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Patent GB-2544410-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle phased array antenna pattern generation
Inventor: LAWRENCE BANASKY
IPC: H01Q1/32
Filed: 2016-10-26
Abstract: A communication system for a vehicle comprises a phased array antenna 220 having a plurality of elements, and a controller 212 configured to select a subset of the elements and preferably shift a phase of a signal emitted from each element to beam form a main lobe of a radiation pattern of the antenna based on a speed or change in speed of the vehicle. The controller may also select a subset of the elements to beam form the main lobe based on a steering angle, a brake signal, a turn signal, a location of the vehicle and a map database of a surrounding area, or a route generated by a navigation system. The map database may be based on data indicative of prior selection of elements, reception strength, magnitude of reflections or weather conditions, and may include the site, height, size or construction of buildings or a position of a wireless tower. The main lobe may be concentrated in at least two directions to the front of the vehicle based on the location of the vehicle approaching a cross street.
Patent GB-2541316-A (GB)
Title: Compositions and methods for reducing oxidative stress
Inventor: Lucia Piccotti
IPC: A61Q19/08
Filed: 2014-04-30
Abstract: Compositions for reducing skin aging resulting from oxidative stress and/or photodamage are disclosed herein. The compositions can be topically applied to a skin region to reduce or prevent skin wrinkles, fine lines, thinning skin, sagging skin, skin dryness, and skin itchiness.
Patent GB-2556946-A (GB)
Title: A method and a device for determining a switching current of a converter and a method of control
Inventor: Alexander Klingspor
IPC: G01R31/26
Filed: 2016-11-29
Abstract: A method and a device 1 are disclosed for determining a switching current of at least one switching element 6 of a converter 5 (for example, an inverter), particularly of a system for inductive power transfer. The system may be in a vehicle. A means 8 is used to determine a phase current (Iu, Iv, Iw) of at least one AC phase line of the converter; an evaluation unit 9 determines at least one switching time point of the switching element(s) and the phase current value corresponding to each time point; and this unit determines the switching current of the element(s) depending on the current value(s). Several time points may be determined, possibly by adding various offset values to switch signal generation time points. The switching current may then be determined as the local maximum of the measured values at those points. The phase current may be measured with a Rogowski coil or a transformer, and the measured values may be digitized with an A/D converter 13. A unit 11 may control the switches based on the determined switching current to avoid capacitive switching and the reverse recovery effect.
Patent GB-2548452-A (GB)
Title: Temperature Measurement
Inventor: PETER JOHN MILLER
IPC: G01K15/00
Filed: 2016-03-18
Abstract: A temperature measurement system 1 comprises a current source 2; a first multiplexer M1 having an input channel 5, connected to the current source 2, and a plurality of output channels 6a-d; a second multiplexer M2 having an output channel 8, connected to a processor 3, and a plurality of input channels 7a-d; and a plurality of temperature sensors T1, T2. Each sensor is connected to an output channel of the first multiplexer so that the sensor can receive current from the current source via the first multiplexer and to an input channel of the second multiplexer so that a voltage across the sensor can be monitored by the processor via the second multiplexer. The system further comprises two fixed value resistors R1, R2. Each fixed value resistor is connected to an output channel of the first multiplexer so that the fixed value resistor can receive current from the current source via the first multiplexer and to an input channel of the second multiplexer so that a voltage across the fixed value resistor can be measured by the processor via the second multiplexer. The processor is configured to confirm that voltages measured across the fixed value resistors fall within an expected range and to use the voltages measured across the two fixed value resistors in calculating the temperature measured by a temperature sensor if the voltages measured across the fixed value resistors fall within the expected range.
Patent GB-2546180-A (GB)
Title: Tunable miniaturized physical subsurface model for simulation and inversion
Inventor: LIOR HORESH
IPC: G01V99/00
Filed: 2015-09-02
Abstract: Conventional computational simulation and inversion of subsurface flow are expensive, which is wasteful in terms of time and energy consumption. A process for implementation of mathematical techniques such as forward simulation, sensitivity analysis, and inversion to physical microstructure models for subsurface fluid simulation is disclosed. This process not only offers accurate and reliable results, but also is cost effective.
Patent GB-2560002-A (GB)
Title: A tent
Inventor: ANDREW JOHN SCOTT
IPC: E04H15/54
Filed: 2017-02-24
Abstract: A tent cover (100), for locating on a tent frame (101) having a plurality of legs (101a) and an apex support element (127), comprises a plurality of wall portions (104) integrally formed with a roof portion (102). The cover has an outer surface, an inner surface and an apex locating element (110) disposed on the inner surface at an apex region (106) of the roof portion. The tent frame may be a tent supporting structure comprising a plurality of legs, each coupled to an adjacent leg by at least one first pair of elongate scissor members to allow the leg members to move towards and away from each other, an elongate apex support element located centrally with respect to the legs and coupled thereto by another pair of elongate scissor members and at least one damping element located between respective end regions of the further pair of scissor members and proximal the apex support element.
Patent GB-2562462-A (GB)
Title: Phase tracking reference signal
Inventor: MYTHRI HUNUKUMBURE
IPC: H04W52/24
Filed: 2017-03-24
Abstract: A base station transmits phase tracking reference signals (PTRS) to a plurality of mobile devices in a wide beam transmission at a first power level. The first power level is set such that mobile devices in an inner cell area 207 receive the PTRS with a sufficiently high signal strength to enable the PTRS to be correctly received and such mobile devices in an outer cell area 209 receive the PTRS with a sufficiently low signal strength to enable the PTRS to be processed as manageable interference. A first mobile device may estimate the Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) of the received PTRS and transmit to the base station, feedback information based on the estimated SINR. The base station may transmit, to the first mobile device, a narrow beam transmission comprising one or more allocated Resource Elements (REs) configured according to the feedback information. The allocated REs may be configured to (i) be left empty, so as to carry no information, (ii) contain data, or (iii) contain PTRS.
Patent GB-2562272-A (GB)
Title: A framework component and a framework structure
Inventor: JONATHAN EDWARD COOK
IPC: E04C2/40
Filed: 2017-05-10
Abstract: The component 110 comprises a frame 120 having a first edge and corresponding second edge allowing the first edge of the frame of one component to abut the second edge of an adjacent component, and a moveable support element 150 connected to and moveable relative to the frame between a retracted and an extended position, the frame further comprising an engagement section 130 adjacent the second edge for engaging the support element of an adjacent component, the engagement section comprising first and second engagement surfaces 121a, 123a which prevent relative movement of the support element of an adjacent panel in at least two directions. The support element may be slideable along an axis, and comprise first and second support members which are fixed relative to one another and extend in opposite directions. The component may have a second moveable support element and corresponding engagement section on third and fourth edges of the frame. Also claimed is a framework structure comprising a first and second of the framework components.
Patent GB-2555504-A (GB)
Title: A boosted engine system of a motor vehicle
Inventor: MICHAEL JOHN CADE
IPC: F02D9/02
Filed: 2017-05-16
Abstract: A boosted engine system and method of operation is disclosed. The engine 105 is arranged to receive boosted air from a variable geometry turbocharger 120 and an electrically powered compressor 130 arranged in parallel. The turbocharger is of small size so that it is unable to meet peak demands of the engine but as a consequence is very responsive at lower demand levels. Temporary high demands above a predefined level are met by using the compressor to supplement the flow of boosted air from the turbocharger. A recirculation circuit 102 is provided for the compressor to build up pressure in the compressor before it is connected to the engine so as to minimise fluctuations in engine boost pressure upon start-up of the compressor. Valves 116, 117 control when pressure is built up or released to the engine. The method requires that a condition for using the compressor is present. This condition may be the torque demanded by a driver or the boosted air requirement.
Patent GB-2562528-A (GB)
Title: Devices, methods, computer programs, processors and headsets
Inventor: Michal Karol Bogusz
IPC: G06F3/01
Filed: 2017-05-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a device with a content-processing component, a sensor operable to monitor an eyelid of a user, and a processor configured to cause the content-processing operation to be enabled when a users eyelid (135, Fig 2) is open more than an open-eyelid threshold and to be disabled S3c when a users eyelid is closed more than a closed-eyelid threshold S3b. The open and closed-eyelid thresholds may be the same or they may be different. The device may further issue a cancellation request S3f if the eyelid changes to an opened state S3e within a predetermined time, after a state change request has been issued S3c. The sensor may be an infrared (130, Fig 2) or visible light sensor. The content-processing component could be a graphics processing unit, video processing unit or display processing unit and may be configured to process virtual reality (VR) content. The device may be a headset, specifically a VR headset. The invention aims to save power by turning off content-processing when a users eyes are closed, for example when a user is blinking.
Patent GB-2547587-A (GB)
Title: Transgenic mice
Inventor: YUMIN TENG
IPC: C12N15/85
Filed: 2014-10-22
Abstract: The invention relates to nucleic acid constructs for expression in mice for the production of heavy chain only antibodies and VH domains, transgenic mice, related methods and uses.
Patent GB-2567127-A (GB)
Title: A Device
Inventor: GYAN MCMILLAN
IPC: A47C16/00
Filed: 2017-07-03
Abstract: The modular head rest provides a sleep surface and has a head pad 2, an elongate support 30 and a base 20. The head rest may be used by a person in transit in a sitting position and be portable. The head rest may have additional supports 30 and bases 20 that are interchangeable or replaceable such that the head rest may be customised in different configurations. One modular base 20 may connect to a chair arm rest and may include a sleeve 39 having an elastomeric material that pulls against the armrest. Another modular base 20 may have a suction cup 1. Another support 30 may be a flexible arm 4 to position and support the head rest. Such a flexible arm 4 may be a stainless steel gooseneck. Other supports 30 may be rigid or telescopic and may have an articulated or set angle attachment with the head pad.
Patent GB-2561926-A (GB)
Title: Wind turbine
Inventor: MICHAEL CHUNG
IPC: F03D7/06
Filed: 2017-07-04
Abstract: A vertical axis wind turbine with a reciprocating mechanism for varying blade pitch is disclosed. The mechanism may comprise a tiltable stator 44. A wind vane 40 may also be included to rotate the stator so it is aligned with the oncoming wind. A governor 34 comprising flyweights 68 and a biasing means 84 may also be included. The mechanism allows for Darrieus type turbines to be operated without the need for startup motors or braking mechanisms and in wind conditions they would not normally be suited to. A method of operating a wind turbine so that the aerofoils vary in attack angle from a maximum pitch to a minimum pitch during half a rotation about a central axis and returning to the maximum during the other half of rotation is also disclosed. The method may allow for the levels of pitch to be adjusted in response to wind direction or to adjust the pitch amplitude in response to the speed of rotation.
Patent GB-2564160-A (GB)
Title: Motorized yo-yo
Inventor: HANS VAN DAN ELZEN
IPC: A63H1/30
Filed: 2017-08-30
Abstract: A motorized yo-yo includes a body and a tether coupled to the body to support the body for rotation. A rotation controller is configured to detect a direction of rotation of the yo-yo body after being thrown down on the tether by a user and to engage a drive mechanism to continue rotation of the body in the detected direction of rotation. The rotation controller selectively supplies positive or negative voltage to a motor of the drive mechanism depending on the detected direction of the rotation of the body, to drive the yo-yo in the same direction of the detected rotation direction. When the yo-yo is thrown the motor acts as a generator and produces an electrical voltage. The polarity of the voltage produced by the motor changes depending on the direction of rotation of the body; and it is this polarity that is sensed to determine the rotational direction of the yo-yo body.
Patent GB-2568074-A (GB)
Title: Mixing Apparatus
Inventor: Richard James Hayman
IPC: B65D65/46
Filed: 2017-11-03
Abstract: The mixing apparatus comprises, a first container 12 comprising a first container material and a first chemical agent, and a second container 14 comprising a second container material and a second chemical agent, the first and/or second chemical agents having activated properties in solution; wherein the first container material and/or the second container material is soluble in a solvent. The solvent is water and at least one of the chemical agents may be a powder. The first chemical agent is preferably calcium hypochlorite and the second agent is a dicarboxylic acid, such as adipic acid. A desiccant may be housed in a third compartment. In use, compartment 20 of housing 16 is accessed by tearing the housing. This provides for release of first sachet 12 and second sachet 14 from the housing. Both sachets are placed in water within a fourth container (32, fig. 2). Upon dissolving, the first and second chemical agents provide an activated disinfectant solution comprising activated chlorine.
Patent GB-2568527-A (GB)
Title: Address layout varying process
Inventor: CHRIS LORESKÄR
IPC: G06F21/57
Filed: 2017-11-20
Abstract: This application is for a method of installing or updating software on an electronic device by first obtaining the code or data is to be installed or updated 50, then obtaining at least one seed value 52. It then selects a software address layout for the code or data associated with the software that depends on the seed value 54. Each software address layout corresponds to a different layout of the code or data associated with the software in a physical address space. It then updates the physical address references in the code or data to make them correspond with the selected software address layout 56, and finally triggers the electronic device to write the code or data associated with the software to locations in the memory that correspond to the selected software address layout 58. It may also update an expected authentication value for programming authentication functions to correspond with the selected software address layout 60.
Patent GB-2554607-A (GB)
Title: Electromagnetic monitoring with formation-matched resonant induction sensors
Inventor: BURKAY DONDERICI
IPC: G01V3/28
Filed: 2015-07-22
Abstract: A method of monitoring electromagnetic properties of a subsurface formation may include: obtaining a resistivity distribution in the subsurface formation; identifying sensor positions along a borehole; determining an effective resistivity of each region around a sensor position; deriving from the effective resistivities of regions associated with each sensor position an optimum resonance frequency; tuning an array of sensors to provide each sensor with the optimum resonance frequency; deploying the sensor array in the borehole; and collecting electromagnetic field measurements. Each sensor may include: a coil antenna positioned in a subsurface formation having a resistivity, the coil antenna generating a induced voltage signal from an electromagnetic field in the subsurface formation; and a resonant modulation circuit that converts the induced voltage signal into a telemetry signal, the resonant modulation circuit having a resonance frequency optimized for said formation resistivity.
Patent GB-2558786-A (GB)
Title: Improved tool
Inventor: BARRY CHAPMAN
IPC: E21B43/116
Filed: 2017-12-21
Abstract: A tool 50 for fracturing at least one tubular is described. The tool comprises a plurality of parallel columns of explosives 52-60, and a detonation system 68, configured to detonate the columns of explosives. The columns are arranged such that upon detonation, at least a portion of the shockwave propagating (figures 2 & 8) in a direction outwardly from the tool from one column combines with at least a portion of the shockwave propagating in a direction outwardly from the tool from another column to create a combined shockwave of greater intensity than either of the shockwaves which formed the combined shockwave. A method of use and a tool with a single column of explosives are also claimed. There may be a void for propagation of shockwave, reflective elements and the charges maybe circular.
Patent GB-2557040-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for monitoring at least a portion of a wellbore
Inventor: EIRIK ESPE
IPC: E21B47/16
Filed: 2016-04-14
Abstract: There is described an apparatus (810; 810') for monitoring at least a portion of a wellbore (804), the apparatus comprising a body (811) having at least an anchoring means (817) for releasably positioning the apparatus with respect to a tubular (807) in the wellbore. The apparatus comprises detecting means (813) for detecting at least one parameter of a substance in said portion, and in that the apparatus comprises transceiver means (820; 820'; 814) configured to at least transmit data related to said parameter.
Patent GB-2555992-A (GB)
Title: On-chip current sensing employing power distribution network voltage de-convolution
Inventor: SEBASTIAN TURULLOLS
IPC: H03H7/01
Filed: 2016-05-20
Abstract: Systems (100), methods (300, 500), and other embodiments are disclosed that are configured to provide on-chip current sensing by employing a power distribution network voltage de-convolution technique. A voltage signal on a voltage plane (103) of a system-on-chip device (100) is measured during operation of the system-on-chip device (100). The voltage signal derives from a power distribution network. (310) The voltage signal is de-convolved, based at least in part on inverse convolution coefficients derived from the power distribution network, to recover a current signal being drawn by the system-on- chip device (100) from the power distribution network. (320)
Patent GB-2570694-A (GB)
Title: Trailer drive unit
Inventor: JONATHAN M HARRISON
IPC: B62D59/04
Filed: 2018-02-02
Abstract: A trailer drive unit in the form of a caravan mover 10 comprising a motor 16 (drive means/drive device), a head 14 housing a roller 20 which are linked together by a gear mechanism 22. Specifically, the present invention provides a support and drive transmission system 22 located centrally on the roller 20 with the roller 20 being provided by a first lateral portion/roller 19 and a second lateral portion/roller 21. In this arrangement, the length of the lateral roller portions 19, 21 are individually shorter than a single roller such that the torque created in the central drive transmission portion is significantly less.
Patent GB-2564505-A (GB)
Title: Methods for making improved quantum dot resin formulations
Inventor: LIANG CHEN
IPC: C09K11/88
Filed: 2018-02-14
Abstract: Methods for making polymerizable monomer compositions comprising purifying a (b) monomer mixture of (i) one or more monomers having at least two polymerisable vinyl groups and (ii) one or more monomers having a single polymerizable vinyl group as part of a (meth)acrylate ester group by any one or more of treating the monomer mixture in an activated porous alumina or silica column, sieve drying the monomer mixture in a vacuum followed by drying over dried molecular sieves having average pore sizes of from 2 to 20 Angstroms, freeze-pump-thaw (FPT) treating by freezing the monomer mixture in a vessel or container to a temperature below -75 °C, degassing the monomer mixture by application of vacuum in the range of 102 to 10-2Pa, sealing the vessel or container under vacuum, and thawing the composition to room temperature: and. combining in an inert gas atmosphere the resulting monomer mixture (b) with a composition (a) of quantum dots in dry form or organic solvent solution.
Patent GB-2574049-A (GB)
Title: Interrupt controller
Inventor: TIMOTHY NICHOLAS HAY
IPC: G06F13/24
Filed: 2018-05-24
Abstract: An interrupt controller 210 comprises issue circuitry 224 to issue interrupt requests to a processing element 202 and control circuitry 220 to detect presence of a race condition in association with at least one pending interrupt request to be issued, and to set a barrier indicator when the race condition has been resolved. In response to the race condition being present, the issue circuitry is configured to select one of the at least one pending interrupt requests and issue to the processing element the selected pending interrupt request followed by a dummy request over a path that ensures that the processing element receives the selected pending interrupt request prior to receiving the dummy request. On receiving an acknowledgement indicating that the processing element has received the dummy request, the control circuitry is then configured to set the barrier indicator. The processing element may employ a plurality of operating systems 206-2, 206-4, 206-6 under control of a hypervisor 208-2, and the race condition may occur when a target operating system for the interrupt request is not the resident operating system of the processor.
Patent GB-2566796-A (GB)
Title: Air turbine starter
Inventor: Rick L Fiste
IPC: F02N7/08
Filed: 2018-07-18
Abstract: An air turbine starter 10 comprising a housing 30 defining an inlet 32, an outlet 34, and a flow path extending between the inlet 32 and the outlet 34. Two or more turbine members 72,74 are mounted within the housing 30 and disposed within the flow path. A gear train 96 is coupled with the turbine members 72,74 and a drive shaft 108 is coupled with the gear train 96. The turbine members 72,74 are aligned with the inlet 32. Also, an air turbine starter 10 having a housing 30 with an inlet 32 at a first end and a plurality of outlets 34. A twin-turbine 72,74 is within the housing 30 in-line with the inlet 32. A drive shaft 108 is coupled to the twin-turbine 72,74. Further, an air turbine starter 10 having a housing 30 having a peripheral wall defining an inlet 32 at one end of the housing 30, a plurality of outlets 34, and a flow path between the inlet 32 and the outlets 34. A set of turbine members 72,74 is housed within the peripheral wall and a drive shaft 108 is coupled to the set of turbine members 72,74.