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Patent GB-2516125-A (GB)
Title: Glamorgan universal flood shield system
Inventor: BURKE MICHAEL JAMES
IPC: E06B9/00
Filed: 2013-11-25
Abstract: A flood barrier for preventing the ingress of external flood water into a property through a doorway 2 includes a board 6 retained within a preformed channel profile 16. A secondary board 6 may also be provided in a further channel profile 5. The void created between the first board and either the door or the secondary board is filled, at least partially, with a pressurised waterproof expandable adhesive foam 8, providing a robust and comprehensively waterproof barrier. Where a secondary board is provided, the expandable foam may be injected into multiple voids between first and second boards and the door. The barrier may also include a U-shaped frame 23.
Patent GB-2521207-A (GB)
Title: Imaging an internal volume of a subject body
Inventor: MONTSI TSEPO SADEQ
IPC: G01N27/02
Filed: 2013-12-13
Abstract: A method, device and system are provided for imaging an internal volume of a subject body. The method includes: providing multiple electrodes for locating at selected positions external to a volume of a subject body; applying a source current for imaging of a portion of the internal volume of the subject body through one or more first electrodes; measuring a current received at one or more second electrodes; switching a channel of each second electrode between applying the current source and measuring a voltage at the electrode in order to isolate the voltage measurement from a received current; measuring a voltage at the second electrode whilst providing a current path to a third electrode; and using the measured current and the subsequent measured voltage at each second electrode to provide an impedance for imaging the portion of the internal volume. The method may include simultaneously or sequentially applying a source current for stimulating the portion of the internal volume of the subject body through the one or more first electrodes.
Patent GB-2510265-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Entertainment Caching for a Future Travel Event
Inventor: COHEN GABRIEL
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2014-01-29
Abstract: A future travel event associated with a user scheduled to take place within a determined time interval is detected 402 and a notification 408 is provided at a device associated with the user suggesting media having a playback time greater or equal to the duration of the travel event to be downloaded for playback during the travel. On receipt of user consent the content is downloaded 410 to the device. The notification may be timed to ensure sufficient time to download the content remains before the travel event. Download may take place when it is detected that the device is in an area with Wi-fi access 404 and the suggested media may be determined based on a media profile associated with the user. The download may be automatic and not require consent. The travel event may be determined based on information contained within an email, text, voicemail or a search conducted by the user. The event may be a flight, bus ride or train ride. If the event is a flight the notification may comprise flight number, date and duration. The media content may be previously purchased, freely accessible or promotional. The device may delete old or viewed data prior to initiating the download.
Patent GB-2509029-A (GB)
Title: Method of tensioning a flexible drive member in a vacuum cleaner
Inventor: WILKINSON CRAIG THOMAS
IPC: A47L9/04
Filed: 2012-01-27
Abstract: A method of tensioning a flexible drive element 24 in a cleaner head for a vacuum cleaner comprises assembling a drive mechanism 14 for driving a rotatable component, such as an agitator, of the vacuum cleaner, the drive mechanism 14 including an input drive member 20 connected to a drive means 16 and an output drive member 22 coupled to the rotating component, and a flexible drive element 24 extending between the input drive member 20 and the output drive member 22, wherein the input drive member 20 and the output drive member 22 are movable with respect to each other in a plane that is substantially orthogonal to their respective axes of rotation, providing a cam member 50 that is operable to vary the distance along the axis between the input 20 and output 22 drive members, rotating the cam member 50 to increase the distance between the input 20 and output 22 drive members, wherein the cam member 50 is rotated with a predetermined torque so as to induce a predetermined tension in the flexible drive element 24.
Patent GB-2515392-A (GB)
Title: Anti-drain back valve for a pump device
Inventor: MILLER ADAM
IPC: F16N23/00
Filed: 2014-05-08
Abstract: An anti-drain back valve 18 for a pump device (10 Fig 1) in use conveys a lubricant, in particular for an engine, through at least one duct 16 in a first direction (indicated by arrow 42). The valve has at least one valve element 20 arranged in the duct and at least one guide 26 that includes at least two guide portions connected to one another 38, 40, and the guide cooperates with an engaging guide element 32. When the guide element engages a first one of the guide portions the valve element is movable between a closed position in which the duct is fluidically blocked by the valve element and at least one open position thereby allowing the lubricant to flow through the duct (16) in the first direction. When the guide element engages a second guide portion the valve element is prevented from reaching its closed position thereby allowing the lubricant to bypass the valve element and flow in the second direction (indicated by arrow 44). In use the guide element is moved from the second guide portion into the first guide portion by the pumped lubricant acting upon the valve element when pumping the lubricant through the duct in the first direction.
Patent GB-2522093-A (GB)
Title: Method Of Making A Templating Agent
Inventor: BRYAN RICHARD CHARLES
IPC: C07D213/20
Filed: 2014-08-28
Abstract: A method for preparing 1-adamantyltrimethylammonium methyl carbonate (first product) comprises treating dimethyl carbonate with 1-adamantylamine or 1-adamantylmethylamine (first reactant) in the presence of water in a sealed vessel at 80-200Â°C. Meanwhile, a method for preparing N,N-dimethyl-3,5-dimethylpiperidinium methyl carbonate (second product) comprises treating dimethyl carbonate with 3,5-dimethylpiperidine (second reactant) in the presence of water in a sealed vessel at 80-200Â°C. The molar ratio of dimethyl carbonate to the first or second reactant is typically in the range of 5 to 20. The molar ratio of water to either of the reactants is preferably in the range of 1 to 4. The first product may be further treated with calcium hydroxide in the presence of water, preferably at reflux temperatures, to yield 1-adamantyltrimethylammonium hydroxide. The molar ratio of calcium hydroxide used in relation to the first product may be in the range of 1.05 to 1.75.
Patent GB-2531739-A (GB)
Title: Electronic smoking device
Inventor: HING FUNG WONG
IPC: A24F40/40
Filed: 2014-10-28
Abstract: A mechanism for use in an aerosol dispensing device 100 comprises: a first member 191 for supporting a power supply 192; a second member 120 for supporting an aerosol generator 130; and a resilient biasing member 150. The first member 191 is provided with electrical contacts for the power supply 192 and the second member 120 is provided with electrical contacts for the aerosol generator 130. The second member 120 is connected to the first member 191 such that the second member is movable relative the first member between at least one operating position and a storage position. The resilient biasing member 150 is arranged to bias opposed surfaces of the first and second members together; and/or bias the second member towards either the operating or storage position. Preferably the aerosol dispensing device 100 is an electronic cigarette. Also claimed is a mechanism wherein when the second member is disposed in the at least one operating position an electrically conducting portion of the first contact surface contacts an electrically conducting portion of the second contact surface. In another embodiment the mechanism comprises a locking mechanism having open and locked configurations.
Patent GB-2522742-A (GB)
Title: Nonvolatile storage thresholding for ultra-SSD, SSD, and HDD drive intermix
Inventor: ASH KEVIN JOHN
IPC: G06F12/08
Filed: 2014-11-05
Abstract: Embodiments for efficient thresholding of nonvolatile storage (NVS) for a plurality of types of storage rank groups by a processor. Target storage devices are determined in a pool of target storage devices as one of a hard disk drive (HDD) and a solid-state drive (SSD) device. Each target storage device classified into an SSD rank group, a Nearline rank group, an Enterprise rank group, and an Ultra-SSD rank group in the pool of target storage devices. The Nearline rank group and the Enterprise rank group comprise a HDD rank group, and the Nearline rank group, the Enterprise rank group, and the SSD rank group comprise the NonÂ­Ultra-SSD rank group. Thresholds are adjusted for preventing space allocation in the NVS for at least one of the classified target storage devices based on one of the presence and absence of identified types of the classified target storage devices.
Patent GB-2522967-A (GB)
Title: Liquid jet head and liquid jet apparatus
Inventor: NISHIKAWA DAICHI
IPC: B41J2/14
Filed: 2014-12-03
Abstract: A liquid jet head 1 includes: a head chip 2 including a plurality of common terminals 4 arranged in a reference direction (K, Fig.1B); and a circuit board 3 connected to the head chip 2. The circuit board 3 includes: a plurality of shared terminals 6 installed on a lower surface LP on the head chip side and electrically connected to the common terminals 4, respectively; an upper common wiring 9 installed on a top surface TP opposite to the head chip side and extending in the reference direction (K, Fig.1B); and a through electrode 10 electrically connecting each of the shared terminals 6 to the upper common wiring 9. The head chip 2 may also include active terminals 5 electrically separated from the common terminals 4. The circuit board 7 may include a plurality of individual terminals 7 which are electrically connected to the active terminals 5.
Patent GB-2536633-A (GB)
Title: A catching amusement game and scoring method thereof
Inventor: GORDON CROMPTON
IPC: A63F9/30
Filed: 2015-03-22
Abstract: An amusement game 10 that comprises a game chamber 14, at least one play object 20, an agitator 28, a movable target 16 with a proximity detector, a controller 18 and a counter.. The play objects 20 may be balls. The target 16 may be in the form of a hoop. The agitator 28 can be a fan that forms a current of air to distribute the balls around the chamber 14. A player can control the movable target 16 into the path of the balls 20 and the catch score is incremented and displayed to the player in real time via a display screen 22. The game can further include audio or visual alerts for the detection of a ball 20 on the target 16. There can be a coin slot 26 that requires money to be inserted to allow the game to played for a set time.
Patent GB-2525499-A (GB)
Title: Quick change rotary mower blade assembly
Inventor: REICHEN RONALD L
IPC: A01D34/73
Filed: 2015-03-25
Abstract: A quick change rotary mower blade assembly 100 comprises a spindle 106 with an internal bore and compression spring 110 positioned in said bore, a blade retainer 114 secured below the spindle having a pair of arms 132, 134 and a mower blade 102 assembled to a blade assembly pin 104 which is inserted into the internal bore to compress the spring. The spring exerts a force so that the blade is secured against the blade retainer arms below it. Also disclosed is a mower blade assembly with a spindle with an internal bore, a blade adapter, a mower blade with a centre hole and a blade assembly pin. The blade assembly pin being releasably engaged to the spindle from a handle on the mower deck. Also disclosed is a mower blade assembly where rotating the mower blade 90 degrees secures it in place on a blade retainer.
Patent GB-2536717-A (GB)
Title: Skate for a kitchen unit
Inventor: NIGEL APPLETON
IPC: B62B5/00
Filed: 2015-03-27
Abstract: A trolley 10 for a kitchen unit 8 comprising a body 16 and at least one wheel 18, the body 16 having a support surface 20 for supporting a kitchen unit base, and a hook 28 extending over one side of the support surface which, in use, engages an edge of the kitchen unit base, the at least one wheel being mounted to the body and spaced by substantially at least 100 mm from the support surface opposite the hook. The trolley may be rotatable between a loading configuration, where the support surface is substantially vertical and the wheel engages the ground, and an unloading configuration where the support surface is substantially horizontal and the wheel no longer engages the ground. The body may comprise a base surface 22 translated orthogonally from the support surface by at least 200mm. The wheel may extend further than the base surface, in part, at an angled surface (30,Fig.2B). There may be two wheels on a common axis parallel to the support surface. The body may comprise two identical end plates and a central portion, where the hook and support surface are disposed on the end plate.
Patent GB-2541863-A (GB)
Title: Package source verification
Inventor: YNJIUN PAUL WANG
IPC: G06Q50/28
Filed: 2013-08-29
Abstract: A method, system and computer program for verifying the source location of a package, comprising; certifying the source location of the package prior to shipping and providing the package with secure package shipment information 302 (including said certified source location 304). The source location is certified using a data terminal that has a tamper resistant boundary and comprises a location data component. On arrival at the package destination, the secure package shipment information may be used to verify the origin of the package 316. A recipient data terminal flags the package shipment information to indicate non-trustworthy location data. Packages and untrusted source locations are identified based on the flagged data. A determination is made as to whether the tamper resistant boundary has been tampered with and if so then a portion of the functionality of the data terminal is disabled.
Patent GB-2541169-A (GB)
Title: Composite structure
Inventor: JONATHAN PRICE
IPC: B64C1/12
Filed: 2015-07-27
Abstract: A structure 1 comprises a stack 3 of composite plies of fibre-reinforced matrix material; a reinforcing insert 4 embedded in and bonded to the stack; and a hole 6 passes though the reinforcing insert. The structure is formed by laying up a stack of composite or dry fibre on a layup tool with a reinforcing insert embedded in the stack; heating and curing matrix material so the reinforcing insert becomes co-bonded to the stack; and forming a hole (e.g. by drilling) through the reinforcing insert after the matrix material has cured. A metallic porous support layer 5 is preferably joined to each reinforcing insert and simultaneously embedded and impregnated with the matrix material. A pair of capping plies may be provided at opposite ends of the reinforcing insert. A joint comprising the structure joined to a workpiece by a fastener, e.g. a bolt, with a shank that passes through the hole is further disclosed.
Patent GB-2543844-A (GB)
Title: Encoders, decoders and methods
Inventor: KAI WILLNER
IPC: H04N19/98
Filed: 2015-11-01
Abstract: Range coding is described wherein the probabilities of symbols are adaptively changed to reflect the remaining data only and disregard previous data. In one embodiment an encoder is provided for encoding input data to generate corresponding encoded data and is operable to process a sequence of elements in the input data from a first element to a last element each having corresponding symbols. The encoder is operable to compute probabilities of symbols present in the sequence 202, wherein the probabilities of the symbols are computed whilst disregarding those elements of the sequence that have already been encoded into the encoded data. Moreover, the probabilities of the symbols are adaptively changed as the sequence of elements is progressively encoded into the encoded data 210. Furthermore, information describing the probabilities is provided to the decoder. Optionally the probabilities of the symbols are accompanied with additional information indicating how the probabilities are adaptively changing. There is also provided a decoder for performing an inverse of the encoding method performed by the encoder (see Figure 3). Range coding is a form of entropy coding, similar to arithmetic coding, and used for compression of various forms of data including audio, video, image and other data.
Patent GB-2547183-A (GB)
Title: Printing on to a 3-dimensional article
Inventor: PETER RICHARD HERRING
IPC: B41M5/035
Filed: 2015-12-14
Abstract: A process for printing on to a 3-dimensional article 7, the process comprising printing an image on to a first side of a stretchable carrier membrane 4 having a first side 6 and a second side, mounting the said membrane between a heating chamber 2 and an article receiving chamber 3, placing a 3-dimensional article to be printed on to a platen 8 within the article receiving chamber, moving the platen with respect to the membrane to bring the article into register with the image printed on the membrane, the membrane is thermo- and vacuum- wrapped about the article with the membrane in intimate contact with surface details of the article, and a dye-diffusion step in which infra-red radiation is applied to the article and membrane using at least two infra-red 9 sources to uniformly heat the membrane and underlying surface of the article over substantially a half-spherical solid angle to a temperature in excess of the first temperature and for a time sufficient to cause the printed image to diffuse into the surface of the article. Also disclosed is an apparatus for printing on to a 3-dimensional article.
Patent GB-2541292-A (GB)
Title: A slip conveyor
Inventor: ELLIS JOHN TAYLOR
IPC: B65G47/53
Filed: 2016-07-19
Abstract: A slip conveyor 10 including a tray 11 that conveys product 34 in a downstream direction 12, from a receiving portion 14 at which product is delivered to the tray, to a delivery portion 15 from which product is delivered from the tray, the tray also having a longitudinal axis 13 about which the tray moves angularly; a drive assembly 21 to cause longitudinal reciprocation of the tray to cause product to move longitudinally along the tray from the receiving portion downstream toward the delivery portion, and to move the tray angularly about the longitudinal axis; the tray has a longitudinally extending base 16 and at least one longitudinally extending side wall 17 extending from the receiving portion to a second delivery portion 18. The tray may be trough shaped or tubular. The second delivery portion may include an aperture 19 and the relative portions delivered by the aperture 19 and delivery portion 15 may be adjusted by angular movement of the tray about the axis 13. The tray may be mounted on a base (22, fig 4), containing a motor (28, fig4) that drives the tray linearly and a second motor (24, fig 4) which causes angular movement of the tray. Rings 27 may be fixed to the tray, each supported in bearings in the mountings 26 with at least one of the rings being provided with a gear 30 having gear teeth which engage with a gear driven by the motor 24 which in turn causes angular movement of the tray. The conveyor may include a plurality of conveyor trays that convey product from the receiving portion to the delivery portion to deliver product to the next downstream tray.
Patent GB-2552492-A (GB)
Title: A connector assembly
Inventor: Donal Phillips
IPC: F16B5/00
Filed: 2016-07-25
Abstract: A connector assembly for connecting articles to one another comprises a male connector 20 having at least one retaining member insertable into a substantially U shaped receiving channel defined by a respective female connector 3. The female connector 3 is adapted to be located in a receiving recess 2 formed in one of at least two articles to be connected together. The receiving recess 2 comprises a base, a pair of diverging side walls extending outwardly from the base and a narrowed neck region defining an opening of the receiving recess 2. At least one pair of opposing inwardly facing shoulders are defined in the side walls of the receiving recess between the base and the neck region. Outer sides of the female connector 3 include cooperating projections 16, 18 adapted to engage the opposing shoulders of the receiving recess 2 when the female connector 3 is inserted into the receiving recess 2 to retain the female connector 3 in the receiving recess 2.
Patent GB-2538209-A (GB)
Title: Fluorometric analyzer
Inventor: MOTOHIRO YAMAZAKI
IPC: G01N27/447
Filed: 2015-03-18
Abstract: During analysis of samples of unknown concentration, situations frequently occur in which the dynamic range is insufficient, necessitating reanalysis. Accordingly, a fluorometric analyzer which splits a single object image into multiple images having different fluorescent intensity by means of image splitting elements, and simultaneously detects the plurality of images obtained thereby in different regions within the same detection plane, is proposed.
Patent GB-2550984-A (GB)
Title: Wireless sensor architecture
Inventor: Kurt Bruggemann
IPC: H04W88/08
Filed: 2016-09-20
Abstract: Disclosed is a Wireless Access Point (WAP) 10 for enabling remote access to data generated by systems of an aircraft. The WAP comprises a wireless interface 11 comprising a transmitter and a receiver; and a processor 12. The WAP is configured to: wirelessly receive sensor data generated by a plurality of sensors 13 on an aircraft; receive aircraft data from an avionics system 14 of the aircraft; wirelessly receive a data request signal from a remote computing device 15; and, responsive to the data request signal, wirelessly transmit to the remote computing device data based on received sensor data and/or received aircraft data. The WAP may be configured such that it is only able to wirelessly communicate with the remote computing device 15 when the remote computing device is within a predetermined perimeter. The aircraft comprises a landing gear and the plurality of sensors and the WAP may be located on the landing gear. The plurality of sensors may comprise one or more of: a tyre pressure sensor; a brake temperature sensor; a brake wear sensor; a landing gear load sensor; a wheel speed sensor; a proximity sensor; a pressure sensor; a position sensor.
Patent GB-2556103-A (GB)
Title: Method of reducing the ammonia emission from secondary aluminium oxide
Inventor: OLIVER BALLON
IPC: C22B21/00
Filed: 2016-11-21
Abstract: A method of reducing the ammonia emission from an aluminium oxide comprises the step of contacting secondary aluminium oxide with a zeolite. Preferably the zeolite is a used or unused fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst such as zeolite Y. The invention also relates to a mixture comprising secondary aluminium oxide and a zeolite, wherein the aluminium oxide composition has an Al2O3 content of at least 50 weight % of dry matter and a metal nitride content of at least 0.01 weight % of dry matter and wherein the zeolite is a used or unused fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst and that the composition has a gaseous ammonia emission of < 1 mg NH3 per gram of composition and hour. Lastly, the invention is directed towards the use of a zeolite for reducing the ammonia emission from secondary aluminium oxide (recycled aluminium).