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Patent GB-2489650-A (GB)
Title: Embedded arm strain sensors
Inventor: STOKES BURNHAM
IPC: G01B5/008
Filed: 2011-01-14
Abstract: A portable articulated arm coordinate measurement machine (AACMM) can include a manually positionable articulated arm portion, a measurement device attached to the first end, a structural component of the AACMM, wherein the structural component has an axial direction, at least three strain gage sensors, each having a sensitive axis, coupled to the structural component, wherein the sensitive axis of each strain gage sensor is oriented approximately parallel to the axial direction, each strain gage sensor is approximately intersected by a transverse plane perpendicular to the axial direction, each strain gage sensor produces an analog strain gage signal, and the strain gage sensors are disposed to provide data sufficient to determine a bending strain at any point residing on both the structural component and the transverse plane and an electronic circuit that receives the position signal and provides data corresponding to a position of the measurement device.
Patent GB-2508866-A (GB)
Title: Turbogenerator system and method
Inventor: CUSWORTH STEPHEN
IPC: F01D15/10
Filed: 2012-12-13
Abstract: A system and method for recovering exhaust energy from the exhaust fluid of a reciprocating engine 1. The system comprising a turbocharger 3 having a turbocharger turbine 12 arranged to be driven by exhaust fluid, the turbocharger turbine further comprising an inlet 20 and an outlet 22. The system further comprises a turbogenerator 5 having a turbogenerator turbine 16 arranged to be driven by the exhaust fluid, the turbogenerator turbine having an inlet 26 and an outlet 28. Also provided is an alternator 18 arranged on an output shaft of the turbogenerator turbine for the conversion of shaft power into electrical power. A control arrangement 32 is additionally provided, the control arrangement being arranged for controlling operation of the turbo generator turbine in dependence upon operating conditions within the system. The control system includes at least one valve 6 for regulating fluid flow to the turbo generator turbine. The valve may be configured as a bypass valve arranged for regulating an amount of fluid flow bypassing the inlet of the turbo generator turbine.
Patent GB-2509505-A (GB)
Title: Issuing a write to a secondary storage device, when a write to a primary storage device takes too long
Inventor: DIEDERICH MICHAEL
IPC: G06F12/0866
Filed: 2013-01-04
Abstract: A storage system 30 contains one or more primary storage devices 130. It also contains a secondary storage device 220, such as a cache. When the system receives a write request it creates two threads to handle the request. The first thread issues a write to one of the primary storage devices. If the write completes within a predetermined timeout, then the first thread sends a completion response to the originator of the request. If the write does not complete within the time limit, then the second thread sends a write request to the secondary device. When this request completes the second thread sends a completion response to the originator of the request. In this case, when the request sent by the first thread completes, the data written to the secondary storage device is deleted. The storage system may be connected via a network 20 to several external devices 10.
Patent GB-2509762-A (GB)
Title: Tube for a heat exchanger
Inventor: WILKINS KEITH
IPC: F28D1/02
Filed: 2013-01-14
Abstract: An elongate tube 101 for a heat exchanger comprises a first end 138 and a second end respectively connected to first and second headers. An outer wall 110 of the tube encompasses an internal volume 108 providing at least two channels 116 communicating a heat exchange fluid between the first and second headers. At least one seam 104 in the outer wall extends the length of the tube, and includes a pair of opposed flanges 106 extending into the internal volume dividing the volume into the channels. The outer wall is joined together along the length of the seam. The elongate tube has proximate the first end a first end region 136 and proximate the second end a second end region, and between these regions an intermediate region 142. The tube is flattened along its length whereby the flanges divide the internal volume into at least two flattened lobes (130, fig 4). Each lobe provides one of the channels and each lobe extends laterally away from the flanges relative to the length of the tube. At least two of the lobes in the intermediate region are flatter (thinner) than the lobes in at least one of the end regions.
Patent GB-2496067-A (GB)
Title: Power semiconductor device
Inventor: STORASTA LIUTAURAS
IPC: H01L29/06
Filed: 2011-06-17
Abstract: A power semiconductor device with a wafer (10) comprising the following layers between an emitter electrode (2) on an emitter side (11) and a collector electrode (25) on a collector side (15) is provided: - an (n-) doped drift layer (3), - an n doped first region (81), which is arranged between the drift layer (3) and the collector electrode (25), - a p doped base layer (4), which is arranged between the drift layer (3) and the emitter electrode (2), which base layer (4) is in direct electrical contact to the emitter electrode (2), - an n doped source region (6), which is arranged at the emitter side (11) embedded into the base layer (4) and contacts the emitter electrode (2), - a gate electrode (7), which is electrically insulated from the base layer (4), the source region (6) and the drift layer (3). The emitter electrode (2) contacts the base layer (4) and the source region (6) within a contact area (22). An active semiconductor cell (18) is formed within the wafer (10), which includes layers or parts of such layers, which lie in orthogonal projection with respect to the emitter side (11) of the contact area (22) of the emitter electrode, to which the source region is in contact, said source region (6), and such a part of the base layer (4), at which an electrically conductive channel can be formed. The device further comprises a p doped well (5), which is arranged in the same plane as the base layer (4), but outside the active cell (18). The well (5) is electrically connected to the emitter electrode (2) at least one of directly or via the base layer (4).
Patent GB-2503573-A (GB)
Title: Pulse tube refrigerator having reduced vibrations, particularly for use in MRI systems
Inventor: GARSIDE JOHN
IPC: F25B9/14
Filed: 2013-05-17
Abstract: A pulse tube refrigerator 200 comprises a pedestal head 5a and at least one cooled stage. The at least one cooled stage is mounted on a distal end from the pedestal head by a regenerator tube and pulse tube that together provide pressurised coolant gas to the at least one cooled stage. The displacements of the distal ends of the tubes in response to cyclical changes in coolant pressure are the same when the refrigerator is in use. Ideally the refrigerator comprises a first cooled stage 12 having respective first regenerator 6 and pulse 9 tubes and a second cooled stage 15 having a respective second regenerator 7 and pulse 10 tubes. The displacements of the distal ends of the tubes may be kept the same by forming all the regenerator and pulse tubes from the same material and forming all the regenerator and pulse tubes so as to have an inner radius (ri, figure 3) and outer radius (ro, figure 3) whereby the ratio of the square of the inner radius to the difference of the squares of the outer and inner radiuses is the same for each tube. The refrigerator can be used to cool magnetic resonance systems.
Patent GB-2503581-A (GB)
Title: Retaining arrangement for securing object to surface
Inventor: SAWDY MICHAEL BARRY
IPC: B60N2/015
Filed: 2009-01-28
Abstract: A retaining arrangement (1 see fig 1) comprises a retaining member 11 for securing an object such as a vehicle seat to a surface, such as a floor bracing plate 2. The retaining member 11 is movable between a stowed position, wherein the member 11 is level with, or below, the surface level, and a retaining position, in which the member 11 protrudes, presenting an attachment site above the surface. Typically, the retaining member 11 remains in the same rotational orientation when moving between the stowed position and the retaining position, the retaining member further comprising an operation member 31. As guide rods 10 are provided, the retaining member 11 does not need to be both enclosed and surrounded when it is in the stowed position.
Patent GB-2516681-A (GB)
Title: Golden Desktop Environment
Inventor: KARIM ABDUL
IPC: G06F3/0484
Filed: 2013-07-30
Abstract: A desktop environment is described in which a largest rectangle (GR1, figure 1) having a golden rectangle ratio that can be formed within a display area of a display is used as a main golden rectangle of a desktop environment. The main golden rectangle may be subdivided into golden rectangular areas to form a layer of golden rectangles (GR2, Figure 2). This process may be carried out until the division does not result in a golden rectangle. The number of golden rectangles defines the depth of the layer of golden rectangles. A golden square (e.g. GS1, figure2) is formed by using the smaller side if a golden rectangle. The golden squares may reposition themselves in a spiral action according to user input when e.g. only 4 golden squares are shown for an environment of 10 golden rectangle layers. Desktop items (GDI) (web page, application, link to another layer) may be placed within the golden squares according to a Fibonacci number sequence. Applications appear on a whole layer or there may be many commonly used applications embedded in one layer.
Patent GB-2501450-A (GB)
Title: Radiation-induced thickening and radiation-induced triggering for set-on-command sealent compositions and methods of use
Inventor: LEWIS SAMUEL J
IPC: C04B20/10
Filed: 2012-03-02
Abstract: The present invention includes methods and compositions relating to the setting of fluids or slurries in a wellbore. In one embodiment, a method of isolating a portion a wellbore includes preparing a sealant composition having a fluid component, a polymeric additive constituent, and a set modifier component. The sealant composition is placed into a wellbore and subjected to ionizing radiation. The ionizing radiation can cause bonding between polymeric additive constituents and create a polymer matrix within the sealant composition that increases the mechanical strength of the sealant composition. The ionizing radiation also alters the set modifier component, triggering the thickening of the sealant composition.
Patent GB-2517747-A (GB)
Title: Torque Transducers
Inventor: EVERITT PETER WILLIAM
IPC: G01L3/10
Filed: 2013-08-30
Abstract: A torque transducer comprising: a strain sensing means on a torque-deformable shaft 2; flexible strip brush means passing partially around a slip ring means; and electrical connectors 18 which pass through milled shaft slots 19. Where the potting compound injected into the blind axial bore 206 is conveyed through communicating radial bores 208 and then along the milled slots encapsulating the connectors. The bore 206 may extend from the torque input shaft end whilst the radial bores communicate with the ends of the milled slots. Preferably the slip-ring means comprise coaxially arranged carbon discs 40, where the connections between the sensing means and the individual discs are made through printed circuit boards (PCBs) 54 in axial compression between the discs and where the brush means comprise metal strips 24. Preferably the PCBs comprise an annular portion and an inwardly directed tab portion which in use extends into one of the shaft slots. The electrical connector means may be wires or PCB conductors. Preferably an annular ceramic magnetic disc heat shrunk onto the shaft monitors angular rotation. The axial-bore may be plugged to prevent compound backflow. A preferable method of manufacture comprises injecting the potting compound in its fluid state.
Patent GB-2520994-A (GB)
Title: Plant pot table
Inventor: CROWLE NIGEL
IPC: A47B37/04
Filed: 2013-12-06
Abstract: A table comprises one or more elevations 2 supporting an elevated platform 1 for a plant pot, wherein the elevations and the underside of the platform include an integrated abrasive surface for deterring molluscs and crawling garden pests. A smooth perimeter (6, figure 3) may be provided around the edge of the underside of the table to allow for ease of movement of the table. The elevations preferably form a cruciform design for maximum stability. Abrasive textured quadrants (4) may be provided on the underside of the table surface. The abrasive surface may prevent slugs and snails from accessing plant pots placed on the table.
Patent GB-2524227-A (GB)
Title: Method of forming an imaging reference device
Inventor: REVIE WILLIAM CRAIG
IPC: G01N21/27
Filed: 2014-01-17
Abstract: A method is provided of forming an imaging reference device (or calibration standard) 10 for a biological material imaging system. A first region is provided in a substrate formed from an optically transmissive material which is an analogue of biological tissue. This first region is stained using a first biological tissue stain. A second region is provided in a second substrate which is optically transmissive and an analogue of biological tissue. The second region is stained with a second biological tissue stain. The first and second regions are overlapped as a pair, such that light incident upon the pair is modulated by the respective first and second biological tissue stains of the respective regions. Multiple regions of the first and second type may be provided, stained to different degrees. The substrates may be formed from a material such as cellophane (RTM), cellulose, agar, agarose or gelatine. The stains may be those used for the Haematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) staining protocol.
Patent GB-2524290-A (GB)
Title: Urban flood rescue simulator
Inventor: LAIRD ANDREW DUNCAN
IPC: G09B9/00
Filed: 2014-03-19
Abstract: An urban flood rescue training simulator is disclosed comprising a reconfigurable obstacle system for a river channel which may be indoors or outdoors. The obstacles 106, 107, 109 may include hollow structural boxes, strut channel frames and a plurality of connectors that cooperate to divert water when installed in the river channel. The connectors may pass through the obstacles to secure them in position. The obstacle assemblies can be reconfigured as desired eg. to increase amplitude of a wave, to speed up or slow down water flow and change depth. The water may be still or rapid, clear or discoloured by brown dye. The water is pumped from from a pumping station 110 to flood the simulator and may be varied to increase the water velocity. Further obstacles may comprise houses and shops 104 lining the borders 105 of the river channel, street lamps, telephone poles and wires, drains, benches, fences, walls, railings, dustbins, street signs, bus shelters, pavement kerbs and vehicles 101parked and abandoned in random positions, exposed internal rooms of homes, with specific environments zoned and sectioned off to enable the selection of different levels of training difficulty for different rescue scenarios.
Patent GB-2524578-A (GB)
Title: Production of cryptographic signatures
Inventor: CAMENISCH JAN LEONHARD
IPC: H04L9/32
Filed: 2014-03-28
Abstract: Producing a cryptographic signature on a message m, under a key x, at a user computer 2 of a data processing system 1 wherein the key x is shared between the user computer 2, which stores a first key-share c, and an authentication computer (or authentication server) 3 of the system 1. The authentication computer 3 stores a second key-share d and a first authentication value h which encodes a secret value of the user computer 2 and a predetermined user password p. At the user computer 2: in response to provision of the message m and input of the user password p, the message m is encoded to produce a blinded message m; the first authentication value h is produced from the password p and said secret value (which may be either the first key-share c or a different value stored at the user computer 2), and a second authentication value h' is produced by encoding the first authentication value h and a nonce n (which may be received from the authentication computer 3 in response to a nonce request); the second authentication value h' and the blinded message m is then sent to the authentication computer 3. In response, the authentication computer 3: uses the nonce n to determine if the first authentication value h encoded in the second authentication value h' is correct; and, if so, encodes the blinded message using the second key-share d to produce a partial signature s'; and sends the partial signature s' to the user computer 2.Â
Patent GB-2515874-A (GB)
Title: Light emitting diode package and method for manufacturing same
Inventor: AHN HYUNG SOO
IPC: H01L33/62
Filed: 2013-04-26
Abstract: The present invention relates to a nitride light emitting diode (LED) package, and more specifically, to a nitride light emitting diode package which can improve light-emitting efficiency by increasing light emitting surface area, reduce operating voltage by simultaneously emitting light from six cells at once, and can increase operating current.
Patent GB-2517019-A (GB)
Title: Solid electrolytic capacitor containing conductive polymer particles
Inventor: PETRZILEK JAN
IPC: H01G9/15
Filed: 2014-05-01
Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor 33 comprising: an anode body; dielectric overlying the anode body; adhesion coating overlying the dielectric; and solid electrolyte overlying the adhesion coating, wherein: the solid electrolyte contains an inner conductive polymer layer and outer conductive polymer layer, where at least one of which is formed from a plurality of pre-polymerized conductive polymer particles; and the adhesion coating contains a discontinuous precoat layer containing a plurality of discrete nanoprojections of a manganese oxide. Also disclosed is a method of forming said solid electrolytic capacitor, wherein the precoat is formed by contacting the anode with a solution containing a manganese oxide precursor, pyrolytically converting the precursor to form the discontinuous precoat layer, chemically polymerising a monomer to form an inner conductive polymer on the precoat, and applying a dispersion of pre-polymerised conductive polymer particles to form an outer polymer layer. Wherein the manganese oxide precursor may be manganese nitrate and the manganese oxide may comprise manganese dioxide.
Patent GB-2512759-A (GB)
Title: A method and apparatus for monitoring stress cage material concentrations in a circulating drilling fluid
Inventor: WOOD DAVID
IPC: B07B1/28
Filed: 2014-05-22
Abstract: An apparatus 1 for determining concentrations of stress cage materials in drilling fluid comprises wet sifting devices 2 dressed with one, two, three, four or five single-layered square mesh screen panels, positive displacement pumps 3 with a stroke counters for drawing a fluid sample into the apparatus and containment vessels 4 to collect discharged stress cage materials. The screen panels may comprise pre-tensioned mesh with an incorporated anti-blinding system. The wet sifting devices preferably generate a circular, horizontal and spiral pattern of travel to discharge any oversized fraction retained by the mesh screen. A method for the monitoring of stress cage materials in a circulating drilling fluid comprises pumping a representative sample of drilling fluid to the apparatus of the invention and weighing the stress cage particles discarded by the wet sifting devices.
Patent GB-2527317-A (GB)
Title: Microbial fermentation system for growing and discharging a biological material
Inventor: CULPIN DAVID
IPC: C12M1/00
Filed: 2014-06-17
Abstract: A system for producing an aqueous bacteria-containing slurry, comprising: a water supply 2; at least one temperature control system; and at least two tanks, where at least a first tank is a primary phase tank 1 comprising a heating means 6, and a second is a secondary phase tank 12, the primary phase tank 1 being in fluid communication with the secondary phase tank 12, where the secondary phase tank 12 further comprises a product outlet, and a heating means 28. Also claimed is a method of producing an aqueous slurry comprising bacteria, the method comprising: supplying a source of bacteria to a primary phase tank 1; supplying a liquid growth medium to the primary phase tank 1; holding the bacteria in the primary phase tank 1 for a length of time at a controlled temperature; transferring the bacteria-containing liquid to the secondary phase tank 12; monitoring and controlling process parameters in the secondary phase tank 12 to optimise bacterial growth; and discharging product from the secondary phase tank 12. Preferably, the primary phase tank 1 and second phase tank 12 are used for the lag phase and logarithmic phase of bacterial growth, respectively.
Patent GB-2527326-A (GB)
Title: Optical fibre assembly and method of making an optical fibre assembly
Inventor: GATES JAMES CHRISTOPHER
IPC: G02B6/36
Filed: 2014-06-18
Abstract: A method for forming an optical fibre assembly comprising an optical fibre 1 with an outer layer of glass, a planar substrate 2 and an amorphous glass material 5 that bonds the fibre to the substrate. The fibre substrate and bonding materials may all be the same material or the substrate may be an alloy of the other materials. The bonding material may be silica or non-silica, and may contain a range of dopants; the material being a soot that may be deposited via flame hydrolysis deposition into a trench in a surface of the substrate. The substrate may have an oxide layer 3 on its surface. There may be more than one trench that may have different depths. A corresponding apparatus is also claimed.
Patent GB-2513812-A (GB)
Title: Noise alleviation method, program, and device
Inventor: ICHIKAWA OSAMU
IPC: G10L21/0264
Filed: 2013-02-08
Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a new technique of noise alleviation of a model base in voice recognition. In noise correction of a model base, the present invention generates a probability model which is represented as the product of the probability distribution of a mismatch vector (g) (or a clean voice (x)) with an observed value (y) as a factor and a probability distribution of a mismatch vector (g) (or a clean voice (x)) with a reliability index (Î²) for each band as a factor, executes MMSE estimation on the probability model, and estimates a clean voice estimate value (x^). As a result, each band has an effect on the result of the MMSE estimate with a degree of contribution corresponding to the size of the reliability thereof. Furthermore, as the SNR of the observed voice increases, the output value thereof shifts toward the observed value, and as a result, the output of the front end is optimized.
Patent GB-2521037-A (GB)
Title: Adaptive prefetching in a data processing apparatus
Inventor: HOLM RUNE
IPC: G06F12/08
Filed: 2014-10-08
Abstract: A prefetch unit prefetches data values from the memory for storage in a cache unit before they are requested by the instruction execution unit. The prefetch unit is configured to perform a miss response comprising increasing a number of the future data values which it prefetches, when a memory access request specifies a pending data value which is already subject to prefetching but is not yet stored in the cache unit. The prefetch unit is also configured, in response to an inhibition condition being met, to temporarily inhibit the miss response for an inhibition period. This may be used in a dynamic pre fetch, using a stride check for example, extrapolating access request patterns to predict future values, where mandatory miss conditions are inevitable when the data is not yet stored in the cache. The inhibition period may be a multiple of the memory latency delay to retrieve values form storage, in a parallel multiple thread environment.