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Patent GB-2551704-A (GB)
Title: Safety warning device
Inventor: TIEN SHENG CHI
IPC: E01F9/70
Filed: 2016-06-21
Abstract: The safety warning device 100, e.g. traffic cone, has a flexible bellows shaped tube 33 connected between a top end 32 and a bottom end 31. The tube is compressible or extendable by a concertina effect under external force, e.g. for transportation or storage. The device may be conical or cylindrical. There may be a base 10 having a connect ring 12 defining an accommodating space 13 for a counterweight 20. The connecting ring may also have a connecting trough or channel 121 with an insertion trough 122, through which a connecting flange of the bottom end may be inserted and slid into the connecting ring. The device may alternatively be formed in two halves including an intermediate connecting ring having top and bottom connecting troughs for securing respective top and bottom bellow tube sections. The tube may also flex sideways. The bellows may be formed of connected concentric rings or a spiral.
Patent GB-2552524-A (GB)
Title: Fastener system and assembly
Inventor: PHILIP CRESSWELL
IPC: F16B21/07
Filed: 2016-07-28
Abstract: A fastener (15) comprises an outer member (29) having a longitudinal axis (35), an inner volume (37) and at least one radial opening (39). An inner member (31) is configured to be longitudinally movable within the inner volume (37) of the outer member (29) between a locking position and an opening position. A resilient member (33) is located within the inner volume (37) of the outer member (29), wherein the resilient member (33) comprises a locking portion (47) that extends substantially radially with respect to the longitudinal axis (35) of the outer member (29). The locking portion (47) of the resilient member (33) is positioned within the inner volume (37) of the outer member (29) when the inner member (31) is in the opening position. The locking portion (47) of the resilient member (33) is positioned to extend through the at least one radial opening (39) of the outer member (29) outside of the inner volume (37) of the outer member (29) when the inner member (31) is in the locking position.
Patent GB-2553312-A (GB)
Title: A proxy device, a surveillance device, a method and a program for transferring video data from an imaging device to a receiving device
Inventor: PETER POSSELT VERGMANN
IPC: H04N21/4367
Filed: 2016-08-31
Abstract: A proxy device 200 for transferring video data from an imaging device 110-112 to at least one receiving device 120-123, comprising a command interface configured to transmit data, a controller configured to connect the proxy device to the imaging device, a data input configured to receive data from the imaging device and a data output configured to transmit data to the at least one receiving device, wherein the data output is configured to transmit data to the at least one receiving device independently of the selection of the imaging device. An imaging device is preferably also a proxy device. The application relates to the transfer of data from an imaging device, such as a camera, to a receiving device. The invention itself is directed towards surveillance systems and in particular, a way of providing video data to a receiver so that the source of the streamed data can be easily changed in a way that requires no interaction between the receiver and the sources of the streamed data.
Patent GB-2556341-A (GB)
Title: Gate assemblies
Inventor: WAYNE BRIAN WOOLRIDGE
IPC: E06B11/04
Filed: 2016-09-28
Abstract: A gate assembly 10 including a post 14 mountable to the ground 16 and a gate 52. An upper and a lower bracket 28 are provided, about which the gate pivots. A projection 64 is provided on one of the gate or one of the brackets. The projection engages in a track or slot 66 in the other of the gate or brackets. The track may extend for just over 180 degrees, and restricts pivotal movement of the gate by virtue of the projection being retained in the track. The projection may be in the form of a lug provided on a profiled plate (62, fig 11) on the bottom of the gate. The upper mounting bracket may engage with the gate to prevent the projection disengaging from the track. The gate may have a sleeve that locates on spindles (34, 38, fig 1) on the brackets.
Patent GB-2541820-A (GB)
Title: Box level
Inventor: JOHN CHRISTIANSON
IPC: G01C9/32
Filed: 2010-10-26
Abstract: A level including an elongate hollow frame with two sidewalls and a topwall 130 and a bottom wall extending between. A central vial (50, fig 8) is within a topnotch formed by removal of a topwall section and adjacent sections of sidewalls including notch-defining bottom and side edges. The frame includes an inner horizontal wall 30 extending between the sidewalls at the notch-defining bottom edges (21, fig 5), reinforcing the frame weakened by material removal for the topnotch. The central vial may be supported in accurate orientation without calibration against a central-vial reference surface formed in the inner horizontal wall 30 parallel to the top and bottom measuring surfaces and defining a notch-bottom. An integral inner vertical wall 35 may extend between the top and bottom walls thereby reinforcing the frame along the frame length. A plumb-vial structure may be present and may have a viewing-end region which includes an elongate ramp sloping along a level-longitudinal axis toward the plumb vial with an inclination permitting vial viewing from shallow angles. The level may preferably include an external brace reinforcing a central frame portion weakened by forming the topnotch.
Patent GB-2556932-A (GB)
Title: A fibre-optic communication system, a communication apparatus for the same, and a vehicle
Inventor: ALESSIO CIPULLO
IPC: H04B10/2519
Filed: 2016-11-28
Abstract: A communication apparatus 12 for a fibre-optic communication system that comprises an optical coupler 18; an input port 16 that receives light and is optically coupled to the optical coupler via a waveguide 24, a modulator 20 optically coupled to the optical coupler via a waveguide 26, the modulator comprising a logic input 30 and a fibre 32 having a fibre Bragg grating (FBG) 34 arranged to receive the light from the input port via the optical coupler, the modulator 20 being operable to vary a strain force applied to the fibre according to a logic signal 36 received at the logic input 30 to modulate a wavelength of a modulated light signal reflected by the FBG back to the optical coupler 18; and an output port 22 optically coupled to the optical coupler via a waveguide 28 so as to receive the modulated light signal therefrom. A vehicle comprising the communication apparatus 12 is also disclosed. The communication apparatus 12 may be in optical communication with a detector 6 such that the detector 6 is operable to decode the modulated light signal so as to extract the logic signal 36 therefrom.
Patent GB-2549817-A (GB)
Title: Roller brush assembly
Inventor: JIANQIANG FANG
IPC: A47L11/40
Filed: 2016-12-15
Abstract: A roller brush assembly comprises a roller and a brush set on the roller. The roller comprises an interior cavity formed by at least two barrel bodies joined together. Each portion of the barrel body edge is serrated shaped, and the adjacent serrated-shaped portions 4 of the barrel body form a blade slot therebetween in which is positioned a serrated-shaped blade 5 with the blade edge corresponding to teeth 3 on the serrated shaped edge 4. A driver unit is provided in the interior cavity to make the blade 5 move axially along the roller to cut any hair etc. wrapped and tangled around the roller and brush. The driver unit preferably incudes a centrifugal member 8 and an elastic recovery part 9, 10, the centrifugal member 8 pushing the blade 5 along the roller and the elastic recovery part 9, 10 eturning the blade to its original position.
Patent GB-2546622-A (GB)
Title: Wig hangers
Inventor: JOY BEVERLEY WOOD
IPC: A47F7/06
Filed: 2016-12-30
Abstract: A wig hanger 17 comprises a domed structure which can be skeletal and formed of two interlocking D-shaped members 11, 12. The domed structure has a flat base and extending from the side of the base is a vertical support bar 13 which extends upwardly and then curves round to a position located substantially above the centre of the dome and which has a hook-shaped end 15. An additional hook 20 may fit on to the verticalsupport bar 13 to enable the hanger with a wig on it to be hung on a wall. The two D-shaped members 11, 12 are formed of a resilient plastics material and may be unclipped from each other, enabling the device to be folded for easy storage.
Patent GB-2551601-A (GB)
Title: Tidal turbine with variable flow characteristics
Inventor: RICHARD AYRE
IPC: F03B13/26
Filed: 2017-02-02
Abstract: A tidal turbine and generator assembly having a turbine with rotor blades 16 disposed around a rotor axis C and mounted on a tower 14, wherein a pair of aerofoils 22 is mounted upstream of the blades either side of the rotor 13, each aerofoil mounted on a rotatable support 26 and able to turn around a vertical axis Y while its chord line remains orthogonal thereto. Simultaneous and symmetrical swivel of the aerofoils can concentrate or diffuse the water flow incident on the turbine and thereby control rotor speed and power and also protect the turbine from overload in high tidal flows. The aerofoils effectively provide an inlet funnel and are preferably arc-shaped, curved around the rotor axis. They are preferably mounted in line with the yaw axis Z of the turbine, which is preferably weight balanced on axis Z and yaws with respect to the tower on a pintle 12. The turbine blades are preferably retractable, so that collision with large, heavy objects coming their way and detected by a sonar 34 may be avoided. Finally the rotor may have a buoyant part to counteract the weight of generator 15 and turbine blades 16.
Patent GB-2543469-A (GB)
Title: Coordinated delivery of COPD treatment
Inventor: DAVID LEHRBERG
IPC: A61B17/12
Filed: 2015-08-17
Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are disclosed for the efficient and coordinated delivery of COPD treatment to the lung(s) of a patient. A lung volume reduction system is disclosed comprising an implantable device adapted to be delivered to an airway of a patient in a constrained configuration and to change to a tissue-compressing configuration when deployed at a target zone to provide treatment to the lung airway. The invention further discloses a method of quickly and efficiently deploying the device using a single coordinated motion or signal which may be particularly useful when multiple devices are deployed at multiple target zones.
Patent GB-2550473-A (GB)
Title: Controlling licensable features of software using access tokens
Inventor: Sanjeev Kumar Biswas
IPC: G06F21/10
Filed: 2017-03-23
Abstract: This application is for a way of authorising a user to use the features of a downloaded software product that he is licensed for. The system has a client device 102 and a server device 104. The server device generates a master feature registry 106 that contains all of the information regarding software products and their features. This is then sent to and stored on the client device 108, 110. A user then sends his verification credentials to the server 112, which authorises the user and identifies the corresponding software products 114, 116. It uses this information to generate a Feature set ID and an access token, which it then embeds the Feature set ID into 118. 120. It then provides this access token to the user 122, who then identifies the Feature set ID, compares it with the master feature registry and then activates the authorised features 124, 126 and 128. There is also a second embodiment which is uses the same system to provide the user with software updates, or additional features.
Patent GB-2556966-A (GB)
Title: Circuit breaker
Inventor: JEAN MARY MARTEL
IPC: H02H3/33
Filed: 2017-08-14
Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit breaker for an electrical low voltage circuit. The circuit breaker comprises: an arc fault detection device function that can ascertain arcing faults in the electrical low voltage circuit and, in the event of an arcing fault limit value being exceeded, can interrupt the electrical low voltage circuit; a residual current breaker function that can ascertain fault currents in the electrical low voltage circuit and, in the event of a fault current limit value being exceeded, can interrupt the electrical low voltage circuit; and an electrical power supply for the arc fault detection device function and the residual current breaker function. The circuit breaker is configured such that the voltage in the low voltage circuit is ascertained and the arc fault detection device function is disengaged in the event of a first limit value of the voltage not being reached. Further peripheral functions (such as display unit and communication unit) may be selectively disengaged depending upon the ascertained voltage. The invention reduces the power demand of the circuit breaker and allows integration of multiple functions into a compact housing, for example a miniature circuit breaker (MCB).
Patent GB-2567489-A (GB)
Title: Fault mapping method and system for power distribution networks
Inventor: MICHAEL IAN LEES
IPC: G01R31/08
Filed: 2017-10-16
Abstract: A fault mapping method for one or more outgoing cables of a power distribution network comprises the steps of: marking one or more fault impedance markings adjacent to the route of the one or more cables on a cable record; and making the marked cable record available in response to an estimated fault impedance of a cable fault. The cable record may be a map showing the route of the cables from a substation 112 along various branches 104 – 110. The impedance markings 102 may be in milliohms at intervals to give a desired resolution. When a fault is detected, its impedance may be matched to locations A, B, C on the map matching the fault impedance. The map is made available to a field operative, e.g. as an app for a mobile computing device.
Patent GB-2568078-A (GB)
Title: Portable pill dispenser
Inventor: Boris Sossa
IPC: A61J7/04
Filed: 2017-11-03
Abstract: A portable pill dispenser comprising at least one storage volume for holding one or more pills. An input is arranged to receive first data from a remotely located server via a low power wide area (LPWA) communication channel. The pill dispenser has a processor configured to generate an alert signal in dependence on the received first data and an alert module to output an alert dependent on the generated signal. The processor can also be configured to generate an access signal allowing access to at least one storage volume dependent upon the received first data. The pill dispenser can also have an output configured to output second data to a remotely located server via a LPWA communication channel, the second data being indicative of whether the at least one storage volume has been accessed. The pill dispenser can have one or more sensors for generating the second data. The section data generating sensors can be configured to detect the number of pills within the at least one storage volume and the second data is indicative of the number of pills remaining or removed within the storage volume.
Patent GB-2555268-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus of very much faster 3D printer
Inventor: ASHOK CHAND MATHUR
IPC: G06T19/20
Filed: 2015-12-19
Abstract: A 3D printer that is mostly twenty to thirty times faster than existing 3D printers. Pixel-based Raster images are converted into Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images, which are then categorized as lines, curves and surface areas. For each category, faster printing methods for printing with pre-formed shapes such as rods, boards, arcs, etc., are disclosed. Pre-formed shapes may be made of plastic/thermoplastic/polymer or sintering materials, as desired. Sintering materials may be cladded/coated with appropriate materials such as solder, copper, and thermoplastics. The new print-head, which has a fixed portion and a replaceable portion, has a mechanism to draw upon pre-formed shapes to print. The replaceable portion has varying shapes and sizes of placement holes, and a mechanism to signal which replaceable portion has been mounted. The print-head incorporates mechanisms to heat and tack the pre-formed shapes. The invention discloses methods to use multiple print-heads to further speed up printing.
Patent GB-2568492-A (GB)
Title: Image data interpolation
Inventor: Maxim Novikov
IPC: G06T3/40
Filed: 2017-11-16
Abstract: Transform data (e.g. colour transform data, transformation between two colour spaces) associated with points (i.e. sampling points) on a region surface or boundary is obtained (100), and additional transform data associated with a point within the surface (e.g. on a subregion boundary) is generated (102). Image data associated with another interior point is interpolated (104) (e.g. by trilinear interpolation) using the additional transform data. The region may be a first polyhedron, e.g. a cuboid, and the subregion may correspond to a second polyhedron, e.g. a smaller cuboid. The region may alternatively be a 3D polyhedron. The image data may represent colour channel data for n colour channels and the region may be an n-dimensional region, each dimension corresponding to a different respective colour channel of the n. The image data may represent colour channel data for a first colour space and the interpolation transforms the data to a second colour space.
Patent GB-2571060-A (GB)
Title: Patient care system
Inventor: STEPHEN ROYLE
IPC: G08B25/01
Filed: 2017-11-30
Abstract: A care system comprises a system unit 1, and a plurality of remote units 2 wirelessly connected thereto. The system unit 1 transmits a notification signal to one or more selected remote units 2 at a predetermined time. Each remote unit comprises a processor connected to a wireless receiver/transmitter, a visual indicator 6, and/or an audible indicator 4, and an alert button 3. The processor upon re­ceiving notification signals from the system unit 1 actuates the visual indicator 6 and/or the audible indicator 4. The processor further transmitsto the system unit 1 via the transmitter an alert signal in response to operation of the alert button 3. The visual indicator 6 may comprise coloured lights or a touch sensitive display screen. The audible indicator 4 may comprise a loudspeaker. The remote unit 2 may comprise a portable wrist worn device and may include a cellular and/or GPS module. The system may be used to check on an individual’s status whereby a ‘no response’ to a status check signal transmitted to a remote unit 2 results in an alert which can be transmitted to a supervisor.
Patent GB-2556582-A (GB)
Title: Microfluidic devices and methods of use thereof
Inventor: Amritha Rammohan
IPC: G01N33/543
Filed: 2016-08-05
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are drawn to microfluidic devices. An exemplary microfluidic device may include a disc having at least one microfluidic channel pathway extending radially outward from a center of the disc. The channel pathway may include an inlet for receiving a sample, a first chamber fluidly connected to the inlet, and a second chamber positioned radially inward relative to and fluidly connected to the first chamber. The channel pathway may also include at least one third chamber positioned radially outward of the second chamber and fluidly connected to the second chamber via an outlet channel. The channel pathway may include at least one fourth chamber fluidly connected to the at least one third chamber and positioned radially outward of the at least one third chamber. At least one of the first, second, third, or fourth chambers may contain at least one reagent preloaded into the disc.
Patent GB-2573733-A (GB)
Title: An air guide device for a motor vehicle
Inventor: NAZARIO NUTI
IPC: B62D37/02
Filed: 2018-02-28
Abstract: An air guide device for accelerating airflow underneath a vehicle comprises a pair of air guide elements 28, eg strakes, downwardly extendable from the underbody of the vehicle. Each air guide element 28 is positioned in a region adjacent the inboard side 12 of a respective rear wheel 11 to define an airflow channel between the rear wheels of the vehicle which may be straight, convergent or convergent-divergent. The guide elements 28 may have aerofoil cross-sections and may be movable between deployed positions and retracted positions in which they are each stored in a well eg in a flat section 18 of a diffuser 16. Each guide element 28 may comprise a series of plates (29, fig.3) separated by blowing slots (40). A controller may cause drive means to extend/retract the guide elements 28 according to predetermined conditions eg vehicle speed, surface gradient or front suspension movement. The guide elements 28 may produce downstream tip vortices 27 to push the wakes produced by the rear wheels outboard and may redirect airflow by up to 90o, eg 45o.
Patent GB-2571980-A (GB)
Title: Tyre assembly with protective insert
Inventor: ALAN BOYD
IPC: B60C17/06
Filed: 2018-03-15
Abstract: A tyre assembly (fig 1, 10) comprises a wheel rim 12, a tyre 14 fitted to the wheel rim 12, and an annular insert 40 located inside the tyre 14 around the rim 12. In a rest state, the annular insert is diametrically larger than the rim. The annular insert is formed from a compressible material that causes it to contract diametrically in response to inflation of said tyre such that it shrinks it to the rim. The annular insert 40 is easy to fit and protects against pinch punctures, rim damage and de-seating of the tyre beads. Further feature may include a valve (fig 12, 32), with a valve head (52), having a fluid channel (60), and having an opening at the face of the valve in a radial direction.
Patent GB-2572399-A (GB)
Title: The butterfly sun shade visor
Inventor: NIEL CORNEL SMITH
IPC: B60J3/02
Filed: 2018-03-28
Abstract: A bidirectional double automobile sun shade visor for blocking sun from a vehicle occupant’s eyes from two directions simultaneously, i.e. the windscreen or front windshield and another direction, such as a passenger or driver side angle, which may comprise two overlapping visors 3a, 6a, which may flip onto each other or rotate both horizontally and vertically via dual supporting rods 2a, 5a. The visor may also comprise a dual purpose anchor and swivel point 1a, 4a, hinging mechanism, or a dual purpose aperture allowing the lower supporting rod to rotate horizontally, and double end clips 7a, 8a, or other holding mechanisms or fasteners, allowing the visor to be attached, detached or held in place as required. The secondary visor may also include a telescopic end point (6b, Fig. B5) making it extendable.
Patent GB-2568773-A (GB)
Title: A valve and valve assembly
Inventor: CARL MELLINGS
IPC: F16K31/08
Filed: 2018-04-21
Abstract: A valve 10 including a first port 12, a second port 14, a third port 16, and a flexure 30 moveable between a first position which causes the first port to open, a second position which causes the second port to open, and a third position which causes the first and second ports to close, at least a part of the flexure being magnetisable to provide a first magnet 32, 32', a second magnet 34 is associated with the first port and a third magnet 36, 36' is associated with the second port. The first and third magnets may be electromagnets, and the second magnet may be a permanent magnet. The first port may be an exhaust port, the second a supply port, and the third a delivery port. The first position may correspond to a failsafe configuration of the valve. Also claimed is a method of operating the valve comprising energisation of the first magnet, and a valve assembly including two valves where only one of the valves is operable at any given time. Also claimed is a vehicle braking system comprising the valve.