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Patent GB-2530323-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process For Producing Pork Rind Products
Inventor: CARTER MATT
IPC: A23L13/20
Filed: 2014-09-19
Abstract: A process for preparing a pre-packaged pork crackling precursor, the process comprising: sealing one or more pork rinds in a container such that an interior surface of the container is in thermal contact with at least one pork rind; and exposing an exterior surface of the container to a steam atmosphere such that the steam is in thermal contact with the portion of at least one pork rind, thereby to produce a flexible pork crackling precursor. The process may further comprise removing air from the container, possibly so that the container encloses a vacuum and also freezing the flexible pork crackling precursor. Further disclosed is a process for preparing a pork crackling product which comprises removing the pork crackling precursor from the container; thawing the pork crackling precursor to obtain a flexible pork crackling precursor and cooking the said precursor to obtain the pork crackling product.
Patent GB-2528730-A (GB)
Title: Array substrate having integrated gate driver and method of fabricating the same
Inventor: KANG IN
IPC: G09G3/36
Filed: 2014-12-22
Abstract: A gate in panel (GIP) array substrate includes: a substrate 201; a gate connecting line 216b on the substrate in a gate circuit area (GCA); a gate insulating layer 220 on the gate connecting line; an active pattern 223b on the gate insulating layer; a source connecting line 225c and a pixel pattern 245b sequentially disposed on the active pattern; an interlayer insulating layer 230 and an organic pattern 240 sequentially disposed on the gate insulating layer; a first passivation layer 250 on the organic pattern; and a conductive pattern 255 on the first passivation layer, the conductive pattern 255 connected to the gate connecting line 216b and connected to the pixel pattern 245b through contact holes CH1 and CH2. Conductive pattern 255 functions as a plurality of clock lines to deliver clock signals to the gate driver, conductive pattern 255 is formed over the gate driver circuitry enabling an LCD with a narrow bezel to be produced.
Patent GB-2535790-A (GB)
Title: Speaker unit
Inventor: WILLEMS STEFAN
IPC: H04R1/34
Filed: 2015-02-27
Abstract: The loudspeaker produces high directivity sound over a broad range of frequencies, including at low frequencies. The loudspeaker 100 includes a speaker drive unit 102 and an acoustic interference tube 104 having an open first end coupled to the speaker drive unit 102. The interference tube has a series of apertures, holes or perforations 106, and the centres of the apertures lie on a generally a straight line along the length of the tube. The size of the apertures increases with distance 110, 112 from the speaker drive unit. The interior of the tube 104 may be filled with material to reduce the speed/velocity of sound within the tube and to damp reflections of sound. The tube may be circular or ovoid. The speaker unit may have more than one acoustic output (fig 6) with at least one of the outputs coupled to a respective interference tube.
Patent GB-2539271-A (GB)
Title: Controller for a motor vehicle and method
Inventor: JONATHAN WOODLEY
IPC: B60C23/04
Filed: 2015-06-12
Abstract: The present invention provides a controller for a motor vehicle central tyre inflation system 1, the controller being configured to control the system to cause inflation and deflation of one or more tyres T. the controller being configured to cause the system to operate in a selected one of a plurality of operating modes in each of which the system is configured to set a pressure of one or more tyres T of the vehicle to a predetermined target tyre pressure value, wherein the operating modes include a leakage assist mode in which the controller causes the system to inflate the tyres T to predetermined leakage assist pressure value and to attempt to maintain the tyre pressure at the predetermined leakage assist pressure value. Also disclosed are several methods of controlling the motor vehicle central tyre inflation system 1 and also a computer program suitable for carrying on the method on a processor.
Patent GB-2541703-A (GB)
Title: Attenuating an input signal
Inventor: DAVID JOSEPH MATE
IPC: H04R3/00
Filed: 2015-08-27
Abstract: A switchable attenuator 301 is disclosed. Positive and negative non-attenuating paths 406, 410 have n- and p-type MOSFETs 421, 422, 423 & 424 in back-to back configurations. Positive and negative attenuating paths 405, 409 have n- and p-type MOSFETs 415, 416, 418 & 419 in back-to-back configurations in combination with resistors. A gate driver 425 applies a drive signal of one polarity QNEG to the gates of the n-type MOSFETs in the attenuating paths and the p-type MOSFETs in the non-attenuating paths, and a drive signal of opposite polarity QPOS to the gates of the p-type MOSFETs in the attenuating paths and the n-type MOSFETs in the non-attenuating paths. The state of the MOSFETs depends on the drive signals at their gates, and thus the input signal may be routed via either the non-attenuating paths or the attenuating paths by controlling the drive signals. The attenuator may be followed by a filter (801, fig.8), and the gate driver 425 may switch at an ultrasonic frequency between the attenuating and non-attenuating paths using pulse width modulation with a duty cycle controlled to give smooth control of attenuation (1003, 1004, fig.10), thereby avoiding switching pops.
Patent GB-2533996-A (GB)
Title: Improved hinge arrangement
Inventor: DANIEL SAVAGE
IPC: E05D15/58
Filed: 2015-10-16
Abstract: A hinged panel system comprising a catch assembly 32 and a hinge assembly 10 mounting a panel to a frame of a false wall for movement between a closed position and an open position providing access to an opening. The hinge assembly comprising a body plate 12 mounted to the frame and a fixing bracket 14 having an elongate slot 24 mounted to the panel via bracket 26 having a protrusion received in the slot 24 allowing limited sliding of the panel relative to fixing bracket 14; the fixing bracket coupled to body plate by a pair of pivotal arms 16, 18. The catch having a tongue portion 34 projecting across the opening and a mouth portion 36, preferably of U-shape, mounted on the panel and interlocking with tongue when in the closed position, the tongue and mouth overlapping the edge of the adjacent panel/wall. The length of the mouth projecting across the wall frame is less than the length of the slot.
Patent GB-2530676-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for mitigating downhole torsional vibration
Inventor: GAJJI BHARGAV
IPC: E21B17/10
Filed: 2013-07-09
Abstract: A well tool apparatus for damping torsional vibration of a drill string comprises stabilizing members projecting radially outwards from a housing that is, in operation, rotationally integrated in the drill string, to stabilize the drill string by engagement with a borehole wall. The stabilizing members are displaceably mounted on the housing to permit limited angular movement thereof relative to the housing about its rotational axis. The well tool apparatus includes a hydraulic damping mechanism to damp angular displacement of the stabilizing members relative to the housing, thereby damping torsional vibration of the housing and the connected drill string, in use.
Patent GB-2535349-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum cleaner tool
Inventor: SAMUEL STEVEN COLE
IPC: A47L9/06
Filed: 2014-02-10
Abstract: A tool for a vacuum cleaner comprising a duct for attachment to a wand, hose or the like of the vacuum cleaner, a nozzle 2 and one of more dirt-sweeping elements 4 and possible a front chamfered portion11, 12. The dirtsweeping elements 4 are secured to a base 6 of nozzle 2 and are arranged into at least two chevrons oriented in opposite directions towards the sides of the nozzle. Elements 4 may form a continuous curtain. At least two suction openings 15, 16 are then provided in the base of the nozzle, each suction opening 15 being located within a chevron. Openings 15 may be triangular, openings 16 may be elliptical. Nozzle 2 further comprises sides 7, 8 that extend between front 9 and rear 10, with at least one of the sides having at least one further suction openings 16.
Patent GB-2537261-A (GB)
Title: Lubricant for high PH water based mud system
Inventor: KENNETH W POBER
IPC: C09K8/58
Filed: 2014-12-29
Abstract: A method of drilling a wellbore in a subterranean formation employing a high pH aqueous mud or drilling fluid with a high pH lubricant. In one embodiment, the lubricant, which significantly improves the lubricity of the fluid in a high pH environment, comprises about 80 volume percent 2-octyldodecanol and about 20 volume percent alkylglucoside. In one embodiment, the alkylglucoside is comprised of 2-ethylhexylglucoside or a mixture of alkylglucosides having more than about 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain. The lubricant is effective at pH ranges from 7 to 14, preventing the lubricity of the aqueous drilling fluid from declining in relation to increasing pH.
Patent GB-2542484-A (GB)
Title: Coordinated storage of operating data among multiple voltage regulators in response to a fault condition
Inventor: BRIAN C TOTTEN
IPC: G06F1/30
Filed: 2016-07-27
Abstract: A plurality of voltage regulators 20A, 20B, 20C, 20D in a computer node 10 each have a controller, volatile and non-volatile memory. Each controller temporarily caches in its volatile memory operating data for its voltage regulator over a sliding time period. When a voltage regulator experiences a fault, the controller of each regulator receives notice of the fault, in response to which each controller copies its cached operating data from its volatile memory to its non-volatile memory. This may include data collected immediately prior to the fault. The regulators may each have an open drain output all coupled together by a common signal line 40. Each controller may monitor the line and receive notice of the fault in response to a change in voltage on the line. The controllers may send the operating data stored in non-volatile memory to a management entity 14 within the node. A method and system are provided.
Patent GB-2540305-A (GB)
Title: Headpiece for a bridle
Inventor: VANESSA FAIRFAX
IPC: B68B1/04
Filed: 2013-08-12
Abstract: A headpiece 100 for a bridle having first (12, fig 2) and second (14, fig 2) end portions and a connecting portion 16. The headpiece including a first connection means 51 connected to the first end portion for connecting the headpiece to other component parts of the bridle, a second connection means (52, fig 2) connected to the second end portion for connecting the headpiece to other component parts of the bridle, a first spacing member 20a connected to or positioned at an underside of the first end portion for providing a gap G outwardly of the first spacing member close to the location of the first connection means for spacing that portion of the first end portion away from the animals head and a second spacing member (20b, fig 2) for doing the same thing at the second end. The spacing member is designed to sit behind the animals ear, may be wedge, triangular or rectangular in shape and may be deformable. The connecting portion may include a cushioning layer and may be wider in the leading/front edge (16a, fig 1) direction than the first and second end portions. A guide part may be positioned at a leading edge of the connecting portion to guide the animals musculature underneath the connecting portion may be included.
Patent GB-2545317-A (GB)
Title: Incapacitated driving detection and prevention
Inventor: Adil Nizam Siddiqui
IPC: B60W40/08
Filed: 2016-10-27
Abstract: Biometric data is received 405 from a wearable device e.g. smart watch. The biometric data concerns a vehicle operator or driver measured by at least one sensor in the wearable device. A load score is determined 415. The load score is a measurement of operator capacity to operate the vehicle based at least in part on the biometric data from the wearable device. Incapacity may for example relate to tiredness, fatigue, stress or intoxication. The load score may be a weighted score, which assigns different importance levels to the detected biometric data. The biometric data may include the driver heart rate, breathing pattern and pupil size and stability. At least one vehicle component e.g. steering or braking, is actuated based at least in part on the load score 430. Historical load scores may also be taken into account.
Patent GB-2550003-A (GB)
Title: Process
Inventor: OLA ERLANDSSON
IPC: C07C273/14
Filed: 2016-11-28
Abstract: Production of formaldehyde-stabilised urea comprises the steps of: (a) generating a synthesis gas in a synthesis gas generation unit 18; (b) forming a shifted gas in one or more water-gas shift reactors 20,22; (c) recovering CO2 from the shifted gas in a carbon dioxide removal unit 24 to form a CO2-depleted synthesis gas; (d) synthesising methanol from this synthesis gas in a methanol synthesis unit 30; (e) subjecting at least some of the methanol to oxidation with air in a formaldehyde production unit 34; (f) methanating the methanol synthesis off-gas in a methanation reactor 48 to form an ammonia synthesis gas; (g) synthesising ammonia from the ammonia synthesis gas in an ammonia production unit 54; (h) reacting a portion of the ammonia and at least some of the recovered carbon dioxide stream in a urea production unit 64 to form urea; and (i) stabilising the urea by mixing the urea and a stabiliser prepared using formaldehyde recovered from the formaldehyde production unit, wherein a portion of the synthesis gas generated by the synthesis gas generation unit 18 by-passes either the water-gas shift reactor(s) 20,22; the carbon dioxide removal unit 24 or the water-gas shift reactor(s) and the CO2 removal unit.
Patent GB-2557668-A (GB)
Title: Box
Inventor: ANDREW THOMAS HODGSON
IPC: B65D43/16
Filed: 2016-12-15
Abstract: A box comprising: a lid with an opening 210; a door moveable with respect to the opening comprising first 310 and second 320 blocking members arranged to restrict access to the interior of the box; where blocking members are movable between collapsed and extended state. Preferably, first and second blocking members are arranged on common pivot, and biased by biasing means 340 into collapsed state and held using a holding means in extended state. Preferably, a third 334 collapsible blocking means is complementary in shape in shape to movement of first and second blocking means, and is biased into collapsed state and held in extended state. Preferably, box comprises back part and front part pivotally connected to collapsible side walls and base. Preferably, abutment member between lid and base prevents collapse of base or lid. An object is placed between first and second blocking members and moved to deposit object.
Patent GB-2550455-A (GB)
Title: Globally optimized least-squares post-filtering for speech enhancement
Inventor: YITENG HUANG
IPC: G10L21/0272
Filed: 2017-02-02
Abstract: Audio signals 109 are received at a microphone array 130, and a sound field scenario 105 is hypothesised to determine a covariance matrix models 140a. A covariance matrix of the received signal is calculated 145a, and the power of the sound sources estimated 150a by solving the equality of the calculated and modelled covariance matrices to minimise the difference. Post-filter coefficients are calculated 155a and applied 160a based on the estimated power to generate an output signal 175. Multiple sound field scenarios may be hypothesized to generate multiple output signals, and the output with the highest signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) selected. Estimating of the power may be based on the Frobenius norm using Hermitian symmetry of the covariance matrices. Sound-source location methods may be used to hypothesize the sound environment. A model that reduces noise by maximising the sample variance of the output signal may be selected. Fixed beamformer coefficients 138a may be calculated, on which the post-filter coefficients are also based. The post-filter may be a Wiener filter that follows a beamformer, providing a globally optimal solution using a least-squares approach. The modelled sound field may account for a point source interferer, diffuse noise, and white noise.
Patent GB-2549192-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for cleaning interior portions of a vehicle
Inventor: DOUGLAS ALAN BROWN
IPC: E03D9/00
Filed: 2017-03-09
Abstract: A vehicle includes an internal cabin, an interior chamber 102 within said cabin, and an autonomous cleaning system 104 located within the interior chamber. The autonomous cleaning system includes a cleaning robot configured to clean a portion of the interior chamber. The vehicle may be an airplane and the interior chamber maybe a lavatory or toilet. The robotic cleaner may have a debris collector and agitator, such as a vacuum cleaner, a dispenser for dispensing fluid onto the floor and an ultraviolet light to irradiate a portion of the chamber during the cleaning cycle. The system may also have sensors, e.g. infra red, for detecting the presence of a person in the room, and deploying the cleaning robot only when the room is empty. The robot cleaner may have an RFID chip which interacts with the locking mechanism on the door of the lavatory. There may be a docking station for recharging the robots battery.
Patent GB-2547592-A (GB)
Title: Statistical approach to incorporate uncertainties of parameters in simulation results and stability analysis for earth drilling
Inventor: ANDREAS HOHL
IPC: E21B44/00
Filed: 2015-10-27
Abstract: A method for estimating a probability of a drilling dysfunction or a drilling performance indicator value occurring includes entering drilling-related data having a probability distribution into a mathematical model of a drill string drilling a borehole penetrating the earth and entering drilling parameters into the model for drilling the borehole. The method further includes performing a plurality of drilling simulations using the model, each simulation providing a probability of the drilling dysfunction occurring or a probability of a drilling performance indicator value occurring with associated drilling parameters used in the simulation, selecting a set of drilling parameters that optimizes a drilling objective using the probabilities of the drilling dysfunction occurring or the probabilities of a drilling performance indicator value occurring; and transmitting the selected set of drilling parameters to a signal receiving device.
Patent GB-2556138-A (GB)
Title: A bottle pourer
Inventor: DOMINIC LIMBREY
IPC: G01F11/26
Filed: 2017-06-28
Abstract: A bottle pourer 10, comprising a base 20, a pourer tube 40, and a tube cover 50 that extends from the base to the distal end of the pourer tube 40. The tube cover 50 moves between an open position and a closed position, where the tube cover 50 closes the mouth of the pourer tube 40. Pourer tube 40 is preferably at least 45mm long. The tube cover 50 could be pivotally connected to the base 20 or perhaps to a base cover (60, figure 2), and could comprise paddles 55 and 57 (figure 2) to move between open and closed positions. Retention elements 56 could engage the base to keep the cover either open or closed. The pourer 10 could comprise an air tube 30 that extends from the base 20 by at least 20mm. The air tube 30 could open into an interior space that may be blocked by a plug (59, figure 4) when the tube cover 50 is in a closed position. The pourer could comprise a gravity biased ball valve and annular ribs 21, 22, 23 and 24.
Patent GB-2549639-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for identifying users who watched a television advertisement
Inventor: ANT OZTASKENT
IPC: H04N21/442
Filed: 2015-10-29
Abstract: An audience measurement service may monitor broadcasts in a region, ingesting closed captioning data, metadata, displayed text or logos, performing facial recognition on people, and/or generating audio/video fingerprints of broadcast content to create a database of content and associated keywords, along with times at which the content was broadcast. The audience measurement service may receive user search queries from a search provider and detect "spiking" queries. The audience measurement service may determine whether the spiking queries are related, contextually and temporally, to an item of content identified in the database, and infer that users generating the queries likely viewed the item of content. In some implementations, the audience measurement service may also infer that the users likely viewed other items of content (e.g. advertisements) displayed during the prior or subsequent few minutes on the same broadcast channel as the query-triggering item.
Patent GB-2561927-A (GB)
Title: Cushion support
Inventor: MICHAEL JOHN SAGGERS
IPC: B68G7/05
Filed: 2017-07-07
Abstract: A method of making a cushion support by compressing resilient members 6 betweenfirst 5 and second 7 sheet material portions and joining the sheet portions 5, 7 together around the periphery of the resilient members 6 whilst they are in a compressed state to form a cushion support cell. The first sheet portion 5 may have an inlet for fluid connection with a source of compressed air. The inlet may be obstructed by the opposed, second portion 7 when the resilient members are compressed, such that expansion of the resilient members 6 is at least partially constrained. Also disclosed is a tool 4 and apparatus for making a cushion support cell, where the tool is operable to join areas of the sheet portions and comprises depressions to receive the first sheet material.
Patent GB-2564482-A (GB)
Title: A power semiconductor device with a double gate structure
Inventor: FLORIN UDREA
IPC: H01L29/778
Filed: 2017-07-14
Abstract: The invention relates to power semiconductor devices in GaN technology. The invention proposes an integrated auxiliary (double) gate terminal and a pulldown network to achieve a normally-off (E-Mode) GaN transistor with threshold voltage higher than 2V, low gate leakage current and enhanced switching performance. The high threshold voltage GaN transistor has a high-voltage active GaN device 205 and a low-voltage auxiliary GaN device 210 wherein the high-voltage GaN device has the gate 10 connected to the source 12 of the integrated auxiliary low-voltage GaN transistor and the drain 9 being the external high-voltage drain terminal and the source 8 being the external source terminal, while the low-voltage auxiliary GaN transistor has the gate (first auxiliary electrode) 14 connected to the drain 16 (second auxiliary electrode) functioning as an external gate terminal. In other embodiments a pull-down network for the switching-off of the high threshold voltage GaN transistor is formed by a diode (Fig. 20(a): 31), a resistor (Fig. 21(a): 32), or a parallel connection of both connected in parallel with the low-voltage auxiliary GaN transistor (Fig. 22(a): 31; 32).
Patent GB-2553941-A (GB)
Title: Chemically guided ambient ionisation mass spectrometry
Inventor: STEVEN DEREK PRINGLE
IPC: H01J49/00
Filed: 2016-03-07
Abstract: A method is disclosed comprising obtaining or acquiring chemical or other non- mass spectrometric data from one or more regions of a target (2) using a chemical sensor (20). The chemical or other non-mass spectrometric data may be used to determine one or more regions of interest of the target (2). An ambient ionisation ion source 1 may then be used to generate aerosol, smoke or vapour (5) from one or more regions of the target (2).