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Patent GB-2540847-A (GB)
Title: Mechanical filter element, apparatus and method
Inventor: Nicholas John Jackson
IPC: E04H4/16
Filed: 2016-05-16
Abstract: A mechanical filter element 2 for forming a static filter pack (11, Fig 4) to perform mechanical filtration of a liquid such as water. The mechanical filter element has one or more filter cell 19 and may also include a plurality e.g. eighteen fins 30 projecting radially outwardly from an outer surface of a cylindrical wall 17. The spacing between the fins 30 may be larger than the width of each fin to reduce the likelihood of the mechanical filter elements interlocking with each other. The element 2 may have positive buoyancy in water (i.e. a density <1g/cm3) or negative buoyancy in water (i.e. a density >1g/cm3). The mechanical filter element 2 may be formed of a polymer, such as high density polyethylene used to form positively buoyant mechanical filter elements 2; and acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) used to form negatively buoyant mechanical filter elements 2. The mechanical filter element may be included in a method of mechanically filtering a liquid, a conversion kit & method of converting a swimming pool filter apparatus. Also disclosed are further inventions directed to a mechanical filter element, characterised by an antibacterial and /or antimicrobial agent, a mechanical filter element, characterised by an external fin, and mechanical filter apparatus characterised by a filter chamber.
Patent GB-2552029-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle communication system and method
Inventor: Peter Doggart
IPC: G05D1/02
Filed: 2016-07-08
Abstract: When managing a vehicle convoy, the first (leader) vehicle broadcasts a convoy setup invitation message and receives a confirmation message from a second (follower) vehicle accepting the convoy setup invitation; it then sends convoy data messages to the second vehicle which comprise data required to maintain the vehicle convoy such as depth of recent wading events, wading configuration, terrain mode settings, speed, speed variations, wheel articulation, wheel slip, GPS data, tyre pressure, multimedia, available channels etc. Multiple communications systems including LTE-V, LTE-direct and/or a dedicated short-range system are used, the confirmation message indicating the preferred system. A first vehicle receives a message from a second vehicle providing an indication of the communication channels / modes available, and the first vehicle sends a message to the second vehicle using a first communications channel / mode, requesting that the second vehicle forwards the message on a second communications channel / mode not available to the first vehicle.
Patent GB-2555371-A (GB)
Title: Mounting bracket
Inventor: Neville Paul Whitnall
IPC: E04B1/00
Filed: 2016-07-14
Abstract: A mounting bracket 10 for securing an elongate construction element 12 to a support structure 14, comprises a base wall 20 comprising means for securing the mounting bracket to the support structure; a side wall 22 which extends from the base wall; and a pair of resiliently deformable ends 16a, 16b extending from ends of the side wall. The securing means may be fixing holes 26, 28. The resiliently deformable ends retain the end of the elongate construction unit in place via a snap-fit or slide connection. The ends may define radiused corners 24a, 24b so that the bracket defines a partial socket with a C-shaped opening to receive the construction element. The bracket may be moulded of plastics material and may have a textured outer surface finish and a polished inner surface finish. In use, the depth of the partial socket may allow elongate components to be supported between brackets without needing to be cut exactly to size. The bracket may be used in mounting decking boards or planks as skirting members to conceal the underneath of a decking system.
Patent GB-2539816-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for lining a tubular
Inventor: PETRUS CORNELIS KRIESELS
IPC: E21B43/10
Filed: 2015-02-27
Abstract: A liner having an outer surface coated with a fluid absorbing coating is cladded to a tubing string (70) by inserting the folded liner (34) into the tubing string and then unfolding the liner against the tubing string. The liner may be a kilometres long single thin foil corrosion resistant liner coated with a sticky glue and a hygroscopic and/or other fluid absorbing coating to absorb fluid pockets trapped between the tubing and liner and inhibit corrosion and leakage of, the elongate tubing string.
Patent GB-2542263-A (GB)
Title: Method of manufacturing a gas turbine engine
Inventor: NICHOLAS MERRIMAN
IPC: F01D11/12
Filed: 2016-08-11
Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprising a fan 13 with a plurality of blade 42s, a fan track liner circumscribing the fan and a removable cutter 50 arranged towards the fan blades for trimming the radial length of one or more fan blades. To trim the fan blades the cutter is arranged towards the blades, and the fan blades are rotated so that they are trimmed by the cutter. The cutter is then removed from the liner, after which a filler material may take its place. The fan track liner may comprise an abradable layer 28 proximal to the fan blades. The cutter may be inserted into the fan track liner. The cutter may trim the blades by machining or grinding.
Patent GB-2543161-A (GB)
Title: Autonomous vehicle unauthorized passenger or object detection
Inventor: JOHANNES HUENNEKENS
IPC: G05D1/00
Filed: 2016-09-16
Abstract: A vehicle system 105 includes an object sensor 110 and an occupant sensor 115 programmed to output an occupant or object detection signal indicating a presence of an occupant or unauthorised object in a host vehicle. An autonomous mode controller 125 is programmed to determine, from the occupant or object detection signal, whether to operate the host vehicle in an autonomous mode. An autonomous mode could be either a pick-up mode, a drop-off mode, or an inspection mode, wherein the pick-up mode is only possible if the sensors 110, 115 indicate that no unauthorised occupants or objects are present within the host vehicle. Similarly, the pick-up mode would only be possible if the vehicle contained at least one occupant or object. The controller 125 could receive information regarding navigation and pick-up/drop-off locations. A method (300, Fig.3) is also included, in which the host vehicle is prevented from operating in an autonomous mode if at least one of an unauthorised occupant or object is detected within the vehicle.
Patent GB-2554907-A (GB)
Title: A vehicle trim portion connection bracket
Inventor: BRIAN WESTGARTH
IPC: B60J5/06
Filed: 2016-10-13
Abstract: A vehicle trim portion connection bracket 100 comprising a first flange 110 having a connecting portion 112 configured to be coupled to a trim portion (12), a second flange 104 configured to be coupled to a support member (10) of the vehicle (2) wherein the support member is configured to be coupled to a body of the vehicle (6), and a relief slot 116 provided in the first flange and configured to reduce a load required to deform the connecting portion relative to a remaining portion 114 of the first flange, such that the connecting portion may be deformed without disrupting the coupling between the bracket and the support member. Preferably the support member is a side load door track, and the trim portion is a side door load track cover. Also provided is a method of attaching a trim portion to a vehicle wherein one or more trim portion connection brackets are provided and the connecting portion of said brackets are deformed into desired positions before being coupled to the trim portion of the vehicle.
Patent GB-2555444-A (GB)
Title: A motor vehicle and hardtop cover assembly
Inventor: IAN SALSBURY
IPC: E04H15/06
Filed: 2016-10-28
Abstract: An assembly (1, fig.1a) comprising a motor vehicle 10 with a rear cargo flatbed area (18), and hardtop cover shell 20. The hardtop comprises a roof, two side walls and a front and rear end. The hardtop is moveable from a stowed position (fig. 1a), where it protects the cargo area, to a low deployed position (see fig.2) where the shell projects from the rear end of the vehicle and provides shelter beneath it. A pair of rear extendible legs 35 may be used to stabilise the cover in the deployed position. The hardtop may be moved to a raised deployed position (see figs. 3-5) where the hardtop may provide shelter underneath it with a minimum working height from the ground of 1.75 meters. In the raised deployed position, the hardtop may further comprise a pair of front extendable legs 36. There may be guy ropes 38 to further stabilise the hardtop and a flexible front screen may cover the cargo area when the hardtop is in the deployed positions. Flexible side shades (40, fig.5), or rear screen may be provided for additional protection from the elements.
Patent GB-2547533-A (GB)
Title: System and method for heart rate monitoring of an object
Inventor: KIMMO PERNU
IPC: A61B5/024
Filed: 2016-12-21
Abstract: A system 1 for heart rate monitoring comprises a means 3 for measuring heart beats of a user 2 and determining a heart rate, a time difference between consecutive heart beats, a time of each heart beat or at least a portion of a wave form of a heart beat signal. The sample rate is changed in response to the measured data, for example by increasing the sampling rate if the R-R interval (beat interval) decreases by more than 25%. Measured information may be stored on the device 3, or wirelessly transmitted to another device 6 for processing and display. The sample rate may be changed such that at least a portion of the heart beat waveform may be resolvable, and waveforms consisting of data gathered at differing sample rates may be measured. The system may be portable, comprising wearable wrist device (smart watch) 4. Data processing may be carried out on the sensing device 3, or a remote wirelessly connected device 4. The sensing device 3 may also comprise data storage memory. A method and computer program for carrying out the measurement are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2547090-A (GB)
Title: Cooling apparatus for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle
Inventor: ALEXANDER DESMOND
IPC: F01P7/00
Filed: 2016-12-21
Abstract: A cooling apparatus 1 for an internal combustion engine 2 having an exhaust manifold 7, ideally an integrated exhaust manifold (IEM). The apparatus comprises a first cooling circuit 10 including an exhaust manifold cooling line 12 to cool the exhaust manifold, a second cooling circuit 11 including an engine cooling line 17 to cool the engine and first and second heat exchangers 16, 20 to reject heat from the first and second cooling circuits, respectively. Circuit connecting means 23, 24, 26, 27, 35, 36 selectively connect the first circuit to the second circuit. A controller (29, figure 1) may be provided to control the valves/connecting means based upon a lower temperature threshold of the second circuit. The cooling apparatus may be provided in a vehicle. The circuit connecting means may comprise a first valve 23 for selectively connecting an outlet 14 of the exhaust manifold cooling line to an inlet 35 of the engine cooling line and a second valve 24 means for selectively connecting an outlet 26 of the engine cooling line to an inlet 13 of the exhaust manifold cooling line.
Patent GB-2561529-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for electrical energy storage based on the potential energy of a vertically moving massive weight
Inventor: Miles Fraknlin
IPC: F03G3/00
Filed: 2017-01-20
Abstract: An energy storage system comprising a weight 8 suspended from a cable 6, a winch 4 connected to the first weight by way of the cable and arranged to vertically lift the weight, e.g. inside a vertical hole 10, shaft, trench or canyon, then to be rotated thereby during its subsequent downward motion, wherein a counterweight 9 is attached to the other end of the cable and moves in an opposite direction in the same hole, without interfering with the weight. The winch may drive multiple cables or multiple winches may be driven by a single motor. Both weights may be cylinder-shaped, the counterweight being either a hollow thin-walled cylinder with the weight passing through it or a long, slim cylinder passing through a central channel in the weight. In the latter case, a tensioned guide wire 2 may extend the length of the hole and be anchored to its bottom to guide the counterweight, while wheels or skids 12 may guide the weight against the walls of the hole. A method of storing potential energy when raising the weight and producing electricity during its downward motion, by having the winch connected to an electrical generator, is also claimed.
Patent GB-2550300-A (GB)
Title: Hatch assembly
Inventor: ALASTAIR ASHLEY CLAYTON
IPC: E05F11/08
Filed: 2012-09-13
Abstract: A hatch assembly 110 including a cover 112 with a frame assembly including an outer frame 120 and an inner frame 124 situated radially inwardly of the outer frame 120 and releasably secured thereto by releasable securing means 130. Release of the securing means allows the outer frame to be released from other parts of the hatch assembly to allow the hatch assembly to be opened while leaving the outer frame secured. The application also discloses a hatch assembly (2, Fig 6) which includes a hatch (6, Fig 6) and an actuation mechanism (4, Fig 6) configured to firstly open and close the hatch and secondly lock the hatch in a closed position. The hatch has two opposed sides (8, Fig 6) each bearing two spaced hatch camming surfaces (38, Fig 6), the actuation mechanism including a linkage (46, Fig 6) adjacent each side of the hatch. Each linkage is connected to the adjacent side of the hatch for opening and closing the hatch and bearing linkage camming surfaces (68 and 76, Fig 7) are arranged to engage the hatch camming surfaces, to effect locking of the hatch.
Patent GB-2565282-A (GB)
Title: Remote control of a computing device
Inventor: THOMAS BLACKIE
IPC: G06F9/451
Filed: 2017-08-02
Abstract: A method of establishing a remote control session between a host 12 and a client 10 via a bridge 14 external to the host, to enable a GUI of a virtual network computing application 122 executed by the host device to be remotely controlled and projected to the client. The bridge establishes a secure connection with the host. In response to receiving an authentication request from the client, the host accesses a certificate chain stored in the bridge 144, generates a response including the certificate chain, and instructs the bridge to cryptographically sign the response using a private key associated with the bridge. The host transmits the signed authentication response to the client via the bridge module to establish the remote control session. The method may be used to enable connection of a smartphone to a vehicle head unit using the Mirrorlink ® protocol. Corresponding apparatus is also claimed.
Patent GB-2565807-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for controlling 360 degree video
Inventor: Christopher Alder
IPC: H04N21/422
Filed: 2017-08-23
Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling 360 degree video by establishing a communication channel between a client device 10 for displaying 360 degree video content and a companion screen device 20 (e.g. remote control) capable of controlling the content, displaying at least a portion of the 360 degree video content on the client device 10, and controlling a viewpoint of the displayed 360 degree video content in response to signalling received from the companion screen device 20 via the communication channel. The full 360 degree field of view may be displayed on the screen 25 of the remote control 20, which may be used to indicate the region to be shown on the client device 10. The orientation of the remote control 20 may also be used to control the viewpoint displayed (e.g. with a gyroscope).
Patent GB-2556670-A (GB)
Title: Performing kernel striding in hardware
Inventor: WILLIAM JOHN GULLAND
IPC: G06N3/063
Filed: 2017-09-22
Abstract: Convolutional neural network processing system 100 comprises: special-purpose hardware circuit 110 including matrix and vector units 120, 140; and neural network implementation engine 150. When the engine receives requests comprising a first convolutional layer with stride greater than one, it generates instructions for: processing the request using an equivalent convolutional layer having stride one to generate a first tensor; zeroing out the elements of the first tensor which would not have been generated by the first layer to generate a second tensor; max pooling the second tensor to generate the output of the first layer. Zeroing out uses a masking tensor stored in a memory accessible by the hardware circuit and element-wise multiplication with the first tensor by the vector unit. Matrix unit 120 is a systolic array. Advantages comprise performing larger stride convolutions on an incompatible special-purpose circuit avoiding off-chip computations. Apparatuses can be field programmable-gate-arrays (FPGA) or application-specific-integrated-circuits (ASIC).
Patent GB-2566992-A (GB)
Title: Recording and rendering spatial audio signals
Inventor: JUHA VILKAMO
IPC: H04S7/00
Filed: 2017-09-29
Abstract: Audio signals 34, 36, which represent spatial sound and can be used to render spatial audio using linear methods, are obtained; spatial metadata which corresponds to the spatial sound is also obtained 5; the spatial metadata and the audio signals are associated 33 so that in a first rendering context the obtained audio signals are rendered without using the spatial metadata 35, 37, and in a second rendering context the obtained audio signals are rendered using the spatial metadata 39, 41. The rendering context may comprise the type of rendering device being used (for example a legacy rendering device), movement of the user, and/or the spatial accuracy required during rendering. The metadata may be determined in frequency bands. The audio signals may use spherical harmonics. The audio signals may comprise Ambisonic signals. The metadata may comprise information relating to the spatial properties of a sound space represented by the audio signals.
Patent GB-2566120-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus for continuous generation and presentation of sales reports and sales forecasts and a method of continuous generation and presentation of sales
Inventor: ZIEMOWIT MICHNO
IPC: G06Q30/02
Filed: 2017-04-06
Abstract: An apparatus for continuous generation and presentation of sales reports and sales forecasts containing modules to communicate with external devices (BT, Wi-Fi, NFC), an internal memory (IM) necessary to store the generated reports and templates, an operating memory (OM) necessary to perform the steps imposed by the application, and a processor (CPU), is characterized in that it is equipped with a modular data consolidation and standardization block (MDCSB), an apparatus memory (AM) from which the report (Wi-Fi, NFC, BT) is sent to an external device, a display, or to be printed by communication devices (BT, Wi-Fi, NFC). A method for continuous generation and presentation of sales reports and sales forecasts with the use of specialized software is characterized in that the data are provided from a variety of sources, are serialized by the apparatus utilizing data normalization through continuous operation of the apparatus processor and modular data normalization block, the data arrangement into the report templates retrieved from the apparatus' internal memory, as well as for sharing the sales reports and sales forecasts including the detection of a user for whom the reports and analyses are intended together with his or her automatic authorization, and sharing the on-demand report with the use of the NFC technology or a voice command.
Patent GB-2570519-A (GB)
Title: Injection-locked laser system
Inventor: GRAEME PETER ALEXANDER MALCOLM
IPC: H01S3/23
Filed: 2018-01-30
Abstract: A method and system for injection-locking multiple optical amplifiers is disclosed. A master laser 2 (for example, a Ti: sapphire laser) is employed to generate a continuous-wave output field 4. Optical modulators (for example, an AOM or EOM) 5 then produce first and second seed optical fields 6, 7 from the continuous-wave output field 4. The first and second seed optical fields 6, 7 provide an input to injection lock one or more optical amplifiers 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 8e, 8f optionally at different operating frequencies. Since the first and second seed optical fields are generated from the continuous-wave output field then the output fields of the optical amplifiers exhibit a high phase-coherence with each other and with the continuous-wave output field. Employing the first and second optical fields reduces the requirement to induce large frequency shifts on a single optical field. Techniques for phase-locking the output of the injection-locked laser systems are also provided to further reduce phase noise within the systems.
Patent GB-2576291-A (GB)
Title: LED backlight
Inventor: SAMIR MEZOUARI
IPC: G02F1/1335
Filed: 2018-05-15
Abstract: An LED backlight 100, suitable for use with a display panel, comprises: a monolithic LED array 110 having a surface and comprising a plurality of LEDs 115 for emitting light from the surface of the array; a monolithic collimator array 120 comprising a plurality of collimating channels 125, and being aligned so that each of the collimating channels is aligned with one or more of the plurality of LEDs, wherein the collimating channels are configured to collimate emitted light emitted from the LEDs to angles in the range of about +/-50° from a line substantially normal to the surface of the LED array; a microlens array 130 for focusing the collimated light to infinity, the microlens array 130 comprising a plurality of lenslets 135, each lenslet aligned with a collimating channel 125 of the monolithic collimator array 120; and a relay lens 140 for focusing the light from the microlens array on a display panel. A method of using a monolithic collimator array in an LED backlight is also claimed, as is an illumination device for the backlight, omitting the relay lens.
Patent GB-2564554-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle unlocking systems devices and methods
Inventor: David Joseph Orris
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 2018-06-04
Abstract: A method of wirelessly charging a remote unlocking device for a vehicle, and a vehicle provided with a remote unlocking and device charging system is provided. The vehicle comprises: a power system (102 figure 1); a remote unlock system (104) controlled by a remote unlocking device 110 such as a mobile phone; and a door applique 120 comprising: a wireless charger 210 coupled to the power system for charging the unlocking device; and a ridge 122 to engage the unlocking device, wherein the wireless charger is configured to charge the unlocking device for a limited time. The applique may be located on the exterior of the vehicle so that the unlocking device may be charged for a limited time if required before being used to unlock the vehicle. The system may authenticate the unlocking device before charging it, and also only charge it for a maximum of two minutes in a ten minute interval.