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Patent GB-2532416-A (GB)
Title: Method of clothes hanging and supporting apparatus
Inventor: DAVID CHARLES MARDEL
IPC: A47G25/06
Filed: 2014-11-11
Abstract: A device for hanging clothes comprises a first portion 101 and a second portion 102 connected using a hinge 110. The device is moveable from a storage configuration in which the two components are substantially parallel, to an in use configuration in which the second component is supported by a vertical surface and the free end of the first component is braced away from the second component by at least one support rail 105. The support rail is receivable in a channel 104 in the second component and is secured in place when in the deployed configuration. The device may further comprise a basket shelf or a substantially triangular lockable storage container that fit inside the triangular shape created by the device in its deployed configuration.
Patent GB-2524605-A (GB)
Title: Power steering apparatus and method of assembling same
Inventor: SATO KADUTO
IPC: B62D5/04
Filed: 2014-11-24
Abstract: A power steering arrangement 1 features two rack assemblies, in separate housings 3, 5, acting upon a single pinion, one manually 3, and one in a power assisted manner 5. In this manner a dual pinion assisted steering mechanism may be provided in which the position of an electric assist motor may be placed in a desirable position. Also disclosed is a corresponding method of making the apparatus, in which the first and second housings 3, 5 are assembled to a third housing portion containing the pinion.
Patent GB-2533161-A (GB)
Title: Electrodes for metal-ion batteries
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER FRIEND
IPC: H01M10/052
Filed: 2014-12-12
Abstract: An electrode for a metal-ion battery; the active layer of the electrode comprises a plurality of porous particles comprising 1) an electroactive material selected from silicon, germanium, tin, aluminium and mixtures thereof with a D50 diameter between 05 and 18 µm and an intra particle porosity of 40-90 % 2) A plurality of carbon particles selected from one or more of graphite, soft carbon and hard carbon with a D50 particle size of 1 to 50 µm. The ratio of the D50 particles size of the carbon particles to the D50 particle diameter of the porous particles is in the range of from 1.5 to 30. The porous particles are preferable silicon or tin, most preferably silicon. The electrode material comprises preferably at least 60 % of the porous particles, most preferably at least 85 % The particles may comprise a network of interconnected irregular elongate structural elements. The active layer may further comprise a binder and one or more conductive additives. Also provided are rechargeable metal-ion batteries comprising said electrode, a method of preparing said electrode by casting a slurry and electrode compositions from which to prepare said electrode.
Patent GB-2533318-A (GB)
Title: Voltage-controlled ring oscillator with delay line
Inventor: MARCEL A KOSSEL
IPC: H03L7/099
Filed: 2014-12-16
Abstract: A ring oscillator is often used to generate multiple-phase oscillation signals. When more phases are required by an application, more delay stages are required in the loop and the oscillation frequency is reduced. The present invention provides a multi-phase oscillator with a reduced number of delays in a ring oscillator. The oscillator 1 (50, fig.3) comprises a ring oscillator 3 (52, fig.3) having a number of concatenated delay cells 2 (51, fig.3); a phase-blending unit 11 (55, fig.3) configured to receive two of the phase-shifted oscillator signals S1 & S2 and to generate a mid-phase oscillator signal (mpo) whose phase lies between that of the two phase-shifted oscillator signals; and an interpolator delay line 12 (54, fig.3) having a number of concatenated delay cells 13 (53, fig.3) to generate further phase-shifted oscillator signals, which may be taken from respective taps 14 in the delay line 12. By means of switches (56, 56, 58, fig.3) the interpolator delay cells (53, fig.3) may be incorporated in the oscillator loop, or the oscillator may be formed with a low number of cells for higher oscillation frequencies.
Patent GB-2534377-A (GB)
Title: Water treatment apparatus and method
Inventor: DAVID TURLEY
IPC: F03B13/00
Filed: 2015-01-21
Abstract: A water treatment apparatus 2 comprises a turbine 6 that is driven by a water supply pipeline 4, which drives an electrical generator 10. An ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system is powered by the generator and irradiates the water, possibly through a transparent section of pipeline 4a. The turbine may be a positive displacement e.g. lobe type machine. There may be a bypass pipeline (22, figure 2). The ultraviolet treatment apparatus may be used in a water distribution system prior to reaching the end users (figure 3).
Patent GB-2538113-A (GB)
Title: Analyte sensing probe
Inventor: MATTHEW JAMES BRADY
IPC: G01N33/20
Filed: 2015-07-30
Abstract: An analyte sensing probe for attachment to a ferromagnetic surface 30 comprises a flexible collector plate 10 for placing against the surface. The collector plate has a hole in communication with one end of a capillary (12, fig 1) and defines when placed against the surface a gap through which air may flow from the periphery of the plate to the capillary, the air entraining any analyte passing through the surface for measurement by an instrument connected in use to the capillary. In order to cause the collector plate to conform to the surface, the probe further comprises a flexible magnetic assembly 40 positioned on the side of the collector plate remote from the surface, the assembly being composed of a plurality of mutually articulated segments (42, fig 3) of which at least some are magnetically attracted to the surface. The capillary may be surrounded by a handle 16, which is connected to a plinth (14, fig 1) that attaches to a central segment of the magnetic assembly. The probe may be a hydrogen sensing probe.
Patent GB-2526988-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus pertaining to installation of an RFID-tag reader system
Inventor: WILKINSON BRUCE W
IPC: G06Q50/28
Filed: 2014-03-13
Abstract: One or more RFID-tag readers are operably coupled to one or more RFID-tag reader antennas that are installed to primarily read RFID tags in a given hallway. Accordingly, at least a majority of the area within storage spaces that border the given hallway are without sufficient reader energy to power those RFID tags. Accordingly, many, most, or even all of the items that are stored in the storage space will receive insufficient reader energy to power their corresponding RFID tags.
Patent GB-2531431-A (GB)
Title: An attachment for a handheld appliance
Inventor: SUTTER CATRIONA ANN CRAWLEY
IPC: A45D20/12
Filed: 2013-07-24
Abstract: A hair dryer comprises a handle (20, fig.2), a body 30, and a primary fluid flow path 400 extending from a primary fluid inlet 40 into the appliance to a primary fluid outlet 440. A fan unit 70 is also provided. An attachment (100, fig.3) has a first end (102, fig.3) for connection to the appliance and a second end (104, fig.3). A first wall 130 extends from the first end towards the second end and defines a fluid flow path through the attachment, and a second wall 140 extends from the second end towards the first end about the first wall 130, and defines a second fluid flow path through the attachment. The fluid flow path extends from a fluid inlet 112 to a fluid outlet 114 exiting a front end of the attachment, and the fluid inlet 112 is in fluid communication with the primary fluid outlet 34. The appliance may have a duct 310 and a further fluid flow path may extend through the duct 310 from a further inlet 320 to a further fluid outlet (340, fig.2). An inner wall (162, fig.5) may be provided which extends across the further fluid outlet and reduces the fluid flow through the fluid path.
Patent GB-2545888-A (GB)
Title: Ski lift adaptor
Inventor: JEFFREY ANTHONY BOYES
IPC: B61B11/00
Filed: 2015-11-11
Abstract: The ski lift adaptor has a first element worn by a user around their lower body and a second with a rigid receptacle having a front portion 4c which is adjustably linked to a rear portion 4a, movable between a retracted (fig.14) and an extended (fig.13) position, in use, for attaching the adaptor to a button of a drag lift. The rigid receptacle may have a tapered slot, in the front portion, for guiding a stem of the lift into the receptacle, which is at an acute angle to the users leg. And the front portion may be formed as a skeletal frame. Preferably, the front portion is attached to the rear portion by a pair of parallel, curved arms 20 which may slide within a mounting slot on the rear portion; multiple retracted positions are provided for by positional sockets 35b along the arm with a latching pin 34 or mechanism to lock the front portions position. The front portion may be hinged on the arms both inwardly, for compact storage, and outwardly, limited by an end stop, with a locking screw 32 provided to maintain the required position. Preferably, the first element has a first strap (fig.5,2) for the users thigh and a second strap for lower down the users leg and a panel 1 which extends up the leg; the second element is demountable from the first element, the elements having sliding buckle parts to engage on another.
Patent GB-2544307-A (GB)
Title: Processing signals from a touchscreen panel
Inventor: AROKIA NATHAN
IPC: G06F3/041
Filed: 2015-11-12
Abstract: A first array of values obtained from measuring an array of touch panel sensor areas is received, and a second array of values is generated based on subtracting a reference array of values from the first array of values. The presence of at least one touch event is determined in dependence upon the second array of values. Upon a negative determination, a new reference array is generated based on exponential smoothing of the reference array and the first array using a weighting factor, and is stored. Upon a positive determination, the second array is output. The second array may be generated using a correlated double sampler. The second array may be generated using a spatial low pass filter having a bandwidth equal to a reference bandwidth value. A reference array used for the correction of values to remove or reduce noise signals or offsets in a touch panel sensor may therefore be dynamically adjusted, allowing the correction to adapt to changes in the noise environment.
Patent GB-2545925-A (GB)
Title: Subsea plough and ploughing
Inventor: STEPHEN WILLIAM BEDFORD
IPC: E02F5/10
Filed: 2015-12-31
Abstract: A subsea plough (100) for providing a subsea channel and a method of using the plough. The plough comprises a plough share member (140) with heel (145) and a pivotable guide member (130) with open mouth (135) at a first end region of the guide member and a support surface for guiding bending of a flexible elongate element. The guide member is pivotable about a guide pivot axis, at a further end region of the guide member, into a position in which the guide member is inclined above a plane of the chassis. The plough further includes a draw bar (155) and port side steering arm (170).
Patent GB-2547433-A (GB)
Title: Means and method for controlling lighting apparatus to prevent the overheating of the same
Inventor: ALAN WYN-DAVIES
IPC: G09G3/34
Filed: 2016-02-16
Abstract: A lighting control system having a light source/emitter C and means B for measuring or estimating the temperature of the light source or in close proximity to the lamp. Depending on whether the temperature of, or near, the light source is above or below a pre-determined threshold, the output of the light source is controlled to bring the temperature back towards the pre-determined threshold. The means for measuring or estimating the temperature may be a thermistor, thermocouple, resistance temperature detector, pyrometer or infrared thermometer. The means A of controlling the light source is by way of pulse width modulation or a proportional integral derivative controller. The light source may be a lamp or light emitting diode (LED).
Patent GB-2551100-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for testing a blowout preventer
Inventor: Simon Cruickshanks
IPC: E21B33/043
Filed: 2016-02-19
Abstract: An apparatus 10 comprising a drilling tool 12 suitable for locating in a wellhead 14 which may be located subsea. The drilling tool has fluid ports (16, Fig 2) therein. There is also a collar 18 which is mateable with the drilling tool 12, wherein the fluid ports (16, Fig 2) in the drilling tool 12 are blocked by the collar 18 when the collar 18 is mated with the drilling tool 12. The drilling tool 12 may be a drill string tool, a drill string adapter, a bit runnable tool or a bit runnable drill string tool. The apparatus may also comprises a wear bushing 22 suitable for locating in the wellhead 14. In another aspect of there is a method of testing a blowout preventer (BOP) on the subsea wellhead which includes pumping a fluid into a chamber located between the BOP on the wellhead 14 and the collar 18.
Patent GB-2535063-A (GB)
Title: Desktop hyperspectral spectra collection of geological material
Inventor: CHI VINH LY
IPC: G01N21/359
Filed: 2014-10-17
Abstract: Presented are methods and systems for analyzing geological material from a well. A device for analyzing geological samples from a well includes: at least one light source configured to emit consistent plane polarized broad spectrum light towards the geological samples; a storage media configured to hold the geological samples; at least one hyperspectral camera configured to collect spectra reflected from at least one surface of the geological samples, wherein molecular vibrations are measured; a computing device configured to receive and process the collected reflected spectra; and the computing device configured to generate an output which includes at least a bulk material composition of the geological samples, wherein the device is configured to be portable to a well site.
Patent GB-2550352-A (GB)
Title: Power plant
Inventor: DAVID DODD
IPC: G21C15/18
Filed: 2016-05-16
Abstract: A nuclear power plant 10 (Figure 1) arranged for fluid communication with an ultimate heat sink 21 (Figure 1), the nuclear power plant comprises a reactor chamber 24 and a small or medium modular reactor having a reactor vessel 11 and one or more associated heat exchangers 16 (Figure 1), the reactor vessel and the heat exchangers being provided in the reactor chamber; a reservoir 28 of coolant is provided at a position closer to the reactor chamber than the ultimate heat sink; a first feed arrangement 30 is provided and configured to cool the reactor using the coolant of the reservoir as an alternative to using the ultimate heat sink; a second feed arrangement 32 is provided and configured to flood the reactor chamber with coolant from the reservoir in the event of an emergency. The heat exchangers may be steam turbines. The reservoir may be adjacent or above the reactor chamber. Alternatively the reservoir may surround the reactor chamber. The second feed arrangement may spray water onto the reactor vessel. The second feed arrangement may supply coolant using gravity.
Patent GB-2553863-A (GB)
Title: Improved method of ion mobility spectrometry
Inventor: KEITH GEORGE RICHARDSON
IPC: H01J49/40
Filed: 2016-09-27
Abstract: A method of ion mobility spectrometry comprises transmitting a plurality of ions to an ion mobility separator 6, modulating the introduction of the ions into the separator at a first modulation frequency, separating the ions that enter the separator according to ion mobility, detecting ions that have exited the separator with a detector 8 (a TOF mass analyser), varying the modulation frequency with time, recording the intensity of the ion signal from the detector to produce recorded data, modulating the recorded data as a function of time it was recorded and at a second modulation frequency which is varied as a function of the time the data was recorded, and determining, from the variation in intensity of the ion signal in the modulated data as a function of the second modulation frequency, the ion mobilities of the detected ions. A further arrangement records the intensity of the ion signal from the detector at an acquisition rate greater than the first modulation frequency.
Patent GB-2555133-A (GB)
Title: Improving stability of thin film transistors
Inventor: GUILLAUME FICHET
IPC: H01L51/56
Filed: 2016-10-20
Abstract: A method comprising: producing an unencapsulated stack of layers 10 defining one or more electronic devices including an organic semiconductor element (e.g. transistors with an organic semiconductor channel); and then subjecting the unencapsulated stack of layers 10 to a water removal treatment in a vacuum oven 16 in the presence of an external water adsorbent 14; wherein the water removal treatment comprises heating the unencapsulated stack of layers 10 in the vacuum oven 16 for a time period longer than a control time period at which a spike in oven pressure attributable to the release of water from the stack of layers 10 would occur with heating under the same treatment conditions but without the water absorbing material 14. Also disclosed is a method as above, wherein the time period the unencapsulated stack of layers 10 remains in the vacuum oven 16 is sufficient to remove water to the extent that the encapsulated stack has particular electrical properties. Further disclosed are the stack of layers produced by the methods.
Patent GB-2557266-A (GB)
Title: Piston bowl
Inventor: VIVIAN PAGE
IPC: F02F3/26
Filed: 2016-12-02
Abstract: A piston crown 120 for use in a combustion cylinder of an internal combustion engine. The piston crown includes a top annular surface 201. Radially inside the top annular surface is a piston bowl 210 for guiding fuel injected into the cylinder. The piston bowl comprises a central raised frusto-conical portion 220, an arcuate surface 230, a circumferential surface 235 and a frusto-conical lip chamfer surface 240 at a throat of the piston bowl next to the annular surface. In diametric cross-section an angle A4 between the frusto-conical lip chamfer surface and the plane in which the annular surface lies is between 19° and 21°. The lip chamfer surface promotes improved distribution of fuel leaving the bowl in pistons of reduced size, improving the thermal distribution and combustion efficiency. A cylinder using such a piston and a fuel spray nozzle producing a spray cone angle between 129o and 131o and a combustion engine are also disclosed. A method of manufacturing a combustion cylinder and method of increasing the efficiency of an engine are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2559317-A (GB)
Title: A platform
Inventor: MICHAEL DAVID BROWN
IPC: E04G5/14
Filed: 2016-12-16
Abstract: A platform 101 suitable for supporting a person, the platform comprises a base 106, the base having a lower surface for abutment with a support surface 103 and an upper surface 107 on which a person may stand, the base features a front edge 112, a rear edge 113 and first and second side edges 114, 115. A railing extends upwardly from said base, said railing comprising a first railing part 117 coupled to said base 106 and extends upwardly therefrom. A second railing part 118 is coupled via a hinge joint 119 to a distal end of said first railing part 117 and extends therefrom. The hinge joint is configured to either permit or allow rotation of said second railing part relative to said first railing part between an extended condition and a collapsed position (Fig 2b). Access to the platform is therefore restricted when the railing is in the collapsed condition.
Patent GB-2559782-A (GB)
Title: Espagnolette
Inventor: TERRY DOLMAN
IPC: E05C9/22
Filed: 2017-02-17
Abstract: An espagnolette 10a having a guide housing (faceplate) 20 with a channel coupled to a drive arrangement 50, e.g. rack and pinion; a first elongate drive bar 30 with a first bolt 11 and a second elongate drive bar 40 with a second bolt 12; both drive bars extending from the drive arrangement along the channel, the second drive bar 40 extends beyond the first bolt 11. The drive 50 simultaneously drives first and second drive bars in respective first and second directions, e.g. opposite directions for a bi-directional espagnolette. Each drive bar preferably has a recess 36, 47 for bolt supports 48, 37 such that each drive bar is coplanar and adjacent. Also claimed is an espagnolette with at least 3 bolts, preferably four. A further claim is to an espagnolette with a guide housing/faceplate with a channel having at least one countersunk hole 4-7 with depending walls the height of the channel (fig.7b).
Patent GB-2566430-A (GB)
Title: Mixing apparatus and method for preparing mortar
Inventor: CONOR MCALINDEN
IPC: B28C7/06
Filed: 2017-04-19
Abstract: A mixing apparatus 10 for preparing mortar consists of a screw conveyor 20 for conveying dry material, such as a mixture of sand and cement, from a storage vessel 2 to a mixing chamber 30. The mixing chamber 30 has an inlet end 35, adapted to receive dry material from an outlet end of the screw conveyor 20, an outlet end 36 for dispensing wet mortar, and a water feed 39 intermediate the inlet 35 and outlet 36 ends for delivering a metered flow or quantity of water into the mixing chamber 30. Mixing means 40 is provided within the mixing chamber 30 for mixing the dry material and water and for controlling the passage of material from the inlet 35 to said outlet 36 end of the mixing chamber 30. The outlet end of the screw conveyor 20 is located above said inlet end 35 of the mixing chamber so that dry material falls from the outlet end of the screw conveyor 20 into the mixing chamber 30 under gravity. The arrangement ensures separation is maintained between the dry material in the screw conveyor 20 and the wet material in the mixing chamber 30. The mixing means can be an auger. Also described is a mixing apparatus in which the flow rate of dry material through the screw conveyor and the flow rate of wet material through the mixing chamber can be controlled independently.
Patent GB-2566666-A (GB)
Title: Device for keeping score during a game
Inventor: KEVIN DAVID HOUGHTON
IPC: A63B71/06
Filed: 2017-04-27
Abstract: An electronic device 200 that can be carried by a person and used for keeping score during a game comprises: a display means for displaying information; and at least one control means 220-1 operable to adjust the displayed information; wherein the display means is arranged to display information in the form of a least two separately displayed values 210-1, 210-2, each displayed value being individually adjustable by said control means 220-1, whereby to represent the score in a game. The displayed information may represent a team or player, home team, score or which half is being played. The device may also function as a watch or stopwatch. The device is preferably worn by a referee.
Patent GB-2562730-A (GB)
Title: Improved cutting tool
Inventor: TORE HAGWARD
IPC: B23B51/06
Filed: 2017-05-22
Abstract: The cutting tool 1, such as a drill bit, includes at least one cutting edge 5 and at least one relief surface 10 adjacent thereto, the relief surface providing clearance (C, Figure 1C) behind the cutting edge between the cutting tool and a workpiece. One or more grooves (17, Figure 2) or a textured surface in the relief surface is arranged to communicate, in use, a cutting media across the relief surface. The tool may also include a channel 13 extending through its length to communicate the cutting media to an opening 14 at the relief surface adjacent to the cutting edge. All or part of at least one groove extends in the relief surface adjacent to the cutting edge. A method of manufacturing a cutting tool includes forming at least one groove to extend to a peripheral edge of the cutting tool from an intersection of a channel extending through the length of the cutting tool and a tip surface 8. The tip surface includes a relief surface adjacent to the cutting edge, and one of the at least one grooves extends along the relief surface cutting edge.