. Also claimed is a method of installing the insulating product. The present invention enables a reduction in cold bridging on buildings using profiles that may be decorative surrounds (Fig. 3 and 4).
Patent GB-2534559-A (GB)
Title: Method and system of controlling aircraft engine emissions
Inventor: PETER SWANN
IPC: F02C9/48
Filed: 2015-01-22
Abstract: A method and system for controlling climate impact of an aircraft engine 10 comprising a location determination system determining a plurality of the engine locations 34 during a current or planned flight, an ozone sensitivity determination system determining ambient air sensitivity to ozone production at the locations, a deployment control system assessing a value of one or more current or future engine operation variable at the locations under a normal operation condition and outputting a revised value or threshold for the variable in order to reduce NOx output by the engine if ozone sensitivity exceeds a predetermined value. Preferably the variable is combustion temperature, fuel flow or composition, throttle setting, etc; the determination system reads ambient ozone, 42, NO2, 44, HO2, 46, OH, 48, H2O, 50 concentration or sunlight (UV) level, 52; a comparator assesses positive and negative climate impact resulting from deployment of a NOx reduction system. Figure 4 illustrates a process 28 calculating the net benefit 30 attributable to a proposed level of deployment 32 of a NOx reduction measure with a flight section.
Patent GB-2522794-A (GB)
Title: Screen valve
Inventor: HOWES JONATHAN SEBASTIAN
IPC: F16K3/18
Filed: 2015-01-30
Abstract: A screen valve 210 comprises a multi-apertured valve plate 220 movable laterally relative to a multi-apertured valve seat 230 between a closed configuration where the apertures are not registered to prevent fluid flow, and an open configuration where the apertures are registered to permit fluid flow. The valve plate 220 is supported by a multi-apertured carrier plate 240 that moves laterally in synchrony with the valve plate 220 to maintain a predetermined lateral registration between their respective apertures as the valve plate 220 moves between the open and closed configurations, the valve plate being movable relative to the carrier plate 240 so as to lift off and return into contact with the valve seat 230. The co-moving carrier plate 240 shields the valve plate 220 to minimise pressure locking. Aerodynamic features urge the valve plate 220 towards or away from the carrier plate 240.
Patent GB-2522374-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for uploading data
Inventor: TINE STEVEN D
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2013-11-18
Abstract: A method and apparatus for uploading data is provided herein. During operation vehicles in the field will upload their digital multimedia evidence (DME) to a mobile/intermediary upload point(s). These mobile/intermediary upload points preferably comprise computers existing in other vehicles that are not currently connected to a central repository. A mobile recorder (mDVR) will choose a particular mobile/intermediary upload point(s) based on a probability that the mobile upload point(s) will return to a connected upload point to upload the transferred DME.
Patent GB-2541401-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for simulating a parachute experience
Inventor: DAVID WOOD
IPC: B64D23/00
Filed: 2015-08-17
Abstract: An apparatus 1 for simulating a parachute experience includes a device 10 which controls the descent of a participant within a pipe 12. The apparatus includes a first portion 1a having one or more passageways down which the device may pass and which are substantially vertical and a second portion 1b wherein the passageways are curved so as to gradually reduce the speed of the device. At least part of the pipe defines a chamber 14. The apparatus includes a valve 15 that can be operated by an actuator to regulate the flow of air into the chamber. The outer periphery of the device is substantially equal to the inner periphery of the pipe such that the device can contact the pipe around substantially the entire inner periphery thereof. The chamber is at least partially located above the device. The, or each, pipe may be supported by a supporting structure 13 and this may include an elevator or stairs for participants to ascend to the top. The apparatus may include a braking device to slow the speed of descent of the device.
Patent GB-2527717-A (GB)
Title: Encapsulation collar for pipelines
Inventor: PATRIARCA SERGIO
IPC: F16L55/178
Filed: 2014-04-30
Abstract: An apparatus and method for the containment of a portion of a pipeline is provided. The apparatus includes first and second parts, which when brought together form an interior cavity in which the said portion of the pipeline is located. The first and second parts have respective connection flanges that are held together under force to form a seal. First and second sealing members are also provided to be placed substantially around a circumference of the pipeline, the first and second sealing members being spaced apart along a longitudinal axis of the said pipeline portion.
Patent GB-2528215-A (GB)
Title: Refrigerating device
Inventor: SUGIMOTO TAKESHI
IPC: F25B1/00
Filed: 2013-06-18
Abstract: A refrigerating device (1) comprises: a refrigerant circuit in which a refrigerant circulates and in which a compressor (10), a condenser (20), a throttling device (30), and an evaporator (40) are connected; an evaporator blower (41) that generates an air flow to be blown into a refrigerator (80) by passing through the evaporator (40); and a controlling unit (60) that controls at least the compressor (10) and the evaporator blower (41). R32 refrigerant, a refrigerant mixture containing at least 65 wt% of R32 refrigerant, HFO refrigerant, propane, or a refrigerant mixture containing propane is used as the refrigerant and the controlling unit (60) can run in cooling operation mode in which both the compressor (10) and the evaporator blower (41) are operated and in blower operation mode in which the compressor (10) is stopped and the evaporator blower (41) is operated.
Patent GB-2548365-A (GB)
Title: Clamp device
Inventor: ROLLY WHATTON
IPC: F16B7/04
Filed: 2016-03-15
Abstract: A clamp device comprises clamp body 18 shaped to substantially encircle a part 16 to which the clamp device is to be secured, in use. The clamp body 18 defines a pair of lips 20 provided with openings 22 (see figure 2) which substantially align with one another with a threaded member 24 extending through the substantially aligned openings. First and second cable retaining features 28, 30 (see figure 2) are formed in the clamp body 18 and are positioned such that a cable 12 extending between the first and second cable retaining features 28, 30 extends in a first direction. A third cable retaining feature 32 (see figure 2) is formed in the clamp body 18 and positioned such that a cable 14 extending between the first cable retaining feature 28 and the third cable retaining feature 32 extends in a second direction angled to the first direction.
Patent GB-2539566-A (GB)
Title: Underwater structure and underwater structure installation and removal method
Inventor: PAUL ELKINGTON
IPC: E02B17/02
Filed: 2016-06-09
Abstract: The submersible structure comprising a hollow floodable frame (2, figure 4) & a plurality of hinged stability tubes 3, 4 mounted to the frame. The tubes are stowed horizontally on the frame when the frame is not immersed in water and raised under their own buoyancy when the frame is being sunk or raised in the body of water. Preferably the stability tubes revert to a horizontal position when the floodable frame is placed on the bed of the body of water. Also disclosed are valves which permit the flow of water when the water is above a predetermined level and impede the flow of water through a valve when the water is below the predetermined level. The invention also provides a method of placing & retrieving a submersible structure using stability tubes.
Patent GB-2551359-A (GB)
Title: Telescopic, mobile building system for railway arches
Inventor: ZUI TAO
IPC: E04B1/343
Filed: 2016-06-15
Abstract: A telescopic building structure having mobile arches 1a, 1b, 1c, that can be retracted and extended along a sliding mechanism 2. The structure is situated on a fixed floor with vibration absorbing plates 5. It has at least one void and reflective solar foils 6a, 6b, to reflect sunlight into the interior of the building through the façade 8 and transparent entrance doors 9, 10. The building also has acoustic insulation and thermal insulation 4, and an air ventilation system 7. There may be internal rooms 11 that are not part of the telescopic moving structure. The building is intended to be situated inside a railway archway, with the features such as vibration dampening and sunlight void creating habitable conditions. The telescopic structure allows the overlying railway arch to be exposed for periodic inspection.