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Patent GB-2477791-A (GB)
Title: Centrifugal separator with snap fit separation cone
Inventor: DWORATZEK KLEMENS
IPC: B04B5/00
Filed: 2010-02-15
Abstract: A separation cone 30 is mounted into the interior chamber of a self-driven centrifugal separator rotor 10, which comprises a cover 14 releasably connected to a base 16, in order to provide a frusto-conical wall subdividing the chamber into upper and lower regions 24, 26. This slows the passage of fluid from the upper 24 to the lower region 26, which takes place via openings 34 and/or via a gap between the inner rim 32 of the cone 30 and the axial inlet tube 12. This in turn improves efficiency of separation of contaminant particles and prevents such particles passing to the base 16, potentially to block an outlet nozzle 20. The separation cone 30 is connected to the cover 14 by a releasable snap fit arrangement, such as by deflectable tabs 38 around the periphery of the separation cone 30 engaging into a groove 15 around the interior surface adjacent a lower edge of the cover 14. This allows there to be a predetermined sequence of servicing operations for maintenance purposes and ensures that the separation cone 30 will reliably stay connected to the cover 14.
Patent GB-2464444-A (GB)
Title: Anchors for mooring of objects in a marine environment
Inventor: ZIMMERMAN EVAN
IPC: B63B21/32
Filed: 2008-08-29
Abstract: An anchor for mooring of objects in a marine environment for floating vessels, floating, grounded structures etc, which is resistant to hooking or snagging on underwater objects, such as pipelines The anchor comprises a fluke and a shank, and embeds itself into the seafloor when tension is applied to a line connected to the anchor In either a side or top profile view, the shape of the anchor presents a profile which does not have a hook shape, and therefore tends to nde over and slide off of, rather than hook onto, underwater obstructions that the anchor may be dragged over Embodiments disclosed include an anchor having a shank rigidly fixed to the fluke, and one in which the shank is rotatably connected to the fluke An elastic member, which may be a coil spring, biases the shank toward a relatively closed position with respect to the fluke.
Patent GB-2471152-A (GB)
Title: Use of Bowed Vanes to reduce Acoustic Signature
Inventor: TECZA JOSEPH ANDREW
IPC: F01D5/14
Filed: 2010-03-16
Abstract: A stage for a turbomachine including a rotor and a stator 18. The rotor is disposed about a shaft of the turbomachine, operatively engages the shaft, and is configured to rotate in a circumferential direction. The rotor also has a plurality of blades. The stator 18 is in fluid communication with the rotor and is located axially adjacent to the rotor. The stator 18 includes a plurality of nozzle vanes 24, an interior circumferential surface 26, and an exterior circumferential surface 28. The plurality of nozzle vanes 24 are spaced circumferentially apart to channel a working fluid therebetween, and are also bowed, or curved, to create bowed wakes in the working fluid. The bowed wakes are configured to engage the rotor blades incrementally such that the effects of the periodic disruption of forces on the blades are more gradual and/or reduced.
Patent GB-2469414-A (GB)
Title: Underwater processing of fluid streams
Inventor: JOHNSTONDHUET ANNA M
IPC: C02F1/28
Filed: 2009-02-02
Abstract: A method of treating a fluid stream underwater comprising integrally attaching a skid to a fluid stream treating vessel (44) so that the fluid stream treating vessel can be disposed on an underwater floor in a position such that an opening (45) in said vessel is at a highest point on said vessel when disposed on the underwater floor; remotely directing a fluid stream treating vessel (44) to an underwater floor location sufficiently close to said fluid stream so that the fluid stream can be remotely attached in fluid communication with said fluid stream treating vessel; remotely connecting said underwater fluid stream to said fluid stream treating vessel for treatment of said flood stream; treating said fluid stream by contact with a treatment media (55) disposed within said treatment vessel, maintained at equilibrium water pressure at the depth of treatment; and flowing the treated fluid stream out of said treating vessel.
Patent GB-2484888-A (GB)
Title: Wave ring cam with discontinuities on least loaded face
Inventor: RAMPEN WILLIAM HUGH SALVIN
IPC: F01B1/06
Filed: 2010-08-17
Abstract: A ring cam for a fluid-working machine comprises segments 5, 7 having piston facing working surfaces 15, 16. The segments comprise leading and trailing end cooperating formations which each inter-engage with respective adjacent formations and which are recessed from the working surface towards their respective ends or cross at less than 180 degrees. The cooperating formations interlock and rollers are handed over smoothly from one segment to the next irrespective of alignment variations due to manufacturing tolerance or wear. The segment piston facing surfaces are placed in compressive stress to partially or fully compensate for tensile stress arising from roller action in use. The segments form a wavelike cam surface and attachment means 3 or the formations 72 are provided on whichever of the leading 70, e.g. when motoring, or trailing 72, e.g. when pumping, surfaces thereof is subject to lowest forces from pistons in use. Electronic valves may limit piston forces when passing over working surface discontinuities
Patent GB-2484088-A (GB)
Title: Shared cache interconnect with coherency and writeback order controls
Inventor: LAYCOCK CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM
IPC: G06F12/0842
Filed: 2010-09-28
Abstract: Disclosed is an interconnect circuitry 50 which is configured to provide routes R for linking several initiator devices 10, 15, eg CPUs, to a recipient device 30 including a memory for storing data to be processed. The initiator devices have a cache 12, 17 for storing a local copy of a subset of the data items stored in the memory. The interconnect circuitry has input ports 40, 42 for receiving transaction requests from the initiator devices, an output port 48 for outputting transaction requests to the recipient device and several paths for transmitting the transaction requests between the inputs and the output. The interconnect has a coherency control circuitry for maintaining the order in which the transaction requests to the same data storage location proceed through the interconnect in order to maintain the coherency of the data being processed by the initiator devices. The interconnect is also configured not to control the writeback W transaction requests with the coherency control circuitry, the writeback transaction requests proceed independently of the transaction requests.
Patent GB-2471965-A (GB)
Title: Digital radar or sonar apparatus
Inventor: JALES RICHARD JAMES
IPC: G01S7/34
Filed: 2008-08-29
Abstract: A radar or sonar system amplifies the signal received by an antenna (31) of the radar system or a transducer of the sonar system is amplified and then subject to linear demodulation by a linear receiver. The system operates at different ranges, the modulator may produce pulses of two pulse patterns differing in pulse duration and inter-pulse spacing, those pulse patterns are introduced and used to form two radar images with the two images being derived from data acquired in a duration not more than twenty times larger than the larger inter-pulse spacing, or for a radar system, larger than one half of the antenna resolution time.The amplifier has multiple gain stages. A look-up table is used to control the amplifier, the look-up table containing corrections which compensate for variations of amplitude of the return signals in multiple regions each corresponding to a respective gain stage.
Patent GB-2487780-A (GB)
Title: Resource allocation messages employing short Radio Network Temporary Identifiers (RNTI)
Inventor: MCNAMARA DARREN PHILLIP
IPC: H04W72/12
Filed: 2011-02-04
Abstract: An infrastructure equipment provides a wireless access interface for communicating data to and/or from mobile terminals in a mobile communications system. The wireless access interface provides a down-link frequency channel for communicating data to the mobile terminals and a shared control channel for communicating resource allocation messages to the mobile terminals. The resource allocation message include an identification number, such as a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI), allocated to one of the mobile terminals for indicating an allocation of one of the units of communications resource of the wireless access interface, and each of a plurality of the mobile terminals is divided into a plurality of different groups. The infrastructure equipment is adapted to form super-frames 104 comprising a plurality of the units of communications resource of the down-link channel, to transmit in a super-frame control information providing for each of the plurality of mobile terminals in a first of the groups of devices a short identification number in association with the identification number allocated to the mobile terminal by the infrastructure equipment for use in allocating the units of communications resource to the mobile terminal for the first super-frame, and to transmit in a second of the super-frames control information for the second group.
Patent GB-2475203-A (GB)
Title: Bandages and substitutes therefor
Inventor: THIELSCHER KAREN MARGARET
IPC: A61D9/00
Filed: 2009-09-04
Abstract: Products performing combined or alternative functions of bandages and boots are detailed. Versions of the products may Include a main body with split extension, each of which may be wrapped independently of the other. The main body is designed to cover the lower leg (or other portion) of a horse (or other animal), with the extensions applied as required to achieve optimal fit. The products may be substantially Shorter than conventional lengths of bandages yet nevertheless may cover the Same amount of leg as do conventional bandages.
Patent GB-2489023-A (GB)
Title: Bird feeder
Inventor: GAZE MARTIN ROBERT
IPC: A01K39/01
Filed: 2011-03-16
Abstract: A bird feeder 10 comprises a tubular main body 12 having at least one opening 22 in the wall thereof, and at least one feeder port assembly 24 mounted within the opening 22. Each feeder port assembly 24 comprises a main body part 30 projecting into the main body 12 through the opening 22, and is magnetically secured by at least one magnet 36 to the main body 12. Preferably there are at least two feeder port assemblies mountable within opposing openings 22, and the opposing feeder port assemblies 24 are magnetically interconnected together by the magnet 36. There is also described an improved cap assembly 20 magnetically securing a lid 54 and an improved dual perch 40 arrangement including integral first and second perch members (45, 46, figure 5) that are spaced laterally and longitudinally from each other and the main body 12 and feed port opening 25.
Patent GB-2480138-A (GB)
Title: Multi-User Feedback Influencing Delivered Audiovisual Quality
Inventor: YOUNKIN AUDREY C
IPC: H04N5/00
Filed: 2011-04-27
Abstract: User settings (140a, 140b, 140c) specifying the preferred quality of audiovisual (AV) content to be delivered to a user are collected and used to change the quality of the delivered content based on a function of all the collected settings. Users may provide input regarding tradeoffs in AV quality, such as audio quality versus video quality, or audio quality versus delay. The function used may be an average, weighted average or arithmetic mean, to generate a single quantity (160) that reflects the inputs of all the users. This single input is then used to determine one or more parameters that may be applied in defining the tradeoff(s) implemented in AV content capture, processing, or delivery.
Patent GB-2494131-A (GB)
Title: An inflatable ball with a reinforcing rib structure
Inventor: LO JACK
IPC: A63B41/02
Filed: 2011-08-30
Abstract: An inflatable ball comprising first and second halves connected together wherein each half has ribs 121 and 123 on either an inner or outer wall and one of the halves has a hole and valve unit 30 positioned in the hole. The ball may be made of a thermoplastic polyurethane, elastomer, olefin or rubber or ethylene-vinyl acetate. The ribs 121 and 123 may form a network with a plurality of arc shaped ribs intersecting a plurality or annular ribs. Annular flanges 114 with cooperating projections 14 and grooves 15 may be formed on each of the outer walls where the two halves connect. The ribs 121 and 123 may form polygons which can be filled with leather inserts. The two halves may have complimentary wavy or zigzag edges. The cells may have knurled or texted surface.
Patent GB-2489300-A (GB)
Title: Automatic fault insertion and test system
Inventor: ECCLES WILLIAM H
IPC: G01R1/04
Filed: 2012-02-03
Abstract: An automatic fault insertion and test system 10 provides an interface between a unit under test (UUT) 24 and test equipment 26 that allows for automatic fault insertion, testing and calibration. The fault insertion system includes an input connection 14 to the UUT, an output connection 16 to the test equipment and a plurality of bus circuit binding posts 22a to 22d that can be connected to external devices, a plurality of switch matrices 34-1, 34-n, and a plurality of common buses A to D. Each switch matrix is connected to an input contact 14-1, 14-n of the input connection and an output contact 16-1, 16-n of the output connection, and each of the plurality of common buses. Selective control of the switches in the matrices allows the input contacts to be connected to the associated output contact or to the buses. Open circuit or short circuit faults may be simulated.
Patent GB-2490020-A (GB)
Title: An explosive projectile
Inventor: LAING ANDREW
IPC: F42C1/08
Filed: 2012-04-02
Abstract: An explosive projectile 10 which is applicable to short and long range projectiles comprises a delay fuse where the delay fuse comprises a shock tube 8, a shock tube detonator and a means to initiate the shock tube which may comprise of a primary charge 6 which when detonated compresses the shock tube 8 against a flyer plate 3. This compressive force initiates the combustible material within the shock tube 8 and in turn the shock tube detonator initiates the main charge 9. Alternatively the shock tube maybe initiated using a mechanical impact fuse and an impact sensitive explosive. [Figure 2]
Patent GB-2490203-A (GB)
Title: A coil fencing collector
Inventor: SMITH RONALD
IPC: E04H17/26
Filed: 2012-04-02
Abstract: A device for receiving an elongate array of coils, especially barbed wire, includes a boom and a catch which is reciprocally movable along the boom on a base member to draw successive portions of the coils, in an axially compressed stated, onto the boom. The catch is inoperative when the base member is move in a first direction and operative when the base member is moved in a second direction opposite to the first direction, the catch when operative being engageable with a coil to draw the barrier in a compressed state onto the boom, with a trailing part of the barrier being pulled onto the boom.
Patent GB-2487326-A (GB)
Title: Measurement of the mobility of mass-selected ions
Inventor: SANDERS IAN
IPC: G01N27/62
Filed: 2008-03-17
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for measuring the mobility of mass-selected ions and to the corresponding apparatus. The invention consists of generating ions in an ion source (50, Fig 1), selecting ions of a preselected mass range in a first mass filter (55), transferring the selected ions into a measuring cell having a drift region (59) divided into two sections 11 & 12, collecting the selected ions in form of an ion cloud 19 in a potential minimum by providing different potential gradients in the two sections so as to create the said potential minimum, separating the collected ions in time by their different mobilities in the measuring cell by switching the potential gradient profiles in the two sections of the drift region, separating time-separated ions of the preselected mass range from ions of other masses in a second mass filter (63), and measuring ion currents in a detector (65) as a function of time.
Patent GB-2499681-A (GB)
Title: Atmospheric pressure ion source by interacting high velocity spray with a target
Inventor: BAJIC STEVAN
IPC: G01N30/72
Filed: 2012-04-20
Abstract: An ion source is disclosed comprising a nebuliser 1 and a target 10. The nebuliser 1 is arranged and adapted to emit, in use, a stream of analyte droplets which are caused to impact upon the target 10 and to ionise the analyte to form a plurality of analyte ions. This is also used to form deconvolute gas phase molecules and/or secondary droplets.
Patent GB-2489632-A (GB)
Title: Video coding using pixel-streams
Inventor: LEIGH RICHARD TIMOTHY
IPC: H04N7/26
Filed: 2010-08-31
Abstract: A video stream comprises a plurality of sequential frames of pixels. A method of processing the video stream comprises the steps of extracting, for each pixel in a frame, a pixel data stream comprising the colour components of the specific pixel from each frame, performing, for each pixel data stream, a transformation of the pixel data stream into a plurality of detail components, collecting, from each transformed pixel data stream, the detail component defining the lowest level of detail for the respective pixel data stream, storing sequentially in a primary block the collected lowest level of detail components, and generating one or more additional blocks containing the remaining detail components.
Patent GB-2495619-A (GB)
Title: Infant safety seat
Inventor: MO XIAO-LONG
IPC: B60N2/28
Filed: 2012-10-09
Abstract: An infant safety seat includes a base and a carrier. The base includes a base body, a front swing arm 22, a rear swing arm 24, and a pull link 26. Each of the front and rear swing arms is pivotally connected to the base body and includes a hook portion 22a, 24a. The hooking directions of the two hook portion are opposite. The pull link is connected to the front and rear swing arms respectively, such that when the pull link moves, the swinging directions of the front and rear swing arms are opposite. When the carrier is engaged onto the base, the hook portions hook two cross bars of the carrier respectively. Therefore, when an instantaneous impact occurs, the crossbars will not disengage from the hook portions simultaneously because of the opposite hooking directions of the hook portions, so as to improve the engagement reliability of the carrier with the base.
Patent GB-2507499-A (GB)
Title: UE sending combined active cell set signal quality measurements to the network if they are equal to or better than the inter-RAT or inter-frequency signal qua
Inventor: HAMILTON CHRISTIAN
IPC: H04W36/24
Filed: 2012-10-30
Abstract: A method is disclosed that comprises obtaining a new value for a dynamic signal quality threshold based on a base signal quality threshold and a UE context-sensitive buffer margin (202) and using this as a handover triggering threshold; if a measured signal quality on the currently active cell falls below the current trigging threshold (206): obtaining a combined quality of all cells within an active cell set (Co-ordinated Multipoint, CoMP) (208) and an inter-frequency signal quality or an inter-radio access technology (RAT) signal quality from an inter-frequency or inter-RAT cell within range of the wireless device; and blocking or not sending an inter-RAT measurement report to a wireless network element if the obtained combined signal quality is equal to or better than the obtained inter-frequency or inter-RAT signal quality, wherein the measurement report is either an inter-frequency measurement report or an inter-radio access technology (RAT) measurement report (210).
Patent GB-2508398-A (GB)
Title: Processing of harmonic products in a wireless network
Inventor: WILSON FIONA
IPC: H04B1/04
Filed: 2012-11-30
Abstract: Interference in a wireless network is processed, the interference comprising a harmonic product I3 of at least a first signal C1. On the basis of at least the first signal, at least one interference signal comprising a synthesized harmonic product is generated 46, and the at least one interference signal is correlated 54 with a waveform received at a device in the wireless system to produce data representing a correlation. The interference is processed in dependence on the data representative of the correlation, such as the magnitude of the correlation. In one embodiment the synthesized harmonic products generated 46 are delayed by a plurality of delays 52 to generate a plurality of delayed interference signals comprising synthesized interference products and the delay value with the highest correlation magnitude is used by delay block 56 to generate an interference signal comprising synthesized harmonic products from the first signal. The generated interference signal is them combined with the received signal e.g. in anti-phase (e.g. subtraction) so that received interference is cancelled or reduced. In an alternative embodiment a single predetermined delay value 56 is used when the relative delay between the synthesized harmonic product and the received interference is known. The combined signal 62 with reduced interference is then output C3. The interference processing is performed at baseband.
Patent GB-2508656-A (GB)
Title: Joint using branched fastening projection
Inventor: CLARK DANIEL
IPC: B29C65/56
Filed: 2012-12-10
Abstract: The invention relates to a joint comprising a, preferably metal, substrate 1 joined to a body of material 2; the body of material typically having a composite portion. An outer surface of the metal substrate is provided with a fastening projection 5 comprising a stem and a plurality of branches projecting into the material of the body. A plurality of fastening projections may be provided, each of which may have a dendritic structure. The composite material may comprise a first region adjacent the metal surface comprising matrix material only, the fastening projection being received in the first region; or, the fibres of the composite may pass about or between the stem and branches of the projection. A method of manufacturing a joint is further provided wherein a volume of the second material at least partially in a liquid state is applied to the surface of the first material such that the fastening projection extends into the second material and the second material is allowed to solidify, embedding the fastening projection therein. A component comprising a joint, particularly forming portions of an aerofoil component, are also provided.
Patent GB-2496542-A (GB)
Title: Method of using gelled fluids with defined specific gravity to prevent ingress of unwanted fluids
Inventor: CASEY GREGORY E
IPC: C09K8/42
Filed: 2011-09-21
Abstract: Gelled barrier fluids for preventing the ingress of undesired fluids from subsurface environments into subsurface apparatus have a specific gravity which is within 0.01 of the specific gravity of the undesired fluid e.g. sea water, fresh water or hydrocarbon; and/or (a) the barrier fluid is prepared by first preparing a base fluid having a specific gravity less than the unwanted subsurface fluid and then introducing gallant comprising a viscosifying polymer and crosslinking agent to the base fluid to form the barrier fluid and (b) the entire interior area of the apparatus, after being filled with the gelled barrier fluid, is free of gas. The gelled barrier fluid is substantially free of gas and comprises a base fluid and a gellant system. The base fluid may be the combination of an alcohol and glycol e.g. methanol and ethylene glycol; and the gellant system may contain a viscosifying polymer and a crosslinking agent e.g. a crosslinked cellulosic or guar derivative.
Patent GB-2497476-A (GB)
Title: Amide Compounds
Inventor: HU WENHUI
IPC: A61K31/496
Filed: 2010-09-06
Abstract: Compounds of general formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are disclosed, in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and Ar are defined as in the description.