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Patent GB-2502164-A (GB)
Title: Electronic smoking device
Inventor: LORD CHRISTOPHER
IPC: A24F40/40
Filed: 2012-05-14
Abstract: An electronic smoking device comprising a battery assembly 8 and a vaporiser 24, where the battery assembly 8 comprises a power cell 10 and a computer 12, the vaporiser 24 is releasably-attachable to the battery assembly 8 and the computer 12 comprises a computer processor 16, a memory 18 and an input-output means 20; wherein when the vaporiser 24 is attached to the battery assembly 8, the computer 12 is configured in use to enter a sleep mode when the device is inactive for a predetermined inactive time; and where the battery assembly 8 further comprises a capacitor 38, wherein the computer 12 is configured in use to first charge the capacitor 38 and then detect whether a vaporiser 24 is connected to the battery assembly 8 by measuring whether the capacitor 38 is discharged.
Patent GB-2510106-A (GB)
Title: A housing for building into a wall
Inventor: MCCUTCHAN DUNCAN BENEDICT
IPC: E04F19/08
Filed: 2012-12-18
Abstract: A housing 4 for building into a wall, the housing 4 comprising a container portion 5 and a lid 6 adapted to support a decorative covering which is attached to the lid 6 by adhesive, the lid 6 being provided with a plurality of openings or perforations 56 which are sized to allow a predetermined amount of the adhesive to seep into the opening 56 as it sets. Thus the perforations or openings provide for keying of the adhesive. The lid may be provided with a peripheral flange which accommodates the decorative covering. The peripheral flange may be closely received within the container portion. The container may have a removable insert to allow the container to be partitioned.
Patent GB-2516841-A (GB)
Title: Resistive memory element based on oxygen-doped amorphous carbon
Inventor: ELEFTHERIOU EVANGELOS STAVROS
IPC: H01L45/00
Filed: 2013-07-31
Abstract: A resistive memory element preferably a resistive read only memory element (RRAM), comprising a resistively switchable material 14 coupled to two conductive electrodes 12, 16, wherein the resistively switchable material 14 is an amorphous compound comprising 5 carbon and oxygen, the C:O stoichiometric ratio being a range of 1:0.30 to 1:0.80 and preferably in the range 1:0.4 to 0:0.6. The properties of the switching material are determined by the presence of the sp2 bonds which are conducting and the sp3 bonds which are insulating. Preferably the ratio of C-C sp2 bonds to C-C sp3 bonds in the resistively switching material is less than 0.4 preferably less than 0.2 or 0.1 . The resistively switching material may be doped with silicon, hydrogen of nitrogen and may be of thickness 2nm to 30nm. The electrodes may consist of differing materials in contact with the resistively switching material and made from Tungsten, Platinum, graphite, graphene and aluminium. The resistive memory element may comprise a patterned SiO2 insulating layer over an electrode (12, figure 3) to form a cavity enabling a conformal layer of restively switching material to be formed (14, figure 3). Programming of storage information is achieved by a method of applying a voltage pulse between the conductive electrodes and can be unipolar or bipolar. The fabrication process includes a method whereby reactive sputtering in a chamber comprising a graphite target in the presence of oxygen O2 and Argon Ar gases in a plasma state such that oxygenated amorphous material (a-C:O ) is deposited on the conductive electrode 12 (see figure 4).
Patent GB-2520300-A (GB)
Title: Cell Culture System
Inventor: MCCALL MARK JOSEPH SPEERS
IPC: C12N5/00
Filed: 2013-11-15
Abstract: A cell culture substrate comprising a tubular section of an inert material with a circular cross section, which has an interior lumen having a circular cross section, in which the vertical height of the substrate is approximately 1.5 times the diameter of the substrate and in which the radius of the lumen is approximately equal to the thickness of the wall of the substrate surrounding the lumen. Also claimed is a substrate as above but wherein the diameter of the lumen is approximately equal to half the diameter of the substrate and in which one end of the substrate has a channel cut perpendicular to the axis of symmetry of the lumen, where the diameter of the channel is approximately equal to the diameter of the lumen of the substrate. Further claims to a cell culture device comprising such substrates in a packed bed with a control unit and a method of culturing cells using said substrates.
Patent GB-2520963-A (GB)
Title: Power supply circuit
Inventor: SMETHURST CHRISTOPHER JOHN
IPC: H02M3/156
Filed: 2013-12-04
Abstract: A power supply circuit comprises: an output terminal 3; an inductor L1; first and second capacitors C1, C2; a resistor R1; first and second diodes D1, D2; a switch S1; control means 1 to control the switch; and a ground rail 2. The diodes are connected in series between the ground rail and a terminal of the second capacitor which is also connected to the output terminal, the other terminal of the second capacitor being connected to the ground rail. The inductor, first capacitor and resistor are connected in series between the ground rail and a node N between the diodes. The switch is connected in series with the first diode, the inductor, the resistor and the first capacitor from the ground rail and back to the ground rail, and is switchable between a first state in which it permits the first capacitor to charge in response to a voltage of a first polarity across the inductor, and a second state, in which it prevents the first capacitor from charging. The control means controls the switch dependent upon a voltage at the output terminal, whereby the first capacitor charges the second capacitor in response to a voltage of a second, opposite polarity across the inductor.
Patent GB-2506044-A (GB)
Title: Storage checkpointing in a mirrored virtual machine system
Inventor: MULCAHY JAMES RICHARD HENRY
IPC: G06F9/455
Filed: 2012-05-01
Abstract: A method and system are provided for storage checkpointing in a mirrored virtual machine system. The method includes a storage controller receiving a modifying operation to storage from a virtual machine and carrying out the modifying operation in a non-destructive manner by saving the modifying operation data to a checkpointing region of storage and preserving the stored previous data state. The method also includes receiving a checkpoint notification and committing modifying operation data from the checkpointing region and releasing the stored previous data state. If a failover notification is received, the storage controller rolls back the physical storage to match a checkpoint state.
Patent GB-2511645-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for augmenting frequency range of Conventional Marine Seismic Source with Low-Frequency
Inventor: DOWLE ROBERT
IPC: G01V1/38
Filed: 2014-03-07
Abstract: In one aspect, a low frequency system comprises a plurality of accelerometers 302 located on a vessel 304 and a controller configured to receive information from the accelerometers and to generate a heave source signature associated with a heave movement of the vessel. The heave movement of the vessel generates low-frequency waves and the vessel may be considered a passive source. The overall vertical acceleration of the vessel may be used as the heave source signature. In another aspect, a resonant source element configured to generate seismic waves. The resonant source element includes a housing; a high-pressure system configured to be discharged inside the housing; and a first conduit attached to an opening of the housing, wherein a distal end of the first conduit freely communicates with an ambient.
Patent GB-2515867-A (GB)
Title: Searching apparatus utilizing sub-word finite state machines
Inventor: LEHANE ANDREW ROBERT
IPC: G06K9/00
Filed: 2014-04-10
Abstract: Searching for a variable pattern in an input stream 21 having a sequence of N-bit wide data words for a pattern using a plurality of sub-word Finite State Machines (FSMs) and a combiner 14 that receives match outputs from the FSMs and generates a match output if all FSMs indicate a match. Each sub-word FSM has an input word size less than N-bits. Each FSM processes a corresponding segment of the N-bit words and generates a match output indicative of a possible match to the pattern when one of the input words to that FSM is received and that FSM moves to a predetermined match state. The combiner receives the match outputs from all of the sub-word FSMs and generates a pattern match output if all of the sub-word FSMs indicate a match to the pattern. The pattern is a variable pattern. In one embodiment, the FSMs are single bit FSMs and at least one bit of the input word is not processed by any of the single bit FSMs so that it is possible use a variable pattern as the match criteria.
Patent GB-2509653-A (GB)
Title: Linking code for an enhanced application binary interface (abi) with decode time instruction optimization
Inventor: BLAINEY ROBERT JAMES
IPC: G06F9/45
Filed: 2012-10-01
Abstract: A code sequence made up multiple instructions and specifying an offset from a base address is identified in an object file. The offset from the base address corresponds to an offset location in a memory configured for storing an address of a variable or data. The identified code sequence is configured to perform a memory reference function or a memory address computation function. It is determined that the offset location is within a specified distance of the base address and that a replacement of the identified code sequence with a replacement code sequence will not alter program semantics. The identified code sequence in the object file is replaced with the replacement code sequence that includes a no-operation (NOP) instruction or having fewer instructions than the identified code sequence. Linked executable code is generated based on the object file and the linked executable code is emitted.
Patent GB-2517548-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring the fuel supply cutoff valve for an engine
Inventor: JAVELOT CHRISTOPHE
IPC: F02M63/02
Filed: 2014-06-06
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of testing the fuel cut off valve in an internal combustion engine. The method comprises the steps of holding the fuel metering valve open for a predetermined time after receiving a closing command and then closing the valve, measuring an engine operating parameter, such as an engine speed gradient or an engine pressure gradient, during the open and close stages and using changes in the measured parameter to determine whether or not the fuel cut off valve is operational.
Patent GB-2517067-A (GB)
Title: A protective mat
Inventor: SMYTH KIERON
IPC: F16N31/02
Filed: 2014-06-17
Abstract: A protection mat 10 comprises of a substrate 12, with a pair of substantially parallel sides, 14a, 14b, 14c & 14d, having retaining devices 20 located and spaced around a peripheral border to hold sheets of absorbent material 16 against an obverse face of said substrate. The substrate is formed from a flexible resilient material and the retaining devices comprise flaps formed by cutting convex incisions 19 in the substrate. The protection mat may be shaped and dimensioned to hold various sized sheets of paper including A4 to A0 and unfolded newspaper.
Patent GB-2530804-A (GB)
Title: Expander panel for jacket
Inventor: BELL KATRINA LOUISE
IPC: A41D15/00
Filed: 2014-10-03
Abstract: A panel 11 comprising a strip of material has zip teeth 12a, 13a along each long side, and a zip fastener 14 on one long side allowing the panel to be attached to the front of a jacket to increase the girth of the jacket. The strip has adjustment means that are arranged so that the distance between the long edges can be reduced. Preferably the adjustment means are a number of co-operating poppers 17a, 17b. Alternatively the adjustment means are elastic ties 18a, 18b secured by a toggle 19a, 19b. The panel is preferably a tapered rectangle. The panel can be attached to jacket with differing sizes of zips by means of an adapter strip (30, fig 3) with zip teeth along each long edge, each such edge having zip teeth of differing sizes. The expander panel is intended to allow a conventional jacket to function as a maternity jacket.
Patent GB-2534348-A (GB)
Title: Active Snubber
Inventor: ANGUS BRYANT
IPC: H02M7/5387
Filed: 2014-11-21
Abstract: A switching cell for a phase leg of a power converter comprises a main switch for conducting a current for driving a load and a commutation path to conduct a commutation current arising from turn-off of the power switch. The commutation path is coupled in parallel with the power switch and comprises a cell capacitor and an auxiliary switch coupled in series, the auxiliary switch configured to allow control of a conduction state of the commutation path. A cell inductor is coupled to a coupling of the power switch and the commutation path. The switching cell has a commutation loop comprising a first bypass circuit for blocking current flow in a direction and coupled in parallel with the power switch to conduct a said commutation current in an other, opposite direction and a second bypass circuit for blocking current flow in a direction and coupled in parallel with the auxiliary switch to conduct a said commutation current in an other, opposite direction. The switching cell comprises at least one control input line for receiving a control signal, the control input line configured to drive a control terminal of the power switch and a control terminal of the auxiliary switch.
Patent GB-2518106-A (GB)
Title: System and method for assessing noise floor data using radio blocking performance
Inventor: LANCASTER JAMES C
IPC: H04W72/08
Filed: 2013-07-06
Abstract: An electronic device (10) includes communications circuitry (20) configured to communicate with an assistance server (12). The electronic device transmits a spectrum access request to the assistance server and receives, in response, an available channel list ranked by respective aggregate noise floor metric values from the assistance server. The aggregate noise floor metric value for each channel in the ranked channel list is determined by the server to account for a location of the electronic device, noise from radio frequency devices, and an adjacent channel blocking profile of the communications circuitry.
Patent GB-2534876-A (GB)
Title: Clutch Apparatus
Inventor: CLIVE ATKINSON
IPC: F16M11/08
Filed: 2015-02-02
Abstract: A clutch apparatus 8 comprises a torque limiter body 12 and a solenoid brake magnet 14. The torque limiter body 12 is pivotable relative to the solenoid brake magnet 14 when torque acting between the torque limiter body 12 and the solenoid brake magnet 14 is greater than a threshold value and is not pivotable relative to the solenoid brake magnet when the torque is less than the threshold value, preferably due to friction of thrust washer 42, which may contain PTFE. Energisation of coil assembly 20 enables the torque limiter body 12 to pivot relative to the solenoid brake magnet 14, overriding the torque limiting clutch. The threshold is preferably adjustable by nut 24 altering the force of biasing means 46. The clutch 8 preferably is used as a locking device for an arm (2, fig 1) holding a machine keyboard close to an operator.
Patent GB-2532830-A (GB)
Title: Paintbrush and liquid simulation
Inventor: NATHAN A CARR
IPC: G09B11/10
Filed: 2015-07-30
Abstract: Paintbrush and liquid simulation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, input 602 is received to perform brush strokes with a virtual paintbrush on a virtual canvas. For virtual paint on the virtual canvas, lifelike paint qualities are simulated. However, the lifelike paint qualities are simulated solely for the virtual paint that is within a region of the canvas (604). The lifelike paint qualities are not simulated for virtual paint located outside the region. As part of simulating the interaction between the virtual paint, the virtual paintbrush, and the virtual canvas, various parts of the simulation may be performed by different processing units. For example, bristles of the virtual paintbrush may be simulated utilizing a first processing device, which may be a central processing unit (CPU). A second processing unit, which may be a graphics processing unit (GPU), is employed to simulate the lifelike effects of the virtual paint.
Patent GB-2525353-A (GB)
Title: Water treatment systems, devices, and methods for fluid preparation
Inventor: FRIEDERICHS GOETZ
IPC: C02F1/44
Filed: 2014-01-24
Abstract: A water purification component, which may be integrated in a medicament production plant and/or a blood treatment system, removes chloramine and other chlorine compounds and deionizes water. The deionization is selected to be effective for providing product water whose resistivity is sufficiently high to allow chloramine to be detected in the product water if the chloramine removal filtration fails. This allows a chloramine removal filter to be changed based on a predicted exhaustion schedule with the safety of automatic chloramine breakthrough provided.
Patent GB-2525538-A (GB)
Title: Method of controlling a cooling system of an internal combustion engine
Inventor: BARBA FRANCESCO
IPC: F01P7/16
Filed: 2015-08-13
Abstract: A cooling system 500 of an internal combustion engine 110 comprises a coolant pump 520 and a cooling jacket 530 passing through an engine body 115. The cooling jacket 530 receives a coolant from the coolant pump 520. An amount of heat energy transferred from the engine body 115 to the coolant through the cooling jacket 530 is determined from engine speed and torque. A temperature increment of the coolant is calculated as a function of the determined amount of the heat energy, and a value of the coolant temperature determined from the calculated temperature increment. A value of a heat capacity of the engine body 115 may be calculated and used with a heat capacity of the coolant to calculate the temperature increment. A correction factor may be determined from the determined coolant temperature. The speed of the coolant pump 520 may be regulated based on the coolant temperature and a sensor 535 may be used to calculate the difference between measured and determined coolant temperatures to identify a malfunction of the sensor 535.
Patent GB-2541242-A (GB)
Title: Encryption and decryption device, and encryption method and decryption method thereof
Inventor: YI-TING TING
IPC: G06F21/62
Filed: 2015-08-14
Abstract: An encryption method involves generating a set of orthogonal vectors; multiplying first data by a first orthogonal vector S212 in the set of orthogonal vectors to generate a first product, multiplying second data by a second orthogonal vector S214 in the set of orthogonal vectors to generate a second product, summing the first and second products S216 to generate encrypted data, and storing the encrypted data S218. The data can be decrypted by multiplying the encrypted data by the first or second vector to retrieve the first or second data respectively. The first data and the second data may belong to different data types. The data may be scrambled S208, S210 before being encrypted. The encryption system may be used in a utilities meter to prevent any one application gaining access to data from another application.
Patent GB-2529601-A (GB)
Title: Dynamic management of integration protocols
Inventor: NIGUL LEHO
IPC: H04L12/26
Filed: 2014-05-15
Abstract: An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented process for dynamic management of integration protocols connects a set of applications to a communication fabric to form a set of connections, which are monitored to collect a set of performance metrics. In response to a determination the predetermined performance metric is not within the predetermined tolerance associated with the particular application in the set of applications an integration path in the set of connections for the particular application in the set of applications is adjusted by programmatically using a set of rules wherein each rule in the set of rules is a performance driven rule.
Patent GB-2537514-A (GB)
Title: Sieving apparatus and method of using same
Inventor: JAN KRISTIAN VASSHUS
IPC: E21B21/06
Filed: 2014-11-27
Abstract: Sieving apparatus (1) and method for separating solid particles above a predetermined size from a fluid, by carrying the solids-containing fluid across at least one sieving cloth (10) being arranged in a frame (16) connected to a shaking device (18) for providing a shaking motion, wherein the sieving apparatus (1) comprises : - an inlet portion (3) for receiving solids-containing fluid; - a discharge portion (5) for solids that have been carried across the at least one sieving cloth (10) and an outlet portion for fluid that has passed through the sieving cloth, the sieving apparatus (1) further comprises: - at least one endless sieving cloth (20) arranged for rotating around at least two spaced-apart turning-rollers (22) of which at least one is connected to a motor; and - a pumping device (26) in fluid communication with a suction nozzle (24) which is located proximate an underside of the endless sieving cloth (20) between two of the turning-rollers (22), in order to produce a fluid flow through at least a portion of the endless sieving cloth (20).
Patent GB-2550891-A (GB)
Title: Mechanical link
Inventor: PHIL KEEN
IPC: F16D3/38
Filed: 2016-05-27
Abstract: A mechanical link with a first arm 120, a second arm 140 and an interconnection member 160. The first arm 120 is rotatable about a first axis of the interconnection member 160 and the second arm 140 is rotatable about a second axis of the interconnection member 160 which is perpendicular to the first axis. A flexible member extends along the two arms and has a single coiled portion which is received within the interconnection member 160. The coiled portion can coil and uncoil to accommodate rotation of the first arm 120, and is further configured to twist about an axis of the flexible member to accommodate rotation of the second arm 140. The mechanical link may be a universal joint such as a Cardan or Hookes joint. The flexible member may be an electrical cable or wire, or may be a pneumatic or hydraulic hose. The first arm 120 may engage with a through pin 134, and said through pin may have a channel and slots 300, 302 for receiving the flexible member. The first and second arms may also have channels 322.
Patent GB-2537782-A (GB)
Title: Conversion circuit for implementing recoupling of random end of train
Inventor: QIANG XU
IPC: B61C17/00
Filed: 2015-10-29
Abstract: A conversion circuit for implementing recoupling of a random end of a train comprises a recoupling conversion switch. Three shifts, that is, a conversion shift, a normal shift, and a disconnected shift are set on the recoupling conversion switch. The recoupling conversion switch comprises a group of terminals A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H that are related to running direction signals of a train. The terminals A and C are connected to, and are terminals of a forward signal train instruction line. The terminals E and G are connected, and are terminals of a backward signal train instruction line. The terminals B and H in the recoupling conversion switch are connected and are connected to a terminal of a forward signal line of a coupler connector of the train. The terminals D and F in the recoupling conversion switch are connected and are connected to a terminal of a backward signal line of the coupler connector of the train. During train recoupling, it can be implemented that train lines in forward and backward running directions of a recoupled train can be correctly connected by only turning the recoupling conversion switch to a corresponding shift, so that a structure is simple, and operations are convenient.